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hello everyone today I'm going to talk
to you about Christmas to begin with I'm
going to give you a history lesson about
Christmas a long time ago most of Europe
was predominantly pagan and other
earth-based religions to these people
the holidays were a time of social
unrest they were a lot more like
carnival than they were like your
modern-day holidays which are very tame
so when the Christian churches
most especially the Catholic Church
started moving into these areas they
tried very hard according to their own
religious philosophies to teach these
people who they saw as primitive to come
into alignment with their new religious
principles and what was standing in
their way was a lot of these holidays
which people adored and celebrated there
was a lot of fornication there was a lot
of social unrest a lot of fighting and
that was in direct conflict with the way
that the Christian Church wanted to run
things so what they decided to do is
deposit their own invented holidays
right over the top of these pagan
holidays which is why Easter was placed
right over the top of the spring
fertility festival for those of you that
don't understand why there's bunny
rabbits and eggs at Easter and what that
has to do with Jesus it's because they
posited the whole resurrection of Jesus
story right over the top of the
fertility festival so that they could
get people to stop celebrating their
original festivals and to begin
celebrating the new holiday according to
what they wanted it to be celebrated
like Christmas is just such a holiday it
was designed to be placed right on top
of not only Yule but more specifically
Saturnalia Saturnalia was a holiday in
which social order was turned upside
down Pope Julius the first was the Pope
which decided on December 25th of the
actual date for Christmas
even though it was not the day that
Jesus was actually born by holding
Christmas is the same time as
traditional winter solstice festivals
the church leaders increase the chances
that Christmas would be popularly
embraced and that they could dictate how
it was celebrated by the Middle Ages
Christianity had for the most part
replaced Fagen religion the middle of
winter has long been a time of
celebration around the world centuries
before the arrival of Jesus early
european celebrated light and birth in
the darkest days of winter many people
rejoice during the winter solstice when
the worst of the winter was behind them
and they could look forward to longer
days and extended hours of sunlight this
is especially ironic and significant
seeing as how this year you will falls
on December 21st 2012 which as we know
has been a much anticipated date so much
as it is commonly celebrated December
21st as being the date at which light
comes back to the world that date of
this year signifies the beginning of
human consciousness entering the light
so the return of Christ consciousness
Christmas was not in fact embraced in
America until the 19th century in fact
from 1659 to 1681 the celebration of
Christmas was outlawed in Boston and
lawbreakers were fined five shillings as
Americans began to embrace Christmas as
a perfect family holiday old customs
were unearthed people look toward recent
immigrants and Catholic and Episcopalian
churches to see how the day should be
celebrated in the next 100 years
Americans built a Christmas tradition
all their own which include pieces of
many other customs including decorating
trees sending holiday cards and gift
giving
during the early 1800s family was also
becoming a less disciplined atmosphere
and society was becoming more sensitive
to the emotional needs of children
Christmas provided families with the day
when they could lavish attention and
gifts on their children without
appearing to spoil them Americans
reinvented Christmas completely and
changed it from a raucous carnival
holiday into a family centered day of
peace in nostalgia Santa Claus also
known as st. Nicholas is a figure with
legendary mythical historic
and folkloric origins who as you know is
said to bring gifts to the homes of good
children during the late evening of
Christmas Eve December 24th st. Nicholas
of Myra is the primary inspiration for
the Christian figure of Sinterklaas he
was a fourth century Greek Christian
Bishop of Myra in Lycia which is now as
you know in Turkey Nicholas was famous
for his generous gifts to the poor but
the modern-day Santa Claus is a fusion
primarily of many historical figures
including the Norse god Odin the Nordic
folklore character called Tompa father
Christmas who dates back to the 17th
century in Britain and the Dutch
folklore character called sinter cloths
which was in fact responsible for the
majority of what makes up the modern
figure of Santa especially the tales
concerning the historical figure of the
Christian Bishop and gift-giver Saint
Nicholas the tradition of Santa Claus
entering dwellings through the chimney
is shared by many Europeans seasonal
gift givers in pre-christian Norse
tradition Odin would enter through
chimneys and fire holes on the Solstice
in the Italian Befana tradition the
gift-giving which is perpetually covered
with soot from her trips down the
chimneys of children's homes in the tale
of st. Nicholas the Saint toss coins
through a window and in the later
version of the tale down a chimney when
he found that the windows locked the
hearth was held sacred in primitive
belief as a source of beneficence and
popular belief had elves and fairies
bringing gifts to the house through this
portal I love Christmas most especially
because my love language personally is
gifts Christmas does not have to be
about materialism a gift is a visual
symbol of love it takes effort to think
about the person who you're getting a
gift for it takes effort to secure that
gift and then you have to give that gift
to the person and then the person who is
staring at that gift can have a memory a
visual symbol of the love you feel for
them all year long so we don't have to
make gift-giving
something which causes us to suffer when
we think about it we don't have to make
it something which makes us feel
obligated we're choosing to do this by
the way that we're focusing towards
gifts gifts is an absolutely fabulous
way to show love to one another the best
