Responsibility

Hi all,

Today I am writing about responsibility. The one thing I have noticed about people who would fall into the category of what some people would call moaners/whingers/losers is their complete inability to take any responsibility for themselves. This is also the mindset of criminals and abusers.

It doesn't really matter who they blame for their predicament: it always falls into the category of some-one else. It's almost like delete as appropriate fate/God/society/the state/bad childhood/nature etc. etc. Now note, I am not saying that people are responsible for what happens to them, (although some philosophical systems teach this). To me that is patent nonsense because it would imply that individuals have full control of the world external to them. Quite clearly with six billion people on the planet not everyone can be in total charge of their external circumstances!

No, what I am suggesting is that people are responsible for how they respond, (response - ability), to events that happen to them. Two people can go through the same experience and have entirely different reactions which suggests that it is not events themselves that determine our responses. It is rather a matter of how we view them and also whether we apply any system of morality to inform our response to events.

That is how we are responsible for ourselves. In our response to life.

Life is not always apparently fair. People act unjustly towards us. Life mistreats us. Nature can be cruel and we can be caught up in collective situations, like war etc., that are not of our own making and that we oppose even. But the one thing we can control is our response.

If you say you cannot control your response you are lying to yourself. You are absolving yourself of very thing that separates us from other animals: moral agency.

Quite frankly if you really cannot control yourself your place is in a prison or a sanatorium for the insane. And as I have worked in both places I can testify that there really are people so damaged or insane that they literally cannot stop their compulsions to kill and rape etc. Now these people really cannot control their behaviour. For every- one else it is a cop out to say that.

Now while you are responsible for your behaviour that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to ask for help or feel bad about doing so. Or that you should feel eternally guilty for what you did in the past. Though there is a place for guilt I believe.

I do not subscribe to the view of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) that people were "doing the best they could at the time with the resources they had". I think this is a simplistic and sentimentalised view of the human condition. Plenty of times people were not doing their best. People can be lazy, greedy and manipulative and know that they are being these things. These are moral choices.

On the other hand people can be genuinely unaware that what they are doing is wrong and/or not have access to the real reasons they are behaving in a particular manner e.g. such as unconscious motivations. However as I believe that we all made a choice to come to Earth to learn our lessons, on a soul and a karmic level we are still responsible for our behaviour.

And on a more prosaic level, even if we do not know why we do what we do, society has to treat us as responsible for our behaviour in the sense that we are the agents that carry out the actions.

So where does guilt come in? Well guilt is an indicator that we have transgressed some moral code that we have internalised. That is, it is within us. It doesn't matter if no-one else knows about the offending behaviour: the point is, we know.

It is important that we try to get to know ourselves enough to examine whether the guilt we feel is really earned or not. What I mean by that is that some guilt people feel is unearned in the sense that it is a conditioned response to a belief system that may have been imposed upon them as children. As an adult they don't really believe in the belief system anymore but they feel guilt as a conditioned response.

An example of this might be the way some people feel about sex. They know logically that sex isn't really dirty but they still feel guilty about it. If you suffer from this type of guilt you may be in need of some therapy to recover because you do not deserve it.

But what about the guilt that you have earned. For example if I came home feeling stressed and hit my dog, (I wouldn't by the way), I would feel guilty because I had transgressed my own moral code. This type of guilt acts as a moral barometer and alerts me to change my behaviour. If it doesn't then feeling guilty is a merely indulgence.

The point is the guilt should lead me to changing my behaviour or to rectify the situation. If I have done that, or if it is not possible, feeling guilty any longer is redundant. And not only that but if continued it is dangerous to both mental and physical health. At this point you need to learn to forgive yourself.

You made a mistake. You have done what you could to put it right. You forgive yourself and move on. If other people continue to harbour grudges against you then that is their problem and none of your business.

Also I would say that you cannot take responsibility for outcomes. By that I mean you cannot be responsible for the effect your behaviour has on other people. Other people's response to your behaviour is influenced by many factors, most of which will be beyond your control.

