In Lake'ch - I am another yourself!
 
Greetings from the timeless Land of the Dragons and the kingdom of the little serpent, the creator of the universe, residing in the 12th dimension of your exile of the 3rd.
 
An important key to unlock your Mayan minds is found in the extension of your cosmic identity.
You are all so much more, than the physical bodies and your mental perceptions, by which you so strongly identify with.
You all have a cosmic twin, whom you shall meet in the not too distant future, if within embodiment or without it.
You might call it your hitherto unrealised Shadow-Self, your Alter Ego or your Doppelgaenger.
If you identify yourself as a male polarity, then your cosmic twin will be a female and be an intrinsic part of you.
Should you identify yourself as a female, then your twinship will be masculine.
 
Perhaps you might understand, that your meeting of your cosmic twinship will allow you to reidentify yourself as a a new invention.
You shall be enabled to leave the Old Yourself behind and become a New Yourself in your own rebirth.
 
You shall then be able to form partnerships and relationships with the opposite sex as bisexual and selfunified entities.
 
To preempt this message somewhat; you will no longer identify yourself as a person of malemindedness utilising a masculine bodyform; but you will understand yourself to be a HeShe harbouring a male mindedness as a waveform and a waveform which is harmonised in a female bodywave coupled to your mind.
You so shall have a female bodyness constantly on your mind.
 
Similarly, your male bodyness and particularity will harbour a female mindedness in its waveform and so you will become reborn as wave-particle dualities in Oneness with your Old Body transmutating into a BodyWave or a ParticleWave and your Old Mind metamorphosing into a MindBody or a WaveBody.
The corollary applies to the Old female gender in your present condition of the humanity.
 
But the idea of the Cosmic twinship is as old as the existence of Modern Man Homo Sapiens Sapiens upon the planet of destiny, namely Gaia or Terra or Akashia or Earth.
 
Your recent human history begins about 10,000 years ago, when the last ice age had receded and the holocene era began the interglacial period, which is now being superceded by the anthropocene era and your great debates about climate changes.
Now all of this is related to the Great Platonic Year and the Precessional Cycles spanning the history of Gaia back to its beginning as derivative of a starry nebulae, which differentiated into the Solar System you occupy so 5 billion years ago.
 
Now I shall share with you a great understanding of the Maya and a wisdom you also know, but have forgotten in your present selfchosen state of identifying yourself as what you perceive yourself to be.
 
The date of 2012 is not just a transition between worlds, say from a 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime into a 5-dimensional spacetime with 4 spacial dimensions; but this date represents the entire ending of the journey you understand to be the evolution of human kind.
 
This is why the date of 2012 is so important. It took the ingenuity of the Mayan timekeepers to figure this date out and I shall elucidate the manner they did this in this message.
 
But the overall situation is this. On the summer/winter solstice 2012; a 312,000 year cycle will end and this will reveal a new form of human inhabitor not just on a planet Earth, but as galactic and cosmic citizen.
This citizenship will become a standard for all the planetary civilisations throughout the Hubble-Universe and the reason for this is the present complexity and polarisations experienced by the lifeforms upon Gaia.
 
More information on this topic shall be given in later messages, if so appropriate.
 
The year 2012 so shall begin the Grand Age of the Mother Gaia and this is the Grand Age of Cancer in the greater order of the cyclicities.
 
I will now fill in many of the details on this and just how the Maya could calculate those things to predict the End of Time, as you know it as humans, and to 'graduate' some of the humans into their common inheritance of the starhumanity.
All of you shall graduate at a timeline relative to your own choosing, but the power of the polarisation will result in a great conflict of resonance.
This conflict is absolutely necessary to create particular energy potentials, which fractally and holographically manifest in the planetary consciousness and the individual consciousness.
 
So most of you will not allow yourselves to attune to these messages - you will be most assuredly appalled by them and mentally reject them for whatever reason you are able to conjure up to justify yourselves in doing so.
 
This might appear dramatic, but is very appropriate and there is no judgement whatsoever attached to this.
On a deeper level of your being, the skeptics and critics amongst you know very well, that this is what you have agreed to do - to form a necessary polarisation for the overall plan and agenda to succeed in the most benevolent manner for all concerned.
 
