The Channeling Project

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On Pain

Have you ever noticed that you rarely experience pain leaving the body? We always notice when there is pain, and often notice the onset of pain, but we almost never notice pain leaving. One of the primary benefits of meditation is the dawning awareness of the shifting nature of existence. Emotions, thoughts, feelings arise in the mind, are present, and then dissipate. This is the nature of physical reality. Ebb and flow. Expansion and contraction. By resting in meditation and observing ourselves we are able to perceive the subtle shifting nature of our moment to moment existence. Pain is a powerful tool for your meditative exploration. We have a strong relationship with pain. An outsized relationship with pain. Pain is loud in our consciousness. We are very aware when it is present. But the lack of pain is quiet. The lack of pain, being a lack, is rarely noticed. Therefore an unexamined mind assumes that pain, because of its loudness, is bigger, lasts longer, and is stronger than it really is. We spend much more of our lives out of pain than in it. But we rarely notice the lack of something. The lack of an emotion. The lack of a feeling. And so we get the weights and measures all wrong. Pain is a presence in our lives. Like a person we have a relationship with. We remember it. We mark it. We talk about it. About its importance, about what it said to us, what it did to us, how it treated us. But pain is rarely present in our lives at all. If you think about one day, a 24 hour long day, and you consider how many of those hours are taken up with thoughts of pain, you will see that it is relatively few. In our worst moments we may experience a cumulative hour or 2 of pain. But that leaves 22 more hours (and often more) where pain is not present. Where something else is present. Where peace is present. Or over thinking is present. Or relaxation. Or focus. Or sleep. Or drifting. Or where nothing that we can identify is present. Why do we not notice this? Why do we not have a relationship with our friend lack of pain? We don’t notice this lack because we are often participating in life rather than attempting to understand it. We don’t notice this lack because we are creating, or sleeping, or dreaming, or being. In fact we often call pain back to us because we miss its presence. Because we expect it to be there. Because we feel lonely. We may come to the realization that we haven’t been feeling any pain in quite a while—an hour or 2 or more—but we expect its return and so we invite it back into our body, into our consciousness. It is powerful to notice this. Without judgement. To explore your relationship with pain. To understand the stories you tell about your pain. Is pain a boogeyman? Is pain an old friend? Does pain get you what you think you want? Sympathy from others? A sense of justification for yourself? How will that shift when you realize that you spend more time out of pain than in? When you begin to understand the ever shifting nature of physical existence—its impermanence—your relationship to your moments begins to shift too. Pain may be present, but you become aware that it will not always be so. Your old friend will leave as he always does. What happens then? Will you miss him? Will you celebrate his absence? The truth is that you will rarely notice. Pain will leave and you will not notice his going. Pain will be gone and you will not even miss him. Until you remember that you haven’t felt your pain in quite a while. Until you call him back to you. Noticing the shifting nature of your experience, the coming and going of pain, provides you with powerful understanding. When you begin to notice pain’s absence you will see that you are not your pain. You will see that pain is not what you thought it was. You will understand that pain is not an old friend. Pain is simply information. Pain is simply a sensation. Pain can be a sign on a door you keep closed. Pain can guide you to places you have forgotten to look. Pain can show you where you hold parts of yourself hidden away. Where you contort and clench. Trying to hide. When you change your relationship to pain, you can begin to meet yourself. All of yourself. Pain is not your friend. Pain is not your enemy. Listen to your pain without judgement. Without wanting it to go. Without wanting it to stay. And it will guide you to yourself.

