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19. ATTUNED TO THE INFINITE
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17. EASTER
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    EVERYTHING TO THE DIVINE
15. HAVING NO EXPECTATIONS
14. BOUNDLESS SELF (4)
13. BOUNDLESS SELF (3)
12. BOUNDLESS SELF (2)
11. BOUNDLESS SELF (1)
10. DEATH HAS NO STING
9. THE FOOD REVOLUTION
8. INNER PEACE
7. NEW YEAR GREETINGS
6. CHRISTMAS GIFT GIVING
5. THE TRUE MESSAGE OF
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4. LOVE IS THE MEANS AND
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3. LOVE IS THE ONLY
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2. YOUR MANTRA IS YOUR
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1. THE JOURNEY

This WEBSITE was Launched 25th September 2004
by Les Dyer
    
Soul Light

(Messages through Les Dyer)

SOUL LIGHT - Thirty
THE “REAL WORLD” IS UNREAL

Many people when leaving Heartland exclaim “ Well, it’s back to “the real world” for me now”. More likely, it’s back to the unreal world.

The unreal world is a place where “the news” is the acknowledged source of truth. In the real world, the source is found inside.

The unreal world is a place where “work” brings in the abundance that makes life bearable. In the real world, it’s life that shares its abundance, thus making work pleasurable.

In the unreal world love is a tradeable commodity that is invariably sold to the highest bidder. In the real world it’s given away.

The unreal world teaches that hard work helps you achieve success. The real world simply tells you that if you’re here you’re already successful.

In the unreal world that success is measured by the size of the house, the cost of the car and a thousand other facades. In the real world it’s measured by the peace in your heart.

In the unreal world death is feared. In the real world it’s unknown.

The unreal world society is held together by a thousand laws and ten thousand legislative rules. In the real world society is held together by simple respect and honour.

The spiritual backbone of the unreal world offers differing religions, creeds, gods, beliefs and rituals. The spiritual backbone of the real world offers love and oneness.

In the unreal world people are expected to demean their own value and easily do. In the real world there are no values, no comparisons possible. Just the divine.

We can separate ourselves from the unreal world, if only for a short while, for the precise reason that it is unreal. Being unreal we can walk away from it. Recognising this truth can be enough to wake us up from our unreal dream and ensure that next time we walk away from that madcap unreal world for a few days we don’t walk back into it!

Instead we can choose to stay in the real world. We cannot separate ourselves from the real world for that is who and what we are.

Next time you find yourself suffering from the insanity of society, simply remember who you are. Come back to Source. You are Love. You are Peace. You are Joy. You are Bliss. You are Eternal. You are Immortal. You are the Light of the world. You are the Word made flesh. You are Infinite Spirit!

Love and Blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Nine
LOVE IS THE PATH OF NO-PATH

Last fortnight I spoke about Love being all there actually is; everything else is pure illusion.

Nicola from Australia replied (in part) “…….We serve the greater good when we serve the highest truth - Love is all there really is. ..... the creative force, the process, the healing of all imbalances, the final goal, the solution, the reason, the complete being... all, I truly believe, is LOVE. (We need to) remind ourselves that there are lots of people (not always immediately visible) who live to serve the greater good and the highest truth. Blessings, Nicola”.

Another respondent, Milton posed the question: ““Love” seems to be about as good as it gets, but maybe there is more?”
Yes, there may well be more – but I believe each of us has to first accept the love we are.

Then, if there is more, that more – found in higher realms of existence - will be easier to access.

This is not to see love as a process or journey. It clearly isn’t.

Love is simply the only reality there is.

You either express love or you express the world’s group illusions and delusions.

There’s no middle path.

One brings you inner wealth, equanimity, peace, quiet joy and confidence; the other brings you all the trials and tribulations that naturally arise from being out of kilter with the natural state of things.

There is no path to Love. No structured set of steps. In fact, it’s not even a specific doing.

One simply wakes up out of the nightmare one thought was “the real world”.

One simply wakes up and thus stops being selfish, fearful, intolerant, greedy, lazy, angry…

As soon as we awake, we cease to express all the love-blocking behaviours and habits we used to maintain the nightmare.

We simply become who we really are – the embodiment of Love.

This requires no membership to any organisation, no affiliation to any creed, no certificates of merit or mastery.

It simply requires that we wake up.

Do so and the ‘real world’ you used to live in will immediately be seen as the obvious insanity it always was.

Only reality, only love, will then suffice.

Are there paths to awakening?

No. But we can be gently shaken. And if we’re ready to awaken then we may well do so.

