His Beloved call Jesus "Ishi"
It`s All True: Jesus Christ Baptized me in the Holy Spirit & Fire on Acid!
First of All: GoD iS LoVE! + Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ !
Dear All! This is my own, personal Redemption-Story: I was Baptized by JESUS in the Fire & the Holy Spirit, Beyond The Iron Curtain in East-Berlin, when I was 17, during a Trip on LSD! And Here You Can Read All About it:
This photograph of me - with my “Jesus-Sandals”, a.k.a. “gospelshoes”- was taken by my beloved friend Laszlo K. from Hungary - during the 10. World-Youth-Festival-Games, a.k.a. → Die 10. Weltfestspiele der Jugend in Ostberlin, 1973 !
One year earlier, in 1972, when I was nearly 18 - my MoM allowed me, to live all by myself! During that summer, my friends Kamil & Woytek, whom I`ve met a year before on my Adventure-Trip to POLAND, came to visit me in my little CRiB, which used to be a SHOP, with the only Entrance-Door on the Street-Level of Kastanien-Allee 55. And - as of today, November 19th 2025 - it`s a ---> "Melting Point" - Record-Store + just around the corner our good old ---> ZIONS-CHURCH - still Vis a Vis!
Since quite some time, until my Life-Changing Summer of 1972, I was a heartbroken + even suicidal Teenager - But GOD Had Me On His RADAR ! + He sent Kamil & Woytek from Poland to the Rescue - Along With A Very Special Gift For Me: L.S.D!
On all these photographs of me - by Günter Linke - inside and infront of my little home-base, I might already be a bit older than 17, when I went to study “The Arts Of Entertainment at Zentrales Studio Für Unterhaltungs-Kunst” in Eastberlin, becoming a Singer, getting ready to join my very first Band "AUTOMOBiL" :
I decorated my one and only shop-window with an old guitar, a curtain and some antique looking things, except the apples in the jar:
I`ve written ALL about it ——> (in my Autobiography!) - including my Life-Changing LSD-TriP, when JeSuS ChrIST Came To The Rescue - But, Let Me Tell You ALL About This Awesome Experience - Right Here + Now Already:
Kamil & I, we shared One “TRiP” & the third person, Woytek, was our guide, he would be so very kind, to sit with me all night long, to watch over + comfort me! Kamil told us on the next morning, that he`d roamed around in Berlin all night!
Shortly, after I had swallowed my LSD - Trip, I have LOST all of my “control”, a.k.a. my Earthly Senses! After realising, that I was completly LOST, I ended up on top of my bed “Weepin`and Wailing”!
I realized, that I was stuck in Hell - HOPELESSLY STUCK in HELL, because there was NO LiFE and NO DEATH ——→ ONLY PAiN, in absolute ALONE-LINESS!
And on Top of it, this was - from now on - going to be the case: FOREVER! AND EVER! And ever! It was The Most Horrible Feeling that I had ever experienced!
But The Good News Is, That God Doesn’t Want to Send Anybody to Hell! HE DOESN’T!! People Choose to Go To Hell OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL!!
So I started trying to remember, where I came from & what had brought me into this unfathomably painful condition!
And I remembered right away, that my friends and I were talking about GOD & LSD since quite a long time before already, I remembered they were WARNiNG me, that it might well be the case, that I could meet GOD on LSD - but my chance was also just as BiG - that I might instead go to Hell + even meet the “DEViL” aswell!
So FiNALLY, I REALiZED THAT, OFCOURSE + YES INDEED: I DO WANT TO BE WiTH GOD, IT WAS GOD , THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE + BESIDES: ONLY GOD CAN HELP ME OUT OF THIS ENDLESS MESS + PAIN!
Then, Suddenly + Finally + From The Bottom Of My Heart & My SouL, I SCREAMED
From The ToP Of My Mighty Lungs: “ OH MY GOD ——> HELP ME ! ! ! “
And Right Away, I heard His Loving Voice Say My Name:
“ Nina ! ” I heard God`s Loving Voice explain to me, that I had to DiE !
I had to DiE ? YES: TO BE ABLE, TO BE BORN AGAiN !
——→ For It is written in the Holy Bible, that: Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God!.” (John 3:3) ! )
DiD HE REALLY SAY I HAD TO “DIE”? OH, YES, HE DiD!
That made me STOP + THiNK about it - for a moment - I thought, WHAT? And I decided: “NO! DEAR GoD, I believe, I might be too young to die and I rather DO NOT WANNA DIE AT ALL!“
But this decision spiraled me straight back into that horrible - dead end + hoplessly painful place, I call HELL + And Ofcourse, that was NO OPTION at ALL - Because Hell is The Most Painful + SELF-INFLICTED SENTENCE EVER!
