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Copyright © Jasnica Klara Matić (2020) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher. Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. Ordering Information: Quantity sales: special discounts are available on quantity purchases by corporations, associations, and others. For details, contact the publisher at the address below. Publisher’s data Matić, Jasnica Klara Vibrational painting Series: Vibrational Art – A Tool for Creating Your Reality E-books www.jasnicaklaramatic.com [email protected] First Published (2020)

Jasnica Klara Matic Publishing Trg Ivana Kukuljevića 3/7, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Cover page illustrator data Matić, Jasnica Klara Zadkiel, Vibrational materials on canvas, dim. 70x100 cm Series: Angelic kingdom www.jasnicaklaramatic.com [email protected] The year of creation (2010)

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VIBRATIONAL PAINTING Series: Vibrational Art – A Tool for Creating Your Reality

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“Love is the language that everyone speaks. There are many words of that language, many media. My artworks speak that language through the vibrations of the visions, the sounds, and the materials they are made of. All of them belong to our dear Earth and help us, the Children of a New Era, to live on her—in Joy, Love, Peace, and Abundance.” – Jasnica Klara Matić, Zagreb, 2019.

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Table of Contents

Chapter I: A new birth How I became a vibrational artist. Realizing the wishes from the childhood. A visit to the national shrine in Medjugorje. Shaping the vibrational painting. My second painting. Searching for the right name. Chapter II: Basic principles Fellowship of painting and meditation. The process of creation. The shallow relief as the form. Chapter III: Healing media as the painting materials Wax & Others. About wax. Wax experiment of Rene Descartes. Candle making and the use. Phonograph cylinder with wax. The process of wax melting. Salt. Incense. Essential oils. Crystals. Spices. Medical herbs—Forgotten foods. Chapter IV: Positive archetypes as the painting motives The content of the unconscious mind. Male–female unity. Spiritual–material unity. Divine–human unity. Evolution– revolution unity. Creation–co-creation unity. Inside–outside unity. Love couple. Twin flame. Star walker. Angels. Michael. Uriel. Zadkiel. Raphael. Gabriel. Chapter V: The programming Genetic language. The text I use for the programming. Chapter VI: What is the purpose of the vibrational painting? My life before writing this book. A wide lap of the activities. My approach to life. My origins. Legal career. Judge. Senior legal advisor. Attorney-at-law. Equilibrium., global platform for sustainable peace and development. International environmental legal expert. International mediator.

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My spiritual journey. Psychoanalysis. Prayer and meditation. Healing. Vibrational painting. Vibrational writing Chapter VII: Interview instead of the conclusion To which artistic direction do your paintings belong? With what materials do you paint? Could you tell us more about healing power of that materials? Which symbols are the most common on your paintings? Could you tell use more about healing power of that symbols? What is the mission of artist?

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A New Birth

„We are all born artists ... Almost everything kids do is art“. - William McDonough

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How I Became a Vibrational Artist Starting from my childhood, I enjoyed doing things I could create freely, with no imposed structure and instructions on how to do it. I enjoyed making my small experiments in my own way. The mathematics and art from elementary school were perfect tools for me at that time. I remember that I was often solving the mathematical problems differently than I had been taught in my primary school. I liked to practice mathematics by listening to music in the background. My grandmother spent a lot of time with me then, and she was my “silence support” when I was doing that. She would just sit in the same room without talking too much. But, if I wanted to show her what I did or wanted to communicate it with her, she responded readily. Then we talked—not too much, not too small—just as much as it was needed for each of us. So, my love for, both, the mathematics and art have grown up in the best possible conditions for me. My grandmother was Slovenian, and she married my grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a railway man and she was the daughter of a merchant who had a candy store at the center of Ljubljana. On one of his travels, my grandfather came to the store to buy, at that time the highly valued “silk bonbons.” My grandmother was inside and everything that happened then, became a part of our family history. They lived together for more than fifty years and have seven children. They lived together in the real sense of that word, including joint life issues solving, but also enjoying life in its completeness. My grandfather has advanced in his job to the position of the head of the train station and the whole family was migrating to other places all the time. The last place they came together was my birthplace Bosanski Brod, a small town on the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were both the parts of the former Yugoslavia at that time. When my grandfather died, I was six months old and my parents invited my grandmother to live with us and take care of me. When I was reviewing my life until the death of my grandmother, which happened when I was twenty-one, I have recognized how blessed I was to have her in my life.

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Her model of personality was something I always searched for in people; because for me, she had everything someone has to have if wanting to be a strong individual and the appropriately socialized person at the same time. She always taught me that freedom of deciding on what to do in my life is in my hands, as well as, the responsibility for what I have chosen to do. Realizing the Wishes from the Childhood Twelve years ago, I participated in the workshop on which we used the painting as a tool for the revelation of our life mission. We had to paint two paintings there: one during the first and one during the second day of the workshop. I still remember how excited I was when started to paint. I felt my heart beating in my chest and I saw the outside world disappearing from my perception. I opened all the boxes with the colors, and I pulled them on the paper which I used as the background. I was looking at them flowing and pouring one into another making the whole painting alive and mobile. The first painting seemed like the mixture of all the basic colors, from red to purple. It looked completely different than the other one, on which all these colors were mixed with white and black. They looked like two different persons have painted them. Later, when I was comparing them and thinking what the reason for such difference was, I recognized that my emotions went through the complete change when I was making them. I did not understand why it happened, but I intuitively felt that it was the sign that my perception of reality was changing. It was just the presentation of something that was already happened. Old perception of life was gone and the new one has come at her place. Because I did not recognize that change has occurred, my mind has chosen to confront me with that through the process of painting. A Visit to the National Shrine in Medjugorje In that time, some of my friends have told me that it is the right time for visiting Medjugorje, Marian sanctuary in our neighboring country which is one of the most famous Marian sanctuaries in the world.

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I wanted to delay that visit for a while, but events which happened at that time showed me that this was something on top on my priorities list. They told me that it is necessary to wait for two months; from the application for going there until the day of the departure. It was June and they suggested me to apply immediately; that I could stay there during the summer. At the evening of the same day when we talked, I saw, on the internet, the announcement that the next day, a lecture under the title: A meeting with the higher self, will be held at the Anthroposophical Society. I went there and at the end of the lecture, the lecturer informed us that they had organized a visit to Medjugorje two months ago for a group of people, but today two of them had told him that they would not be able go. He asked whether it is possible that someone of us, which were listening to the lecture, go with them, instead of those who gave up. I applied and spent, with them, the next two days in Medjugorje. On the second day of the visit, we visited one newly built chapel, on whose door were engraved the letters: The Alpha (on the left side) and the Omega (on the right side). The energy of this door was so powerful that it inspired me to paint them immediately after returning back home the next day. That is the way how the artwork under the title A Message to the World was born. It is made on the canvas on which I was writing with a candle I bought in Medjugorje. The colors on the artwork were only two: the white color which represents the universe, everything that exists, God, the Creator, and the eternal energy of creation; and the golden color which represents the symbols of the energy forms which are created on the highest energy levels. Shaping the Vibrational Painting When returning from Medjugorje, I traveled to Tunisia and South Korea. I have bought lots of spices from both of the countries. They had a wonderful texture and smell, so I came to the idea to use them as painting materials. I did it and started to explore how they were reacting in combination with other materials I started to use for painting like wax, incense, and salt. It was the time when I searched for the identity of the art I was creating. I experimented with the background, with what materials it will be covered and how I will treat these materials.

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I used different kinds of waxes. I melted them by myself and then poured them out on the canvas. I used different types of tools for treating the wax. From the beginning, a shallow relief is my art form. I prefer to create the three- dimensional instead of the two-dimensional form. I also used the meditation to approach the subconscious mind, where lie the positive archetypes which I used as the painting motives. I meditated on the sorts of these archetypes and their meanings. From the beginning, I decided not to learn existing painting techniques and the history of art, but to express what came to me from my mind and emotions. Through time, I have discovered many types of wax, incense, and salt from different parts of the world and the differences between their structures and characteristics. Everything that happened on my art journey was completely spontaneous and it seemed that I experienced new things at first, and after that, read about them in the history books. It has brought me to accept the existence of the inner knowledge and to believe that it is possible to approach to it through meditation. All that happened was a very liberating experience for me and I have really enjoyed painting. It was something which I have needed and which I found. I had a deep belief that all that we need for development comes when it is time for that. Our only role in all this process is only “Don’t Stand in Your Own Way.” Even I did not recognize it at that time, that what happened, was, in fact, the activation of my intuitive and imaginative right brain hemisphere and the start of harmonizing the both of hemispheres. My legal, logical approach to the world has been found its complementary part—an intuitive and imaginative approach. When it happened, I was really confused and I was started to think who I am— lawyer or artist, and whether it is necessary to leave my law career with an aim to free place for the things like the painting. It was not easy to overcome everything, but meditation, I practiced daily, helped me a lot in that.

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Everything came to its place when I meditated on how to harmonize all I do in my life in one new activity which will have inside the elements of all of them but be different from each of them, only because of the fact that its new identity is added to the sum of the specific identities of each of them. Meditation showed me that our body in the meaning of its physical and non- physical parts knows exactly what to do and how to ensure its development and growth. However, that what happened was not a conscious but unconscious process, and as it always happens, when we believe in the highest consciousness or God, the Creator, depending on how each of us calls this super intelligence and supreme power, we always get in our life what we need although it is not always the same as what we want to do in our life. My Second Painting In December 2006, I painted for the first time with salt, incense, rosemary, and thyme. They belong to the media which have been used for centuries, in different traditions worldwide, for healing people and their space. The title of the painting I have created then is Inside the Door. It represents the Matter and the Spirit standing in the Door of Eternity. It was made on the canvas covered by melted wax into which salt, incense, rosemary, and thyme were infused. The dominant colors are the gold, which symbolizes the Absolute Spirit, and the green, which symbolizes the Earth. The background is colored white, like a candle flame, for which, it is believed that is an original color of the Divine Source, the highest frequency light which corresponds to a pure, unconditional love. Searching for the “Right Name” The same as my paintings, also the name I used when presenting them to the public was also changed through years. The joint name of my paintings was changing over the years. At the beginning, I called them the Environmental Art because I wanted to put the emphasis on the fact that they are natural and come from the environment. Several years later, I started to call them the Healing Art, because I wanted to put the emphasis on their role which is, in fact, to be a tool for healing people on every level on their existence, not be a result of the officially recognized art techniques.

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And finally, the name Vibrational Art was born; because this time, I want to put the emphasis on the Law of vibration, which says that, “everything vibrates, nothing stands still” and that different kinds of energy forms, like people and the paintings, attract each other, if having similar frequency. It is the Law of attraction, as one of the laws which govern the universe and create the matrix for everything existing on the Earth—in action.

