MSS 100 - The Shamanic Archetype Workshop
Assignment: Create your personalized 'shamanic soul signature' mandala.
MSS 101 - The Archetypal Shamanic Initiation Narrative
Assignment: Retrieve your initiatory narrative into consciousness, and offer it to the Threshold Guardian to obtain a blessing to proceed.
MSS 102 - Modern Soul Science for Healing and Transmutation
Assignment: Catch your soul's history in a vessel, and perform healing alchemy on your "soul vessels".
MSS 103 - Re-approaching the Modern Call in the Spirit of Shamanic Psychiatry
Assignment: Envision, design, and inhabit the ultimate "shamanic hospital" to heal your wounds and train yourself for shamanic service.
MSS 104 - The Hermetic Archetype
Assignment: Trace the shapeshifting presence of the spirit Mercurius in your life.
MSS 105 - Retrieving and Rectifying Western Civilization's Ancestral Shamanic Lineage
Assignment: Research and trace your ancestral lineage, and the accompanying shamanic/spiritual traditions. Find out what happened to the shamanic impulse in your ancestral line.
MSS 106 - Ancestral Healing Workshop
Assignment: Carry out a series of redemptive soul-retrievals and liberating rituals on behalf of your ancestral line, starting with your parents, and going as far back as you are able.
MSS 107 - Carl Jung: The First Elder
Assignment: Read Jung's autobiography, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", write a short essay.
MSS 108 - Rudolf Steiner: The Second Elder
Assignment: Read a 'golden thread' selection of Steiner's work, which will be provided, write a short essay.
MSS 109 - Introduction to the Science of Initiation
Assignment: Scientifically assess your initiatory alchemy thus far, and make suggestions for improvements and future progress.
MSS 110 - Soul Tending as a Daily Practice
Assignment: Create and maintain a "Soul Tending Journal".
MSS 111 - Ascetic Practices and Spiritual Warriorship for 2022 and Beyond
Assignment: Assess your bad habits. Create and carry out an ascetic (spiritual warrior) program for healing, purification, self-preservation, and spiritual empowerment during these times of crisis.
The ultimate tool for you to "Know Thyself".
This first course in the program is a guided dive into the mysterious depths of your soul, where you will discover the utterly unique way in which the SHAMANIC ARCHETYPE is emerging in you...
...how it has been guiding you throughout your entire life...
...and how it is guiding you toward your higher purpose.
You will learn what sort of shamanic individual you are meant to become, and this will give you tremendous clarity about the nature of your Higher Self and your higher purpose, right here and now in this world in the throes of crisis.
But this workshop is more than just a guided dive into the depths of your soul. It's also a state-of-the-art alchemical laboratory for the 21st century.
When you enter into this workshop, you will activate magical archetypal powers in your soul, and then engage in sacred alchemy upon them...
...transmuting unconscious potential into fully conscious empowerment, inspiration, and self-knowledge.
The hardest thing about working with archetypes is not getting inflated or swallowed or burned by the overpowering inspiration they grant.
In this workshop, you will wrestle the shamanic archetype to the ground, make it your faithful ally, and attach a harness so that you can ride it to the fulfillment of your higher purpose.
The objective of the workshop is for you to individuate the archetype - to carve out your individual expression of this universal power.
Individuating the shamanic archetype is the key to harnessing its power without getting deluded or inflated or burned.
It's the key to unlocking your higher spiritual purpose, and having the ability to actually accomplish it.
Following the "Shamanic Archetype Workbook", you will work your way through the the following 25 facets, and figure out exactly how each of these facets is inspiring you and guiding you toward your spiritual destiny:
- Twice Born (One who has been initiated)
- Psychopomp (guide of souls)
- Storyteller, Mythmaker; Sacred Historian
- Technician of Dreamtime; Tender of Dreams
- Explorer and Cartographer of Immaterial Realms
- Visionary Artist, Writer, Poet, Creative Director
- Sacred Musician, Singer, Dancer, Actor, Performer
- Technician of (Ecstatic) Trance States
- Ascetic
- Promethean Scientist, Mathematician, Inventor, Architect
- Hermetic Magician, Alchemist, Astrologer, Esotericist
- Wounded Healer
- Clairvoyant, Psychic, Remote Viewer, Seer
- Energy Worker
- Has Formed Alliances / Working Relationships with Spirits
- Mystically Connected to Nature
- Initiated into the Darkness of the Spiritual World
- Spiritual Warrior
- Culture Hero; Light Bearer
- Trickster, Sacred Clown, Holy Fool, Shapeshifter
- Adept in Mysteries of Sexuality
- Facilitator; Master of Ceremonies
- Technician of Entheogenic Ceremony
- Traverses the “World Tree”; Bridges Mediates Opposites
- Elder; Medicine Carrier
And following the Workbook, you'll discover how these 25 facets are combining in your soul to form your unique "shamanic soul signature".