I DiD experience this part of my Acid-Trip as the place of eternal damnation, a dead-end, no-win-situation! Life cannot thrive there, it is absolutly loveless there, liveless and even death is not possible there - nothing can end this everlasting PAiN - infact, it is filled ONLY with PAiN, ETERNALLY! And it is COMPLETLY VOID OF + UNSUITABLE FOR ANY LiFE - to ever be able to bloom and blossom there!
Oh People, if you read this, I urge you with all the Might Of my God Given Power Of Love: Please Please Please: Change Your Loveless, Egocentric + Sinful Ways!
You Don´t Want To End Up In Hell, which is only A SELF-INFLICTED SENTENCE!
RETURN TO GOD! GOD IS LOVE AND LíFE!
GOD Is The VERY SOURCE of LOVE: UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!
God is Not A God of Death + Death - Sentences!
iNFACT - GOD CONQUERED DEATH for ALL OF US:
(Nina-Photo in Berlin - Mitte, Anno 1976, by Günter Linke)
TODAY I KNOW, WHAT I DID NOT - YET - KNEW BACK THEN: In The Holy Bible - John the Baptist says in MATTHEW 3:11 + also in LUKE 3:16, - ——→ JESUS will Come and Baptize us with the Holy Spirit and with Fire ! And Many Times In The Bible, God Encourages Us, Not To Be Afraid: Here is a funtastic collection of ----> DO NOT BE AFRAiD ! - VERSES!
BECAUSE: We`re not made for death, but for life. God is not the God of the dead, but the living!
(Nina Hagen "Spirit in The Sky" - LiVE @ Rock in Rio, 1985!)
AND QUiCKLY I TRUSTED & FOLLOWED GOD`S ADViCE FULL FORCE + I said: “O.K. DeaR GoD, I will do, what you have told me to do: I shall lay me down & DiE.”
And I layed myself down on my back, I closed my eyes and I trusted myself completly and with all my heart & all my soul - on to GoD!
AND HOLY GLORY ALL THE WAY + ALL OF A SUDDEN:
——→ I went OUT of my 17-Earth-Year-Old-Body & I Found Myself Sitting Vis A Vis of Thee Most Loving & Beautiful Young Man, who looked at me with SUCH AN UNFATHOMABLY ENORMOUS LOVE, SO GREAT, UNiQUE + PURE, and I realized: HE LOVES ME ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Jesus Brought Me Safely Through The Fire Into The Holy Spirit & I Was Born Again!
YES, JESUS CHRIST: GOD`S LOVE in PERSON!!!
HE LOOKED AT ME WiTH SUCH AN UNCONDiTiONAL + PURE LOVE, THAT WAS ABSOLUTLY + OVERWHELMINGLY TRUE & FAITHFUL! NEVER ENDiNG!
I Kept Gazing into His Unfathomably Loving Eyes Looking into Mine:
BEING FACE TO FACE, and I Will Never Be Able To Put into Words The Overwhelming Greatness of His Loving Presence!
And - THEN + THERE, I started asking Him My First + Most Important QUESTION:
“ARE YOU GONNA GO AWAY AGAIN? . .. . LIKE ALL THE OTHERS ? ? ? ”
He Answered: ”I AM ALWAYS THERE,
I WAS ALWAYS THERE & I WILL BE ALWAYS THERE!”
(This, His Most Wonderful Answer to my First Question Here, is Biblically Supported by many verses, for example in Hebrews 13:8: ”Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” And here in John 8:58: “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!” + in Revelation 1:8: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.” + in Isaiah 43:10-11: “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come. / I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.” + in Isaiah 57:15, refers to God as “who lives forever, whose name is holy”! ---> READ MORE @ THE SOURCE!)
I was so overwhelmed with endless Joy and Happiness, Hearing His Reply, It felt like a MOUNTAIN OF STONES FELL OFF MY HEART + CHEST iN RELiEF & I was Completly Void Of Any Doubt, Trusting HiS Faithful LOVE Now & Forever & Ever!!!
--> As it is written in 1 John 4,19: "We love, because He first loved us!"
AND THERE + THEN, I ASKED HIM MY SECOND QUESTiON:
“WHO ARE YOU?”
And my Beloved Boldly Answered: “WELL NINA, YOU TOOK LSD, SO I MUST BE YOUR —→ “TRiP” !