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The Basic Principles

„The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. ” - Wassily Kandinsky

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Fellowship of Painting and Meditation Vibrational Painting is the tool for conscious creation of reality. It joins the painting and the meditation as two, different, but complementary, techniques. The painting is the multilevel technique, both physical and spiritual, because besides the use of inspiration of the artist, whose origins are spiritual, it presumes, also, the use of the material things like canvas, colors, brushes are movement of the physical body too. In opposite, the meditation is only the spiritual technique. It can be focused meditation when the person which meditates focus its attention on some thought, emotion, or physical thing. It shapes and defines them in their mind; and visualizes that, what they want is already realized. The meditation can also be unfocused when the person who meditates leaves their mind to wander, without any expectation. The painting as the spiritual—material technique, and the meditation as only the spiritual technique, are joined in The vibrational painting, becoming a completely new, universal technique. The Process of Creation The process of creation of the vibrational painting includes these phases: In the first stage, I connect through meditation with God, the Creator or the universe and send the thought of what I want to create. In the second stage, I make the basis of painting by covering the canvas with melted wax. In the third stage, I infuse the painting materials into the basis made of wax. In the fourth stage, I shape the shallow relief in the form which represents the motive. In the fifth stage, I color the shallow relief. In the sixth stage, I program the painting through pronouncing the text and the visualization that the intention of the painting is already fulfilled.

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The Shallow Relief as the Form As a form of matter, the vibrational paintings come in the form of the shallow relief. They are made on the canvas which I am covering with the melted wax. While still is in a liquid state, I am infusing into the wax the materials, which have been used for centuries, in different traditions, as the media for healing (salt, incense, crystals, healing herbs). The molecular structure of these materials makes that their frequencies are very high. In accordance with the Law of attraction, they attract the thoughts and emotions which have the similar, high frequency. By working together, the vibrational painting as the physical form, and these thoughts, and emotions become a source of the positive energy for everyone in connection with the vibrational painting. This relief is the multilevel energy form. It contains, in itself, the parts of different energy levels of the artist, but also the parts of different energy levels of the persons which got in touch with it, no matter whether it happened directly or indirectly. The levels we are talking about are the soul, mental, emotional, physical and etheric levels or bodies of these persons. The main role belongs to the soul part of each person because it knows, clearly, why the relief was created and what each of these persons experienced through it. Each soul is, as it was already said, the pure essence of God, the Creator, and it is the master of the game, which creates the lower levels or bodies with an aim to experience through them the content of its own plan.

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Healing Media as the Painting Materials

In cultures worldwide, it is believed that we are surrounded by energy forms that can mediate in establishing and maintaining the balance between us and the surrounding world. The energy forms that can mediate in establishing and maintaining the balance between us and the surrounding world are the materials that were used for healing for centuries. These materials are wax, salt, incense, healing herbs, crystals, essential oils, medicinal herbs (forgotten foods) and spices.

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1. About Wax Wax Experiment of René Descartes René Descartes, a 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, conducted an experiment with the wax. He wrote about that in his book Meditations on First Philosophy. He said: “Let us take, for example, this piece of wax. It has been taken quite freshly from the hive, and it has not yet lost the sweetness of the honey which it contains. It still retains somewhat of the odor of the flowers from which it has been culled. Its color, its figure, and its size are apparent. It is hard, cold, easily handled, and if you strike it with the finger, it will emit a sound. But, notice that while I speak and approach the fire, what remained of the taste disappears, the smell evaporates, the color alters, the figure is destroyed, the size increases, it becomes liquid and hot, and if you strike it with the finger, it does not emit a sound. Does the same wax remain after this change? Perhaps, it was what I now think, that this wax was not that sweetness of honey, nor that agreeable scent of flowers; nor that particular whiteness; nor that figure; nor that sound; but simply a body which, a little while before, appeared to me as perceptible under these forms, and which is now perceptible under others. But what, precisely, is it that I imagine when I form such conceptions? Let us attentively consider this, and, abstracting from all that does not belong to the wax, let us see what remains. Certainly, nothing remains excepting a certain extended thing which is flexible and movable.” Candle Making, and the Use Candle making was developed independently in many places throughout history. In India, wax from boiling cinnamon was used for temple candles. Candles were primarily made from tallow and bees wax in ancient times, but have been made from spermaceti, purified animal fats and paraffin wax in recent centuries.

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The early Greeks used candles to honor the goddess Artemis’ birth on the sixth day of every lunar month. The Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD) Jizhupian dictionary of about 40 BC hints at candles being made of bees wax, while the Book of Jin covering the Jin Dynasty (265–420 AD) makes a reference to the bees wax candle in regard to its use by the statesman Zhou Yi. An excavated earthenware bowl from the 4th century AD, located at the Luoyang Museum, has a hollowed socket where traces of wax were found. Generally, Chinese candles were molded in paper tubes, using rolled rice paper for the wick, and wax from an indigenous insect that was combined with seeds. With the growth of the whaling industry in the 18th century, spermaceti, an oil that comes from a cavity in the head of the sperm whale, became a widely used substance for candle making. Like bees wax, spermaceti wax did not create a repugnant odor when burned and produced a significantly brighter light. It was also harder than either tallow or bees wax, so it would not soften or bend in the summer heat. The first “standard candles” were made from spermaceti wax. Candles are used in the religious ceremonies of many faiths. Candles are a traditional part of Buddhist ritual observances. Along with incense and flowers, candles are placed before Buddhist shrines or images of the Buddha as a show of respect. They may also be accompanied by offerings of food and drink. The light of the candles is described as representing the light of the Buddha’s teachings, echoing the metaphor of light used in various Buddhist scriptures. In Christianity, the candle is commonly used in worship both for decoration and ambiance, and as a symbol that represents the light of God or, specifically, the light of Christ. The candle is often placed on the altar, usually in pairs. Candles are also carried in processions, especially to either side of the processional cross. A votive candle or taper may be lit as an accompaniment to prayer. Candles are lit by worshippers in front of icons in Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic and other churches. This is referred to as “offering a candle,” because the candle is a symbol of the worshiper offering himself or herself to God.

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Among the Eastern Orthodox, there are times when the entire congregation stands holding lit tapers, such as during the reading of the Matins Gospels on Good Friday, the Lamentations on Holy Saturday, funerals, Memorial services, etc. There are also special candles that are used by Orthodox clergy. A bishop will bless using dikirion and trikirion i.e. candlesticks holding two and three candles. At Easter, the priest holds a special Paschal trikirion, and the deacon holds a Paschal candle. The priest will also bless the faithful with a single candle during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts which is celebrated only during Great Lent. In the Roman Catholic Church, a liturgical candle must be made of at least 51 percent bees wax, the remainder may be paraffin or some other substance. In the Orthodox Church, the tapers offered should be 100 percent bees wax, unless poverty makes this impossible. The stumps from burned candles can be saved and melted down to make new candles. In Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, St. Lucia Day is celebrated on December 13 with the crowning of a young girl with a wreath of candles. In many Western churches, a group of candles arranged in a ring, known as an Advent wreath, are used in church services in the Sundays leading up to Christmas. In households in some Western European countries, a single candle marked with the days of December is gradually burned down, day by day, to mark the passing of the days of Advent, and this is called an Advent candle. In Judaism, a pair of Shabbat candles are lit on Friday evening prior to the start of the weekly Sabbath celebration. On Saturday night, a special candle with several wicks and usually braided is lit for the Havdalah ritual marking the end of the Sabbath and the beginning of the new week. The eight-day holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is celebrated by lighting a special Hanukkiah each night to commemorate the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem. Candles are also lit prior to the onset of the Three Festivals (Sukkot, Passover and Shavuot) and the eve of Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashana. A candle is also used on the night before Passover in a symbolic search for chametz, or leavened bread, which is not eaten on Passover. The religious importance of candles in Muslim countries is amply demonstrated by their use at the Dome of the Rock (Qobbat al-Ṣaḵra) and the Aqsa Mosque (al-

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Masjed al-Aqṣā) in Jerusalem, which were lit by some two thousand wax candles in addition to five thousand suspended lamps. Wax candles are especially valued in religious contexts because of their association with bees and honey, which the Quran and hadith explicitly refer to as a substance of heavenly origin, possessed of medicinal value. The bee as the producer of honey is also praised for its obedience to God and as an example to be followed by the pious. Sufis refer to the candle symbolically as the “divine light” and the “light of the divine guidance,” whereas the Quran is sometimes called “the divine candle” or “the candle/light of God.” Phonograph Cylinder with Wax The first idea of a genuine talking-machine appears to belong to Thomas A. Edison, who, in 1875, created a device intended to reproduce complex sounds, such as those of the human voice. Of the thousands of persons who in that year visited the small room in the Tribune building, in New York, where the first phonograph was for months on exhibition, very few were found to hope much for the invention. The phonograph looked like a toy, and only when one knew what had been said to the phonograph could its version be understood. Edison’s early phonograph nevertheless contained every essential feature of the new instruments which he and other inventors are about to introduce. It was founded upon the discovery that if a delicate diaphragm or sounding-board is provided with a sharp point of steel, its vibrations under the sound of the human voice will cause the sharp point or stylus to make a series of impressions or indentations upon a sheet of wax or other material passed beneath it. Such indentations, though microscopic, are sufficiently defined to cause similar vibrations in the diaphragm, if the stylus is again passed over the furrow of indentations, and this reproduction is loud enough to be heard. For his first successful recording and reproduction of intelligible sounds, Edison used a thin sheet of tin foil wrapped around a hand-cranked grooved metal cylinder. That foil was not a practical recording medium and the hand-cranked phonograph was only marketed as a novelty, to little or no profit.

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Following seven years of research and experimentation at their Volta Laboratory, Charles Sumner Tainter, Alexander Graham Bell and Chichester Bell introduced wax as the recording medium and engraving, as the recording method. In 1887, their “Graphophone” system was being put to the test of practical use by official reporters of the US Congress, with commercial units later being produced by the Dictaphone Corporation. After this system was demonstrated to Edison’s representatives, Edison quickly resumed work on the phonograph. He settled on a thicker all-wax cylinder, the surface of which could be repeatedly shaved down for reuse. Both the Graphophone and Edison’s “Perfected Phonograph” was commercialized in 1888. Eventually, a patent-sharing agreement was signed, and the wax-coated cardboard tubes were abandoned in favor of Edison’s all-wax cylinders as an interchangeable standard format. Beginning in 1885, prerecorded wax cylinders were marketed. These have professionally made recordings of songs, instrumental music or humorous monologues in their grooves. At first, the only customers for them were proprietors of nickel-in-the-slot machines—the first jukeboxes—installed in arcades and taverns, but within a few years private owners of phonographs were increasingly buying them for home use. Each cylinder can easily be placed on and removed from the mandrel of the machine used to play them. Unlike later, shorter-playing high-speed cylinders, early cylinder recordings were usually cut at a speed of about 120 rpm and can play for as long as 3 minutes. They were made of a relatively soft wax formulation and would wear out after they were played a few dozen times. The buyer could then use a mechanism which left their surfaces shaved smooth so new recordings could be made on them. One of the earliest surviving recordings of music: An 1888 recording of Arthur Sullivan’s The Lost Chord recorded by George Gouraud and played at the August 14, 1888 press conference that introduced the phonograph to London. In the earliest stages of phonograph manufacturing, various competing incompatible types of cylinder recordings were made. A standard system was decided upon by Edison Records, Columbia Phonograph, and other companies in the late 1880s.