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On Sin

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Sin is a technology Used in separation and limitation   Nothing more Sins are not evil Evil is just an idea A way of interpreting the pain that is felt while in the act of sinning The pain felt in sin is not an evil It is the feeling of a closed heart Closing the heart requires constant effort A clenching and an armoring This is the only way to achieve the illusion of separation The heart is what connects us It is the sensory organ through which we feel our other bodies It is the sensory organ through which we understand our connection That we are one thing Not many Sin is a condensation of fear Sin is fear distilled into unmeetable want and desire Sin is the seed around which aspects of our egoic self coalesce Sin allows us to feel the illusion of lack It allows us to manifest the idea of lack into physical form Into the dream that is our perception of reality We can only pretend to lack when we forget truth Sin is a tool for forgetting A tool we have mastered

It is time to understand sin It is time to face your sins Without denial or recrimination To see sin for what it truly is With love and respect for your expertise With awareness of your mastery With acceptance With release

The era of sin has come to its end Awareness is dawning It is time to open your eyes And your hearts To set down old tools To explore new ones

Love your sins Love the sinner Love yourself And remember

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On Entanglement

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you are already in a new phase of your development you are already experiencing new realities and living in new bodies your tasks now are to de-habituate to notice when you are living/seeing/perceiving based on old rules to be aware when you are trying to tell your old stories these old stories are sticky they have aligned themselves with you and you must untangle them from your consciousness from your ego mind this process is not difficult nor is it inherently uncomfortable imagine that the threads of these stories have curled and wrapped themselves around you like seaweed wrapped around your limbs when you swim like spiderwebs that you step into that cling to your skin the first step is to notice that you are entangled not to continue to pretend that these threads of habit are you that the patterns are your body and consciousness notice the tickle of their touch it will be easy to notice them you will feel telltale sensations of these habits you have named these sensations you call them anxieties little fears that are not associated with any real threat this is a tactile sign that you have become entangled with a pattern with a story that is asking you to tell it when you worry about what will happen to you when you worry about not having enough when you worry about lack stop and breath and ask yourself “what is my current reality?” “am I currently being threatened?” “am I currently lacking?” “am I starving?” “am I deprived?” the answer will always be no in each moment we always have what we need then why do you fear? why do you feel your anxieties? because you are experiencing a story that desires to be told because you are experiencing a habit because you are projecting that story of yourself into the future and in that imagined future you are lacking this is the tickle the sign that you have become entangled when you feel it stop breath do not panic feel your sensations your anxiety and fear but look around and see that you are safe see that you have what you need once you have understood this then you can use these sensations to see where you have become entangled notice the entanglement the tickle understand that it is not you understand that it is not bad or wrong understand it for what it really is just a story that desires to be told just a pattern that wants to repeat it has served you once but it does not serve you now feel around it find its edges you are not really trapped or hindered it has just wrapped itself around you slowly peel it away hold it in the light see it for what it is its gossamer threads it is not solid it cannot actually ensnare you it can only ask you to ensnare yourself when you see it without judgement when you see through it see its real structure see that it has never been you then you will be free to experience a new world

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On Envy

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What you crave is an idea of yourself A false sense of completeness If I can just have this or that then I will be whole You see others possessing what you believe you lack And you jealously covet what you believe they have What you believe you are lacking But would you trade places with them? You have to ask yourself this Not just what would be like if you had that car or that recognition or those riches To possess what another has you have to become that other You have to take on their pain Their suffering Their burdens You would have to complete their tasks Be beholden to their agreements You would no longer be yourself This is envy It is anger directed inward and upward It is resistance to being yourself It is an aspect of your forgetting You have created this path You have left nothing out All you need for your journey is here You give it to yourself It is you When you envy it is a signpost When you envy it is a guide When you envy it reveals your fears When you envy it reveals self hatred   Envy is a violence It is self-flagellation It is denial It is self hatred Allow it to guide you to the places where you still judge yourself Where you lack self kindness and love See where you believe you are not enough Where you fall short Where you fail And fiercely love those shortcomings Fiercely love your failed aspects They are you They are beautiful They are the parts of you calling out for comfort and care Hatred will always lead you back to love If you allow it to guide you If you do not deny it If you do not pretend it away If you do not hide it It is you Crying out to be seen See yourself Completely And love all you find

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On Paths

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Each of us is on a path. A chosen path. A path that leads back to the heart of creation.   A path of awakening.

