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The mission of Avatar in the world is to catalyze the
integration of belief systems. When we perceive that the
only difference between us is our beliefs and that beliefs In This Issue
can be created or discreated with ease, the right and wrong
game will wind down, a co-create game will unfold,
and world peace will ensue. 2 What To Expect From
A Spiritual Path
by Harry Palmer

8 Avatar In Mongolia
by Ilu Kim

10 Make It A Big Deal


by Linda Waters

12 31 Reasons Why People


Do The Avatar Course
by Joanie Kirk

13 Ex.23: Transparent Beliefs


from ReSurfacing®

14 Success Stories

16 The Avatar Course Dates

18 Avatar Course Information

20 Sharing A Dream
by Nicola Karesh

22 Master Q & A

24 Is There Life After Avatar?


by Richard Brenckman

30 Directory

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summer 2008 • 1
by Harry Palmer

The Avatar materials are designed Most spiritual paths employ everyone is operating according
and intended to be an effective means various instructions, teaching tech- to someone else’s rules rather
for inspiring the realizations and niques, rituals, and individual than their own intuitive principles.
changes that will move you toward practices. Together these constitute People live in what was, and they
a stable spiritual awakening. They the tools of a spiritual path. Some selectively perceive only enough
should be considered as means paths are more effective than oth- of the present to excite their con-
(tools), rather than doctrines. ers, and some paths are more per- clusions about things. The major
sonally suited to some mindsets aspiration is to be right rather
than others. If a tool is used prop- than to be aware.
How do you achieve enlighten- erly, it either produces the In this compulsive commerce
ment? expected results or it doesn’t. Of of approval, most interactions
Siddhartha Gautama lived in course, tools have other qualifying are consciously or unconsciously
the forest, and then he moved to factors: ease of use, speed of manipulative. Most are governed
the city, lived there for a while, result, effort involved, cost by praise (pleasure) or criticism
and then he moved to a mountain, involved, and in some cases, (pain). What people do and say to
lived there for a while, and then avoidance of collateral damage. each other creates reactions. If the
he moved to a river and lived
beside the river for a while. Finally,
under a banyan tree, he achieved a Some paths are more effective than others, and
state of perfect enlightenment, and some paths are more personally suited to some
was henceforth called the Buddha.
So it seems to me that the path is
mindsets than others.
pretty simple. First you live in the
forest, then move to the city, then The Avatar tools rate favorably experience of the reaction is con-
go live on a mountain, then live in all categories and are remark- sidered pleasurable, attachment
along a river, and then look for ably effective considering the gen- develops. If the experience of the
a banyan tree. eral mental condition of the people reactions is considered painful,
No? Then I guess it wasn’t to which they are being resistance develops.
where Buddha was living that introduced. The same experience may affect
was important. What was impor- If you examine the current state different people differently. Peo-
tant was that certain realizations of the world, you will find that ple’s considerations of what is
and transformations were happen- most people are reacting according painful and what is pleasurable
ing to him that culminated in his to deeply indoctrinated beliefs. follow patterns created by their
enlightenment. How does a spiri- Some will argue that they are not beliefs and memories of past expe-
tual path bring about these realiza- reacting and are making free will riences. If you traced the consider-
tions and transformations leading choices, but the truth is that past ations of pain and pleasure all the
to enlightenment? conclusions and old fears make way back to their roots, you would
most of their decisions. Nearly most likely find them associated

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Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar
materials, greeting students at the close
of an Avatar Wizard Course.

they follow a winding path of


necessarily unique experiences
that sometimes nurture the ego
self, sometimes a compassionate
self, and slowly or suddenly,
arrive at an experience of spiritual
self. It may sound like a linear
process, but it seldom is.
Yes, word lessons can be pre-
sented as a straight path to under-
standing enlightenment, chapter
following chapter, but world
lessons wander; life stops to
explore. It loses it place. It falls
down, runs into walls, sheds tears,
and then has a good laugh as it
gets up and brushes itself off. If
only perfect people could experi-
ence enlightenment, very few
would arrive.
Progress does not always mean
that you are moving in the direc-
tion of being more compassionate,
righteous, or spiritual. The unique
experience you need might be
painful or destructive. Sometimes
with survival concerns: food, So this is how we begin. the next lesson is negative, or ego
shelter, and reproduction. The sections of Avatar are strengthening, or overwhelming.
At the present time, most of designed to encourage the realiza- Unless you are able to live a clois-
human consciousness operates tions and changes that a person ter life, your spiritual tools need to
like a roll of exposed film. It sel- must go through to move from a work on practical matters as well
dom pictures the world moment to life of indoctrinated responses into as metaphysical matters.
moment as it is, but carries around a life of living deliberately. The As an aside, religions tend to
pictures of what the world was necessary realizations and changes stall out around the high points of
like. Individuals wrestle with the are not the same for everyone. a spiritual path. These hesitations
fears and sufferings of the past- Also the realizations and can be obstructions to moving
obstructions that rightly should be changes are not a straight line or
assigned to history and left there. an exact series of steps. Instead, • continues

