Okay. Hello, hello. Okay, let's start. So what I'm going to talk about is certainly not detailed introduction to atomic structure theory or not an attempt at that. But I'll just show you a few things that may be important for plasma spectroscopy in general, and I hope we'll have time to look at some online tools, in particular the atomic structure database that we maintain and develop at NISDAT is the major source of evaluated atomic structure and spectra data. It's probably the only database in the world that contains truly evaluated atomic spectroscopy data, and also we will look at online interface that develop at Los Alamos that allows you to quickly calculate wave functions, energies, oscillator strength, and so on and so forth. So certainly we understand why atomic structure is important. We know that whenever we're talking about atomic physics there is always some kind of matrix element that we have to calculate or analyze, and of course we have initial state characterized by a set of quantum numbers of various nature. The final state characterized by a different, maybe the same, when function, then operator in between. So whenever we're talking about calculations of wavelengths, energies, transition probabilities doesn't matter, radiative or non-radiative, like organization transition probabilities that Stefan Fritsch will be talking about tomorrow. Collisional cross-sections or anything else that may be relevant for instance, amplitude, we always are facing these metric elements where of course these and these are characteristics of particular atomic states. So let me start with before going into atomic structure, let me mention a few text books generally related to atomic processes in plasmas and some of them are more on atomic structure. So probably plasma spectroscopy as a field of plasma science originated already more than 50 years ago when Hans Krim published his famous text book on plasma spectroscopy back in 1964. Since then he published another book, Principles of Plasmas Spectroscopy in 1967, but this is when it started and still this book remains probably one of the most authoritative sources on information and everything related to plasma spectroscopy. This list is in chronological order, so in 81 Bob Cowan published a fundamental very thick, extremely detailed and a pleasure to read book that's called Theoretomic Structure in Spectra and many of you have heard about Cowan's code, it's very well described in this book. Then there are a few other books with very similar names, atomic physics for hot plasmas, atomic physics in hot plasmas and atomic properties in hot plasmas, published by different authors, but each of these is also very, very interesting and detail. In particular, I would like to mention this last book that contains many aspects of plasma spectroscopy developed over the recent probably 20 years, maybe 30 years or so, that are not so much touched in any of the other books. Then Fujimoto's Plasmas Spectroscopy text book contains a lot on collision-related modeling in particular. Then we saw today in Professor Kunze's talk references to his extremely readable introduction to plasma spectroscopy. Of course, you all are pretty much into plasma spectroscopy, but if you were just novices, this would be the book to start with, absolutely. Last year, a bunch of lecturers here, Hume, Hoverscod and myself, we compiled together a few chapters in the book that is called Modern Method and Collision Reliative Model of Plasmas, a little bit advanced, but still it gives you up-to-date information of what happens in collision-related model. Units. One of the mostly used units in the atomic spectroscopy and atomic structure is inverse centimeter, which is related to one Riedberg through this 10 to the 5th coefficient, and one EV is about 8,000 inverse centimeters. You will see both of these, mainly EV and inverse centimeter later on. Of course, the typical unit of lens is Bohr radius, which is just radius of hydrogen atom, and accordingly the typical area is the cross-section, which is pi zero squared, about 10 to the minus 16, and this is the characteristic size of collisional cross-sections for neutral atoms. Now, a lot of information on units, in general, you can find at the NIST website, I hope you can see it says, physics.nist.gov.cu.u.slash units with capital U, but I'd like to mention that there is a common redefinition of the international system of units that will most likely be approved in the next year, 2018. We know that right now the seven fundamental units of SI based on different, some of them based on artifacts. For instance, still one kilogram is a little piece of platinum meridium that sits somewhere on the ground in Paris. But the problem with this thing is that its mass is not constant. It loses it a little bit, which is natural. So the new international system will be completely redefined in terms of fundamental constants. So right now we all know that the speed of light is a fixed value, 299792458. Some of the fundamental constants will also be given exact values, and from them the whole system of units will be derived. Now, this is the latest addition of the periodic table that we published at NIST. It still has old names for the four heaviest elements and the names were signed just a couple of months ago, but at least all numericals in the tables are supposed to be good, so please take it and use it. Okay, so what kind of atomic structure are we generally interested in in plasma spectroscopy? Simple answer is more or less everything.  For instance, if we're looking at 16 electron ion, which would be sulfur like ion. This is very picturesque representation of average atom, but if you want to look at more details, you may go with the super configuration representation, and we'll talk about super configurations as well a little bit, where you simply specify how many electrons sit in different principle, in different shell principle quantum numbers. If you're interested in even more detailed representation, you may use configuration. So for instance, this super configuration may consist of bunch of configuration where you use NL distributions for your electrons. Then certainly you may want to go even the next level represented by atomic terms characterized by total spin and total angle of momentum values, which you're certainly familiar with. And of course, you may go all the way down to the fundamental level, atomic levels representation characterized by J values. Of course, the story doesn't end here if you have electrocomagnetic fields. You go to components, but the point here is that generally, you may be interested in different level of representation for atomic structure. And this tells you, for instance, that there is no universal collision-related model that can be used in all cases. Simply in, well, you can't build it in terms of atomic levels, but it may become so huge that no computer in the world can work with it. Now, fortunately, modern nature gave us hydrogen and hydrogen-like ions, exactly solvable problem in quantum mechanics, with which we can learn so much about atomic structure in general, the scalings, how far electrons sit from the nuclear and so on and so forth. Unfortunately, there is no hydrogen atom for plasmas. Each plasma is unique and specific, and if you can solve more or less your problem for one plasma, well, unless you're working with something extremely similar, you can hardly apply this knowledge directly to some other plasma cases. But hydrogen atom certainly gives us a lot regarding the atomic structure of all atoms and ions. And of course, we know that moving from hydrogen atom where the ground state sits at one ring below the ionization potential, the energy scales as one over n squared. The same structure is more or less valid for any hydrogen-like ion that is ion with electron. Again, in units of energy z squared read work, the first, the ground state sits at one, this two sits at one fourth and so on and so forth. We understand how radius of an electron orbit changes with principal quantum number goes like n squared. We understand that the orbit's collapse is one over z with the increase of ion charge. We know how the energy scales and this information remains very, very important for future analysis of other atoms and ions. Now, we know that in general atomic states are characterized by number of quantum numbers, but there are only, probably it's fair to say that only two that are exact. One is total angle momentum