Krystal Klere's Christmas Address 2007

Hi all,

Well this is my second Christmas address and what a year it’s been. I have published “Songs from the Jangled Heart” and “Petals from the Lotus Heart” this year. The last one was published to raise funds for a children’s charity and sales have been doing very well.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your best wishes and support during this year. I have been asked to do more radio shows as well as keeping my blog and I will try to aim to do one a month. Remember that these can be emailed to you for free and that they are broadcast on media other than just the Krystal Klere Kommunications channel. If you would like to have details of the other media outlets please send an email to KrystalKlere@hotmail.com c/o Neil.

Now for the Christmas address which will also be broadcast on Christmas Day (UK time) on the Krystal Klere Kommunications channel at Gabcast.

What is Love?

At Christmas we think about Love. This is because Christmas is a Christian festival and Christians believe that Jesus Christ was born at Christmas and gave His Life for the saving of the world. They believe that this was one of the greatest acts of Love. Even if we are not Christians we are reminded of the birth of a baby and for most people a baby is considered the fruit of Love.

But I also hear many people ask in modern times what is love exactly? In our modern age when relationships seem dispensable and we see abusive people on TV chat shows declaring that, whatever their behaviour, they “love” the people they are hurting this is not a surprising question.

I am going to attempt to give my answer and you must decide for yourself whether it speaks to you or not. Or whether some parts speak to you and others do not. In the end it is your responsibility to decide what you believe.

First I would say that Love is not a feeling; love may be but Love is not. What is the difference I hear you ask? Well what I want to concentrate on here is Love not love: love is what most people would call personal love. It is how we act, feel and do when our ego’s are involved and there is nothing wrong with that. However, with all personal love we have an investment and it involves our self. However there is nothing wrong with that because we have a self, and an ego to nurture while we are on the physical plane. But what I am concerned with here is Love.

Love is not a feeling and it is not an action. Love in this form is our Intention. That is it is the Will of our Soul. However it is not Intention only; for it to be Love it must be acted upon to the best of our ability.

I will give a very concrete idea of what I mean by Love here and how it can be acted out in the world.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a very well known Fellowship where alcoholics meet together to try and combat alcoholism. One of the steps of their Twelve Step Programme says this about making amends to people hurt by the alcoholics previous actions:-

(9) Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

In my opinion carrying out the first part of the step without the second part could have been loving in the personal sense of the word because it has good intention behind it. It is about someone wanting to make amends.

However there is a lack of Wisdom in it if taken alone because it would not have considered, however well intentioned, the effect the amends would have had on the person receiving them The first part of the step taken in conjunction with the second part however shows Love because the ultimate determinant of behaviour is how other people will be affected. This means that even if carrying out the first part would make the offender feel less guilty it cannot be done if it will cause further injury to those already hurt.

Therefore the Intention behind step (9) of the AA twelve steps is to do the Most Good and the Least Harm. I think this is a good guide as to whether one is showing Love or not.

There may be many times when what we want to do because we love someone may conflict with what we know we should really do if we really Love them. For example, if a beloved child or pet wants more food to eat after they have already had a good meal, (out of greed I mean), many times we want to give it to them because we want to indulge them. In other words we want to please them because we love them. But we know in our hearts that if we really Love them we shouldn't’t do so because we are the one in charge of their long term health and know that such actions would be detrimental to it. This is where our Intention, (Love), may conflict with our completely human feelings, (love). And it is where Love, (if carried out), creates an Action. (In this case that of denying our child or pet more food).

Notice I wrote Love produces an Action not an action. This is because I believe that although Love is Intention, if it is True Intention it must be acted upon in the world. If it isn’t, it is merely intention. And we all know how insipid intention is.

How many times have you heard someone say that they “intended” to do something and never do? You know that it is not worth the breath they use to say the word and it has absolutely nothing to do with Intention which is Spiritual and produces Love.

Therefore I would conclude by saying that Love is Intention that Manifests as Action is the world.

Sometimes the Action such Intention produces may not be recognised by others as Love and may, because of other factors, cause effects unforeseen. However as long as the Action was motivated by the Intention of Love it is Love.

Your Soul will know it and so will God.

May I wish you the Very Best Wishes of the Festive Season whatever your beliefs and always, always, Love. And remember I Love you all.

Until next time.

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Upon Facing Aggression and Hostility

Hi all,

I wrote this prayer as a response to the aggression and hostility I faced recently at a meeting of Atheists. I hope it helps you all as much as it has helped me.

