Carl Jung, The Shadow and the Key To Your Hidden Potential
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- The shadow is one of the most well-known pieces of Psychiatrist, Carl Jung's philosophical legacy. This dark, unconscious part of the psyche is both deeply fascinating and incredibly misunderstood, not to mention difficult to make tangible. How do you explore or work on something you aren’t conscious of?
That said, it can be done, and doing so is vitally important for knowing who you truly are, healing, and reaching your potential.
So in this transmission, we’re going to explore the shadow and the philosophy of Carl Jung from a number of angles in an effort to both help shed light on it and to begin to understand how we can actually work with it.
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00:00 Introduction
01:48 What is the shadow?
03:09 Hidden treasures in the shadow
04:47 Why do shadow work if it's painful?
08:38 Recognizing shadow projection and the collective shadow
09:56 How the shadow fits into individuation
11:48 How to actually do shadow work
13:01 Active imagination
14:03 Dreamwork / Dream analysis
15:30 Journaling
17:32 Recognizing projection
18:20 Meditation
19:45 Visionary experiences
20:31 Important final thoughts
Reverse engineering projections is highly beneficial and so easy to do once you become more aware. I use this all the time. Key thing to remember is whatever causes an immediate, visceral, emotional reaction, whether positive or negative, is a projection. For example, a few years ago while driving I noticed I'd always get frustrated by a car in front of me taking too long to make a right turn, causing me to slow down excessively. I found myself beeping my horn and yelling, "Let's go already!" Taking a deep breath, I immediately knew this was projection. Was I seriously upset with someone taking too long to go in their desired direction? No, I was upset at my own inability to do the same. I needed to change course in my life. I knew where I wanted to go, I just had to get on with it and "make the turn already!" This projection related to frustration over wasting free time on things that didn't matter instead of writing more. These habits no longer served me yet I would not let them go. I said the truth to myself out loud in the car, and felt the tingle the body gives when reciting a truth that needs to be made conscious.
Thoughtful stuff. Thank you!
Incredibly helpful, thank you for this wonderful personal example. That’s the tricky thing with shadow work and reversing projections- we often don’t know what we don’t know! Dissolving shadows is as complex (and as easy) as taking a flash photograph of the night sky. 🌌
I read lets go already in benders voice by accident 😂
wow never knew the tingle was a truth made conscious, really puts it in a whole new perspective. Always thought i was acknowledging the soul in my body each time.
Thank you for sharing that. Right on time
First rule in shadowwork:
don't lie to yourself.
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It also be fair with yourself.. be kind is a bit too cliche,sometimes we need tough love, even from ourselves but be fair
This also requires humility to have the ability to SEE and overcome what our pride brings us to lie to ourselves about.
At the core of the shadow is self loathing. That is where all of our negative emotions and behavior comes from. If you can figure out why you feel inferior, incompetent or unworthy, then you can begin to heal yourself. And your healing starts with you validating your own worth. You choose the standards that you evaluate yourself by. You decide when you've done your best. Learning to approve and appreciate yourself is truly the most important and liberating thing you can do.
Wow man. Thanks
What if self loathing is a major problem. I’m 50 but have suffered from this my entire life. Never good enough, fast enough, strong enough, pretty enough, smart enough, not thin (I’ll never and have never been thin. I want to be healthier. I have long Covid and have gained about 50 pounds from prednisone tapers and immobility. My body is a prison physically and mentally).
How do I heal my shadow self?
Wow. Thanks for that.
@@got_glintsp963good question. I’ll look at my own shadow and try to find a way to answer that.
