March ‘19
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ISSUE 155 FREE
ALL NATURAL
BODY * MIND * SPIRIT
The Only Color that Sings
Blues
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WHITE DRAGON BOTANICALS Austin’s CBD Bud Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 BLUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL RELEASE – Alice Mar Rocher Cutting Edge NLP Breakthrough Techniques WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS? – Irma Glass AYURVEDA Body and mind harmony – Antonia Warren SPRING EQUINOX GEMSTONES – Adrienne Goff SHAMANS OF THE SOUL How to find the right coach – Bella Lavey DILEMMAS CREEP IN – Dephanie Cates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 BIOHACKING 3M Metabolism, Mitochondria, Microbiome – Michael Abedin . . . . . . 15 YOU CAN CURE YOUR TYPE II DIABETES – Dr. Lane Sebring, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 MORE THAN A DENTIST Partners in Health – Dr. Matthew Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 CHASING PARADIGMS Instead of Chasing Monkeys – Christina Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 DEAR ASHTARA – Ashtara Sasha White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 THE BIRTH OF THE AVATAR Marconics No-Touch Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Publisher/Editor
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A Letter to Our Readers
John Wayne wasn’t a real cowboy. He couldn’t sing, and his horse wasn’t smart. – Willie Nelson
Willie would know. He can sing, and his horse – a Martin N-20 guitar named Trigger, after Roy Rogers’ palomino – is pretty dang smart. Back in 1969, as a suit and tie-wearing Nashville artist, Willie’s acoustic/electric Baldwin got stepped on by a drunk at a gig. A Nashville guitar maker pronounced it DOA, gave Willie the acoustic Martin, and put the Baldwin wiring in it.
Willie brought Trigger with him to Austin in 1971.
He started growing his hair, invited Waylon down, and commenced to flat-pick a big ol’ gaping hole in Trigger, giving it a sound unlike anything. Signed by God knows who all, starting with Leon Russell, it’s outlived Roy’s Trigger – who could sit in a chair, sign his name “X” with a pencil, and was housebroken. Roy’s Trigger got taxidermied when he rode into he sunset in 1965. If he’d ever learned to play Whiskey River he might be with us still, and be on this month’s cover alongside his namesake, Willie’s Martin N-20.
-Michael Abedin
WHITE DRAGON BOTANICALS Austin’s CBD Bud Bar
by Michael Abedin
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n the West, dragons are portrayed as merciless predators, burning villages, kidnapping princesses, and sitting in caves on piles of looted treasure, smoke curling out their nose, until a brave knight slays them and lives happily ever after with the princess. In the East, however, the dragon is a wise and venerable creature, guarding only one treasure – the pearl of knowledge.
Knowledge, though, can be scary.
When it’s knowledge of a natural, non-patentable product with thousands of years of history, threatening a treasure like gazillions of dollars of income from pharmaceutical products, it’s downright terrifying. That’s the fear that’s kept hemp products from people desperately needing help with PTSD, chronic pain, epilepsy, glaucoma, depression, insomnia – the whole list would take up the rest of the page. Changes in laws, however, have spawned a new wave of small hemp businesses, including storefronts like White Dragon Botanicals, a family owned and operated Austin shop specializing in full-spectrum hemp products, Kratom, and Kava.
A quick primer.
CBD (the easy way to say cannabidiol) is one of many alkaloids in hemp, the cannabis variety that doesn’t get you high. Full-spectrum CBD has them all, but has less than .3% THC, the alkaloid that does get you high. (Not enough, though, keeping it legal and you straight.) Isolates have only CBD, and both have their merits. In addition to organic Colorado full-spectrum hemp extracts, capsules, body lotion, and vape oils, White Dragon carries: • Hemp-infused honey in jars and sticks, and (dramatic pause) chocolate chews, in case you prefer chocolate instead of a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. • Kratom, an Indonesian plant in several varieties whose leaves are traditionally used to relax, increase energy, and are also reputed to be a painkiller and a way to get off opiates. • Kava, a South Pacific shrub traditionally brewed as a chill pill for stress.
The bud bar.
White Dragon itself is a chill pill, one that owners Chad and Becky Tyson call Austin’s first bud bar. Easy vibe, weathered wood floors, old glass cases – a small taste of old Austin, a new business model, and an indication of cultural change, in ever so many ways. White Dragon Botanicals, 7304 Burnet Rd., around back. All products 100% legal in Texas. No claims made to cure or diagnose – you know the rest. (512) 887-0247, www.WhiteDragonBotanicals.com
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Everything you need to be a Reiki Master • History and concepts of Reiki. • How to do treatments on yourself and others, in-person and long-distance. • What the Reiki symbols are, and how to use them. • Attunement to First Degree, Second Degree, and Master levels. • A powerful Journey into Mastery meditation. • How to attune others. • Reiki Master certificate, and a chart tracing your lineage from Reiki founder Mikao Usui. • An opportunity to assist in future classes to receive Reiki Master Teacher certification. • Tips on setting up a practice, or incorporating Reiki into a current practice • Introductory manual, and illustrated handbook.
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Blues But when it comes to music my friend I believe these words are as true as St. John the Revelator’s Our Mister Vaughan was the best that there ever was And no band was cooler than the 13th Floor Elevators – Ray Wylie Hubbard, Screw You, We’re from Texas
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hy start an introduction to a fine natural magazine featuring Willie Nelson’s guitar on the cover (in a piece by Austin artist Ginger Grasley) by using lyrics that aren’t Willie’s? Well – why not? If you’re here for SXSoWhat and don’t know who the 13th Floor Elevators were, say fourteen Hail Roky Eriksons and look them up. Your sins will be forgiven. Don’t know who Ray Wylie Hubbard is? You’re due a little time in Purgatory, which is a road out past Wimberley on the Devil’s Backbone, out where Ray his own self lives.
