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TTHHEE AAVVAATTAARR CCOOUURRSSEE is a powerful and speedily effective course based on the simple truth that your beliefs will cause you to create or

attract situations and events that you experience as your life.

TTHHEE GGOOAALL of the three-section course is to guide you in an exploration of your own belief system and to equip you with the tools to modifythose things that you wish to change. THE AVATAR COURSE opens

a window to the inner workings of your own consciousness.

TTHHEE CCOOUURRSSEE teaches world lessons (experiential) rather than word lessons (intellectual). For this reason it requires a trained AVATAR MASTER to guide you into the actual lessons already

contained in your own consciousness.

SSEECCTTIIOONN II of the course (contained in the books LIVING DELIBERATELYand RESURFACING) invites connection with a more expanded awarenessof how your beliefs affect your life. It is offered in a two-day workshop.

SSEECCTTIIOONN IIII of the course leads you to reconnect with an experiential awareness of your own existence and to recover

the effortless ability to create personal reality.

SSEECCTTIIOONN IIIIII of the course explores the foundational beliefsthat create the universe and presents a simple andeffective technique for managing beliefs. The technique is used in a series of rundowns toremove conflicts, limitations, persistent

conditions, and even pain.

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The mission of Avatar in the world is to catalyze theintegration of belief systems. When we perceive that theonly difference between us is our beliefs and that beliefs

can be created or discreated with ease, the right and wronggame will wind down, a co-create game will unfold,

and world peace will ensue.

In This Issue

Mission Statement

2 What To Expect FromA Spiritual Pathby Harry Palmer

8 Avatar In Mongoliaby Ilu Kim

10 Make It A Big Dealby Linda Waters

12 31 Reasons Why PeopleDo The Avatar Courseby Joanie Kirk

13 Ex.23: Transparent Beliefsfrom ReSurfacing®

14 Success Stories

16 The Avatar Course Dates

18 Avatar Course Information

20 Sharing A Dreamby Nicola Karesh

22 Master Q & A

24 Is There Life After Avatar?by Richard Brenckman

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Publisher: Star’s Edge International®, Harry Palmer,President, Sr. Editor: Miken Chappell,

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The Avatar® Course is a series ofexperiential exercises that enablesyou to rediscover your self andalign your consciousness withwhat you want to achieve. Youwill experience yyoouurr oowwnn uunniiqquueeinsights and revelations.

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The Avatar materials are designedand intended to be an effective meansfor inspiring the realizations andchanges that will move you toward a stable spiritual awakening. Theyshould be considered as means (tools), rather than doctrines.

How do you achieve enlighten-ment?Siddhartha Gautama lived in

the forest, and then he moved tothe city, lived there for a while,and then he moved to a mountain,lived there for a while, and thenhe moved to a river and livedbeside the river for a while. Finally,under a banyan tree, he achieved astate of perfect enlightenment, andwas henceforth called the Buddha.So it seems to me that the path is

pretty simple. First you live in theforest, then move to the city, thengo live on a mountain, then livealong a river, and then look for a banyan tree.No? Then I guess it wasn’t

where Buddha was living that was important. What was impor-tant was that certain realizationsand transformations were happen-ing to him that culminated in hisenlightenment. How does a spiri-tual path bring about these realiza-tions and transformations leadingto enlightenment?

Most spiritual paths employvarious instructions, teaching tech-niques, rituals, and individualpractices. Together these constitutethe tools of a spiritual path. Somepaths are more effective than oth-ers, and some paths are more per-sonally suited to some mindsetsthan others. If a tool is used prop-erly, it either produces theexpected results or it doesn’t. Ofcourse, tools have other qualifyingfactors: ease of use, speed ofresult, effort involved, costinvolved, and in some cases,avoidance of collateral damage.

The Avatar tools rate favorablyin all categories and are remark-ably effective considering the gen-eral mental condition of the peopleto which they are beingintroduced.If you examine the current state

of the world, you will find thatmost people are reacting accordingto deeply indoctrinated beliefs.Some will argue that they are notreacting and are making free willchoices, but the truth is that pastconclusions and old fears makemost of their decisions. Nearly

everyone is operating according to someone else’s rules rather than their own intuitive principles.People live in what was, and theyselectively perceive only enoughof the present to excite their con-clusions about things. The majoraspiration is to be right rather than to be aware.In this compulsive commerce

of approval, most interactions are consciously or unconsciouslymanipulative. Most are governedby praise (pleasure) or criticism(pain). What people do and say toeach other creates reactions. If the

experience of the reaction is con-sidered pleasurable, attachmentdevelops. If the experience of thereactions is considered painful,resistance develops. The same experience may affect

different people differently. Peo-ple’s considerations of what ispainful and what is pleasurablefollow patterns created by theirbeliefs and memories of past expe-riences. If you traced the consider-ations of pain and pleasure all theway back to their roots, you wouldmost likely find them associated

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Some paths are more effective than others, and some paths are more personally suited to some

mindsets than others.

by Harry Palmer

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with survival concerns: food, shelter, and reproduction.At the present time, most of

human consciousness operates like a roll of exposed film. It sel-dom pictures the world moment tomoment as it is, but carries aroundpictures of what the world waslike. Individuals wrestle with thefears and sufferings of the past-obstructions that rightly should beassigned to history and left there.