When you discover your soul signature, something truly magical happens... a monumental "AHA!" moment.
A flood of inspiration arrives... and you'll be able to handle it, and know exactly what to do with it.
And then you'll move on to the creative components of the workshop.
Once you determine how each of these 25 facets are forming and empowering your soul...
...you'll translate your results into a sacred SOUL MANDALA.
Your mandala has magical power. It is a symbol for your Higher Self...
...and it is an actual INVOCATION of your Higher Self. It works like a sigil.
And from there, if you really want to harness the full potential of this workshop...
...you'll translate your mandala into a SOUL TORUS.
This workshop is utterly unique. There's nothing like it anywhere else on the Internet. It is the vanguard of 21st century "shamanic alchemy", and it guides you through a process of individuating the shamanic archetype within you, and transforming unconscious potential into conscious empowerment.
Because it's one thing to be touched by the shamanic archetype, but it's another thing to be able to harness it in a totally unique, effective, and individualized way.
This process is inherently transformative.
As you individuate the archetype, you'll transform unconscious shadows into:
- self-knowledge and healing
- inspiration
- clarity and empowerment
- a more illuminated "I AM" consciousness
This is modern alchemy for modern shamans-in-training!
Check out some student work below:
Each of these shamanic mandalas was created through the alchemical effort of the student working upon the primeval forces of the SOUL to create:
A magical symbol of the HIGHER SELF
These students have actually MANIFESTED subconscious potential to give birth to new increments of their HIGHER SELF.
And they now have a magical reflection of their shamanic specialization, guiding them toward their spiritual destiny.
In the process they’ve tied together wounded fragments of their past, with their conscious efforts in the present, to create a map and guiding symbol pointing the way to a redemptive and empowered future.
This lays the groundwork for all the profound inner work, healing work, and transformational work you will do in the rest of the curriculum. It gives you a master symbol to be a guide, showing you who you are, and who you are becoming.
This workshop alone can keep you busy for the better part of a year. You can never exhaust its power to catalyze new rounds of personal growth.
You can see the enrollment page for the Shamanic Archetype Workshop alone, right here
Assignment:
Create your personalized 'shamanic soul signature' mandala.
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Shamanic Initiation Narrative
Just as the shamanic archetype is universal, yet unique to each soul...
...so too is the “shamanic initiation narrative” simultaneously universal and unique to you.
And it is inherently healing and empowering for you to tap into the universality of your journey and to further explore the profound uniqueness of it.
In this course, you will learn the 7 archetypal stages of ANY shamanic initiation, regardless of tradition - the path that every shaman must walk.
These are the 7 stages that make a true shaman.
You’ll learn to recognize your own presence in this universal narrative.
You’ll understand what stages you’ve already been through, and anticipate what awaits you up ahead.
You’ll receive a map and a compass for this exciting and difficult path.
You’ll learn to tell your own initiatory narrative in a clear, concise way.
And you’ll make a powerful offering to the “Threshold Guardian” of your journey, to obtain a blessing to proceed to the next stage.
Just like MSS 100, you’ll work at making peace with your past, placing it in a meaningful, REDEMPTIVE context, and prepare to move forward to a new stage of your initiatory journey.
Assignment:
Retrieve your initiatory narrative into consciousness, and offer it to the Threshold Guardian to obtain a blessing to proceed.
*Launched and available*
Prerequisites: Complete MSS 100
For Healing and Transmutation
Once you have the master symbol of your Higher Self (the shamanic archetype mandala), you can proceed to learn the SCIENCE of the alchemical inner work that you will be doing in the rest of the program.