Don’t know who Mr. Vaughan is?
Sorry, you’re on your way straight to the fiery pit – and if you don’t know who Willie Nelson is, your soul’s already been bought and sold. Get out of town, before somebody gets a rope. The term guitar slinger was invented for Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the title picker was, it’s said, bequeathed to Willie by a burning bush – or a burning plant of some sort. If there’s ever a Mt. Rushmore of Texas musicians, above or below the dirt, it would stretch halfway from here to Lubbock – a good trick, seeing as there’s no mountains to speak of anywhere near Lubbock. It would definitely include Stevie Ray (below the dirt, since Eric Clapton gave up his seat in a helicopter to him after a 1990 show, which then crashed) and Willie (above it, for about a hundred years or so by now – although, to cop a line from Kinky Friedman, he reads at a hundred-one-year-old level). Don’t know who Kinky Friedman is?
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Sigh…
No time to explain Kinky here. Or Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale, Robert Earl, Steve Earle, or Saint Townes. (For the record, so to speak, Ray Wylie’s touching ballad – written after a table of loud drunks at a gig in Nashville kept hollering out requests for commercial country hat acts – does make reference to Willie.) St. John the Revelator? It’s said he wrote the Book of Revelations, on a small Greek island in the Aegean where astrologers and magicians were banished by Roman authorities – a fate most astrologers and magicians nowadays would welcome. John the Revelator is a song recorded in 1930 by Blind Willie Johnson, from up north of Austin near Waco – not far from another Willie’s hometown of Abbot. Part blues, part call and response gospel, his work begat Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Ry Cooder, Led Zeppelin – the list goes on.
It’s all just the blues.
Kinky tells a story about how Willie (Nelson, not Johnson) had him peek out at a crowd before a show, and told him, “See those people out there? Ninety-nine percent of them aren’t with their first choice. That’s what keeps the jukeboxes playing.” Even the most hard-core advocates of keeping your vibe high as a unicorn eating rainbows and pooping butterflies knows you gotta process some stuff now and then. Doing it with heart and soul, living to tell the tale and write or sing about it, is the essence of country music and rock and roll – and it all comes from the blues. In 1977, Carl Sagan included Blind Willie Johnson’s song Dark Was the Night and Cold Was the Ground on one of two gold LP’s on the Voyager probe, to Mars and beyond, for the perusal of other life forms. If we’re spared from annihilation by aliens someday, we might just have a Texas blues artist to thank.
MENTAL & EMOTIONAL RELEASE Cutting Edge NLP
Breakthrough Techniques by Alice Mar Rocher
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eurolinguistic Programming (NLP), the study of mastering communication with self and others, emphasizes the language of the mind and effective communication between conscious and unconscious. Mental and emotional release techniques are based on NLP Timeline Therapy. Research has shown its effectiveness. Patients in mental health clinics achieved long-term success eliminating symptoms of depression, and youths with significant behavioral and emotional problems successfully integrated into communities and schools. Hundreds of mental health professionals, coaches, and alternative therapy practitioners are trained in the technique every year.
The technique is done quickly inside the mind, without recounting past experiences or digging up emotional pain. Becoming aware of emotional baggage formed by repeating the same negative emotional experiences over time, you can use the unconscious mind to go back through chronological memory timelines to the first event, typically during the imprint period (age zero to seven) when negative emotions were felt – anger, sadness, fear, hurt, guilt, anxiety. You’ll be able to see negative emotions in the event, and any beliefs trapped in them on an unconscious level. Traveling the timeline through subsequent events, you dissociate by taking on the position of observer, preserving positive lessons and releasing emotions and beliefs. Most clients complete the actual release process for all emotions in less than two hours with a practitioner guiding them down the timeline, seeing how decisions and beliefs create mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns – and their outcomes. And they gain an understanding of seemingly unpredictable strong bursts of emotions.
This awareness creates the opportunity for choice, one of the tenets of NLP.
The technique allows you to look at the events of your life from a new perspective, take the lessons, leave negative emotional baggage behind, and make new choices. When used in combination with other NLP techniques, it can result in very successful awareness, change, and integration. Many people report having a sense of lightness, of freedom from the past, and confidence to set goals and take action – from a positive mindset. Alice Mar Rocher, M.Ed., is a Master Practitioner and Certified NLP Trainer through the Association of Integrative Psychology, conducting workshops, private breakthrough sessions, and breakthrough events. Join her March 22-24 for the Freedom Series Breakthrough Weekend with Mental and Emotional Release®. Info, registration: www.FreedomATX.com
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WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS? by Irma Glass
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reat question, posed by War in their hit song of the same name. With so many different political, racial, and economical stands in the world, this simple question appears to have a very complex answer. It’s not really complex, though. The reason there are so many different stands is simple.
We live inside our minds.
All of us live inside our own, unique, mind worlds – and everyone’s is different from everyone else’s. Each of us begins creating copies of the world the day we’re born, part of our human condition. Our bodies are cameras, taking pictures of everything we see, hear, taste, and smell, using these pictures to build our mind world according to our own life experiences – and no two minds are alike. Your mind world is such a complete copy of the world around you that you don’t realize you’re living in your mind. You believe you live in the real world, along with everybody else – but even people with whom you interact every day are only copies of themselves you took into your mind. Fact is, we each live alone in our own mind, separate from everyone else on the planet. Sounds like science fiction, yet it’s the simple reason we can’t be friends with everyone around the globe. As long we’re each stuck living inside our own mind, living out lives in our own separate mind worlds, it’s not possible for us to truly live as One. We’re not only separated from each other, we’re separated from the real world, trapped inside our mind worlds, unable to experience it.
The Universe has a Mind of consciousness, and a Body of emptiness.
