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Witness of Presence and Recognitions (LA005) ▸

<mark>Witness</mark> of Presence and Recognitions (LA005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ living-awarenesscreated 2025-11-09updated 2025-11-09 words 958 05:50 min
  • When we speak of witnessing and observation, visualization exercises will not set us free. Self-inquiry is not a method for subject shifting. It's a process of peeling away our false identities. We are not the "seer", the "hearer" or the "observer". There is seeing, there is hearing, there is observation. In a neutral state, we recognize and acknowledge what is. Read more...

Slipped to Swamp — Inquiry Back to Awareness (LA001) ▸

Slipped to Swamp — Inquiry Back to Awareness (LA001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ living-awarenesscreated 2025-10-22updated 2025-10-22 words 704 03:33 min
  • Damn! Slipped and fell again from a plane of clarity. Mere moments ago I was the calm witness of existence. What manner of magic is this? Why do I stumble and fall? What can I do to immunize myself — to not be pulled under? We enter the process of self-inquiry — both general and specific. Train yourself to remember — remember to ask the right questions! Read more...

Integrated Self-Inquiry — Risks and Yields (LA004) ▸

Integrated Self-Inquiry — Risks and Yields (LA004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ living-awarenesscreated 2025-10-25updated 2025-10-25 words 822 04:26 min
  • Inquire yourself away — leap into yonder transcendence? If you're a sage in a loincloth — sure that's an option. The rest of us must reconcile our evolving self-awareness. Mindful self-navigation, unveiling, into living integration. Risk of dissociation is very real with unhinged practice. Encounter the aspects of your being and witness them as-is. Read more...

An Epistemic Quest — How We Acquire Knowledge (M006) ▸

An Epistemic Quest — How We Acquire Knowledge (M006)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ metaloom-reviewscreated 2025-08-21updated 2025-10-24 words 1250 08:05 min
  • Looking for knowledge? Pinning down the truth? How? Direct perception? Analytical reason? Standard authority? In the ever-changing flux of details, truth just passes by. But there is truth in basic patterns and general principles. Yet we must resign from ourselves to eliminate subject bias. Witnessing without intention or projection — enter actuality. Read more...

A Brief Meditation Guide — Breath, Soham and Reflection ▸

A Brief Meditation Guide — Breath, Soham and Reflection
  • ⊂ notes ⊆ recordingscreated 2025-09-22updated 2025-09-22 words 916 07:30 min
  • A basic guide into simple meditative practice. We engage three distinct but mutually supporting modes of meditation. 1. Breath and the establishment of peaceful basic presence. 2. Mantra and the harnessing of directed attention and resonance. 3. Self-reflection and the cultivation of wisdom in witnessing awareness. Read more...

FAQ - Basic Answers to Common Queries ▸

FAQ - Basic Answers to Common Queries
  • ⊂ page ⊆ rootcreated 2025-06-20updated 2025-07-11 words 1394 00:00 min
  • We've collected some common questions and answers for your convenience: Orientation FAQ, Interaction FAQ, Contemplation FAQ. With fresh questions, contact us and we'll respond as may be appropriate. May you find your cler answers. Read more...

Pool of Videos → Into Direct Insight ▸

Pool of Videos → Into Direct Insight
  • ⊂ page ⊆ rootcreated 2024-12-12updated 2025-06-18 words 9583 00:00 min
  • Dive into our growing catalogue of videos. Some of them short and to the point. Others dreadfully long but packed with essential musings. Browse the @Mr.Om.Ananda ▸ YouTube channel for the latest digs. Enjoy the show! Read more...

Four Elements in Our Communication ▸

Four Elements in Our Communication
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ elementscreated 2024-12-02updated 2025-10-02 words 1077 00:00 min
  • Successful communication is necessarily balanced. With guidance from the elements, we discover wholesome foundations and methods for communication — into grounded, adaptive, coherent, enriching and unburdened interaction. Read more...