@got_glintsp963 Hi,I would start by defining your own standards of good enough, pretty enough, smart enough, etc, because your opinion of yourself should matter more than anyone else's opinion. Then if you decide you want to make some improvements, seek out information on how to do it. No one program, method or course of study is going to fit everyone, so modify whatever you need to so that it fits you and your goals. Be consistent and keep trying until you see the results you want. The very fact that you are making a sincere effort to improve will help you feel better about yourself. Best wishes ❤️
Last year i was battling thoughts constantly, fighting thoughts with thoughts. So much overthinking actually made me lose a lot of my hair. Suddenly i woke up one day, had the realization that it don't matter. I slowly dived deeper into the spiritual and got introduced to the word shadow-work. It's so crazy, theres such a huge difference between the mind and your conscious self, when you adress things from the mind with your conscious words and find a solution, it all comes together. So with the awareness of shadow-work i suddenly got a thought that i wasn't good enough, and really said to myself "What would make me think such thoughts about myself" and as i relaxed and just focused on the question, memories from my childhood popped up, in where i was neglected. Looking at this, and realizing it was so long ago, and made me the person i am, today put it in a whole new light. Told myself it was okay and i am safe now, just completely lifted a heavy burden on my mind and body.
The shadow stems from unadressed trauma.
Well said! 🙌🏽🙏🏾
I had a moment like that, it was so bad I remember the time exactly. December to mid February. School is such an unstable environment for me, so at the time I decided to graduate early
@@celinasjourney I know you’re at a better place now, we are destined for greater things🙌🏽
Have ya been in the period of absurdism or nihilism
@@projectfear22 No never, have always been a person that would rather see the whole world win!
The ultimate end goal of doing shadow work as with any type of spiritual or psychological work is to attain peace of mind and a clean heart. These two things are invaluable tools that allow you to flow through life with a certain natural high. You also gain other spiritual/psychological tools but that is for those who push into it. And for the love of understanding words. Dark doesn't mean evil and light doesn't mean good. Dark/shadow simply means the unknown and light means the known.
Wonderful, darkness is just absence of light ✨️
@SoulShift777 I love your comment, beautiful simplicity 🥰
Facts 44
I love the dark❤️
The problem is people tend to avoid what is negative and to find the real light we need to embrace the shadow as heavy as it may be.
I feel like I’ve searched CZcams for almost a year trying to find a good explanation for Shadow work and I finally found it here. Much love and thanks 🙏🏻
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The teacher appears once the student is ready...
You came from the shadow into the light ✨️
I have started doing shadow work 3 1/2 years ago. I was broken from a heavy childhood and at the age of 44 i decided it was time to go to the darkest places in my mind and heart and do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. It was so hard but worth every single moment of the pain, tears and shocks after discovering the truth. Life is so much better now. Life becomes normal once you pass through your personal dark forest.
Also i wanna add to this the fact that if my mother would have done her shadow work, i wouldnt have had to do it now. If her mother would have done it, neither my mother nor I would have to do it. So i am taking responsibility for myself but also for my children and their children. The more i can uncover and heal, the less shadow work will they have to do. If everyone would do this, the coming generations would have a much better life
This is so spot on and exactly what I how I feel going through my own journey ❤ sending lots of love & light.
@@jasminegrey8691 Thank you Jasmine. Sending you love.
How interesting when I was just talking about generational cycle yesterday. Someone need to break it. Thanks for sharing.
Im 45 and im now diving deep into the abyss so i can actually end this lineage of women repressing their voices! ❤ i got no kids but i would do it for my kids and their kids if i had to. Blessings
Remember when you heal yourself, not only do you heal the shadow side of your future lineage , but you heal your ancestors also since you are connected even in different timelines since there is no time or space beyond this dimension. This is probably more than you asked for but it’s a spiritual side to this healing.
Your shadow is basically everything wrong you've ever done and your childhood trauma (unconscious beliefs based on how your parents treated you), if you've cheated people, taken advantage of people, wronged people or animals, committed any "sins" all of that lives in your subconscious so you have to make peace with yourself and the bad things you've done and also work in yourself so you don't do those bad things anymore. Be kind to even the people who are unkind to you because they represent your shadow. If you can do that your life will begin to change for the better. Namaste 🙏
You could also view your shadow as the imprint you've made on the world, both good and bad. If you pay for someones meal and later on someone pays for your meal you could view that as your positive shadow. The imprint you've put on the world with your behavior. You are the universe experiencing itself so when bad things happen to you think of it as the universe trying to trigger you to see how you will react. Transmuting the negative energy is alchemy. Always be the bigger person and make peace with your mistakes so you can continue to grow and evolve as a person ♥️
actually that is just a part of the shadow. The shadow is all that is out of the light of consciousness, also your repressed authenticity, creativity and essence
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What if you find someone who will constantly feed you negatives
Something very cool to see is how positive and informative the comments are here.
"Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking. Also, it frequently happens that unconscious motives overrule our conscious decisions, especially in matters of vital importance." - Carl Jung
To me, the dark or the shadow is anything that not in your conscious thinking. You could be a really negative person and have a positive shadow. The golden shadow. Even jung said that not all evil is totally bad for you. How else can one be assertive enough to have healthy boundaries.
Agreed
It's true a lot of the most outwardly negative personas were formed out of pushing the vulnerable kinder qualities into the shadow. People take advantage of or ridicule the kind and our brain is tracking who has the most power in each interaction, especially traumatic ones. We lose bits or pieces that are deemed as weak and then they stay immature compared to our more conscious attributes.
I think it's just your body trying to protect you from pain. Your body is designed to protect itself. But sometimes to get what you want you have to work hard or face set backs. This made me love my body more instead of just hating myself.
Thank you for this video! I’m a psychotherapist/hypnotherapist and you’ve done a great job summarizing the work I do with people. The unconscious mind is such a vast space for learning about ourselves and the world. Great video!
when i first tryd a technique of carl jung instantly someone tried kill me from inside when i asked with closed eyes if other side want contact a technique was named in a video about carl jung then god told me you should never connect with the other side because it means you stand to satan not god
That Jeffery Dahmer show really helped me. I was personally so terrified of becoming like him one day. Then when I saw that show I realized I could have been an amazing friend to him. Understood and talked to him. At that point I saw more media about parenting your inner child. I kind of realized I was doing that at one of the lowest points of my life. Now when I have kids, a wife, and a farm. I will know exactly how to talk to my children. Just by listening to them and thinking about their words. I will continue to explore the demon. He gives me great things to write about. I found a part of my source. I'm excited to communicate with him in a waking dream one night.
This is crazy how such qualitative and insightful content gets so few views! Thanks a lot for the video
Thanks for diving in. I’ve got a couple other Jungian wonder dips you’ll probably enjoy as well.
Agree, 35k views no subs? Wtf?
I def agree that the shadow self should not b feared or kept hidden in shame for doing so gives it a more negative power over the whole self. Finding a middle ground, a compromise with the shadow self, to walk with it confidently without shame, guilt, fear, nor doubt will uncover arcane wisdom of the universe within the self, creating internal balance that will ultimately lead to creating external balance. 💐💛⚔️
Shadow work consists of us analyzing our rejected reflections of self. The rejected reflection is seen outwardly through others. When we have difficulty accepting who we are we project it. If we we've done painful things we may project it into others. So we speak beautifully to ourselves to understand it better an vs we strive to find beautiful truths in our memories. Shadow work leads to light work
Very beautifully explained. Thank you! ❤️💜💚
Terrific! Just what I've been looking for!
Thank you for unpacking the shadow and the work we all need to do. Carl Jung taught us so much!
I am very glad to have found this channel. Thank you for doing this and I hope you can continue to grow and reach many more people.
E.g. a person spending his life in cowardice can actually be courageous however he needs to dive deep into his psyche via meditation.
Shadow work, ego death, dark night of soul are all related and leads to one thing, cosmic wholeness.
Great, really dense video. Saving for rewatch. Thank you!
I was looking to understand "individuation" So clear so useful and practical!!!! THANK YOU so much!!
Love the work you're doing. I've been noticing a marked increase in shadow dreams so I've no doubt that there's work to be done
When I've watched this video, Michael was happy that he surpassed 1k views.
I've came to see how the channel is doing, and the biggest smile that I've gave today emerged from my soul.