A very few of you, say one tenth of a percent, will FEEL a total affinity with these messages and those few have also agreed to form the 'other' polarity and those few will have a great deal of 'work' awaiting them, when the Grand Age of Cancer begins.
 
Most of you will have some difficulty with a mental processing of these messages and being the many, you will be able to come to a more informed decision making, after the greater changes in your environments crystallise and the great deceptions of your ruling classes have begun to crumble unmistakenly.
 
It is appropriate here to elucidate on your ruling classes.
What you label as 'God' is impartial. It is both 'good' and 'evil', but seeks to experience ALL THAT IS as ITSELF.
 
In its absoluteness however, IT is CREATIVE and the 'good' is CREATIVE in the SELF of Many being encompassed by the Greater SELF and so restricts the possibility of Separation.
The 'evil' is likewise CREATIVE, but eschews this restriction of the SELF and in seeking Separation.
 
So the 'good' is of SERVICE to the UNIFIED SELF; whilst the 'evil' is of SERVICE to the SEPARATED SELF.
 
As there is only ONE SELF as IT or GOD; both the 'good' and the 'evil' SERVE SELF and so GOD.
 
Both the 'good' and the 'evil' are necessary for the DISTINCTION to be able to exist. The CONTEXT of 'good' and 'evil' is required to CREATE a background for the PLAYS, the Theaters, the ChessGames and the Dramas to unfold upon.
 
So the controllers and the ruling classes are presently IN CONTROL on Gaia and they are in control through their knowledge about the greater agenda, and to a large extent even the Mayan understanding.
 
Unbeknown by most of you, but suspected by some of you, the ELITE is well aware about the pertinence of these messages of mine.
The Elite knows about the relevance of scripture and prophecy; they have confiscated much of the knowledge and have allowed FAKE CONFLICTS, such as the separation of religion and state or the conflict between religion and science to develop and to manifest.
The Elite knows about the power of gnosis and the hermetic and ancient sacred wisdoms; they have secretly constructed their own version of global government and esoteric initiations around those same pillars of wisdom, which they then openly discredit through the populist media and the many forums of skeptics and disinformation bureaus.
The Elite knows about extra-terrestrial life and the agendas of the 'watchers'; they know that the human presence on this planet is no accident and that the mere 'being human' is of tremendous significance and importance to the rest of the universe.
The Elite knows, that MOST intelligentsia and academia on this planet is UNAWARE of its own power to lead and teach the populus in honour and in integrity. The Elite has 'brainwashed' the most educated and most knowledgable members of the human population into a FAKE RATIONALITY and a falsesense of mental superiority.
The Elite knows, that the most effective way to control is mindcontrol and the extinction of dreams and fantasy, as the latter are the TRUE POWER of GOD as the Creator of the Universe.
The Elite knows that the physical universe WAS MADE by the Energy of Imagination and so it attempts to restrict the AWAKENING of the general populace to CHANGE their imprisonment in the status quo of the Scientific Materialism.
The Elite knows, that should the children begin to dream and fantasise collectively, then their DREAMS would come true and their own hold on the mindcontrol would become lost and delegated to the children.
 
And yet, in the greater agenda, the powermongering of the Elite is most appropriate. The Elite IS GOD experiencing ITSELF in the MODE of the SEPARATION.
The masterplan was to MANIFEST a SEPARATION so enormous and so painful; that an even earlier COSMIC SEPARATION could become experienced by the MANY AS THE ONE.
 
Some of you can now understand what the 'Little Serpent' is all about.
 
The LOVEDRAGON as the ONE experienced his own separation from that which he loved most, HIS own image as HER and HER became the material universe.
This material universe has become FOCUSED on Gaia as HER and the 'good' and 'evil' context is experienced as HIS and HER Children, namely by all of you.
So every one of you REEXPERIENCES this AGONY of SEPARATION, just as the Little Serpent experienced IT, when HE gave half of himself away to CREATE something NEW, a PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IGNORANT of ITSELF and its own Identity.
But all of the ENERGY contained in this physical universe is like a LOST DOG, running around, trying to find its way back home. When Gaia transmutates into Serpentina, then the DOG will find the Way back home and the initial supersymmetry of the ONE GODDOG in 2 dimensions will become a supersymmetry of MANY GODDOGs in 3 dimensions!
 
