A client asks: “Just in the last 2 days, I noticed my cat not being normal. And of course our other cat is super cute, but is always attacking him because he is younger. I know that the older cat is probably getting close to his end of life, which I’ll have a hard time with, but I know that I’m trying to prepare myself. I also know that I’ve been down this path before with losing my kitties, and each time, they seem to suffer and I wait until the last minute to bring them to a vet (or a vet comes to us) when it is too late. I just don’t want to go through this again seeing him suffer because I hold on too long. Can you help my cats? I know that they probably both need a clearing as well. I just don’t want the older one to suffer like all my other cats have. I want to know what to do so he isn’t having a hard time passing to the light if it is his time.” Will one or both cats benefit from a session with the Lightworker Healing Protocol?

Both cats will benefit from this work being considered, for differing reasons. There are multiple issues in play as is common for all physical beings, even animals, especially when there are interactions with human beings. First of all, the elder cat does have increasing discord in the body that is aging related so she is rightly concerned about seeing the signs of this in changes in behavior of the cat and its comfort level. This is both an issue for that animal as well as for the other cat, who is distressed by seeing the other cat struggling. So there are also karmic interactions with the owner, as usually happens, because companion animals are very dedicated and will follow the energy of the humans around them quite closely and often internalize and focus on the human negativity, and this can be a liability for a companion animal to handle on its own. That is not the best way to help heal another being but often is done by animals as a kind of personal approach that they do not know how to do better. So what we are saying is this is no one’s fault, only the inevitably there are crosscurrents and cross influences among people and their companion animals, inevitably, and a good cleanup would be helpful in alleviating this as any sort of potential liability.

The issue of hanging on is real and that is as human judgment that will have to be made because it goes with the territory in being responsible for one’s pets. So we encourage her to be as dispassionate as she can with respect to her personal feelings of affection, to honor her beloved pet through doing what is highest and best. The thing to realize is animals do not fear their transition, nor do they usually struggle. It is almost always seamless unless the animal has been traumatized in some way and this is very similar to what happens with people. Animals are better at healing themselves on an ongoing basis, so it is just less common for them to end up deeply in trouble at the end of their lives, compared to people, but it happens. As always, healing will be beneficial. The provisions of the Lightworker Healing Protocol to prepare the cats for their eventual transition will ensure a smooth passage to the light because that is requested to happen, and so extra help and attention is given if need be when the client helped with the Protocol reaches that turning point in their journey. This can help also to some extent with the behavior of the younger cat and its aggressiveness. So time will tell how that goes, whether a single session will bring about a visible benefit, but over time things should improve if that does not come quickly.

Recently, a Lightworker Healing Protocol practitioner felt drawn to read the autobiography of a major sports figure. This sports figure in the span of his career earned and spent most of his fifty million in earnings on alcohol, prostitutes, and drugs, mostly cocaine. In his final season, he walked away from his career without even letting his team know, turning his back on a multimillion-dollar contract. One of the smallest players in his sport, he succeeded with immense talent, immense drive, and immense intimidation. Yet, for all his fame and success, he was a deeply troubled individual. He was the victim of a pedophile in his teens, and subsequently blamed a lot of his troubles as stemming directly from this victimization. Can Creator share with us the backstory of this individual? How much of his struggle was karmic, and how much was targeting by dark spirits and extraterrestrials?

Karma plays a role almost always in everything that happens. You are a composite of positive and negative experiences of all kinds, some created and engineered and orchestrated by you almost entirely, and some done with others in a kind of back and forth dance together, and some done to you almost entirely by others and inflicting great harm at times as a consequence, all of which gets stored away and will return in an endless cycle with the goal of creating an opportunity to work on it, to set things right, resolve old dilemmas, and restore oneself to a higher level of functioning and inner alignment. At least that is the hope of having such an oversight that will be a relentless monitor and stimulus for change. All too often, in the absence of an awareness this is happening, and in the absence of effective tools for self-improvement, self-healing in particular, what may happen through the Law of Karma is a rewounding that adds insult to injury and piles on energetically to increase the weight of the karmic obligations and, as a result, makes the life worse.