All that is seen and unseen springs from the Universe. It is the everlasting and never-changing truth. Our own personal copies of the world don’t exist in the Universe. Our mind worlds exist only in our minds – and are not truth. If we all transformed, forsaking our own mind worlds for the Universal Mind, we could (and would) live in the real world, together. With nothing separating us from each other, we would truly live as One – and could be friends with everyone, around the world. Irma Glass, QA Manager at Baylor Scott and White Health Plans, is a part-time meditation guide at Austin Meditation, 1501 Koenig Lane. For a free introductory meditation session, visit www.AustinMeditation.net
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AYURVEDA
Body and mind harmony by Antonia Warren
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ur way of life, our active, turbulent culture offering little space for peace and rejoicing, generates unhappiness. We’ve upset the organic roots of life – good food, water, clean air, happy family lives. In an artificial world dominated by urban landscapes and media, there’s a shortage of food for the soul. Always wanting new things, we’re rarely happy with what we have. We run after one stimulus, then another, rarely seeing our life has no direction – it’s patterns of accumulation, with no stopping or resting. Western medicine is a quick fix, rarely focusing on the root of the problem. Take a pill and hope your problems disappear quickly, without taking into account they’re only symptoms, warning of an imbalance – a warning light that shouldn’t be ignored.
Today’s problems are, first of all, psychological.
Adequate food, clothing, and shelter prevents many diseases of the body, but we often suffer from psychological problems that weaken physical energy – loneliness, lack of love and appreciation, anger, stress, anxiety. Ayurveda (The Science of Life in Sanskrit) is the oldest healing science, originating in India more than five thousand years ago. Many natural healing systems have roots in Ayurveda, including homeopathy. Emphasizing prevention, balance, right thinking, diet, lifestyle, and herbs, it teaches living in a state of equilibrium where satisfaction comes simply from existing, not seeking change to overcome psychological problems. Ayurveda offers a true solution to health problems – returning to unity with the universe and inner Divine Being. This implies a change in your way of living, thinking, perceiving. Ayurvedic counselors and practitioners don’t call themselves psychologists, but psychology is part of their daily practice, encompassing physical and mental illnesses. According to Ayurveda, physical and psychological diseases are generally related, one rarely occurring without the other.
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Be prepared to talk about yourself. Ayurveda emphasizes balance. A trained counselor examines eyes, tongue, skin, moves, facial lines, hair, nails, pulse readings, and takes an extensive personal medical history, including diet, profession, working conditions, exercise routines, relationships, mental health. This helps identify key symptoms and determine suitable treatment options and body type (Dosha). Treatment protocols vary, including lifestyle changes, specific yoga poses, diet, herbs and spices, meditation, breathing exercises. Health is order, disease disorder. Understand the nature and structure of disorder, and you can re-establish order.
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SPRING EQUINOX GEMSTONES by Adrienne Goff
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he spring equinox, March 20, marks the time when the landscape bursts into beautiful life, imprinting us with energies of rejuvenation, renewal, abundance. It’s a time of releasing the old and starting fresh, a fertile time of new beginnings and growth. On the equinox, day and night are equal in length, influencing you to come into balance. Align yourself with positive spring themes by working with these beautiful gems. Aquamarine. The March birthstone, Aquamarine is the gemstone of happiness, rejuvenation, everlasting youth. A powerful cleansing stone, helping you release attachments, relationships, unhealthy patterns, unprocessed emotions, even physical clutter (great for spring-cleaning), it loosens your grip on the old and outdated so fresh new experiences and energies can flow into your life. Aquamarine refreshes and purifies the physical body, like a trip to the spa, strengthening cleansing organs, supporting release of toxins and harmful environmental pollutants. Aquamarine boosts and balances glands, strengthens the thyroid, pituitary, and pineal, balancing hormones, boosting metabolism, and activating psychic senses.
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Peridot. This bright and positive gemstone embodies spring themes of abundance, nature, new growth. Naisha Ahsian, co-author of The Book of Stones, says Peridot generates the frequency of increase, increasing wealth, health, love, happiness, and all things good – a gem blessing and fertilizing projects, opening you to receive wonderful things. Carrying green and yellow rays, Peridot aligns heart and solar plexus chakras to assist in manifesting your true heart’s desire. Peridot clears lower energies and emotions with a powerful rejuvenating quality, making it a versatile healing stone, raising the vibration of the entire body, increasing general vitality, and boosting the functioning of all organs and systems. Peridot fosters a connection with nature, opening the door to communication with different Earth kingdoms – plants, animals, minerals, elementals, fairies. Amazonite affects your energy the same as a dip in your favorite natural water source. Like Barton Springs, it’s refreshing, purifying, balancing, with a soothing effect on emotions, nerves, chakras, and physical body. It cleanses negativity from any chakra and mental and emotional bodies, and protects your aura from EMF’s. It’s known for replenishing depleted chakras, especially the heart and throat. For these reasons, Amazonite provides a sense of wellbeing, relaxation, and renewal, one of the best balancing and harmonizing stones. Melody, author of Love is in the Earth, says Amazonite helps balance your masculine and feminine sides, as well as many facets of personality and lifestyle. A stone of abundance, historically used to increase the flow of prosperity, new customers, and good fortune in business. Moss Agate contains beautiful mineral inclusions mimicking the appearance of foliage, a true Earth treasure mirroring the splendor of Spring. A stone of new beginnings, refreshing spirit and releasing blockages and patterns keeping you stuck, Moss Agate assists with matters relating to the Earth plane. A stone of abundance, helping magnetize greater prosperity and success in business, it’s an excellent healing stone, strengthening the body, providing calming, grounding, balance for stress relief and general wellbeing. It’s an essential stone for working with plants – farming, gardening, herbalism, aromatherapy – emitting a fertilizing energy, encouraging plants to grow and promoting their health. Metaphysically, it helps you tune into medicinal and energetic properties of plants, helping communicate with Mother Earth and her kingdoms – plants, minerals, animals, and elementals. Happy Equinox! May these life-enhancing stones help you spring into a bright and beautiful new chapter. Adrienne Goff is an expert crystal consultant at Nature’s Treasures in Austin, home of one of the largest gem and mineral collections in the country. www.NTRocks.com