You will be introduced to each of the major components of "Modern Soul Science"...
...that you will use in order to engage in a deep round of soul-retrieval and alchemical healing.
First, you will get a clear understanding of the participants of the healing process:
- the Ego
- the Astral Body / Soul Body
- the Higher Self
(their definitions, their dynamics, how they work together, what you need to know to work consciously in the mysteries of alchemy healing)
Second, you will get a brief overview of the wisdom from the 4 pillars of the school:
- Archetypal Shamanism
- Mythology + Visionary Art
- Jungian Psychology
- Alchemy, Hermeticism
And learn how to combine all four together in order to do healing work, first and foremost on your own soul.
You’ll also explore some of the nuances of dealing with tricksters, guides, and issues of discernment.
But this is all just a theoretical primer for the real heart of this course.
The real heart of this course is the alchemical assignment, which has the power to forever transform the way you look at your past, understand your past, and energetically relate to your past.
It’s a profoundly powerful exercise of spiritual autobiography and soul-retrieval.
A serious assignment, that is potentially life-changing, which comes with much support from your teacher, your TAs, and your fellow students in the community.
Assignment:
Catch your soul's history in a vessel, and perform healing alchemy on these "soul vessels", transmuting darkness into light, trauma into empowerment, pain into purpose.
*Launched and available*
Prerequisites: Complete MSS 100, 101.
Re-approaching the Modern Call in the Spirit of Shamanic Psychiatry
This course hits the reset button on the materialistic, anti-shamanic paradigm of mental health that has been forced upon us as citizens of the Western world.
We will reclaim the field of mental health for the shamanic impulse...
...and cultivate a paradigm for mental health that takes the spiritual world as granted…
…and that truly understands the tempestuous process of shamanic initiation...
...and is prepared to wisely and compassionately tend it…
...so that shamanic candidates coming up through Western civilization end up as healthy, highly functional shamanic individuals.
In this course, you’ll learn:
- to recognize the signs of a modern shamanic calling
- the triggers of an initiatory process
- and the dangers inherent in the awakening of the higher bodies
...so you can safely and sagely navigate your own call, and help others navigate theirs.
You’ll analyze the unique way in which your own call arrived, and gain many new insights about your past, your story, and where you are heading.
Through this analysis, all the chaos you’ve endured will suddenly snap into focus, and you’ll make great strides towards making peace with your past, and opening a new stage to your future as a soul tender.
You’ll envision the ideal “Shamanic Hospital”, designed specifically to treat and train shamanic candidates going through initiatory crisis in the modern world.
If you need to, you’ll check in wounded fragments of your past (soul-fragments), into this Shamanic Hospital, and engage in magical healing and soul-retrieval work.
If you want to, you will go back in time and repair damage done to your soul in those critical early stages of your call, when you lacked elderhood, and lived in a society that pathologizes shamanism and initiatory crisis as mental illness.
Together, we’ll work to take “psychiatric mental health” out of the hands of the scientific materialists, and put it in the hands of the shaman developing within you.
Assignment:
Envision, design, and inhabit the ultimate "shamanic hospital" to heal your wounds and train yourself for shamanic service.
*Launched and available*
Prerequisites: Complete MSS 100, 101, 102.
Hermes Trismegistus is the archetypal Shaman of Western civilization. And the spirit of Hermes -- what the alchemists called “Mercurius” -- is the secret to true self-knowledge, healing, shamanic power, unifying all opposites...
...and an elusive spirit that you must grasp in order to accomplish the highest goal: The creation of the Philosopher’s Stone.
In this course, you will pursue the Spirit Mercurius, who unifies:
- the conscious and the unconscious
- light and dark
- masculine and feminine
- sexuality and spirituality
- Sun and Moon
- gold and silver
- spirit and matter
- esoteric Christianity and illuminated Paganism
- Eastern and Western spiritual wisdom
- art and science
- past and present
- God and the Devil
- shaman and trickster
- healing and illness
- attraction and repulsion
- hero and villain
- upper world and lower world
- heaven and earth
- wisdom and folly
- self-knowledge and self-deception
- life and death
- and virtually every pair of opposites you can think of...
Mercurius is the secret to healing, the central concept of Alchemy, and a most essential and elusive concept of archetypal shamanism in general.