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Over the years, the type of wax used in cylinders was improved and hardened so that cylinders could be played with good quality over 100 times. In 1902 Edison Records launched a line of improved hard wax cylinders marketed as “Edison Gold Molded Records.” The major development of this line of cylinders is that Edison had developed a process that allowed a mold to be made from a master cylinder which then permitted the production of several hundred cylinders to be made from the mold. The process was labeled, “Gold Molded” because of the gold vapor that was given off by gold electrodes used in the process. Originally, all cylinders sold had to be recorded live on the softer brown wax which wore out in as few as twenty playing. Later cylinders were reproduced either mechanically or by linking phonographs together with rubber tubes. The Process of Wax Melting Melting is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid. This occurs when the internal energy of the solid increases, typically by the application of heat or pressure, which increases the substance’s temperature to the melting point. At the melting point, the ordering of ions or molecules in the solid breaks down to a less ordered state, and the solid melts to become a liquid. The first theory explaining mechanism of melting in the bulk was proposed by Lindemann, who used vibration of atoms in the crystal to explain the melting transition. Lindemann stated that melting occurs because of vibrational instability which appears when the temperature of the substance becomes so large that the atoms start to invade the space of their nearest neighbors and disturb them. The melting point of a solid depends on the intermolecular forces present between the atoms or molecules in the solid since you must disrupt those forces to change from a solid to a liquid. The stronger the intermolecular forces, the higher the melting point. The Slip melting point (SMP) is the melting point of a waxy solid. It is determined by casting a 10 mm column of the solid in a glass tube with an internal diameter of about 1 mm and a length of about 80 mm, and then immersing it in a temperature-controlled water bath.

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The slip point is the temperature at which the column of the solid begins to rise in the tube due to buoyancy, and because the outside surface of the solid is molten. The materials that are infused into the melted wax have the higher melting points than the wax. For example, the melting point of salt is 801 degrees Celsius, and the melting points of mountain crystal and amethyst are higher than that. Because of that, when I throw these materials into the melting wax, that what is happening is their connecting into one base. Thereby, only the wax changes its structure, other materials stay the same, but connected to other materials.

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2. Salt Salt is mostly sodium chloride, the ionic compound with the formula NaCl, representing equal proportions of sodium and chlorine. Sea salt and freshly mined salt, much of which is sea salt from prehistoric seas, also contain small amounts of trace elements which in these small amounts are generally good for plant and animal health. Mined salt is often refined in the production of table salt; it is dissolved in water, purified via precipitation of other minerals out of solution, and reevaporated. During this same refining process, it is often also iodized. Salt crystals are translucent and cubic in shape, they normally appear white, but impurities may give them a blue or purple tinge. Some of the earliest evidence of salt processing dates to around 6,000 BC, when people living in the area of present-day Romania boiled spring water to extract salts. The salt-works in China dates to approximately the same period. All through history, the availability of salt has been pivotal to civilization. What is now thought to have been the first city in Europe is Solnitsata, in Bulgaria, which was a salt mine, providing the area now known as the Balkans with salt since 5400 BC. Even the name Solnitsata means “salt works.” A very ancient salt-works operation has been discovered at the Poiana Slatinei archaeological site next to a salt spring in Lunca, Neamț County, Romania. Evidence indicates that Neolithic people of the Precucuteni Culture were boiling the saltladen spring water through the process of briquetage to extract the salt as far back as 6050 BC. The harvest of salt from the surface of Xiechi Lake near Yuncheng in Shanxi, China, dates back to at least 6000 BC, making it one of the oldest verifiable saltworks. There is more salt in animal tissues, such as meat, blood, and milk, than in plant tissues. With the spread of civilization, salt became one of the world’s main trading commodities. It was of high value to the ancient Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Hittites and other peoples of antiquity.

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In the Middle East, salt was used to ceremonially seal an agreement, and the ancient Hebrews made a “covenant of salt” with God and sprinkled salt on their offerings to show their trust in him. An ancient practice in time of war was salting the earth i.e. scattering salt around in a defeated city to prevent plant growth. The Bible tells the story of King Abimelech who was ordered by God to do this at Shechem, and various texts claim that the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus ploughed over and sowed the city of Carthage with salt after it was defeated in the Third Punic War (146 BC). Ponds near Maras, Peru, fed from a mineral spring and used for salt production since the time of the Incas. In Africa, salt was used as currency south of the Sahara, and slabs of rock salt were used as coins in Abyssinia. Moorish merchants in the 6th century traded salt for gold, weight for weight. The Tuareg have traditionally maintained routes across the Sahara especially for the transportation of salt by Azalai. The caravans still cross the desert from southern Niger to Bilma, although much of the trade now takes place by truck. Each camel takes two bales of fodder and two of trade goods northwards and returns laden with salt pillars and dates. In Gabon, before the arrival of Europeans, the coast people carried on a remunerative trade with those of the interior by the medium of sea salt. This was gradually displaced by the salt that Europeans brought in sacks, so that the coast natives lost their previous profits. Salzburg, Hallstatt, and Hallein lie within 17 km (11 mi) of each other on the river Salzach in central Austria in an area with extensive salt deposits. Salzach literally means “salt river” and Salzburg “salt castle,” both taking their names from the German word Salz meaning salt and Hallstatt was the site of the world’s first salt mine. The town gave its name to the Hallstatt culture that began mining for salt in the area in about 800 BC. Around 400 BC, the townsfolk, who had previously used pickaxes and shovels, began open pan salt making. During the first millennium BC, Celtic communities grew rich trading salt and salted meat to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome in exchange for wine and other luxuries. Wars have been fought over salt. Venice fought and won a war with Genoa over the product, and it played an important part in the American Revolution. Cities on

29 Jasnica Klara Matić Publishing overland trade routes grew rich by levying duties, and towns like Liverpool flourished on the export of salt extracted from the salt mines of Cheshire. Various governments have at different times imposed salt taxes on their peoples. The voyages of Christopher Columbus are said to have been financed from salt production in southern Spain, and the oppressive salt tax in France was one of the causes of the French Revolution. After being repealed, this tax was reimposed by Napoleon when he became emperor to pay for his foreign wars and was not finally abolished until 1945. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led at least 100,000 people on the “Dandi March” or “Salt Satyagraha,” in which protesters made their own salt from the sea thus defying British rule and avoiding paying the salt tax. This civil disobedience inspired millions of common people and elevated the Indian independence movement from an elitist movement to a national struggle. Salt was also prized by the ancient Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Hittites, Egyptians, and the Indians. Salt became an important article of trade and was transported by boat across the Mediterranean Sea, along specially built salt roads, and across the Sahara on camel caravans. It has long held an important place in religion and culture. Bread and salt are a welcome greeting ceremony in Slavic and other European cultures and in Middle Eastern cultures. The bread is a symbol of family unity and goodness, and salt prosperity and security for the guest. In Judaism, it is recommended to have either a salty bread or to add salt to the bread if this bread is unsalted when doing Kiddush for Shabbat. It is customary to spread some salt over the bread or to dip the bread in a little salt when passing the bread around the table after the Kiddush. To preserve the covenant between their people and God, Jews dip the Sabbath bread in salt. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans invoked their gods with offerings of salt and water and some people think this to be the origin of Holy Water in the Christian faith. In Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl was a fertility goddess who presided over salt and saltwater. Salt is considered to be a very auspicious substance in Hinduism and is used in particular religious ceremonies like house warmings and weddings. In Jainism, devotees lay an offering of raw rice with a pinch of salt before a deity to signify their devotion.

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In Shinto, salt is used for ritual purification of locations and people and small piles of salt are placed in dishes by the entrance of establishments for the two-fold purpose of warding off negative energy and attracting patrons. In the Hebrew Bible, there are thirty-five verses which mention salt. One of these, mentioned wife of Lot, who was turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back at the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as they were destroyed. When the judge Abimelech destroyed the city of Shechem, he is said to have “sown salt on it.” In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus referred to his followers as the “salt of the earth.” The apostle Paul also encouraged Christians to “let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt.”.

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3. Incense Incense is aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burned. It is composed of aromatic plant materials, often combined with essential oils, and can generally be separated into two main types: “indirect-burning” and “direct- burning.” Indirect-burning incense is not capable of burning on its own and requires a separate heat source. Direct-burning incense is lit directly by a flame and then fanned or blown out, leaving a glowing ember that shoulders and releases a smoky fragrance. A variety of materials have been used in making incense. Historically there has been a preference for using locally available ingredients. For example, sage and cedar were used by the indigenous peoples of North America. Trading in incense materials comprised a major part of commerce along the Silk Road and other trade routes, one notably called the Incense Route. Local knowledge and tools were extremely influential on the style, but methods were also influenced by migrations of foreigners, such as clergy and physicians. The combustible base of a direct burning incense mixture not only binds the fragrant material together but also allows the produced incense to burn with a self- sustained ember, which propagates slowly and evenly through an entire piece of incense with such regularity that it can be used to mark time. The base is chosen such that it does not produce a perceptible smell. The word incense comes from Latin incendere meaning “to burn.” Resin balls were found in many prehistoric Egyptian tombs in El Ma-hasna, giving evidence for the prominence of incense and related compounds in Egyptian antiquity. One of the oldest extant incense burners originates from the 5th dynasty. The Temple of Deir- el-Bahari in Egypt contains a series of carvings that depict an expedition for incense. Incense burners have been found in the Indus Civilization (3300–1300 BCE). Evidence suggests oils were used mainly for their aroma. India also adopted techniques from East Asia, adapting the formulation to encompass aromatic roots and other indigenous flora. This was the first usage of subterranean plant parts in incense. New herbs like Sarsaparilla seeds, frankincense, and cypress were used by Indians.

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At around 2000 BCE, Ancient China began the use of incense in the religious sense, namely for worship. Incense was used by Chinese cultures from Neolithic times and became more widespread in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. The earliest documented use of incense comes from the ancient Chinese, who employed incense composed of herbs and plant products (such as cassia, cinnamon, styrax, and sandalwood) as a component of numerous formalized ceremonial rites. Incense usage reached its peak during the Song dynasty with numerous buildings erected specifically for incense ceremonies. Brought to Japan in the 6th century by Korean Buddhist monks, who used the mystical aromas in their purification rites. The delicate scents of Koh became a source of amusement and entertainment with nobles in the Imperial Court during the Heian Era 200 years later. During the 14th-century Ashikaga shogunate, a samurai warrior might perfume his helmet and armor with incense to achieve an aura of invincibility. It wasn’t until the Muromachi period during the 15th and 16th century that incense appreciation (kōdō) spread to the upper and middle classes of Japanese society. In most Arab countries, incense is burned in the form of scented chips or blocks called bakhoor. This is used specifically on special occasions like weddings or on Fridays or generally to perfume the house. For over two thousand years, the Chinese have used incense in religious ceremonies, ancestor veneration, Traditional Chinese medicine, and daily life. Agarwood and sandalwood are the two most important ingredients in Chinese incense. Incense is used to cleanse and restore energy in healing stones. The technique used for this is called “smudging” and is done by holding a healing stone over the smoke of a burning incense for 20 to 30 seconds. Many people believe that this process not only restores energy but eliminates negative energy. Incense burning in Japan may occasionally take place within the tea ceremony, just like Calligraphy, Ikebana, and Scroll Arrangement. The art of incense appreciation, or Koh-do, is generally practiced as a separate art form from the tea ceremony, and usually within a tearoom of traditional Zen design. Among the ancient Israelites, the burning of incense figured prominently in priestly duties at the tabernacle. Jehovah God prescribed four ingredients to be mixed and burned at the tabernacle: “Take to yourself perfumes: stacte drops and onycha and perfumed galbanum and

34 Jasnica Klara Matić Publishing pure frankincense. There should be the same portion of each. And you must make it into an incense, a spice mixture, the work of an ointment maker, salted, pure, something holy. And you must pound some of it into fine powder and put some of it before the Testimony in the tent of meeting.” (Exodus 30:34–36) Upon a designated altar, priests burned incense twice a day (2 Chronicles 13:11). And on Atonement Day, the high priest burned incense in the Most Holy (Leviticus 16:12, 13). Incense stick, also known as agarbathi and joss sticks, in which an incense paste is rolled or molded around a bamboo stick, is one of the main forms of incense in India. Tibetan incense refers to a common style of incense found in Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. These incenses have a characteristic “earthy” scent to them. Ingredients vary from cinnamon, clove, and juniper, to kusum flower, ashwagandha, or sahi jeera.

