大象传媒

Mark Tully draws on music and literature inspired by the concept of a "Creator Spirit" to ask if spiritual energy exists, where it might be found, and how we can tap into it.

From Mahler's setting of the hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus", and Olivier Messiaen's Psalmody of Ubiquity Through Love, to the dances of Whirling Dervishes and the flute music of Northern Plains Native Americans, Tully seeks for ways in which we can be inspired by some kind of sacred energy.

And through literature from Greece, the USA, Britain, France and India, he examines the metaphors - fire, a 'great heart', light, electricity, and breath - that have been used in an attempt to describe this illusive but attractive idea.