Evolution of the Universe

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The main topic of mindfulness discussion in the fourth class on Mindfulness Course is EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE.

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THE CREATION

  1. The attributes of this universe are simply there as perceived by us. We perceive interactions among these attributes. We see these interactions producing new attributes.

  2. We basically perceive a CHANGE flanked by cause and effect. These “changes” appear in chain, or as a network. We do not perceive some “absolute nothing” before change.

  3. A CHANGE is always from a relative nothing to something. This applies to any idea of creation. A creation is basically a change.

  4. The idea that “God created this world” can only mean that God evolved into this world. God and this world is, therefore, a single system called the universe.

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THE EVOLUTION OF MATTER

  1. In this universe, the forms appear; they survive; and then they perish giving way to new forms. All forms perish ultimately. No form survives forever.

  2. It appears that the goal is to bring order into chaos, and not to seek immortality for some particular form. The dynamic principle of existence, therefore, seems to be evolution and not mere survival.

  3. In evolution, discreteness arises from continuous background. That background is continuous space. Discreteness arises as frequency of electromagnetic energy, which evolves into resonances of electrons, and then into particles of nucleons. Particles then form larger discrete objects.

  4. Just because discrete objects appear separate from each other, it does not mean that they are not connected at the fundamental level of energy and space. As an abstraction, whole numbers appear to be discrete, but they are connected by fractions and irrational numbers on a continuous number line.

  5. The universe, thus, remains a vast single continuous system no matter how chaotic it appears.

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THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE

  1. The RNA and DNA molecules have enough electrons to acquire the property of programmable circuits. Life begins as these circuits acquire natural programming that leads to animation.

  2. Life is the property of natural animation. It is manifested in material structures called cells. Cells are the building blocks of living organisms.

  3. The living organism and all its attributes are part of the universe. The attributes seem to be harmoniously integrated. However, we categorize them as physical and metaphysical.

  4. The physical attributes characterize the body of the organism. The metaphysical attributes characterize the animation of the organism, and are further characterized as the mind and spirit of the organism.

  5. We may consider the universe to be a living organism. The physical attributes manifest as the form of the universe. The metaphysical attributes manifest as the mind and spirit of the universe, which may be identified as God.

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THE EVOLUTION OF THINKING

  1. In inanimate objects, the “thinking” is in terms of reaction. By reaction is meant, that there is only one option in how to respond to some stimuli.

  2. As animation enters into the picture, the reaction expands into a series of responses. This is the case with plant life. Multiple optional responses to the same stimuli are still lacking.

  3. When there is more than one option on how to respond to same stimuli, then we have analytical thinking. Such thinking seems to appear with animal life. Here we see the organisms of the same specie responding differently to the same stimuli.

  4. There is greater analytical thinking at the level of highly evolved animal life. But it is not random. There seems to be a consistency associated with it.

  5. Analytical can be seen as the result of enhanced biological programming, which initially brought about animation.

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THE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE

  1. Biological programming, at its highest level, is able to modify itself based on the feedback. This ability manifests as intelligence at the level of humans.

  2. Intelligence is the ability to recognize differences, similarities and identities. It takes decision on the basis of observing things as they are. This is the highest level of evolution so far.

  3. However, this intelligence can easily be suppressed by force and reduced to analytical, and then reactive thinking. A person remains in these lower modes of thinking when stressed.

  4. Further evolution may lead to intelligence that is robust and immune to stress. For this to occur, the current intelligence needs to understand its own evolution.

  5. Intelligence goes back to analytical thinking to reactive thinking to some fundamental alignment, which precipitates from chaos. There seems to be some sort of settling down or reaching of equilibrium.

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THE LAW OF EQUILIBRIUM

  1. There seems to be a Law of Equilibrium as the fundamental law of the universe. A form of this law appears as the law of entropy in Thermodynamics.

  2. It is the Law of Equilibrium that brings about the evolution from “static reactivity” of material objects, to “animated reactivity” of plant life, to “analytical thinking” of animal life, to “intelligence” of humans.

  3. Looking on the cosmic scale, there was no intelligence at the beginning of the universe. The idea, “There was intelligence at the beginning in the form of God,” seems to be subjective. There seems to be only the Law of Equilibrium in the beginning.