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4. Essential Oils In 1992, Bruce Tainio of Tainio Technology, determined that the average frequency of essential oils start at 52 Hz and go as high as 320 Hz, which is the frequency of rose oil. His research shows that therapeutic grade essential oils have the highest frequency of any natural substance known to man, and that this frequency, in accordance to the Law of attraction, creates and sustains harmony and peace. An essential oil is the oil of the plant from which they were extracted, which contains the “essence of” the plant’s fragrance i.e. the characteristic fragrance of the plant from which it is derived. The essential oils typically evaporate completely without leaving a stain or residue. They are adding scents to incense and other products for human use. Essential oils have been used in folk medicine throughout history. The earliest recorded mention of the techniques and methods used to produce essential oils is believed to be that of Ibn al-Baitar (1188–1248), an Al-Andalusian physician, pharmacist and chemist. Most common essential oils such as lavender, peppermint, tea tree oil, patchouli, and eucalyptus are distilled. Raw plant material, consisting of the flowers, leaves, wood, bark, roots, seeds, or peel, is put into an alembic (distillation apparatus) over water. As the water is heated, the steam passes through the plant material, vaporizing the volatile compounds. The vapors flow through a coil, where they condense back to liquid, which is then collected in the receiving vessel. Most oils are distilled in a single process. One exception is ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata) which is purified through a fractional distillation. The decondensed water is referred to as a plant water essence, which is also a sort of the fragrant product. Hydrosols include rose water, lavender water, lemon balm, clary sage, and orange blossom water. Aromatic plants, essences and oils have been used for ages in ceremony, religious observances, beauty care, food preparation and preservation, as incense, and for perfumes. Aromatic plants have also been the basis for herbal and botanical medicines and remedies for thousands of years.

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As early as 2000 BC, the ancient Egyptians were using essential oils for medicinal benefits, beauty care, spiritual enhancement, and in literally all aspects of their daily life. Expensive aromatics and perfumes were worn in Egypt by the ruling families and the priests. Egyptian temple priests were renowned for their herbal preparations, tinctures, unguents, salves and ointments. They employed the vast variety of aromatic balms, resins and powders in many ways for both religious and medicinal purposes. Formulas and recipes for the ancient remedies are still considered highly prized in our world today. Many ancient pictorials on Egyptian temple walls depict essential oils extraction and care, Egyptian royalty using essential oils, as well as valued recipes and formulas. In fact, when King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered and opened in 1922, the excavation team found over 50 ancient alabaster jars— specially carved containers for essential oils. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, studied and documented the medicinal influence of over 300 plants, and is reported to have advised that, “The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and scented massage every day.” He reportedly believed strongly in the medicinal benefit of fumigation with aromatics and used fumigation in the city of Athens to combat the plague. A contemporary of Hippocrates, Theophrastus wrote: “It is to be expected the perfumes should have medicinal properties in view of the virtues of their spices. The effect of plasters and of what some may call poultices prove these virtues, since they disperse tumors and abscesses and produce a distinct effect on the body and its interior parts.” Implicit in his observation is a fundamental principle of therapeutic aromatherapy—that essential oils applied externally affect the internal organs and tissues of the body. The Roman culture was deeply influenced by the Greeks, with influences that were heavily interwoven through centuries of war. The Greek influence is most apparent in architecture and health care. When it comes to aromatics and health, more than any of the other cultures, the Romans used aromatic materials and essential oils with sheer extreme and decadence. They bathed with them lavishly, several times a day, and had frequent massages with essential oils. Oils were also used to scent the hair, body and the

38 Jasnica Klara Matić Publishing bed. The most exotic oils available were blended by highly skilled perfumers, creating celebrated fragrances. A prominent Greek physician, doctor for the Roman army, Pedanius Dioscorides, wrote an impressive 5-volume reference work on herbal medicine during the 1st century AD with well over 600 remedies in those publications, time and 1,500 years of medical practice has proven that many remedies he wrote about are very useful. For example, myrrh is helpful with gum infections, juniper berry is a well-known diuretic, and marjoram has sedative properties. Essential oils have been a core element of the Indian Ayurvedic health care system which is a natural healing system blending spiritual, philosophical and practical elements. No one is sure exactly how old Ayurvedic medicine is. We understand that it has been practiced for at least 5000 years and is widely practiced in India today. A principal tenant is aromatic massage. Ayurvedic literature from 2000 BC records Indian doctors administering oils of cinnamon, ginger, myrrh, coriander, spikenard and sandalwood to their patients. The term Ayurveda, a traditional Indian text, is rooted in Sanskrit. Derived from the words ayur, meaning ‘life,’ and Veda, meaning ‘knowledge.’ The Vedas, India’s most sacred book, mentions over 700 different herbs and aromatics codifying the uses of perfumes and aromatics for religious and therapeutic purpose. Basil is one of the sacred plants India, believed to open the heart and mind, bestowing the energy of love and devotion. Sacred to Vishnu and Krishna Indian deities, it is said to strengthen faith, compassion and clarity. In China, herbs and plant medicine are an integral part of Traditional Chines Medicine. They’re also in important part of Chinese folk medicine. Specific use of essential oils has been traced to in China before the time of Christ. The oldest surviving medical text that we’are aware of is Shennong’s Herbal, dated around 2700 BC, containing information on usage of 365 plants. Shennong was a ruler, father of Chinese herbal medicine, and cultural hero of China who taught his people the practices of agriculture. He consumed hundreds of herbs to test their medical value and is said to have discovered tea and to be the father of Traditional Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture. Another significant influence on today’s Eastern medicine stems from Huángdì, the Yellow Emperor, who wrote the book The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine. He talks in this book about important uses of essential oils, which is till used as a reference for practitioners today.

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Both the Old and New Testament have dozens of references to aromatic plants, with at least 12 essential oils mentioned over 9 times respectively. Essential oils and herbs that are specifically mentioned in the Bible include cedarwood, frankincense, fir, cinnamon, myrrh, myrtle and spikenard. One of the most well-known references to aromatics is of the Magi bringing gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Christ child. Another significant reference is in the Book of Exodus in which Moses received the specifics for a holy anointing oil. Included in that formula was cassia, cinnamon, clove, galbanum, myrrh, olive oil and spikenard. Many of the specific uses for essential oils, as well as recipes for essential oil blends in today’s world are a direct result of biblical references.

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5. Crystals A crystal is a solid material whose atoms are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. A crystal structure i.e. an arrangement of atoms in a crystal, consists of unit cell, a small imaginary box containing one or more atoms in a specific spatial arrangement. The unit cells are stacked in three-dimensional space to form the crystal. The symmetry of a crystal is constrained by the requirement that the unit cells stack perfectly with no gaps. There are 219 possible crystal symmetries, called crystallographic space groups. These are grouped into 7 crystal systems, such as cubic crystal system where the crystals form cubes or rectangular boxes, or hexagonal crystal system where the crystals may form hexagons, such as ordinary water ice. Crystallization is the process of forming a crystalline structure from a fluid or from materials dissolved in a fluid. The final form of the solid is determined by the conditions under which the fluid is being solidified, such as the chemistry of the fluid, the ambient pressure, the temperature, and the speed with which all these parameters are changing. A time crystal or space-time crystal is a structure that repeats in time, as well as in space. Normal three-dimensional crystals have a repeating pattern in space but remain unchanged as time passes. Time crystals repeat themselves in time as well, leading the crystal to change from moment to moment. They cannot reach the equilibrium by themselves at the physical level, nor to contribute to reaching the equilibrium of their environment. The first historical use of crystals come from ancient the Ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. They used lapis lazuli, turquoise, carnelian, emerald and clear quartz in their jewelry with an aim for protection and health. Egyptians also used crystals cosmetically. Galena, lead ore, was ground to a powder and used as the eye shadow known as kohl. Malachite was used in a similar manner. Green stones in general were used to signify the heart of the deceased and were included in burials. Green stones were used in a similar way at a later period in Ancient Mexico. The Ancient Greeks attributed a number of properties to crystals and many names we use today are of Greek origin. The word ‘crystal’ comes from the Greek word

42 Jasnica Klara Matić Publishing for ice, as it was believed that clear quartz was water that had frozen so deeply that it would always remain solid. The word amethyst means ‘not drunken’ and was worn as an amulet to prevent both drunkenness and hangovers. Hematite comes from the word for blood, because of the red coloration produced when it oxidizes. Hematite is an iron ore and the ancient Greeks associated iron with Aries, the god of war. Greek soldiers would rub hematite over their bodies before battle, purportedly to make themselves invulnerable. Greek sailors also wore a variety of amulets to keep them safe at sea. Jade was highly valued in ancient China and some Chinese written characters represent jade beads. Musical instruments in the form of chimes were made from jade and around 1000 years ago Chinese emperors were sometimes buried in jade armor. There are burials with jade masks from around the same period in Mexico. Jade was recognized as a kidney healing stone both in China and South America. More recently—dating from around 250 years ago—the Maoris of New Zealand wore jade pendants representing the ancestor spirits, which were passed down many generations through the male line. The tradition of green stones being lucky continues in parts of New Zealand to this day. Crystals and gemstones have played a part in all religions. They are mentioned throughout the Bible, in the Quran and many other religious texts. The origin of birthstones is the breastplate of Aaron, or the “High Priest’s Breastplate,” as mentioned in the Book of Exodus. In the Quran, the 4th Heaven is composed of carbuncle (garnet). The Kalpa Tree, which represents an offering to the gods in Hinduism, is said to be made entirely of precious stone and a Buddhist text from the 7th century describes a diamond throne situated near the Tree of Knowledge (the neem tree under which Siddhartha meditated). On this throne a thousand Kalpa Buddhas reposed. The Kalpa Sutra, in Jainism, speaks of Harinegamesi the divine commander of the foot troops who seized 14 precious stones, cleansed them of their lesser qualities and retained only their finest essence to aid his transformations. There is also an ancient sacred lapidary treatise, the Ratna Pariksha of Buddha Bhatta. Some sources state that it is Hindu, but it is most likely Buddhist. The date is uncertain, but it is probably from the 6th century. In this treatise diamonds figure highly, as the king of gemstones and are ranked according to caste.