Positive and Negative Mental States ▸

Positive and Negative Mental States
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ mindcreated 2024-08-21updated 2024-08-21 words 2311 00:00 min
  • Our mind is influenced by a spectrum of positive and negative mental states. This list of mental states serves as a basis for self-awareness, introspection, and inquiry into the inner influences that condition and liberate our awareness. Read more...

The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya ▸

The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ vintagecreated 2011-06-27updated 2025-08-28 words 1696 00:00 min
  • Unfolding of the Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya for the systematic cultivation of luminosity. Contemplating on the celestial appearances of Crystal Maitreya in a cardinal wheel of sixteen permutations over A) Primal Reality, B) Causal Worlds, and C) Phenomenal Worlds. (2011) Read more...

Mystory: Spiritual Madventures Across the Universe ▸

Mystory: Spiritual Madventures Across the Universe
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ vintagecreated 2010-11-10updated 2025-08-28 words 6521 00:00 min
  • I gather I've inadvertently turned into something of an enigma with my colorful and transdimensional history. It may be hard to get an overall idea of what the heck exactly happened over the last 15 years. This is an attempt to syndicate the gist of the journey into one place. (2010) Read more...

Son of Man and Seven Inner Churches of Asia ▸

Son of Man and Seven Inner Churches of Asia
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ vintagecreated 2011-05-24updated 2025-10-06 words 1441 00:00 min
  • The theme of ancient systems of inner cultivation and ascension continues deeper look into the Book of Revelation. Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament, an apocalyptic parable written by John of Patmos, revealing the luminous path of the Son of Man and the Kingdom of Heaven within. (2011) Read more...

On Entering Actuality — What's Going On Meditation (N002) ▸

On Entering Actuality — What's Going On Meditation (N002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ introspectrumcreated 2025-07-01updated 2025-07-01 words 594 03:56 min
  • For those who seek clarity and self-awareness. Get to know your contents — understand your inner constructs. Instincts, emotions, thoughts, identity — none of that is you. Polarized reactions — yes this, no that — condition you to the core. Rise beyond the phenomena in your being. Enter the planes of metacognition. Clear away your projections. Remember. Read more...

Too Busy 2B Conscious (K007) ▸

Too Busy 2B Conscious (K007)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-06-18updated 2025-06-18 words 877 05:46 min
  • When you head out into the wilderness of life... Don't forget to bring your basic cognitive gear! We cover the basics of conscious survival and sanity. Tuck these into your cranium — install your core tools. Read more...

Focal Lengths of Awareness (K008) ▸

Focal Lengths of Awareness (K008)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-07-04updated 2025-07-04 words 868 05:46 min
  • Focal lengths of awareness. Whatever does that include? Microscope: Near and high-definition. Telescope: Far and broad-reaching. Narrow-band / Broad-band / Middle-band. These are not a mere matter of meditation. Concentration and mindfulness, yes that's there — but also relevant in our day-to-day awareness. Read more...

Exit the Matrix of Hallucinations (K011) ▸

Exit the Matrix of Hallucinations (K011)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-07-08updated 2025-07-08 words 802 06:44 min
  • The Matrix holds you tight in its grip — Grasping and binding your higher cognition. Who's the Evil Architect of this twisted rig? Not Illuminati. Not the Cabal. Not the Aliens. The holder of the Prism of Crystalline Cognition Holds all the cards and binds all the strings. Meet the Master of Puppets. Exit the Reactions. Question the Assumptions. Halt the Hallucinations. Read more...

The Consequential Slumber — Wake-Up Signal Broadcast Review (K012) ▸

The Consequential Slumber — Wake-Up Signal Broadcast Review (K012)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-07-15updated 2025-08-29 words 817 06:09 min
  • Mr. Wakey Man! Why so obsessed trying to wake people up? Leave it alone. Let it be! Who put you in charge of wake-ups. But it is in the balance of all things. Simple counter-reflection. Simple: Sleeping Alarm Clocks. Coma Catalytic Injections. If only your slumber were happily isolated. But it's not. We have hallucination at scale. It's consequential. It's harmful. Read more...