and the other is relative. Of course, they have energy of the state, which is just a number. But as far as discrete numbers are concerned, only two are truly exact and their conservation of causes comes from the most fundamental properties of our world. Everything else, including total angle momentum, total spin is really not exact. We will see, of course, the cases when atomic state is a mix of different L's or S's. Now, when we're moving from hydrogen atom to complex atoms, generally, it's fair to say that we probably know all important interactions that enter our Hamiltonian. And, of course, we have a kinetic pattern here. I just use atomic units, emitting all H bars and so on and so forth, which is just a lesson here. Then electrons interact with the nucleus with the Coulomb potential. Of course, I hear enumerates different electrons in the atom. Of course, electrons interact between them again with the Coulomb law. Then we know that there is spin orbit interaction that basically can be easily described when you move to the reference frame of the electron that sees nucleus charge induced magnetic field due to movement of the nucleus charge and some other corrections that I will omit. They're not so much important for this story. Of course, with this Hamiltonian, we want to solve the Schrodinger equation. And, of course, we know that we cannot solve it exactly. Therefore, some approximation must be introduced. And the mostly used approximation is the so-called central field approximation that basically tries to mimic the effects of Coulomb repulsion among the electrons. So, basically, you start with the modified Hamiltonian, of course, keeping the kinetic part, interaction with nucleus, and then we assume that each electron, again, some here goes from over all electrons, moves in a potential independently of all other electrons. Now, the problem, of course, is to probably choose the potential. And here we can find different methods and techniques, including Hartree-Forg, Thomas Fermi, some types of model potentials. But in any case, almost all realistic approaches to calculation of atomic structure in multi-electron systems starts with some kind of central field approximation. Then again, for non-rotivistic case, you find configuration state functions for this Hamiltonian characterized by total Ls and other quantum numbers. Of course, you must take into account the anti-symmetry of your wave function because we know of the poly-exclusion principle that is valid for electrons. So, these configuration states are characterized by the principal quantum number and orbital angle momentum. And now energy depends on both. For hydrogen, we remember that simply due to accidental degeneracy of clone potential, there's no dependence on L, but here there is. Then we assume that the atomic state function is a linear combination of the configuration state function. And this is the final atomic state function that we want to find. We represent it as a sum of all this found configuration function with some weighting coefficients. And then, of course, the sum goes not over the electrons, but number of the configuration states that we choose as a basis. Then you build Schrodinger equation for this new basis, eventually coming to a solution for the mixing coefficient. And as soon as you find the mixing coefficient and you know the configuration state functions, you know your atomic state function. And then you can try to do calculation of energies, oscillators, transfer, creative transition probabilities and so on and so forth. Of course, you must include other effects primarily through perturbation theory like spin orbit and others if you want really good accuracy. But this is standard procedure that is followed in many, many codes. When you move from non-relativistic theory to relativistic theory especially if you're dealing with heavy ions and actually for not too heavy because relativistic approach certainly is much more general than non-relativistic which should follow from this naturally. Here the Hamiltonian, of course, looks slightly different because you start not from Schrodinger equation, but from Dirac equation and therefore you have all these terms that are built with the standard Dirac matrices. In calculations for relativistic atomic theory it is generally important to include nuclear charge not as a point charge, but as some extended distribution and therefore you have this potential.  Of course, in higher orders you must include corrections to the Coulomb potential and this was done by Bright and therefore this particular additional term that is then added to Dirac Coulomb Hamiltonian is normally called generalized Bright which includes magnetic interaction and retardation effects. Then, again, especially if you're working with really heavy elements, it's good to add quantum electrodynamic effects like self-energy, vacuum polarization which are standard things that are taught in QED classes and then you combine all this together and this is new Hamiltonian that you want to work with and there are codes I'll mention in a minute that basically do all relativistic atomic structure very well and Stefan Friedrich will be tomorrow talking about grasp and rate if that use relativistic approach to analysis of atomic structure. Now, because relativistic notations are used not so frequently generally in the literature as non-relativistic LS notations, I just want to mention that generally in this notation use J value of course because S and L couple together to J and normally the J value comes on the right-low side of the L. So if you have S electron it's the only J value of course is one half you add zero and spin one half you get one half then for P you have two options one half three halves and very often you use P minus P plus to designate them and so on for other electrons D F G and so on and so forth. So which method and codes are available and which are used nowadays? There's another approximation developed by Bates and Darmgart in the late 40s basically you try to again mimic your Coulomb interaction introducing effective principle quantum numbers probably nobody uses it today but still some codes are available and in simple cases this this is this this approximation should work. There are some codes based on Thomas Fermi statistical approach and there's superstructure and then auto structure which is development of superstructure that have Thomas Fermi option as option to calculate this central field potential used at the first step. Then you can certainly use different kinds of Hartree-Fock methods single configuration which is used in COUNS code but then COUNS code doesn't stop with this it uses configuration interaction that we'll talk about a little bit later and COUNS code has online interface that I'll show you in the second in the second lecture. There are few codes that use model potentials that basically based on some knowledge and of how what what the potential of atom is there were some recommendations were developed to use some artificial potentials to describe what electrons in different ions produce as a center of central field and most widely used codes for relativistic model potentials are Hewlett and flexible atomic code. Evgeny Stambulchik will be given lecture on on FAC implementation. Then there are a few codes that use multi-configuration approach. You remember here oops we talk about this expansion and then in this procedure use Schrodinger equation just to find the mixing coefficients assuming that the configuration state functions have already been determined. In the multi-configuration approach both which actually is variational approach both mixing coefficients and the wave functions are varied and probably it's fair to say that for general atomic systems multi-electron atoms and ions multi-configuration methods provide the best accuracy. There are non relativistic htfoc codes and you can go to this site nlte.news.gov.mchf and you can download multi-configuration htfoc code developed by Charlotte Fraser Fisher. We also have their multi-configuration Dirac folk codes which are fully relativistic. Grasp2k and then there's another code developed by Dick Law in France also multi-configuration Dirac folk and there are different flavors of grasp. Original grasp, grasp96, grasp2k and relative Stefan's code is based on grasp. So these multi-configuration type codes are extremely widely used in research. Then there are various perturbation theory method that probably best work