Places like Heartland – oasis of the spirit in the midst of the shifting sands of societal mayhem – may well make it easier for us to awaken in such places. But the decision is ours alone.

Ultimately, we each awake when we are ready.

We take the only path society has never tried for fear of its consequences.

We take the Path of Self-responsibility.

The Path of Love.

The Path of No-Path.

Love and Blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Eight
REALITY IS LOVE

Over the past 20 years I have written well over a thousand articles on spirituality for both my own books and newsletters and other quality journals across the world. If I had to encapsulate my teachings into just three words this would be them – Reality is Love.

Love is the only reality.  Love unifies the universe.

Love is the flow of energy that mystics both ancient and modern constantly speak about.

Know it or not, it is love that is reading these words right now!

Like it or not, it is Love that is your very being – love and nothing but love.

Yes, you are love.

Everything that is real within you – as you - is love.

Anything that seems to be within you that isn’t love is just an illusion, a misapprehension of the reality of love from which you are temporarily suffering. (Don’t worry, we’re all in the same boat. We all forget sometimes!).

Everything is simply love in action.

Flowers, trees, plants, rocks, streams, oceans, birds, animals, people….

You can call this Love by any name you wish – God, spirit, light, George….. in truth it’s simply Love.

And that Love, that creative delight, that harmony of existence, that song of life is the only reality there is.

The forgetting we are Love we call our illusions.

The belief that we can happily exist in our forgetfulness is plain delusion.

The results of our forgetfulness are clearly seen today in the many hurting, angry, lost and unfulfilled people we find in the world.

They’ve simply forgotten who they are.

The answer is obviously to remember.

To remember who we are – love.

To remember our purpose – to love.

To remember how we heal – by becoming a conduit for love.

To remember how we make ourselves whole – by fully embracing the love we are.

To remember how we remember – by loving ourself enough to go inside and face the truth: reality is love.

Is anything real?

Absolutely!

Love.

Welcome to reality!

Love and Blessings,


Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Seven
YOU ARE THE CALL AND THE ANSWER

One night a western doctor, working in Africa, watched a mother die during labour, leaving behind a tiny, premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter. It was difficult keeping the baby alive as the hospital had no incubator, nor electricity to run one.

Although it was on the equator, nights were often chilly so a student midwife wrapped the baby in cotton wool. Another stoked up a fire and went to fill a hot water bottle but she returned empty handed as there weren’t any. The baby was placed as near the fire as was safe, to keep it warm.

The following morning the doctor shared prayers with the local orphanage children. In conversation she told the children about the baby, mentioning the serious lack of a hot water bottle, and told them also of the two-year-old sister who was crying because her mother had died.

During prayer time, one ten -year-old girl prayed bluntly "Please, God send us a hot water bottle today. It'll be no good tomorrow as the baby might die, so please send it this afternoon." Then she added, "And while you’re at it, would you please also send a dolly for the little girl who’s crying."

During the afternoon a large parcel was delivered to the doctor. In it were clothes, bandages, foods – and at the bottom of the box a small dolly and a brand new rubber hot water bottle.
 
The parcel had been on its way for many weeks, sent by the doctor’s former Sunday school class, one of whom had heard the Divine prompting to send a hot water bottle to the equator; another had been divinely inspired to add a dolly…..five months before, in answer to the believing prayer of a ten-year-old to bring it "that afternoon."

"Before they call, I will answer." says the Jewish scriptures. The call is always made by ordinary people, like you and me. The answer is always delivered through the actions of ordinary people, like you and me.
Countless people call for help. Have you been divinely inspired to answer lately? After all, you are the Call and the Answer!

Maybe that means taking a moment to express your innermost feelings in prayer. Many people today think that prayer is old-fashioned, outdated and just for the religious. It’s not. Prayer can be a most wonderful expression of our deepest yearnings for peace, love and acceptance. It can affirm our right to a life that’s abundant with opportunity and challenge.

Maybe it means sending a hand-made friendship card to an old acquaintance; or phoning a neighbour who’s been sick to say ‘hello’; or sending a little money to help a struggling orphanage; or shipping a dozen hot water bottles to an African hospital…… There’s ten thousand ways to express our divine inspiration – and yet we always seem to pick the one that best fits the bill! That’s because it’s Divine Presence that answers when we answer. And that’s because deep within we are the Divine Presence.

Listen carefully this week and let the Divine answer through you. If you’re hurting let the Divine speak its needs or challenges through your prayers. If you’re healthy, let it answer others through your actions. Know that either way you will be richly rewarded!

Love and Blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Six
SPECIAL ISSUE

Sometimes I come across something so extraordinarily beautiful I want to share it with you all – this is one of those times!
 
