| Integration: Human Consciousness and The Global Electronic Brain |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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The way this integration of human consciousness and the global electronic brain may proceed is with initiatives such as this one by Hector Ruiz.
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| Gaia and the Global Brain |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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It is an old idea, dating back at least to the ancient Greeks, that the whole of human society can be viewed as a single organism.
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| Enlightenment: One Million In Ten Years |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Passing enlightenment through one-on-one teaching and person-to-person transmission is a valid and useful thing to do, but it takes too long. The Planet is on the verge of extinction.
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| One Million Points of Light |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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Can we predict who these one million points of light-one million enlightenments, will be? No. Can we predict where they will be on the planet? No.
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| Invent Your Own Path |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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The idea of inventing your own path to enlightenment, without a guru, is actually a meta-path, a path of paths.
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| Guru Etiquette |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Gurus know a lot, but not everything. Nonetheless, there will be people who assume the guru is a fake because they've admitted they don't know everything. In fact, human perfection is an oxymoron.
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| How to Behave in the Presence of a Guru |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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There is no value in making yourself subservient to a guru. Kissing a guru's feet is going too far, unless he is willing to kiss yours also.
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| Addictions - Money, Sex and Power |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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If gurus don't earn money to pay the rent, then someone else must give them the money to do so.
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| Can Gurus be Financially Wealthy? |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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There is a very strong bias revealed in most religious and spiritual teaching, suggesting that a guru could not possibly be interested in money.
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| It is Time to Reconnect Spirit with Life |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Rather than make money, sex and power the mortal enemies of spirit, consider the possibility that it is not money, sex, and power in and of themselves that are degraded and corrupt or devoid of humanist and spiritual value. It is how these things are use
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| The Great Myth |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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A myth is a story that metaphorically conveys meaning to the reader or listener. It is a transform of the truth into a form the reader or listener can understand or comprehend.
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| The Great Myth Continued - Infinity and Quantum Chaos |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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There are an infinite number of points on a straight line. In our myth, each line is a symbolic representation of a universe.
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| The Great Myth Continued - Making a Cosmic Movie |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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There isn't only one movie, there are an infinite number, at least one for every "I" point of consciousness.
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| Faust |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Faust signs a pact with Mephistopheles (the Devil), that Faust will surrender his soul, but only in return for Mephistopheles helping Faust find a moment so sublime and perfect that he would want it to go on forever.
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| Back to the Cosmic Movie |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link |
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Because it is set up this way, even the Creator does not know what the movie will be from moment to moment. What kind of entertainment would it be if you knew the entire movie before you entered the theatre?
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| Just Crumbs |
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| Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Remember, these words are just a trail of crumbs being left behind by Hansel and Gretel to help find the way home again.
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| The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo |
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| Added on 09/ 28/2008 By Philip Zimbardo |
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Philip Zimbardo explores the nature of good and evil inside each of us, and explores the idea of how the situational context can strongly influence the behavior of ordinary human beings.
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| A Digital Library Free to the World |
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| Added on 10/ 09/2008 By Brewster Kahle |
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Here is another example of how human consciousness and the global electronic brain are being integrated for the benefit of all humanity.
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| Seeing |
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| Added on 10/ 12/2008 By Al Link |
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Seeing is a spiritual power.
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| Enlightenment is Not Escape |
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| Added on 10/ 13/2008 By Al Link |
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Enlightenment is not escape.
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| Union of Lovers |
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| Added on 10/ 13/2008 By Al Link |
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Union of Lovers
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| What to do With Enlightenment |
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| Added on 10/ 14/2008 By Al Link |
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Look for the moments between the moments.
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| You are all of it |
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| Added on 10/ 14/2008 By Al Link |
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You are all of it, everything.
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| Enlightenment After-burn |
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| Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Almost immediately following the enlightenment there will begin a regression, a return to the more ordinary and more familiar ego consciousness...
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| Nirvana-with-remainder |
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| Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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In Mahayana Buddhism, there is a distinction between "nirvana-with-remainder" and "nirvana-without-remainder."
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| Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point |
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| Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes many different kinds of unusual and interesting research to shed light on common human behaviors, helping people to see why they act the way they do.
