When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the
Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

