Asha Elijah ~ The giver

Asha Elijah (aka Asha & Asher Quinn) sings ‘The giver’ from his album “Grail Songs”. CD & download here: http://www.ashaquinn.com/grailsongs.htm

I was invited to give a concert in Avila, Spain, by an organisation that has long used my music for meditation and expressive dance (www.witryh.org). ‘The giver’ was a newly written song with a Spanish feel to the music, and in the concert… as I was singing… these dancers, Oziel and Alvar, got up and danced on stage. For Alvar it was completely unrehearsed! I watched, mesmerised, and almost forgot what I was doing! The dance was so compelling and intriguing! We had an enthusiastic audience of over 300 uninhibited Spaniards, and the whole spectacle was ecstatically received!

I detected Capoeira and Yoga amongst the many exotic and beautifully poised elements in their moves, and the chemistry and mirroring between them was deeply sensual and highly charged. And yet they were light, laughing and loving too, at the same time. Oziel Satrústegui Díez & Alvar Benitez de Lugo Rodriguez (Sha Ghawa) are not girlfriend and boyfriend, but there is something between them that’s way beyond that… a deep mutual integrity in art and spirit.

So impressive was it, that I asked them if we could find somewhere the next day to film them dancing again for a video of the song, and they were very happy to try to help me do that. With great good fortune we found a round meditation room in a recess of the Mystic University in Avila where the concert was held, and I found a large screen print of Mary Magdalen with Jesus in the corridor… which I borrowed for the occasion, as a prop! And then I found a guitar in the chapel, too. So somehow it all came together for a film quite magically, as if unseen angel hands and wings choreographed the proceedings.

Then I put the track on and just let the camera run. We filmed maybe eight different versions over two hours, and I made a script from the footage a little later.

‘The giver’ is a song of thanksgiving for the gift of our incarnation into the flesh, and into time and space, so that we may journey towards spiritual awareness of our being-ness. And it’s a song that invokes the virtue of the metaphor of helping Jesus to carry his cross.

What this amounts to in everyday life is an aspiration to take responsibility for everything that happens to us, and that proceeds from us. We cannot help what happens to us, but we can help what we do about it! So, in this spirit, we would leave behind any culture of blame or resentment, and move towards genuine forgiveness that can only be borne from the wisdom to see the objective truth of any situation, and from absolute faith in our own loving salvation.

If we know we are loved in the most high, forgiveness comes much more easily. Because blame and resentment are both still states of ‘wanting’… of needing some just redress. But if we want for nothing because we are certain of divine love, then we can go the extra mile from the heart, not the will.

Of course it’s a lifetime’s task to transform the will in this way, but it’s certainly do-able. That’s the moral meaning I wished to convey with the idea of helping Jesus to carry his cross. Why not? We save the world by aspiring to our own personal virtue. Our honour nourishes the planet, and lights a night star in the heavens.

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