So this is how we begin.The sections of Avatar are

designed to encourage the realiza-tions and changes that a personmust go through to move from alife of indoctrinated responses intoa life of living deliberately. Thenecessary realizations and changesare not the same for everyone. Also the realizations and

changes are not a straight line oran exact series of steps. Instead,

they follow a winding path ofnecessarily unique experiencesthat sometimes nurture the egoself, sometimes a compassionateself, and slowly or suddenly,arrive at an experience of spiritualself. It may sound like a linearprocess, but it seldom is. Yes, word lessons can be pre-

sented as a straight path to under-standing enlightenment, chapterfollowing chapter, but worldlessons wander; life stops toexplore. It loses it place. It fallsdown, runs into walls, sheds tears,and then has a good laugh as itgets up and brushes itself off. Ifonly perfect people could experi-ence enlightenment, very fewwould arrive.Progress does not always mean

that you are moving in the direc-tion of being more compassionate,righteous, or spiritual. The uniqueexperience you need might bepainful or destructive. Sometimesthe next lesson is negative, or egostrengthening, or overwhelming.Unless you are able to live a clois-ter life, your spiritual tools need towork on practical matters as wellas metaphysical matters.As an aside, religions tend to

stall out around the high points ofa spiritual path. These hesitationscan be obstructions to moving

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Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials, greeting students at the close

of an Avatar Wizard Course.

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forward. Sometimes a parishionerhas to fall into sin and be excom-municated before he or she canmove on. The last step before per-sonal freedom may be to commitan unpardonable sin in your faith.The transgressions, honestly con-fronted, transform your judgmentsinto compassion and empathy forothers: Someone who always actskindly has trouble understandingsomeone who fails to act kindly;not doing good might seem unfor-givable to someone who alwaysdoes good.Next I am going to take you

through the sections of Avatar oneby one and roughly describe thechanges that are expected to occurin each section. But let me cautionyou, reading about these changes,

even in detail, is not the same asexperiencing them.Section I of Avatar is called

ReSurfacing. It refers to the actionof disentangling you from yourcreations; it is an awakening ofinterested self-awareness. Thissection could be called a self-dis-covery course. It is waking you upfrom the movie you were lost in. ReSurfacing reminds people that

there is a difference between theexperience of self and the experi-ence the self is having. Later onthe path, these two may againmerge, but at this level of awaken-ing the direction is to realize thatthere is a difference between theperceiver and the perception.There is a difference between one’sself and one’s role model. There is

a difference between acting delib-erately and reacting. There is adifference between you and yourproblems.The fundamental change that

occurs on ReSurfacing is a deepen-ing of the experience of “I am.”This is a transformation from, “Ohsure, I am,” to “Oh my God, I am.I really am.” This is an “I am” thatis discovering personal responsi-bility. This opens the door to pow-erful realizations that break thegrip of indoctrinated beliefs. Expe-riencing “I am” as something morethan a mental concept causes atransformation and a healing. Per-sonal responsibility replacesrobotic reactions to authority. Sud-denly you can observe and choosehow, or even if, you will act. Whensomebody talks about Avatar as aself-discovery course, they’re talk-ing about this level of realizationand change.Section II of Avatar is self-

empowerment training. The pre-requisite to doing Section II is thaton ReSurfacing you discovered areal self to empower.All suffering arises from mental

processes, in particular frombeliefs and judgments. Resistanceto what is inevitable producessuffering. It is no surprise thatcertain philosophies and religionsconsider life to be suffering. Theydon’t have an effective technologyto handle mental resistance. Thebest they can do is to still the mindby discipline; when the mind isstill, the suffering ceased, but sotoo do the lessons conveyed bysuffering.

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Section II is a modern approachto achieving control over themind; there is more subtly to themind than turning it off and on.This control is such an unusualaccomplishment that many people,until they experience it, do notbelieve it can be done. But it can,and it is part of the changes thathappens on Section II of Avatar.After you sort out who you are

and how your mind operates, thenext issue is what can you deliber-ately create? Section II is where the path

begins to wind. You might take adetour into the material world.Ego development is built into theexercises in order to prepare forthe next transformation. After theexperience of “I am,” the nextexperience on the path is, “AndI’m pretty darned cool.” Section II

removes your limitations andreleases your creative powers.Your first response will probablybe to create something that youhave long desired. This is the ulti-mate pleasure of the ego, to createexactly what one wants.Why, you might ask, would

Avatar encourage the develop-ment of the ego when we knowthe ego is the source of many diffi-

culties in theworld? The answer isthat it is the next neces-sary experience that youneed to integrate. The ego isan area that needs to beexplored without judgment.Remember, sometimes it is theegotistic efforts at self-aggrandize-ment that produce some of ourgreatest cultural treasures. Devel-oping the ego is a necessary rite ofpassage to transcending the ego. Ifyour ego fails to flower, there is noharvest, and no further spiritualgrowth. The main change on Section II is

achieving a balance in your life. Ifyou have experienced unhappi-ness, you can create happiness. Ifit you have experienced failure,you can experience success. If youhave experienced feeling submis-

sive, you can balance it with feel-ing dominant. The Section IISource List processes and RealityCreation processes afford an ethi-cal way for you to achieve thisbalance.Restoring balance is the real

goal of self-empowerment. Youcould say that Section II puts youon the route to achieving karmicbalance with the universe; what-

evertwists andturns your spiritualpath has taken, or needs to take,the balance can be restored withthe Section II tools. On to Section III, the first rays

of self-awareness are often para-lyzing; they tend to brightly illu-minate your shame and guilt,rather than your deeper nature.This changes with the initiation of Section III; self-awarenessbecomes functional, compassion-ate, and empowering.The Section III rundowns are a

journey inward to unlimited self.They bring you into the space thathas the power to define self. Therundowns identify and release thetentacles of the past, and youcome effortlessly into a deep levelof the present. The present ratherthan the past now shapes whomyou are and what you choose toexperience. In this state, you actintuitively, are motivated by highprinciples, and operate from anawareness that is independent of self. So these are the sections that

make up The Avatar Course. Theyare intended to be experientialrather than intellectual.

The sections of Avatar are designed to encourage therealizations and changes that a person must go throughto move from a life of indoctrinated responses into a life

of living deliberately. The necessary realizations andchanges are not the same for everyone.