This individual had significant karmic history setting him up to indulge in various sources of pleasure that were harmful to his being and risky in ways unappreciated by most individuals. Substance abuse with alcohol or drugs, in particular, is a gateway for the attachment of dark spirits that can further undermine a person and tempt them with many dark thoughts, or terrorize them with inner bullying and manipulation through altered thinking, instilling negative self-limiting beliefs and, in providing significant discouragement and stress, drain away energy and leave a person vulnerable to the point of collapse. They can even tip people into madness by working on their deep subconscious mind, and other levels of the mind as well, to trigger delusional thinking, and once that takes hold can become difficult to dislodge.

Being subjected to abuse will further weaken a person by making them more vulnerable than before. This is the consequence of trauma, that it becomes a compounding of difficulty and will be alarming to the senses, stir up many old experiences from deep memory, even of other lifetimes, and leave a person reeling from the onslaught of all they have had to reckon with. This often convinces the deep subconscious mind that they are facing an overwhelming struggle. That will likely bring back around many painful times, and perhaps even cause their death. That is a lot to be facing on a regular basis and, even though it is outside conscious awareness, will undermine the physical body and the person emotionally. This is why many people have emotional breakdowns that seem inexplicable and are largely a mystery to themselves. People will seek a prosaic explanation and sometimes attribute their troubles to a simple prosaic causal circumstance, like losing a job or a girlfriend, when the problems can be much deeper and darker. There is much undermining of humanity by mind control manipulation done by extraterrestrial beings. This is a further negative overlay designed intentionally to corrupt and diminish human progress.

Thinking about the ramifications of retrocausal healing can make one’s head hurt. There is a huge “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” question here. The LHP practitioner was able to identify the potential need for a retrocausal LHP and felt duty-bound to do one for the sports star. Yet an element of doubt remains about how widely applicable this might be. Foreknowledge of someone’s death is rare. For people we know who have died, wouldn’t doing a retrocausal LHP session be too late? Can Creator tell us how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol can help open people’s minds about the amazing teachings of Creator via GetWisdom?

Working to change the past through healing will align things to provide a powerful positive potential that will influence future lifetimes in a positive direction that may turn out to be all-important, and even end a series of failures and tragic endings adding to the accumulated trauma, so it is not at all an idle gesture or faint hope, but a concrete and effective way to continue helping an individual. This is one of the strategies built into the Lightworker Healing Protocol itself, that even someone who has passed away, given the benefit of an LHP session, will not only be healed in ways that will assist their full and effective transition back to the heavenly realm, it will work back in time to remove much negativity that would darken future excursions, in returning in future incarnations as a physical being once again. So it will work to clear the decks for them so they are not back where they started and behind an ever-greater mountain of unhealed karmic debt, but rather have a new dawning to live a different kind of life free of old constraints and impediments from accumulated trauma acting as a hindrance, an albatross around their neck that will drag them down over time, and eventually take them under with an early death, for example.

That is a routine part and intention of the Lightworker Healing Protocol, to be a part of the person’s life journey from start to finish, and then to pick up again in the future whenever they reincarnate, to go to work on their behalf once again, and continue working on the highest priorities that can be a karmic impediment to that progress in the future. There is no better life insurance than a partnership with Creator because that pays dividends all along the way during the current life, and on death continues to help the individual, not just their relatives with a cash payout so they can have some enjoyment courtesy of the deceased. The healing benefits will grow and continue being effected across multiple timelines and bringing a karmic future greatly enhanced when that would not happen otherwise. They would simply have to come back and pay the piper and return to a life of struggle and difficulty most typical of the average human being, who never heals anything deeply, because there is no appreciation for what is truly needed nor the tools made available.

That is what Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol are bringing to a turning point in history that will allow humanity, for the first time, to have a true turning point for the better, where lives that are lived will get better and better, and that will add greatly to a more positive future potential that will ensure human victory in the triumph over evil. The only catch is there must be enough human participation to launch enough intention for those tools to create that positive future potential with a sufficient magnitude to outweigh the darkness, finally, and gain the upper hand. There is a plan in place and underway for which the current practitioners using Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol are adding steadily to a growing body of intention being deployed on behalf of everyone, and the perpetrators, in particular, because here again a key piece of the story of what is causing the human dilemma has been denied you. You are suffering because you are being made to suffer by perpetrators, interlopers in your realm, dark spirits and extraterrestrial beings making the world worse, disrupting your lives and corrupting your beliefs, and working steadily to undermine happiness.