Upon Facing Aggression and Hostility

A Prayer

Oh God/Goddess/Divine Spirit/The All That Is/Life

Let not the Spirit of Aggression and Hostility visit Me. But if it does let it not find a resting place in Me; nor in my Body, Mind, Heart, Soul or Spirit. Let it finding me no nurturance or succour. But let it leave me finding no Home in Me.

And where I find the Spirit of Aggression and Hostility in others, even, or especially, when directed against me, let me not rebuke it thereof, lest it would grow greater. Let me comfort the Spirit so it no longer, like a cancer, feeds upon its host, or upon itself, to give it Life. Let Thy Peace live in me enough to comfort the Spirit and so aid it to journey to its final resting place.

Let the Spirit of Aggression and Hostility in the world finally be bought to Peace by the Spirit of Love.

Let it be so.

15/12/07

Until next times,

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Thank You for your Thoughts - I am OK!

Hi all,

I have been overwhelmed with your emails to me hoping that I am well. I really really am OK!

But the good will I have been showered with has amazed me. I have been inundated with emails saying you are thinking about me, wishing me well, praying and meditating for my healing from my contact with militant atheists. Thank you, thank you , thank you...You are all Wonderful.

And please do not worry. The answer to the question many have been asking is "Yes". I will be able to continue running my blog and publishing my books. I may have been spiritually bruised but I was not broken!

Thank you all once again,

Until next time,

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zones

Hi all,

Well as you saw in my last post I attended an Atheism Debate recently that left me shell shocked to say the least. Now it must be very evident to anyone who reads my blog regularly that I am not an atheist, so why was I at an atheist debate? Well that answer was - to get out of my comfort zone.

For those not familiar with the term the "comfort zone" are those area's of life that you are familiar with and feel secure in. For example if your mother tongue is English in language that will be your comfort zone. However if you go and learn a new language you will be stepping outside your language comfort zone because it will be unfamiliar ground for you.

Stepping outside your comfort zone doesn't literally mean that you should necessarily feel uncomfortable, (although you may). It is more likely to mean an activity that will stretch you and help you grow with unfamiliar material. It was for this reason that I went to the Atheism Debate. However I came away shell shocked rather than expanded.

After I got home I did a meditation to calm me down and also to ask the Divine Spirit Within why what had happened had happened. What did it mean, (for my development that is). The reason I asked this of the Spirit was because I had received a previous Intuition that I should be stepping outside my comfort zone more to aid my spiritual development.

Well I didn't get an answer immediately during the meditation but I did in a dream I had that night. In my dream the Arch Angel Michael visited me and folded his wings around me to give me comfort and protection and I asked him why I had needed to go to a place so full of hostility and aggression. He told me that I hadn't needed to and that the problem was that I hadn't thought through my Intuition sufficiently. And that the Intuition had guided me to go outside my comfort zone not into a war zone! He told me I should have walked out as soon as I felt unsafe, (which I did emotionally).

Now I realise I have learn several lessons from this experience. The first is that acting on Intuition is not the same as acting without thought. Acting automatically without thought is instinct, (like birds do when they fly home). Intuition is more like having a hunch and then thinking through the best way to act on it.

The second lesson I learnt was that feeling uncomfortable is not the same as feeling unsafe. If you ever feel unsafe you should get out, (if you can). Feeling unsafe is never going to be conducive to you learning anything and feeling, and being safe, is your right.

The third lesson I learn was that when you ask for protection in some way it will come as it did for me in my dream. Arch Angel Michael is one of the Angels of Protection and he came to sooth my troubled soul when I called out for protection.

So remember, do go outside your comfort zone from time to time, but plan it carefully. You always have the right to be safe and protected, even during your soul lessons!

Until next time,

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Militant Atheism

Hi all,

I want to discuss a subject now that I didn't even know, before two nights ago, existed - militant atheism. Two nights ago I attended one of the most disturbing and for me, spiritually afflicting meetings of my life. A meeting in which there was a debate between agnostics ,(people who are uncertain as to whether there is a God or not), and atheists, (people who do not believe. or claim they have found no proof, that there is a God). I myself am a committed Theist, ( a person who believes that there is a God however they may conceptualise that idea i.e. God/Goddess/Divine Spirit/The I Am/ The All That Is/Spirit etc).

In this meeting the speaker was explaining why he was an agnostic and not an atheist. His main point was that while he could not prove that there was a God he also could not prove that there was not a God and that there was a certain wonder, ( I would say Wonder), to the u(U)iverse that science could not explain and probably never would. That is, while he could not be specific as to what it was, he sensed that there was something beyond matter. There was, what some philosophers have called, Mind. That is. that there is an existence of b(Being) that is different from the purely physical material world. (I would call this Spirit).