SHAMANS OF THE SOUL How to find the Right coach
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Intimacy | Health | Performance Claim your birthright to living a life empowered
I used to think coaches were only for athletes, movies
stars, or executives. But then life coaches started popping up everywhere. At first I was leery, but none of us were born with instruction manuals, and many of us are stymied by limiting, false beliefs that keep us enslaved to living a life of mediocrity. Coaches should operate much differently than therapists, consultants, or mentors, who maintain positions of power. A trained coach always acknowledges clients as experts in the domain of themselves. Instead of spending sessions imparting expertise like a consultant or mentor, or digging through the past like a therapist, a good coach invokes, inspires, and engages clients in their own journeys. The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thoughtprovoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
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A good coach should:
• Be your personal champion. • Be trained to listen deeply and use powerful questions aligned to your goals and values. • Be skilled in helping you mine your resources and inner wisdom, to find your own answers. • Provide new insights and hacks, but share their wisdom lightly. • Challenge you when necessary to rise to the next level. • Support you in designing ways to hold yourself accountable, often leading to profound shifts and transformation.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? – The Sufi poet Rumi
Coaches support your evolution into your ideal self, providing guidance for you to take flight – then blow wind beneath you until you’re strong enough to soar on your own. A great coach is grounded in presence and mindfulness. They are shamans of the soul, moving from macro to micro, capable of strategic thinking, bottom-lining, and seeing the big picture. Coaches help you get where you can’t get on your own, supporting you to embed and embody new beliefs, habits, and perspectives that are game-changers. If bad habits are getting in the way of your living your ideal life, if you have big dreams but don’t seem to be gaining traction, if you feel like you’re settling for less because you’ve already tried everything – find a coach. It may be your next big step. Bella LaVey is an author, teacher, and certified coach specializing in intimacy, health, and performance for women, men, and couples. (512) 720-1478, www.BellaLaVey.com
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CREEP IN
by Dephanie Cates
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ach morning you wake refreshed, ready to go. Take the tiger by the tail, wade through the mound of must-dos, schedules, deadlines determined to run your life. Right. If you score seventy percent you’re lucky, and can start over the next day. Climbing to the top of the mound takes determination and fortitude. Some issues can be delegated, others lie squarely on you. We’re descendants of doers, though. If they succeeded in overcoming hardships we can barely fathom, we can slog through our days.
The unplanned happens.
Disrupters throw your day into a tizzy of confusion, delusion, frustration. Expecting the unexpected doesn’t begin to cover emotional or intellectual roadblocks encountered even one hour in the day – fast and furious is more like it. Today, you have to be strong in mind, body, and spirit to withstand even the slightest appointment change. That has several parts, adding up to who you are and how you face challenges.
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Mind. The first thing to change is mindset. There are beautiful, successful people everywhere. Striving to be one is admirable, but hit or miss in any part of your regime won’t cut it – what you put in is what you’ll get out of it. Setting aside a specific time three days a week to begin changing your health and physiology is imperative. Forty-five minutes is all it takes, whether it’s cardio, yoga, or meditation. Do it before breakfast – you’ll be hungry, feel like a million bucks, and breakfast becomes the best meal of the day. Body. That brings up diet. A hearty breakfast is more than filling – it’s fulfilling, lasting up to six hours. A light lunch is all you’ll need, salad with a bit of protein, an avocado half-filled with almond butter. Dinner? Protein and as many vegetables as you want. Bread isn’t the staff of life, water is – have it with you at all times. It flushes your system of built-up toxins keeping you from your new You. Unless you live under a rock, you’re aware of the new food triangle. Fats, previously a culprit, are now okay. Healthy fats like avocado oil and extra virgin olive oil are perfectly safe. There’s a killer lurking in the shadows, though – sugar. I learned the sugar-craving habit can be broken in seven days, not that long in the scheme of becoming the new You. You’ll be amazed and impressed how your body reacts to a sugarless world – it will thank you. Unfortunately, the food industry hides sugar in almost everything. Be a bulldog about checking labels for sugar content, avoiding items abnormally high. As a substitute, find a few fruits you like and make those your reward for sticking to your guns. Spirit. The third part of the new You is spiritual. Through spirit, you get your resolve. Life’s a mystery – how did I get here, where am I supposed to be, what am I supposed to do? Seeking spiritual comfort is second nature – we want to be whole, happy, productive. Dilemmas pop up daily requiring your undivided attention. If you’re to become the new, beautiful You, look inward. All the tools are there – loving yourself, fit physique, and a healthy lifestyle and mindset arm you with all you need to overcome dilemmas that creep in. Dephanie Cates is a licensed Realtor, Reconnective Healing Healing practitioner, and certified Life Coach combining intuition and business acumen to create personal relationships with real estate clients, and apply those skills and her business acumen as a Personal and Business Coach. Appointments: (512) 970-2627, dcates@austintxhomesale.com www.AustinTxHomesale.com
BIOHACKING 3M by Michael Abedin
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ou’ve heard, no doubt, of the internet of things, the network of smart phones, smart TV’s, kitchen appliances, and home security systems, all talking to one another. You too are an internet, a sophisticated network of interrelated systems – and, like any complex system, you can be hacked. Bad hacking is when a virus sneaks through a cell wall, or when signals for cells to grow or defend themselves get hijacked, creating tumors, allergies, or autoimmune disease. Fortunately, you have a whole network of white-hat hackers fighting the bad guys, way down where the three M’s live.