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The Sanskrit word for diamond, vajra, is also the word for the Hindu goddess Indra’s thunderbolt and diamonds are often associated with thunder. The ruby was also highly revered. It represented an inextinguishable flame and was purported to preserve both the physical and mental health of the wearer. In Europe, from the 11th century through the Renaissance a number of medical treatises appeared extolling the virtues of precious and semi-precious stones in the treatment of certain ailments. Typically, stones were used alongside herbal remedies. Authors included Hildegard von Binghen, Arnoldus Saxo, and John Mandeville. There are also references to stones with particular qualities of strength or protection. In the early part of the 19th century, a number of interesting experiments were conducted to demonstrate the effects of stones on subjects who believed themselves to be clairvoyant. In one case, the subject claimed to feel not only physical and emotional changes when touched with various stones, but also to experience smells and tastes. It is interesting to note that there are many examples of gemstones meaning similar things to different cultures, even when there has been absolutely no interaction between these cultures, and no opportunity for crossover. Jade was considered to be a kidney healing stone by the ancient Chinese, and also Aztec and Mayan civilizations, turquoise has been worn to give strength and health all over the world, and jaspers have almost always conferred both strength and calm.

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6. Spices A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring, coloring or preserving food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of plants used for flavoring or as a garnish. Many spices have antimicrobial properties. This may explain why spices are more commonly used in warmer climates, which have more infectious diseases, and why the use of spices is prominent in meat, which is particularly susceptible to spoiling. Spices are sometimes used in medicine, religious rituals, cosmetics or perfume production. The spice trade developed throughout South Asia and Middle East by at earliest 2000 BCE with cinnamon and black pepper, and in East Asia with herbs and pepper. By 1000 BCE, medical systems based upon herbs could be found in China, Korea, and India. Early uses were connected with medicine, and religion. Cloves were used in Mesopotamia by 1700 BCE. The ancient Indian epic Ramayana mentions cloves. The Romans had cloves in the 1st century CE, as Pliny the Elder wrote about them. The earliest written records of spices come from ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Indian cultures. The Ebers Papyrus from Early Egyptians that dates from 1550 BCE describes some eight hundred different medicinal remedies and numerous medicinal procedures. Historians believe that nutmeg, which originates from the Banda Islands in Southeast Asia, was introduced to Europe in the 6th century BCE. Indonesian merchants with spices traveled around China, India, the Middle East, and the east coast of Africa. Arab merchants used the routes through the Middle East and India. This resulted that the Egyptian port city of Alexandria has become the main trading center for spices. In the story of Genesis, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers to spice merchants. In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices. Spices were among the most demanded and expensive products available in Europe in the Middle Ages. The most common were black pepper, cinnamon, cumin, nutmeg, ginger and cloves.

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In the Middle Ages, they were used by medieval medicines, and the European elite. An example of the European aristocracy’s demand for spice comes from the King of Aragon, who invested substantial resources into bringing back spices to Spain in the 12th century. He was specifically looking for spices to put in wine and was not alone among European monarchs at the time to have such a desire for spice. Spices were all imported from plantations in Asia and Africa, which made them expensive. From the 8th until the 15th century, the Republic of Venice had the monopoly on spice trade with the Middle East, and along with it the neighboring Italian maritime republics and city-states. The spice trade made the region rich. It has been estimated that around 1,000 tons of pepper and 1,000 tons of the other common spices were imported into Western Europe each year during the Late Middle Ages. The value of these goods was the equivalent of a yearly supply of grain for 1.5 million people. The most exclusive was saffron, used as much for its vivid yellow-red color as for its flavor. Spices that have now fallen into obscurity in European cuisine include grains of paradise, a relative of cardamom which mostly replaced pepper in late medieval north French cooking, long pepper, mace, spikenard, galangal and cubeb. The control of trade routes and the spice-producing regions were the main reasons that Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sailed to India in 1499. When he discovered the pepper market in India, he was able to secure peppers for a much cheaper price than the ones demanded by Venice. When Christopher Columbus returned from the New World, he described to investors new spices available there. Another source of competition in the spice trade during the 15th and 16th century was the Ragusans from the maritime republic of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia. With the discovery of the New World came new spices, including all-spice, chili peppers, vanilla, and chocolate. This development kept the spice trade, with America as a late comer with its new seasonings, profitable well into the 19th century.

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7. Medical Herbs (Forgotten Foods) We gladly enjoy the food we eat—we like the look, smell and taste of the meals we eat every day. However, meals that we eat do not contain enough nutrients that are necessary for our health. We therefore need stronger foods such as medical herbs. The ancient Chinese have studied herbal properties of plants for centuries and have become skilled in making herbal preparations so that their properties are maximized. Even several thousand ago, they knew to prepare teas that had become a multiplex anesthesia. At that time surgery was very popular. The doctors would remove the sick organ, wash it in a solution of herbal extracts and return to the body. Later this practice was abandoned, as they realized that the prescription for health was at the forefront of prevention. Although God, the Creator, has created foliage, branches, trunks and roots for our diet, most people completely exclude this food from their diet. This happened when a man ceased to take food for himself from nature and began to produce food. Instead of those who are healthy, he has mostly made foods that enjoy his senses. For example, celery is used much more in the diet than magnolia, which is primarily treated visually because of its beautiful blossoms. In connection with this, the old Chinese have determined that magnolia tree possesses a healing value more than celery stem. In fact, magnolia has the potential to strengthen stomach and female sex organs. Ginseng is another example of very strong foods. It grows in cold and dry mountain ranges but can live for more than a thousand years. Contrary to ginseng, which is a root, is carrot that grows only in moderate climate and lives for about three months. If it does not excavate within that time, it will break down and fall. The effect of healing herbs is, therefore, lengthy, unlike ordinary foods whose effect is short-lived. The foods that are used to enjoy their taste come in addition to us, and microbes that attack the human body. They take these foods for food, just like a man. Medicinal herbs or forgotten foods, as the old Chinese call them, do not feed the same germs and people. Since we are conscious beings, we sometimes eat them,

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Positive Archetypes as the Painting Motives

The motives of my paintings are the positive archetypes from the unconscious mind. As such, they are, in fact, the etheric patterns which can manifest themselves at the physical level with help of the observing, meditation and visualization. Carl Gustav Jung understood archetypes as universal, archaic pat- terns and images that derive from the collective unconscious and are the psychic counterpart of instinct. They are inherited potentials which are actualized when they enter consciousness as images or manifest in behavior on interaction with the outside world.

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1. Male–Female Unity Ancient texts say that we all carry both a male and female energy no matter whether we are in a male or a female physical body. This means that energy is united originally but perceived at the physical level as separated. These texts speak about divine beings like angels which are androgyne i.e. have no gender. As humans, we can think about that in the way that the energy that is unique and unseparated at the higher levels, at the physical level looks like separated in two versions or sides. In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about male and female. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He continues that there were three genders: man, woman and the “Androgynous,” each with two sets of genitalia with the Androgynous having both male and female genitalia. The men were children of the sun, the women were children of the earth and the Androgynous were children of the moon, which was born of the sun and earth. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and threatened to conquer the gods. The gods were then faced with the prospect of destroying the humans with lightning as they had done with the Titans but then they would lose the tributes given to the gods by humans. Zeus developed a creative solution by splitting humans in half as punishment for humanity’s pride and doubling the number of humans who would give tribute to the gods. These split humans were in utter misery to the point where they would not eat and would perish so Apollo had sewn them up and reconstituted their bodies with the navel being the only remnant harkening back to their original form. Each human would then only have one set of genitalia and would forever long for his/her other half, the other half of his/her soul. It is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding of one another, that they feel unified and would lie with each other in unity and would know no greater joy than that. According to Theosophy, a religious tradition established in the United States during the late 19th century by Russian emigrant Helena Blavatsky, God created androgynous souls—equally male and female. Later theories postulate that the

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2. Spiritual–Material Unity The concept that is accepted in this book is that everything is the same energy, and that everything is connected and interconnected. Matter was born from the spirit, which is non-physical as material is physical. Matter is limited by time and space, while the spirit is boundless and eternal. In every material form there is the spirit, the one that is absolute, and from which everything is derived. All that exists actually has three aspects, material, spiritual and material-spiritual. All that exists is therefore not the sum of material and spiritual energy, but a new form that, in addition to material and spiritual, also contains an aspect that includes both of them. This is the meaning of the “Holy Trinity” which exists in different forms in different religions. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are thus these three aspects which are connected one to another: The Father is the spirit, the Son is a matter, and the Holy Spirit is the energy that connects them, and which contains both of them.

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3. Divine–Human Unity Divine–Human unity is the eternal attachment of man and God, the Creator, who created it. This means that man is his part and that he lives through man. If we look at this statement secularly rather than religiously, then let us assume that all that exists, both physical and non-physical, is the same energy and that it is all interconnected and interdependent. In this context, man as the physical body, along with his non-physical aura, is permanently and inextricably connected with God, the Creator, no matter how each of the religions perceives it. Regarding his physical body, man is limited by time and space, unlike God, the Creator, who is unlimited and eternal. But nevertheless, man and God, the Creator, are the one, same energy form that is both material and spiritual. Man has his free will to act in harmony with or in contrary to divine will. This means that the action of man can, but does not have to comply, with the laws that apply to the whole universe. In relation to that, what is called the human life on Earth, may look very different for different people. The level of consciousness of the majority of humanity today is the level of conscious mind or ego, which is limited by the system of beliefs, and which makes everything that each person perceives is separated and disconnected to it. This level of consciousness is rooted in the belief that God, the Creator, is separated from humanity, and that God, the Creator, and men determine their relationship through their independent and separate acting.

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4. Evolution–Revolution Unity The Law of Evolution says that we are in a continuous state of becoming. Any of us can observe this law in countless ways as applied to the totality of the Creation. We can observe it relative to the evolution of the human form, in the life of plants and animals, through the fundamental changes of the Earth through millenniums of time. We can observe it through our telescopes pointed out into the universe, and at a molecular level of life. Evolution means the changing of form, the changing of structure, changes everything. The very word changes imply evolution. Evolution is always presided by another universal law—the Law of Involution. What this means is that for an evolution, to occur relative to some structure, form, energy pattern, or dynamics, it always preceded by an involution which simply means the ending of something that pre-exists. That which pre-exists, when evolution becomes necessary, starts to stagnate or non-growth. In all life forms, in anything that exists as phenomena within the totality of the Creation, there exist another universal law—the Law of Survival. When this universal law is stimulated, it will launch the universal Law of involution which will activate the universal Law of evolution and support the specific form of life to survive. The universal laws of evolution and involution have two ways of manifesting. One- way manifests as a slow, progressive, non-cataclysmic process of change. The other way is cataclysmic change in which the very nature of the process of involution leading to evolution is intense and very abrupt. Revolution is a process of conscious change of an existing state by one social group in relation to the other. Revolution is a process because it has its beginning, duration and end. Beginning and duration can be calm or excessive, but the ending is always overwhelming because it means a sudden breakdown of an existing one after which nothing is the same. The difference between evolution and revolution is that revolution is a result of the conscious mind or ego, and evolution is the result of an unconscious mind.