The pictures below are that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner.

 
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
 
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the baby reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.
 
Little Samuel's mother said they 'wept for days' when they saw the picture. She said, 'The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person.' Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful.
 
Love and Blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Five
WE HAVE SAID OK

As regular Readers know my emphasis is on the Power of Love. Sometimes, I feel we need to remember that Love is more than just a feeling – it’s breathing grace and joy into every facet of our life and society.

WE HAVE SAID OK
Anne Graham was interviewed on US TV and asked "How could God let something like this happen?" (Regarding the attacks on September 11). This article is based on her reply.

She gave an extremely profound and insightful – if somewhat Christian-based and sexist - response.
She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In Australia we’re pretty similar.
Public servants have cautioned against prayer in our schools, and we have said OK.
Reference to any Divine Presence is banned in the state Education system and again we’ve said OK.
In most Australian state and federal government departments, the word “god” has been banned completely, even with-holding emails that include the word. And we have simply said OK. Hence, some subscribers won’t receive this email.

Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't touch our children when they misbehave because it can be damaging – we need to rationalize with them, young as they are, as if they were experienced, competent and wise adults and we have simply said OK.

The teaching authorities said teachers and principals better not physically discipline any child, no matter how rowdy or disrespectful they are. The school administrators said we don't want to be sued, it’s better to put up with anarchy in the schools. And we have said OK.

The government said we know tobacco kills and maims people (we make sure of that by printing it boldly on every pack so they can be brainwashed with it over and over and over again every time they reach for another ‘ciggie’) - but we make too much money from it so as long as we warn people against it let’s let them smoke as much as they want anyway. And we’ve said OK.

The police said we don’t want to interfere with the rights of the child, even when they’re grossly misbehaving. It’s best just to handle crowd control. And we’ve said OK.

Then the politicians said hard drugs are here to stay, regardless of how many people they destroy directly or indirectly. Let’s go soft on the users and just crack down on the big dealers (who avoid paying taxes). We’ve even introduced safe places in some states for injecting, smoking, sniffing….. And we’ve said OK.

Then someone said, let's teach our sons and daughters the quick and easy path to sexuality and have (in Australia) the third highest child abortion rate in the world - and we said OK.

Then some wise overseas church leader said let’s deny the benefits of condoms when it comes to people doing what comes naturally and his followers said you know best, OK.

Then some of our top business leaders said it doesn't matter what we pay ourselves as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said as long as we have a job and the economy is good go ahead and pay yourself what you want.
And they paid themselves vast amounts of money (one Australian banker publicly values himself at more than the combined parliamentary income of every Federal government member and senator put together – all 226 of them!). We’ve said OK.

Then someone said let's print magazines and internet films with gynecologically explicit pictures of men and women having casual erotic sex (free of any real intimacy) purely for the voyeuristic value of it and call it wholesome. And we said OK.

Then the entertainment industry said, let's take ‘freedom of speech’ and make TV shows and movies that promote violence, warfare, anarchy, sexual depravity and greed. Let's play and promote music on our commercial radio stations that encourage rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and gangland themes. And we said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead. OK.

Then business directors told us that big profits were the true benchmark of success so we put aside the worth of our people, their job security, our own manufacturing factories, integrity, safety and independence in order to sell off to the highest bidder our trees, water, air, earth and loyalty in order to achieve success via the quick, big buck.
And we hope it will all turn out OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why many of us – and many of our children, too - have no faith in a fair or happy future. And why it doesn't bother them to take drugs or kill themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.

WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.

How simple it is for people to trash their own Divine Presence and disown honourable living - and then wonder why the world's dysfunctional.
A return to Love and all it stands for – personal, communal, social, commercial, global and Divine – is the only sane answer.
Surely it’s time.
Time to say OK to love in action.

Love and Blessings,
 
Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Four
THE LAW OF ABUNDANCE

Many people in the western world seem hell-bent on getting.
Getting more money in the bank.
Getting a more loving partner.
Getting a bigger house.
Getting a newer car.
Getting a better job.
Getting another overseas holiday.
Getting more appreciation.
Getting more security.
Getting more friends.
The list is almost inexhaustible; and is most certainly the source of much dysfunction, sadness, sense of worthlessness and personal futility.
Keeping up with the Joneses means getting enough to keep up with just about everyone of assumed value.
Supposed Laws of Attraction, of Wealth Creation, of Rights of Abundance, of Financial Security, of Value Adding cruelly tie people to fictional understandings of worth.
For many only money matters.
For others getting anything and everything becomes an addiction.

