Many groups utilize music to focus emotional energy on themselves. For example, churches use music to concentrate the emotional energy of their members on the church. As they sing their hymns, fantasies awaken in the minds of church members illustrating the ideas they believe in. Month after month, year after year of recreating their religious images in songs causes these fantasies to have great power and to become very vivid. In the same way, countries employ national songs to direct the vision of their citizens.
Music has a magical effect on people and their social groupings.
All over the world musical fantasies bring together communities of people. Many people use music to cover up their own thoughts and feelings. They fill their minds with music in an attempt to feel good again. They refuse to trust their feelings. Instead they immerse themselves in the feelings they obtain from the musical fantasies of others.