However it was at this point that the room exploded into what I can only describe as the heckles of the baying crowd. It was as if he had declared murder to be OK!

The people who were offended were I found out self-described "militant atheists". They were committed materialists, that is that they believed that only the material world existed. There was no existence separate from it possible. So for example. consciousness itself is merely the product of brain chemistry and that once the brain is dead so is the consciousness of the person that housed that brain. In other words physical death it the end. After that, nothing, nada.

They expressed to me that they were committed to the eradication of "superstitious spiritual beliefs", (read any belief systems other that materialism), and to ridding society of "the cultural baggage of religion", (read wiping out or re-writing most of human history). and to "the institution of a of a society based on rationalism and proof", (read Science is King) and so on. In short their vision of this new society left me feeling spiritually bereft.

However their true colours came to bear in a conversation I had about faith based schools. I believe that provided a child is educated other wise to acceptable standard in all the usual subject and is not abused or cruelly treated that a parent has the right to bring up their children as they wish. People do not bring their children into the world as thought experiments for the State.

One militant atheist told me that if he came to power he would close down all faith based schools even if they were private institutions . He told me that he knew better how to educate children that their "deluded superstitious" parents. I told him that if he tried to do that to my children he would have to send me to prison first and that he indeed did follow a faith; that of authoritarian totalitarianism and that he was as fanatical as the fundamentalists of all religions that he had been railing against all evening. (Fundamentalism also being something that I oppose by the way including that of atheists).

I left the meeting feel rather depressed but also compassionate toward these people. Who would want to live in a world dispossessed of all the Love, Beauty and Charity that most moderate religions and all truly enlightened spiritual to people bring to it? In a world where human beings are reductable to programmable robots and Consciousness Itself, that Hallmark of Enlightened Humanity is considered merely the outcome of brain chemistry? Not me for sure.

I will leave with a quote from Albert Camus, (as in the picture above):-

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

Until next time,

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Christmas Book Ready! - Petals from the Lotus Heart

Hi all,

Well folks it's ready! "Petals from the Lotus Heart - One Year of Love" by Krystal Klere is now at the printers and will soon be winging it's way to you for all those who placed advanced orders. You still have time to place a order in time for Christmas or the New Year and this can be done by sending an email to KrystalKlere@hotmail.com.

Remember all proceeds this year are going to The Children's Hospice International. Click on the banner above to see the good work they do and also to make a further contribution if you wish.

As for me I am going to have a well deserved rest and get ready for Christmas.

Remember my Christmas address will be coming up on this blog and also on my Krystal Klere Kommunications radio show on Christmas Day. This can also be emailed to you (free) if you request if at the above email address.

Until next time,

As always,

Blessed be,

KK

Swimming with Dolphins or Visa Versa

*Hi all,

I am now back from my holiday in Europe and I can tell you that it was both eventful, (heavy in parts but with amazing resolution), and wonderful. And in all parts I got an experience of the Universe reaching out to me to confirm that I am mainly on the right path. I will relate here the part that was wonderful.

I had hummed and hawwed for some time about swimming with dolphins. Now I am totally against holding dolphins in captivity and am not sure about swimming on "wild" dolphin programmes. Although I know that for many people swimming with dolphins is a dream I think that the most important consideration with any of these activities if the welfare of the animals involved and not the wishes, hopes or aspiration of the humans. Although I must admit that the lure of my desire was so strong that I did consider a "wild" dolphin programme swim. However as Fate(?) would procure it this was not to be. So I settle to go on a dive instead. (I am an avid scuba diver).

I went with a friend I had made in Europe on a private dive in his yacht miles in the middle of the ocean. And what happened just as I was coming up from my dive? A pod of dolphins circled me and one swam so close to me that it just touched my arm. (I would never try to touch any animal without it's permission). Fortunately the moment was captured on camera. Just one photo. So no I didn't swim with dolphins. They swam with me.

I do believe that if we act with best intentions that we are rewarded ultimately. That is the Law of Karma. The reward is not always as straight away or as evident as in what happened to me on my holiday, but in this case I think I got a magical confirmation from the Universe that my choice not to swim with dolphins was the correct one.

Of course Karma only rewards if you do have best intentions and doesn't work if you merely act good for reward. The paradox is that although Karma will reward you for doing good it does not seem to work if reward is your motivation for acting good! I suppose in a ultimate sense doing good because you hope to be rewarded is not really "best intentions". It is of course better that doing Evil but it certainly is not "best intentions".

Until next time,

As always,

KK

* The quote on the poster says "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will only love what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." Baba Dium (environmentalist).