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We have come a longway; we still have a longway to go. The world ischanging. Hope is awak-ening. It is a good timeto be alive. It is a good

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We left for Mongolia on the 30thof May, 2008 with 27 masters and35 students. Our flight wasdelayed due to stormy weather inUlaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia.We finally arrived at the Ulaan-baatar airport just after midnight.Then two more hours of travel bybus to reach the hotel in Tereljwhere the first Mongolian AvatarCourse would be held.First Morning, Terelj. When I

awoke, awesome nature wasshowing its beauty. Mountains inthe distance, forest and stream infront of hotel; it was amazinglybeautiful. The trees had mysticgrayish trunks with new, brightgreen leaves just beginning tosprout. The sunlight is strongbecause we are at a high elevationand there is no pollution in the air.It warms the body even thoughthe air is still chilly.

Tefelj is a National Park thatUNESCO appointed as apreserved world heritage. It is ahuge place but with few people.The total population of Mongoliais only 2.4 million, and 1.8 millionpeople live in the capital. The restare spread over a country that is17 times the size of Korea.After breakfast, everybody

arrived happy and energetic tostart the ReSurfacing Workshop.The hotel is a three-story buildingwith a meeting room on the 3rdfloor.Without any distractions, the

course moved quickly. Studentsdid the Attention mini course andthe Forgiveness mini coursetogether. The exercises opened somuch space that past reasons forsuffering vanished. Studentsbegan to recover their ability to

feel. They became one with natureand with the other people oncourse. Everyday during lunch the peo-

ple in the village brought horses—strong ponies actually—for us toride. For the first few days the course

unfolded like the flowing of asmooth river. Then one evening anew hotel close by opened andtheir electricity consumption wasso large that our village had thepower cut and that included ourhotel. As it was brighter outsidethan in the meeting room, wemoved the course to the hillbehind the hotel. The studentswere wild with excitement andturned the inconvenience of noelectricity and no working plumb-ing into an adventure. Naturebecame the classroom.

For the next two days thepower stayed off.

By Ilu Kim

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Washing your hair in a cold moun-tain stream makes you aware ofhow much you take for granted.We could have complained, butinstead everybody followedHarry’s advice and made the bestof what happens next. Difficulttimes remind us to be grateful forthe little things—like friendshipand fresh air.We lit the candle in the room at

night and it was romantic. Withoutelectricity the stars multiplieduntil it seemed the sky was toosmall to contain them all. And thehotel meeting room could nolonger contain our Avatar Course. Beginning on Section III, we

moved from the hill to a little for-est along the stream. We fell fullyinto the nomadic consciousness ofthe land. Doing the section IIIrundowns under the trees made usfeel like Buddhas. The environ-

ment was included and seemed tosupport us rather than distract us.Visited by cows, ponies, dogs andeven a family of pigs, in harmonywith nature, we announced the“Newest Avatar” to the forest. On the second Sunday we said

goodbye to Terelj and moved to afive star hotel in the capitol,Ulaanbaatar. For one night, werelaxed in luxury, and then weclimbed aboard two buses for aseven-hour rock and roll journeyinto the great Gobi desert. Mongo-lia is a huge land and it has nospecific paved road. Where youdrive is totally dependent on thedriver.The guide says that our group

feels so much different than anyother group. Not a single personcomplains when unexpectedthings happen.I told him, “This is Avatar

group.”

We arrived at the Bayan GobiDesert at 7:00 p.m. Dinner waswaiting for us in a traditionalMongolian yurt. After the meal westarted course again so some stu-dents could finish. We announcedthe “Newest Avatar” in the BayanGobi Desert Camp. As per Harry’s Primary, “Every-

thing always works out for us,”and it really did in Mongolia. Wesigned up three Mongolian stu-dents for the next Avatar course.Our guide Ayuka decided to cometo Korea to do Avatar in October.One day soon there will be manyAvatars in Mongolia.The ghost of Genghis Khan is

pleased.

Ilu Kim is a Star’s Edge Trainerfrom Korea. She can be contacted byphone at 82-11-9999-7425 or e-mail [email protected].

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Much of my life I have scurriedaround making a big deal out ofgetting this or that thing done,doing it right, trying to fix,improve or criticize, look good,complete the myriad of to dos onmy never ending daily to do list.It’s exhausting to think about it.When I wasn’t busy scurrying, Iwas avoiding or escaping, ration -alizing, justifying, working reallyhard to fix a problem or feelingguilty for not doing enough, orentitled to take a break.Sometimes when I really pushed

hard and actually accomplishedsomething I could be proud of, I’dstand back and gloat for a nanosecond or two, gather a littleapproval from others, then back tothe grind.The strange thing was that I had

myself fooled into thinking I hadno other choice. After all, these

were the things that I had to do asa “responsible” adult. I thought Iwas a happy person, functionaland successful. True joy and hap-piness were elusive. I askedmyself, “Is this all there is to lookforward to?”Not an optimum existence, but

very familiar, the Rat Race.After taking The Avatar Course I

stepped back and looked aroundat this existence. With new aware-ness I could see the bigger picture

and feel the impact of the choiceswe have made. I had a glimpse ofwhat we are headed toward if wedon’t make some significantchanges. It was both sobering andexciting. We had simply lacked theskills, wisdom and tools to turnthings around. I had a renewedsense of compassion and under-standing. Now I had a trainingthat I could share with others thatcan really do some good. For some, there’s no looking

around at the big picture at all. It’sall they can do to keep their day-to-day overwhelm at bay. Otherslook around and say, “It’s all per-fect, just the way it’s meant to be.”And some look around and seeonly insurmountable problems ofepic proportions and becomeimmobilized.No wonder apathy, helplessness,

depression and escapism flourish

in today’s society. It’s easier to sitback and hang out in our miser-able status quo and wait for someone else, God, governmental, spiri-tual or environmental leadershipto cause some miraculous changein the direction we’re headed onplanet E.Then there are those who dive

in, roll up there sleeves and workhard at making a difference insome specialized area, throughtaking up causes, campaigning,

fund raising, feeding the homelessor trying to cure disease in thirdworld countries.Struggling really hard to help a

cause may provide temporaryrelief and may make us feel betterabout ourselves. In the long haulare we just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic?I realized that Avatar was about

taking responsibility to a newlevel, one that was rewarding anddidn’t perpetuate struggle to keepthe ship afloat. The phrases, “Youcan’t solve the problem from thesame level of mind which createdit,” and “You’ll always get whatyou always got if you keep doingwhat you’ve always done,” rangtrue for me. Now I could offer atraining that would give humanityand Planet E new hope, a betterdirection and an exciting future forour kids, and theirs.This is a BIG DEAL! Why?