Real worth isn’t something we get – but rather what we give.
Giving is the act of the Spirit – getting is the action of the Body.
Giving is the sharing of what we have; and ultimately we each come to understand that we already have all we need to give.
Giving praise.
Giving compassion.
Giving care.
Giving respect.
Giving help.
Giving love.
Giving time.
Giving space.
Giving opportunities.
Giving forgiveness.
Giving joy.
Giving encouragement.
Giving peace.
Giving hope.
Giving courtesy.
Giving acknowledgement.
Giving support.
Giving our ear.
Giving our smiles.
Giving our hand.
Giving our trust.

When we give hugs we get them back instantly.
When we give love continuously we get it back continuously, too.
Giving benefits not only the receiver but the giver – it’s the eternal dance of abundant life.

The act of ‘getting’ seeks abundance.
The act of ‘giving’ recognizes the abundance we already are.
How will you act this coming fortnight?
You have a choice: to go get – or to go give.
Choose the latter and your abundance will flow toward you even faster than you can give it away.
Move past the Law of Attraction- and embrace the Law of Abundance
This Law never fails – the more you give of your true self the more you have to give.
May you have an abundant fortnight, giving.

Love and Blessings,

Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Three
WE ALL JOKE ABOUT POLITICIANS

We all joke about politicians – however this thought-provoking article is by Vaclav Havel, a writer and dramatist who became the 1st President of the Czech Republic. The entire article is longer than my normal page so I’ve just reprinted the last two parts. Email me if you’d like the rest sent to you. Thanks.
 
Two Transcendent Ideas
 
The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must be anchored in a different place, and in a different way, than has been the case so far. If it is to be more than just a slogan mocked by half the world, it cannot be expressed in the language of a departing era, and it must not be mere froth floating on the subsiding waters of faith in a purely scientific relationship to the world.
 
Paradoxically, inspiration for the renewal of this lost integrity can once again be found in science, in a science that is new - let us say postmodern - a science producing ideas that in a certain sense allow it to transcend its own limits. I will give two examples:
 
The first is the Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Its authors and adherents have pointed out that from the countless possible courses of its evolution the universe took the only one that enabled life to emerge. This is not yet proof that the aim of the universe has always been that it should one day see itself through our eyes. But how else can this matter be explained?

I think the Anthropic Cosmological Principle brings to us an idea perhaps as old as humanity itself: that we are not at all just an accidental anomaly, the microscopic caprice of a tine particle whirling in the endless depth of the universe. Instead, we are mysteriously connected to the entire universe, we are mirrored in it, just as the entire evolution of the universe is mirrored in us.

Until recently, it might have seemed that we were an unhappy bit of mildew on a heavenly body whirling in space among many that have no mildew on them at all. this was something that classical science could explain. Yet, the moment it begins to appear that we are deeply connected to the entire universe, science reaches the outer limits of its powers. Because it is founded on the search for universal laws, it cannot deal with singularity, that is, with uniqueness. The universe is a unique event and a unique story, and so far we are the unique point of that story. But unique events and stories are the domain of poetry, not science. With the formulation of the Anthropic Cosmological Principle, science has found itself on the border between formula and story, between science and myth. In that, however, science has paradoxically returned, in a roundabout way, to man, and offers him - in new clothing - his lost integrity. It does so by anchoring him once more in the cosmos.

The second example is the Gaia Hypothesis. This theory brings together proof that the dense network of mutual interactions between the organic and inorganic portions of the earth's surface form a single system, a kind of mega-organism, a living planet - Gaia - named after an ancient goddess who is recognizable as an archetype of the Earth Mother in perhaps all religions. According to the Gaia Hypothesis, we are parts of a greater whole. If we endanger her, she will dispense with us in the interest of a higher value - that is, life itself.

Toward Self-Transcendence

What makes the Anthropic Principle and the Gaia Hypothesis so inspiring? One simple thing: Both remind us, in modern language, of what we have long suspected, of what we have long projected into our forgotten myths and perhaps what has always lain dormant within us as archetypes. That is, the awareness of our being anchored in the earth and the universe, the awareness that we are not here alone nor for ourselves alone, but that we are an integral part of higher, mysterious entities against whom it is not advisable to blaspheme. This forgotten awareness is encoded in all religions. All cultures anticipate it in various forms. It is one of the things that form the basis of man's understanding of himself, of his place in the world, and ultimately of the world as such.

A modern philosopher once said: "Only a God can save us now."