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• continued

forward. Sometimes a parishioner even in detail, is not the same as a difference between acting delib-
has to fall into sin and be excom- experiencing them. erately and reacting. There is a
municated before he or she can Section I of Avatar is called difference between you and your
move on. The last step before per- ReSurfacing. It refers to the action problems.
sonal freedom may be to commit of disentangling you from your The fundamental change that
an unpardonable sin in your faith. creations; it is an awakening of occurs on ReSurfacing is a deepen-
The transgressions, honestly con- interested self-awareness. This ing of the experience of “I am.”
fronted, transform your judgments section could be called a self-dis- This is a transformation from, “Oh
into compassion and empathy for covery course. It is waking you up sure, I am,” to “Oh my God, I am.
others: Someone who always acts from the movie you were lost in. I really am.” This is an “I am” that
kindly has trouble understanding ReSurfacing reminds people that is discovering personal responsi-
someone who fails to act kindly; there is a difference between the bility. This opens the door to pow-
not doing good might seem unfor- experience of self and the experi- erful realizations that break the
givable to someone who always ence the self is having. Later on grip of indoctrinated beliefs. Expe-
does good. the path, these two may again riencing “I am” as something more
Next I am going to take you merge, but at this level of awaken- than a mental concept causes a
through the sections of Avatar one ing the direction is to realize that transformation and a healing. Per-
by one and roughly describe the there is a difference between the sonal responsibility replaces
changes that are expected to occur perceiver and the perception. robotic reactions to authority. Sud-
in each section. But let me caution There is a difference between one’s denly you can observe and choose
you, reading about these changes, self and one’s role model. There is how, or even if, you will act. When
somebody talks about Avatar as a
self-discovery course, they’re talk-
ing about this level of realization
and change.
Section II of Avatar is self-
empowerment training. The pre-
requisite to doing Section II is that
on ReSurfacing you discovered a
real self to empower.
All suffering arises from mental
processes, in particular from
beliefs and judgments. Resistance
to what is inevitable produces
suffering. It is no surprise that
certain philosophies and religions
consider life to be suffering. They
don’t have an effective technology
to handle mental resistance. The
best they can do is to still the mind
by discipline; when the mind is
still, the suffering ceased, but so
too do the lessons conveyed by
suffering.

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Section II is a modern approach culties in the
to achieving control over the world? The answer is
mind; there is more subtly to the that it is the next neces-
mind than turning it off and on. sary experience that you
This control is such an unusual need to integrate. The ego is
accomplishment that many people, an area that needs to be
until they experience it, do not explored without judgment.
believe it can be done. But it can, Remember, sometimes it is the
and it is part of the changes that egotistic efforts at self-aggrandize-
happens on Section II of Avatar. ment that produce some of our
After you sort out who you are greatest cultural treasures. Devel- ever
and how your mind operates, the oping the ego is a necessary rite of twists and
next issue is what can you deliber- passage to transcending the ego. If turns your spiritual
ately create? your ego fails to flower, there is no path has taken, or needs to take,
Section II is where the path harvest, and no further spiritual the balance can be restored with
begins to wind. You might take a growth. the Section II tools.
detour into the material world. The main change on Section II is On to Section III, the first rays
Ego development is built into the achieving a balance in your life. If of self-awareness are often para-
exercises in order to prepare for you have experienced unhappi- lyzing; they tend to brightly illu-
the next transformation. After the ness, you can create happiness. If minate your shame and guilt,
experience of “I am,” the next it you have experienced failure, rather than your deeper nature.
experience on the path is, “And you can experience success. If you This changes with the initiation
I’m pretty darned cool.” Section II have experienced feeling submis- of Section III; self-awareness
becomes functional, compassion-
ate, and empowering.
The sections of Avatar are designed to encourage the The Section III rundowns are a
journey inward to unlimited self.
They bring you into the space that
realizations and changes that a person must go through
to move from a life of indoctrinated responses into a life has the power to define self. The
of living deliberately. The necessary realizations and rundowns identify and release the
changes are not the same for everyone. tentacles of the past, and you
come effortlessly into a deep level
of the present. The present rather
removes your limitations and sive, you can balance it with feel- than the past now shapes whom
releases your creative powers. ing dominant. The Section II you are and what you choose to
Your first response will probably Source List processes and Reality experience. In this state, you act
be to create something that you Creation processes afford an ethi- intuitively, are motivated by high
have long desired. This is the ulti- cal way for you to achieve this principles, and operate from an
mate pleasure of the ego, to create balance. awareness that is independent
exactly what one wants. Restoring balance is the real of self.
Why, you might ask, would goal of self-empowerment. You So these are the sections that
Avatar encourage the develop- could say that Section II puts you make up The Avatar Course. They
ment of the ego when we know on the route to achieving karmic are intended to be experiential
the ego is the source of many diffi- balance with the universe; what- rather than intellectual.

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Kim
By Ilu

We left for Mongolia on the 30th Tefelj is a National Park that


of May, 2008 with 27 masters and UNESCO appointed as a
35 students. Our flight was preserved world heritage. It is a feel. They became one with nature
delayed due to stormy weather in huge place but with few people. and with the other people on
Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia. The total population of Mongolia course.
We finally arrived at the Ulaan- is only 2.4 million, and 1.8 million Everyday during lunch the peo-
baatar airport just after midnight. people live in the capital. The rest ple in the village brought horses—
Then two more hours of travel by are spread over a country that is strong ponies actually—for us to
bus to reach the hotel in Terelj 17 times the size of Korea. ride.
where the first Mongolian Avatar After breakfast, everybody For the first few days the course
Course would be held. arrived happy and energetic to unfolded like the flowing of a
First Morning, Terelj. When I start the ReSurfacing Workshop. smooth river. Then one evening a
awoke, awesome nature was The hotel is a three-story building new hotel close by opened and
showing its beauty. Mountains in with a meeting room on the 3rd their electricity consumption was
the distance, forest and stream in floor. so large that our village had the
front of hotel; it was amazingly Without any distractions, the power cut and that included our
beautiful. The trees had mystic course moved quickly. Students hotel. As it was brighter outside
grayish trunks with new, bright did the Attention mini course and than in the meeting room, we
green leaves just beginning to the Forgiveness mini course moved the course to the hill
sprout. The sunlight is strong together. The exercises opened so behind the hotel. The students
because we are at a high elevation much space that past reasons for were wild with excitement and
and there is no pollution in the air. suffering vanished. Students turned the inconvenience of no
It warms the body even though began to recover their ability to electricity and no working plumb-
the air is still chilly. ing into an adventure. Nature
became the classroom.
For the next two days the
power stayed off.