The pain of the separation CREATED the universe and is now RECREATED to CREATE a Superplanet, a StarPlanet, who can SHINE a DARK LIGHT to show the DOG the pathway of HER homecoming.
 
To have this Dark Light, it must first be POTENTIALISED as a SOURCE and to do this it must first be a SINK. But this is precisely how the Little Serpent made the universe. It made its own LOVEENERGY invertible as a superstring modality and the vibrating mode of high frequency could manifest the experience of the 'good-SOURCE' and the inverted low frequency could manifest the experience of the 'evil-SINK'.
So in summary, the SINKSOURCE supermembrane is a coupling between two superstring modalities and this coupling renders the 1st dimension as a 10th and changes the 2nd dimension into a 11th.
The SINKSOURCE coupling is however also a SOURCESINK coupling and so it is that the Secret of the Terran M-theory is found in the Modular Duality of its definition.
 
Subsequently, the Elite are polarised towards the SinkSource and the 'AntiElite' are polarised towards the SourceSink and BOTH are required to bring about the metamorphosis of the cosmic rebirth of Gaia as a THIRD Superstring Coupling and the hybridisation of the Dark SinkString with the Light SourceString.
 
The time between the dispensation of the SourceSink Coupling on June 24th, 2008 and December 21st, 2012 so serves the purpose to accentuate the Sink-Potential of Gaia so it can become a Source-Potential in its rebirth.
This rebirth will bring forth all of you joined to her womb by an umbilical cord; however only some of you will then be able to cut yourselves free from Gaia in severing this umbilical cord.
So most of you shall remain DEPENDENT on Gaia as your restricted environment.
Some of you shall have the scissors to CIRCUMSIZE your confinement and change from the human caterpillar into the starhuman papillion.
Some of you might now be able to discern the inner meaning of the Old Abrahamic covenant of the circumscision as well as the New Covenant of the 'having to be reborn again' to enter the kingdom of heaven upon a New Earth.
 
How did the Maya know the 'End of Time' and the ending of the Great Cycle of the human presence on Gaia?
Some of my discourse is a little technical, describing calendrical systems and such; but it is given to show how the Mayan Calendar is correlated with the Gregorian one, the latter being the scientifically accepted standard of today's timekeeping. 
 
The Great Platonic Year utilises the change of 1 degree per 72 years or 50 arcseconds per year to specify a complete transversion of the Zodiac of the Milky Way in 72x360=25,920 years for a precessional cycle.
For comparison the angular sizes of the sun and the moon coincide at 0.5 a degree, so allowing the possibility of annular eclipses to occur.
 
But this precessional cycle changes, being constant in approximately 41,000 year periods and as an effect of the 'wobbling' of the earth's axis due to its deviation from exact sphericity.
Gaia as a planet is flattened at the poles to form the geometry of an oblate ellipsoid and this geoemetry results in precession of the polar axis, tracing out an ellipsoid about the celestial poles.
 
This precession then changes over great time periods in the interaction of the sun, the moon, other planets and the possible interaction with gravitating extrasolar bodies such as asteroids and comets.
 
The present calculated rate of precession is about 71.6 years per degree or 50.3 arcseconds per year and so for a reduced Platonic Year of 25,765 years.
 
Because the moon is receding from the earth due to tidal effects at about 38 millimeters per year or 38 kilometers per megayear, the precessional duration would increase substantially over timespans measured in millions of years. But this rate is halved to about 20 millimeters per year so 600 Million years ago, when a solar year was about 400 days for about 22 hours in a day. 
 
The tracking of the celestial movements are the basis for cyclicities and the invention of calendars.
A Tropical Year of 365.24219 mean solar days (msd) describes the movement of the Earth in orbit about the sun relative to the vernal equinox and because of precession the Tropical Year is about 20 minutes shorter than the Sidereal Year of 365.25636 msd and which measures the earth's orbit relative to the 'fixed' stars.
 
Elliptical precession relative to the fixed stars requires about 112,000 years to complete a cycle and the Anomalistic Year of 365.25964 msd relative to the sun's perihelion adds another 21,000 years to 133,000 years to correlate the three different years.
 