  4. The infinity of GOD has evolved from the zero of the Law of Equilibrium, which Buddha called NIRVANA.

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Now we shall be looking more closely at the human existence.

The Universal Context

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Previous: Confusion and Faith
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The main topic of mindfulness discussion in the third class on Mindfulness Course is UNIVERSAL CONTEXT. We take up this topic because confusion can be completely eliminated only in the universal context.

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SUBJECTIVE & OBJECTIVE

  1. Faith helps align the confusions in life. The wider is the context of faith the greater order it brings to life.

  2. There are uncountable narrow personal contexts. Faiths, which are limited to those contexts, bring order only within those contexts. Faith limited to narrow personal context is SUBJECTIVE.

  3. When expanded, narrow contexts converge to the same universal context. Faith that is valid throughout the universal context brings complete order. Such universally broad faith is OBJECTIVE.

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THE SCOPE OF UNIVERSAL CONTEXT

  1. By definition, the universal context includes everything. There is nothing beside the universal context.

  2. The universal context shall include multiverses, parallel universes, the physical universe and even the gods or God.

  3. Thus, the universal context includes all attributes, physical and metaphysical.

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THE ORIENTATION POINT OF THE UNIVERSE

  1. The universal context increases in attributes with evolution. We may, therefore, have a scale of universal attributes that goes from zero to infinity.

  2. The reference point of “zero attributes” is theoretical because absolute nothingness does not exist. This reference-point is useful in measuring evolution on a universal scale.

  3. This universe is continually changing physically and metaphysically. No form in it survives forever. Therefore, it is always in motion.

  4. We may, therefore, call the reference point of this universe, STATIC, which will be a point of no motion. All motion in the universe shall be relative to this static. All attributes of the universe shall converge to static.

  5. The STATIC of no attributes shall act as the orientation point for the universe of infinite attributes.

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NIRVANA AND GOD

  1. Nirvana in Buddhism is expressed as accessing that “still center” around which the self is built. Attaining nirvana literally means “blowing out, extinction, disappearance”. It implies that no attributes are left. We may identify nirvana with the STATIC described above.

  2. God is generally described in terms of omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), divine simplicity, and as having an eternal and necessary existence. We may identify God with infinite attributes – the other end of the scale described above.

  3. We may put all the physical attributes in the category of the physical universe; and all the metaphysical attributes in the category of God. But these categories are for convenience only. In actuality, all the physical and metaphysical attributes are well-integrated.

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In the next class we shall look at the evolution of the universe.

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Confusion & Faith

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The main topic of mindfulness discussion in the second class on Mindfulness Course is CONFUSION & FAITH. We start with this topic because it is something common to all our experience.

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CONFUSION & STABLE DATUM

  1. Confusion is natural. It appears in the universe as chaos. The process of evolution converts this chaos into order. 

  2. Confusion is common to all our experience. Bringing order to this confusion helps us evolve. That is what life is all about.

  3. To speed up our own evolution it is important to understand the concept of confusion. 

  4. Confusion is RANDOM MOTION. An example would be the swirling confetti that is falling from above. It is very difficult to track down each and every piece of that confetti.

  5. If you can hold on to just one piece of confetti, you can then track the motion of all other confetti relative to it. Therefore, in order to start handling confusion, you must find something that is stable, and which you can hold on to.

  6. FAITH acts as that stable datum to which you can align the confusing data of life. The faith does not have to be correct or true. It just have to be relatively stable. Thus, people do acquire all kind of strange faiths.

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FAITH & UNIVERSAL CONTEXT

  1. The stability of faith depends on the context to which it appiles. A faith may be workable in a limited context, but not in a different or larger context. The larger is the context to which a faith applies, the better it is.

  2. To bring better order to life, one needs to examine and upgrade one’s faith continually so that it is workable within larger contexts. One can always improve upon one’s faith.

  3. The best faith is that which can be held constant in the largest context possible, which is the UNIVERSE.

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In the next class we shall discuss the nature of the universal context, or the UNIVERSE.

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Dianetics Axioms & Glossary

Reference: Scientology Research

The Dianetics Axioms

L. Ron Hubbard found that man is obeying very definite laws and rules which could be set forward in axioms. The very first and most fundamental of these is: The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That is the basic axiom of Dianetics.

