This chapter delves into the significance of music in serious play and its ability to connect us to the sacred. It examines the importance of art in cultivating wisdom and how the market-driven music industry has led to a decline in melody and transformational music.
UnHerd’s Flo Read and philosopher and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke sat down at the UnHerd Club to diagnose the alienation and anxiety that pervades our contemporary culture. Is a “meaning crisis” at the root of all the other crises we face – environmental, political, spiritual?