Learning valuable life lessons through music

[sjel]

Sunshine Recorder - Boards of Canada

This taught me that the place where your fears reside is actually a place with overflowing love and beauty.

There's a tendency to resist what this album is able to teach you - a tension that comes from holding on to social norms of what should be feared and what is "evil." When I released that limiting belief, this album, and this track in particular, revealed itself to be playful, innocent, childlike, and bursting with positive healing energy.

The two brothers who created this took the genuinely most fear-inducing Western concept, the naive but deeply embedded idea of hell and Satan, and uncovered the immense resource of pure love that it truly is. It is even difficult for me to write this right now, because I hear the chorus of Christian fathers widening their eyes in horror at the suggestion that demons could be beautiful. But what are demons, what is Satan? WE created those thought-forms, there is no evil except what we construct to be evil!

This is my favorite album of all time. I grew up in a standard western Christian family, so this album really blew away my deeply demarcated demonizations, my strict boundaries of what is good and what is evil.

I think it instrumentally describes the beauty of the unnecessary fears that centuries of organized religion has embedded in us.

Here's another favorite from the album:



i can't really express how much this album means to me.