So happy to finally see this magnificent channel getting the love it deserves!
This came in good timing, thanks for explaining about the shadow archetype in a simple easy going way
This was such an informative video. I wish I found it years ago, but I don't think I would have even realized how important and powerful it is. Thank you for making this video. I plan on sharing with those that I believe will benefit from it.😊
Thank you. I will definitely dive deeper into this.
thank you, great video, and well done with all the information you share. Straight to the point, thanks
Thank you so much. This was wonderful and an area of avid interest for me. You communicate clearly, articulately and knowledgeably. I especially noticed and appreciated your awakened Self as demonstrated by your re-entrance at the end, humbly stating that perhaps you had not verbalized a satisfactory "exit" to your video and you wished to correct it 😊... In 2012 I experienced a sudden onset Spiritual Awakening/Kundalini Rising/Dark Night of the Soul triggered by a catastrophic health crisis, ultimately leading to the loss of nearly everything, not least of which was my identity. I'm sure you understand well the Journey from utter despair and darkness, to a Beingness so completely and deeply transformed that life is never the same again (and a 100x more beautiful and fulfilling...but still life of course lol). A few people have asked me HOW I changed or was able to change so much, love myself so much and "walk in love." My simplest answer was that I had to notice, reflect upon, re-learn, and re-do every single thought, word and deed in my day. So if I was irritable and impatient with my mom, I had to look at this interaction, take responsibility for my part in it, and determine how I could have done it better/ differently (always best to "re-do" right then instead of "next time"). I had to see and FEEL all the ways I was out-of-alignment with my Self and with Love (kindness, helpfulness, patience, calmness, etc), and why. Anyway, just my lengthy 2 cents.
It's like I've been taking these classes for years. Some of it made sense to me, but a lot of it didn't. I needed the syllabus, the outline, the overview. This was exactly that. Thank you. Now I can get some real work done!
Best introduction to Jungs shadow work I've ever viewed. Thank you.
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This is such a great video. Thank you for being articulate and making these concepts practical.
I'm surprised to know I've been doing shadow work for most of my life and yes this is ongoing in my journey. I've just realized that the months of May and November are the best time for my shadow work after I went back through dream journals over the years. Thank you for sharing this.
Just found your channel and ready to start binging. Thank you for sharing.
✨🙏✨thank you, hope you dig the wonder dips
I am grateful. Your presentation and analysis helps me understand and face my shadows.
This was the best video I’ve watched on shadow work. Thank you🙏🏼
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This was for me! Thank you from San Diego
One of the best explanations of the “own shadow”. When you mentioned reverse engineering our own thoughts, the name of Rudolf Steiner popped in my mind as Steiner’s technique of reverse engineering our day meticulously every night before sleeping.
Oh yeah! I’m familiar with that one!
Steiner is very interesting person! I went to Waldorf school my whole life and Mom is a teacher. Those schools are basically alchemical schools and pump out sooo many artists, musicians, and drug addicts lol. I loved it! I only in hindsight realize how lucky I was and wish I paid more attention!
@@zachadelic8110 the funny thing is you didn't have to "pay attention". The work is done on such a subtle level through hearing the archetypal myths and legends that connect you at every stage of childhood
great video, there are a lot of things I need to think about after watching this, thanks for the insight.
Love this Michael. Precise, in depth, clear and offers options for refelction.
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This is a great video, dude! You have killer struture. Great takes 💪
Hey, appreciate you homie. Love your stuff, too.
I dig your channel dude.
So will articulated. I myself have struggled with understanding the concept of the shadow and the work involved. This has helped immensely. Thank you for sharing your insight.
Thank you 🙏✨
This was so interesting to take in! Working with the shadow side of yourself is so liberating!⭐
This was very helpful.
I am always having those shadow
dreams lately.... I never thought
it was my shadow side trying
to reach out. Been writing my
dreams down for a while now.
Conscious suffering always
yields results.