M&M (&M)
Metabolism. The buzzword of weight loss and energy products, it’s simply chemical reactions keeping you upright and above the dirt by converting food into energy for cells, into building blocks for amino acids, DNA, RNA and such, and eliminating waste products of those processes. Mitochondria. The parts of your cells directing metabolic processes, including regulating cell growth – an important function, since unrestricted cell growth is, basically, cancer. Mitochondrial damage or dysfunction is being implicated in a whole host of physical mental and mental disorders, including autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular disease, bipolar disorder, diabetes. Microbiome. Trillions of microbes (like bacteria, funguses, viruses) forming a symbiotic and synergistic community in every nook and cranny of your innards. Your gut microbiome is especially important, since it’s being discovered to be a crucial part of both your immune and neurological systems. If it stays in balance – if, say, good guy bacteria keep bad ones in check – that’s a good thing. Bad things happen, though, when your microbiome gets out of whack.
MMM/OS.
Think of the three M’s as your Operating System. Be careful what you put into it (don’t open that junk email, or that diet soda), and it works correctly. Want to ramp things up a bit? That’s biohacking, in the white-hat sense of the word. Good nutrition and lifestyle habits keep all systems humming, but a modern (and toxic) environment can require some specialized help. As the body of knowledge about what’s going on inside you has grown, so has a science-based industry of specialized products, designed to make your three M’s say (wait for it) – mmm. Background information provided by Beverly Hill, Independent Distributor of LifeVantage products, designed to support metabolic, mitochondrial, and microbiome health. Product and distributor info: (512) 265-4816, bhill.passionandpurpose@yahoo.com or www.Bhill.LifeVantage.com
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Before insulin was discovered, diabetes was treated with diet alone.
YOU
can cure your Type II Diabetes by Lane Sebring, M.D.
Do you know enough about Type II diabetes to cure it? By the time you finish this article, you will. I’ve been teaching patients for years to cure it. It’s not that hard. Most of what you’ve been taught is wrong. In fact, the paradigm your doctor has been taught is wrong. A short history of diabetes treatment through the years helps explain why traditional diabetes treatment not only doesn’t work, it guarantees it will only get worse. Dr. Lane Sebring of the Sebring Clinic offers the best of mainstream and natural medicine, specializing in natural health empowerment, anti-aging, personalized nutritional counseling, injury recovery for older athletes, and bioidentical hormone replacement. Offices and Paleo Pharmacy in Wimberley, 16811 RR 12. (512) 847-1011. www.SebringClinic.com
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It worked, controlling blood sugars by restricting carbohydrates, sheets of sugar broken down with digestion. Next step in diabetes therapy was the development of insulin, which lowers blood sugar. What then became a doctor’s greatest fear was a patient who would inject insulin, and not eat enough carbohydrates to keep blood sugar from falling. If sugars fall too low, a patient can actually die. Doctors, fearing patients might die, began prescribing frequent meals of high carbohydrates. High insulin levels decrease insulin receptors, though, thereby increasing insulin resistance. This trend is reversed with longer time between meals, so frequent high-carb meals make no sense. The next development in diabetes treatment was drugs that cause the pancreas to release more insulin, which work no matter how low a patient’s blood sugar goes, so the same risk, same fears, and same dietary recommendations continued. It was also recognized diabetics were at considerably higher risk for heart disease, so they were mistakenly advised to lower fat intake. Keep in mind proteins generally come with fat, so patients were advised to limit protein intake in order to reduce fats. Problem is, our diet consists only of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates.
Can you see worsening problems developing here?
When the ravages of high blood sugars and high insulin levels go on for years, they can damage kidneys, which have difficulty handling lots of protein – meaning protein is considered bad for diabetics. In fact, a higher protein diet, as several studies have demonstrated, actually protects kidneys from the ravages of diabetes. Only when they’ve been insulted for many years by high sugar and insulin levels do they have any trouble handling protein – restricting it only serves to destroy the kidneys.
Diabetics suffer from a carbohydrate metabolism problem.
Protein and fat are required to survive – carbohydrates aren’t. Diabetics do not have a fat or protein metabolism problems. Telling a diabetic let’s make sure fiftyfive percent of calories comes from carbohydrates would be really stupid, but that’s exactly what diabetics are taught. More than stupid, this advice causes blindness, kidney failure, leg amputation, increased risk for heart attack and stroke, cancer, and early death.
What should a diabetic eat?
The liver very easily converts protein into sugar – in fact, think of protein as time-released sugar. Your liver turns protein into blood sugar, releasing it into the bloodstream slowly over time, as needed. Work harder, it releases more – never too high, never too low. Additionally, for every two hundred calories of protein your liver converts to sugar, you only get one hundred calories of sugar. You burn half the calories in the conversion.
Why do we get diabetes?
Diabetes entered human experience ten thousand years ago, when agriculture (grains) was introduced. Prior to that, humanity lived as hunter-gatherers. This huge dietary transition resulted in chronic disease, including diabetes, since 99.7% of our genetic past was spent as hunter-gatherers. Study the diet of present-day hunter gatherers.On average, they get seventy percent of calories from animal protein, meaning thirty percent comes from fruits, nuts, and vegetables—only about twenty-fve percent carbohydrates. Pretty hard to develop diabetes with so little requirement on the pancreas, which wasn’t designed to handle so many carbohydrates. Bear in mind hunter-gatherers are extremely healthy compared to modern humans – and the average hunter-gatherer workday is a mere two and a half hours. What have we done? Diabetics with no signs of kidney failure should start the day with a major protein source. Subsequent meals should be protein, surrounded by all the vegetables you want. Snacks can consist of nuts and small amounts of fruit. This is the natural human diet. Consult your doctor to help you with the transition to it.