when you have just one, two electron outside of closed cells but they can be really very powerful and recently there are new methods developed based on B-splines that also take ideas of multi-configuration htfoc or Dirac folk as the basis and then build everything on B-splines. Now one of the important ideas about atomic structure is idea of how everything scales when you change the ion charge more or less keeping the same number of electrons because we know that this is called isoelectronic sequence when we keep the same number of electrons but simply change the charge of the nucleus. Now the primary characteristic is actually not the ion charge here but rather ion charge plus one which is normally called spectroscopic charge and of course you know notation like h1, argon 15 and 15 and 1 are the spectroscopic charges. So this spectroscopic charge is actually what is seen by outermost valence electron and therefore at large distances certainly this electron what it sees nucleus some electrons here so altogether it's more or less like Coulomb field and or better to say more or less like hydrogenic ion and this is exactly where the main part of this scaling comes from. So in principle you can derive spectroscopic charge scaling for one electron energies in non relativistic case and the leading term is E0 where E0 is nothing but hydrogenic term 1 over n squared and here you have z squared so of course this is this is purely hydrogenic ion term but then you have of course the other terms lower powers of zc that describe different effects for instance this term is mainly telling you about the terms splitting within your n shell and of course relativistic effect slightly modified this depends but general trend remains valid that you go to higher ion charges of course zc is practically the same and this term becomes more and more important compared to all other terms which means that going from low on charges to high on charges your atomic structure becomes more and more hydrogenic so if you have levels of terms for the same principal quantum number or different quantum numbers that even may overlap you increase the charge and everything starts shrinking into groups of elements that look very much like hydrogenic systems so from this it follows that the whole energy structure of an ion has part that is related to primarily electron nucleus interaction with energy splitting small less proportional to z squared then we have electron electron interactions proportional to z that are responsible for terms and then we have spin orbit splitting that gives levels from terms if we're talking about non relativistic LS coupling and this is where we start from so how can we easily see that indeed going along isotonic sequence we become more and more hydrogenic well I'll show you in the second lecture the interface to the NIST atomic spectrum database but one of the things that we do have there is this ability to build grotesque diagrams that simply show you the positions of all levels that we have in the database for a particular ion the x-axis simply denotes here different configuration or different series of levels in this case so if we look at singly ionized aluminum which is magnesium like because of course it has 12 electrons like magnesium and let's find out where the levels belonging to configurations where both electrons have unequal 3R so what we have in the database is of course the ground state 3S squared then these two groups of level there are more than one here belong to 3S 3P these two are 3P squared then we have 3S 3D then we have 3P 3D and of course there must be also 3D 3D but they are sitting above ionization potential and then actually for aluminum to those levels have not been determined experimentally as of today so you see that three three levels are distributed all over the whole range of energies from the ground state all the way to the ionization potential this purple line shows you the position of the ionization potential for aluminum 2 and these are units of inverse centimeters now if we look at another magnesium like ion but with much higher charge and try to find the same levels we'll find that they're sitting much much closer to the ground state with regard to the ionization potential so now we're looking at 26 times ionized transom again magnesium like and these levels are more or less the same 3S squared 3S 3P 3P squared 3S 3D 3P 3D and even 3D squared and you see they're all compressed which means that the energy differences between all the signs they do increase but not as fast as ionization potential which increases as z squared now spin orbit interaction is certainly one of the most interesting thing in atomic structure for hydrogenic ion the parameter that characterizes it is proportional to the fourth power of the nuclear charge so it's really very strong effect and it's inversely proportional to the third power of the principal quantum number so it dies out quickly with increase of n and of course you see that the l value it also decreases with with l for hydrogenic if you move from hydrogenic ion to general atom there is no simple formula like this one that is derived from Dirac equation you can use some semi theoretical one the formula where which looks more or less the same but there are some difference of course the fine structure constant is the same indeed and here is replaced by effective principal quantum number which is derived through hydrogenic formula from the energy of this particular state that we're trying to characterize L is of course the same but then Z to the fourth is split into two parts one part is the spectroscopic charge or effective charge that the electron sees and the other is effective nuclear charge and which slightly changes depending on whether the orbit of your electron penetrates much or it doesn't so for instance for NP orbitals you can replace Z tilde with a nuclear charge minus L and then this is this spin orbit parameter enters our Hamiltonian right here and can be used to calculate the energy splitting through perturbation here for instance so there are different types of couplings that you certainly heard about LS coupling JJ some other intermediate and more or less the whole story is based between comparison of Coulomb interaction between electrons and spin orbit interaction of electrons for particular electron so if electron electron interaction is much stronger than spin orbit then this is what we have for LS coupling which is typical for light elements in that case you get the total angular momentum just summing up all else of particular electrons the same for the total spin and your final total or total angular momentum J is simply some of two vectors and for JJ coupling the situation is inverse spin orbit is much stronger than electron electron interaction therefore you must start with taking each electron and summing up its L and S value into a J and you do this for all electrons of course not those that are in the closed shell because in closed shells everything is zeroed out you just forget about closed shell for for your angular momentum consideration and final J is of course the sum of total J so you're used to LS coupling notation like singlet P or triplet D or something in JJ coupling slightly different notations I use to use those relativistic thin that I showed you before for instance to S to P would be represented as to S one half to P one half or to S to P minus for one half if there were three halves here then here you would put plus if you have more complex configuration like 3d5 you may split this into dependent on really how the quantum numbers are calculated and so on so forth now of course these are extreme cases one one of the types of interaction is much stronger than the other but of course you may meet cases when neither of these is stronger and this is what is normally referred to as the intermediate coupling what is the energy structure for different types of coupling for LS let's consider for instance simplest case of SP configuration so we know that if it's an LS coupling then electrostatic is stronger than spin orbit and naturally your SP is split by electrostatic into terms so you have only one possible value of L which is P of course you add 0 and 1 get only 1 and then you have singlet and triplet triplet lights below than singlet and this is the Hoon's rule that we will talk about again and then with spin orbit you split all these terms into the levels and of course if spin orbit interaction is not