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		<title>Newsletter &#8211; June 2013</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ June Newsletter from Tanis Dear Friends, I am writing to you from Europe where I have been teaching in many countries and I am full of gratitude and love for the many generous people who have organized my seminars. Everywhere I go people are in deep transformation and yet their trust in the process is [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><a title="Newsletter - June 2013" href="http://mad.ly/3587c3"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-698" style="margin: 5px;" alt="Tanis newsletter june 2013" src="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tanis-newsletter-june-2013-238x300.jpg" width="238" height="300" /></a> June Newsletter from Tanis</h3>
<p>Dear Friends,<br />
I am writing to you from Europe where I have been teaching in many countries and I am full of gratitude and love for the many generous people who have organized my seminars. Everywhere I go people are in deep transformation and yet their trust in the process is full of hope and optimism and yes, even humor.<a title="Newsletter - June 2013" href="http://mad.ly/3587c3">..(read more)</a></p>
<p>Link to full newsletter <a title="Newsletter - June 2013" href="http://mad.ly/3587c3">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Newsletter &#8211; May 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside this Issue: ▪ Uncage Your Heart Meditation Retreat ▪ Transform Your Work &#8211; Introductory Offer Ends May 15 ▪ Tanis Helliwell Launches Her Personal Website ▪ Audio recording – Manifest Your Soul’s Gifts in the World ▪ Book &#8211; Manifest Your Soul&#8217;s Purpose Check it out here! Keep in touch and sign up for [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-686" alt="newsletter May 2013" src="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/newsletter-May-2013-278x300.jpg" width="227" height="245" /></a><a title="Newsletter - May 2013" href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC">Inside this Issue:</a></strong><br />
<a title="Newsletter - May 2013" href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC"> ▪ Uncage Your Heart Meditation Retreat </a><br />
<a title="Newsletter - May 2013" href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC"> ▪ Transform Your Work &#8211; Introductory Offer Ends May 15 </a><br />
<a title="Newsletter - May 2013" href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC"> ▪ Tanis Helliwell Launches Her Personal Website </a><br />
<a title="Newsletter - May 2013" href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC"> ▪ Audio recording – Manifest Your Soul’s Gifts in the World </a><br />
<a title="Newsletter - May 2013" href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC"> ▪ Book &#8211; Manifest Your Soul&#8217;s Purpose</a></p>
<p><a title="Newsletter - May 2013" href="http://mad.ly/20aca3#BC">Check it out here!</a></p>
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		<title>Teleconference on How to Manifest Your Soul&#8217;s Gifts to the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the new world, the way of manifesting our soul&#8217;s gifts, where we are moving to, is we do not measure by quantity, we measure by quality of experience. And our measurement is our heart&#8217;s measurement, our souls&#8217; measurement of how well we believe we are doing given the challenges and the opportunities that we [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/JSW_1167-2.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-680" style="margin: 5px;" alt="Tanis Helliwell" src="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/JSW_1167-2-300x198.jpeg" width="231" height="152" /></a><strong><em><span style="color: #003300;">&#8220;In the new world, the way of manifesting our soul&#8217;s gifts, where we are moving to, is we do not measure by quantity, we measure by quality of experience.</span></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="color: #003300;">And our measurement is our heart&#8217;s measurement, our souls&#8217; measurement of how well we believe we are doing given the challenges and the opportunities that we have been given moment to moment.&#8221;&#8211; </span></em></strong><span style="color: #003300;">Tanis Helliwell, April 13th teleconference</span></p>
<p>If you missed participating, you can still enjoy this live audio recording of Tanis Helliwell speaking on how to Manifest Your Soul’s Gifts in the World. She responds to questions from participants during this April 13th teleconference, ending with a guided meditation.</p>
<p><a title="Free Download " href="http://www.payloadz.com/d1/freeproducts.asp?id=2116272">Link HERE </a> to access your free download.</p>
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		<title>Newsletter &#8211; April 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April Newsletter from Tanis Inside: Opportunity to talk with Tanis New Offering: Transform Your Work Study Program European Events this May Check it out here! Keep in touch and sign up for our newsletter – in the form at right.]]></description>
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<p>April Newsletter from Tanis</p>
<h3>Inside:</h3>
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<li>Opportunity to talk with Tanis</li>
<li>New Offering: Transform Your Work Study Program</li>
<li>European Events this May</li>
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<p><a title="Newsletter - April 2013" href="http://mad.ly/427e93">Check it out here!</a></p>