Because we can’t afford the luxuryof self-indulging in apathy, depres-sion, confusion, denial of responsi-bility, struggle and escapism anylonger. These are uncomfortable,but easy routes out of the exis-tence game.Do we think we are going to get

out of it that easily? Who knowswhat price we pay when we suc-cumb to temptations of doingwhat we have always done? Willwe come back around to tryagain? Give up on life? Will therebe a planet E to come back to? Arewe going to wave adios and leaveit up to our offspring to clean up

With new awareness I could see the bigger picture andfeel the impact of the choices...

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By Linda Waters

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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.To clean up areas of their life that aren’t working so great.To give back.To find out what it feels like to have ‘free attention’.To become more responsible in their life.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….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.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 [email protected]

by Joanie Kirk

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Exercise 23Transparent BeliefsA belief is transparent when you are operating through the belief

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

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 thatthe 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. Transparentbeliefs are often hidden under the desire to be right, so finding trans-parent beliefs requires a degree of vulnerability.

OBJECTIVE: To discover transparent beliefs.

EXPECTED RESULTS: Insights, personal transformation.

INSTRUCTIONS:Discovering transparent beliefs is done either with a companion or as a team effort. The exercise may be repeated many times.

STEP 1The guide or group leader asks, “What would you like to change?” until a situation is revealed.

STEP 2Once 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?(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.

When people do notact deliberately,transparent beliefsgovern their lives.

• • •

Personal realityreflects what aperson reallybelieves—this is notalways the same aswhat he/she mightbe pretending tobelieve.

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A Fabulous JourneyThis has been a fabulous jour-

ney! I thought, “nine days of look-ing at my stuff...that’s an eternity.”But The Avatar Course creates atime warp! It has flown by. I feel like a new born awareness,

now creating my own reality,birthing my own creations. What ajoy, what a blessing; to unload thecharge associated with past eventsso they don’t haunt or upset meanymore. And to realize that it’snot about the people I don’t like or

have issues with, it’s all about me.It’s how I react, how I feel. I knew this intellectually but to

know it experientially, at a wholenew level, to really get it was won-derful. I’ve discreated the ‘models’I’d created of people I love, buthave judged or criticized, so now Iaccept them as they are withoutthat projection, what love!

J. F., Texas

Forgot To FeelI forgot how to feel. I was very

sad and depressed. I didn’t wantanything. The only thing that gaveme satisfaction was pain and fan-tasies about death; about givingup, letting go, sinking deeper anddeeper into an endless hole of selfpity and self destruction. Now, after I’ve learned how to

feel again, I can say that I am trulyhappy. I’m inspired. I have lots ofenergy, curiosity, and love. I amwilling, not resisting. I love andgive. I can feel and that is all thattruly matters to me. Thank You,Harry!

A. R., Israel

Lightness

Wandering In DarknessI am a housewife who attended

The Avatar Course with her twochildren, (13 & 14 years-old) inKorea. I have always wanted to be a

good mother and a good person,but I’ve felt like I was wanderingin the darkness of conflicts. I did-n’t know how I could be a goodperson, even if I wanted to be…And even though I already knewmy consciousness was precious, Iwas in difficulty, pity, sadness,pain, or confused about it. I felt

like there must be a way… thenThe Avatar Course led me to findmyself easily and clearly. Now, I have a firm grounding in

myself. I think my family will, too.For the tools, and the devotedMasters… I thank all the peoplewho have guided me through thisnine day journey to myself. I sendmy love to all the people in thisworld.

Y. S. H., Korea

For me, this course was both amind boggling experience and funto do at the same time. More concretely, it solved in a

matter of days (during the course)a number of problems I’d experi-enced with my family, when yearsof effort had brought me nowhere.The Avatar Course also gave me asense of lightness of being thatwas unthinkable before. It is defi-nitely another way of dealing withlife. Thank You!

W. K., Netherlands

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Life ChangingBefore doing The Avatar Course,

I lacked confidence in my self andmost of my daily activities. I wasonly comfortable in my own sur-roundings and with any changesto that I would shrivel up like awilted flower. Now after six days,I feel like my petals are open witha bright light shining on me likesunshine. On the first day, the group of

people was enormous, but noweach day the group appearssmaller because now, I know someof them and have interacted withthem. I feel like I belong moreeveryday. Thank You for helpingme to create a life changing experi-ence.

T. S., England

Just finished The Avatar Course.I must say that I had a lot of skep-ticism when I started with ReSur-facing and was a bit reluctant.Within a day, I was blown awayby the simplicity of it all. You haveto do it yourself, no one will do itfor you. I learned a lot aboutmyself and discovered anotherme. Thanks for letting me havethis experience!

H. O., Netherlands

SmilingSkeptical

Thirty years of counseling didn’tget near to the core of me. ButAvatar did in one week. I was a desperate 56 year-old

man, being out of life,disconnected from myself, tryingto survive existence. Now I am afeeling man, loaded with tools tocope with myself and life. I’vethrown out a load of garbage and Iam looking forward to tomorrow.

