[5] In 1980, following encouragement from Stearns and Hill, Braheny set up his own record label and released his second album, Lullaby for the Hearts of Space.
[5] In the mid-1980s, Braheny was approached by science author and educator Timothy Ferris to compose the soundtrack for a planetarium show called Galaxies that was based on his same-titled book.
He recorded it using Richard Burmer's home studio, and although he resisted putting it out as a standalone album because of its undeveloped nature, he eventually released it as Galaxies in 1988.
[5] Braheny's following album, Secret Rooms, was inspired by his experiences of spirits talking through him, "musically and then verbally", and became a "trance-channel" medium.
[5] In the following year he became ill with an autoimmune disease and, coupled with "six or seven life stresses" going on at the same time, led him to pause his music career and moved to the northern mountains.