too strong this splitting's would not be very large compared to the difference in energies of these two terms and of course if you put your system in magnetic field your J values which is 0 1 2 here will split into into simplest states so this is the standard terminologies J values are levels these are terms and these M sub levels are normally called states going to JJ coupling you get the same number of levels simply you get them slightly differently you have SP splitting by spin orbit of the P electron into two JJ terms again remember that here one half is related to S three halves is related to P and then through electrostatic interaction these two summed up so you take J of one electron one half J of the other electron three halves sum them up get value of 1 and 2 and the same here you get value of 0 and 1 and finally the states are produced if you put the same system into a magnetic field now looking at this simple structure you can ask a natural question can we find some simple formulas that can describe what happens here and the answer is yes for for simpler system if you forget about everything else you can write simple formulas there are few very nice books that describe the details starting from classical continent shortly theory of atomic spectra of 1935 counts book has a lot of it so basically the non-central part of the Coulomb potential can generally be represented as some of two types of contributions one is related to direct Coulomb interaction and the other is directed to exchange Coulomb interaction with certainly is specific for quantum mechanics not for classical mechanics these two parameters which are called slatter integrals introduced through with factors excuse me the here it should be G G so F F G and lowcase F and G are simply numbers that can be derived from angular and algebra so if we are looking at situation when we have one S electron and another electron that has orbital angle momentum L we can write formulas that describe how the levels will be split so F zero is direct Coulomb slatter integral G L in just one in this series the series is not infinite it ends up depending on quantum numbers and then you have contribution from the spin orbit now let's see what happens if spin orbit becomes zero that is we only expected to have singlet and triple triplet term and all levels in triplet will have the same energy so if zeta spin orbit parameter goes to zero this becomes F minus G this becomes F minus G and triplet level 3 L L which corresponds to the lower sine becomes let's see zero zero zero square root of G square G also becomes F zero minus G so from here you see that at least this formulas really give us what we expect to have for such simple system and the last transparency before we end up for break as we already know the spin orbit very strongly depends on on iron charge so we can expect that if for lower members of iso electronic sequence with low iron charges spin orbit is small and therefore we have a less coupling for higher members with high iron charges because of such transmit orbit we may expect transition from LS to JJ and indeed this is exactly what what happens what you see here is the energy structure of the 1s to P configuration in helium like ion alone practically all sequence of nuclear charges from neutral helium to probably ending with tungsten which is 74 now the energies are rescaled so what you see here the energy of the highest level which is singlet P1 for low members of the sequence is one and it kept one everywhere and energies of the triplet levels are rescaled keeping J equal zero at zero all the time what we see at lower members of the other electronic sequence there is a singlet there's a triplet and all triplets sitting together basically this means that this is indeed a less coupling the electrostatic interaction splits terms far and spin orbit is too small to produce something more than just tiny split in here now we go to high as these and immediately you see that the whole structure changes we have two levels here doublet two levels here doublet and they exactly correspond to what we would expect for JJ coupling pictures as we saw previously so let me stop at this point we continue in 10 or 20 minutes 10 minutes so we'll back at 2.15


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Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit. Do you know what somebody's thinking of me? Stop thinking of me, you guys! Come on! Do you ever hear that? Yeah, do you know what somebody's thinking of you? To inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope this morning, we're gonna have a short conversation.  I have some appointments and I got a coffee this morning, so but I wanted to make sure I was able to connect with you today because as we are April 17th and of course sometimes we know in Minnesota sometimes it snows in April and of course it's gonna snow this week as we near the seventh year anniversary of the passing of Prince which is on Friday. I know many of you my purple raindrops and my purple Prince fan friends my purple fam friends as well will be feeling into that energy and so I am going to offer as I promised a small group session so the link to that will be in the description below. It'll be on Sunday this weekend live stream on Zoom. It is a service so you will have to register for that and yeah, that will be at 6 p.m. Central Time on Sunday April 23rd. Again, it's a service and then I also will be offering a few just a couple I think three or four mini Prince channeling videos recorded if you want if you feel the a real deep polar need for that I will do a few of those and I will deliver those on Friday this week again that's another service that will be offered this week. I really felt like I needed to do that I needed to do something to gift to you especially those of you who are missing that beautiful purple energy or our have changed so much and healed so much during the past seven years because we are at an end of a cycle so we will focus on the seven rays in our group session on Sunday, so That'll be a private group. That's not going to be public on on YouTube. That'll be a private Zoom session So as you may have guessed already, we're gonna channel Prince today just a bit we're just gonna have a little chat with him and Have some conversation as we're coming up on the end of a cycle and I want to know why he said Seven rays like as I was because okay, so okay, you want to just come in Can you just come in get really close? He's like, yeah He has a little bit of facial hair, which I'm not so used to like a little almost like a goatee kind of thing He says it's not a goatee. Do not he says to not describe this as a goatee. This is not a goatee There's a little bit of something here I'm like, what's up with that? And a little bit of something like right here like I don't Is very well, he's very neatly groomed. Okay He's like it's not a goatee. Good morning to you all in the chat. Nice to see you So do you want to tell them like our whole back-and-forth about doing this this week? Yes, he says Well, you're the one that likes to talk about it and he says I Wasn't sure if I had the if if it I wasn't sure if I was able gonna be able to do like My personal schedule is pretty busy this week. So I didn't know where I'd be able to Have like a little group session. I didn't know if after was gonna be okay. He said after is just fine He said do it on Sunday. It's just fine. People will be able to attend. I'm like, okay Because leading up the energy leading up to the anniversary at least for me like I know with my with my dad's death the leading up to it that's when the grief starts to show up a lot and and Emotions will start to perk in and even though it's something that you have come to terms with It's been several years. It's been seven years There is still always an opportunity for new layers of healing and so when I was Typing in the dates and stuff into my my system and stuff And feeling into it. He said seven rays Because I was gonna be like oh purple vibes with Prince kind of thing and he says no no no no no no no no This is special. He said this year special seven special Can you talk about why the seventh year is so special? Can you can you share about that? Because that's kind of a that's that's poignant I think and I want to know because we didn't talk deeply about this We're having this conversation in front of you guys. Okay, so Do you want to could you please enlighten us? Mr. Prince Rogers Nelson in the afterlay? he says from a spiritual from the spiritual components of this he says You know that my work you and I have worked on the healing parts of What I can bring forward and what I can Give now what I can produce now is The harmonics of What many would refer to as healing The vibrational energy, let me try to see if I can adjust to my trying to get my a vibration right with him It seems low like it feels like he's talking low low doesn't mean bad. It just means very grounded He says this is intentional. He says it's intentional the way.  