J. M., Netherlands

Fast

During The Avatar Course I hadmy daughter stay with my par-ents. Yesterday when I went topick her up, she came up to me fora hug and said, “Mom, you lookdifferent. I’d always like to haveyou smile like that.”

S. T., Japan

A Unique SpaceI feel like I’ve been reborn. It

doesn’t mean that I becameanother person, more like beingrestructured. A new me thataccepts the future, has recoveredpeace of mind, and goes where myessence wants to go. The space of The Avatar Course

is unique. There are people ofdifferent ages, occupations, andsocial status, but there wasn’t any

concern about that. This is veryinteresting. I’ve realized howsuperficial differences don’t haveany relationship with the person.It feels pleasant to be integrated. Ifeel the confidence to do whateverI want. I feeling a joy that surrounds

everything.T. A., Japan

Veil LiftedOh, Thank You! I thought I was

pretty good, really. I’ve doneAvatar. I’ve read every self helpbook, watched all the DVDs.... butin two days of The Avatar MasterCourse, the veil was lifted. Oncethe veil came off, everything elseslotted into place. Everything elsemade sense. My heart opened, myface softened. I feel my life will bemuch easier now. There will bemore softer, loving emotions in mylife. Oh, Thank You!

S. W., Ireland

A ChallengeIt’s been a challenge and a jour-

ney that’s been well worth thetrip. I find it difficult to under-stand why I purchased the booksalmost thirteen years ago, but didnot participate in the classes whichare the keys to unlocking themagic within. But I did it! Andwho knows what will happen.Possibilities seem unlimited.

C. W., Australia

As a student and facilitator of ACourse in Miracles for the past 20years, I found the Avatar ReSurfac-ing course to be an experientialdemonstration of the principles setforth in the materials. For me, itwas very exciting to watch beliefsshift from transparent to non-active, and perspectives becomebroader or change completely. Itwas an awesome and joyful expe-rience and I look forward to manymore.

S. S., Florida

Awesome

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Date Location CodeNORTH AMERICASept. 13-21, 2008 Keystone, Colorado COKEY0908Nov. 1-9, 2008 Orlando, FL INTOR1108miscellaneous local area course LACNA

SOUTH AMERICAmiscellaneous local area course LACSA

EUROPESept. 20-28, 2008 Egmond aan zee, Netherlands INTNL0908Nov. 1-9, 2008 Hengelo, Netherlands CONL1108Nov. 1-9, 2008 Willingen, Germany COGR1108Dec. 27, ‘08 - Jan. 4 ‘09 to be announced CONL1208miscellaneous local area course LACEC

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALANDSept. 20-28, 2008 Geelong, AU INTAU0908Nov. 1-9, 2008 Sydney, AU COAU1108Dec 27, ‘08 - Jan 4, ‘09 to be announced COAU1208miscellaneous local area course LACAU

CHINA & TAIWANSept. 20-28, 2008 Taipei, Taiwan COTN0908Nov. 7-14, 2008 Taipei, Taiwan COTN1108Dec. 26, ‘08-Jan. 03, ‘09 Taipei, Taiwan COTN1208miscellaneous local area course LACCH

JAPANSept. 20-28, 2008 Tokyo, Japan COTJP0908Sept. 20-28, 2008 Osaka, Japan COOJP0908miscellaneous local area course LACJP

KOREASept. 20-28, 2008 Suwon, S Korea COKOR0908Nov. 1-9, 2008 Mokpo, S Korea COKOR1108Dec. 27, ‘08 - Jan 4, ‘09 Mokpo, S Korea INTKOR1208miscellaneous local area course LACKR

Additional courses will be announced at AvatarEPC.com/butterfly

Join us for an opportunity toexplore how your beliefs areaffecting your reality and how you can use the Avatar tools tochange the blueprint you operatefrom. The Intro Nights are filledwith awakening to new possibili-ties and discovering the precious-ness of life. If you are interested in creating

the rest of your life more deliber-ately or if you have found yourselfin a repeating pattern that youwould like to change, we feel youwill find The Avatar Course to bevery inspiring and empowering. Come to an Avatar Course

Intro Night. There are hundreds of Avatar Masters in the back ofthis and every issue of The AvatarJournal who are available to helpyou. Call a Master now. You’ll betaking the first step on a journeyof SELF discovery.

Avatar CourseIntro NightsTuesdays in the U.S.

UPCOMING AVATAR COURSE DATES

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Prepare For AwakeningSource Beingness DVD (8 subtitled languages) $19.95Exploring consciousness with consciousness is surreal; it is also a dead end.Fortunately there is a subtler quality of life that we call undefinable awareness, and itcan watch consciousness without automatically creating more consciousness...This talk by Harry Palmer was recorded live at the September 2007

Avatar Master Course in Orlando, Florida.

Make Up Your Mind DVD (12 subtitled languages) $19.95What does it mean to believe something? Why are some truths hard to believe andsome lies easy to believe? Is your mind controlling you or are you controlling it? Inthis video Harry discusses these questions and more as he examines the four types ofbelief systems and the intentions behind them.

Everything Is Alright DVD (Now with 13 subtitled languages) $19.95In this talk Harry discusses his experiences during the Florida hurricanes, his challenges as an organic gardener, and the sometimes dangerous route to higher consciousness. It’s a modern allegory of spiritual awakening.

Bottled Consciousness DVD $12.95How do you study consciousness without getting lost in the study of concepts about consciousness? In this talk Harry discusses a unique focus of attention that’s required to avoid becoming trapped.

Make The Best Of What Happens Next DVD $12.95Someday your life will be a page in history. Will it be read from a burned out, radioactive ruin, or from the bridge of a starship? Who will read it? Harry’s answer may surprise you, but after the gasp, you’ll know he is right.

