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If you could be any type of person you choose to be, do anything you choose to do, have anything you choose to have, experience anything you could choose to experience, and undertake any goal you choose, and do so with absolutely certainty that you would succeed, what would you be, have, do, and experience?

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, [the New York Sun newspaper] it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to have men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive of imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest mean, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Your participation in life on Earth today is important. WHY? Because you just might be the Hundredth Monkey -- the one who tips the balance for all humanity toward peace, freedom, joy, and harmony. If you think this is nonsense, let us give you an overview of the book by Ken Keyes, Jr. called The Hundredth Monkey.

Researchers on a small island off Japan had been studying the native monkeys for some years. As part of the research project, in the early 1950's, scientists placed sweet potatoes on the sand for the monkeys to eat. The monkeys ate the sweet potatoes, dirt and all until one young monkey started washing her sweet potatoes in a stream. Soon the monkey's mother and several other young monkeys were also washing their potatoes.

Gradually, the phenomenon of washing the sweet potatoes grew until in 1958, there were dozens of monkeys washing their potatoes. No one knows exactly how many monkeys were washing their potatoes, but for the sake of the story, we'll say that number was 99. Then one morning the hundredth monkey started washing his/her sweep potatoes, and something phenomenal happened. By the end of that day almost every monkey on the island started washing his/her potatoes.

As striking as that event was, it was overshadowed by the fact that the monkeys on several other islands suddenly started washing their sweet potatoes. Because there was no physical connection between the monkeys on those other islands, one must ask: "What caused this transformation to suddenly leap across "empty space" and ocean waters into the minds of the monkeys on several other islands?"

The only explanation so far given is that the added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough. In other words, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

This means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people only. But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, the invisible, collective energy field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

So, what does this mean for you? It means YOU could be the Hundredth Monkey -- the one who tips the balance for all humanity toward peace, freedom, joy, and harmony.