Though titled "UFOs," this tape is really about overlapping planes of consciousness, the mental and spiritual bodies surrounding Earth, and humanity's role in a cosmic context. Bartholomew explained why extraterrestrial sightings are increasing (to break linear thinking), why they pose no threat, and why they're watching humanity's destructive atomic development with alarm. The discussion expands into the nature of creativity (egos don't create, they project old thought forms; only the divine creates), the collective human mind determining what manifests on Earth, the irrational economics of human society, and culminates in a powerful revelation: humans fear cosmic awareness because of deep guilt over having separated from God - and this guilt, projected onto a "God who is angry," is the real obstacle to awakening. This tape deserves study alongside Tape 37A - together they form a comprehensive teaching on thought, creativity, the collective mind, and the deep psychological barriers to awakening. The UFO discussion is merely the doorway into far vaster territory.

Why Sightings Are Increasing: Bartholomew expressed excitement about the increase in UFO sightings and media attention. Their importance lies not in the craft themselves but in what they teach about reality: "When they have actual film footage to play over and over before their bedazzled eyes, to understand that this is real, they will then begin to understand the overlapping of the planes of consciousness." Humans are trapped in linear thinking - imagining spaceships traveling through space-time from distant stars. But these craft materialize instantly from other dimensions. The planes of existence "impinge one on the other" right here. Everyone carries enough residue from out-of-body experiences to know this deep down.

No Threat, but Great Concern: The extraterrestrial beings are not hostile - "If there had been any necessity or any desire on these extraterrestrial beings to have attacked you, they would have done it long ago." Their abilities far exceed human imagination. The humanoid appearances in drawings are merely "casings placed over a light form" because their true form would cause tremendous fear. However, they are deeply concerned about humanity's atomic development: "It is frightening to these other entities... they perceive this directly." Destruction on Earth reverberates throughout "impinging universes" - humans mistakenly think they float alone in space with nothing to harm. The extraterrestrials "cannot allow a child to continue to play with a dangerous toy when there are adults around who are capable of stopping that action."

Earth's Mental and Spiritual Bodies: Just as Earth has a physical plane, it has a mental sphere encompassing all human consciousness, and a spiritual sphere drawing from the divine source. Each tape, each teaching, each lofty thought affects this collective mental body. "Each time I speak to you... I am affecting the mental body of the planet." There are "receiving stations of humans who are ready, whose consciousness is ready to pick up this fine data." This mental body contains all of human history - thought forms don't die, they dissipate if not fed energy, or persist if reinforced. When you overcome a negative thought, it leaves you but remains available to anyone still attuned to it. This is karma: "You draw to you that which has its home with you."

Egos Don't Create - Only the Divine Creates: Humans take ego joy in believing they think "new thoughts." But from the masters' perspective, countless civilizations have thought all these thoughts before. Scientists plug into existing bands of energy matching their desire and pull old thought forms into new manifestation. "There is nothing new under the sun after all." True creativity is different: it is "ever new joy" and comes only through connection with divine power. Great artists occasionally touch this - "it overflows them and it flows through them" - but so can anyone living a creative life. "We don't care if you make great paintings... What we really want is people who are living dynamically... in total touch with that power."

The Collective Mind Determines Manifestation: Humanity unconsciously decides what games to play, what civilization to build. When they decide they need greater communication, inventors worldwide begin reaching for it - which is why discoveries happen simultaneously. The masters don't create humanity's inventions; they try to influence positive uses once creations exist. "You decide what to create. We do our best to oversee, to modify, to uplift." The proliferation of specialized gadgets - a pot just for hot dogs, another just for chicken - mirrors the ego's drive toward ever-greater separateness. "From our perception, things are getting worse... an outward manifestation of man's inner desire to continue to fragment his consciousness more and more."

The Guilt That Blocks Awakening: The session closed with a profound insight: the real obstacle to cosmic awareness isn't fear of the unknown - it's guilt. "Human beings are afraid of cosmic awareness... the ego is losing the ego, that's part of it. There's a deeper cause: a very deep feeling of guilt... for having moved away from the God source." People project this guilt onto God, imagining an angry deity. "God is not capable of anger. That is a human emotion... any god-like manifestations that you have made and projected onto a god are strictly your own." Until this guilt is released, people will not surrender to a force they believe is angry at them. This, Bartholomew said, must be discussed again - it is "the real obstacle to surrender to the God force."