What A Great Sense Of Humor Our Creator Has! And Yes: He Said This To Me, Without Even Moving His Lips, Smiling at me! This was Happymakingly FuN To ReaLiZe, Because it is Written: ---> Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
THEN I ASKED HiM My THiRD QUESTiON:
“WhaT iS YOUR NAME?”
AND WOW: Instead Of Hearing Him ANSWER me, This time, I Heard a CHOIR - of what I would consider “Angels Singing” - and it was sooooo undiscrybabbally BEAUTiFUL and by NOW I do KNOW IT 4 CERTAiN, because - They All Sang God`s SPECiAL LOVE-NAME in The Most Beautiful Ways,
And I heard one main word in that ANGELiC CHoiR:
——> “iSHi !” . . . . . :
iSHi iSHi iSHi : They Sang This Holy Love-Name Of GoD in Many Most Precious Ways - That Holy Name of JESUS CHRIST, OUR BELOVED - They Sang IT in Unfathomably Beautiful + PERFECT HARMONIES, in Seemingly Neverending Canon-Loops, soooo AMAZING + PERECT + for me, to Be able to Witness This Heavenly Music, Longing to Be Able to Hear it FOREVER + MORE!
And needless to say, in This Heavenly Realm “The Concept Of Time” did no longer exist! AND it was THAT PRECIOUS NAME of GOD, that they`ve danced around with Their Angelic Voices —→ “iSHi!“:
Then I thought: “This must be all those beloved people singing His Holy Name, all those amazing people that KNOW & LOVE, RESPECT & CHERiSH HiM - on a deeply Personal & Individual Level!!! “OH, ISHI!“ And I was overwhelmed with Gratitude & Happiness, Having Been Invited To Witness All This!: “THANK YOU, JESUS !!!”
The Biblical Backrounds of “ISHi” -----> https://biblehub.com/topical/i/ishi.htm
(My 2.nd Christmas with Mom - Anno 1957 - at Home in Eastberlin!)
I was in GoD`s Unfathomably LOViNG & BEAUTiFUL PRESENCE All NighT & We`ve talked all night and I`ve asked Him many, many questions… , oh yes, and by the way, we talked in german language … and I kept calling Him by His Name Jesus + kept begging Him, to keep me with Him, in His Kingdom Everlasting, and NOT to send me BACK to EARTH - but He told me “NO.” . . . . “NOT YET”!
But I kept begging and pledging. Patiently He comforted me - continously - with His Words Of Truly Blessed Assurance + I did realize, that God always knows Best!
And as it is written in Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” - Exactly. This Is God`s Faithful Everlasting Loving Good Vibration, that I`ve met in PERSON, when I was in His Presence in 1972, during my BornAgain-Experience on LSD in Eastberlin!
He Held Me In His Arms, until the “Trip” wore off . . . but I kept looking into His unfathomably beautiful & loving Eyes, even though I became soooo tired + ready to fall asleep - and slowly but steady, in the early sunday-morning hours ….. I was back with my Friends from Poland - in my earthly body - on planet earth, in Eastberlin,
Anno 1972. I Died on LSD, And I was BORN AGAiN the same DAY! And This Was NoT A Dream! I had Truly Been Baptized By JeSuS ChRiST!
JeSuS, The LoVe Of GoD, In PeRSoN!
My friends then told me, that I was speaking in my native german language all night, I`ve kept resting in Woytek`s arms, kept looking at Woytek all the time and always called him “JESUS”! WoW!
Thank You, My Dear Friend Woytek from Poland, You Were The Door-Keeper for Jesus, it was Woytek, who was safeguarding me all these long hours that my LSD-Trip lasted + Woytek made it possible for JESUS to Be with me in The Holy Spirit, Yes:
JESUS CHRiST, who says of Himself —> "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture." (John 10:9)
HaLeLooYa & With Thanks & Praises To Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ: I Will Continuosly Thank You, Jesus! Thank You For Offering Us The Most Wonderful And Personal Fellowship With You! Thank You For Faithfully Being Our Best, Best Friend!
Jesus, Our Light In The Darkness & Our Soul´s Redeemer & Comforter!
THANK YOU JESUS, FOR TEACHING US, THAT A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WiTH YOU iS NOT ABOUT BEiNG “RELiGiOUS” -
BuT ALL ABOUT BEiNG TRUE & FAiTHFUL FRIENDS:
as it is written In John 15:14 - where we find Jesus’ most extraordinary words:
‘You are my friends.’
Reminder: As we so awesomely live in a direct + personal fellow + friendship with Jesus Christ, I want us all to rejoice + remember, that God doesn’t want to send anybody to Hell! It`s People, who choose to go there - OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL!!