MORE THAN A DENTIST Partners in Health by Dr. Matthew Carpenter, DDS, NMD It’s fine to do what you want to do, but sooner or later you have to do what you were meant to do. – Benjamin Franklin
Oral health is critical to overall health.
At a general level, the human mouth is a doorway for infections and toxins to enter the body and bloodstream. At acute levels, periodontal disease and general oral health have strong connections to other conditions, including cardiovascular disease, arthritis, bone disease, diabetes, stroke, and depression. Oral-body health connections continue beyond these. In 2016, researchers reported findings connecting chronic periodontitis to increased cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients. They weren’t entirely sure why, but results were clear. In early 2019, connected research announced bacterium behind chronic periodontitis could not only be identified inside brains of Alzheimer’s patients, but also as a cause of Alzheimer’s Disease. This compelling revelation supports what integrative dentistry already knows – oral health is interconnected with the rest of your body, including brain health and performance. It’s time we woke up to a different approach to complete health.
No part of the body is an island.
We live in incredible times. New studies continually reveal benefits of a whole body approach in health-related fields, and nearly every area of life. With our growing understanding of interwoven systems of the human body and the impact diet and environment has on health, it’s an exciting time to be part of the integrative dentistry movement. Integrative dentistry, also known as biological dentistry, combines conventional dental training with integrative medicine. In integrative dentistry, the art of dental care isn’t just about teeth, gums, and patch jobs. We look at the whole body, asking why tooth decay is there in the first place. Biological dentists focus on treating underlying problems causing symptoms in the mouth, and attempt to eliminate those problems while ensuring our work doesn’t have adverse effects on patients’ health. We understand good health is more than just the absence of disease, and an interdisciplinary approach best supports patients’ well-being. Those who don the title Integrative Dentist commit to much more than general dentistry – we step into the role of whole health providers, considering the role of nutrition in oral health, responsible dental practices during patient pregnancies, and the best customized, biologically compatible solutions for patients. We scrutinize dental procedures, concerned about the long-term impact dental materials may have on patients’
overall health. We’re inquisitive, and genuinely devoted to whole-atient care.
Safety for patients and providers alike.
I was saddened to learn recently one of my post-graduate colleagues had to leave dental practice altogether for jobrelated health reasons. Unfortunately, his story isn’t that rare. Dental careers continue to rank highest as the most damaging to health. Pulling annual data from a Department of Labor database, Business Insider reported in November 2018 that of forty-seven jobs ranked as unhealthiest, four of the top five were dental professions. Hazardous chemical agents used in conventional dentistry include mercury, nitrous oxide, and disinfectants. The most dangerous and concerning is mercury. Occupational exposure to higher levels of mercurial vapor and other toxins have been linked to many acute health issues for dental professionals, causing some to leave careers altogether due to occupational injuries. Sadly, the best mercury-related safety practices for patients and providers are typically not taught in conventional dental school. At TDH, we’re devoted to ethical choices and safe practices. We utilize cutting edge techniques, like the Huggins Protocol – the safest, most highly researched protocol in the world for removing mercury fillings and other poisonous metals from teeth and the oral cavity. We’re proud to be integrative pioneers in our field, advancing better techniques and healthier oral and dental care.
Partner with us.
The dental profession must evolve to promote closer connections between dentistry and whole health. There’s a better way to educate ourselves as dentists so we can play more significant roles in helping patients achieve optimal health, and practice healthier, safer dentistry without personal health risks. We’re blessed to work in a growing environment, and we’re looking to partner with other motivated dentists who share our vision. If you’re ready to join an ethically oriented team and take your practice to the next level, we’d like to hear from you. Dr. Matthew Carpenter of Transcend Dental Health is an Integrative Biologic Dentist and Board Certified Naturopathic Physician offering ozone therapy, natural oral care products incorporating essential oils, drill-free air abrasion, non-surgical gum disease treatment, safe mercury and root canal removal, and natural heavy metal elimination. (512) 255-3618, www.tdhtx.com
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CHASING PARADIGMS by Christina Allen
Instead of Chasing Monkeys
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hen we open up to the world of spirituality, we open to the unknowns of an invisible energetic world. What we find there is largely based on the beliefs we drag in. Humans tend to project what they’re familiar with onto blank screens. If we were raised believing Good and Evil are forever locked in a fight over our world, we will surely find these embodied in the invisibility of the energetic realm. But what if the spiritual realm is really just conscious energy, with no real moral overlay at all – just intelligence, forever unfolding itself in a myriad of ways?
The matrix of intelligence.
If you study physics, you learn the universe is a matrix of intelligence, completely interconnected and entangled. There are no good and bad particles, no evil forces or good ones, just exchanges between things. Understanding their different natures allows one to predict their interactions. An electron, for example, has a negative charge, while a proton has a positive charge. This doesn’t mean electrons act from evil, running amok, destroying things, while protons are good and patiently put them back together. Without the balance of the other to negate its charge, both are equally corrosive – but neither has an intrinsic morality. Interestingly, just as there is neither good energy nor bad energy in physics, the same is true from the perspective of Andean mystics. They speak of the conscious energy kawsay as the basis for all of creation.
Everything is made of it.
In its natural state, it vibrates at a very high frequency. When it hits the conflicts of the human psyche, however, it slows down. The human mind is fraught with contradictions created by our efforts to be someone. In the Andean cosmovision, however, morals are important as a code for proper behavior, but there is no moral overlay on the energetic domain. Good and evil exist only within human hearts and minds, not as independent principles. Sami slows down when it hits internal conflict, becoming denser. This slower energy is called hucha. It isn’t dark, negative, or evil, nor is it transmittable. It is just slow, dense, and a symptom of inner conflict.
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It has no independent directive.