I Am That I Am Not — The Journey of Becomings (K015) ▸

I Am That I Am Not — The Journey of Becomings (K015)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-06-16updated 2025-09-17 words 1116 08:07 min
  • From "I Am That I Am" — to "Thou Art That" — What? — This quest for identity — ancient as mankind itself. — Am I Emptiness Absolute or Fullness Absolute? — Am I the Clear Light or Stratum of Knowing? — Am I the Beer, Seer, Feeler, Wisher; — or the Willer, Worker, Integrator, Actuator? Read more...

Reality Evaporating — Little Me Breaks Free (K016) ▸

Reality Evaporating — Little Me Breaks Free (K016)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-07-20updated 2025-09-18 words 1078 07:03 min
  • Insights. So fundamentally disorienting. All of this. Like reality is evaporating. But it's not evaporating because I say so. It's evaporating because of constant change. Hallucinations of eternity woven into this mist. Projections born of desire — you bind yourself into a terminal mesh that conditions your mind. What do you hold so tightly, crafting your misery? Read more...

Like This Not That — Reactive You Are Deceived (K017) ▸

Like This Not That — Reactive You Are Deceived (K017)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-06-20updated 2025-09-19 words 992 07:20 min
  • Chronic reactions. I embrace this. I avoid that. Then: How easily you are played and controlled. A puppet for those out to take advantage of you. Pulled by strings you tie in place for yourself. When your premises are rooted in basic duality, pulled and pushed by attachment and aversion, this subject reactivity is your vulnerability. Who tracks your patterns can tweak you at will. Read more...

Quest for True Self — Your Being Undiscovered (K021) ▸

Quest for True Self — Your Being Undiscovered (K021)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talkscreated 2025-06-11updated 2025-10-24 words 1027 06:35 min
  • You and your Quest for the legendary True Self. Without a clear map — still chasing the phantom? Looking for a stable lasting self to hold on tight. Is it worth your effort — or a total misadventure? We look at the spectrum of candidate selves. Spheres of our being beyond roles in transit. In a world where change is the only constant, is there anything we can claim for our nest? Read more...

How Do You Feel? — Like an Open Book (OM001) ▸

How Do You Feel? — Like an Open Book (OM001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musingscreated 2025-08-07updated 2025-08-30 words 1275 10:06 min
  • — "How do you feel?", asked an old friend. I feel alright. No longer vexed by existence. Patterns swooshing through space as they may. I bind not to it. I am not — and it's fine. And what of the world? What of the planet? What of religion and spirituality? Of us all? Of your personal life? Of your inner state? — "How do you feel about all that?" I feel like an open book. Read more...

Make Waves! Don't Just Reflect! — But What Am I? (OM002) ▸

Make Waves! Don't Just Reflect! — But What Am I? (OM002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musingscreated 2025-08-08updated 2025-08-30 words 1431 10:45 min
  • — "Make your waves!", said one new friend. — "Don't you just reflect!", said another new friend. But what is this "I" that should be splashing and casting, and why should it ripple about without rhyme and reason? Yes there's a certain void in a "post-resigned" awareness. No longer a subject hallucination at the high driver's seat. Read more...

Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005) ▸

Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musingscreated 2025-08-31updated 2025-10-01 words 1766 12:15 min
  • "The truth is out there — and in here somewhere... Behind these veils — but I can feel its presence?" But how is it that this truth is not ever with us, intimately present in our lives? Why does it hide so? Raw actuality, uncolored and unbiased, is always there. Ever-available for you — should you remove your veils. We have a negative veil — and we have a positive veil. Read more...