What you are responsible for is your intentions. If you always act with good intention even if the effect of your behaviour turns out to be negative you have behaved morally and responsibly.

An example of this might be if you finished a love relationship because you no longer loved then person. The other person may be a good person but you just don't love them any more for some reason. So as gently and kindly as you can break up with them. And then in grief they commit suicide. Are you responsible for their death? No, you are not.

There is only on person responsible for their death and that is them

On the other hand if you hounded some-one you thought had wronged you and made their life a living hell and in depression they killed themselves are you responsible. Well in this case yes and no. The decision to take their own life was still their choice but you made a contribution to the situation by your evil intentions. So you are responsible your intentions and the part that played in the persons death.

So morality always comes down to intention and not necessarily outcomes.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this as some people did email me to clarify my position on responsibility.

Ultimately I believe you cannot run away from your own soul and it is that soul, as the representative of God, that will ultimately judge you.

Until next time,

Blessed be,

KK

PS Also taking responsibility gives you power over your life. You cease to be a victim. And another good thing to remember is that blame looks backwards but responsbility looks forward!

What are We?

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Hi all,

How very prosaic life is at times. At the moment I am stuck at home with a second degree burn on my leg. This was due to a bowl of soup being spilt down my leg accidentally.

Wow did I scream with pain! Apparently second degree burns are the most painful type of burns and one of the most painful injuries possible. Anyhow I did first aid, got to a hospital and now it is healing up nicely. The nurse has also said there should be no scaring which is good.

But how prosaic life can be. Because I cannot go anywhere because of the leg people have been coming to see me and with all the extra time of my hands I have been having some amazing conversations. And they have caused me to see that some of my friends are not as developed as I supposed them to be.

In one conversation I had a friend who told me that we are "the sum of all our experiences". Now he did actually mean all the experiences in all of our lifetimes. But to me the idea that we are just "the sum of all our experiences" falls little short of those materialistic sociologists and psychologists etc. who taught in the the sixties that people became thugs etc because they had a bad childhood etc etc. This just renders humans being into robots that merely react to outside influences. It is behaviorism at its worst.

To say that on a karmic or spiritual level we are just "the sum of all our experiences" makes us seem like spiritual robots. It is a form a spiritual behaviorism. God is ringing the karmic bell and in a spiritual Pavlovian way we react.

To say that someone is just "the sum of all their experiences" is to render a human being as something that is merely enacted upon by outside influences. Now a dog may repond Pavlovian like to the ringing of a bell but you and I are not dogs.

Two people can experience the same event and respond to it differently. Therefore it is not true to say that we are shaped merely by our experiences. It would possibly be truer to say that we are shaped by how we respond to our experiences. But what is the 'I' or 'we' that is responding?

Well to me the 'I' or the 'we' that responds is our soul. I could say that the soul is that eternal part of ourselves that chooses to come into the world to learn lessons. But I will not say that I believe that is the truth. The truth is that our souls are not part of ourselves. They are ourselves. We do not have a soul: we are a soul. Everything else that we consider to be ourselves such as our minds, our personalities, our bodies even are not really us. Not is the sense of them lasting forever. They are just temporary vehicles created to facilitate our learning in one particular lifetime.

I would like to say here that I have used the word "repond" with regard to the soul. However there are many people who although they are a soul in Reality are identified with their ego. That is their little Earth self. They think that is who they really are. At that level of consciousness they do not respond they "react". These are the people whose behaviour the materialist psychologists and sociologists can predict. Because in truth their level of consciousness is more or less a little higher that that of Pavlov's dogs. And with the right Government programs those who at this level have been conditioned to become thugs can be reconditioned "trained" to become better behaved. But it is training and not education. Education is of the soul. What materialistc Government programs teach and what an educated (enlightened) soul learns is the difference between information and Knowledge.