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The revolutionaries believe that those who they have disbanded are their opponents, and that they are completely separate one to another. Also, everything else that happens in the outside world, the revolutionaries consider by themselves as a separate, unrelated reality. By contrast, when the evolution is over, and when we become aware that something has changed permanently, and that it will never be the same again, we know that it is part of our human development and accept the way it happened. Because everything is one energy, we can say that also a revolution is a result of the Law of Evolution. If we translate this into the language of religion, this means that God, the Creator, allows us to decide freely, but our decisions are realized only if are beneficial for the whole existence.

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5. Creation–Co-Creation Unity The unity of creation and co-creation is related to the way in which God, the Creator, or the Universe, and man, work together. If we accept the existence of God, the Creator, then co-creation means our freedom to decide what we want, and his fulfillment of our desires if it is for the benefit for everything that exists. If we are not religious, and accepting the universe as a creator, then this process is the same, only the names of co-creators are different. In that case, it is not the relationship between God, the Creator, and man, but the relationship between the Universe and man. Actually, God, the Creator, or the Universe always fulfill what we want. It is because of the universal Law of Mind which says that we create our reality with our thoughts. At the level of the ego i.e. in our daily life, our wishes look like they are not fulfilled. It is because our beliefs cause that we think that our wishes are not fulfilled because some other person blocks or limits their fulfillment. We will perceive these wishes as fulfilled only if we change the beliefs which limit our perception. It is because this change the beliefs will change our emotions and, as a result of that, our behavior in its completeness. Our new behavior will, in accordance with the Law of Attraction, attract people who support our wishes fulfillment or people who were blocking or limiting our wishes fulfillment in the past will start to support us.

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6. Inside–Outside Unity From the position of perception of reality, the outside world is a picture of the world within us. So, we see in the outside world what our focus is, and we have the opportunity to change, through the relationships with other people and everything else that surrounds us, the parts of ourselves which no longer serve us.

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7. Love Couple Love couple is an outside manifestation of the harmony of a male and a female energy which we all have inside ourselves no matter whether we are in a male or a female physical body. 8. Twin Flame It is said that the moment of meeting our twin flame is the moment when we intuitively know that our life will never more be the same. Twin flame, or twin soul, is a person who has the very similar frequency, and because of that, we feel us very much connected to this person on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level. Our twin flame is the catalyst of our spiritual growth and the mirror of our deepest desires, needs, and fears. It reflects back to us all of our inner shadows, but also our deepest beauty and greatest strengths. We both embody the yin and yang, in other words, our dark side is balanced by their light side, and their dark side is balanced by our light side. 9. Star Walker The star walker archetype reflects that part of us that already knows how to walk amidst the stars, traversing the realms, and connecting with others non-locally, or non-physically. Persons attracting by the star walker archetype develop the ability to feel and connect with people or objects at a distance, and from a young age, they have dreams of traveling to other planets and connecting with beings from other levels of existence.

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10. Angels The word angel arrives from Latin angelus which literally means “messenger.” An angel is a divine being found in various religions and mythologies. Their main role is to be intermediaries between God or Heaven and humanity. Other roles include protecting and guiding human beings and carrying out God’s tasks. Almost all cultures have angels in which they believe. Some of them appear in each of them like Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, but some of them are connected only to the specific cultures. I have several vibrational paintings with angels and archangels (their leaders). Mostly I paint Uriel, whose name means “The Light of God,” Michael whose name means “Who is like God,” Gabriel whose name means “The Messenger of God,” Raphael whose name means “God has healed,” and Zadkiel for whom is believed he is the archangel of ascension, the one who guide humans to the higher levels of existence without dying. 11. Michael (Archangel) It is believed that Michael is the leader amongst archangels. He appears in the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible and in the Book of Revelation and it is known as the “Angel of Protection” and the “ Defender of the Light and Goodness” who sits at the right hand of God, the Creator. His name is a battle cry for the host of angels as they battle for humanity and Michael’s most important function is to free Earth of the toxicants affiliated with fear. 12. Uriel (Archangel) Uriel is the archangel who helps in all the missions to create and maintain peace on Earth and in relation to the infinite universe. His name means “The Light of God.” He is in charge of the mental level, our thoughts and beliefs, and the patterns of thinking. He shows us what’s in the background of each event and helps us understand and forgive the unconditionally. While standing at the door of the Paradise and defending entry to those who have separated from God, the Creator, he then says that they can enter only if they are unconditionally forgiven themselves and others. Uriel is the archangel of Earth and a guardian of secrets that are deep within her. He is the patron of the ecology, which deals with Earth as a living being, including the entire life on her.

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13. Zadkiel (Archangel) Archangel Zadkiel is associated with the enlightenment, the ascen-sion, and the transformation of our physical body into the enlightened body we will have when entering into a new level of consciousness. The ascension means a new reality, a new birth without death. His name means “The Righteousness of God.” Zadkiel s role is to help us in changing our perception of reality from the duality which is the characteristics of the current reality into the unity which will be the characteristic of a new reality. He reminds us to open our heart and mind in gratitude because we receive the permanent support and power of God, the Creator. He helps us to transform all negativity into the positive energy, purifying us in body, mind and heart. 14. Raphael (Archangel) Raphael is the archangel who heal us to make our physical, mental and emotional bodies stronger and healthier. His role consists of reveal-ing the true healed bodies that God created for all of us. 15. Gabriel (Archangel) Gabriel is the archangel which name means “God is my strength.” He was first described in the Hebrew Bible and was subsequently devel-oped by other traditions. In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel, to ex-plain his visions (Daniel 8:15–26, 9:21–27). Gabriel the archangel is also a character in other ancient Jewish writings such as the Book of Enoch. Alongside archangel Michael, Gabriel is described as the guardian angel of Israel, defending this people against the angels of the other nations. In the Gospel of Luke, there is the story of the Annunciation, where the angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah and the Virgin Mary, foretelling the births of John the Baptist and Jesus, respectively (Luke 1:11–38). In many Christian traditions including Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic, Gabriel is also referred to as a saint. In Islam, Gabriel is an archangel whom God sent with revelation to various prophets, includ-ing Muhammad.

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The Programming

“Truth can only be found in one place: the code.” ― Robert C. Martin

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Genetic Language Classical genetics is based on the fact that genetic molecules of DNA have material nature and behave as a substance, i.e. as a matrix on which our genetic code is written. The gene code is, accordingly, a means by which it is possible to determine how our physical body is encoded in DNA. Most scientists founded that 1 to 2 percent of DNA contain protein records. The other part of DNA is proclaimed waste and is not the subject of research by scientists investigating the link between DNA and protein. Russian scientist Petar Garjajev and his international scientific team have decided to investigate the remaining part of DNA and as a result conclude that DNA exists both on physical and non-physical levels and does not act as a substance, but rather as an electro-magnetic and acoustical field. They assume that every genetic information exists on several levels, and that the development of every form of energy on Earth begins in the part of genetic information that is non-physical and universal. All levels of genetic information, as well as everything else in the universe, are united and interconnected, meaning that changes in genetic information at one level trigger changes in the entire genetic information. Dr. Petar Garjajev and his team have concluded that genetic information can be affected and that it can be changed by verbal order. Given the unity of different levels of genetic information, this verbal order affects the levels that are higher than physical. This means that this verbal order influences the source of genetic information. In this way, genetic information can be reprogrammed, which, due to the relationship between DNA and the physical body and its aura, results in physical, emotional and mental changes. Starting from that and having in mind that quantum physicists frequently talk about the existence of a multilevel universe, I started an experiment on whether it is possible to program my vibrational paintings with verbal orders. This programming, in addition to positive affirmations that are pronounced, includes sending to the universe of thought that what the painting presents already exists in the life of the owner of the painting.

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The Text I Use for the Programming “The purpose of this art is to be a helping tool for the creation of a new reality which is for the highest good of me and the highest good of everything that exists. My free will is to use this art in accordance to the Divine Will and for the purpose of spreading love and peace in the world. My desire is to use this art in accordance to the Divine Love and for the purpose of unification and interconnection between all hearts and souls. My intention is to use this art as rays of the light that connect human with the Divine Mind.”

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What Is the Purpose of the Vibrational Painting?

The vibrational relief unconsciously communicates with you through its materials, motives, and colors. It is the tool for communication with your subconscious mind or your soul. You would meet with the relief, somewhere in your life, if your soul planned to provide to you, in such a way, visual information that you need to understand what you want to realize in your life. In accordance with its nature, your soul is emotional, and the way it is triggering your emotions is through visual information. Your soul develops through experiencing the emotions it planned to experience in the conditions of the limitations of the physical body. The visual information through which the soul is triggering your emotions is usually the archetypes that lie in your unconscious mind. Because we are not conscious about their existence in our mind, we need the trigger that will help us become conscious of them. Such a trigger can be the physical manifestation of such archetype i.e. the image that presents it, or the image that presents the opposite of what such archetype presents. For example, we are afraid to launch a new relationship because we have in our suppressed memory the information about unhappy relationships. We are not conscious of that, because our ego wants to protect us from similar painful experiences. Our ego is doing that in a way that we forget what we experienced and are refusing to enter into any new relationship at the same time. In that way, we are protected from a painful experience, but also stopped to develop and grow as human beings. Because our personal development is our priority, it is necessary to find a solution to such a situation. A suppressed memory about the past relationship can be the result of what we experienced, but it can be also the result of what our ancestors experienced, or some other person we never met before.

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If we have in our memory what some other person we never met before experienced, it obviously comes from the collective unconsciousness i.e. we picked up it unconsciously from the forms of collective unconscious like the Internet. No matter what the source of the memory about the past unhappy relationship is, it lies suppressed in our unconscious mind, and the only thing that we can do with that is to become aware of its existence. The vibrational relief with the motive of a happy relationship is the way how we can trigger that awareness. It is always an uplifting experience because the way how happy relationship is expressed on the relief, including its colors, materials, and programming, is always highly positive. This means that the emotions that dominate the relief are love, joy, happiness, and enthusiasm, as well that in the background of these emotions lies the belief that a male and a female are one. At the soul level, a male and a female are united, but at the physical level, because of the belief of duality, they seem to be divided and separated. When seeing the vibrational relief, we can feel acceptance or resistance. If we accept vibrational relief without resistance, it can serve us to remind ourselves every day, in a pleasurable way, on how we are happy and blessed, because we have good relationships with other people. If we feel resistance towards the vibrational relief, this means that we have in our memory the experience related to what the relief represents, that blocs us to go further. This is because this experience attracted, in accordance with the Law of attraction, the emotion that prevents us to have similar experiences. Such emotion can be a fear, shame, sadness, pain, suffer, etc. In that situation, we can react in two ways. One of them is to experience that emotion completely which means to allow it to pass through our physical body. The purpose of this is to become aware, through physical sensations, of the belief that causes us to have such emotion. This belief can exist as the result of what we directly experience in our family, school, or society, or it can be the result of what our ancestors experienced. If we picked up this belief unconsciously from the collective unconsciousness or the collective soul of humanity, it can exist as a result of what the people we never met before experienced.

