Asha Elijah ~ Peace be with you

Asha Elijah (aka Asha & Asher Quinn) sings 'Peace be with you' from his album "Songs For a More Meaningful Life". CD/download: http://www.ashaquinn.com/songsforamoremeaningfullife.htm

The idea for this film only occurred to me last night. In effect I already had a film I didn't know about, because back in August I had just set my camera in the passenger seat as I drove into Budapest. I find that journey so exciting! Then I archived it!

There's a moment 22 kms from Budapest where you come over the crest of a hill on the M7, and there before you, glittering and sparkling under the stars, is the bejewelled city with its domes & spires. Beyond, the outskirts ride up into the Pilis mountains like liquid gold, too!

I've done that journey 1001 times, from Lake Balaton 100 kms to the south west, or from further afield. Another 80 kms on, and the M7 connects with roads that take you into Austria, or Zagreb in Croatia, and then down to the Adriatic at Rijeka. Ancient Hungary indeed stretched to Rijeka (Fiume then), and bordered the Venetian empire. You can drive from Budapest to Italy quite readily! Or you can cross into Slovenia and head for Ljubljana and the Julian alps in the same time.

So the M7 connects Budapest to it's neighbours down this sunny, south-western corridor. There's a town just across the border in what is now Croatia but was then Austro-Hungary, very near where Rudolf Steiner was born, called Varazdin. Curiously, when I was 16, I wrote a story in a creative writing class at school, called Varazdin. I had never been there or heard of it, only later did I see that there WAS indeed such a place. Who knows, I may have seen it on a map once and the name settled somewhere in my soul.

The story was magical, and Varazdin was a portal to another world. I was reading Russian novelists at the time, and I made the setting pastoral and intense, like Tolstoy or Dostoevsky might have done. In my adult life I have now passed by Varazdin many times, coming from Croatia back to Budapest on this road, and just as curiously I now study Rudolf Steiner and the Christian mystics at a Life School in Budapest.

So every time I come over the crest of this hill and see Budapest under the stars, my heart skips a beat. She is my lover! This is why I wanted to film it!

My reality is that I feel very much in touch with angels, elemental spirits and magical beings in the spiritual world, and especially so in the car on a long journey. Whilst driving I have lots of ideas for songs & films, and before I know it I'm no longer in a car but flying on a white horse. This was how it was for me as a child. Instead of receding it has increased!

Coming into Budapest at night never fails to thrill me. She feels like home in a way that is not of this world, because my soul is being completed there. The song that you hear, 'Peace be with you' turns out to be very good driving music, and I even sing: "Many blessings on the road".

So last night it all coagulated within, and I had the inspiration to match this song to that film I had archived. Amazingly, they seemed made for each other!

It was 10.00pm at night, and I had just spent 24 hours editing ANOTHER film when this inspiration came, but it was an unstoppable force. I just HAD to make it happen! As I put it together, magical ideas kept tapping me on my shoulders; little whispers...

The dialogue went like this:

Angel: "Put an angel there".
Me: "What on the motorway?"
Angel: "Yes, in the sky... super-impose it".

And:

Pegasus: "Now put a winged horse there".
Me: "On the motorway?"
Pegasus: "Sure. No-one will mind. We fly there all the time anyway".

So the film evolved like that, with other-worldly touches. In a way it's a road-movie! I just filmed myself driving home, and it's turned into a magic-carpet ride of a film. It's not just me, Budapest IS an exquisite city to come into at night, especially following the Danube and all her bridges. So I wanted to show you!

I remember reading a book once by an African shaman called Malidoma Somé. His book was called "Of Water & the Spirit", and it describes the magical reality he saw growing up in his village in Burkina Faso. He describes the 'Kontombile' (pronounced kon-tom-bil-lay), short beings (50 cms tall) with white skin and red hair who were cleverer than the villagers, but not yet 'little Gods'. They had great wisdom. Malidoma later went to the Sorbonne as a student and told his incredulous & skeptical friends about 'the little people'.

However, when they came to visit, they TOO saw the Kontombile, but only when they were with Malidoma! He was like a conductor to another world. I too want to share another world with you, the world of spirit through song. Here in this film I've used editing techniques, but please be in no doubt that angels & elemental beings exist, and they are accessed through the spiritual imagination. This is not fantasy or day-dream, it is the channel through which we can connect to the spiritual world.

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