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		<title>Free Telephone call with Tanis Helliwell on Sat. April 13, 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manifesting your Soul’s Gifts in the World &#8211; FREE Conference call Each of us has a unique purpose and achieving this leads to joy and peace. I would love to speak with you about manifesting your soul’s gifts on Saturday, April 13 at 11am PST time, which is the same time as Vancouver. This is [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="color: #800000;">Manifesting your Soul’s Gifts in the World &#8211; FREE Conference call<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0449-e1364064203238.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-665" style="margin: 5px;" title="Lotus" alt="" src="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMG_0449-e1364064203238-300x258.jpeg" width="204" height="175" /></a>Each of us has a unique purpose and achieving this leads to joy and peace. I would love to speak with you about manifesting your soul’s gifts on<strong><span style="color: #800000;"> Saturday, April 13 at 11am PST time,</span></strong> which is the same time as Vancouver. This is 9 hours behind Europe—so <strong><span style="color: #800000;">8pm in Europe</span></strong>.<br />
The call is free for you from a land line. You may want check with your service provider if using a mobile phone.<br />
Phone: <strong>1-559-670-1000</strong><br />
Access code: <strong>497953#</strong></p>
<p>Format for the call:<br />
1. From 11am-11:05am – When you join the call please give your name and where you live. Everyone on the call will be able to hear you.<br />
2. From 11:05-11:30 – I will speak about how to manifest your soul’s gifts in the world.<br />
3. From 11:30-11:40 – I will lead a short meditation.<br />
4. From 11:40-12:00 – You will be able to make your own comments, prayers and ask questions. Tanis will moderate so only one person speaks at a time.</p>
<p>I look forward to being with you on Saturday, April 13th.<br />
Tanis</p>
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		<title>Message from the Ancestors and Elementals of Hawaii</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Message from the Ancestors A short time ago I had the good fortune to be in Oahu and to visit many of the ancient Hawaiian sites. The ancestors of King Kamehameha 111and Queen Kalama of Hawaii had a message for us that they asked me to share. They said that “Now in Hawaii and all [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 id="messagefromtheancestors">Message from the Ancestors</h2>
<div id="attachment_658" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMG_0019.jpeg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-658 " style="margin: 5px;" alt="Tanis in Hawaii" src="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMG_0019-225x300.jpeg" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tanis in Hawaii</p></div>
<p>A short time ago I had the good fortune to be in Oahu and to visit many of the ancient Hawaiian sites. The ancestors of King Kamehameha 111and Queen Kalama of Hawaii had a message for us that they asked me to share. They said that “Now in Hawaii and all around the world the guardians of sacred sites are being called on to activate these sites again because these sites are needed in the transition of the Earth to become a conscious planet in our solar system and in our galaxy. “</p>
<p>The guardians said that it is important to go to sacred sites at this time both to honor and respect them, and also to allow these Earth energies to kindle our kundalini so that our frequencies can rise to become conscious human beings. To be conscious means that we will know our destiny or become what we are to be and do. Any opportunity we have to go to sacred sites we need to do so. Some sites may be in churches, such as Chartres in France, that are built on strong leylines and others are ancient sites, such as Macchu Piccu and the Pyramid of Giza.</p>
<p>The ancestors say that, as in Hawaii, the first people of the world left the etheric bodies of their most powerful people—their priests, healers, kings and queens, at these sites to release their energy into the site. The etheric bodies hold the energies and memory of what these people know and are the guardians of these sites.</p>
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<h2 id="messagefromtheelementals">Message from the Elementals</h2>
<p>While I was speaking with the ancestors, who were very large people, I was also aware of the elementals in the site and both groups were crowned in leis. The elementals, came to about my waist, were brownish in colour as they work with soil and building of sites and their arms and legs were thin and elongated compared to human limbs—something as long as an orangatang.</p>
<p>These elementals have been guarding these sacred sites as well. The elementals wished me to send you this message. “From Hawaii we convey a heart message from the Earth that all elementals, humans and all sentient beings on the Earth need to co-create and work together according to the spiritual and natural laws. Although many humans have forgotten their destiny, it is important to remember that elementals and humans were always meant to be partners on the Earth. It is essential to reconnect again because without this humanity cannot continue to grow.”</p>
<p>The elementals in this site said that they have been very tired holding the Earth energies however their energy is returning because the Earth itself is releasing a new energy. This energy is coming from the core of the Earth fuelled by the cosmic rays sent by our own Sun through increased solar radiation as our Sun rises to a higher frequency. It is also coming from the great Central Sun, our Creator, to kindle and fertilize all life on this planet and to help raise the frequency of the Earth.</p>
