> Most believed there would be 'dramatic ' changes at the turn of the
> millennium. A girl friend of mine at the time, was a programmer for
> Visa. She was so concerned about the millennium bug, that she left San
> Mateo and moved to Perth, Aus. Even those 'in the middle' of the
> computer industry where extremely concerned, but as we know, it came
> and went without incident. Of course some programmers, say it was
> thanks to their ingenuity that tragedy was averted. "We stuck the
> [potential] knife in, and we pulled it out again. Praise be to us "
>
> Every man and his dog had something to say about the new millennium,
> from the return of Zeus to the reversing of the polar axis.
>
> Every belief has a seed of truth, if only symbolic. We are all
> receptive to change even if we resist energetically, (the more
> resistance, the greater the pain)...The real change is a shift in
> awareness.
>
> This is where it gets subtle, and why 'seers' always speak in
> 'quatrains' or similar.
>
> Cycles are fundamental. Many thought that 2000 was a new beginning,
> whatever their frame of reference was.There was a massive anticipation
> from the 'new agers' to the fundamentalists, from the economists to
> the ecologists.
>
> Fact is, 2008 is the beginning of the first new cycle in the new
> millennium. The pent up anxiety has dispersed since 2000, allowing the
> next wave to hit without creating mass panic.
>
> What a great time to practice your 'spiritual awareness'.
>
> Enjoy ;-)
>
> BOfL
>