DiSCLAiMER:
I DiD NOT SHARE MY STORY OF REDEMPTION HERE WiTH YOU, BECAUSE I WANT TO “BRAG” ABOUT IT, but simply BECAUSE I have GOOD NEWS to bring + THAT IS WHY I SING!
I LOVE TO SHARE MY JOY & GoDs UN-CONDiTiONAL LOVE WiTH EVERYONE, because: It is Our Joy United, That Glorifies God and Benefits Us: For By His Grace, the Lord has Ordained That What Glorifies Him is What is Good For Us, For The opposite Of a Cheerful Heart is a “crushed spirit” that “dries up the bones” (Prov. 17:22).
Proclaiming & Celebrating THE LORD`S PRAYER - LiVE @ ROCK IN RiO! + “Throwing My Ego Away” - Gratitude-Prayer:
✍ Jesus also is ---> Quote: “The word for " G O D " - used once for the Messiah and later for the Messiah’s God, is E L O H i M ! ! !
Paul quotes this psalm in Hebrews 1:8-9 to prove that Jesus: ”Through Whom also He made the worlds,” verse 2) - is Worthy of the Worship of Angels. To Worship Anything Less than God breaks the first Commandment! This shows Jesus to be God before and after His incarnation, Philippians 2:6-7 adds more to our understanding of this:
Jesus Christ, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men. . . . “ —→ read more @ this amazing bible-study-source: https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/library/booklet/id/421/god-is-what.htm
GLORY GLORY HALLELUYA:
“LSD! JESUS SAVED ME!”:
With Gratitude To The Musical Ministry Of Washington Phillips:
Singing His Anthem “I Am Born To Preach The Gospel”:
And Reverend Gary Davis Sings “I Heard The Angels Singing”:
with all my Love, from Nina Hagen & all the Punk Pioneers in my Life:
EXTRA! EXTRA!
READ, HEAR + SEE MORE ABOUT THE ALL GIRL PUNK-BAND SNAP HER & ME, RiGHT HERE —----> in my facebook !
AND CHECK OUT THE NEW PUNK-BOOK “TanZ AuF DeM VulkaN” - Telling the Stories of the Courageous Punk-Woman from Eastgermany, BEHiND the IRON CURTAIN, ---> RiGHT HERE !
AND ALL BECAUSE “JESUS WAS A PUNK ROCKER”, by Tequila Mockingbird:
This is Our Gethsemane-Kirche in East-Berlin! —→ + I am "Gottes Antifa" !
Celebrating Church-Service with ThE DiXiE HuMMiNGBiRDS & “GoD`s RaDaR”:
+ + + With Thanks & Praises To Our Most Beloved Friend, Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, For Continously Letting Us Grow in His Grace & Knowledge! + + +
+ + + Thank You to ALL The Friends in my Life! + + + You Know, Who You Are! + + +
+ + + Blessed Be Everybody!!! + + + Continously & Forever! + + + Amen! + + +
With Love + Gratitude on "God`s Radar" from the "Personal Jesus" - Gospel - Album:
dear Nina, i’m a 20 year old from argentina and i discovered your music not so long ago and felt such a connection with not only your words but how you expressed them through your voice. throughout my life, i had always felt a distant connection with the concept of god and jesus, because from the people who followed the bible’s words were the same people who very aggressively told me i would burn in hell for being a homosexual. although i always thought to myself, if there is a god i hardly believe he made me a homosexual. papa francisco’s words about this started giving me hope and your music has given me the path in finding god’s way, yet somehow nowadays i feel stuck and feel like the nina hagen you write about pre-LSD. this “ego-death” you always sang about is what i have been seeking throughout these past months yet i find it hard to find! it would mean the world to me if you saw my comment and responded, i truly want to follow the path you found in god and self expression! i make music myself and write about it in my own home language spanish… i have a song called “tengo calor” which i sing about feeling like when you grab very hard on sand and feel it escaping through your fingers and feeling this fire inside you that you know you can’t keep inside because you feel like exploding! i truly believe i wrote it about my journey with self expression and have found new meanings on it that co-rrelate to my journey finding god. if it is of any of your interest: https://youtu.be/ufYahQekw_g?si=ZBVRWDaiG8R91Ucp (by no means i send my art as a form of promotional intent, but for showing my expression which i relate so much to yours and your experiences)
Thank you for your testimony Nina, straight from the heart! The religious leaders of that time when Jesus was walking on the Earth hated Jesus's teachings, they wanted him dead!! I'm not religious, I'M CHRISTIAN!! God doesn't want to send anybody to Hell, HE DOESN'T!! People choose to go there OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL!!