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ment was included and seemed to We arrived at the Bayan Gobi
support us rather than distract us. Desert at 7:00 p.m. Dinner was
Washing your hair in a cold moun- Visited by cows, ponies, dogs and waiting for us in a traditional
tain stream makes you aware of even a family of pigs, in harmony Mongolian yurt. After the meal we
how much you take for granted. with nature, we announced the started course again so some stu-
We could have complained, but “Newest Avatar” to the forest. dents could finish. We announced
instead everybody followed On the second Sunday we said the “Newest Avatar” in the Bayan
Harry’s advice and made the best goodbye to Terelj and moved to a Gobi Desert Camp.
of what happens next. Difficult five star hotel in the capitol, As per Harry’s Primary, “Every-
times remind us to be grateful for Ulaanbaatar. For one night, we thing always works out for us,”
the little things—like friendship relaxed in luxury, and then we and it really did in Mongolia. We
and fresh air. climbed aboard two buses for a signed up three Mongolian stu-
We lit the candle in the room at seven-hour rock and roll journey dents for the next Avatar course.
night and it was romantic. Without into the great Gobi desert. Mongo- Our guide Ayuka decided to come
electricity the stars multiplied lia is a huge land and it has no to Korea to do Avatar in October.
until it seemed the sky was too specific paved road. Where you One day soon there will be many
small to contain them all. And the drive is totally dependent on the Avatars in Mongolia.
hotel meeting room could no driver. The ghost of Genghis Khan is
longer contain our Avatar Course. The guide says that our group pleased.
Beginning on Section III, we feels so much different than any
moved from the hill to a little for- other group. Not a single person Ilu Kim is a Star’s Edge Trainer
est along the stream. We fell fully complains when unexpected from Korea. She can be contacted by
into the nomadic consciousness of things happen. phone at 82-11-9999-7425 or e-mail at
the land. Doing the section III I told him, “This is Avatar iluavatar@yahoo.co.kr.
rundowns under the trees made us group.”
feel like Buddhas. The environ-

improve your life — theavatartimes.com summer 2008 • 9


By Linda Waters

Much of my life I have scurried and feel the impact of the choices fund raising, feeding the homeless
around making a big deal out of we have made. I had a glimpse of or trying to cure disease in third
getting this or that thing done, what we are headed toward if we world countries.
doing it right, trying to fix, don’t make some significant Struggling really hard to help a
improve or criticize, look good, changes. It was both sobering and cause may provide temporary
complete the myriad of to dos on exciting. We had simply lacked the relief and may make us feel better
my never ending daily to do list. skills, wisdom and tools to turn about ourselves. In the long haul
It’s exhausting to think about it. things around. I had a renewed are we just rearranging the deck
When I wasn’t busy scurrying, I sense of compassion and under- chairs on the Titanic?
was avoiding or escaping, ration - standing. Now I had a training I realized that Avatar was about
alizing, justifying, working really that I could share with others that taking responsibility to a new
hard to fix a problem or feeling can really do some good. level, one that was rewarding and
guilty for not doing enough, or For some, there’s no looking didn’t perpetuate struggle to keep
entitled to take a break. around at the big picture at all. It’s the ship afloat. The phrases, “You
Sometimes when I really pushed all they can do to keep their day- can’t solve the problem from the
hard and actually accomplished to-day overwhelm at bay. Others same level of mind which created
something I could be proud of, I’d look around and say, “It’s all per- it,” and “You’ll always get what
stand back and gloat for a nano fect, just the way it’s meant to be.” you always got if you keep doing
second or two, gather a little And some look around and see what you’ve always done,” rang
approval from others, then back to only insurmountable problems of true for me. Now I could offer a
the grind. epic proportions and become training that would give humanity
The strange thing was that I had immobilized. and Planet E new hope, a better
myself fooled into thinking I had No wonder apathy, helplessness, direction and an exciting future for
no other choice. After all, these depression and escapism flourish our kids, and theirs.
This is a BIG DEAL! Why?
Because we can’t afford the luxury
With new awareness I could see the bigger picture and of self-indulging in apathy, depres-
feel the impact of the choices... sion, confusion, denial of responsi-
bility, struggle and escapism any
longer. These are uncomfortable,
were the things that I had to do as in today’s society. It’s easier to sit but easy routes out of the exis-
a “responsible” adult. I thought I back and hang out in our miser- tence game.
was a happy person, functional able status quo and wait for some Do we think we are going to get
and successful. True joy and hap- one else, God, governmental, spiri- out of it that easily? Who knows
piness were elusive. I asked tual or environmental leadership what price we pay when we suc-
myself, “Is this all there is to look to cause some miraculous change cumb to temptations of doing
forward to?” in the direction we’re headed on what we have always done? Will
Not an optimum existence, but planet E. we come back around to try
very familiar, the Rat Race. Then there are those who dive again? Give up on life? Will there
After taking The Avatar Course I in, roll up there sleeves and work be a planet E to come back to? Are
stepped back and looked around hard at making a difference in we going to wave adios and leave
at this existence. With new aware- some specialized area, through it up to our offspring to clean up
ness I could see the bigger picture taking up causes, campaigning,
• continued on page 28

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To feel more connected and real with friends and family.
To have a quiet mind.
To remember and feel what it feels like to belly laugh.