Now I believe that enlightenment for most souls is a ongoing process. It is like drip drip drip. The soul is enlightened for most people over many lifetimes. Their are some like Buddha for whom it was instantaneous. But for most people it is a ongoing challenge.

One thing I am asked over an over again is how is the crossover made from being identified as a conditioned ego to starting to become an enlightened soul and I can only answer truthfully: I do not know. Perhaps this is one of the Mysteries that certain occult schools claim to teach. I don't know. All my my spiritual insights have come as a result of direct contact with the Divine mainly through my dreams and my poetry.

All I can say with certainty is that it is true "When the student is ready the teacher will appear" - occult saying.

So what are we? We are souls that have chosen to come to Earth to learn more lessons. Whether or not we do learn them is entirely out responsibility.

Until next time,

Blessed be

KK

* Acknowledgement: this image is by William Blake and was designed by him for his grave.

Spiritual Ancestry

Hi all,

Well first you may wonder why I have inserted a picture of a string of beads under the heading spiritual ancestry. I am using the picture to extend an analogy used by Annie Besant in her explanation of reincarnation.

From the translation by Annie Besant, Discourse ii, 18-25.

WHAT IT IS THAT REINCARNATED ?

"...... Thus successive bodily lives are linked together like pearls strung upon a thread, the thread being the living Principle, the pearls upon it the separate human lives."

Well in most peoples understanding pearls are white. (I know black pearls exist but we will leave that out for now!)

I understand that Annie Besant used the pearl analogy because pearl necklaces were common at the time she was writing. Now a days many people, especially those you might call New Age wear strings of differently coloured beads.

And this is not for nothing. Rainbow colours are used to emphasis inclusion and the umbrella nature of New Age spirituality. That it covers many different paths and traditions.

I am using the string of coloured beads in that way also but for a different reason.

Recently there has been a great surge of interest in the British media in people seeking out their ancestry. That is their physical ancestry.

Now this makes complete sense if you are a materialist, (that is you are an atheist), or if you do not believe in reincarnation. After all what else could you trace your "roots" too other than along your physical blood line. These must be your ancestors.

But if you believe in re-carnation, thinking that your ancestors can only be those linked by blood to the physical body you choose to incarnate in during this lifetime does not seem to make any sense at all. You are saying that somehow the identity of your soul and that of your body are linked in some ongoing way. That, for example, if you are born white then your true lineage of ancestry is within the white race, (which would be the case in my physical ancestry which I am using for this expamle). However, I reject this completely because, in my understanding of reincarnation, I may have reincarnated as a black person previously, (I am white in this incarnation), so how can my true lineage be in the physical ancestry of the body I have presentedly incarnated in? My answer is that is cannot be.

My true lineage, my true ancestoral line must be in my spiritual ancestry. That is my true ancestors must be those soulsI have been karmically and spititually involved with in previous lifetimes. But short of past life regression therapy, (of which I am suspect - but that is a different story!) , I cannot truly know who all my spiritual ancestors, (which I shall call true from now on), were.

It is true that I feel a karmic connection to many people I meet in my present life, and it may be true that I have karmic connections with some of my previous blood relatives but it may not neccesarily be true.

The one exception I would make to this statement is that we obviously have karmic connections to our birth parents since we chose them to be the vehicles to bring about our present incarnation. However it may not be a strong karmic connection or even an ongoing one. For example. if a person was adopted their strongest karmic connection, their true connection, may be with their adoptive parents.

So why did I used coloured beads in my anology? It was to emphasise that the chances are, that since many of us have lived possibly hundreds of lifetimes, our true spiritual ancestry can be traced through incarnations covering both genders, many cultures, many races, many sexual orientations, and any other variation you would care to mention. This being that case our connection with the whole of humanity would be self evident.

However there are still Pagan traditions that insist that spiritual ancestry and phyiscal ancestry are the one and the same thing. That one only re-incarnates within ones race for example.