Life Challenges DVD $12.95Life is a challenge and the best rewards are upstream. This talk by Harry was recorded live at the July 2006 International Avatar Course, in Orlando, Florida.

Stay Awake And Relax DVD $12.95In this talk Harry considers how the use of forces, both mental and physical, affect ourlives and how awareness awakens when we stop pushing against ourselves. This talkwas recorded live at the September 2006 Avatar Master Course, in Orlando, Florida.

Connection & Encouragement DVD $12.95Join Harry as he brings his unique insights to bear on the topics of discouragement, perseverance, and connections. And, as usual with Harry, there are layers of meaning to the stories he shares.

Three Questions of Enlightenment CD $6.95Within this fun, lighthearted talk, you’ll find there are many levels of answers to these questions, and what becomes evident is that the path to enlightenment is not so elusive after all.

1987 West Coast Tour: Welcome To Avatar CD $6.95Join Harry in an intimate setting where he describes Avatar to a group of prospective students and answers their questions about the course.

Seven Pillars Of Enlightenment: The Avatar Mini-Courses book $35.00The Avatar Mini-Courses in this book are your opportunity to see and feel howempowering and easy the Avatar exercise really are. Take advantage of this chance to learn more about life, how you live it and how you can easily change it.

Love Precious Humanity: The Collected Wisdom of Harry Palmer book $19.95This book is a wonderful collection of quotes taken from Harry’s lectures and theAvatar Materials. Open to any page and find inspiration.

Inside Avatar The Book: Achieving Enlightenment book $12.95This book features collected articles from the Inside Avatar newsletter. Now you can read the same great articles that were once available only to Avatars.

For more inspiration visitAvatarEPC.com/bookstore

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Section IIIThe Rundowns

Recovery of theexperience of yourown sourceness

Any AvatarMaster currentlylicensed todeliver TheAvatar Course

The principles governing discre-ation and the management ofreality. Personal initiation andseven solo rundowns that handleaspects of existence.

The ability to address body sensations,interpersonal conflicts, dependencies,self-sabotaging beliefs, and compul-sions; to assume full responsibility forthe conditions and circumstances ofyour own life.

US$15002 to 4 days

Section IIThe Exercises

A familiarity withReSurfacing®

Any AvatarMaster currentlylicensed todeliver TheAvatar Course

The principles governing cre-ation and experience. Exercisesto enhance the perception ofcreation and to restore the abilityto create reality.

The ability to perceive reality withoutjudgments, distortion, or separation;to modify personal reality; to createexperientially real states of beingnessat will.

US$5004 to 5 days

Section IThe ReSurfacing®Workshop

None Any AvatarMaster currentlylicensed todeliver TheAvatar Course

Preliminary course information.Philosophical principles of Avatar.Exercises to produce insight andconnection with higher levels ofconsciousness.

Greater connection with and insightinto the nature of personal reality.The ability to discover your secret-most beliefs.

US$2952 days

the avatar®course

course requirements

availablefrom

teachesabout

expected results

cost/time

Section IV (b)The ProfessionalCourse: BeyondAwakening

Completion ofSection IV (a) of The AvatarMaster Course

Delivered onlyby Star’s Edgedelivery teams

The components of life: Beingness,Motivation, Perception, Operation,Organization, Alignment. Usingattention to create without becom-ing trapped by it.

An understanding of the purpose of lifeand the ability to remain comfortablypresent in difficult circumstances.

US$25007 days

Section IV (a)Awakening

Completion ofThe Avatar Courseand an invitationfrom your AvatarMaster.

Delivered onlyby Star’s Edgedelivery teams

Source Beingness. The structure and mechanics of personalidentity. Locating core beliefs.Shifting perspective. Instructionson delivering initiation sessionsand supervising rundowns.

The ability to handle persistent conditionsand a certainty on the workability of theAvatar materials. Successful graduatesreceive a provisional license as assistants,interns or fully licensed Avatar Masters, toorganize and participate in Avatar deliver-ies that exceed student expectations.

US$30009 days

the avatar®master course

course requirements

availablefrom

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expectedresults

cost/time

Section VExtrasensoryabilities

Completion ofSection IV (a) of The AvatarMaster Course

Delivered onlyby Star’s EdgeInternational

The collective consciousness. Levels and abilities of conscious-ness. Hidden influences on life.Leadership and civilization management.

The ability to understand and managecreation. The ability to operate from theviewpoint of the higher self. The abilityto transform civilization.

US$750013 days

the avatar®wizard course

course requirements

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the path of avatar ®

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IInntteerrnnaatt iioonnaallAAvvaattaarr ® CCoouurrsseessand Master Empowerment Workshops

Tonny Beernink31 20 620 3128 tel31 20 623 3423 fax [email protected]

Rich Brenckman858-794-9480 tel240-465-8420 fax

[email protected]

Uwe Bühler49 83 82 94 4800 tel49 83 82 94 4801 [email protected]

Pieta van der Ham31 20 620 3128 tel31 20 623 3423 fax

[email protected]

Ilu Kim82-11-9999-7425 tel82-2-3443-6058 fax

[email protected]

Isa Luerssen64 9 4077780 tel64 9 4075480 [email protected]

Shona MacDonald61 3 547 34550 tel61 3 547 34485 fax

[email protected]

John Pasqualetti415-789-0539 tel415-789-0754 fax

[email protected]

Audrey Scopilliti773-929-9743 tel773-929-2676 fax

[email protected]

Sieglinde Sitzmann49 4559 99 99 91 tel49 4559 99 99 89 fax

[email protected]

Yuji Takashi81 6-6761-6692 tel81 6-6761-6793 [email protected]

Kathy Thorngren651-491-1980 tel952 470 0748 [email protected]

Della Yin510-794-7367 tel510-794-8568 fax

[email protected]

What is the real work to be done on this planet? . . .It’s to make ourselves more aware, to remind ourselves that ouressential nature is nonviolent, and to increase the amount ofcompassion and cooperation on the planet.

