The best spiritual album I have ever heard

This story was originally going to be titled “The importance of listening to high vibrational music”, but I felt that this is such a good album it deserved a post all of its own. The album is the self-titled album “Radnor & Lee” from Australian musician Ben Lee and American actor Ted Mosb… I mean Josh Radnor… the lead character from How I Met Your Mother.

How these two people (one of whom has never played an instrument) ended up coming up with the most inspiring, soul-touching album I’ve ever heard I will never know, but somehow they did it.

As some of you may know from one of my previous blogs “My disastrous spiritual awakening”, I ended up in a mental hospital for 3 months.

These places are not fun. Not only are you in a mental hospital, you also have literally nothing to do all day but ruminate on how you ended up there and pace up and down the corridors.

The one thing we were allowed (no mobile phones, no internet, no coffee) was a small mp3 player, which was the one saving grace in this oppressive environment.

During my three months there I almost did nothing but pace up and down the corridor listening to this album, which gave me some reprieve from the soul-crushing monotony of life in a mental hospital.

Also, as some of you may be aware, I had just had a partial spiritual awakening (my spiritual teacher called it a kundalini awakening), so I had enormous amounts of energy flowing through my body and no way to let it out in that environment. This led to me, for 3 months almost non-stop pacing up and down the hallway either in silence or listening to my mp3 player. I joked with the staff that I think I had done about as much walking as the girls from Rabbit Proof Fence.

For those who don’t know that reference, it is a beautiful but sad story about a young aboriginal girl, her sister, and her cousin, who were taken (part of the “half-caste”, “stolen generation” as it’s known in Australia) from their families to be integrated with “civilized” Western life and have the aboriginal blood bred out of them. These three girls didn’t like that situation, so they decided to make a 2,400 km (1,500 mile) journey along a rabbit proof fence to be reunited with their families. It took them nine weeks of walking to return home, despite being tracked by a professional aboriginal tracker, the girls managed to cover their tracks effectively and stayed in hiding with their families once they made the journey back.

I’m quite sure, in my 3 month stay in hospital, that I did about as much walking as those three girls, while listening to mainly just one album on my mp3 player — Radnor and Lee’s self-titled album. And also a little bit of Kali Uchis’ Por Vida, which is also a *great* album. I feel I learnt a lot about women listening to that album.

But back to the Radnor and Lee album, aside from some Bright Eyes music, I haven’t found any music that has touched me so deeply or inspired me so much.

A couple of songs you might like to listen to are:

“Be Like the Being” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rPsmoWn7ZQ
“Still Though We Should Dance “— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEN8Tn1MmCQ
And “Falling Upward” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpLhFFNBqSg

And here are a few Kali Uchis songs thrown in for good measure:
“Sycamore Tree” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAaE8CmOf9k
“Lottery” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrtIJK1SfcY
“Ridin’ Round” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUANL9WoB90

So I just wanted to say a public thank you to Ben Lee and Josh Radnor (and Kali Uchis) for helping me get through one of the most difficult times in my life. You three people made is *slightly* more bearable in that horrible place.

So, thank you, and I hope your albums spread far and wide so other people can experience the same thing I did with it.

In love and light,

Will.

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