This is true of some people who have misused the norse tradition of Asatru to perpetuate racist beliefs as in this paper https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/6559/1/White%20Blood.pdf. However, as the author notes most Asatru followers are not racist and the racist beliefs expressed by some "followers" do not necessarily repesent mainstream Asatru. Much as most Christians would not consider the Klu Klux Klan as a Christian church but the Klu klux Klan regard themselves as so!

My main worry would be that in making physical and spiritual ancestry one and the same thing one lays the ground open to racisim and Fascism as indeed this was one of the beliefs that Hitler used in a distorted form to justify his Nazi philosopy. And it was the Nazi philosophy that gave moral impetus the regimes horrific and inhuman consequent actions.

Of course my strongest objection to seeing physical and spiritual ancestry as one and the same thing is the logisical absurdity of it as previously explained. Also with regard to race - could some-one explain to me when I become "white" or "black"? I mean what if I am of mixed race? What percentage of blood is needed to classify my predominant race type? Believe me some people have wasted their lives trying to answer this question!

I have an easier answer. There is no pure "black" or "white" race. It doesn't exist. We are all realted to each other, even on a purely physical level. Every one is our brother and sister.

We belong to one race. The human race. And it is a rainbow!

Until next time,

Bessed be!

Krystal Klere

The Coming Spiritual Struggle

Hi all,

As most of my dedicated readers will know I believe that there is an ongoing clash between the worst aspects of patriachy and equalism/liberalism. That is to say there is a clash between fundemental patriachal values, (authoriatarianism/rule of law/conflict/the use of force/violence etc.) and the values of equalists/liberals, (liberty, non-discrimination, democracy, gentleness, concensus, the spirit of the law etc) that is happening right now and it is my belief that this will eventually polarise whole societies. Well when I observe society this becomes very apparent.

There are whole belief systems whose believers think that women are inferior, that gay people are "dirty dogs", that people of other belief systems are inferior and that it is OK to treat them so, that democracy is for weak people and violence used to enforce their view of what is right is acceptable, commendable even.

Sound familiar? I should say so. These are the values that spurred the Nazi's on and fuelled the Second World War and the mass murder of innocent civilians. It doesn't matter how you dress it up: these are fascistic values. They stand diametrically opposed to the values that the West holds dear. These values threaten to destroy our liberal Western democracies if they ever come to fruition in the West.

This is the biggest battle of all ideologies and I believe will be one of the foremost spiritual struggles of our times. And there won't be any sitting on the fence.

You either stand against the fascistic values or, even if you don't hold them, you will become part of the problem.

"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. " - Edmund Burke.

Of course in this day and age that also includes good women. Especially good women.

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Happy New Year! New Beginnings!

Hi all,

Another New Year is here so Happy New Year to you all! And what a year it's been and is going to be.

It was with regret that I noted the execution of Saddam Hussein. While I understand that many people affected by this man may have wanted his death and may feel safer now he is dead I still am against the death sentence. And what really upset me was the gratuitous glory people took in spreading the mobile phone footage around the Internet. Are we still the lynch mob? I guess many are but I pray for a world when we progress collectively beyond that low level of consciousness. That is all I will say on the subject.

Now on to a happier message. Remember you cannot change the past but the future is unwritten and can be determined by you. This is so despite to the amount of fortune tellers around. Any real psychic/sensitive will tell you that they can only predict possibilities and trends and give warnings. Any-one who tells you the future is written in stone and only they can see it should be avoided for the charlatans they are.

So I will wish you all a Very Happy New Year. And as always,

Blessed be!

KK

The Duty to Become Peaceful

Hi all,

Today I am writing about Peace. We wish Peace upon people as if it were a outside entity that can descend upon people, or as something that other people can give you. Well this is not so. Your Peace is your responsibility. Peace will come because you order your life so it becomes a fertile place for Peace to grow. And Peace will come because you live in accordance with higher spititual values, such as forgiveness and loving your enemy, rather than give into to baser human values such as revenge and hatred.