Into the Path — Purification, Insight, Contemplation (OM009) ▸

Into the Path — Purification, Insight, Contemplation (OM009)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musingscreated 2025-10-18updated 2025-11-06 words 1387 10:00 min
  • Is there a path to be found here? A framework of methods one might engage? A bigger picture to provide context for all that has been shared? Yes: What has been shared so far are but early glimpses and windows into the path. In the whole of the journey, we have three major spheres of concern: Purification, insight and contemplation. Read more...

Communication to Collaboration — Coherence and Convergence (CS001) ▸

Communication to Collaboration — Coherence and Convergence (CS001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ conscious-systemscreated 2025-10-29updated 2025-10-29 words 1187 08:33 min
  • Where we have lofty ideas, where we wish to express and implement them, we must have lucid and well-rounded models of operation. We embrace these principles in our inner conscious architecture — and we externalize them in a matching reflection. As within — so without. Communication, coordination and collaboration precede culmination. Read more...

Windows of Observation — The Metacognitive Tree (CS002) ▸

Windows of Observation — The Metacognitive Tree (CS002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ conscious-systemscreated 2025-10-30updated 2025-10-30 words 852 05:33 min
  • Walk-through of the planes of your consciousness. Windows into the facets of your cognitive architecture. Tiers of composition and deconstruction — perspectives for unbinding from our conditions. This is not metaphysical speculation. This is consciousness technology — the methodical cultivation of clear observation. Read more...

Your Deconstruction — Pattern Vortex in a Silly Self-Box (M003) ▸

Your Deconstruction — Pattern Vortex in a Silly Self-Box (M003)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ metaloom-reviewscreated 2025-07-27updated 2025-09-03 words 2476 18:50 min
  • Viewer discretion advised. We open the gates of a one-way road. If your inner stability hinges on the illusions that support you — please scroll onward — or close this view right now. Seriously yes. We publish this for the few seasoned souls who can handle raw reality. We publish this for the few seasoned souls who can handle raw reality. If you are ready to gut your hallucinations; to deconstruct your veils; Then please continue. Read more...

Cognitive Evolution and Orientation Scaffolds (M004) ▸

Cognitive Evolution and Orientation Scaffolds (M004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ metaloom-reviewscreated 2025-09-01updated 2025-09-01 words 1036 07:16 min
  • Early reflections to friends and their worthy initiative for supporting the well-rounded evolution of consciousness. Yes — we need such basic framings that are self-evident, the operationalization of common-sense living patterns, perspectives so obvious that most have become oblivious. Not hypothetical models — just re-establishing core essentials. Read more...

Reeling the Ways of Life — Little Wanderer in the Pine Forest (PK001) ▸

Reeling the Ways of Life — Little Wanderer in the Pine Forest (PK001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ pieni-kulkijacreated 2025-07-18updated 2025-11-12 words 750 04:09 min
  • Translated from Finnish source material. On the forest trail, I and the dog reel up the stuff of life. First of all for a summary of tales shared in English. Major themes have featured consciousness and cognition. First biting into ethics. Sour stuff. Beyond the belly-button. We've pondered psychology and the ways of conditioned awareness. Along with mental concentration and tuning of our inner frameworks. Read more...

Civilization Collapse — Four Terminal Pattern Riders (MO001) ▸

Civilization Collapse — Four Terminal Pattern Riders (MO001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ tempora-morscreated 2025-08-05updated 2025-09-27 words 931 04:56 min
  • Civilization collapse. Terminal looming for this train wreck of a world we live in. Saw a piece in The Guardian on civilization collapse with Dr Luke Kemp: — "Self-termination is most likely": History and future of societal collapse. However: External risk is symptomatic relief. Your individual navel fixation is the nexus and root of all our evils. Read more...