Great content Michael. I have just discovered you. And subscribed of course. Your contribution makes youtube a better platform and our society a healthier one too
I will continue to work at grasping this. This is finally a light at the end of the tunnel towards understanding for me. Thank you.
I released my memoir last month and this definitely all resonates. Thank goodness for self awareness and willingness to do the work. Or I’d be still in a very dark place of untapped potential, or possibly death.
Wow ! this channel is a great discovery, so many topics of interest :) please keep it coming !!!
What a great video! Greatly appreciated, thank you. 😊
This was really good! Thank you so much for this info!! Its great to learn from other shadow workers ad be inspired! Much love! :)
Very good content + I like the way you present it
This video is such a blessing. Thank you for being a vessel.
Excellent video, eloquent and clear communication with practical value. Thank you sir.
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this was great. I have to see your other videos. Thank you for pointing me to resources!
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You did a beautiful job of explaining the shadow and that even the name is in some sense a 'misnomer' cuz it's not necessarily all negative, it's also not necessarily about achieving conventional success, which is a mistake that I think a lot of other 'manefestation' youtubers make. I liked your channel before, but it'll keep a special place in my mind/heart now. Thanks 🙏
Thank you. I appreciate your generosity.
This is probably the best video I've ever seen about this subject. Really great!
Big thanks my friend. Glad you enjoyed it.
@@THIRDEYEDROPS You're welcome! I subscribed to your channel and will be watching more in the future. ☮
Wonderfully clear and true video.
Very clear and thorough explanation. Thanks 👍
I read a lot of the comments. I learnt just as much from the comments as from the video. Thanks to all who take the time to share and guide the rookies with your experience.
Thank you for producing this content, and speaking from your heart with wisdom, Michael. You are generating light making light.
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Thank you
Great introduction to Jung, and great steps to work with that. Thank you. Wish u a good day.
Great Video! Thanks for sharing your wisdom!
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Wonderful content here, thank you!🤗💗
Thank you for this messages
Honestly first part best explanation and you really make it shadow as term closer to me, but practical sounds like pure intellectualization, literally everything
Just saw this video today, and after viewing it I forwarded it to a coaching client. This is a great introductory discussion of the Shadow and Shadow work. Thank you for presenting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Shadows basically being behind someone for a long period of time without them knowing that you're there
This is brilliant! Thank you for the profound insights.
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I have been camping for a month. Working on all this, intensely profound. Complete different understanding oneself.
So helpful and insightful. I think it would be very helpful for me to journal
Very good explanation of shadow work! Psychedelics, namely mushrooms have been so helpful for my own shadow work. Thanks
Once the fears are overcome the potential arises. Our hearts need to be in our efforts.
I’m very thankful that I found you on here. Thanks for all your videos.
Welcome! 🙏
Neglect. Me too. But it made me who I am.I made so many mistakes and missed out on so many opportunities because I felt I just wasn’t good enough, but I told myself I will give myself the best I can that I never had as a child and because I looked so good no one could tell how worthless I felt inside. That I think saved me along the way a little.But I also over gave and had no boundaries because I didn’t want to feel that neglect and lack I felt as a child. Now at 34 I began to heal and am not afraid anymore. Thanks for your comment ! all the best !☀️
Thank you for this thoughtful breakdown of shadowwork and hor to practice the philosophy
You are gifted in teaching. I have heard many talk of shadow work and how they healed from it, went through the dark night of the soul etc but none ever explained the process. Many thanks to you I did as asked, liked, subbed and commented!
Glad it resonated and thank you!
I left all my material belongings behind left my apartment and went living out of a book bag at a homeless shelter. I started to experience the presence of archetypes in my thinking and I started to experience sychibicity some as well. I started to see patterns in numbers particularly at this time I didn't use plant medicine but wad using amphetamines. I started doing deep shadow work in my artwork keeping mist of the room in my bag for my sketchbooks . I spent the next six months drawing only with black ink while I deeply introsoected often mumbling to myself. Shadow work took me to the edge. I had flashbacks of past experience with near death I thought about philosophy and time and space the afterlife and death and my fears plated a huge roll. I thought about language and linguistics all while sketching. All I did was draw and think I often had restless sleep and felt I was in touch with spirits because I had seen the void been there and back before. The shadow work I did during this time has reshaped my psyche some will say it I was experiencing psychosis from the amphetamines but they helped my journey through the dark sun conscious minimalism I found to be very important for me as well. CHEERS
Wow intense! Hope you’re doing well.