If you continue to seek revenge and nurse grievances and feel hatred, no-one, but no-one in this world, or even God can "give "you Peace.

That said, I also said that a duty lies upon you to create your life in such a way that it becomes a fertile ground wherein Peace can dwell. Because other people can diminish your path to Peace or even try to destroy it. If they are are full of hatred and bitterness they may feel very envious of any Peace you have achieved and may try to destroy or diminish your Peace.

If you are spiritually able to help them do so, if you wish. But if you do not have the spiritual strength to stand up to these destructive people you have the right, and perhaps even the duty, to avoid them. It serves no highter purpose to allow your Peace to be destroyed.

As that beautiful poem Desiderata says "Avoid loud and aggressive persons for the are vexations to the soul" And your first duty is to your own Soul.

Maybe very advanced spiritual beings such as Jesus and Buddha etc. could be with such persons and maintain their own Peace and even calm people down. But most people are not in that place so the first thing you must preserve is your own Peace.

There can never be Peace on this planet while it does not dwell in your Soul.

So start there.

Pax and as always Blessed Be,

KK

Krystal Klere's Christmas Address 2006

Hi all,

First I will say Merry Yuletide, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays as many of my other blogs now point to this one for the Christmas Address.

Let me also say at the start many thanks to you all for your kind thoughts, blessings and gifts during this my Crone year, and also for the Christmas/Yuletide presents I have yet to open. I wish you all Peace, Comfort, Joy and Love now and always.

My husband and I have parted officially. I call it the parting of the ways. Of course there is a certain amount of discord bertween us because parting always hurts. But there is not enmity and I have already received a Christmas card from him. According to my religion , Paganism, a couple stay together "as long as love lasts"*. This to me seems to be the most loving and civilised way of handling human relationships. To tie people into to a loveless marriage. or union, on account of "duty" seems to be quite barbaric to me and almost guaranteed to lead to resentment and hostility. Still some people seem to accept this idea.

I hope you are surrounded by people you love this Wintertide, and by people who love you. For me this not does not have to mean blood family. To me the spiritual family is much more important. And that includes people who are there in the flesh and in the spirit.

If you are alone make sure to love yourself. Eat well and do things that give you pleasure. You deserve it. And remember if others do not appear to love you, or appreciate you, it is their loss. The lotus is within all of us. So love yourself this Christmas. And if you do get down remember is it really just one more day.

We live in a materialist capitalistic world where Mammon seems to rule more at Christmas that the spirit of Jesus. And the ringing of cash tills is more common than the rings of jingle bells.

So in the spirit of Christmas try to remember some-one less fortunate that yourself and do them a good turn. (And there always is some-one like that) And in the spirit of Humanity try to do this everyday for the rest of your life.

If you wish to donate, my chosen charity this year is the Childrens Hospice International charity who do amazing work.

May the God, Goddess or Life, (whichever you believe in) , bless you all the Christmas/Yuletide/Holiday and in all the years to come.

And as always,

Blessed be,

KK

PS* When I say "the end of love" in a relationship I am referring to personal and romantic love. I still Love my husband as a aspect of the Divine that I have had close knowledge of. That can never change. If that were not so, in my opinion. it would never have been really Love.

Krystal is in Australia

Hi all,

Greetings from Australia! I am here to see my third husband from whom I live separately but whom I still love. I will be seeing him tomorrow and I am really looking forward to it!

One week of love, romance and adventure.

I hope you can all be as lucky one day.

Until next time.

Blessed be,

KK

Pearl of Wisdom 4/10/06

Hi all,

My thought for the day comes from the words of Jesus.

Jesus said, "Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you" (Luke 6:27-28).


Until next time,

Blessed be,

KK

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Rape and Prostitution

Hi all,

Yes, I know I said that all I would be publishing for a while would only be thoughts for the day but something happened yesterday that made me decide to update this blog.