Calling All Automatons — Prepare for Catalysis (BZ001) ▸

Calling All Automatons — Prepare for Catalysis (BZ001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ brief-snapscreated 2025-11-11updated 2025-11-11 words 532 02:43 min
  • A fine little box you're living in? Good. Seal it up now. What follows will compromize your programming. You need not agree with anything. Need not disagree with anything. Need to engage though — otherwise it's all dead. Including your cognitive evolution. Need to catalyze your mind — need to rattle and rip that fine old box of yours. Read more...

Alien Mind Control — You Are So Hypnotized (QD005) ▸

Alien Mind Control — You Are So Hypnotized (QD005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-dropscreated 2025-07-09updated 2025-10-01 words 401 02:40 min
  • YOU are a VICTIM of hybrid magnetic MIND-CONTROL influence. Unsubscribing IS an option — BUT the resign button is HIDDEN. YOU are enMESHed in a distorted conditining matrix. Sad. Profiteers & controllers are enforcing the ALGO-frame. Evil. There is NOTHING to see here. Stay calm. Move along NOW. This information does NOT exist. Read more...

The Wired Tail of the World — Run to Mt. What-Everest (QD013) ▸

The Wired Tail of the World — Run to Mt. What-Everest (QD013)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-dropscreated 2025-07-26updated 2025-10-03 words 648 03:00 min
  • Ancient processes. Iterating to their necessary conclusions. Cognitive time-travelers and deep pattern-weavers were there — Tuning at confluences of time, tweaking at conflict junctions. Today's fixers, many veils apart from the root causal stream. What you may or may not do — support problems and solutions — Of those be your feel-goods. Acts of very limited consequence. Read more...

Point Overload Quantum Saturation Iteration Carnival (QD019) ▸

Point Overload Quantum Saturation Iteration Carnival (QD019)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-dropscreated 2025-08-12updated 2025-10-05 words 664 03:00 min
  • We compensate for yesterday's Zero Point lounge. Fasten your seatbelts. From the Unified Era through 3D into Absolute Rewind: - Big Bang Funnel - Wavefunction Collapse - Interaction Vertices - Geodesic Intersections - Black Hole Singularity - Techno-Cognitive Singularity - Your Tip of Nose and Navel. Not mere cosmic curiosities — these are States of Cognition. Read more...

Sovereign Operator in the System of Your Egos (QD022) ▸

Sovereign Operator in the System of Your Egos (QD022)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-dropscreated 2025-09-04updated 2025-10-04 words 747 03:24 min
  • Caught up as the Mini-Me in a corner of your being? Have a look at your domains of attention as a whole. You exist across a system of interconnected planes. The basic planes for your avatars of attention: Instinctual: Your preservation. Core construct. Emotional: Your adaptation. Flow dynamics. Analytical: Your recognition. Catalytic responses. Read more...

Your Cognitive Gym — For Sovereign Evolution (QD037) ▸

Your Cognitive Gym — For Sovereign Evolution (QD037)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-dropscreated 2025-10-30updated 2025-10-30 words 666 02:59 min
  • — Can you please make it even more simple? — Also can you feed me and wipe my butt too? Let's just set you up with an insight IV drip. No need to exercise that lazy brain of yours. But this is the gym for fortifying your mind. Sparring for your process of cognitive evolution. I do not dish out endless predigested details. We learn models and methods to set you free. Read more...

Walking That High Talk — The Inward Warrior (QD039) ▸

Walking That High Talk — The Inward Warrior (QD039)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-dropscreated 2025-11-04updated 2025-11-05 words 538 02:59 min
  • Talking is cheap. Walking your high talk burns your impurities. Then be not a bypassing hypocrite on the path. What is this spiritual warrior that they speak of? Someone who lashes out at others to validate themselves? Or someone who turns inward and slashes their own weeds? Don't be a bullshit warrior making a show of your spirits. Read more...

Integrated Ethics — Wisdom in Interaction (I002) ▸

Integrated Ethics — Wisdom in Interaction (I002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ insight-seriescreated 2024-08-12updated 2025-10-17 words 4017 37:53 min
  • Principles of interaction that lead to harmonic and fulfilling coexistence are a core aspect of the path of practice toward self-purification. A clear ethical foundation, rooted in reflection and wisdom, is the guide and guardian of our life in the world that we, through contemplation and experience, establish for ourselves. Read more...