Prince's sharing from a core harmonic of rooted groundedness his connection with you now is one of creating a structure For you to heal in the many ways that you can heal. He says there's so much That you can tap into an axis. He says I would have hoped that we would have on this time that we've spent year after year here Oh, it's so hard with the low voice you guys. He's like really low the vibration is like People be in your bodies. That's a bridge of thing be in your bodies because this is like He never does that to me like pushes me into my body like grounded And he's very kind of stoic and the way he's describing or sharing he says this is intentional We have to bring the vibration to a point where the human body can withstand it he says so he's showing me the trunk of the tree and The Chakras and the seven energies of this the body seven energy centers of the body you guys Chakras, you know root Chakra sacral chakra solar plexus heart chakra throat chakra Third eye chakra crown chakra Seven energy centers of the body associated with colors So it looks like a rainbow when it's lit up used in meditation and yoga and other practices and healing modalities She's showing me that he's showing me that he's saying we focus on the grounding This is what's important as you step into this week. He says for all of you He says regardless. He says whether you were a fan of fan He says a friend of my work But then you were friend friendly with my work or not no matter that doesn't matter He says no no offense taken Now he has a hat like a fedora on okay now. He's getting a little more princely a little more princely a little less ascended master Let's ohm. He's really pushing this meditation vibe sitting on the earth Sitting in quiet feeling your roots Really bringing that harmonic he keeps using the word harmonic harmony Harmonization harmony harmony harmony down from that purple crown chakra all the way down through the chakras through this big Tube of your body that you are this pillar of light. He's showing me the silver actually it's silver he's showing me silver like the silver encasement like a silver pillar around you and Like iridescent you guys it's like light okay silver This is what prince is showing and it's around you and that in the intent is for that purple light to beam down in through you kind of Like waves gently just Dropping into the bottom of the low low belly of the base root chakra, which is red But to bring the purple energy that purple light encasing in encompassing it like just encasing that root that red rich root Energy that that low dull flame That is connected like he shows me a diamond to that perp that Red diamond almost which is interesting because I usually say as a triangle He's showing me as a diamond into the earth So the top part is the top triangle, which is you goes into your body like the pyramid like the pyramids at The skylights at Paisley Park like that the pyramids at the top like that like that like that that you're so your skylight That's you that's you guys. That's the purple. That's you guys and then Down the silver to the silver encasement is your what is it? Is it the aura? No, he says it's the etheric field So it's the field right closest to your body, but a little bit of he says a little bit of wiggle room there He says we're healing, you know This is where we're at now after seven years. We're healing we're helping helping with the healing Channeling energy and I knew that I even put that in the little Little description. I am like this isn't gonna just be a channeling during our group session There's gonna be some healing meditation because that's what he wants and we're gonna do what he wants because he's a healer That's his role in the afterlife and I knew it. That's why we started working together I knew it. I knew it. I knew it because he said to help people heal and he knew that I would say Okay, I'm on board with that This was supposed to just be a temporary a couple month thing to help people for me Right after his death to help people get through that time and I did it like Incognito as the purple medium. Yeah, that was me the original the og The purple medium that was me So the articles you saw published by the purple medium at in the edge magazine way back right after he died That was me fyi That was me The facebook group the purple raindrops that was me that was me. Yeah so It was the healing piece, you know, and I just thought it would be temporary But apparently it's a whole legacy for him Just like his music is healing for many of you in your mind and your heart right And it and it and it brings you to places in your lifetime where you can heal We can get medicine to feel good to change your vibration and your mood and attitude That's energy work. So he did energy work in that sense through his music And now he's doing energy work through us and our conversation that we're having today Okay, so you can receive this at any time. You don't need me to do it at any time There's also I have meditations connected to him as well That you can access on the playlist. I believe yes, there's at least one that I have So prince has a playlist here on above-life channel because he's the reason why we have a above-life channel So he's bringing in that energy though going down to the root. So it's a diamond, right? So that top pyramid is that like at paisley park and comes down through you Nice and nice and nice and nice and then it goes into the lower part Of That root chakra and goes into the earth So it's like this part's above the earth of the diamond and this part's below the earth So you're connected to earth. You're not stuck. You're not stagnant. You're connected You have there's a point, right? There's a point to this people There's a point and then that purple energy moves around it So purple is a high vibrational color. It means wisdom divine feminine wisdom wisdom wisdom wisdom wisdom You have access he says to all to the things you would consider a keshik records a halls of remente All of the the library of psychic and intuitive metaphysical information He says but not just from the The the people who you've known or the icons that you've known That can lead you and guide you and give you wisdom But he says but from your lifetimes You can look back from your lifetimes and you can activate and integrate the skills and the tools and the knowledge you've already had So you don't have to relearn that shit.   Okay, serious Not so serious. Do you swear in the afterlife? He says word. They're just words It's like be Be they're just words You use choose the words you want. He says I don't have any judgment I think he says I think people feel that I have judgment in the afterlife or I have strong opinions about anything That's human. I do not He says I don't have the ego mind I have the one mind Which is the divine mind and then how then prince would you describe that?  