<p>In another sacred site the elementals wanted me to convey a very similar message to humans. The elementals here are the gardeners and they are green, up to my waist, very slender with elongated arms and legs, and their hair stands up straight on their head. They say, “Elementals and humans need to work together for only through this can they and the Earth survive.&#8221; The ancient Hawaiians knew this and worked together with the elementals. The traditional way is coming back with the hulu, Hawaiian language and medicine. Yet, the Hawaiians must learn also what the white and yellow skinned people have to teach about technologies and their way must be a blend of the old and new. It is no longer the time of separation. It is the time of the rainbow people when all people’s come together to share their gifts.</p>
<p>The Hawaiians have the gift of aloha which is the love of what Tanis calls the higher heart, and Steiner calls the etheric heart. This is the love that goes beyond love of self and love of family to love of the whole. This is the spirit of aloha and the Hawaiian people who teach this love. This is the gift of first Nations. It is not only love of your own tribe but first Nations people’s often adopted people of other tribes and raised them as their own. The elementals of this place teach the Hawaiians how to treat the land so that they don’t lose their soul and spirit. There spirit is one with all the elements, especially the water that runs through this area. “</p>
<p>The Earth is sharing this energy with all beings and this is transforming us. There is nothing we have to do, or any spiritual discipline or religion that is better to assist with this process than another. What is needed is to realize that all life is sacred and that spiritual traditions, at their core, support the same principles. That is to love and experience joy and gratitude that we have a beautiful planet and life here. Let the energy flow naturally from you. There is nothing to effort at. Just rest deeply in a being state and experience the ease of being, until being and doing are the same for you. Sign up every day for the beauty of the day and the opportunities to learn and journey and have gratitude for the people that are travelling with you and the opportunities that you have to serve. In order to help you and myself move into being and doing state with our relationship with work I include:</p>
<p id="hawaiiantimehours" style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hawaiian Time Hours</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Open:</strong> 9 or 10, Sometimes 11, Mostly 12 or 1</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Close:</strong> 5 or 6, Sometimes 4, Mostly 2 or 3</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Closed for : </strong>Big Surf, Luaus, No like Work</p>
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		<title>Newsletter &#8211; March 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring Awakening March Newsletter from Tanis Inside: Launch of Transform Your Work self-study course European workshops this May Article “Message from the Ancestors and Elementals of Hawaii” Check it out here! Keep in touch and sign up for our newsletter – in the form at right.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="color: #800000;"><a href="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/iit-news-March-2013.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-655" style="margin: 5px;" alt="iit news March 2013" src="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/iit-news-March-2013-223x300.jpg" width="223" height="300" /></a>Spring Awakening</span></h3>
<p>March Newsletter from Tanis</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">Inside:</span></h3>
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<li>Launch of Transform Your Work self-study course</li>
<li>European workshops this May</li>
<li>Article “Message from the Ancestors and Elementals of Hawaii”</li>
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		<title>Heart-Body-Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncage Your Heart is the theme of this time in 2013. Spiritual transformation and spiritual intelligence all have their roots in this profound understanding. The Heart-Body-Spirit Connection article by Tanis is a perennial favourite that readers have been involved with for some time now. We&#8217;re very happy to see this as Tanis will be teaching [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Happy-valentines-Day.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-644 alignright" style="margin: 5px;" alt="2 hearts" src="http://www.iitransform.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Happy-valentines-Day-300x187.jpg" width="300" height="187" /></a><strong>Uncage Your Heart</strong> is the theme of this time in 2013. Spiritual transformation and spiritual intelligence all have their roots in this profound understanding.</p>
<p>The <a title="The Heart-Body-Spirit Connection" href="http://www.iitransform.com/2011/01/the-heart-body-spirit-connection/">Heart-Body-Spirit Connection</a> article by Tanis is a perennial favourite that readers have been involved with for some time now. We&#8217;re very happy to see this as Tanis will be teaching this material when in Europe this May.</p>
<p>Read the full article <a title="The Heart-Body-Spirit Connection" href="http://www.iitransform.com/2011/01/the-heart-body-spirit-connection/">HERE</a>.</p>
<p>More info on <a title="Uncage Your Heart" href="http://www.iitransform.com/2013/02/uncage-your-heart/">Uncage Your Heart</a> and the <a title="Uncage Your Heart Meditation Retreat" href="http://www.iitransform.com/85-2/transform-self/uncage-your-heart-meditation-retreat/">Uncage Your Heart Meditation retreat</a>.</p>
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		<title>Reflections on Sleep and Dreaming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tanis Helliwell “Sleep… purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.&#8221; Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote Winter is a time for hibernation. For snuggling under a warm blanket with a good book and, if you are like [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>“Sleep… purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.&#8221;</em><br />