—Harry Palmer

ASIA

Sept. 20-28 - Suwon, S Korea: contact Ilu

Sept. 20-28 - Tokyo & Osaka, Japan: contact Yuji

Sept. 20-28 - Taipei, Taiwan: contact Della

Nov. 1-9 - Mokpo, S Korea: contact Ilu

Nov. 7-14 - Taipei, Taiwan: contact Della

Dec. 26,‘08 - Jan 3,‘09 - Taipei, Taiwan: contact Della

Dec. 27,‘08 - Jan 4,‘09 - Mokpo, S Korea: contact Ilu

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND

Sept. 20-28 - Geelong, Australia: contact Shona

Nov. 1-9 - Sydney, Australia: contact Shona

Dec 27, ‘08 - Jan 4, ‘09 - TBA: contact Shona

EUROPE

Sept. 20-28 - Egmond aan Zee, Netherlandscontact Pieta

Nov. 1-9 - Hengelo, Netherlands: contact Tonny

Nov 1-9 - Willingen, Germany: Uwe

Dec. 27, ‘08 - Jan. 4, ‘09 - TBA: contact Tonny

NORTH AMERICA

Sept. 13-21 - Keystone, CO, contact Kathy

Nov. 1-9 - Orlando, FL: contact John

• • • •

Masters’ Empowerment Workshop I

Dec. 19-21 - Australia, contact Shona

22000088 CCOOUURRSSEE DDAATTEESS

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What does it take to create anenlightened planetary civilization? A creative and courageous soul

daring to dream a dream, puttinghis vision forth and inspiring a fewthousand committed and dedicatedsouls. To share a dream when we are

together in physical space and tohave that dream strengthen andgrow when we are spread outacross the world in our respectivehomes, is an awesome shared reality. To feel the presence of my fellow

Masters and the whole Avatar net-work pulsing and moving in theworld is like being in feel and con-necting to my own heartbeat. Itstarts as a steady pulse echoing andreverberating through time andspace and becoming a strong throbthat is the backdrop of our lives.

My sangha. My family. My heart.My life. I picture a world where our chil-

dren and our grand-children canplay freely, for safety is a given.Our hearts guide us always to dothe right and honorable thing. Prac-ticing virtues is a sweet and gener-ous gift that we give to others, our-selves and to our precious planet. The lion lays down with the lamb

and there is a feeling that all is wellwith the world. Everything isindeed alright! Love flows freely and there are

no secondaries in the way. There isa reverence for life. Beliefs are created deliberately for

the sheer pleasure of experiencingthe beauty of life. We respect ourdifferences and celebrate the com-mon threads that join our collectivehearts.

What a privilege and an honor tobe alive right here, right now inthis time and space reality. We have given birth to our very

existence and we can experienceeach and every sweet moment withappreciation and gratitude. Contributing to an enlightened

planetary civilization is a noble andlofty goal that fires my heart and isthe life and breath of Avatar. Iinvite you to come share ourdream. Experience how real andrich life can truly be. Start with TheAvatar Course and allow yourworld to open right up before your eyes.

Nicola Karesh is an Avatar Masterfrom North Carolina. She can bereached at 828-884-4565 or by e-mail at [email protected]

by Nicola Karesh

Nicola Karesh

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!

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Lori BrenckmanSo. California/Worldwide

858-794-7978888-753-2121

[email protected]

Marilyn AtteberryWest Coast/Worldwide

[email protected]

Bill BradleySo. California/Worldwide

[email protected]

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Trudy Opitz, Ph.D.SF Bay Area/Worldwide

510-797-0112510-326-1518

[email protected]

Sandra MaSo. California/Worldwide

805-587-3700805-497-2882

[email protected]

Beth NelsonSo. California/

International Courses714-546-6270

[email protected]

Ana M. GonzalezSF Bay Area/Worldwide

510-220-2224createthelifeyouwant@m

ac.comEnglish/Spanish

Daniel LevinAvatar Master/Wizard

International &Cooperative Courses

[email protected]

Bruce DavidowChico/No. California

& International Courses530-520-4945

[email protected]

Marika & Pieter KarkSF Bay/Worldwide650-962-9660

[email protected]@sbcglobal.net

Beth WhiteNo. California/[email protected]

408-679-7957

Dan SpaethWorldwide

[email protected]

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Q & Am

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r The Avatar Journal talkswith Avatar Mastersfrom around the world.

How has your life changed sincetaking The Avatar Course?

I often get asked this questionwhen I am talking to someonewho hasn’t yet done The AvatarCourse. It is much easier to answerthe question, “What hasn’tchanged?” because the list wouldbe very short, or no list at all! Everything has changed since I

did Avatar. It feels like life hassped up in a very amazing way. Ihave moved from life being allabout me and what I want to car-ing about what other people areexperiencing and what they wantto create in their lives, andempowering them using theAvatar tools to make thosechanges. It feels like my wholeway of being, moment to momenthas changed. I felt as if I waslocked into a reality of “this is theway it is“ and now I realize I cancreate any reality I choose to cre-ate. I can choose my thoughts andmy actions deliberately, no longerfeeling at the effect of life. The biggest change has occurred

in my connection to other people,what a gift in this lifetime to havethe tools to integrate those thingsthat keep us separate. Thank youHarry.

Judy MacDonaldis from NewZealand. She canbe contacted at+64 (0) 21 740323 or [email protected]

What is the most memorableexperience you’ve had since delivering Avatar?