How does the persona work the personality work? He says It's one of the seven rays Okay, so the seven rays don't just refer to the chakras It is based upon the receiver What status are you in in your receivership? Where are you receiving? How do you choose to receive any divine wisdom? It's one of the seven rays Hmm Okay This is interesting so Am I using my mind to connect with others minds then to translate you into your human persona? Is it just basically a filter? Hmm is identity itself a filter We're getting kind of philosophical aren't we? Yes, we are philosophical He says what's your pleasure? That's one of the rays What is your pleasure? How do you connect with the things that bring you pleasure? So that you can experience enjoyment in your life so you can experience that lightheartedness without the The drama of things Without other people ruling you How do you experience or claim your empowerment? Your aligned sovereignty How do you choose to receive? From which ray are you connecting? There's not a wrong piece in this or a part in this there's not a one Thing that must be done in order to honor or respect me The question is for you. What are you doing and how shall you connect? Just speared in any form to whatever is going to help you support you and love you So that you can help you support you and love you. It's all about you. It really is about your own selfishness Which is highly encouraged by those of us who are watching you attempt to grow and evolve The answers you seek are not external they're internal but you connect to the internal sometimes in some ways from this external community that you might have Some remembrance of some memory of and in some way Some kind of stream of consciousness and so for that the image of me Comes in the whatever form or whatever way that you Truly can receive it Or receive me or that what you consider me As or to be Okay, that's really deep. You seem super ascended mastery Masterly and that's how I see him a lot now, especially nowadays because there's such a level of Ascension ascension or extension. Oh extension is good. He says expanded The more time that lapses in the in the human Dynamic of time he's saying in the human like linear timeline He says you get older And you become more experienced in life and and two then are open to more possibility For what may be that exists beyond the limited thinking you've been in with your mind And so I will come to you in whatever level whatever form that you're at And he says the comparison thing or the needing to know thing is part of the human ego mind Which is what blocks most humans from experiencing enlightenment And to truly understanding joy and pleasure inside their body, which is a very powerful tool and a very powerful place to attain Yeah, there's definitely a body a body man piece with prince that is super curious to me and I can appreciate and respect that so a lot of purple energy coming in through the crown into the body down to the rich red Chakra for you today as we connect in with prince in the afterlife and for those of you who are grieving We're feeling you at this week and in the days to come Do your best to honor yourself to love yourself to connect with his beautiful energy and his legacy of music and Dance move that body and connect him with some of these rays you may be able to channel in or connect to your own levels of of Of experience with him especially during this time because kind of the portals open the veils very thin in regards to this So hey, thank you for your time today. I appreciate you Mm-hmm Yeah, he says tea green tea. That's what he's saying to me I don't have any tea in here It's just water right now because i'm going to coffee so I can't Caffeinate up But this is just waterbases green tea. Oh, so that might be something for you jasmine green tea All right Thank you so much for being here for listening for watching this channeling video with prince rogers nelson in the afterlife This is the week that we Connect into the date of his transition into the afterlife, which is friday april 21st today is april 17th 2023 again There will be descriptions below if you want to access a couple of the services. I'm just offering for this week for prince peeps So if you're interested in that you can go ahead and register or connect to those in the links below For those of you who are in the chat, I see you and I see your purple hearts and your beautiful energy Thank you so much for being here on the live stream as always remember There is a prince playlist here on above life channel that you can check out as well if you need some prince More princely vibes Okay, so as always, I hope we've inspired your spirit and filled you with hope today and encouraged you To live your life. It's your life after all and you get to live it So just live it Thanks for being here


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Good afternoon, and welcome to another episode of Pacific Partnerships in Education here on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Ethan Allen. Pacific Partnerships in Education is all, just as its name says, about the different kinds of partnerships, the different people who are partnering, the groups that are partnering, the collaborations, the alliances, all to the betterment of education across the Pacific. And we're stretching our bounds today. We're going to look at a program that involves not just the South Pacific here that we usually look at, but it goes all the way around to the other side of the globe and looks at Greenland. And here I have Dan Lin, my colleague here at Perel. Welcome, Dan. Thank you. Thanks for having me again. Dan Lin's an amazing photographer, video director now. You may have seen his earlier film, Anointed. It's made quite the splash. So tell us just a little bit here, Dan, about what the genesis of this project was. Sure. This project, we called it Project Rise for obvious reasons. But the genesis was how can we show the connections between communities that are beyond the Pacific to the Pacific itself. And it actually came during the filming of the last film, Anointed, where we were, Kathy and I were spitballing ideas like, what is, how can we do something bigger and better than the previous film? And what would that platform be? And she had mentioned that a conversation with her and Bill McKibben, who's the founder of 350.org, Climate Change Organization, campaigning organization, she said that he wanted to see a person from an atoll island on a glacier, on an ice sheet, to see the source of the rising seas for themselves. Much of the sea level rise is the melting of above ground glaciers. Right. So this led to this odd collaboration with the Pacific islands, the Marshall Islands, and more specifically where Kathy comes from and Greenland. Right. And it's, you know, in a lot of ways, they're so disparate, there's not a lot of people from either of the communities that have been to each other's places. But in a much, in another sense, they are hugely interconnected. They're both actually very similar in population size, roughly 55,000 people. Yet one island, Greenland is also an island, the biggest island in the world. It has 12,000 times more land mass than the Marshall Islands, roughly. And so, you know, the same amount of people, huge, different disparities in land mass, but like a similar story, right? Rapidly changing climate and environment. Again, small communities quite isolated from one another often. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Large distances. So yeah, surprising similarities. There are no roads that connect most of these cities in Greenland, so all of these towns. Just as there are no roads across them. Exactly, yeah. There's only ocean pathways. The only way to get there is either through air or by boat or by sled dog, which is a common motor transportation. But they are, like the Marshalls, they're being impacted by the changing climate in sort of a different way. I mean, their oceans are rising, but that's not the most immediate concern, maybe. Whole landforms are changing under them, right? Right, right, right. I mean, the melt of the Greenland ice sheet is incredibly rapid at a rate that I think surprises even scientists, but people, you know, they feel it. Their lifestyles are changing, the habit, you know, the, they need to hunt in the winter, in the summertime to feed themselves in the winter and the, and that process is changing as well. You know, the animal herds are thinning out, they're harder to get to, and then the summer months and the winter months are changing as well. Interesting. Well, let's just go ahead and jump into it then, if we might. Yeah. Rise. Yeah. Sister of ice and snow, I'm coming to you from the land of my ancestors, from atolls, sunken volcanoes, undersea descent of sleeping giants. Sister of ocean and sand, I welcome you to the land of my ancestors, to the land where they sacrifice their lives, to make mine possible, to the land of survivors. I'm coming to you from the land my ancestors chose, Ailongkainan, Marshall Islands, a country more sea than land. I welcome you to Gadashitnonath, Greenland, the biggest island on earth. With me, I bring these shells that I picked from the shores of Beginni Atoll and Runeddon. In my hand to hold these rocks picked from the shores of New York, the foundation of the land I call my home. With these shells I bring with me a story of long ago, two sisters frozen in time on the island of Uyai, one magically turned to stone, the other who chose that life to be rooted by her sister's side. To this day the two sisters can be seen by the edge of the reef, a lesson in permanence.  