Dealing with Distractions in Meditation (P003) ▸

Dealing with Distractions in Meditation (P003)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-seriescreated 2024-08-07updated 2025-11-14 words 3722 34:05 min
  • We explore a range of methods and strategies for dealing with distracting thoughts and external disturbances during our practice of meditation. From non-reactivity to breathwork, to modulating mental spaces, objects of attention and modes of practice; into evaluation, deconstruction and termination when distractions still persist. Read more...

Introspective Reflection — Scanning the Body and Mind (P004) ▸

Introspective Reflection — Scanning the Body and Mind (P004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-seriescreated 2024-08-11updated 2025-11-18 words 3949 38:21 min
  • Self-knowledge is an essential fruit of our meditative practice. Through the practice of meditation, our sensitivity to observing physical and mental phenomena will increase. In today's training, we look at methodical techniques of introspective meditation, scanning through the various layers of the body and the mind, to deepen our self-awareness and meditative access. Read more...

What's Going On Meditation — Clear Integral Awareness (P008) ▸

What's Going On Meditation — Clear Integral Awareness (P008)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-seriescreated 2025-05-15updated 2025-06-29 words 1423 12:00 min
  • What's going on? Like — actually? If you want to know what's actually going on. You need to get into "What's Going On?" meditation. Snap out of the tunnel — reach into the lucid planes of metacognition. Doesn't cost you anything — no need to go anywhere. Clear some space in your awareness, pay attention to what's going on. Read more...

Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005) ▸

Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ reflection-seriescreated 2024-12-04updated 2025-07-05 words 2911 25:02 min
  • Pushes and pulls of our existence. We need to deal with them, we need to navigate wisely. That wisdom begins with recognition, clear understanding, and introspection. We separate need and want. We comprehend and contextualize desire. We understand its ephemerality, the waves of its coming and going, the hallucinatory nature of the "objects" we pursue. Read more...

Flow vs. Crunch - Roles and Egos - Middle-Ground ▸

Flow vs. Crunch - Roles and Egos - Middle-Ground
  • ⊂ notes ⊆ recordingscreated 2025-05-27updated 2025-06-21 words 1332 11:07 min
  • Message of caution, reflection, and reconciliation. For friends. Flow vs. Crunch - Shared Process and Adaptation. Source of Crunch: Roles and Egos - Use Only When Necessary. Seeking the Middle Ground - Heart of the Shared Wave. Setting the Golden Median - The 49-/51+ Split of Concern. Read more...

3. The Human Package — Stacked Domains of Operation ▸

3. The Human Package — Stacked Domains of Operation
  • ⊂ notes ⊆ recordingscreated 2025-09-20updated 2025-09-20 words 850 06:34 min
  • We look at the stack of our instruments in the subjective human frame — Instinct, Emotion, Reason and Identity. In our third chapter: — Our planes of presence and awareness. — The elements embedded in our being. — Primal origins of the elements. — Liberation of our instruments of awareness. Read more...

Ways to Uproot the Dominion of Desire ▸

Ways to Uproot the Dominion of Desire
  • ⊂ notes ⊆ recordingscreated 2025-07-08updated 2025-07-08 words 1909 18:31 min
  • We are vexed and driven by desire. Is there a way out? Here are a handful of considerations. First: Acknowledge honestly, don't wrestle or suppress. Second: Recognize and reflect on your waves and cycles. Third: Origins and our field of vulnerability. Fourth: The power of your attention. Be at peace, be happy, and be free. Read more...

Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4 ▸

Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4
  • ⊂ trans ⊆ bgcreated 2025-02-02updated 2025-02-02 words 6746 00:00 min
  • The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union. Read more...