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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
The team visited several churches and cathedrals that contained especially large organ pipes and discovered that some were indeed creating significant levels of infrasound. This suggests that people who experience a sense of spirituality in church may be reacting to the extreme bass sound produced by the pipes.
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That seems a bit simplistic. Many churches don't have an organ. Although I'm sure the music adds to the feeling of religious awe, just as the architecture or decoration can, it's just, as we say in French, "the cherry on top of the cake". It would be dishonest (and easily disprovable) to reduce the religious feeling to just one acoustic phenomenon.