This is a story about the guardian of the sea. She sees the greed in our hearts, the disrespect in our eyes, every whale, every stream, every iceberg of her children. When we disrespect them, she gives us what we deserve, a lesson in respect. Do we deserve the melting ice, the hungry polar bears coming to our islands, or the colossal icebergs hitting these waters with rage? From one island to another, I ask for solutions, from one island to another, I ask for your problems. Let me show you the time, coming for us faster than we'd like to admit. Let me show you airports underwater, bulldozed reefs, blasted sands, and plans to build new atolls, forcing land from an ancient rising sea, forcing us to imagine turning ourselves to stone. Can you see a glaciers grown the weight of the world's heat, land of my ancestors? It's quite heavy with a continuous thirst for solutions. As I watch this land change while the world remains silent, sister of ice and snow, I come to you now in grief, mourning landscapes that are always forced to change, first through wars inflicted on us, then through nuclear waste dumped in our waters, on our ice. Sister of ocean and sand, I offer you these rocks, the foundation of my home. May the same unshakable foundation connect us, make us stronger than these colonizing monsters that still to this day devour our lives, the very same beasts that now decide who should live, who should die. Sister of ice and snow, I offer you these shells and the story of the two sisters as testament, as decoration, that despite what we are told, we will not leave, we will choose stone, we will choose to be rooted to this reef forever. From these islands, we ask for solutions. From these islands, we ask, we demand that the world see beyond ACs, SUVs, their pre-packaged convenience, their oil-slick dreams, beyond the belief that tomorrow will never happen, that this is merely an inconvenient truth. Let me bring my home to yours. Let's watch as Miami, New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, London, Rio de Janeiro and Osaka try to breathe underwater. You think you have decades before your home falls beneath tides? We have years, we have months, before you sacrifice us again, before you watch from TV screens, computer screens, to see if we will still be breathing while you do not. My sister, I offer you these rocks as a reminder that our lives matter more than their power. That life in all form demands the same respect we all give to money. That these issues will affect each and every one of us. None of us is immune. And that each and every one of us has to decide if we will rise. That was amazing, amazing. Thank you for doing that again. I had seen a rough cut of that, of course you showed a rough cut a while ago, but it's really nice to see it all finally polished now. Yeah, thank you. It's simply amazing to watch what they've done to realize that similarity of the threat basically that hangs over both of these groups, even though they're really on opposite sides of the planet, they're very different. There is high, cold, marshals are low and tropical, but climate change is really heavily impacting both of these extremes on our planet, more than the temperate zones. But that gives you pause, right? It sort of says if it's affecting the Arctic and affecting the tropics, can the temperate zones be far behind, right? Yeah. So just a quick out of curiosity, how did you find this poet in Greenland who co-wrote this poem with Kathy? We know Kathy, of course, has immense talent and is a brilliant poet. Well, Kathy, when we were committed to doing this, Kathy and myself, we both feel like if you're going to go into a place outside of our comfort zone and our region, it's best to, you know, if we're going to speak about a place, it's best to have somebody from that place to speak about it as well. And so I think it became less of Kathy's perspective so much as like a dialogue between two people. Right. So we found Akka, her name's Akka Niviana, and she is an indigenous Greenlandic activist. And she had done a little bit of poetry, but this was definitely a step up from what she had been used to. And we asked around, and her name came up because she had given a really powerful and beautiful speech at a climate summit in Copenhagen a few years ago. So we saw the video, we were like, hey, we reached out, and she just so happened to be available. Awesome. And for me, like visually, as a director, it was awesome that they happened to be the same height, too. So, you know, we had a lot of shots where we really wanted them to be standing next to each other. And if Akka turned up to be like 6'4", then it would have been kind of awkward. So that was really perfect. Yeah, no, it does work out very nicely in the way that they're framed so often there in the film, back-to-back or face-to-face, side-by-side. Yeah, it's just stunning. And the beautiful parallels that you get with her in the water and her lion on the shirt. Yeah, for me, like, artistically, this film is about parallels. It's about parallelism showing that despite being two very different environments, the storyline are actually very similar.  I mean, they're very similar to Islanders in the sense that in Pacific Islands, what we're used to is there's just, like, you know, it's a very family-oriented community. They're very warm, hospitable, and they just, there's deep, deep-rooted legends and storylines that we kind of learn more about as we went through. So it was, you know, oddly familiar being in that environment, even though we weren't really prepared for the weather. It was just cold, and we hadn't really, we didn't have any, we didn't have the adequate clothing. So we would go there and we didn't have to buy clothes to keep layering up. Yeah, it was similar. That's amazing. It comes out very nicely in there, the beautiful, the visual parallels with the handful of stones, the handful of shells, and getting passed back and forth and the sort of sweeping vistas across the glaciers and sweeping vistas across the ocean. Yeah. Very, very nicely done. Thank you. Thank you. And very powerful, very, very moving video, too. So we're going to dig in more deeply into sort of the why's and what we're here for is this. When we come back right now, we're going to take a brief break. Dan Lin is your videographer extraordinaire, and I'm your host, Ethan Allen. We'll be back with more of Pacific Partnerships and Education in one minute. Aloha. 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We just watched Rise, that amazing six minute video that Dan just completed here that really tracks the sort of parallel challenges, parallel situations between the populations in the Marshall Islands and the populations in Greenland, which seem to have almost nothing in common when you first think about it, and yet as Dan points out and comes vividly clear through the video there, they have tremendous parallels. Both were isolated by their environment, both quite remote, both small communities isolated from one another, lots of intervening blank space, no roads. And this was really driven by the issue of climate change and wanting to raise that awareness. It sounds like you were telling me during the break you've shown this to, you've had an opening of it, the initial screening, and got some folks who were influencers, shall we say, to look at it and got good reactions from them. Yeah, when we first screened it, I guess the debut screening was in San Francisco up during the Global Climate Action Summit, and there were quite a few people, my hero Sylvia Earle was in the room and President Enote Tong, and a lot of people from the conservation space and the tech space, and I think they were all in the room and appreciated to see people outside of that world talking about these issues in a very genuine and concerned way. Yeah, that's what strikes me about it, without getting all techy and sciency about it, you've really set up a situation in that video where you're grabbing people's heartstrings, you're making them feel the depth of the issue, and the fact that it really is impacting the lives of individuals. Both these women are passionate, care deeply about their communities, care deeply about what they're seeing happening to their communities. Yeah, and I think from the very first day of planning this out, we wanted to make