It is the spirit that unites Heaven and Earth, Spirit and Matter, and is the key to manifesting Spirit in your deeds and daily life.
He/she is the transformative Spirit itself, called by the alchemists (among many other names) the “anima mundi” -- the soul of the world.
And if you can manage to bottle this tricky spirit, you will have the first step to accomplishing the Alchemical Opus.
Through this course, you will learn to recognize the presence of Mercurius everywhere, in your own psyche, in the world around you, and all throughout history - which is the first step to bottling it for the alchemical opus.
And when you can do this, you will have the key to unifying all things that the unwise claim are separate and irreconcilable.
You will also learn about the Western lineage of the illuminated Hermetic Impulse, personified in the figure of Hermes Trismegistus.
From here, you will receive some precious jewels of esoteric history, which will give you a new appreciation for the ancestral wisdom tradition of the West.
This course lays the foundation for your Introduction to Modern Shamanic Alchemy, and the crucial ancestral healing that you will do in the following courses.
Assignment:
Trace the shapeshifting presence of the spirit Mercurius in your life.
*Launched and available*
Prerequisites: Complete MSS 100, 101, 102, 103.
After you've engaged in personal healing and soul-retrieval work -- and have befriended the Hermetic Spirit -- you can proceed to do the same work on your ancestral lineage.
One of the core promises of this curriculum is that it will:
Connect you to the Western lineage of ancestral shamanic, initiatory wisdom.
To accomplish that, you're going to dive into the past.
This course takes you on a healing dive into the traumatized history of Western civilization's shamanic lineage...
...to retrieve a living connection to our ancestral wisdom.
A "historical soul-retrieval" for the Western lineage.
The shamanic archetype is universal. Every culture and every civilization has its own expression of it.
And Western civilization has its own indigenous shamanic tradition.
But Western civilization also has a murderously anti-shamanic spirit living at its foundations.
And this murderously anti-shamanic spirit has persecuted Western civilization's shamanic impulse relentlessly for the past 2000 years.
In order to connect ourselves in the 21st century to our unbroken chain of ancestral shamanic wisdom, we need to go back to the origins of our lineage, and trace its evolution through its traumatic history...
...pinpointing exactly what happened... when... how... by whom... and what effect this had on further development.
Just as you cannot heal wounds that are still festering in the unconscious...
...you cannot heal ancestral wounds if you don't know the history.
So this course will illuminate the map for the healing work that needs to be done...
...and put you in a position to play a part in the redemption of Western civilization's heavy karma...
...and the transformation of a tragic history into a hopeful future.
To get a taste of what this course is about, you can watch an overview of the soul-retrieval operation right here (on this same enrollment page).
Assignment:
Research and trace your ancestral lineage, and the accompanying shamanic/spiritual traditions. Find out what happened to the shamanic impulse in your ancestral line. What traumas still haunt? What wounds remain unhealed? What injustice remains un-vindicated?
*Launching in 2022*
Prerequisites: Complete MSS 100, 101, 102, 103, 104.
Having illuminated the map of ancestral healing...
...both in your personal ancestry...
...and in the folk-soul of Western civilization in general...
...you will now proceed to actually carry out shamanic healing work on what you've dug up.
Using the principles of shamanic journeying, you will act as a healing bridge between the redemptive knowledge you're gathering in the present, and the unhealed traumas of the past.
You will work in the present to gather the medicine...
...and then you'll journey down the ancestral lines to share the medicine with the ghosts of the past...
...starting with your parents, then your grandparents, then your great grandparents.
And onward, back in time, as far back as you can go...
...going back, digging into the past.
You will work in the present to gather spiritual power and enlist your higher guides...
...and then you'll journey down the ancestral lines to repair the damage that was done.
You will work in the present to gather your light, your love, your hope, your compassion, your capacities to forgive...
...and then you'll journey down the ancestral lines to share it with those who lost their light, their love, their hope, and could not forgive the injustices.
You will gather all the good fruits of your inner work in the program so far...
...and share it with all that has come before you.
Just as you can heal so much of your own traumas by reframing your narrative in a redemptive light...
...you can also heal ancestral trauma by reframing the history in a redemptive light.
This course has the potential to set yourself free of the past, and to set your ancestors free also.