Yes, the only real hope of people today is probably a renewal of our certainty that we are rooted in the earth and, at the same time, in the cosmos. This awareness endows us with the capacity for self-transcendence. Politicians at international forums may reiterate a thousand times that the basis of the new world order must be universal respects for human rights, but it will mean nothing as long as this imperative does not derive from the respect of the miracle of Being, the miracle of the universe, the miracle of nature, the miracle of our own existence. Only someone who submits to the authority of the universal order and of creation, who values the right to be a part of it and a participant in it, can genuinely value himself and his neighbors, and thus honor their rights as well.
It logically follows that, in today's multicultural world, the truly reliable path to coexistence, to peaceful coexistence and creative cooperation, must start from what is at the root of all cultures and what lies infinitely deeper in human hearts and minds than political opinion, convictions, antipathies, or sympathies - it must be rooted in self-transcendence:

    • Transcendence as a hand reached out to those close to us, to foreigners, to the human community, to all living creatures, to nature, to the universe.
    • Transcendence as a deeply and joyously experienced need to be in harmony even with what we ourselves are not, what we do not understand, what seems distant from us in time and space, but with which we are nevertheless mysteriously linked because, together with us, all this constitutes a single world.
    • Transcendence as the only real alternative to extinction.
The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

Love and Blessings,
 
Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty Two
FLESHING IN AND FLESHING OUT

When we “flesh out” our beliefs by making them the very cornerstones and ground of our being we bring our physical life into deep attunement with our spiritual life.
 
For me, my Inner Voice has always been a vital and important part of my physical world.
 
For each of us it is in the everyday living of the Self - in relation to the wider world - that the cries of our Inner Voice, those demands of sacred integrity, are flexed; and find their potency, worth and dimensional boundaries.

Sometimes, “fleshing out” our lives within the world is the finest way to “flesh in” our lives, too.
 
I recently advised a friend to give service to others as his spiritual exercise in place of his inner spiritual exercises. He now takes teenagers at risk of going to prison out into the backwoods for 10 day leadership programs.
 
His faith has become his life – his life has become his faith.
 
For me, my childhood lack of healthy family, parental support, adequate education, money, home and normal opportunities was the gift, the catalyst that propelled me within. I was on the streets physically – but in the safety of my soul spiritually.
 
I then took that in-tuition (the only tuition I’ve ever really had) and made it the very fabric of my life in the world – without ever becoming totally enmeshed in the world’s madness.

None of us can simply live our spirituality as a set of intellectual or mental exercises – we need to become our spirituality, in our everyday activities.
 
This isn’t always easy; oftentimes our ego finds it tiring! But the more we do it, the less arduous it will be and the more it will become our ordinary behaviour.

Here’s an exercise for the next 10 days: each morning, for just 10 minutes, visualize someone you don’t like/have problems with. Visualise or imagine them as self-assured, self-confident, bright, happy and purposeful.
 
Don’t personalize the vision to benefit yourself – see them living their wholeness, regardless of anything or anyone else (yourself included). Re-create the vision fresh and new each morning – but always express the same impersonal, love-filled intention.
 
Be the light you are – and flesh out the being you find within……..until you find your Oneness!
 
More self-empowering spiritual exercises next time,
Love and Blessings,
 
Les

SOUL LIGHT - Twenty One
Nature and Nurture

We are often reminded that as Human Beings it is our Nature which is most important.
That Nature is spiritual and is the unifying principle of existence.
As Human Beings we be peace, love and bliss - and the world and society we see around us is, in many ways, illusory.
Ultimately, we are all One, all the Light, all the God-head.

However, such understandings are not always easy to implement in our busy lives.
Children’s antics, heavy home and business workloads, the ups and downs of family relationships, economic pressures, health issues and a thousand other demands on our time and our attention all tend to pull us back into a false reality that is based on the duality of right/wrong - light/dark – up/down – in/out – past/future – good/bad – poor/rich – male/female - me/you - ad infinitum…..

In such circumstances it is critical that we also understand that in unfolding into our wholeness we pass through an evolutionary stage of being Human Doings.
As Human Doings we do those things necessary to achieve our true state of being.
The most important of these doings is to nurture.
We nurture ourselves.
We nurture our children.
We nurture our relationships.
We nurture our families and friendships.
We nurture our communities – and, ultimately, the world at large.

Such nurturing we undertake as a co-operative venture; we co-operate with one another to everyone’s mutual benefit.
Spare a moment to consider…..How do you co-operate with others? With your children? With your spouse? With your boss? With the neighbours? To what effect? By what means? What more could you do? How important is co-operative endeavour in your life?

The more we co-operate , the more others will surely co-operate with us.
The more we nurture others, the more we align ourselves with our nature.

Love and Blessings,
 
Les

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