31 Reasons
To clean up areas of their life that aren’t working so great.
To give back.

Why People
To find out what it feels like to have ‘free attention’.
To become more responsible in their life.

Do The Avatar
To feel what it feels like to be living from Source awareness.
To let go of the need to be right, or the best, or the worst, or….

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To connect with a group of kind, loving, fun, dynamic people
committed to making a change in the world.
To experience being kind, loving, fun, dynamic and committed
to making a change in the world.
To feel peaceful.
by Joanie Kirk
To be able to deliberately shift how they are feeling in a heartbeat.
To deliberately smile until they feel happy.
To move beyond their fixed viewpoint and see someone
else’s point of view.
To finally drop judgment on themselves and everyone else.
To do an Avatar exercise with someone who speaks a different
language and feel the connection, and able to fully understand
where they are and feel totally understood.
To feel alive, focused, relaxed, and productive in their lives.
To get back to creating their dreams.
To get beyond something they never thought they would or
could handle in their life.
To explore and experience a hundred different ideas in mass
consciousness for the heck of it.
To assist in the awakening of others.
To assist in relieving the suffering in the world.
To make a difference.
To be on a course with people from many different cultures
and countries from all over the world, all working for the
good of humankind.
To learn to use the most powerful self-evolvement tools out there.
To use the tools to find out that it’s not OUT there, it’s IN here!
To have fun doing work in consciousness…or doing anything,
for that matter.
To fall in love, over and over and over again.
To contribute to the creation of an enlightened planetary civilization.
To Love Precious Humanity.

Joanie Kirk is an Avatar Master/Wizard from Alaska.


Contact her at 505-699-7083 or kirknd@cybermesa.com

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Try it
exercises out!
®
ReSurfacing
PARTNER

Exercise 23
Transparent Beliefs
A belief is transparent when you are operating through the belief
GROUP

without noticing it. Transparent beliefs are seldom helpful and, in fact,
can be fatally debilitating. Most are self-sabotaging, adopted in a
moment when you were something less than rational.
The first impression you have of a transparent belief is that it is
from the book

unquestionably true. That’s just the way life is. That’s the way I am.
Here’s the proof! But then something funny happens: you discover that
the proof for holding the belief is actually produced by the belief itself.
A pattern begins to unfold.
Transparent beliefs are discovered by tricking yourself into expressing
them and then stepping back and looking at what you said. Transparent When people do not
beliefs are often hidden under the desire to be right, so finding trans- act deliberately,
parent beliefs requires a degree of vulnerability. transparent beliefs
govern their lives.
OBJECTIVE:
To discover transparent beliefs. • • •

EXPECTED RESULTS: Personal reality


Insights, personal transformation. reflects what a
person really
INSTRUCTIONS: believes—this is not
Discovering transparent beliefs is done either with a companion always the same as
or as a team effort. The exercise may be repeated many times. what he/she might
be pretending to
STEP 1 believe.
The guide or group leader asks, “What would you like to
change?” until a situation is revealed.

STEP 2
Once the situation has been pinpointed, the guide or
group leader goes after:

• the beliefs that are creating the situation


• the experiences that are reinforcing the beliefs, i.e.,
creating certainty in the beliefs

by asking:
(a) What belief might someone have in order to
experience (situation)?
(b) How do you prove that belief is true? see page
16
(c) What other belief might someone have in order
to experience (situation)?
(d) How do you prove that belief is true?
(c) and (d) are alternately addressed until the student has a realization.

summer 2008 • 13
success Wandering In Darkness
I am a housewife who attended like there must be a way… then

real people from


The Avatar Course with her two The Avatar Course led me to find
children, (13 & 14 years-old) in myself easily and clearly.
stories

real courses Korea. Now, I have a firm grounding in


I have always wanted to be a myself. I think my family will, too.
good mother and a good person, For the tools, and the devoted
but I’ve felt like I was wandering Masters… I thank all the people
in the darkness of conflicts. I did- who have guided me through this
n’t know how I could be a good nine day journey to myself. I send
person, even if I wanted to be… my love to all the people in this
And even though I already knew world.
my consciousness was precious, I
was in difficulty, pity, sadness, Y. S. H., Korea
pain, or confused about it. I felt

A Fabulous Journey
This has been a fabulous jour- have issues with, it’s all about me.
ney! I thought, “nine days of look- It’s how I react, how I feel.
ing at my stuff...that’s an eternity.” I knew this intellectually but to
But The Avatar Course creates a know it experientially, at a whole
time warp! It has flown by. new level, to really get it was won-
I feel like a new born awareness, derful. I’ve discreated the ‘models’
now creating my own reality, I’d created of people I love, but
birthing my own creations. What a have judged or criticized, so now I
joy, what a blessing; to unload the accept them as they are without
charge associated with past events that projection, what love!
so they don’t haunt or upset me
anymore. And to realize that it’s J. F., Texas
not about the people I don’t like or

Lightness Forgot To Feel


For me, this course was both a I forgot how to feel. I was very
mind boggling experience and fun sad and depressed. I didn’t want
to do at the same time. anything. The only thing that gave
More concretely, it solved in a me satisfaction was pain and fan-
matter of days (during the course) tasies about death; about giving
a number of problems I’d experi- up, letting go, sinking deeper and
enced with my family, when years deeper into an endless hole of self
of effort had brought me nowhere. pity and self destruction.
The Avatar Course also gave me a Now, after I’ve learned how to
sense of lightness of being that feel again, I can say that I am truly
was unthinkable before. It is defi- happy. I’m inspired. I have lots of
nitely another way of dealing with energy, curiosity, and love. I am
life. Thank You! willing, not resisting. I love and
give. I can feel and that is all that
W. K., Netherlands truly matters to me. Thank You,
Harry!

