*Is There a Santa Claus?*
                               Canoga Park, CA
                                  12-20-96


B:  All right, I'll say good day to you, this day of your time. How are you
all?

Audience:  Great, perfect, incredible!!!

B:  Once again, we take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you
individually and all of you together collectively for allowing the co-
creation of this interaction, this transmission through this gateway, in
this way, at this time.  Once again, each and every time you allow such a
communication to occur, it affords our civilization an opportunity to see
that many more ways that the Infinite has of expressing itself within
Creation. So we thank you for this gift of sharing, gift of exchange and
gift of expanded awareness.

We would like to begin this transmission with a few different ideas, this
day of your time.  First and foremost, we would like to acknowledge that an
individual known to many of you, on your planet, has made a transition into
absolute awareness of the existence of what you would call extraterrestrial
beings and spirit beings.  This is the individual you understand to be
named as Carl Sagan.  In this way you will find that this individual has
translated into the non-physical, and now is very aware of the existence of
many different types of life.  We would, perhaps, chance to say he is aware
that there are billions upon billions.

Audience:  (much laughter) Please give our love.

B:  It is received and understood; the message sent back is: "I had to play
a certain part, in a certain way, at a certain time."  It is understood
that this part had to be played so that there would be the creation of the
polarity necessary for individuals to decide for themselves what they
wanted to believe, which way they wanted to go, and how it was to be that
information would be released and played out, in time and in timing, in the
society to which this individual used to belong.  The irony, now, is that
this individual in spirit will actually, in some senses, participate in the
assisting of the acceleration of the day and time when and where future
meetings between extraterrestrials and your people will occur.  The idea,
therefore is, as has been expressed, yes, send your support, send your
love, for this individual now sees the bigger picture of the part that this
individual played in the physical life and now has awareness of what the
entire agenda, at least on a certain level, is really all about

We would now like to continue this transmission beyond this
acknowledgement, in the acknowledgement of another type of being that many
of you know about, in what you would call your spirit of the season, as we
recognize it upon your planet, in your culture at this time, specifically,
the idea of what you call your Santa Claus.

Audience:  I just did a painting of him tonight with a wizard's hat on.

B:  All right, we understand.  We would like to express the idea of, shall
we say, the origin of this idea and the recognition that there actually, in
a sense and in a certain context, is such a being, in what you would call
very ancient recognition of the archetype that exists in your collective
consciousness. You will recognize that, as many your psychologists have
begun to understand, an archetypal expression that is a representative
portion of the collective consciousness of your entire culture, or at least
a large portion of it, by no means, in any way, shape or form means that it
is imaginary, in the sense that it doesn't exist. Archetypes, though, in a
sense, generated by the collective consciousness do experience autonomy; do
know themselves as individuated levels of consciousness. Because you are
made in the image of the Infinite Creation and every thought you have can
do nothing but help but create a real reality, on some level, in some way.

Many of the ideas of, what you call, your nature spirits and other forms of
archetypal presentation, mythological beings as such are, in a sense,
concocted and created by the combined energy of the collective
consciousness of your planet. In a sense, given light, given breath, given
reality, given existence, because they represent a facet or a faction of
the collective being that all of you together are.  As such, they do, as we
have said, have a type of autonomy, a type of individual experience.

The idea is that this being that you have come to know in your modern day
language as Santa Claus, in perhaps, the older vernacular as Sinterklaas,
is really a nature spirit. In that sense, and you have, in some senses, I
will not mean this necessarily in a negative way, but in some senses,
distorted some of the original ideas, or shall we say transmuted or
translated some of the original energies representative of this being into
your modern context. In some senses having, shall we say, lost some of the
original understanding of what this being was all about.  But still to some
degree representing the original attribute of this entity.

In your understanding of the idea of Santa Claus as a gift giver, this is a
more fundamental recognition of the idea of the power of that particular
entity, of that nature spirit.  And the idea is that it is, to some degree,
representative of the concept of the third law: What you put out is what
you get back.  The idea of what many of you call the karmic balance, in
that, in your modern vernacular, the idea colloquially put, of not being
nice and so getting no presents or being good and getting favors is a
reflection of the original ideas that this was, in a sense, a "karmically"
reflective entity. In other words, it reflected exactly the idea of the
energy of any particular entity or individual it encountered.  So the idea
of negative intention was reflected back as negative experience.  Positive
intention reflected back as positive experience by this being, by this
nature spirit, by this archetypal facet of your collective reality.

In many ways, because it is an exemplification of the idea of nature, it
expresses, as many ideas of nature spirits do, archetypically, many
attributes found in nature, in a sense, a combination or collection of many
attributes found in the idea of the animal kingdom and so forth.  So, for
example, the idea of what you now have relegated to be the reindeer of
Santa Claus is not so much the idea of reindeer pulling a sleigh, but the
idea of the association to that particular animal totem, if you will.  And
also the recognition that the hoof prints left in the snow, in that sense,
in many occasions, do not actually belong to the reindeer, but to this
entity itself.  For it has, in that sense, some of the attributes of the
reindeer including the idea of the hoof, when it is taking physical form.
It does not always exist in the idea of what you would call physical
material form.  But when it concentrates its energy or its energy is
concentrated by a collective awareness or a collective focus on the part of
your people, thus, giving it more chance to materialize or crystallize into
a sort of solid form in your reality.

It does take on the attributes of the idea of nature, including the idea of
animalistic attributes from time to time.  The idea, also, is that it
exemplifies many other facets and attributes that you have, in that sense,
attributed to the idea of Santa Claus.  The idea of the red suit, in that
sense, is actually the idea of what might be called,  "cloak of night."
But in this sense, the idea of red is that it represents the fundamental
lifeblood of the being, and the idea of the vibration of grounded reality
and what might be called the root chakra of your energy system.  Thus, it
is a representation of something very, as you would say earthly and
fundamental in the idea of being rooted into nature, and the representation
of the manifestation of gifts and abundance that are all around you in
nature; that which is always there for you, always is now and always shall
be.  And so, on that fundamental level the idea of the gift giving idea of
nature, represented in this particular archetypal facet or entity.

So, do understand that it is actually quite possible, from time to time,
when the circumstances warrant it, to actually find yourself interacting in
the appropriate state with this actual entity, though you may not recognize
it in a way that you have depicted it exactly in your society.  You will
find that it is actually, shall we say, in a sense, a changeling, a shape
shifter, in that it may present itself in a variety of ways, depending on,
again, what it is reflecting back to you, if and when it is encountered.
And also representative, in general, of the collective, shall we say,
spirit or emotional mood of the collective society, whether the whole
society or a large group, as it may be occurring in any given moment.

So, allow yourself to understand this being does exist, though not always
in the way that you may think of it and, in that sense, it is quite
possible to encounter this being when you get in touch with the idea of
abundance of nature in its most fundamental form, in its most well grounded
and earthly-rooted form.  And when you allow yourself to be out in the idea
of the wilderness, from time to time when conditions are right, this entity
can be manifested and can be encountered, just like many other kinds of
ideas of spirit contact can manifest and can occur with regard to the
natural kingdom of things, as it is representative of that portion of your
collective consciousness and a REFLECTION back to you of attributes each
and every one of you individually contain.