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Dianetics Axioms 1 – 15

Dianetics Axioms 16 – 30

Dianetics Axioms 31 – 45

Dianetics Axioms 46 – 60

Dianetics Axioms 61 – 75

Dianetics Axioms 76 – 90

Dianetics Axioms 91 – 105

Dianetics Axioms 106 – 120

Dianetics Axioms 121 – 135

Dianetics Axioms 136 – 150

Dianetics Axioms 151 – 165

Dianetics Axioms 166 – 180

Dianetics Axioms 181 – 194

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Glossary

STATIC
Scientifically, static is the motionless reference point from which all motion can be assessed, just like all numbers can be assessed from the reference point of zero. The reasoning is that one can become fully aware of all motion from a motionless reference point. However, Scientology considers static to be a motionless AGENT that can control all motion. Thus, Scientology postulates anthropomorphic properties for the static.

LIFE
The essence of life is a form having inherent motion. Even light has inherent motion, and electron too. Both light and electron are, therefore, elementary forms of life. As life starts to evolve its inherent motion starts to become increasingly complex and self-animated.

LIFE STATIC
(See Static) In Scientology, the life static is postulated as the source of life. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive. It is concerned wholly with motion. It mobilizes and animates matter into living organisms. Thus, it is engaged in a conquest of the physical universe. It does so by by learning and applying the physical laws of the physical universe.

SURVIVE
In Scientology, the Life static has for its dynamic goal, survival and only survival. Optimum survival behavior consists of effort on the dynamics in accordance with the natural laws. Life is surviving with the purpose to evolve. The inherent motion, or self-animation, of life is always evolving towards greater complexity.

PHYSICAL UNIVERSE
In Scientology, the physical universe is the universe of matter, energy, space and time. The Life static is not an integral part of it; instead it impinges upon it as life. However, spirituality appears to be an integral part of the universe because the universe is made up of substance with inherent motion.

THETA
(See Life Static) The Greek letter THETA is the symbol assigned to LIFE STATIC in Scientology. THETA is the anthropomorphic view of the concept of static. It is the SPIRITUAL AGENT which is bringing order into the chaos of the physical universe. However, THETA actually represents the resultant vector at any moment of the complex inherent motion of a life organism. Its inherent tendency is to optimize motion towards greater continuity, consistency and harmony.

LIFE ORGANISM
In Scientology, a life organism is composed of matter and energy in space and time, animated by THETA. Lower level organisms form a food chain to sustain higher level organisms. Actually, a life organism is a highly complex structure with inherent self-animation, that depends upon optimum motion. It can assimilate complex motion in its environment and learn from it.

LAMBDA
The Greek letter LAMBDA is the symbol assigned to LIVING ORGANISM in Scientology; but it is not in much use.

PHI
The Greek letter PHI is also the symbol assigned to PHYSICAL UNIVERSE in Scientology; but it is not in much use.

MEST
MEST is the symbol assigned to PHYSICAL UNIVERSE in Scientology. This symbol is created from the first letters of the words MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE and TIME. The designation is in use.

THOUGHT
According to Scientology, thought is a kind of static, and it is accomplished by THETA FACSIMILES (please see). But thought is a very light substance that provides form to the universe. Thought appears whenever there is something that does not make sense. It follows the path of reason. The process of thought is to assimilate the incoming sensation, such that, things are perceived as they are. When this happens then correct conclusions and right actions follow.

REASON
The basic goal of reason is is to establish optimum motion. It does that by straightening out any discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony in motion. Reason fails when the attention underlying it becomes fixated.

THETA FACSIMILE
According to Scientology, a theta facsimile is a theta recording of physical universe, entities or actions. Past randomity can impose itself upon the present organism as Theta facsimiles. When theta facsimile is present, thought arises to assimilate its randomity.

EVOLUTION
In Scientology, evolution is brought about through the agency of life organisms, or theta. Evolution involves the process of optimization of motion.

MIND
In Scientology, mind is the THETA command post of an organism, and it is concerned wholly with the estimation of effort. But the mind is more like a matrix of postulates in which all postulates and motion is assimilated and optimized. The mind receives sensations from the environment. Sensations are assimilated into perceptions. Perceptions are assimilated into knowingness. 

EFFORT
All effort of the organism is force directed toward converting randomity of motion into optimum motion. The important factor is applying just the right effort to balance the counter-effort. 