This takes a toll and sends you backward rather than making progress, so dealing with the perpetrators in your midst is the highest priority. If they can be persuaded to withdraw for a time, that will provide a window allowing human healing to be done in earnest and make up for lost time to reach a higher plateau. Then, and only then, will there be a magnificent ascension of humanity to a higher dimension. That will be the true turning point for success in your struggle against the dark. Ascension will not happen until humanity is healed, and humanity will not be healed until the perpetrators are healed enough to take away the headwinds that are holding you back across the board and threaten your annihilation within the next few years. The stakes could not be higher, but the advantages to you could not be greater than to join forces with your brethren and contribute your mind and heart simply to the intention for divine healing to reach everyone everywhere, through these focused and specific tools for learning and growth, and bringing divine love to bear on all problems everywhere. If you do your part, humanity can win the day and you will be among victors.

A practitioner asks: “Source Creator, around three years ago my employee asked me to perform a Lightworker Healing Protocol session on her four-year-old daughter, who couldn’t speak, and could only communicate to her family with hand signs. She was inexpressive and showed no signs of love and affection to anyone, including to her dog and cat. She was also very aggressive, and on many occasions hit her older sister. Her therapist diagnosed her with Asperger’s and tried for six months to help her with her healing modality but she showed no sign of improvement. After I performed an LHP session, her mother told me that she began to speak for the first time, and became very loving, affectionate, expressive, and independent. She also began to socialize with other children, and she enjoys the school environment. Was her inability to speak, to communicate and to express herself, due to her early abduction(s) and manipulation by the alien Greys who also inserted mercury into her brain cavity?”

This was unfortunately the case, that this young girl had been impaired all along by the early harsh treatment designed by the extraterrestrials to dim her intuitive reach. But as happens with some children, the mercury exposure took a heavy toll on brain development and activity and resulted in an ongoing impairment that was hindering important neurologic function, similar to what a stroke might cause.

A practitioner writes: “My Facebook account was hacked and locked out also our business page and ads, and Lightworker Healing Protocol sessions were launched by myself and others on GetWisdom forums. Strangely, I had 3 failed meetings for Facebook back 9 days earlier, which had never happened before, but allowed me to have an email from one of the staff which gave his name, which turned out to be the saving grace. That allowed me to contact and have someone push my case to be heard and even resulted in a successful refund in the ongoing appeal to restore my account. It is my belief that the case of the “3 strange failed meetings” was a beautiful example of the divine working in the past to answer a Lightworker Healing Protocol launched for a present-time problem for me and a future healing of problems for others with the launch of a new division at Facebook.” Is he correct?

You were informed accurately about the importance of your healing request to address this dilemma. As you are painfully aware, given the power of social media for networking and enabling businesses to thrive by its advent, to reach so many and keep communication possible, the downside is if something breaks, a business can go under unless things are corrected. Given the vulnerability to manipulation from hackers, this puts everyone at risk. It is an ethical and karmic responsibility in providing such a platform to the users to have a system in place to deal with sources of interference and corruption, particularly, to be sensitive to individual needs. Your intuitive message that the prior failed meetings happened and were connected somehow to the subsequent loss of service and being able to correct it, was spot on because that, indeed, was used by the divine realm as an avenue to achieve a more specific personal communication with an individual at Facebook who was able to address your needs personally. That would normally be seen as sheer luck, but in this case was the answer to a prayer and a high-powered healing request to the divine, and was instrumental not only in helping to reestablish your business services and presence on their platform, but the advent of a new customer service capability to help with others faced with such problems in the future. So your temporary misfortune has been a catalyst for change that will improve the lives of many, many, others, including this Internet platform in meeting their obligations to their customers more effectively. This is a shining example of the power of divine partnership to make a material difference working through others to help someone in need reaching out for divine assistance.

Does lack of sophistication in thinking represent a healing dilemma or a maturation dilemma? How much is rational and logical thinking a skill that can be enhanced, or a limitation? When we consider someone as gifted musically as Mozart, for instance, we don’t consider ourselves sick because we can’t do a fraction of what he could do. What is needed to be Mozart doesn’t appear to be healing, but PRACTICE and a build-up of skill that spans multiple lifetimes and even dimensions. Countless Lightworker Healing Protocol sessions done for me will not turn me into Mozart, or will it? What can Creator tell us?

