Don Campbell: O efeito de Mozart

Uma das minhas sugestões de leitura para quem gosta de aprender sempre mais sobre a dimensão fascinante a que chamamos música designa-se "O efeito de Mozart: aproveitando o poder da música para curar o corpo, fortalecer a mente e desbloquear o espírito criativo", escrito por Don Campbell. Embora um pouco sensacionalista na arte de divulgar o poder da música, considero uma leitura relativamente interessante, pelo que cito algumas passagens:

"In an instant, music can uplift our soul. It awakens within us the spirit of prayer, compassion, and love."

"Music can (...) conjures us memories of lost lovers or deceased friends. It lets the child in us play, the monk in us pray, the cowgirl in us line dance, the hero in us surmount all obstacles. It helps (...) find language and expression... (...) it is more than all those things. It is the sounds of earth and sky, of tides and storms. It is the echo of a train in the distance, the pounding reverberations of a carpenter at work."

"From the first cry of life to the last sigh of death, from the beating of our hears to the soaring of our imaginations, we are enveloped by sound and vibration every moment of our lives. It is the primal breath of creation itself, the speech of angels and atoms, the stuff of which life and dreams, souls and stars, are ultimately fashioned."