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote</p>
<p>Winter is a time for hibernation. For snuggling under a warm blanket with a good book and, if you are like me, for taking time to reflect on the past year—the gains and losses—and for waiting for the goals of the universe to manifest themselves to us. It’s time for retiring to bed early and allowing our dreams to work on us.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">The Importance of Sleep</span></strong></p>
<p>When we sleep we not only recharge our batteries from our daily activities, but also absorb the day’s learning and digest it. Between six and eight hours of every day is spent sleeping, which is as many hours as most of us devote to working. This is, I believe, the universe’s way of showing us how important sleep-time is. In our sleep state we visit people we know, take courses, correct problems and all this happens while the body rests. The more we are doing in the waking reality, the more we need to balance by giving equal attention to our sleep state.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Preparations to Sleep</span></strong></p>
<p>It is important to invite sleep by making your bedroom and bed inviting. Don’t clutter. And cultivate a restful atmosphere in your bedroom by way of colors and paintings. A comfortable pillow is a must. Some folks prefer foam, but I’m a feather pillow girl myself. In the winter I keep a hot water bottle, or hot rocks from my wood stove, handy so I snuggle up against them.</p>
<p>It can also be nice to snuggle with a sweetie. Yet, we may find that we need to sleep alone occasionally in order to deeply rest undisturbed. In the same way that we engage in a meditation retreat to renew, sometimes it is necessary to have sleep retreats on our own to renew our life energies and align to our soul more deeply.</p>
<p>Finally, when we align ourselves to nature’s, and not the clock’s time, awaken without an alarm. Don’t move and, holding your last thoughts before waking, retrace your dream until it is fully remembered.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Dreaming—the Icing on the Cake</strong></span></p>
<p>Dreams, I find, are often prophetic and sleeping, rather than wasting time, can actually be the most fruitful time in the day. Many individuals notice that wonderful ideas about what to do in their waking state occur in dreams during sleep. In fact, it is significant that inventors often claim that they solved previously unsolvable problems in dream state. Unable to determine how to move a thread through cloth, Singer, the inventor of the sewing machine, dreamt that a needle had a hole in it where the thread went. Einstein also was an active dreamer. He had a vision of travelling on a beam of light that revealed to him the theory of relativity. The world that our higher self can access in dream state is much larger than that of our daytime reality. As Carl Jung wrote,</p>
<p>“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was the soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Death’s Brother</span></strong></p>
<p>Virgil, writing in the first century BC, called sleep ‘death’s brother.’ Sleep is a small death that we do daily, which prepares us for the greater loss of ego consciousness when we die. To embrace sleep and the transition from waking reality to sleeping reality seamlessly is a great meditation, which will help us learn how to die consciously.</p>
<p>It is a common belief that we are awake and conscious when our body is moving about in the daytime world and that we are asleep and unconscious during the nighttime. Just the reverse is closer to the truth. When we become awake in our sleep state, what is called lucid dreaming, we can travel anywhere in space and time and have total control and recall upon waking in the morning. The first stage to do this is to learn to remember your dreams when you awake after a night’s sleep. The second stage is to become a conscious witness to what is occurring in your dream state. The third stage—lucid dreaming—is to become an active participant in your dream state.</p>
<p>In these next two thousand years of the Aquarian Age we will enter higher dimensions and frequencies. During this time more individuals will become lucid dreamers as we discover that we can maintain consciousness continually.</p>
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		<title>Newsletter &#8211; February 2013</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[February, 2013 HAPPY VALENTINE&#8217;S DAY Love of self, love of others, love of our beautiful planet, these are the lasting treasures we must aspire to. In this month’s article, Reflections on Sleep and Dreaming I discuss the importance of sleep and conscious dreaming as a way to accelerate our spiritual transformation. &#160; Inside: List of [...]]]></description>
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<span style="color: #800000;"><strong>HAPPY VALENTINE&#8217;S DAY</strong></span></p>
<p>Love of self, love of others, love of our beautiful planet, these are the lasting treasures we must aspire to. In this month’s article, Reflections on Sleep and Dreaming I discuss the importance of sleep and conscious dreaming as a way to accelerate our spiritual transformation.</p>
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<p><strong>Inside:</strong></p>
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<li>List of Events in Europe this May</li>
<li>Photos from Tanis’ Talk and Book signing of Manifest Your Soul’s Purpose</li>
<li>Upcoming Launch of Transform Your Work self-study course</li>
<li>Article “Reflections on Sleep and Dreaming”</li>
<li>Teleseminar</li>
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