This is an interesting study in contrasts and opportunities. Being open-minded, being flexible, being expansive, being capable of growth and seeing that it happens and is ongoing, are imperatives of the soul. Each soul is a kind of restless body of potential seeking experience, exploration, and an evolving expansion. Most people are living highly constrained lives and never understand there is more they could do or be a part of. One of the constraints and disincentives, seemingly, is that progress is slow and talent will demand an investment through practice to cultivate it, shape it, and optimize its capabilities to bring about ever higher levels of expression, as in the contrast between a young child doing finger painting in kindergarten versus an accomplished mature artist at the peak of their career, it is the first that leads to the second, at least chronologically, and most certainly when looking at the arc of soul expression over multiple lifetimes.

It is certainly the case that an inhibition of talent expression can be overcome through using the Lightworker Healing Protocol. But that cannot apply life experience to hone and shape and cultivate musical talent, or other types of talent, which can only happen through life experience. So, in a sense, looking at a problem like a lack of sophistication in thinking as a healing dilemma or a maturation dilemma is comparing apples with oranges, there are two quite distinct and differing constraints in play—it is life experience that allows you to learn how best to express and utilize talent, and that is a consequence of maturation, inevitably, because it cannot be conducted in a brief interval but will take time, and even development of the physical being may be required as an aspect to achieve full expression, as is the case in most endeavors, whether athletic or a musical performance to have a command of an instrument.

But it is always the case that with recurring trauma this becomes a disincentive and a growing burden on progress, because it will spawn many self-limiting negative beliefs capable of stunting your growth in any respect, and that is a true healing need that may well be essential in governing whether you ever reach your talent’s potential within a lifetime or even multiple lifetimes, and that is because trauma is not left behind when you return to the light following your physical death. The woundings will follow you into subsequent lifetimes and may well rekindle similar self-negativity and self-limitation. Here again is a compelling case for divine partnership, to bring as much healing to bear as one can to undo their karmic liabilities, to become free of impediments that delay your progress and hold you back from being all you are capable of being.

Interloper manipulation of our leaders, government, and media, has wreaked havoc with what people have traditionally considered normal—normal beliefs, behaviors, you name it. Can Creator tell us what normal would look like if the interlopers left, and how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol are needed to bring that about?

Compared to the current environment, a world without the darkness holding sway would be a dramatic shift and would play out in an endless series of positive developments where people would be happier, friendlier, more cooperative, and more effective in all that they do in every personal interaction and contribution to collective effort within their family, interacting with others in the community, involved with education, the workplace, and the many institutions you have come to rely on for things like healthcare, professional assistance of all kinds, as well as government functions and services. It would be quite eye-opening to see governments truly serving the citizenry in an unbiased and effective fashion instead of political gridlock, greed, and corruption. There would be a reversal of many long-term changes with a negative influence, such as the Secular Movement, denying a role for the divine when it is the origin and purpose of the universe to express divine love in the highest possible way.

Human expression, innately, of their spiritual nature would emerge anew and be a refreshing change with upliftment and widespread strengthening of every human activity moving in a more positive and effective direction. This would not be instantaneous. After all, humanity has had many thousands of years of subjugation and corruption that has deeply warped your karmic legacy to be a highly negative and inhibiting and damaging body of energetic potential that is like an albatross around your neck. It must be healed to rebalance the energetic distortions that were introduced. That will take time and a concerted effort, and for this you need the most powerful tools, ideally, so this can be done effectively and efficiently to not waste time.

If humanity gets a breather from the interlopers withdrawing for a time, which is the current divine plan, the world must take advantage of that window of opportunity before they decide to return and resume their manipulations. If you apply yourselves, there will be time to heal people sufficiently to graduate from the physical plane in a grand ascension that will be the ticket to your future, from a loftier plane of existence, as a permanent feature of existence. That will be your reward for solving the problem of evil sufficiently to liberate yourselves from its grip and leave a legacy of healing intention that can continue working on your former adversaries and eventually liberate them as well.