Assignment:
Carry out a series of redemptive soul-retrievals and liberating rituals on behalf of your ancestral line, starting with your parents, and going as far back as you are able.
*Launching in 2022*
Prerequisites: Complete MSS 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105.
In order to be connected to the Western lineage, it's essential to establish a connection to the two crucial 20th century links in the chain: Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner.
This course is an in-depth investigation of Jung as a prototypical “modern western shaman” and the first truly “modern” soul scientist.
You’ll see why he is the first elder of the school and the key to unlocking the Western shamanic lineage for the modern seeker.
You’ll learn the magical connection between shamanism, alchemy, psychology, and mythology, so you can harness this timeless wisdom to guide your own initiatory journey.
You’ll explore the deeper significance of THE RED BOOK, what it means in the context of cultural and spiritual history, and why it is monumentally significant for us as Westerners.
You’ll unlock the golden chain of “Hermetic wisdom” that connects us from Jung, back through the European alchemists, earlier back through the syncretism of Alexandrian Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, middle eastern Gnosticism, and even earlier, to the great Initiates of the Mysteries of the ancient world.
When you unlock the deeper significance of Jung, the primeval wisdom of the ancients becomes available to you… but it will be available in a way that is readily applicable to your day-to-day life in 2020 and beyond.
Assignment:
Read Jung's autobiography, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", write a book report.
*Launching in 2023*
In the 21st century, it's essential to connect the work of the two 20th century links in the golden chain:
Jung and Steiner
Soul Science and Spiritual Science
If Jung's work can be unified with Steiner's work, the Western lineage of shamanic wisdom can rebirthed in the 21st century in a renewed, healed, and illuminated form.
But most people don't know Rudolf Steiner's work, and don't understand why it is so tremendously important (and essential) for Western shamanic individuals.
So this is a course to introduce Steiner's important place in the golden chain of Western shamanic wisdom...
...and to introduce you to the "golden thread" of his vast body of work.
In the 21st century, the synthesis of Jung and Steiner is the single most important alchemical operation that can take place in the Western lineage...
...and this course will give you the groundwork to take part in this important evolution of Western spiritual wisdom.
Assignment:
Read a "golden thread" selection of Steiner's work, that will be provided.
*Launching in 2023*
To take control of your initiatory process, you need to consciously understand what is going on within you.
In this course, you will study the spiritual anatomy of your higher bodies - the bodies that carry out shamanic work, and that make it possible for your Divine Higher Self to incarnate through your ego.
You will dive into a study of:
- your astral body / soul body
- your ego, and it’s indispensable role in the modern initiatory process
- your etheric body (pranic body, body of vital life force)
- your Higher Self, how it is formed through alchemical inner work
- the alchemical mechanisms and dynamics of how your ego works upon your astral body to incarnate your Higher Self
- and how your higher Higher Self imprints on your etheric body to form your immortal body
- the relationship between your higher bodies and your shamanic capacities
- the “imprinting process” that takes place during initiation
- what makes the difference between a fruitful initiation and an “initiatory miscarriage”
- the principles of spiritual evolution over multiple lifetimes, and what happens to your higher bodies through life, death, and through reincarnation
- how the fruits of initiation in this lifetime are carried over into your next life.
This will be a basic introduction to the Spiritual Science imparted by Rudolf Steiner. For those who are familiar with Steiner but could never crack that nut, this will be a refreshing and practical approach. And for those who have never heard of Steiner or his work, this will be an ideal introduction.
Here, we will establish the crucial concepts to bridge Steiner’s SPIRITUAL SCIENCE to Jung’s SOUL SCIENCE - and if you can accomplish this bridging, the splendour of the Western esoteric lineage will become readily available to you.
You will learn why and how inner work leads to the manifestation of your Higher Self, and you’ll understand in a precise and conscious way what, up until now, you have likely had to understand intuitively, or within the framework of Eastern spirituality or New Age teachings.
In addition to a bridge between Steiner and Jung, this course will give you a bridge between the spiritual wisdom of the East, and the spiritual wisdom of the West.
Many of your experiences up until now will start making a lot more sense in light of this introduction to the occult science of initiation. You will even begin learning about some of the deepest mysteries of the Western esoteric lineage… in an easy to understand way that you can apply directly to your personal work on a daily basis.