Cheers
Thank you for this video.
Enjoyed thoroughly
Thank you
This is a FANTASTIC: subscribed.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Thank you for the information 😊
Eye opening definitely will re watch a lot of great info much appreciated 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! I’ve got a bunch of other jungian vids too. ✨🙏✨
Thank you. Wonderful Content ❤
When I began looking in 15 or so years ago, I could only have wished to have videos such as this. So well put, succinct, and with relevant examples to simultaneously extrapolate and condense these very, very deep topics. To see conversations about these topics and to see videos such as this come up more and more nowadays is quite refreshing. Keep it up!
Thank you!
@@THIRDEYEDROPS I'd love to be able to vlog/content create like this - I could go on forever. These concepts were swirling around my head and reconciled (and are still in process) for years before I was able to consume such great content like yours. Keep it up!!
This is fantastic! Thanks to 3rd eyedrops and to all the commenters! 🤘💜🫶
Brother....thank you. Well worded, and timely
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Very nice audio visual production. Thumbs up. 👍🏾
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Thank you sir, what I learnt from this Vedio is that success does not come from major lusting for it. But it is always there if you use proper addresses of it's resources. So shadow work is working out reasons about your psycho. Where I point the brain as the only living organ in the body, or its the only organ with abilities of life and existence. Thank you sir, your claims are an advancement to us. We the growing nation. Stay blessed with these outcomes and proclaim your facts every time. I wish you lovely peace of victories. 👍
Jung is why I went back to school. ~ THIS video, although the shadow anima/animus isn't new to me, I will continue repeadetly listening to this until it is completely assimilated. I simply can't thank you enough.
This is the best video on the shadow I’ve come across. Your way of explaining it and the pace made it easy to grasp. Personally I think mourning for self is the way to access one’s shadow.
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing. 👌
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This was very inspiring!
I love this! What you said really resignates with me. I had so many life goals, worked in many different fields, have a large knowledge of health- (physical, bio chemical, automical) felt drawn to so many aspects of helping others, I've felt the urge to stray from my path so many times. Feeling drawn to art but never feeling or seeing my path form before me. When I look at the path I'm drawn to the most.. I see home. I see a place waiting for me. I see my old self and
all my dreams I left off waiting for me at the door welcoming inside because I prayed for this and it's success long before I chose it as mine. I can't wait to find my way home. 😌💖
You and me both. Good luck! You will find it.
Lovely said... bon voyage
Resonates not resignates
Thanks for your video, love the gorgeous imagery! 🥰 'Third Eye Drops' is a cool name 😂
Great video. Super underrated!
Thank you for your beautiful work! I've been a listener of your podcast for few years now. I see your new content very refreshing and enjoy the video format of podcast very much. I've been recently exploring many of James Hillman books. This guys seems to hit the spot like nobody else for me recently. Especially when talking about the soul and how it is manifesting itself.
I've been recently going through one of the biggest sets of challenges in my life and this kind of materials like here, keeps me sane and gives hope that these challenges are the part of a bigger truth about myself and life in general. Journaling and dream work is huge for me during this period. Thank's for the reminder.
Just saw the upcoming interviews with one of my favorite people in this space Berdnardo Kastrup. Literally blowing my mind with such an amazing content on a regular basis :)
Keep up the fantastic work!
Thank you my friend. Love hearing that Hillman is speaking to you!
I am on a Third Eye Drops loop today and my advice is: longer videos - tune into your higher aspect and let it flow! ❤Great work! Thanks for sharing such great content!
Thanks for watching :)
Great explanation thank you
Loving all the visuals in this one!
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