For this, there needs to be a quorum of humanity becoming involved in earnest to work towards changing things for the better. The two premier tools making this possible are the use of Empowered Prayer, to make all individual outreaches to the divine for assistance highly effective, instead of weak pleas for help or rituals of worship that accomplish little and are beside the point. Keep in mind everything in your world is currently in a corrupted state so there is much to do. Your ability to change it will depend on your ability to learn and grow, shift your thinking, and have enough healing to remove corrupted beliefs and expectations so you can raise your sights and have the wherewithal to move forward at long last.

The most powerful way to obtain the extensive and detailed healing all are in need of is using the Lightworker Healing Protocol in earnest to make up for lost time here. It is the only tool that has the capability to go across time domains, in a comprehensive manner, using all the healing strategies of the divine, individually and collectively, to deal with the many negative phenomena that add to your misery. With enough healing from the Lightworker Healing Protocol work, humanity can be raised up sufficiently to be ready for the grand ascension that is Creator’s Plan. Without sufficient healing, ascension will not happen, and if this is not done quickly enough, the interlopers will return and once again resume their oversight, manipulation, and control of humanity.

The ultimate question is whether you will be annihilated within a few years or within a few generations. If you forestall the first hazard, there will be time to prevent the second. You need the powerful tools of both Empowered Prayer done by masses of people and as many healing sessions as can be mounted with the Lightworker Healing Protocol, to do the deep work needed to raise people up, at long last, from the karmic liabilities of victimization. A grand future awaits you but is in your hands to bring this about. It can be done if you partner with us. We cannot do it for you.

Can Creator tell us how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol are the best modern means to heal the relationships among the multiple selves of the human being?

Despite the appeal of scientific inquiry and modern technological progress, the reality is that when it comes to the business of life, and especially the struggle to maintain it, science is far from able to deal with the many threats humans face in having even a normal life span. Medicine is still largely a kind of band-aid providing more symptomatic relief than cures. The many sources of difficulty, interpersonal strife, impaired function, chronic unhappiness, and the consequences on a societal level with dysfunctional institutions, poor governance, widespread inequality and unfairness, limited personal liberty or safeguarding of human rights in many areas of the world, and the ever-present war going on somewhere are a testament to the many challenges facing you personally and collectively.

You need divine help for all of these difficulties. History has shown it is not possible for humans to achieve long-term stability and abundance for all. This is not because humans are unworthy or being punished by God, it is because you are being manipulated by interlopers, both dark spirits and an Extraterrestrial Alliance that seeks your diminishment and ultimate annihilation. You cannot contend with these forces using human tools and capabilities. You are no match for the darkness. You need the light and its greater power. That can be invited through Empowered Prayer, which is the most effective form of prayer you can use, because it is informed by the nature of the problems, on a deep level, underlying these negative circumstances we have recounted.

Without that specificity, appeals for help will be weak because they do not contain any useful instructions for the divine in what you want to see happen, nor is there any understanding on the human side of how the divine operates and how it can intervene to change things for the better. That is where the Lightworker Healing Protocol comes in because your channel, through his research and steady probing to learn more and more about how healing is brought about, has put together a comprehensive Protocol that can address all sources of human negativity whether occurring at the hands of dark spirits, extraterrestrial intruders, or human perpetrators as well as natural hazards and the build‑up of negative karmic potentials that will weaken you steadily from life to life until effective healing is brought to bear. Until now this has not been fully possible because of the state of human ignorance. Using the Lightworker Healing Protocol is the route to your salvation because it is able to save and heal humanity if enough people add their intention for it to be applied in earnest.

There is time to turn things around if more are awakened and join the cause to use these tools and their personal intention for the betterment of all. Humans need to come together and appeal to the divine in a meaningful way with specificity and sufficient specific instructions about the problems and the healing methods that are needed. This has not happened heretofore because this is part of the learning curve inherent with your struggle to understand and overcome adversity. That always requires an understanding and a level of sophistication to appreciate the inner workings of things and what solution fits the problem. All that has happened through the ages are weak and non-specific pleas for mercy, pleas for help, pleas for rescue. They are always met with sympathy, but sympathy cannot fix anything, there needs to be a plan and its implementation. The more you can define what you want to see happen specifically, the more powerfully we can respond with effective solutions. You can save the day by making a high-level informed prayer request for healing through the Lightworker Healing Protocol—that is what it is designed to do and represents the very thing needed to save and heal humanity.