An Eclipse Year of 346.62003 msd specifies the interval between successive passages of the sun through a given node of the moon's orbit and as the lunar nodes move westwards by over 19 degrees per year in regression, the Saros Cycle of just over 18 years and of 223 lunations or 6585.32 msd closely approximate 19 Eclipse Years of 6585.78 msd.

The difference of 0.46 of a msd then indicates the reoccurrence of the saros eclipses on a location shifted westwards by so 135 degrees.
The saros cycle was known to the Maya, the Babylonians and to the ancient astronomers of human prehistory.

Related to the Saros Cycle is the Metonic Cycle, known to Greek and Hebrew calendar makers and correlating the 19-year-cycle of  lunations to 19 Tropical Years with 235 Synodic Months, each of 29.53059 msd to within 2 hours.

This then is compared to the Civil Year of 365.2425 mean solar days and based on the Julian Year of a Century of 100x365.2425=36,524.25 mean solar days.
 
But for the recent human history, a greater cycle of 133,000 years can now be used to specify this human evolvement to the present nexus point in linearly measured calendrical time.
 
About 130,000 years ago, complete Neanderthal characteristics are found in the archaeological fossil record and by 50,000 years ago, Neanderthal Man had largely disappeared from Asia and by 30,000 years ago slowly became extinct in Europe.
About 100,000 years ago existed the largest primate hitherto identified.
Gigantopithecus Blackii was over 3 meters tall and weighed up to 600 kilograms and fossils were found in Southeast Asia.
 
The earliest Homo Sapiens Sapiens characteristics are found in the fossil record at so 100,000 years ago and the cultural leap into cave paintings and art began so 30,000 years ago with the great change from hunter gatherer to farmer and domesticator coincides with the holocene era of 10,000 years ago.
 
Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam are the matrilineal and patrilineal most common recent ancestors for all living humans today, using genetic markers and molecular clocks to trace genetic variations back in time. Nuclear DNA is subject to variation, whilst the mitochondrial DNA of the ovum is relatively stable and the mutation rate on the Y-chromosome is relatively constant.
Mitochondrial Eve so is said to have lived about 140,000 years ago near Ethiopia in Africa.
Y-chromosomal Adam is said to be at least 30,000 years younger than Mitochondrial Eve and perhaps only 60,000 years old and also from Africa. 
The oldest homo sapiens fossil dates to 160,000 years ago and as classified by the Herto find of 2003. It is also said, that the Neanderthals split from a common ancestry with the Homo sapiens genus about 300,000 years ago and that the genetic evidence points to a Homo Sapiens origin in the African savannah so 200,000 years ago.  
 
The Mayan understanding now relates the evolutionary leap from Homo Sapiens from Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens Sapiens or 'Wise Man' to FIVE Great Ages and given in the recent precessional supercycle.
 
133,000 years become 129,600=5x25,920 Platonic Cycles using a precessional average of 1 degree per 72 years.
 
Twelve Platonic Cycles are 311,040 years and 311,040 years ago the DNA-architecture of what was to evolve into Modern Man became INDUCTED by what is mythologically called 'Lemurian Root-Soul-Energy' and also as the 'giants' and the 'Sons of God' impregnating the 'Daughters of Man', say as in your Genesis encodings Genesis.6.2-4.
You might now understand that this encoding describes something before the Noahic 'Great Flood' and something after the 'perfect ten Noahic generations' redefined the 'Age of Man' as 120 years from a previous 'longer lived' generation and bounded by Methuselah's 969 years as the 'oldest man' who ever lived.
 
So now some of you may understand the archetype of the 'Great Flood' as the nexus point in the human history, when a previous hominoid evolution became terminated and replaced with a new one.
The previous hominoid generation was Homo Erectus culminating in the Lemurian archetype and then continuing in a multifaceted fashion with concurrent homninoids like Homo Neanderthalensis and 'great apes' like Gigantopithecus and after having itself evolved from Homo Habilis and Australopithecine ancestors dating back so 12 Grand Cycles earlier to 12x311,040=3,732,480 years.
This then is the reason as to why the Gaian anthropologists date the emergence of the Australopithecine human ancestry to about 4 Million years -13 Grand Cycles are 4,043,520 years.
 