It isn’t powerful in any way – except, as it collects on our energy fields and in our bodies, its sluggish nature eventually makes us sick. All the energy medicine practices of the Andes revolve around either removing this hucha, or speeding it back up again. Their personal practices of authenticity and integrity are, therefore, their preventative medicines. They realize they are personally responsible for their own wellbeing. When we’re consistent with ourselves, outwardly expressing who we are inside, we create no shadow, and therefore no hucha. The less hucha we create, the more in coherence we are with the creative force, and the more powerful we are in our ability to co-create with it. Alternatively, many people in our culture believe the more spiritually powerful we become, the more external darkness we attract. This imposes a victim mentality that undermines our personal power, creating hucha. We learn to seek protections and prepare ourselves for battles with a dark external unknown, instead of standing in the neutral light of what we’re made of – the energy of creation.
Have we not outgrown these old wars?
Often, it’s actually our paradigms that need to shift for us to truly claim our health and power. A fish doesn’t notice the quality of its water when it gets sick, only that its gills aren’t working well. Pulling ick from its gills is much different than teaching it how to keep its water clean. What if we all focused on honing our state of integrity and taking responsibility for the hucha we create, instead of chasing external monkeys? Christina Allen, Shamanic Healer, teacher, founder and director of the Austin Shamanic Center, combines a strong science background (BA Physics, MS Neuroscience) with decades of applied ancient spiritual wisdom as a Master Yogi, Reiki Master, and Shamanic Healer, based, in part, on Q’ero Indian traditions of Peru. ASC offers profound Shamanic Self Development Workshops, professional trainings, and personal healings. Learn more at www.AustinShamanicCenter.com
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Dear Ashtara:
Messages from Your Angels and Master Teachers Dear Ashtara, Should I move back to Northern California, or remain here in Austin? Gretchen, 53, Austin, TX Dear Gretchen, It looks like the turmoil is still in your life. Therefore, try harder and pursue California. If you do go, you will eventually feel wonderful. Life will suit you. Your angels are Gabriel, Michael, as well as Sanat Kumura as a very high master teacher for you, Maitreya too. Dear Ashtara, At Ashtara’s Monthly Group meeting before the New Year, the Masters said many amazing things, including that ascension is ending around February 2019. I don’t remember all the details of what was channeled that night. Who is it that gets to continue receiving guidance, and what happens after ascension is over? Julie, 41, Austin, TX Dear Julie, Thank you for the Masterful question regarding ascension. Ascension started on earth forty-one years ago. What does ascension mean? It means people began to get ascended messages in their thoughts. Usually, regarding something they needed to shift. Some people did all they thought they heard. Good students! Some thought they would get messages but did hardly anything that God and his A-Team said. Some people say, I am not hearing a voice and we say it is not a different man or woman’s voice in your mind. It simply sounds just like your thinking sounds. So, pay attention to your thinking. All people today have gotten ascension. Those who did at least two-thirds passed and will always, even on the other side, transcend. The others who chose not to follow their guidance will perhaps be given other opportunities in their lifetime. We are now about to rebuild another new civilization, after Atlantis. For, during Atlantis, at the end time, a new and highly skilled, electric body came through. They would see the New World, Earth, and rejoice. We are recalibrating with ecstasy as we view the New World in which we all will soon live.
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Dear Ashtara, What is in my near future? Margarita, 70, Spring, TX Dear Margarita, Happiness, as well as expert drawings, mosaics, needlepoint, and other artwork, could assist you in moving forward with ease. Try it and you will like it. As a matter of fact, youthfulness will follow. Try many artistic modalities, because the artist in you needs to come out. Follow your voice in your mind – Maitreya, highest master teacher from the other side, at your beck and command. Dear Ashtara, I’m working on being a better me and learning how best to handle my emotions and responses these days. When facing a frustration, what is the quickest way for me to become Zen instead? Rachel, 41, Cedar Park, TX Dear Rachel, Thank you for your beautiful question. Think of something that makes you happy, and then get grateful for everything in your surroundings, no matter where you are. At that point, make conscious contact with your Angels and Master Teachers, for they will sweep you out of whatever you have taken on and then you will feel free. You were born to be a Zen master. Your highest teacher is Ashtar and His Command. Your highest angel is Lord Raphael.
Submit your question for ‘Dear Ashtara’ via email: Ashtara@SashaWhite.com or call (512) 278-0559 and give your question (up to 30 words) with name or nickname, age, city, and state. Private Sessions can be scheduled (in person or by phone). Questions answered and more. Ashtara Sasha White is a gifted psychic, profound healer, and channel from the Ascended Masters/ Archangels. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, Seichim Reiki Master Teacher, Sound Current Healing Master Teacher, Embodiment Master Teacher, and Teacher of the Light. Join her group on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30PM. See her events at www. AshtaraSashaWhite.com.
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THE BIRTH
OF THE AVATAR
Your souls fall like stars in the birth of Avatars. But where are you? Do you know our attempts to take your planet to Light have failed six times before? Or, that this may indeed be the last and final attempt we can make together? This is as close as you have ever come, and some of you are stealthily stealing ground from under the noses of forces that are opposing your every move. However, to others we would say, posting pictures of Angels on Facebook may no longer be enough. Much of what you have been led to believe about Spirituality in your Dimension was devised for that experience. The truth is more pragmatic. There is a muddy,
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dirty war waging and we are sorry to wake you from your slumber, but the enemy is at the gate. It is time to get suited and booted. It is time to put the foot soldiers on the ground. It is time to birth the Avatar Race. We can assist you in becoming anchors of these Infinite Light Frequencies to the planet surface and teach you to stand in your power as the Advanced Guard you came here to be, Michael’s Sentinels of Light. You – our Lightworkers – as fully embodied Avatars, are and always have been our greatest hope. GRACE ELOHIM – The Galactic Federations, The Inter-Stellar Alliance, and The Alliance of Worlds.