A. R., Israel

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A Unique Space Fast
I feel like I’ve been reborn. It concern about that. This is very Thirty years of counseling didn’t
doesn’t mean that I became interesting. I’ve realized how get near to the core of me. But
another person, more like being superficial differences don’t have Avatar did in one week.
restructured. A new me that any relationship with the person. I was a desperate 56 year-old
accepts the future, has recovered It feels pleasant to be integrated. I man, being out of life,
peace of mind, and goes where my feel the confidence to do whatever disconnected from myself, trying
essence wants to go. I want. to survive existence. Now I am a
The space of The Avatar Course I feeling a joy that surrounds feeling man, loaded with tools to
is unique. There are people of everything. cope with myself and life. I’ve
different ages, occupations, and T. A., Japan thrown out a load of garbage and I
social status, but there wasn’t any am looking forward to tomorrow.

J. M., Netherlands

Veil Lifted Skeptical


Oh, Thank You! I thought I was Just finished The Avatar Course. Smiling
pretty good, really. I’ve done I must say that I had a lot of skep-
Avatar. I’ve read every self help ticism when I started with ReSur- During The Avatar Course I had
book, watched all the DVDs.... but facing and was a bit reluctant. my daughter stay with my par-
in two days of The Avatar Master Within a day, I was blown away ents. Yesterday when I went to
Course, the veil was lifted. Once by the simplicity of it all. You have pick her up, she came up to me for
the veil came off, everything else to do it yourself, no one will do it a hug and said, “Mom, you look
slotted into place. Everything else for you. I learned a lot about different. I’d always like to have
made sense. My heart opened, my myself and discovered another you smile like that.”
face softened. I feel my life will be me. Thanks for letting me have
much easier now. There will be this experience! S. T., Japan
more softer, loving emotions in my
life. Oh, Thank You! H. O., Netherlands

S. W., Ireland Life Changing


Before doing The Avatar Course,
Awesome A Challenge I lacked confidence in my self and
most of my daily activities. I was
As a student and facilitator of A It’s been a challenge and a jour- only comfortable in my own sur-
Course in Miracles for the past 20 ney that’s been well worth the roundings and with any changes
years, I found the Avatar ReSurfac- trip. I find it difficult to under- to that I would shrivel up like a
ing course to be an experiential stand why I purchased the books wilted flower. Now after six days,
demonstration of the principles set almost thirteen years ago, but did I feel like my petals are open with
forth in the materials. For me, it not participate in the classes which a bright light shining on me like
was very exciting to watch beliefs are the keys to unlocking the sunshine.
shift from transparent to non- magic within. But I did it! And On the first day, the group of
active, and perspectives become who knows what will happen. people was enormous, but now
broader or change completely. It Possibilities seem unlimited. each day the group appears
was an awesome and joyful expe- smaller because now, I know some
rience and I look forward to many C. W., Australia of them and have interacted with
more. them. I feel like I belong more
everyday. Thank You for helping
S. S., Florida me to create a life changing experi-
ence.

T. S., England

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What is the real work to be done on this planet? . . .
It’s to make ourselves more aware, to remind ourselves that our
essential nature is nonviolent, and to increase the amount of
compassion and cooperation on the planet.
—Harry Palmer
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extraordinary moments at theavatartimes.com summer 2008 • 19


by Nicola Karesh

What does it take to create an My sangha. My family. My heart. What a privilege and an honor to
enlightened planetary civilization? My life. be alive right here, right now in
A creative and courageous soul I picture a world where our chil- this time and space reality.
daring to dream a dream, putting dren and our grand-children can We have given birth to our very
his vision forth and inspiring a few play freely, for safety is a given. existence and we can experience
thousand committed and dedicated Our hearts guide us always to do each and every sweet moment with
souls. the right and honorable thing. Prac- appreciation and gratitude.
To share a dream when we are ticing virtues is a sweet and gener- Contributing to an enlightened
together in physical space and to ous gift that we give to others, our- planetary civilization is a noble and
have that dream strengthen and selves and to our precious planet. lofty goal that fires my heart and is
grow when we are spread out The lion lays down with the lamb the life and breath of Avatar. I
across the world in our respective and there is a feeling that all is well invite you to come share our
homes, is an awesome shared with the world. Everything is dream. Experience how real and
reality. indeed alright! rich life can truly be. Start with The
To feel the presence of my fellow Love flows freely and there are Avatar Course and allow your
Masters and the whole Avatar net- no secondaries in the way. There is world to open right up before
work pulsing and moving in the a reverence for life. your eyes.
world is like being in feel and con- Beliefs are created deliberately for
necting to my own heartbeat. It the sheer pleasure of experiencing Nicola Karesh is an Avatar Master
starts as a steady pulse echoing and the beauty of life. We respect our from North Carolina. She can be
reverberating through time and differences and celebrate the com- reached at 828-884-4565 or by
space and becoming a strong throb mon threads that join our collective e-mail at nicola@citcom.net
that is the backdrop of our lives. hearts.

Fresh beginnings…
I look out on a world that feels new.
Desire, creation and allowing it through.

Wide expanse before me,


Mine for the taking.
Conceive and imagine,
The Universe is waiting.

Clear, open space.