None of us are lost. As much as it may appear so. As much as we may wish to believe so.

The part of us that wishes it is necessary to be lost. Has been necessary to be lost. That it is possible to be lost. Has forgotten.  

Forgetting is a tool. Like sleeping and dreaming.

The part of us that can’t see the path. The part that thinks it knows truth. The sleeper. The dreamer. It pretends that by being superior, by being outraged, by being better, moral, good, through suffering and pessimism, that it knows. That it sees.

Our thoughts pretend they lead us on the path. Pretend that they chart the course. That they lead us to our salvation. But thoughts are limits. The thinking part of us, the logic and language and memory part of us, it cannot lead, it can only interpret, it can only take in, record, make a record of what has been, what has already unfolded.

This part of us—we shall call it our egoic self—it is the recorder of experience. It is the part of us that puts experience into words, into storage, into cells and patterns. The egoic self interprets and records the journey. It does not chart the journey. It does not lead. It always follows.

When we inhabit our ego, and call it “I”,  it pretends to lead, but it can only draw upon what it has already experienced to claim what will happen next. And so these are the stories it tells. When something completely new and different to our experience happens and our egoic self has nothing to compare it to, nothing to categorize it by, we often don’t remember the new experience, we often pretend it did not occur, we are often unaware that something new has transpired.

Stories told forward are limiters. They are frames. They are sticky. They force our experience into categories such as “struggle” or “sin” or “lack” or “good” and “bad”. Stories told forward are clones, repeats, of stories that have already been told. They cannot be new. They can only evolve.

As we have said, this was a necessary technology of the first phase of living in physical reality—forgetting, pretending, hiding, storytelling, categorizing. So that we could explore duality. So that we could explore division and limits.

We have entered a new phase of experience. We continue on the path to awakening. With enhanced awareness. We are awakening from the illusion of separation. So that we may experience something new. So that we may record the experience of what it is to wake.

It is important for this phase of the journey to expand your sense of self. To realize that there are parts of you that have been denied. That have been ignored. That you pretended did not exist.

You are not our ego. Nor you thoughts. Nor you feelings. They are tools of experience. You are the path maker, the path taker, and the path. You are an aspect of all that is. You are more and less than you think. You have new/old technologies available to you. Explore them. Experiment with them. Use them to perceive the newness that unfolds all around you.

Trust them. Entrust them. Set aside the old tools—for now—so that you may explore the possibilities in the new ones. Set aside your desire for storytelling and be open to the radical, to the unexpected, to the new.

You are never lost. You have never been lost. But you are not going where you think.

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On Questions

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You already know The answers to all your questions They are there in your body In silence In the world you create

When you feel plagued by a question When you feel consumed by a question When you feel lost Ask yourself Why am I afraid of knowing the truth What do I pretend to hide What do I pretend not to know Where is the fear The anger The judgement That I hide from myself

Allow yourself to see this judgement clearly Unearth it and hold if out in front of you Turn it in your hands to see all its sides Understand its form and structure See its beauty The beauty of its construction Its making It was made with your own small hands With love and care And hidden away Buried Because it scared you This part of yourself that you judged Because you hoped hiding it would keep you safe Because you weren’t ready to know Because there was more to do

It is just a construct A thing that you made A beautiful little idea That helped you pretend 
 That encouraged you to turn away from your light  Which was too much For new made eyes

But you can see now   Whenever you wish Put down your judgements Turn your head There are answers there In your light

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On Expectations

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The greatest gift you can give the world in this moment is to release it from your expectations You are here to experience the unfolding of existence To discover and explore

Expectations create repeating iterations Patterns that tesselate across your physical reality Allowing you to explore nuances in your lived experience To repeat your experiences   With space for small changes To allow evolution to occur     So that you can experience all the details of the unfolding of the pattern   In all its nuances And become experts in its shape and form

