New Year’s Day ranks among the oldest of holidays, created by Pope Gregory XIII on his personal revised calendar in 1582, intending to make it a time for people to make changes for the better. The date was chosen partly in honor of Janus, the Roman god of “beginnings,” from whom the month of January got its name. The late Dr. Pieter Noomen, a psychotherapist who worked in suicide prevention and hospice and served as a senior minister for various Protestant churches, said he experienced many conversations with a deity that he said identified itself as “I AM.” Dr. Noomen transcribed those conversations and posted them on the website [1], which…