A practitioner asks: “I had done, I believe, three Lightworker Healing Protocol sessions for a person over the last week or so and then this all blew up yesterday. She even deleted her Twitter account. She was in the middle of doing a YouTube series that I was following. Suddenly, I’m seeing a pattern developing where people’s lives ‘BLOW UP’ after I do LHPs for them. Can you ask Creator, ‘What the heck is going on here???'” What can we tell him?

There is a causal relationship here between the misfortune of those you single out wishing to help, for receiving a healing effort on your part, but it is the reverse of what you fear, that somehow you might be stirring up trouble. What is going on is more the opposite, that you are drawn to people who are in need, and that is in part a divine inspiration because you might well be their last hope, at least for limiting the damage that is brewing, and at least perhaps providing a lifeline to keep them going pending a more thorough and effective rescue that can only be brought about over time, given the seriousness of ongoing circumstances when people are being heavily targeted, for example.

So what you are seeing is, if anything, you are arriving a bit too late in the game, ideally, but without your help things would be worse. There are always benefits to divine healing even if it seems to fail in not saving them, for example, but that is a subjective assessment always and does not hold an awareness of how a person might be benefitted in their future even if not appearing so in the present life. We have said before many times people receive healing that does not rescue them, seemingly, in the current life from a downward course, but it might well be enough that in a future life they sidestep the current karmic dilemma entirely, as it is never awakened sufficiently to drag them under, because enough has been resolved to make any remaining negativity a minor issue and not a meaningful impediment to happiness and continued progress. That is a major achievement when it happens and we can tell you there are many more instances of improved futures than current life outcomes.

We understand it would be more satisfying to know what impact you might be having, but that is not the point of doing an outreach to help others to begin with. While satisfying and rewarding as well, that is a secondary consideration. The important thing is that you make the effort always to help those in need. The rest will take care of itself through the Law of Karma. You are gaining ground here in all you offer others but will not always see the fruits of the endeavor in a visible and tangible way.

A practitioner writes: “You may recall I have written you about my cat. On May 6th, three months ago, I scheduled an appointment to have him euthanized. His kidneys were failing. He was drooling. He had difficulty with his balance. He had lost a significant amount of weight. He also had a very bad odor. He had all the hallmarks of kidney failure. The vets were shocked he was still eating because his kidney values were remarkably high. I had the option of having him euthanized on May 7th. I delayed the procedure because I wanted to spend time with him before he left me. I thought he had another few good days remaining. I performed several LHP Sessions, I used my technique, and I posted on the GetWisdom forum as well. The days turned into a week. Then, another week went by. Very, very, slowly, he began to improve. I prayed with a great deal of focus and intensity. Your prayer techniques were heavily employed. I even improvised with techniques of my own. Remarkably, he appears to have recovered! Perhaps he would have recovered on his own, but I seriously doubt it. Many things regarding his illness and recovery defy explanation. I believe this was the work of the divine realm. Thank you for giving us the Lightworker Healing Protocol and your time.” What caused this cat’s remarkable turnaround?

This was indeed a divine intervention in response to the concerted healing efforts both through the Lightworker Healing Protocol, primarily, as well as the earnest prayers launched. It was a group effort, as he noted, as you as well as he himself, and others joined in from seeing his posting on the forum, and took up the cause to include the cat in their session work. This is a mini demonstration of seeing the power of reaching a healing quorum of human intention to allow a sufficient divine response for the size of the problem in question. Healing this cat was certainly a lesser problem, tremendously, than saving and healing the world, which requires healing all the interlopers in extreme degrees of corruption and abnormality, but nonetheless even a single client can prove to be intractable if the karmic forces are severe enough and other complications are involved.

In this case, the stars were aligned. The cat did not want to leave and that was a major consideration, that despite its suffering and state of depletion it still wanted to be with you and take care of you as an important part of its life. Companion animals, by and large, are superb healers of others, including humans as well as themselves, but sometimes problems escalate and get the better of them, and divine assistance from a third party requesting an intervention is the key to restore the balance enough for the animal to make progress and have things turn around for the better. So this is a good example of the power of love to overcome adversity that had reached severe and even life-threatening proportions, and it provides a well-deserved reward for all involved.