This was a tool that was employed to explore limitation and separation It enabled you to experience struggle, lack, and deprivation So that you could explore all the stories related to these concepts These stories required certain parts be played Victims and villains were required for the stories to properly unfold Playing these roles enabled you to explore every different aspect of the limit For these roles to be played properly you had to forget who and what you were You had to pretend that you were separate from each other You had to imagine that one could have and another could not You had to imagine that reality was finite You had to pretend to lack

This work has been completed Across many different timelines you have played out the near infinite stories of limitation, separation, and lack You are experts in duality And now it is time for new explorations For new discoveries It is time for you to begin to remember Who you are What you are Why you are here How you serve

Your expectations are seductive They are habitual and repetitive They ask the others around you to play roles To pretend to be victim or villain To pretend to want or need   They require you to pretend To be less than what you are They require you to pretend to forget They require you to pretend that you don’t know truth

It is time to stop pretending To remember To awaken To set aside old tools 
To pick up new ones To create new stories

You are all divine You are all aspects of the one You are all doing work that is required

Release the world from your expectations And free yourself to create a new one

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On Masculine and Feminine Energies

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The biggest distortion you experience is seeing one thing as two.

There are no limits other than the ones you impose upon yourself.

You have infinite capacities to create. To experience. To expand. And to contract.

For example many of you see the energy of the masculine and the energy of the feminine as two things.

Your physical reality reflects this belief back to you through the bodies of the men and women who surround you. Who you see yourself as.

This seems to reinforce your dualistic beliefs.

But look closer.

How do you delineate? Differentiate? How do you draw the boundaries? Appearance? Physiognomy? Biology? Behavior?

How many of the people around you fall easily into the category “man” and how many into the category “woman”?

When looked at closely how can you distinguish? Those aspects that “make” you men and women are tiny compared to the things that “make” you the same. Compared to the manifold differences in energy, expression, body, thought, soul that “make” you unique.  Compared to the stuff with which you are made—particles, energy, consciousness—which is indistinguishable from all that is.

Why have you made the distinction man/woman the important one? The one you use to draw a line?

You create your reality through your choices.

Beliefs are choices that you have hidden from your conscious mind.

You have a belief that a way to define yourselves is as man or woman. This belief is a choice you make.

And there is nothing wrong with that. With making choices. But choices made consciously are more in alignment than choices you have decided to pretend not to make. Unconscious choices are painful. Conscious choices are easeful.

The masculine and feminine are states of creation. Nothing more. Nothing less. They are not two separate things. Just as a bud is not different from a flower is not different from a fruit is not different from a seed is not different from a seedling is not different from a plant is not different from a bud...

All else is a choice.

Each of you has unconsciously aligned yourself with one modality or another. With one polarity or the other.

Many of you have begun to chafe at this alignment because you sense deep inside that it is not in alignment with your truth. With truth.

Each of you is masculine. Each of you is feminine. Each of you expands. Each of you contracts. It is an endless pulsing. Reaching out into the world with your energy. Bringing resources back into yourself to nurture. To grow. To change. To transform. To create. To experience. To learn. To teach.

It is only judgement that makes you want to align with one mode or the other. It is a discomfort you have decided to experience. An anger that comes from reaching out. A fear that comes from drawing within. A judgement that one feeling is easier to experience than the other. But they are just feelings. And like all states of being/of reality they shift. They flow. They pulse. They transform. From one to the other.

Make your choices. Consciously. Be who you are. Know what you are.  Receive the world’s gifts.  Give what you came to. Experience the unfolding of creation.  It is why you are here.