a climate change film that didn't have the same kind of arc of most climate change films, which is woe is us, everything's doomed, here's major typhoons, images of people stranded, polar bears. We didn't really want this looming guilt that a lot of climate change filmography ends up touching on. What I wanted to create was a film that shows two really uniquely beautiful places and people and a dialogue that touches on these themes without, I don't know, it's not as direct in your face, do something about this, it's more about making these subtle connections, melting ice, and then a rising sea, showing the streets and the Marshall Islands that are surrounded both sides by water. And I think what we want is people to watch it and view it as a beautiful work of art and then also have this lesson learned by just engaging with it. Yeah, and I think you succeed. Wonderfully, there is this very strong affective emotional component to it. It's a very deeply moving piece without sort of a lot of plot to it, as it were. And not a lot of science either. We try to remove all the facts and figures and all the kind of the longevity of time and just like the, yeah, we just wanted a piece about two people and from two places and the communities that they represent. Yeah, there's a real immediacy to it. These people are talking about things that are clearly in their faces going on each day and impacting their lives. And if there is, I mean, there is a very sort of an urgent message there sort of saying we can't just sit and wait about this. You know, sitting and waiting is not an option here. That's just more the same than worse, right? So there is a nice, I think a very powerful motivational aspect to it too. It says, hey, let's get off our docks and then do something. Right, which is like the big call to action is to actually do something without necessarily being as like doomsday-ish as some of the other films that have come out are. I think we try to avoid this huge looming guilt that comes with some climate change films but also make it pretty very obvious that there needs to be action that's on. Yeah, you do. It's nice. You avoid that. There is, with some of the Pacific Islanders who I've talked with, there's a very, an acceptance of sort of almost inevitability of like it is what it is. And we're just, we're here, we're going to suffer the consequences of this too bad. And there is, you avoided that very nicely. You left a message that, you know, we need to be moving ahead. And I think, I mean, I think it's true. I think we have to hope that our scientists, our engineers will see the urgency of this problem. We'll put our governmental time, energy, resources into the potential solutions and we can test them out and see what's going to work. Yeah, I think you're right on. I think there needs to be an element of hope or else, you know, if you throw in too much despair, people just kind of give up, right? And so I think, you know, there's a hope and there's an appreciation of the beauty that comes with people in places that often aren't really discussed at the global level. So, yeah, I think that that's what, that was the intended outcome of this film and hopefully it kind of achieves that. Yeah, absolutely. You strike some just incredible beauty and showing. I mean, the shift back and forth from the tropical seas to the ice sheets back and forth, back and forth. Sort of pointing out there's majestic, awesome, almost frightening beauty in both of them, right? Right. And it's, you know, we need to preserve them and we must do something. Right. So, let's look ahead if we might. Sort of what's next you did anointed that was a very powerful film. Looking for backwards at the nuclear legacy in the islands. And now you've done this. Where are you headed? I mean, we're off to Nepal. Yeah, I head up to Nepal tomorrow, actually. And trying to figure, you know, listen to the stories of the people in the highest villages in the world and with an amazing group of people that I think are very interested in being servants to disparate communities. But, you know, that's part of a bigger, longer-term project. And then I have a few, like, you know, we have a couple of film projects that are kind of cooking in the pot. I can't talk more about it right now, but I think we're excited to move forward with that. It looks at a little bit different, not so much poetry, but actually, like, different forms of storytelling. I still really enjoy the short-form filmmaking, so I like short films. And so it'll be in that arc. But yeah, I mean, every time we do a project, there's so much, like, that we uncover as, like, this is another angle that I want to tell a story and, you know, assembling the right team and getting people and making sure that it's fresh, not like, you know, to do the same kind of story arc every time or the same kind of film. It's a nice creative challenge for me. No, it's lovely. I mean, there was some odd parallels to anointed in that, just because Kathy is there doing poetry with them, but some very wildly different aspects, too. That was amazing. Yeah, we're trying to level up every time. Yeah, I'm sure if you go high in the mountains, you're going to see some other things there. Yeah, exactly. Wonderful, wonderful. And it's really important, too. I think this whole issue of storytelling is a great approach. You know, my background is science, as you well know, and I'm a great believer in, hey, the facts will out. If you give people, tell the right story in terms of the facts, people will see the logic and the reason, and I know perfectly well that doesn't actually work. And this emotional grabbing, grabbing of the heartstrings, really pulling at people's emotional connections with the characters there. It's really a much more effective way, probably, to engender the kind of involvement that we want, right? To get the people to start caring about it and realize they have to do something. I think there's definitely a need for balance. I think there's so much value and certainty with science and with data, and I think that there's always a place for that. But I think opening the doors through an emotional connection is hugely valuable as well. And I think if you work together in those kind of partnerships, people can feel an emotional connection and then learn more about the scientific kind of foundation of these issues. Right now, I would take issue with your claim that there's certainty in science. It's full of uncertainties. I guess the one thing you can be certain of is that you're not going to be. But science does tend to avoid the empathetic, the affective, the emotional components of things or downplays that as much as is humanly possible. And you're putting that front and center here, and as you say, it makes for, I think, a very powerful, very engaging, very compelling story, which is absolutely wonderful. And so you mentioned, I think, one thing that was critical, your team there that you worked with. Do you want to shout out to any organizations, particular people? That was, I think, you know. Sure, yeah. I'm definitely grateful for 350.org, Bill, and the vision that he put together just for supporting this idea and seeing it through all the way. Akka and Kathy really worked so well together. They're really a joy to work with. And then my producer, Oz, who came with us on the trip, Jason Box, who's the science glaciologist, and Alan Hubbard, who was another glaciologist. We just had a really great family of people that brought in science and also brought in storytelling. And then from the editing side, putting all this together was Nick Stone and Rob La, who really gelled all these disparate pieces and helped me tell this story. And then finally, just Prell, of course, for giving me and Kathy the creative liberties to express ourselves in different ways and express these issues in a more creative endeavor. Excellent. Well, it was wonderful. I'm glad we had a chance here to share it with our audiences. I think you've yet achieved another great example of a partnership in education here. That's very powerful. It goes beyond the Pacific, even. And I look forward to staying in touch with you and getting you back on again when you've got another project to share. Yeah, yeah. Stay tuned. Thank you so much, Dan Lynn. It's been a pleasure. And look forward to hearing your further adventures. Thank you. We'll join us in our next episode of Pacific Partnerships in Education here on Think Tech Hawaii. Until then.