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The way how we can become aware of the belief that lies in the background of the emotion that passed through our body is to talk with our soul. This talk includes raising the question to our soul via prayer or meditation and receiving the answer via intuition and imagination. Receiving the answer, in this case, means seeing in our mind the images whose symbolic meanings we explain by our intuition. When we received the answer, that is the belief that causes our emotional reaction, we can ask our soul, in the same way, i.e. via prayer or meditation, to change that belief into the appropriate one. If the soul accepted what we asked for, we will know it immediately, because our emotion will be changed in its opposite, positive belief, and our behavior will be changed, as a result of that. What belief will be appropriate for us, our soul, will be decided, depending on the culture or religion we belong to. This means that what is appropriate is not the same for all people on the Earth i.e. what is appropriate for one may not be appropriate for others. In the situation when we feel the resistance towards the vibrational relief, the other way of reaction is to not experience the emotion that is triggered by the soul. This presumes the talk with our soul on whether it can free us from a certain emotion, without experiencing it, and whether we can change the beliefs that stand This talk with the soul can have different results. One result can be that the soul responds to us what beliefs we can change, without experiencing the emotion that lies in their background. The other result can be that our soul does not respond. In that situation, it is obvious that the soul planned to experience the emotion we want to avoid.

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My Life Before Writing This Book

“ The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” - Dalai Lama

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A Wide Lap of the Activities In the past years, I presented myself to the public by performing a wide lap of the activities which are different but capable to complete and support each other. Their aim was and still is to contribute to the realization of the specific goals of my clients but also to the realization of the common goals of the humanity as a whole. My writing and coaching served as the tools for conflict prevention. It is because through them I could contribute to the human consciousness raising and help people to discover beliefs, mental patterns, and emotions which lie in the foundation of their conflicts. On the other hand, my negotiation and mediation served as the tools for peaceful resolution of the conflicts which happened in spite of the work on their prevention. As an international environmental legal expert, I worked on harmonizing the existing regulations and institutions with real needs of people and recommendations in the fields of environmental protection and sustainable development. As an attorney-at-law, I initiated the change of the existing or adoption of new regulations in the field of property investments. I also represented the clients at the courts and administrative bodies in the procedures related to the ownership and the use of land especially in relation to protection and realization of the human rights on the property, equality before the law and the right on a fair trial. As an artist, I showed that everything is possible and that for doing what our heart wants is never late as well as that no special conditions are not necessary to fulfill the desires of our heart. As a healer, I helped many persons to understand that healing capacity lies in each of us and that we are surrounded by everything we need to heal ourselves. The thing what determines whether we will heal us or not is our consciousness and in relation to that, we have to be extraordinarily lucky because we live in the time when human consciousness is raising in the way that people can understand that all humanity came from the same energy source and is the one. When looking back to my past I also understand that my role in this life in relation to others is to provoke them with an aim to make them go over the borders they personally created. It was not because I did not like them but because I love them and understood that we are all the one. In the poems and articles, I wrote about our connection with the universe and that our consciousness is the part of the higher levels of consciousness. My desire was

80 Jasnica Klara Matić Publishing then and still is not only to come to other planets but also to develop our consciousness and understand that we are the ones who create the world we are perceiving. My Approach to Life I am a multidisciplinary oriented person and I believe that future of the humanity lies in the equal development of both hemispheres of the human brain. I say that because I experienced directly in my life on how it looks like to be logically oriented and suppress the imagination but also how does it look like to be both logical, intuitive and free in self-expression. When thinking about my life I found that in its first part I followed the belief system which came as a result of what I learned in my family, school, and society. The core belief in this belief system was to know what you want in your life and to follow it without exception and returning back. The professions which are related to the logical thinking like law, economy, and engineering were highly respected as opposed to the professions which are related to imagination. In fact, they were considered not as professions but as hobbies. Even very emotional and intuitive I was directed from my early childhood to be logical and successful in the professions which are related to logic. I remember that I always had resistance towards planning and scheduling the activities because I felt somehow that what we need in our life will come without searching it and planning when it will come. I also always fight against teaching which cannot be experienced directly like history or sociology. I was suspicious about the stories I found in the history books and I usually explained that I do not know exactly what the persons were who wrote that stories. On the other hand, I like mathematics and art very much because I can do that by myself and see whether it works or not. In the primary and grammar school, I enjoyed searching for my ways of resolving the mathematics problems but also like to create various painting techniques by use of spices, rice, soil, plants. From this perspective, I think that at that time I did not actually know what to study, what to be in my life. Mathematics was something I liked very much but it asks for spending lot of days at the faculty which was not acceptable for me. This is because I always had an inner urge to rule my time by myself and decide when it is the most appropriate time for me.

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I also did not study art because I accepted the belief of my family that it is not possible to live by being an artist and that I need something serious to do if wanting to be respected and successful in the society. My Origins I was born in Bosanski Brod, a small town on the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, both countries belonging to the former Yugoslavia. My primary surrounding, including my family, was multinational and multicultural with a very turbulent history. The ancestors from the side of my mother belonged to the old core of the Europe and were mentioned for the first time in the texts from the 14 century. They were members of very different parts of the society starting with the church hierarchy (members of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit) through the secular hierarchy (from serfs to nobility) to the military hierarchy (from soldiers to the war nobility in 17th century). Everything that is found about them shows that they had a good intuition and instinct for survival which helped them to leave at the right time the old manner of life to the benefit of the new. It is recorded that they were pioneers in building new roads and railways. The ancestors from the side of my father side stopped in my birthplace when passing from Greece through Serbia to Hungary. It is recorded that they tended to live better in the second part of their life. They were at first in the state service usually as soldiers and after taking their life salaries they lived a happier life by doing what they truly like. They were innovators and peacekeepers for the good of all. Among the first they have cultivated land by use of the agricultural machines.

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Legal Career I have finished the primary school, grammar school, and the faculty, all in different parts of the former Yugoslavia. It meant that cultural, religious and historical background of my education was continuously changed. After finishing the Law Faculty at the University in Novi Sad, Serbia, I worked as the junior legal advisor at the Municipal Assembly in my born place Bosanski Brod. It was, in fact, my internship and I did it for one year. After that, I passed the bar exam and was appointed as a judge at the Municipality Court. I headed the criminal division and solved the cases which were primarily related to the juvenile crime. 1. Judge My judge time was the time of questioning the belief system I have adopted in my family, school, and society. The emphasis was putted to the main human issue: what is right and what is wrong and who has the right to determine that from the human point of view. Both my colleagues and the persons I judged said that I was a good judge. Even I had more than 80 percentage of the conditional sentences it was noticed at that time that the rate of the juvenile crime decreased in comparison to the previous time. I noticed then that people come to the court, as blamed or as blaming others, mainly because of the things that happened to them instinctively and unconsciously. Often, they could not explain their behaviors, and I saw that every time they came to the court; they tried to get into the behavior that would lead them to salvation. My intuition and empathy told me that besides a bad social situation, some other causes of their criminal attitude exist. I understood that these causes are the unconscious urges that have a much stronger influence on them than the causes which were taken into account when the decision about their criminal responsibility was made. 2. Senior Legal Advisor After four years of my judge career, I left my birthplace and move to Zagreb, Croatia. It was the early phase of the war in the former Yugoslavia. Everything that seemed to last forever was touched and moved. It was evolution through destruction in

83 Jasnica Klara Matić Publishing action. When the war happened, it lasted for four years and after that nothing remained the same. My new job in Zagreb was the senior legal advisor at the Headquarters of the Central Financial Service of Croatia. I represented the Service in disputes with other state bodies and worked on the preparation of the new laws and establishment of the new practice in the country offices. 3. Attorney-at-Law Four years after working in the state administration, I opened my private attorney at law’s office and started to work on the citizen’s disputes related to the ownership and the use of land. There I had and still have a chance to deal with the genetic beliefs related to the land. I realized that people tend to project their highest values into the land and then devote their whole life to the struggle for returning them back. 4. Equilibrium, Global Platform for Sustainable Peace and Development Four years after working in the state administration, I opened my private attorney at law’s office and started to work on the citizen’s disputes related to the ownership and the use of land. There I had and still have a chance to deal with the genetic beliefs related to the land. I realized that people tend to project their highest values into the land and then devote their whole life to the struggle for returning them back. The Association Equilibrium (furthermore: Equilibrium) was founded in 2001 to be a place for networking international experts in the fields of environmental protection, sustainable development, climate change management, and peaceful conflict resolution. The founders were six men and six women because we wanted to draw public attention on the importance of establishing harmony between male and female aspects of energy, we all have, no matter we are in a male or a female physical body. Main approach of the Equilibrium is that human beings and environment are united and interconnected and that every change in one produces a change in another. I was the president and the head of the multidisciplinary expert team of the Equilibrium from its early beginning.

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5. International Environmental Legal Expert In the period from 2002 to 2005. I completed successfully the specialization in the field of international environmental law at the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe in Szentendre, Hungary. In 2006, I attended the Pilot course for diplomacy in the field of international waters at the UNESCO, International Hydrological Program in Thessaloniki, Greece. In the frame of the Equilibrium and independently I advised a wide lap of multinational environmental organizations, governmental bodies, non- governmental organizations, and business. It was my privilege to work on preparation important international documents like the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin which was concluded between Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herze-govina and Serbia and the laws like the Law on waters of Croatia. I also prepared the Study on whether Croatia needs to ratify the Aarhus Convention as the world important regulation on public access to information, public participation in decision making and access to justice in environmental matters. In the field of the international environmental law, I am a co-author of several books and author of a number of the reports, recommendations, and articles. 6. International Mediator In 2015 I completed in Stadtschlaining, Austria the Diplomacy Academy at the Austrian center for Peace Studies and Peaceful Conflict Resolution successfully, under the patronage of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

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My Spiritual Journey Since I know for myself, I was curious why people behave the way they behave and what they really think and feel. I often compared what we were talking about the same subject and tried to figure out why we differ and what is the difference. Like most people, I believed that what I learned in my family is that what is right and exactly how it should be. As the most part of my family, I thought that we and our world are two sides which have no influence one to another. In accordance to that, I never got in touch my relationships or my environment with my inner state. Because I could not find the causes of many of my life experiences, I realized that the belief system of my family is not functional and the idea to replace or change a significant part of that came on my mind. It was the last year of my grammar school when I started to take care of the relationship between my family beliefs and the situations in my life that did not make me satisfied. I also recognized that something besides my direct experience and genetic heritage exists and that its origins are not easy to understand. The first thought on how it will be useful to learn some spiritual technique came on my mind at the time when I was a judge. 1. Psychoanalysis In the period of four years, I attended at first the Sigmund Freud group and then the Carl Gustav Jung individual psychoanalysis. It is well known that Freud believed that when we explain our behavior to ourselves or others, we can easily find the real motive of our behavior. Calling to this approach, in our psychoanalytic group we were talked about everything that came to our mind. The group had eight members including three psychoanalysts. One of them led the group only through observation what is happening. Two others were there in the frame of their psychoanalysis specialization. After finishing this group therapy, I went to the Jung individual therapy. It was a natural development for me because I was, and I am still much closer to the Jung teaching. A big part of my Vibrational Art is founded on it.

