(Omal talks about how the upcoming change of the millennium would affect people in different ways. We explore the concept of God and how our ability to influence things just from our interactions helps with our own growth leading to group growth.) 

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Omal: next question.

Russ: the question about……..I’m changing the subject slightly…………the Toronto Blessing.

Shane: what’s that?

Russ: the Toronto Blessing is a phenomenon that started in Toronto that’s now sweeping across America also in which many people going to Christian churches suddenly start channeling and feeling the spirit of Jesus….

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: or the spirit of the holy whatever taking over and they’re going into trances, they’re going into convulsions, they’re laughing and it’s happening on a massive scale now.

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: I wonder if you could maybe put it into a light that we could understand what’s going on.

Omal: I’ll give you one word, millennialism.

Shane: what’s that mean?

Skip: change of the century.

Omal: change of the millennium, next one up.

Shane: I have a question, I went to church and everything and try to understand what they were saying and trying to get involved and all that stuff, I do believe in God but I understand what they were feeling, what they were doing and everything and I tried ask questions and understand and like I thought I didn’t fit in or anything.

Omal: that is understandable, it is a belief issue. How strongly you believe in something. Believing in something so strongly that it overrides all rhyme and reason. It is something that they believe or appear to believe without rhyme or reason.

Shane: say you believe in something, like you get really excited about it and it makes you feel different right?

Omal: correct.

Shane: is that what’s going on?

Omal: correct.

Shane: okay, I understand now.

Omal: next question.

Russ: okay, with the coming millennium….

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: are we seeing an actual change in consciousness then?

Omal: no more than is normal at the change of any millennium.

Russ: but that is a substantial amount I take it?

Omal: correct.

Russ: okay, how do we take advantage of that or use it for our own personal growth?

Omal: by watching and observing and seeing how people react and inter-react but remember, the change of the millennium does not occur until it goes 2001.

Russ: so it’s going to get even more intense?

Omal: yes, even though most people, 90% of the population of your planet believe that the change of the millennium occurs from '99 to 2000.

Russ: okay.

Omal: Shane, count to twenty for me.

(Shane counts from one to twenty)

Omal: okay, when did the change go from one group of 10 to the next group of 10?

Shane: in the middle.

Omal: at what number?

Shane: at 10.

Omal: okay, so the number after 10 is the start of the next batch of 10.

Shane: uh-huh, it's the beginning of the end.

Omal: okay, that’s the beginning of the next group. So let us start from the start of the decade right? Okay Skip.

Skip: yeah your decade would be not '90 but '91 would be the start of the '90 decade.

Omal: so does that answer the question that you were having of why 2001 is the start of the next millennium?

Skip: yeah, that'd be correct.

Shane: because it ends and it starts on that number.

Omal: correct.

Omal: okay, next question, Russ?

Russ: a long time ago we discussed the future and you said that a lot of the future would be determined by the people who believed in New Age consciousness but actually weren’t........

Omal: uh-huh.

Russ: and that they would have a lot of effect on the backlash from those who aren’t into the New Age to those who are and those who actually do and are into the New Age would be suffering because of that as a result.

Omal: correct.

Russ: is this what I’m discussing part of that then?

Omal: yes

Russ: okay.

Omal: okay, next question.

Skip: okay now I’ve got a question. I have noticed from my own experience that more and more people are turning toward....they're not pulling away from God but they’re accepting God in a new way.

Omal: uh-huh.

Skip: they’re trying to teach us I believe that we are part of God because we were created by him.

Omal: uh-huh.

Skip: is this a correct conception or wrong? In other words I’m part of my father because he actually…..

Omal: supplied the genes.

Skip: that’s right.

Omal: or half the genes.

Skip: yeah.

Omal: yes in a way you are correct but it is a definition of what is God. What is God?

Skip: well, from all the teachings I’ve learned in my life and I'm in the second half of my life okay?

Omal: uh-huh.

Skip: that God is a supreme being that takes care of all of us to a point and he created us as brothers and sisters no matter where we are in the world…..

Omal: uh-huh.

Skip: that has no bearing on his creation. He's the spark of life on our planet from what I can understand.

Omal: yes, but the definition of God is that he is a supreme being of your planet……

Skip: yes.

Omal: that is a correct analogy. It is hard to word it without going in too deep into theology and theology is always a tricky and difficult area.