The reason I decided to update this blog is with regard to prostitution and childhood sexual abuse. Is there a connection I hear you ask? Well the answer is - yes, there can be. And the reason I raise the question is that yesterday I attended a psychology conference and the subject matter was the connection, (if any), between childhood sexual abuse adult sex workers.

I am a qualified social worker and worked in the past in an outreach project in London that helped sex workers, (aka prostitutes). One thing that became apparent to me when I worked in the project was the high incidence of women who worked as prostitutes who had been sexually abused as children. About 70% at the project I worked in.

The theory goes something like this. Women who are sexually abused as children become conditioned to see themselves as sex objects and that is the only way they can get "love". Upon becoming adults they still, (maybe subconsciously) , see themselves as sex objects, but when they demand money for performing sexual services they feel empowered because now they are making money by being sexual objects, and are in charge and not an object of abuse. Of course in reality they are repeating a pattern they were conditioned to believe in i.e. that their role in the world is to be a sexual object.

I actually believe that this theory makes a greal deal of sense. Where I part company with some more radical feminists is that I still believe that if a woman believes that becoming a prostitute, at the time in life she becomes one, is the best option for her then I think we should honour that choice. We should respect anyone doing the best they can for themselves at the time.

When the time comes when she is able to, or needs to, move on from that role then she should be enabled to do so. But for me prostitution remains a valid life choice as long as a woman wants to do it and is not forced to do so through pimping, drug addiction or poverty. (In other words being forced by external circumstances).

If she chooses to become a prostitute because of where she is at internally at the time then that choice should be respected.

I also have no time for the patriachal religions and their take on prostitution.

Prostitution is not a "sin" is the accepted sense of the word. The only "sin" involved is in those who exploit prostitutes for money. And neither is she a victim to be pitied. She made the best choice she could at the time and should be respected for that.

As for those who see her as some sort of vile repository of dirt, sin and immorality to be viewed with horror and revulsion then I would suggest this. That they are projecting their own twisted view of sexuality onto her, and that in their minds, whether this is conscious or not, sexuality itself is dirty. Therefore since the prostitute has experienced so much of it she must be filthy indeed.

Contrast this attitude to the matriachal period of history when sex was considered sacred and prostitutes where considered priestesses as they are today in my religion - Paganism.

No, if anyone should be regarded as the "sinners" in this whole sorry affair it should be those who defile young girls and cause them to go down the route of prostitution to begin with. And also all rapists and paedophiles everywhere.

But even then I do not even believe these people to be "sinners" in the conventional sense because I do not believe in "sin". Yes, certainly what they do is evil and they are responsible for it. And the reparation for what they have done, and their own healing, is indeed their responsibility.

But that aside and with regard to the prostitutes. Let us honour them for dealing with the pain of childhood abuse in a creative way that does not hurt more children. And let us also honour the men who go to them as clients for dealing with their sexual needs in a civilised way and not through emotionally hurting, or raping, other unwilling women.

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Pearl of Wisdom 2/10/06

Hi all,

My first thought for the day is this :-

"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces." Matthew 7:6

And I also saw another saying and contemplated it and I knew then that Jesus believed in Karma.

"Therefore, by their fruits you will know them." Matthew 7:20

As always,

Blessed be

KK

Pearl of Wisdom 1/10/06

Hi all,

I am both a writer and a political activist and this is a thought for those who think there is a dilemma between loving peace and being political active.

"I love with one hand and fight with the other. In my dreams I love with both hands" - Krystal Klere

Blessed be,

KK

Pearl of Wisdom 28/9/06

"History need not be destiny but if you believe it must be you have already made it so." - Krystal Klere

Blessed be,

KK

Pearls of Wisdom Commences

Hi all,

Sorry I have been away so long. I have been concentrating on my books and as I have so little time on my hands at the moment, for the foreseeable future I will be posting a thought for the day rather than posting an online diary.

I have had lots of emails asking how I am and also to ask me to write my blog - so thank you all. I am very very well!