COUNTER-EFFORT
Effort sensed that is not in alignment with the efforts of the organism.

RIGHTNESS
According to Scientology, rightness is proper calculation of effort. However, any “calculation” occurs by itself as motion is optimized.

WRONGNESS
According to Scientology, wrongness is always miscalculation of effort. However, any “miscalculation” occurs when fixed ideas increase the misalignment of motion.

ATTENTION
Attention is a motion which must remain at an optimum effort. Attention is aberrated by becoming unfixed and sweeping at random or becoming too fixed without sweeping.

DEATH
Death is the equivalent of life losing its complex organized motion (self-animation). Death of a life organism or its race or species is a normal aspect of continuing evolution.

RANDOMITY
Randomity is the misalignment, or disarray, of motion. It manifests as too little or too much motion as opposed to optimum motion. An area of randomity (engram, word, action, sensation) may be followed back in time to its first occurrence.

ABERRATION
Aberration exists to the degree that plus or minus randomity exists in the environment, or in the past data of an organism, group or species. Aberration is caused by what is done to the individual, not what the individual does, plus his self-determinism about what has been done to him.

SELF-DETERMINISM
Self-determinism is the inherent drive within the organism to establish optimum motion (maximal continuity, consistency and harmony). A self-determined effort proceeds from assimilated efforts.

ASSIMILATION
Every thought is preceded by unknowable sensation. Thought is used to give meaning to sensations and make all those meanings consistent with each other. This is called assimilation of sensations into perceptions. Assimilation produces optimum motion.

PAIN
Pain is the randomity produced by sudden or strong counter-efforts. It is stored as that randomity in the mental matrix. When restimulated, it can reinflict itself upon the organism. Past pain becomes ineffective upon the organism when the randomity of its area is addressed and aligned. Later areas of plus or minus randomity cannot be realigned easily until earlier areas are realigned.

ENGRAM
The engram is a severe area of plus or minus randomity of sufficient volume to cause unconsciousness. Past engrams are restimulated by the control center’s perception of circumstances similar to that engram in the present environment. Presence of engrams fix emotional responses.

UNCONSCIOUSNESS
Unconsciousness is an excess of randomity imposed by a counter-effort of sufficient force to cloud the awareness and direct function of the organism through the mind’s control center.

CONTROL CENTER
The control center is the seat of awareness generated from the inherent optimum motion of the organism. When the control center is overwhelmed by randomity, it becomes unconscious. Randomity that overcomes the control center may appear as an alternative personality. The organism is unaware of such alternative personality.

VALENCE
A valence is a facsimile personality made capable of force by the counter-effort of the moment of receipt into the plus or minus randomity of unconsciousness.

EMOTION
Free emotional response depends on optimum motion. It depends upon absence of or non-restimulation of engrams.

SENSATIONS
Sensations get assimilated as elements of mental matrix. These elements then combine to provide perceptions. Only unassimilated sensations appear as recordings. These recordings are occluded because they have not been converted to perceptions. They are perceived for the first time during the moments of their assimilation.

RESTIMULATION
Restimulation is occasioned by some part of the early recording being approximated in the environment in the present. This calls up the old area of randomity. The body, confused, registers the old counter-effort.

LANGUAGE
Language is the symbolization of effort. Language depends for its force upon the force which accompanied its definition. Fix emotional responses of theta facsimiles become part of symbols of a language. This can influence one’s thinking and behavior.

OCCLUSION
Occlusion arises from plus or minus randomity that has not been assimilated. The environment can occlude the central control of any organism and assume control of the motor controls of that organism.

INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence depends on the ability to observe discontinuity, inconsistency, or disharmony in an area of randomity and follow it up until it is resolved.

PERSISTENCE
Persistence obtains in the ability of the mind to put solutions into physical action toward the realization of goals.

NATURAL LAWS
Natural laws are the manifestation of optimum motion. The components of optimum motion are continuity, consistency and harmony.

ARBITRARY
An arbitrary factor or force is not aligned with the natural laws. The introduction of an arbitrary brings about the disharmony of plus or minus randomity.

DATA
Data of plus or minus randomity depends for its confusion on former plus or minus randomity or absent data.

BEHAVIOR
Behavior is modified by counter-efforts which have impinged on the organism. Reactions come from unassimilated sensations; whereas, learned analytical behavior comes from assimilated sensations.