thing about Christmas or any holiday is
that you can start your own traditions a
lot of us like to go about our lives
following what the general public does
but this is not necessarily what we
should be doing what we should be doing
I understand we can't stand that word
all of us can't stand that word but you
understand what I mean what would
benefit us the most to do as people is
if we would figure out what kinds of
things we really enjoy doing we can
choose to do what the early Americans
did and we can make Christmas be about
whatever we want it to be about we can
make a diffusion of the traditions which
we enjoy the most and drop those that we
don't like it's the obligation that most
people feel during the Christmas season
that makes Christmas no fun but a sense
of obligation is in fact a personal
choice that we are making which of
course we are convinced is not a choice
but if we're going to choose to
participate in a holiday we should
recognize that it is in fact a choice
and thus if we choose to participate we
should do so wholeheartedly we don't
need to reject an entire holiday based
on what it represents to the mass public
we can change what it represents in our
own hearts and allow people to celebrate
it differently in the way that they want
to holidays are an excuse to come into
alignment with whatever the holiday
represents there's nothing wrong with
using an excuse to cause yourself to
come into alignment Christmas has become
our excuse to come into alignment with
philanthropy with demonstrations of love
with gift-giving with connection with in
society among fellow men and with Christ
consciousness so we can really milk it
for all it's worth and we can use the
holiday even those of us who might not
have liked it in the past
we can use it to come into alignment
with what this holiday is really meant
to represent for anyone who is alone on
holidays like Christmas I would like to
remind you that Christmas is not a time
to focus on how much family you do not
have it is a time to take it from the
original Saints that the holiday was
formed in the footsteps of and remember
instead your greater family which is
humanity itself you are not alone even
if it feels like you're alone it is a
perception you cannot be separated from
the rest of this universe because the
law of this universe is that of oneness
Christmas is a perfect excuse for you to
go and try to form these connections
with the rest of society instead of
waiting for the rest of society to come
to your doorstep to form these kinds of
connections for example random acts of
kindness is a really great way to spend
your Christmas Day I want to remind
those of you who are in a situation
where you are spending Christmas alone
wishing that you had a family to spend
it with there are great many people who
are spending their Christmases with
families that they wish they were
nowhere near now I'll get to the heart
of the questions which I was really
receiving this week which inspired me to
make this video about Christmas I
received many emails this week from
parents wanting to know what the hell
they should tell their children about
Santa Claus so here's my personal
opinion there is nothing right or wrong
about telling your children that Santa
Claus is the one that delivers presents
because right or wrong does not exist
within this universe but in my personal
opinion it does not serve our
relationships with our children very
much to tell them that Santa Claus is
doing something that we are in fact
doing we perpetuate disappointment in
children who are more than capable of
understanding things most of us think
our children do not understand much more
than the family dog this is a major
misunderstanding children are capable of
understanding much more than we give
them credit
and no child is going to experience less
joy if they know that their parents are
the ones that are doing all of the stuff
that they wake up to see on Christmas
morning then they would experience if it
was Santa Claus doing those things I
personally think it's better to tell
them the truth so here I am about to
tell you the truth many of you remember
the video which I did a while ago on
demons and angels the human
consciousness cannot focus on an idea
for very long without making it become
some kind of reality there has been
enough focus over the centuries on this
figure called Santa Claus that it is now
a thought form which can interact with
the physical dimension so Santa Claus is
a thought-form which can interact with
you it is a thought form which can
influence our actions so Santa Claus is
real it's as real as angels or demons
are real it's as real as your belief
makes it real and so rather than saying
Santa Claus is a real physical third
dimensional being we should say that the
Christmas spirit is very very real it's
very very real all across this globe
we're living on not just in one country
or another country the Christmas spirit
is something which is pervasive amongst
the human species that's a lot of energy
that's feeding one singular idea and it
is our thoughts that create reality
since many of you wanted to know I will
tell you what I tell my son who is now
three years old this Christmas what I
tell them is that Santa Claus is someone
like Jesus who lived many many years ago
and that we like to celebrate everything
that he stood for I also tell him that
when we think about Santa Claus enough
his spirit inspires us to perpetuate
everything that he stood for
things like showing our love to other
people things like showing our children
how much we love them I also tell him
that people really enjoy doing things
every single year which helps them look
forward to the next year and the next
time they will be doing those things
traditions are extremely fun if they're
good traditions so instead of being drug
along by Christmas this year out of a
sense of obligation of being really
frustrated about the fact that this
holiday even exists and what it's turned
into in popular society take time to
really think about the aspects that you
might love about Christmas focus on
anything that makes you feel positive
emotion relative to Christmas and
perpetuate anything that Christmas
represents that really matters to you
all those beautiful things which it
really stands for have a Merry Christmas
you