Nothing in the way.
A nice, high vibration,
Another joy-filled, sweet day!
Nicola Karesh

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extraordinary moments at theavatartimes.com summer 2008 • 21
Q&A
master
The Avatar Journal talks
with Avatar Masters
from around the world.

she would fully participate in


Judy MacDonald whatever exercise was next. It was
is from New Patti Gardner like watching a flower unfold. She
Zealand. She can is from Wisconsin. did ReSurfacing and then decided
She can be reached to go on to Section II and when
be contacted at
at 715-254-1891 she completed that she took
+64 (0) 21 740
or avatar@ another look and decided to go on
323 or judym@ avatarcargard.com
avatarpacific.com with Section III. Within the love
and safety of the tools she
revealed herself to herself and
How has your life changed since What is the most memorable found a powerful source being.
taking The Avatar Course? experience you’ve had since She also created a network of
delivering Avatar? friends and support so that when
I often get asked this question she arrived home she could con-
when I am talking to someone I recently worked with a student tinue her work on her self and put
who hasn’t yet done The Avatar on The Avatar Course who had attention on the new things she
Course. It is much easier to answer experienced neglect, abuse and wanted to create in her life. Just
the question, “What hasn’t trust issues for much of her life. when I think she has hit a limit
changed?” because the list would She is a quiet, gentle and loving and is resisting, I realize it is just
be very short, or no list at all! being who takes one step at a time her pause before deliberately
Everything has changed since I and then checks before moving deciding upon her next step.
did Avatar. It feels like life has forward. Watching her I can just “widen
sped up in a very amazing way. I It was so interesting to watch back” and appreciate conscious-
have moved from life being all her create her safe spaces in the ness unfolding at its own pace. I
about me and what I want to car- room and with people and then so love this work!
ing about what other people are
experiencing and what they want
to create in their lives, and of a lifetime of identities was liber-
empowering them using the ating. I felt such gratitude and
Avatar tools to make those Cata Low is grace for having this opportunity.
changes. It feels like my whole from Texas. She At one point, after doing an exer-
way of being, moment to moment can be reached cise with my mother, I looked at
has changed. I felt as if I was at 512-266-7098 her, and said, “I feel like we have
locked into a reality of “this is the or catalow@ finally met.” We both started to
way it is“ and now I realize I can earthlink.net cry.
create any reality I choose to cre- Another memorable experience
ate. I can choose my thoughts and is the joy of watching a lifetime of
my actions deliberately, no longer suffering, defined by a single
feeling at the effect of life. What is the most memorable
experience you’ve had since event, a single belief, washed
The biggest change has occurred away during the Forgiveness
in my connection to other people, delivering Avatar?
Option Mini-Course.
what a gift in this lifetime to have The awe and awakening in
the tools to integrate those things After thirteen years of delivering
Avatar there are so many memo- someone’s eyes when they dis-
that keep us separate. Thank you cover who they really are is truly
Harry. rable moments.
I had the grace to get to deliver memorable. Getting to be there for
Avatar to my parents who were 76 that joyous moment is wonderful.
and 81. The feeling of connecting There are many, many more...
with them being-to-being, outside

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For example, I recently had a hip
replacement, which gave me an
Karen Ryder is opportunity to examine and dis- Richard Carlson
from Rhode create some impeding beliefs I had is from Wisconsin.
Island. Contact about aging, about pain, and He can be reached
her at (401) 439- about the inevitability of suffering. at 715-254-1891 or
0127 or kakryder It was also an opportunity to cre- by e-mail avatar@
@aol.com ate some helpful beliefs about my avatarcargard.com
body, my inner strength and
resilience, and what I want to
How has your life changed since accomplish in my life. How has your life changed since
taking The Avatar Course? I am grateful for this ability, taking The Avatar Course?
grateful to Harry for showing me
Wow, there have been so many how to use my mind. I am grateful I took the Avatar Course twelve
changes. But the big, overarching for being able to use this ability, years ago and where do I begin as
one is an ability that began to which allows me to feel compas- to all the changes?
develop on my first course, and sion and appreciation for myself I guess the biggest change for
continues to expand. as the creator of my creations. me is that I really feel connected to
It is this: the ability to recognize Grateful to be able feel love and my life purpose and what brings
that everything that I think, feel, compassion for my fellow human me joy in my life. Ever since I was
perceive, know, appreciate or beings, creating their experiences small I wanted to find a way to
resist, is a creation. I can either be according to what they (and we have people be able to get along
inside of the creation, experiencing collectively) currently believe. And better and to alleviate their suffer-
it, or outside of it, “viewing” it, grateful to believe that helping ing.
and from that viewpoint, deciding others to manage their beliefs can Avatar has provided that way
whether to continue creating it, or contribute to a better world for all and the best part is that I’m able to
discreate it. Either way, it’s mine! who share this planet. connect and work with people
I often explore different perspec- from around the world that have
tives using the “Viewpoints” Exer- the same goal. It’s Awesome! I was
cise from ReSurfacing. making some contributions in my
own way but I really feel the
power from working as a team
had hit a big resistance/creation and working on consciousness
and I was in worry mode, and my with Harry’s tools. Things are
Julie Armitage other daughter Rebecca was hav- changing much faster both in my
is from England. ing a great course and she was up inner and outer universes and it
Contact her at to the universe handle, I went gives me hope for the future.
+20 8445 4559 through it with her and left her to
or juliea@avatar- do the exercise and when she fin-
london.co.uk ished she came over and said, I
did it on Emma because I don’t
think things are going very well
for her at the moment. I was so With Avatar everyone wins. Every
What is the most memorable person who becomes an Avatar shifts
experience you’ve had since touched, it was a lesson to me to
use the tools in the moment. the collective consciousness toward
delivering Avatar?
Another moment was recently greater tolerance and understanding.
One of the most memorable when I reviewed the course in Helping yourself with Avatar helps
moments was on my very first Doorn, NL. I was just amazed at everyone else at the same time.
delivery, I had two of my daugh- how wonderful all my coaches — Harry Palmer
ters with me - they were my first were on source list, totally with
students! The eldest one Emma me and making it so much fun!