 
The Solar System was created 5 Billion years ago and it took until 130,000 years ago to evolve Modern Man from Gaia's primeval and elemental beginnings.
The Mayan so manipulates the archetypical matrix of time to specify the first Platonic cycle as the reformation of a cosmic identity in utitility of the 10 principalities of the cosmogenesis applicable to the univere and all its substructures, such as a planetary evolvement in self-consciousness.
 
Application of the 10th principle metamorphoses the Old Identity as the 1st principle into a New Identity using the 9 Timelords as the means for this transformation.
 
So the Maya calls the first Platonic cycle the Age of Capricorn, thus labeling the 10th element of a zodiacal identity as rootreduction 10=1+0=1 and as mapped in the starry constellations of the Mazzaroth and of the ancient understandings.
 
The Platonic Age of Capricorn so began, when historical man Homo Sapiens differentiated from his environment and first became 'different' from its homo relatives, like Homo Neanderthalensis. 
 
This and all other Platonic cycles can then be compared to similar 'Great Years' such as the Yugas in the Hinduistic reckonings.
 
The Satya Yuga as the Spiritual Age of Gold and of Meditation (Dhyana) lasts 4800 years in descent and is followed by the Treta Yuga as the Mental Age of Silver and of Sacrifice (Yajna), lasting 3600 years in descent.
The Dvapara Yuga as the Emotional Age of Bronze and of Worship (Archana) lasts 2400 years in descent and is followed by the Kali Yuga as the Physical Age of Iron and of Alms (Daana), lasting 1200 years in descent into Materialism, before ascending again for a similar period of time.
The overall descent from Spiritual Understanding to Materialistic Knowledge so becomes 12,000 years followed by a matching ascent from the physical to the spiritual rebirth.
 
The 'Day of Brahman' is said to be about 10¹⁷ seconds, which is the Age of the Universe, 6x10¹⁷ seconds being 20 billion years.
The 'Age of Brahman' then relates this age of physical cosmic existence to spiritual preexistence in the factor 10²²/10¹⁷=10⁵ and where the light invariance c=wavelengthxfrequency specifies this factor in the inversion constant 1/c=10²²/(3x10³⁰)=10²²x(3.33x10^-31)=3.33x10^-9 and so as 10²²=Inverse Timeinstanton/c=Source-Frequency/c as the 'Age of Brahman'.
 
The Platonic Age of Capricorn ended so 130,000 years ago and began the Platonic Age of Aquarius, the latter establishing Homo Sapiens in coexistence with the now different other species of homo and other genuses. Up to this point in time, the Homo Sapiens and the Neanderthals used similar tools, but in the Platonic Aquarian Age, Homo Sapiens improved its technology and sophisticated its awareness of applicable tools.
 
The Platonic Age of Pisces followed so 26,000 years later and so 104,000 years ago and with it ritual behaviour became established in Modern Man and as evidenced in the Qafzeh Caves of Southern Israel. Then symbolic thought and the application of intelligence and speech began to further characterise Homo Sapiens.
 
The evolvement of language skills became the next great institution by Modern Man in the Platonic age of Aries and beginning so 78,000 years ago.

The Great Age of Taurus began so 52,000 years ago and with it Modern Man established itself all around the continents.
Mungo Man was found near Lake Mungo in New South Wales, Australia and was carbon-dated to about 42,000 years ago. Mungo Lady was found in a partialy cremated state, so becoming the first archeological evidence for cremation at that time period.
Occupation of Australia by Modern Man 50,000 years ago then indicates Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve as of having migrated 'Out of Africa' and populated the other continents in the Platonic Age of Aries in the timeline of the genetic clocks and the molecular markers.
 
Then the Platonic Age of Gemini 26,000 years ago fully established the more recent history of Cro Magnon Man as the immediate ancestor for Modern Man Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
 
This then brings us to the next Platonic Age of Cancer, beginning in 2012 with respect to the Mayan timeline and calendar datings.
 
Cro Magnon Man has undergone a full precessional cycle and is so destined to evolve further with the beginning of a new Platonic Cycle, characterised in the Cosmic Twinship, which is implemented in the Great Age of Cancer.
 
The Maya can now use the definitions for particular timing cyclicities, such as the tropical- and related years to manipulate the matrix of time to calculate particular dates such as given in the Tzolkin and the Long Count of 1,872,000 days or KIN from August 11th, 3114 BC to December 21st, 2012 AD.