I hope my thoughts for the day will help comfort, guide and heal you. (I will be calling them Pearls of Wisdom but believe me this is what other people have insisted on calling them - not myself!)

Much love as always,

Blessed be,

KK

Love Ye One Another

Hi all,

Jesus said "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another"John 13:34-35 (The Holy Bible)

Yesterday I was on a Treasure Hunt with friends in the middle of London and we came upon a man lying collapsed in the middle of the pavement. This was about 7.00 on a Tuesday evening. And do you know what people did? They just walked around him. I was shocked and horrified. And I don't think it is just to do with London. I have come across similar things in other foreign large cities.

Anyhow we did not pass him by. He appeared to be drunk and asleep, but I am not a doctor and could not say that he was categorically. In any event, even if he was, he still needed help. So we summoned a couple of Community Police Support Officers and they took over looking after him.

If I ask you to do anything on this blog it is this: please do not walk by on the other side. One day it may be you, or some-one you love needing help. Love isn't just a word, or a feeling, ultimately it is an action. So I would ask of you only this: please live love.

To quote George Bernard Shaw:-

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Life is no 'brief candle' for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a short moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

I could not agree more with this statement.

On another note about action. I am going to the 30th Festival for Mind, Body and Spirit this weekend with a friend of another religion. It will be fantastic because I went to the first one when I was a graduate student in London in 1977!

I'll report back!

Until then,

Blessed be,

KK

My First Audio Poem - Freedom!

There are Two Sides to Everything (at Least!)

Hi all,

I am still working on the birthday entry as I want to post some photo's in the members area and I have not had all of my birthday celebrations yet. So that is a work is progress at the moment!

Just for today's entry I wanted to concentrate on the Pagan belief that there are two sides, (at least), to everything. Light and dark are two sides of the same coin, and not two separate, and warring entities, as perceived by some religions for instance. There is light and shadow in everything, and both, in the right circumstances are correct.

Being as I am a believer in the paranormal and spiritual worlds I thought it was only right that I investigated the skeptical side of things. So last night I attended a meeting for skeptics and listened to a talk by a speaker who was a physicist and also believed in the paranormal. Then there were questions and answers. It was incredibly interesting and I had some very detailed, (and a little bit heated), discussions with people.

The picture that you see above emphasizes to two predominant sides of human nature. The dragon (the shadow) side and the fairy (the light or iridescent) side. And both are valid and necessary.

So for the skeptics :-

"Materialists and mad men never have doubts". (G.K.Chesterton)

And for those who claim to know, (as opposed to believe) :-

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one". (Voltaire)

Until next time,

Blessed be,

KK

PS Whilst researching on another subject I also came across two other quotes I thought worthy enough to bring to your attetnion. As you know I recently turned 50 and so am entering my croning years. Many changes have occurred and some of them have thrown me. In a rapidly changing world many people are fearful but the Universe works in mysterious ways and for those who fear change read this:-

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,the Master calls....the butterfly."---Richard Bach, author

And finally to skeptics this:-

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary, for those who do not believe, no proof is possible."--John & Lyn St. Clair Thomas, Eyes of the Beholder.

I am Hard at Work Now on Publishing the BooK! Hurray!

Hi all,

Sorry I haven't posted for sometime now, I've had a touch of flu - I'm OK now though. However thanks to all those people who have communicated with me through my new email address. I do promise you I will try to answer all your emails as soon as possible. And fulfill advanced book orders.

I am also still working on my birthday entry, (as the celebrations are sill going on!). So thank you to every-one who sent me presents and cards. I have sent an email to every one I can think of to say thanks, but want to thank all of you publicly in this blog for thinking about me.

I am sorry but I have to say no to people who have asked me to do personalised poems for them. I'm sorry but I do not offer this service. My poetry is for humanity in general

Until next time,

Blessed be,

KK

I'm a Crone Now! Happy Fiftieth Birthday to Me!

Hi all,

In this past week two significant things have happened. I celebrated my 50th birthday and an acquaintance of mine, (I would not call him a friend), died.