freedom from old restraints — theavatartimes.com summer 2008 • 23


by Rich Brenckman

Okay, it’s time to let it out. Time owned property and other “stuff;” all proved disappointing. I was
to finally reveal the truth that I’ve set and attained goals; was in looking for a way to be fully alive,
kept hidden, locked away inside touch with my spiritual nature, energetic, peaceful, and satisfied–
me. The truth is–The Avatar etc. and as yet, hadn’t found it.
Course ruined my life. That’s Most people judged me a suc- I worked with two spiritual
right, you read correctly. It’s not cess...maybe even a role model. teachers in the 80’s and discovered
a typo. Avatar ruined it all. But I didn’t feel like a success. I many remarkable things: other
There I was, thirty-nine years wasn’t fulfilled or satisfied. In fact, realities, other beings, meditation,
old, with a whole set of belief I suffered a lot–meaning things channeling, healing. The lessons
systems that had me so tightly happened to me that I didn’t like, were fun and very valuable, but
still the answers were outside
somewhere. I mean, what if the
Archangel Michael was busy or on
vacation?
I started meditating a lot, touch-
ing places that were so peaceful
and so beautiful that I didn’t want
to come back. I thought meditat-
ing was better than not meditat-
ing, and that people who medi-
tated were really better than those
who didn’t. I became kind of a
New Age pain in the ass.
But I hadn’t found what I
wanted. I was still suffering...look-
ing so hard that I didn’t have a
chance of ever finding anything.
So, I stopped looking. Which, of
course, is when the magic hap-
pened. I received some informa-
tion in the mail about a course
called Avatar. I don’t know why,
This striking new point of view allowed me to quiet my but I just felt that there was some-
mind, get “out of my head,” and really start to feel thing extraordinary there for me.
So I immediately registered for
the Course. Wow.
things–to finally experience life fully from my heart.
The first thing I discovered at
in their grip that I couldn’t even and I thought they were caused a very deep level was that my
see them–and a long, dramatic by outside factors that I had no beliefs were responsible for my
story about why life wasn’t work- control over. experiences in life. Not only that,
ing that I just loved to tell. I tried a lot of things in order to but that different beliefs would
Don’t get me wrong, I was escape the suffering–marijuana, attract different experiences. And
doing pretty well, from one point sex, rock ‘n roll, est, meditation, that “I” is something distinct and
of view. I had my own company all of it. separate from the mind and it’s
that was respected in its field; I Those things provided some beliefs. And amazingly, the “I” can
was making lots of money; I taste of the expanded experience easily choose the beliefs that it
looked pretty good, was married, that I wanted, but ultimately they would like to have, and then

24 • volume 22 issue 1 calm your thinking — theavatartimes.com


About Avatar
from Students
On Course
• Avatar has helped me find
experiences that are in accord with totally gave up suffering and com- the courage to step out into
those new beliefs will manifest. plaining. Major miracles! the light, be noticed and
Pretty radical! I guess I never directly answered find the person I came into
In the course I learned a very the question in the title of the arti- this world to be.
simple technique that allowed me cle. But you know by now that
to observe and feel the beliefs that my beliefs about myself and the • I corrected or stopped the
were running my life. It was easy world are very different than they default patterns of my life.
to see which beliefs were working used to be. I just don’t ever tell
for me and which ones weren’t. (In those “life isn’t working” stories • I see that releasing fixed
fact, I saw that I was often trying anymore. attention creates relief.
to create results on top of strong It’s become apparent to me that • I’ve found my own,
beliefs I held which were in total the real question wasn’t “Is there personal pot of gold.
opposition to what I truly wanted). life after Avatar?” but “Was there
No wonder I felt stuck in some really life BEFORE Avatar?” • I can now be with my
areas. loved ones in such a
This striking new point of view different, closer way.
allowed me to quiet my mind, get This article was written in
“out of my head,” and really start late 1990, just after I'd finished • I’ve got the tools to sweep
to feel things–to finally experience the Avatar Masters Course. My away the pretense and
life fully from my heart. This all wife, Lori, went on to do Avatar show myself the games
happened by the fourth day, and and the Masters Course shortly I’m playing.
it’s a nine day course. It gave new after me, and we’ve been deliv-
and expanded meaning to the old ering Avatar full-time ever • I got what I was doing,
phrase “mind-boggling.” since. owned it, and stopped it.
Avatar didn’t teach me what to Life after Avatar is filled with
more joy and satisfaction than I • The Avatar tools create the
create, just how to create. What to space where something is
create was totally my decision. I could ever have imagined possi-
ble. I’m in a constant state of allowed to change.
saw my own beliefs with crystal
clarity and insight, and saw that amazement about the possibili-
• With Avatar you’re able to
there wasn’t really a “right” or ties that are present when we
discover the patterns in your
“wrong”...just different beliefs learn to quiet the mind and
life that keep you away from
creating different experiences. The create life completely from
your true nature and limit
Avatar technology is so easy, the Source.
your growth.
instructions so clear, the results so Avatar is the world’s #1 self-
undeniable that I was lifted far development course. If you’re • I have the inspirational
beyond the scope of what I’d pre- interested in exploring your clarity of who I am.
viously accepted as the inherent own beliefs, and learning a
limits of reality. technology that will allow you • I moved from suffering
After the course my business to live your life joyfully and and despair to the joy and
expanded and flourished, even in deliberately, we invite you to purpose found in service
the recession. My health, which contact us. to others.
had been excellent, got even better. • I’ve broken the victim
I lost 20 pounds without even pattern.
trying. My relationships improved Rich Brenckman is a Star’s Edge
dramatically, and my ability to Trainer from California. He can be
be at ease and at source became reached at 858-794-9480 or
constant and consistent. And I richard@planetavatar.com