The long count of 5,200 TUN=5,200x360 KIN and which are 5,125.361917 Civil Calendar Years and also 260x20x360 KIN=72x26,000 KIN=72x360x650/9 in the cyclicities of the Tzolkin.
 
The Mayan long count so becomes expressed in a ratio of Platonic Cycle/Maya Cycle and so as 360x72x365.2425/1,872,000=5.0572=25,920/5,125.362.
 
This then allows a recalibration for precisely five precessional cycles in a Platonic Cycle becoming five Mayan long counts in 25,626.8096 Civil Years or for precisely 9,360,000 days=5x1,872,000 days or KIN.
 
The Mayan Calendar then calibrates to the Gregorian Calendar in using the 400-year cycle of 146,097 days of the Civil Year to match the Mayan Long Count.
 
The Mayan HAAB is a Solar Year approximation of 365 days and the Mayan TUN is the Ancient Year of Scripture in 360 days or KIN.
A Mayan 'Calendar Round' is 52 HAAB or 18,980 KIN and a 'Sacred Calendar Tzolkin-Cycle' is 260 KIN as the 20x52=2x20x26=1040 KIN.
The synchronicity between 52 HAAB and 73 Tzolkins so is 52x365-73x260=0 as 18,980 KIN.
 
There are 13 BAKTUNS in the Long Count for 1 BAKTUN=144,000 KIN=400 TUN and the Mayan Timeline spans 13 Baktuns from August 11th, 3114 BC to December 21st, 2012.
 
A Mayan MasterNumber is the Number of Pacal Votan in 1366560 and a number which forms the great harmonic for the Mayan synchronisations: 1366560=3796 TUN=3744 HAAB=18,980x72=5256x260=584x2340=36x104x365=2920x468.
 
The importance of Pacal Votan as the 'Mayan Redeemer or Office of the Cosmic Christ' is this number 1366560.
 
Pacal the Great or Pacal II, was born March 26th, 603 AD and reigned from July 29th, 615 AD to August 31st, 683 AD in the Yucatan of the Mayan kingdom in its physical manifestation. The period from about 200 AD to 900 AD is known as the era of the 'Classical Maya'.
The tomb of Pacal II was discovered in 1948 by Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier and excavated in 1952.
 
The 'Office of Pacal Votan' is that of the 'Plumed Serpent' and is called the 'Office of Venus' as the 'Morning and the Evening Star'.
This 'office became reencoded in the scriptures in Revelation.2.28 and Revelation.22.16 and where the 'risen' Christ both IS and GIVES the 'Plumed Serpent' to hisher familial inheritors.
 
In the Mayan masternumber, the cycles of Venus are embodied in the harmonic of 584 KIN as 8 HAAB synchronise with 5 Venusian cycles of 584 KIN, with the Venusian Synodic period being measured as 583.92 days.
This maps the Venus Transits of June 7th, 2004 and of June 5th, 2012 and as being 8 Civil Years apart.
 
Subtracting the Number of the 'Plumed Serpent' 1366560 from the Long Count 1,872,000=144,000x13 gives us the Nexus point of Pacal Votan in the Classical Mayan period as 505,440=146,097x3+67,149 and so as the date of the winter/summer solstice 2012 displaced by 1200 years plus 67,149 days.
The winter/summer solstice of 812 AD so becomes a Mayan cycle count of completion and as the year 800 AD is a leapyear in the Gregorian Calendar, but the year 700 AD is not, the date of Pacal Votan inducing Pacal the Great will be February 17th, 629 AD and the 26th year of Pacal II 2+26=28 days before his birthday and the 14th year of his Mayan reign.
 
Knowing the date of his assuming the 'Office of the Plumed Serpent', Pacal the Great could 'count his serpent number backwards' to specify the Beginning of the 13 Baktuns for the 'Mayan End of Time' as August 11th, 3114 BC.  
 
It is a well known historical fact, that the holiest shrine in Islam, the Kaaba in Mecca was reclaimed and consecrated in the period from 627 AD to 630 AD under the prophet Muhammed, who then died in 632 AD. 
So the 'Office of the Plumed Serpent' was also implemented in the other global hemisphere upon Gaia; Islam being the youngest of the 'world religions' after Christianity, Judaism and the Oriental spiritual understandings.