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my grandmother was a crow with big yellow eyes like the moon who cut me open with her black talons and put something inside of me a treasure to be found later

my grandfather was a snake yes, that snake grown old and toothless and sad who just needed to be held one more time before he could go

And like you Just like you I was forged in the fire of a billion stars An alchemical process So mundane as to be true magic

There is dirt Under my fingernails And my feet And in my blood

There is salt and iron in my blood I am a world of rivers and lighting I am seven parts of emptiness I am

A man? No not quite that

I am lost And I wander Half blind Half blinded By my own hand My grandmother would be proud Sometimes sight is too much Sometimes you have to grope your way Sometimes  

The grass under foot is wet with dew The air is thick   But cool on the skin The hum of insects The smell of rain A slow trickle of sweat Smell the rain? Somewhere up ahead Water’s dancing over rocks Somewhere up ahead There are wildflowers And bees And a big fat tree With moss grown thick around its roots And blackberry brambles And blue jays And a fox and her kits

Take another step With me We’ll do it together Oh, we’ll definitely stumble along the way Scraped knees Green purple yellow bruises The laughter that comes from falling Picking gravel out of cuts The hiss of breath through teeth   We’ll do it together All of it All of that We’ll grope our way Imagine it Berry stains on your lips Ice melt water numbing toes Lying down on a quilt of soft green To catch a quick little nap Just a quick one We’re almost there Let’s see what’s ahead

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On Tools

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you are not what you think you are not what you feel you are not your sensations you are not your logic or your intuition these are all tools that you utilize in your explorations in your artistry

you are a manifestation of the universe’s desire to know itself you are deep divers explorers artists experts in limitation masters of the illusion of separation and you are here because you chose to be

when you believe you are your thoughts (or your emotions, or your feelings) you have placed your identity into a tool you think you are a pocket watch or a computer you see only the things the pocket watch or computer would see you imagine only the things the pocket watch or computer could imagine you have limited your perspective

your thoughts are tools of perception your emotions are tools of perception your feelings and sensations are tools of perception

just that nothing more

they are powerful and useful and have served you well they give you input, keep you grounded, allow you to navigate this physical plane your tools help you create your world your tools help you explore your creations you are the masters of your tools

but you are not your tools no matter how much you wish you were you are not your thoughts or your feelings or your bodily sensations or your emotions or your beliefs

many of you have placed your I into your tools and now that we are in a place of transition where a great shift in perspective is occurring and new tools are required it can be very painful and frightening to set the old tools down because it can feels as if you will have to set aside yourself but you are not setting aside yourself you are setting aside old tools that you have already mastered so that you may pick up new ones so the you may master them so that you may create a new world and explore it

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On Endings

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When an agreement between souls has concluded, there is grace and power in finding gratitude in the shared journey and in letting go with love and appreciation. This is not always easy for us to do. Especially when anger and sadness roils like a storm. On the other side of that storm is stillness and the smell of new growth. Storms can uproot trees and redirect rivers. Sometimes old growth needs to be cleared away. But we still miss sitting in the shade. Remember the shade with love, but do not ignore the new shoots breaking through the wet earth. They will soon grow to be trees too.

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on fear

fear was a powerful tool in this experiment of individuality and separation it enabled you to pretend to be small it enabled you to pretend to be you fear was the tool you used to solidify yourself to differentiate between you and the world between you and the other with fear you created the illusion of a boundary a me a them an us a they fear is the grit at the center of the pearl it is the dust around which forms the rain or the hail

a cloud floats above its nature is water but it has no singular form it has no drop there is no I in the cloud the cloud needs something to become rain the cloud needs a particle of dust to coalesce around it needs a concept an idea a belief   in order for the undifferentiated water-ness of its existence to become a drop to become many drops to solidify and to fall

that was fear

if you focus you can feel it at work in you fear holding you rigid fear holding you together fear making you solid fear of the other fear of being unseen fear of being lost fear of being taken from

the structure of a drop is defined by its surface but it is still of the cloud it sinks into the earth or joins a river its structure changes then but it is still of the cloud eventually the drop will evaporate its structure will change again to rejoin the cloud

that is you

fear is a powerful technology you used it to become a drop to pretend to be separate to briefly forget your nature to see yourself as your structure not your essence

but there are other technologies available to you other tools that can help you with this work you no longer need to fear to pretend to be separate

you can choose you can know you can be both a drop and a cloud you can understand your structure and your nature together denying neither

