The Power of Music

This album rearranged my consciousness like no other album had done up to that point. It was the first album that made it click for me that you don't just listen to music, you listen through music. I would even play this album for people in my car and break down and pause as a result. This is like aesthetic arrest. The Swiss theologian Hans Erz von Balschar, born in 1905, died in 1988, wrote on beauty,. He said what true beauty does is it stops you. It arrests you. When you're struck by beauty, beauty, true beauty stops you. But not only that, it elects you. It chooses you and then it sends you