system with Higher Light Encoded Healing Frequencies from Source, at the Core of this Galaxy, as you return to being a Galactic Human. Marconics is hailed by Spirit as an Ascension vehicle. You are evolving from the 3D Template of Human 2.0, to the new Galactic Human 3.0. We were once programmed to perceive and experience life through the filters and limitations of the third dimension. Now we are being ‘re-calibrated’ to become multidimensional beings, as Earth is brought into alignment with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy in a return to Galactic Consciousness. The Marconics ‘No-Touch’ Healing Protocol helps you to drop density in preparation for the Fifth Paradigm, and higher. The Marconic Recalibration and the Integrated Chakra Unification liberate us from our Karmic creations, as the body hologram is aligned with higher dimensions. Marconic practitioners have been shown how to anchor the Monadic mind (known as The Oversoul or The Galactic Core) in the 8th dimension and bring it progressively down into merger with the 5th Dimensional Archetypal Mind, and the 2nd Dimensional Emotional Mind re-aligning the axis of 15 dimensions in a recalibration of the multidimensional holographic body. Marconic practitioners are the ‘midwives’, delivering Higher Soul Self energies, and in some cases Angelic frequencies, into the incarnate body – each one introducing a higher vibrational resonance, raising the incarnate up another step on the ladder of Ascension. Marconics No-Touch Certification Training, Level 1, April 6-7, Wimberley, TX. For information, registration, and Marconics Quantum Recalibration appointments, contact Veronica Rios, (424) 282-5055, WestTeachers@Marconics.com or visit www.Marconics.com
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The Guitar Art of T
Ginger Grasley
exas-born Austin artist Ginger Grasley is a recovering data-driven medical lab geek whose artwork finds the sweet spot where visual arts and music converge – guitars. They’re functional works of art with a voice, and a guitar in the hands of a Texas musician is as functional and beautiful as a broke-in pair of cowboy boots. Prints and originals available at www.GingerGrasley.com
Willie’s Texas Flag Like Ginger’s March cover piece Texas Fight, with the UT Tower, Texas Flag stars Trigger, Willie Nelson’s Battered Martin N-20, and lyrics from Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys – written, not by Willie, but by Ed and Patsy Bruce and first recorded by Ed in 1952.
Stevie Ray Vaughan Hamiltone Made by custom guitar maker Jim Hamilton as a gift from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, also known as Main. Stevie Ray took it straight from the case when he got it in 1984, and on stage to play it.
The Hermit Okay, Jimmy Page ain’t from Texas, but Robert Plant did live here for awhile – and what’s not to like about a dragon wrapped around a Fender Telecaster?
Austin Famous Have fun picking out Willie, Stevie, Kinky, Janis, Leslie, Ann Richards, McConaughey, maybe Farah Fawcett, and who knows who else? (Is that LBJ? Linklater?)
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UPCOMING EVENTS EVENTS AND PRACTITIONERS NATURE’S TREASURES 4103 N. IH 35, Austin, TX (512) 472-5015 Shop online: NTRocks.com Join us for the 13th Annual Tucson Trunk Show, March 9-17. Come get first picks of treasures from around the world, including Cintamani Stone, Moldavite Jewelry, and more. There is no better time of year to get the best picks at the best value. Daily in-store practitioners and aura readings. What color is your aura? Also offering personal shopping and crystal reading on select Saturdays with Dianna, Austin’s Crystal Whisperer, and personal wire wrapping with the Crystal Heart Studio. For full practitioner listing, event calendars and event rental inquiries, visit NTRocks.com Visit the new resource for Reiki and Bach Remedies: AustinReikiMaster.com ASHTARA SASHA WHITE’S EVENTS Monthly Group Meeting: Wed. March 13 6:30pm, Snacks. 7-9pm, Group. Phoenix Rising Metaphysics, 8650 Spicewood Springs Rd. #201, Austin Discounted Profound Readings, Instant Healing with Ashtara. Signup: (512) 278-0559 Sat., Mar. 23: Wimberley Metaphysical Fair 11am-5pm, Wimberley Community Center 14068 Ranch Rd. 12, Wimberley, TX Sun., Mar. 31: San Marcos Metaphysical Fair 11am-5pm Holiday Inn, 105 Binut Dr., San Marcos, TX SHAMANISM SEMINAR Fri.-Sun. April 5-7 Details, Private Sessions, and Ashtara’s CDs: (512) 278-0559, www.AshtaraSashaWhite.com
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MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL RELEASE® Freedom Series Breakthrough Weekend with NLP Mental and Emotional Release®. March 22-24. Info, registration, www.FreedomATX.com MARCONICS The Evolution of Energy Healing Level 1 No-Touch Practitioner Certification Training, April 6-7, Wimberley TX. Info: (424) 282-5055, WestTeachers@Marconics.com www.Marconics.com NIRVANA GYM NUTRITONAL REVOLUTION PROGRAM First program in the Nirvana GYM Curriculum of Well-Being. Three-month immersive program about food relationships and triggers, deficiencies and imbalances, how to grocery shop and order in restaurants, powerful action rituals, journaling, accountability partners and groups, dealing with plateaus. Weekly sessions, April 6-June 29. Registration closes March 23. Info, registration: www.nirvanagym.com LOVITATIONS Full Moon Sound Healing Meditations with Reiki and live music. Harp, flute, and bowls by Michael and Belinda Morris. March 19: Tuesday, 7:15 p.m. April 18: Thursday, 7:15 p.m. May 19: Sunday, 6:30 p.m. By donation. RSVP to lovitations@gmail.com for North Austin location. Events, classes, chakra clearing and balancing sessions at: www.Lovitations.com/meditations HELP WANTED, DELIVERY Once a month delivery routes in exchange for free ads and articles in Austin All Natural. Phone interview required. (512) 879-7299
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