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On Splitting

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you have spent so much time atomizing yourselves splitting yourselves into different parts i am this i am that one part for home one part for work one part for love one part for hate this was necessary work but the time has come for integration to realize that this atomization this splitting is just an illusion you are not one thing nor are you all these things together you are both more and less than you think / perceive yourself to be when you say there is one part of you that is only allowed to come out while you are home and there’s another part for work and another for your family and another for your friends you are splitting and fracturing yourself and this fracturing is painful now please don’t misunderstand we do not ascribe to the concepts of good or evil pain is not a bad thing pain is merely a message that something within you is misaligned pain is your way of feeling the splitting because when you imagine yourself as many different things rather than what you are you have moved away from truth and the further you are from truth the less aligned you are when you split yourself into many parts pain is the natural response you have committed a violence against yourself and your identity   again, we caution you not to fill up the word violence with any additional meanings one of the tools you have used for this violence is judgement this part of me is good this part of me is bad this part can be revealed this part must be hidden away judgment is like the wedge used to split wood you work it down into the seams of yourself trying to find differences trying to identify what the parts are where the good parts end and the bad parts begin and then you use the sledgehammer of decision to separate the parts this act must be a violence force is required to separate what was never intended to be separated because, you see, there are no seams these “parts” were never intended to be separate and the places where you saw seams exist only in your judgement in your belief in your choice when you can see all of that clearly without applying further judgement without hiding from yourself without attempting additional splitting when you can understanding the ways you have decided that some parts of you are good and some parts are bad and that you have decided these parts are distinctly different from each other when you can do this see this clearly hold all these scattered parts of you in your heart and laugh? you will have begun the process of integration of healing and your pain will fade

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Surrender

Surrender to your despair. Feel it. Acknowledge it. Descend into it. To learn why you wish to despair. Why you wish to pretend. To be at the mercy. To be powerless. Where do you still crave powerlessness? Where is too frightening to go? Where are you afraid to enter. In your self.

Right now many of you are despairing because you feel that a single man can hold back the tide. Because you feel that we are one person away from chaos. From the seduction of the fire. And that with that fire will come death. And with that death will come emptiness. And with that emptiness you will cease to be.

We are asking you to look deeply into the face of all your fears. Because when you do you will only see yourself. You will only see yourself. Yourself.

You have created all of this. Not to further or punish yourself. Not because you deserve it. Not because it is real or true. But because why? When you can answer that question you will be ready to release your attachments to your fears. To your despair. And you will be free. But not free in the way you think. Not free of caring. You will care deeply. Not free of responsibility. You will see that you are responsible for everything. For everyone. Not free of life or action or engagement. You will see that you are freed up to act as you truly wish. Act as you have always wished. Engage in all the ways that you have aligned yourself.

This fear is about you first. And the world second. The world is not triggering this fear. Your fear is creating the world. You feel powerless and wish you could control another because you falsely see that that other can give you what you want. But why don’t you give you what you want? What stops you? What belief or identity holds you back? When you can answer that question you will know yourself. And when you know yourself you will understand who and what you are. You will know why you’ve come. You will understand how you serve.

Your service is not in despair.

Your service is not fear.

Your service is creative. Generative. Connecting. Loving. Opening.

You don’t need any of the things you believe you do. You do not need any of the people you believe you do. You don’t need a savior. You are the savior. You don’t need a father. You are the creator. You don’t need a god. You are the gods.

Stop pretending you are not.

Stop pretending.

Stop.

And listen to yourself.  Your heart. Your fear. Your despair. It is your creation. And it is beautiful and perfect. And when you can see it as yours and yours alone you can finally set it down and create something anew.

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