Asha ~ Girl Jesus HD

Asher Quinn (Asha) sings ‘Girl Jesus’ from his album “Serpent in Paradise”. Track download & CD available here ~ http://www.asherquinn.co.uk/samples3.htm I wrote this song after an inner vision during a specific Daoist meditation on the figure of Kwan-Yin, the Goddess of compassion. She is symbolised by the lotus. In the west our Goddess of compassion is Mary, symbolised by the lily. Though I have trodden many high, precipitous mountain paths in my search for spirit, and stopped off at many sacred sanctuaries… I’ve walked the Sufi way, the way of the shaman and the way of the spiritual psychologist, and I’ve sought shelter in Daoism, the Kabbala, Zen and Aikido… they all lead me to Christian mysticism; to Christ and Mary; to the lives of the saints, like Francis of Assisi, and the little flower Therese of Lisieux. There I am home, and my north star on that homeward journey is Rudolf Steiner, with his remarkable legacy of spiritual vision. Steiner animates the Christ for me, and brings renewal to my heart. I still feel ever-faithful to many earlier mystical influences I encountered… to the Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan; to the Sufi poets Rumi, Hafiz and Rabia; to St.John of the Cross; to the Kabbalistic mystics and the Daoist poets… and I still feel tremendous gratitude to my early influences like Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Carlos Castaneda; mystics and writers who took me out of ordinary reality and showed me the royal road, and to Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell for awakening me to the symbolic life. And behind it all is the Christ… the lover of humanity in the awakened heart… calling me home beatifically with open arms. I write and I sing… I feel full of spiritual vision, and spiritual passion… the angelic hierarchies and higher beings are fully alive to me, and I am guided and inspired by spiritual intuition as a continuum. It lives and breathes in me. I feel that I’m overflowing with Holy Spirit. St.Therese said: ‘Let me not go to heaven, but to whoever invokes my name’. And in that I feel a heavenly orchestration… I invoked her name, and so she came… good as her word. Her mission is to make those that invoke her name lovers of God! I am that! ‘Girl Jesus’ is an inner figure for me… the way of feeling, and of the spiritual child. It is the inner girl Jesus that takes this old man faithfully to Christ, the sun-hero! Tonight as I write this, lines by Rabia the Sufi saint were sent to me by a friend: "Show me where it hurts, God said, and every cell in my body burst into tears before His tender eyes. He has repaid me though for all my suffering in a way I never wanted: the sun is now in homage to my face, because it knows I have seen God. But that was not His payment. The soul cannot describe His gift. I just spoke about the sun like that because I like beautiful words, and because it is true. Creation is in homage to us. One day He did not leave after kissing me." This is what it’s like to fall in love with God!