An extremely famous and much loved appearance of the Goddess as The Lady who is always called the Virgin Mary, unless she appears in India, Tibet, or Greece, is the Lady of Guadalupe. Thousands of Mexicans give the left-brained Christian world a wonderful example of what unconditional devotion and sincere worship mean, with regard to this Lady, who is obviously regarded as way up in the goddess category by many of her devotees.

All the U.S. magazines and media tell women constantly how important it is to go and have their breasts crushed between metal plates and X-rayed so that cancer can be detected early. As usual it is what they don't say that is rather important.

As the mad Bush in the china shop is trashing everything in sight to give Obama more and more problems to deal with, we are currently being treated to a plethora of ‘discoveries’ of the crooked, unethical and anti-social machinations of the exiting administration by people who are doing today what they were too timid to do six years ago. Then they might have helped by reporting these matters to the public, but they were all too scared of the viciousness of the administration.

In 1831 a terrible epidemic of cholera swept through Europe. Thousands died, as usual, but this year was unique because in some treatment centers the death rate was very low.

The new centers were using a recently introduced medical modality called homeopathy. In the Raab Centre in Hungary only 6 out of 154 patients died. Orthodox treatments in the same area had a 59% death rate.

All over Central Europe a similar pattern emerged. The death rate in homeopathic hospitals varied between 2½% and 22%, compared with a minimum rate of 50% using the orthodox methods.

Everyone except a handful of enlightened beings hold firmly to one or more dogmas until they can reach higher perspectives. I have held to one in particular ever since I could read, round about the age of five. It is this: “Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” I found by experience that the sentence may have been incomplete. The ending should have been….” But first it will make you miserable.”

Let’s look at some of the things that have filtered through to the surface during the phoney and carefully orchestrated exhilaration of the Christmas season.

Christmas has been in our eyes and ears and pocket books since the day after Thanksgiving. So I thought to go into the labyrinth of the invention of Christmas and many of its current ramifications in the next few postings. It is a fascinating example of how a story continually told over many years becomes its own evidence. This is Part 1.

Let’s investigate now what is known about a myth associated with Christmas that many people believed in, and were encouraged in that belief, until they grew up somewhat; I refer to Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle and others.

To review previous work for a moment: keep in mind that it was not until the Fourth Century AD that the birthday of Jesus was proclaimed to be December 25th, just like most of the other and much older sacrificed gods in the Mediterranean area whose stories were very much the same.

Just about everywhere now Santa’s clothes are red with white fur trimmings. And how come he uses reindeer, an animal probably not familiar to the original American and British artists who drew him, and why is he supposed to live in snowy lands to the north, for most children?

Well, strangely enough there is a genuine religious connection with all of the above, a connection which is more than 4000 years old, millennia before Saint Nicholas existed.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a song almost as likely to be heard this time of year as I’m dreaming of a White Christmas. Like all songs it has a little story and some trivia associated with it. Here is the modern story, and we’ll try and pull in some ancient stuff at the end to connect Rudolph with the far past.