[Miss Valentine]

I really couldn't start to tell you what I am. All I can do is tell you what I believe. I believe that if there is a God person, it is likely a spirit, which oversees the moving around of souls through reincarnation or whatever. I'm a strong believer in reincarnation, because I feel very strongly that I have been here before, perhaps several times, and I find a complete death quite difficult to believe. I doubt very much that life completely stops, even if it is just moved on in some tangible way, such as through nature. Though I think it is more to do witht the human spirit, lifeforce, I don't think it can ever die. Maybe there will come a point when we stop being reincarnated, and maybe move to a place of rest, but only through learning from each life we experience, and achieving goals that move us towards inner peace.

Nature holds the most promise for me, it's the most beautiful, amazing aspect of our lives, and yet it is right in from of our faces. How many people, no matter what their religion, can doubt nature? It's magical, and it's one of the reasons we even exist. No matter where we came from, nature keeps us here.

I get a lot of comfort from my own rituals, which would probably be classed as magicks. Though I keep them in an entirely natural context, and only for improving the things around me and keeping myself happy. They are really personal- I have a protection spell on my house, and I often do candle wishes to send good will into the ether.

I find "religion" quite a headache, because it doesn't give much room to explore other ideas, because each religion is certain that theirs is the way, and nobody else is right. I'm pretty sure about my beliefs, but I find it dangerous to label them within any specific religion, because probably all the religions would find something wrong with it. I've often been labelled Wiccan, and I admit a lot of the stuff I believe and do is closest to that religion, but even then there are certain aspects of Wicca I can't identify with. I also take some of my beliefs from Veda and Taoism, but again I'm not exclusive to any of them. I keep my mind open, and do what feels natural to me.

Also I don't think religion itself is to blame for war, it's just how deeply people are engrossed in their beliefs, and they can't fathom the idea of being wrong, so they try to remove any other ideas, calling them evil. It's been happening for so long now, maybe not on the scale it is in modern times, but burning witches was commonplace at one point, even though there really is no such thing as black magic.