These two things happening in the same week and the way in which they happened have caused me to reflect upon life a bit more than usual.

First of all I would like to say a very big "Thank You!" to the personalised Krystal Klere bottle of champagne sent to me my Krystal Klere Internet Fan Club. (And I didn't even know I had one!) This was organised by the Acting Moderator Neil. Thank you Neil.

I drank the champagne on the eve of my birthday along with my husband before we went out to dinner with other friends. I had woken up in the room where I was born earlier that day before coming back to London.

I had lots of fantastic presents including ones from both my ex-husbands and two ex-boyfriends! I also got a fantastic present called "The Orgasmatron" from a group of girlfriends, some of whom had been lovers of mine in the past.

I had presents from Pagan friends and also from my foster children and God children. I also had many others including 350 emails wishing me "Happy Birthday". However the most amazing present I got, which came collectively from some cyber friends I have, (I run a cyber "agony aunt" column), was 50 gold and silver pieces of jewellery hanging from a "Birthday Tree"! Amazing!

I have had five birthday parties already with different groups of friends and have two more to go. (I am going to one this evening). And I have one final dinner with my husband and his last and most important present!

So I want to thank everyone who sent me a present, a card, an e-card, well wishes of any type and also everyone who organised or attended any events held to celebrate my 50th birthday. My life is awash with love and I am very appreciative of that fact.

So thank you everyone and as always,

Until next time.

Blessed be

KK

Poetry Book out by the Summer Solstice!

Hi all,

As many of you know who visit my private website my new, (and first) , poetry book will be out by the Summer Solstice. That is the 21st June 2006 in the UK.

If you want to join my private website please email me at krystalklere@hotmail.com .

I am also in the process of setting up my own commercial website for the purposes of selling my book since I understand that Blogger does not support commercial activity, which I respect because it is free.

Talking about free. Have many of you noticed how many free things there are on the Internet? I mean really legally free, without strings? And I don't just mean a free trial. There are websites that offer free web design and free hosting to private entrepreneurs and small businesses and I mean completely banner and ad free.

I must admit when I first looked into this I was a bit suspicious having been brought up on the premise that "There is no such thing as a free lunch".

Of course I knew that in the non-for-profit sector that this is totally untrue. Many people volunteer their money and their time for charitable causes. (I know because I do). But the idea that people would volunteer their resources for free so that other people could make money is a new, and extremely uplifting, idea for me.

Though much of the Internet is used for bizarre or disreputable means is undoubted, it has also unleashed a spirit of generosity in humankind that many of us believed possible, but not feasible perhaps, in this Incarnation.

That said I am glad to be alive now to see it. Perhaps it will knock the capitalist myth on it's head forever: that human beings primary motivation is to get back more that they put in to something - commonly known as making a profit.

Don't get me wrong: I am not against a person profitting from their labours, but let's face it, there is a difference between making an honest profit, and profiteering, which is what I believe would happen if capitlism was unfettered. That said, to me the twin tyrannies of Communism and Fascism are, I believe, two sides of the same coin. Both of them, under the guise of bettering mankind, really seek the same thing: domination of ones fellow man.

Sometimes preventing some-one's freedom, like restraining the criminal for example, may be necessary. But to desire to dominate fellow human beings for the sake of it is inherently evil.

I see the desire to have power over people, (as opposed to having power over one's own life), to be the greater evil in history, than the desire for money, (or greed).

Winston Churchil said 'Democracy is a very bad form of government. Unfortunately all the others are so much worse.' And I agree.

The picture that you see in this post was designed for me by a reader. I'm not sure I can see the future, but I will sure as hell try to contribute to it positively!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes you have sent me already. If you want to send more you can use the email address above.

I'm fifty this month. I'll be becoming a Crone soon!

I'm not giving the exact date for privacy reasons. I love you all but there are some very strange people on the net.

Check this out

Blessed be,

KK