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For example, while Jung agreed with Freud that a past of person and its childhood experiences determined future behavior, he also believed that we are shaping our future. Jung defined the collective unconscious. For him, it is a level of unconscious shared with other members of the humanity comprising latent memories from our ancestral and evolutionary past. In accordance to this, Jung said: “The form of the world into which a person is born is already inborn in him, as a virtual image.” I also accept the teachings of Jung about the archetypes. He said that they are the images and thoughts which have universal meanings across cultures which may show up their dreams, literature, art or religion. Jung believes that symbols from different cultures are often very similar because they have emerged from archetypes shared by the whole human race. Jung claimed to identify a large number of archetypes but paid special attention to these four: The “persona or mask” is the outward face we present to the world. It conceals our real self and Jung describes it as the conformity archetype. This is the public face or role a person presents to others as someone different from who we really are (as an actor). Another archetype is the “anima and animus.” It is the mirror image of our biological sex, that is, the unconscious feminine side in males and the masculine tendencies in women. Each sex manifests attitudes and behavior of the other by virtue of centuries of living together. The psyche of a woman contains masculine aspects (the animus archetype) and the psyche of a man contains feminine aspects (the anima archetype). Next is the “shadow.” This is the animal side of our personality. It is the source of both our creative and destructive energies. Finally, there is the “self which provides a sense of unity in experience.” For Jung, the ultimate aim of every individual is to achieve a state of self—realization. 2. Prayer and Meditation Prayer and meditation are the activities of my daily life for decades. For those who are religious I can say that through them I keep my contact with God, the Creator, but for those who are not, I can say that through them I communicate with the highest levels of consciousness.

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In any case, I think that the benefits of this practice are great at all levels of the human being, including the physical, emotional, mental, and soul. Scientists are making the first attempts to understand the spiritual experience and what happens in the brains and bodies of people who believe they connect with God. They have already found that the brains of people who spend untold hours in prayer and meditation are different. It is because the universal Law of Manifestation is in action. It says that the more we focus on something the more that becomes our reality, the more it becomes written into the neural connections of our brain. What we ask of God is what we think that we need based on our system of beliefs. This system usually contains bans, limitations or exaggerations which cause disharmony in our lives. Calling to that we can pray to God to remove them and give us what we think have lost as a result of their existence. Prayer is associated with the activity of both the right and the left-brain hemisphere and to the beta and the theta brain waves. The thinking that we miss something belongs to the left-brain hemisphere which is associated to the logical thinking and the beta brain waves, but prayer itself belongs to the right brain hemisphere which is associated to imagination and intuition and the theta brain waves. Calling to the fact that the beta brain waves are associated to the perception of reality in which people and their outside world are separated and the fact that the theta brain waves are associated to the perception of reality in which people and their outside world are united and interconnected, we can say that importance of prayer is in its power to serve as a tool for transformation of our perception of reality from duality to unity. In meditation, we do not ask anything. Here we just enter consciously in unity with God by knowing that everything we need will come without asking for that. A deep meditation is associated with the activity of the right-brain atmosphere; the theta brain waves and the perception of reality in which everything is united and interconnected.

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3. Healing Healing involves a whole range of techniques whose task is to bring the physical body and its aura, including all its levels, into a state of total health and vitality. For over twenty years I have learned techniques of healing physical, mental, emotional and soul body and their alignment with the energy levels associated with the Divine Will, Divine Love and Divine Mind. This also includes activities in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development that are actually forms of healing the environment and people that are living nearby. 4. Vibrational Paintings Exhibitions I participated in a number of independent and collective exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. This includes my independent exhibition at the Croatian national shrine, under the title Gabriel or Approaching to the Light. Before, and after that, I exhibited with other artists, from all over the world, at the collective exhibitions in United States of America (Agora Gallery New York, Broadway Gallery New York, Artavita Santa Barbara); in Russia (Russian Art Week in Moscow and St. Petersburg); in Ukraine (Ukrainian Art Week); in Lithuania (Lithuanian Art Week); and in Italy (Primo Piano LivinGallery in Lecce). I met artists and art consumers from different cultural backgrounds and felt what universal in the sense of human communication—really means. 5. Vibrational Writing I am the author of a large number of articles, and also a co-author of a few books, mainly in the field of the environmental protection (Aarhus Convention in Law and Practice of Serbia, Green Agenda Manual of Croatia, Environmental Security in South-Eastern Europe—International Agreements and Their Implementation). In the last two years, I worked on the concept of the vibrational writing as the method for changing our inner state through learning how to think and write.

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1. To Which Artistic Direction Do Your Paintings Belong? I think that my paintings can be classified under the artistic direction which is called Vibrational Art. They are created by the use of the technique, the painting materials, and the painting motives which vibrate on a very high scale. The technique I used is my own creation which means the result of the experiment I repeated many times. This technique joins the meditation and the painting as two completely different but complementary media. They are, in fact, the unity between physical (painting) and non-physical (meditation). Meditation participates in that process much longer than painting, which is the peak of all the creation. 2. With What Materials Do You Paint? When painting, I use salt, incense, wax, essential oils, crystals, spices, and medical herbs. These materials are very special, because they were used, for centuries, in different traditions, for harmonizing man and his outside world, at all the levels of their existence, including ethereal, physical, mental, emotional, soul and spiritual. Because they were used worldwide—both in the holy rituals, but also in daily life— they carry in their memory, information about any experience they had in time and space. Because every example of the species is connected to all other examples, in time and in eternity, they all carry information about everything that their species has ever experienced. This makes them have a very high energy frequency, which is very close to the universal frequency, which means to the frequency of the birth of the human race. This frequency is the frequency of peace, love, health, abundance, and intuitive access to the inner knowledge. This frequency is the frequency of unity and interconnection, the state in which everyone knows that it is valuable and unchangeable in the totality of the existence.

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3. Could You Tell Us More About Healing Power of This Materials? For salt, it is said that it is very confined and compact ingredient that presents a complementary opposite of the invisible world of spirituality and vibrations. According to the different traditions, salt purifies and balances the visible environment with the invisible world. It is known that salt is one of the substances of the “holy water.” For incense, it is known to be one of the spices in the Old Testament which, Moses received from God to use it to purify space. The Japanese believe that putting incense on a board where coal burns could sharpen the senses, purify the consciousness and the body, to remove the mental and spiritual pollutants, to mobilize the organism, to heal the feeling of loneliness and to establish a feeling of harmony. According to the ancient Christian belief the wax is an expedient for the healing of man. It is also well known as recipient and transporter of emotion. Wax is the material from which it was made first cylinder phonograph which was used in 19th century for first recording the voice. When melting wax changes, it structures, and it becomes more organized material. This cause that his frequency raises, and because of that, it starts to attract other materials with high energy frequencies. All other materials than wax, have a much higher melting point than the wax, and because of that wax acts in a way to collect them without changing their atomic structure. Because of that they create together, a new, beautiful artistic forms, without destruction or limitation in functioning of any of them. For medical herbs like rosemary, thyme, sage and heather for centuries were believed to be able to spiritually and physically heal people and their environment. 4. Which Symbols Are the Most Common on Your Paintings? My paintings contain universal symbols which are believed to be in the foundations of the collective unconsciousness and that the observation of them has a deep effect on our inside. It is very interesting from the point of view on how our reality is created. Namely, it is said that people on Earth belong to two groups—one group is the group of observers who accept the reality as it is, and do not believe that it is possible

92 Jasnica Klara Matić Publishing something in it to change; and the other group is the group of creators who consciously create their reality. If we want to change the life we do not like, and if we want to live the life we want and deserve to live, we have to go from the position of the observer to the position of the conscious creator. This actually means transformation of the observing into the creation of our own life. Vibrational painting can help in that process because their motives are the positive archetypes originating from the unconscious mind. This means that it is good to observe the vibrational paintings because they represent our ideal inner states i.e. the states in which we are in harmony. This is different than observing things we do not like and think that we cannot do anything to change them. The observation of the vibration paintings, and the ideal state they represent, is, in fact, the way how to change the things we do not like. For example, if observing the vibrational painting which represents the love couple or the male–female unity, we unconsciously change our inner male–female or spiritual–material disharmony into harmony. Because outside world is just the reflection of our inner state, when harmonize our inner state, we automatically attract from the outside world what is good for us i.e. good intimate or business partner, good friend or neighbor, good business or private opportunity. 5. Could You Tell Use More About Healing Power of That Symbols? The symbol of “Male–female unity” says that every human, whether it is a man or a woman, carries energy in himself which by its nature is both male and female. True freedom of man comes from harmony, knowing yourself and accepting all views of its nature, theirs research and integration. Completeness comes from fullness, and fullness comes from balance. The “Double Happiness” symbol is an old Chinese symbol of longevity, marriage, and the birth of children. In its deeper meaning, this symbol tells us about the development and growth through true integration of the male and female energy in man itself. A harmonized couple is a mirror-like reflection of harmonized personality; and children are a symbol of its growth and development.

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The “Angels” are messengers of God and the agents of revelation. Generally, they are coming to protect us and bring us the message of love from the God. The “Eggs” symbolize a new life. In the Christian tradition, it is connected to the resurrection of Christ. The Chinese talked about the cosmic egg, which contains yin and yang inside as two opposite powers, like male and female, dark and light, wet and dry. In the moment of the explosion of the cosmic egg, those powers were divided to represent the material and spiritual, the earth and the sky. According to the ancient Indian text Katha Upanishad, the “Tree of Life” has roots in the sky, but its branches are hanging down on the Earth. It is clear that it is the Immortal Spirit on which the worlds exist. The meaning of the “Dancing Steps” is, of course, related to the symbolism of the dance. In the ancient time, our ancestors believed that nature is the part of the Divine. Imitation of the nature through movement and voice was their first, and highest, method for connecting with the spirit. Spiritual dance is multicultural phenomena, that testifies its power and authenticity. The cultures from every continent of this planet were acquired their unique forms of dance depending on their indigenous elements. 6. What is the Mission of Artist? The mission of the artist is to work towards of harmonizing their self, because only in that way he/she can make artworks which can contribute to harmonizing of the outside world, including people who are the consumers of his/her works. So, satisfied and harmonized, his/her world can contribute, in return, to his/her further harmonization. In Zagreb, Croatia, March 4, 2019.

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Paintings (illustrations of this book)

Front page – Zadkiel & Tree of Life, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (amethysts, crystals, incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 50x60 cm, made in 2011. Page 14 – Uriel, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 70x100 cm, made in 2009. Page 18 – Michael, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 27 – I am a part of everything that exists, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (Christmas wheat), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 32 – Golden fluxes, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (salt), dim. 70x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 36 - Dancing steps, melted wax on canvas, dim. 70x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 41 – Tree of Life, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt), dim. 70x100 cm, made in 2007. Page 45 – Raphael, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 48 – Energetic network, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, rope), dim. 30x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 51 – Approaching the Light (Gabriel), vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 55 – Completely yours, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 57 – Inside the Door, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (thyme, rosemary, salt, incense), dim. 70x100 cm, made in 2007. Page 59 – Two of them, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (thyme, rosemary, salt, incense), dim. 60x120 cm, made in 2008. Page 62 – Joyfulness, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008.

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Page 64 - Cosmic eggs, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 50x60 cm, made in 2007. Page 65 – In front of the Door, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (cinnamon, black tea, heather, rosemary, salt, incense), dim. 60x50 cm, made in 2007. Page 67 – Star walker, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2013. Page 69 – Angels, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 74 – Man of the Light, melted wax on canvas, dim. 50x100 cm, made in 2008. Page 90 – Good afternoon, I have arrived, vibrational materials infused into the melted wax on canvas (incense, salt, medicinal herbs), dim. 30x100 cm, made in 2014.

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