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| Inner States - External Circumstances |
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| Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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"In ways that we don’t necessarily appreciate, our inner states are the result of our outer circumstances."
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| Managing Emotions Through Action |
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| Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Malcolm Gladwell stops short of taking the most important step. He leaves the reader feeling as if for most of us, we will simply act according to how we are pushed and shoved around by external circumstances, and he doesn't really offer any way out
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| Schools of Buddhism - The Importance of Lineage |
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| Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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The origin of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism derives from the teachings of the enlightened Indian master Tilopa. Maha means great one, or highest.
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| Enlightenment - The Loss of Innoccence and the Midlife Crisis |
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| Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Originally published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye[i], by J.D. Salinger is the poignant story of 16 year old Holden Caulfield.
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| Buddhist Scripture - Sutra and Tantra |
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| Added on 09/ 17/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Teachings of Buddha have been classified as sutra and Tantra. Mahamudra is primarily derived from the Tantra or Vajrayana teaching. In Mahamudra Tantra, thought is a lower order cognitive function. Much higher is observation or witnessing.
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| Buddhist Spiritual Teachers |
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| Added on 09/ 17/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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Honoring the utter simplicity of the Mahamudra approach to enlightenment, Tilopa taught Naropa "six words of advice."
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| Schools of Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana, Varjrayana |
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| Added on 09/ 17/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Theravada (Sanskrit for "teaching of the elders", or "ancient teaching") Buddhism is the oldest surviving Buddhist school.
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| Forbidden |
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| Added on 11/ 14/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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You can't say what it is, that is forbidden.
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| Is |
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| Added on 11/ 14/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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"Is" is the primary quality of consciousness, not meaning.
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| First, Next, Last and Only |
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| Added on 11/ 14/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Enlightenment is the First big thing
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| Pain, Suffering and the Problem of Evil |
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| Added on 11/ 15/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Why would anyone want to be enlightened? What is the value of enlightenment? What benefit to the world comes from enlightenment?
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| Can God and Evil Co-exist? |
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| Added on 11/ 15/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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Can God and Evil Co-exist? Of course they can.
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| The Old Testament Story of Job |
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| Added on 11/ 15/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Theodicy is the theological and philosophical exploration of the question of God's justice in the context of human suffering, particularly suffering of the innocent.
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| Answer To Job Continued |
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| Added on 11/ 15/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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Jung's Answer to Job concludes that God fails to use his omnipotence (all powerful) and omniscience (all knowing) to notice the suffering of Job (and others) or to do anything about it.
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| The Illusion of Good and Evil |
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| Added on 11/ 15/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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God and evil are equal; win and lose are equal; success and failure are equal. These things are equal because...
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| The Futility of Resisting Evil |
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| Added on 11/ 15/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Be careful of what you pay attention to because you are going to get more of it.
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| The Holographic Reality |
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| Added on 11/ 15/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link |
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How is everything interconnected, and what does that mean?
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| Seeing - Being |
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| Added on 11/ 14/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Seeing feels a lot like, identical actually, with being.
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| Poets, Prophets and Scribes |
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| Added on 11/ 14/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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One may become more like a prophet than a scribe
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| Reverend Tom Honey Speaks on the Theme "God and Evil" |
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| Added on 11/ 16/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland |
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Rev. Honey explores the Theodicy question, considering all the possible ways to explain, if not to understand, how a benevolent God could co-exist with so much innocent suffering in the world.
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| Carl Honore: Slowing down in a world built for speed. |
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| Added on 12/ 25/2008 By Carl Honore |
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Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life.
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| Symbols, Sex and the Stars Creation Myth Video |
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| Added on 12/ 26/2008 By Coshida Media Channel |
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Another creation myth; this one pretty far out, but interesting, as are all creation myths.
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| Virtual Rudyard Kipling Reading "If" |
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| Added on 12/ 29/2008 By Rudyard Kipling, Robert Morley, Jim Clark |
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Here's a virtual movie of the great Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) reading his wonderfully wise much loved ode to stoicism the poem "If".
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| Changing Your Tune ( Advanced Enlightenment) Video by unASLEEP |
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| Added on 12/ 30/2008 By unASLEEP |
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This is an interesting and creative way to talk about the enlightened state.
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