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connection
2008
summer

We have come a long way; we still


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BIG DEAL • continued from page 10

the disaster we left behind? Some- for the moment. At first I was our lives and create an income
times it’s just too painful to con- annoyed to be taken off my task, stream toward a greater goal.
sider the consequences. So we and then laughed aloud at the way Choose to believe it can be done.
numb ourselves or check out, or life works to emphasize when we It’s a big deal. Make it a big deal
work our fingers to the bone on are on the right track…or alert us to fulfill (y)our human potential!
the level of damage control. when we have strayed from our What would it take for you, for
Today’s really Big Deal is to soul’s purpose. us, to do it TODAY?
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ness.” Compelled to jot down a choice to make. We each have a *Thoughtstorm: a group process of
few thoughts about this, I booted part to play, or not... exploring and creating greater possi-
up my laptop. Just as I started Making it a big deal to ask these bilities than a single mind alone can
writing this article the phone rang questions and others through a achieve. A Thoughstorm session is
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directory
St. Augustine: Patricia Juhasz, 828-553-7891, Detroit Metro: Bill Lee, 313-342-1350,
patriciathyne@earthlink.net www.AvatarUniverse.info
St. Augustine: Jody James, 941-586-5131, Grand Rapids/Statewide: Pamela Ciganik,
AvatarJody@hotmail.com 616-822-0996, avatarpam@yahoo.com
Winter Park: Bud Lenox, Esq., 407-645-2474, MINNESOTA
clenox@mac.com
2008
summer
Minneapolis/Rochester: Kathryn Thorngren,
GEORGIA 651-491-1980
Atlanta: Mark Buhrke, 800-753-2055, Minneapolis/Rochester: Charlie Scimeca,
Avatar@markabuhrke.com 952-470-0738, charliess@earthlink.net
Georgia/Statewide: Joann Cebulski Woods, Grand Rapids: Terri Blaha, 218-247-0008,
404-668-6224, joann.woods@earthlink.net pntblaha@uslink.net
HAWAII Avatar Worldwide: Elleva Joy McDonald,
888-407-5245, 952-906-0227
SF Bay Area: Keith Bradley & María Elena Márquez, Aloha Courses/All Islands: Madonna Machado &
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USA www.avataraloha.com
Silicon Valley/S.F. Bay: Marilyn & Warren Atteberry, Jackson Area: Dorothy Porter, 601-940-3992,
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404-668-6224, joann.woods@earthlink.net Pieter Kark, 650-962-9660, mobaire@
yahoo.com, pieterk@post.harvard.edu IDAHO Kansas City: AnnMarie Glodich, PhD &
ALASKA George S. Thompson, MD, 785-865-0676,
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Chicago/Nationwide: Marsha Haake, Las Vegas/Worldwide: Kelly Bershinsky,
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www.speedreadingworld.com/avatar CONNECTICUT
Matt Stuebe, 812-320-5296, NEW MEXICO
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Orange Co./LA: Beth Nelson, 714-546-6270, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale: Kathy Schultz, New York/Westchester/Worldwide: Claudia Zipkin,
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SF Bay Area: Nancy Young, PhD, 415-663-9452, Sarasota: Lurline Aslanian, 941-366-0223
Space for Grace Avatar Center, Raleigh: Hubert Winston, 919-859-0017,
nancy@thepeoplesmail.com lurline3@yahoo.com
248-348-4410, cell: 248-345-3890 hwraleigh@aol.com

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WISCONSIN IRAN
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Carlson, 715-254- radmandc@yahoo.com
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JAPAN
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Jackson Hole Area: Stacey Price,


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SECTION I: ReSurfacing® SECTION II: The Exercises SECTION III: The Rundowns
Aspects of consciousness addressed: Aspects of consciousness addressed: Aspects of consciousness addressed:
Beliefs, Reality, Consciousness Creation, Perception, Experience Identity, Beingness, Awareness

Section I of The Avatar Course sets Section II of The Avatar Course Section III of The Avatar Course
forth certain ideas about the relation- develops your ability to create a reali- develops your ability to discreate real-
ship between beliefs and reality. These ty that you prefer. Deeper access to ities that act as hidden reefs and barri-
ideas are subjected to various tests your own mental programming results ers to your operation as source. An
and examinations (in group discus- in transformational realizations about Avatar Master takes you on a guided
sions and in private explorations) to why certain aspects of your life have initiation that introduces you to, and
allow you to determine for yourself if fallen short and what you can do to allows you to discreate, some of the
such relationships do, in fact, exist. correct them. most fundamental (and previously
Section I exercises take you behind You turn the part of self that was transparent) belief structures of the
the scenes of consciousness for a look your worst enemy into a guiding universe.
at the blueprints by which you build friend. Next, you complete solo rundowns
your life. The journey results in an Self-sabotaging beliefs are exposed that permit you to address body sensa-
intimate connection with a deeper, before they can do you more harm. tions, interpersonal conflicts, depen-
more compassionate and aware state Stress is replaced by a relaxed dencies, limitations, persistent
of self. awareness. conditions, compulsions and (without
Section I is offered in an affordable You learn how to experience reality words or argument) the beliefs of
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mation, demonstrations, and experien- distortion. When you are able to manage any
tial exercises to awaken you to the Section II requires from 4 to aspect of your existence from a cre-
unlimited possibilities of living 5 days to complete, depending ator viewpoint, you have achieved
deliberately. upon what is encountered. the state of being called Avatar.
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