Assignment:
Scientifically assess your initiatory alchemy thus far, and make suggestions for improvements and future progress.
*Launched and available*
Prerequisites: Complete MSS 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108.
You will be doing many forms of inner work in this program. So this course gives you a diverse range of techniques and practices to engage in this inner work fruitfully.
Best of all, these techniques are so versatile that you can practice them even if you only have 5 minutes a day to devote to them.
Consider this a crash course in practical alchemy for daily life.
You will learn:
- How to keep a sacred soul journal
- How to work effectively with your dreams
- How to use 'active imagination' for healing, transformation, and personal development
- How to harness your creativity for therapeutic art and self-discovery
- How to do powerful and magical mandala work
- How to harness the power of mythology in daily life
- How to interpret synchronicities and subtle guidance
- Basic alchemical principles of relationships and sexuality
- Shadow work as a daily discipline
- How to recognize and wield the alchemical magic of the day-to-day
This will fill your shamanic, alchemical “utility belt” so you will have a wide array of tools for the work ahead.
Through these techniques, you will unlock the guiding function of the psyche, so you can receive and implement what’s coming through your subconscious most effectively.
The guidance wants to come through, but if you learn these techniques, you will help it come through much more clearly, loudly, powerfully.
"Soul Tending as a Daily Practice" is ideal for those who have a busy life, without much time to devote to the inner work of the program.
These “daily practices” are very versatile, an can be fit in virtually any time. You just need 10 minutes a day.
This effort works constantly toward manifesting new increments of your Higher Self, ongoing soul-retrieval, and transforming the unconscious psyche into consciously empowered forces of your “I AM”.
Assignment:
Create and maintain a "Soul Tending Journal"
*Launching in 2023*
It's 2022, and it's a wild world out there!
You are currently living in a culture that is permeated by all manner of sorcery and dark magic, which works to confuse you, distract you, ensnare your soul, steal your power, and trick you into believing the endless parade of deceptions.
At such a time as this, it is especially important to fortify yourself against the toxic energies and dark magical influences oozing through your environment and seeping through your computer screen...
...so you can be strong, healthy, happy, hopeful, and all the more effective in your efforts to help others...
...and so you can defend yourself against the negative forces that are becoming increasingly powerful in modern Western culture.
In this course, you will learn the first steps to spiritual self-defence in a modern urban society: Purifying the Soul Body (astral body) and strengthening the Ego-Will.
You will learn about the shamanic principles of modern sorcery and spiritual warfare, so you can learn how to avoid unnecessary entanglement, and protect yourself, your light, and your precious time and energy.
You will take a complete inventory of all the ways in which your habits and “soul diets” are weakening the spiritual core of your being and damaging your Soul Body (Astral Body).
You will (if you want) devise your own ascetic practices to
- heal and purify your mind-body-soul-spirit
- give profound strength to the willpower of your conscious “I AM”
- and imbue your astral body (your shamanic working body) with more integrity and solidity
And you will (if you want) receive crucial support from our TA’s and fellow students, so you can better hold yourself accountable.
In this course, you will develop a personalized practice (and program) of asceticism that allows you to live effectively and powerfully IN the modern world (in the throes of crisis) as a source of healing and hope.
Your efforts will work toward gaining control over your mind, your passions, your instincts, and turning your higher bodies into effective shamanic instruments.
With the practices you develop in this course, you can also prepare for:
- serious initiatory work, such as entheogenic ceremony
- working safely and fruitfully with shamanic medicines / plant teachers
And you’ll learn techniques for PRESERVING the healing you’ve worked so hard to attain.
Assignment:
Assess your bad habits. Create and carry out an ascetic (spiritual warrior) program for healing, purification, self-preservation, and spiritual empowerment during these times of crisis.
*Launching in 2023*
- Know Thy Higher Self
- Heal and Illuminate Thy Lower Self
- Know Thy Higher Purpose
- Accomplish Thy Higher Purpose
- Heal and Rectify Thy Ancestral Lineage
- Heal and Redeem Thy Ancestors
- Heal and Regenerate Thy Culture
Over the 12 courses in this curriculum, each of which draws on the 4 pillars of the school, you will undergo profound psycho-spiritual transformation.
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