AFFINITY, REALITY, COMMUNICATION
Affinity, reality and communication (ARC) are the components of the thinking and behavior of the organism. These aspects of behavior go hand-in-hand and, together, they seek oneness of all phenomena.

CONTINUITY, CONSISTENCY, HARMONY
Continuity, consistency and harmony (CCH) are the components of optimized motion.

AFFINITY
Affinity is the seeking of continuity of awareness.

REALITY
Reality is the seeking of consistency of perception.

COMMUNICATION
Communication is the seeking of harmony among all organisms and manifestations.

RECALL
The purpose of recall is to make better sense out of what is being perceived in the present to evaluate the immediate future. Ultimately, it has to do with assimilation of experience. It involves the process of reconstructing perceptions from knowingness and unassimilated sensations. An organism can recall everything which it has sensed and perceived.

SANITY
Optimum motion is manifested as sanity or rationality. The reduction in the sanity of an organism is proportional to the amount of unassimilated sensations that are reactivated in it. It means a decrease in the alignment of its motion. Therefore, any gain of aligned energy, matter or organisms increases the sanity, freedom and longevity of the organism.

FIXATION
The organism is naturally focused on future evolution. Lack of assimilation forces its attention to fixate on the present and past. The control center becoming fixated is the primary source of aberration.

AESTHETICS
Aesthetic lies in the awareness of continuity, consistency and harmony in higher level complexities of form.

DELUSION
Delusion is the outcome of misalignment of one’s postulates due to randomity in an area.

DREAM
Dreams are the resymbolization of areas of randomity and of the efforts to bring assimilation in those areas.

HAPPINESS
Happiness consists in assimilating hitherto unassimilated sensations that have been resistive. An individual as happy as he can learn new things and evolve.

ABSOLUTES
Absolute good and absolute evil do not exist in this universe. That which is good for an organism allows it to evolve, and even assists its evolution. That which is evil inhibits the organism’s ability to assimilate.

WORTH
The worth of any organism consists of its value to the evolution along any dynamic.

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Dianetics Axioms 151 – 165

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Reference: The Dianetics Axioms

L. Ron Hubbard found that man is obeying very definite laws and rules which could be set forward in axioms. The very first and most fundamental of these is: The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That is the basic axiom of Dianetics.

The original Dianetic axioms are referenced below in black.

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Axioms 151-165

DN AXIOM 151: Whether an organism has the goal of surviving or succumbing depends upon the amount of plus or minus randomity it has reactivated. (Not residual.)

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DN AXIOM 152: Survival is accomplished only by motion.

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DN AXIOM 153: In the physical universe the absence of motion is vanishment.

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DN AXIOM 154: Death is the equivalent to life of total lack of life-motivated motion.

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DN AXIOM 155: Acquisition of prosurvival matter and energy or organisms in space and time means increased motion.

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DN AXIOM 156: Loss of prosurvival matter and energy or organisms in space and time means decreased motion.

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DN AXIOM 157: Acquisition or proximity of matter, energy or organisms which assist the survival of an organism increases the survival potentials of an organism.

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DN AXIOM 158: Acquisition or proximity of matter, energy or organisms which inhibit the survival of an organism decreases its survival potential.

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DN AXIOM 159: Gain of survival energy, matter or organisms increases the freedom of an organism.

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DN AXIOM 160: Receipt or proximity of non-survival energy, matter or time decreases the freedom of motion of an organism.

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DN AXIOM 161: The control center attempts the halting or lengthening of time, the expansion or contraction of space and the decrease or increase of energy and matter.

This is a primary source of invalidation, and it is also a primary source of aberration.

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DN AXIOM 162: Pain is the balk of effort by counter-effort in great intensity, whether that effort is to remain at rest or in motion.

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DN AXIOM 163: Perception, including pain, can be exhausted from an area of plus or minus randomity, still leaving the effort and counter-effort of that plus or minus randomity.

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DN AXIOM 164: The rationality of the mind depends upon an optimum reaction toward time.

DEFINITION: Sanity, the computation of futures.
DEFINITION: Neurotic, the computation of present time only.
DEFINITION: Psychotic, computation only of past situations.

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DN AXIOM 165: Survival pertains only to the future.

COROLLARY: Succumb pertains only to the present and past.

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