I recently worked with a studenton The Avatar Course who hadexperienced neglect, abuse andtrust issues for much of her life.She is a quiet, gentle and lovingbeing who takes one step at a timeand then checks before movingforward.It was so interesting to watch

her create her safe spaces in theroom and with people and then

she would fully participate inwhatever exercise was next. It waslike watching a flower unfold. Shedid ReSurfacing and then decidedto go on to Section II and whenshe completed that she tookanother look and decided to go onwith Section III. Within the loveand safety of the tools sherevealed herself to herself andfound a powerful source being.She also created a network of

friends and support so that whenshe arrived home she could con-tinue her work on her self and putattention on the new things shewanted to create in her life. Justwhen I think she has hit a limitand is resisting, I realize it is justher pause before deliberatelydeciding upon her next step.Watching her I can just “widenback” and appreciate conscious-ness unfolding at its own pace. Iso love this work!

Patti Gardner is from Wisconsin.She can be reachedat 715-254-1891or [email protected]

What is the most memorableexperience you’ve had since delivering Avatar?

After thirteen years of deliveringAvatar there are so many memo-rable moments.I had the grace to get to deliver

Avatar to my parents who were 76and 81. The feeling of connectingwith them being-to-being, outside

of a lifetime of identities was liber-ating. I felt such gratitude andgrace for having this opportunity.At one point, after doing an exer-cise with my mother, I looked ather, and said, “I feel like we havefinally met.” We both started tocry.Another memorable experience

is the joy of watching a lifetime ofsuffering, defined by a singleevent, a single belief, washedaway during the ForgivenessOption Mini-Course.The awe and awakening in

someone’s eyes when they dis-cover who they really are is trulymemorable. Getting to be there forthat joyous moment is wonderful.There are many, many more...

Cata Low is from Texas. Shecan be reached at 512-266-7098or [email protected]

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How has your life changed sincetaking The Avatar Course?

I took the Avatar Course twelveyears ago and where do I begin asto all the changes? I guess the biggest change for

me is that I really feel connected tomy life purpose and what bringsme joy in my life. Ever since I wassmall I wanted to find a way tohave people be able to get alongbetter and to alleviate their suffer-ing. Avatar has provided that way

and the best part is that I’m able toconnect and work with peoplefrom around the world that havethe same goal. It’s Awesome! I wasmaking some contributions in myown way but I really feel thepower from working as a teamand working on consciousnesswith Harry’s tools. Things arechanging much faster both in myinner and outer universes and itgives me hope for the future.

With Avatar everyone wins. Everyperson who becomes an Avatar shiftsthe collective consciousness towardgreater tolerance and understanding.Helping yourself with Avatar helpseveryone else at the same time.

— Harry Palmer

Richard Carlsonis from Wisconsin.He can be reachedat 715-254-1891 orby e-mail [email protected]

How has your life changed sincetaking The Avatar Course?

Wow, there have been so manychanges. But the big, overarchingone is an ability that began todevelop on my first course, andcontinues to expand.It is this: the ability to recognize

that everything that I think, feel,perceive, know, appreciate orresist, is a creation. I can either beinside of the creation, experiencingit, or outside of it, “viewing” it,and from that viewpoint, decidingwhether to continue creating it, ordiscreate it. Either way, it’s mine!I often explore different perspec-tives using the “Viewpoints” Exer-cise from ReSurfacing.

For example, I recently had a hipreplacement, which gave me anopportunity to examine and dis-create some impeding beliefs I hadabout aging, about pain, andabout the inevitability of suffering.It was also an opportunity to cre-ate some helpful beliefs about mybody, my inner strength andresilience, and what I want toaccomplish in my life.I am grateful for this ability,

grateful to Harry for showing mehow to use my mind. I am gratefulfor being able to use this ability,which allows me to feel compas-sion and appreciation for myselfas the creator of my creations.Grateful to be able feel love andcompassion for my fellow humanbeings, creating their experiencesaccording to what they (and wecollectively) currently believe. Andgrateful to believe that helpingothers to manage their beliefs cancontribute to a better world for allwho share this planet.

Karen Ryder isfrom RhodeIsland. Contacther at (401) 439-0127 or [email protected]

What is the most memorableexperience you’ve had since delivering Avatar?

One of the most memorablemoments was on my very firstdelivery, I had two of my daugh-ters with me - they were my firststudents! The eldest one Emma

had hit a big resistance/creationand I was in worry mode, and myother daughter Rebecca was hav-ing a great course and she was upto the universe handle, I wentthrough it with her and left her todo the exercise and when she fin-ished she came over and said, Idid it on Emma because I don’tthink things are going very wellfor her at the moment. I was sotouched, it was a lesson to me touse the tools in the moment.Another moment was recently

when I reviewed the course inDoorn, NL. I was just amazed athow wonderful all my coacheswere on source list, totally withme and making it so much fun!

Julie Armitageis from England.Contact her at+20 8445 4559or [email protected]

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Okay, it’s time to let it out. Timeto finally reveal the truth that I’vekept hidden, locked away insideme. The truth is–The AvatarCourse ruined my life. That’sright, you read correctly. It’s not a typo. Avatar ruined it all.There I was, thirty-nine years

old, with a whole set of belief systems that had me so tightly

in their grip that I couldn’t evensee them–and a long, dramaticstory about why life wasn’t work-ing that I just loved to tell.Don’t get me wrong, I was

doing pretty well, from one pointof view. I had my own companythat was respected in its field; Iwas making lots of money; Ilooked pretty good, was married,

owned property and other “stuff;”set and attained goals; was intouch with my spiritual nature,etc.Most people judged me a suc-

cess...maybe even a role model.But I didn’t feel like a success. Iwasn’t fulfilled or satisfied. In fact,I suffered a lot–meaning thingshappened to me that I didn’t like,

and I thought they were caused by outside factors that I had nocontrol over.I tried a lot of things in order to

escape the suffering–marijuana,sex, rock ‘n roll, est, meditation, all of it.Those things provided some

taste of the expanded experiencethat I wanted, but ultimately they

all proved disappointing. I waslooking for a way to be fully alive,energetic, peaceful, and satisfied–and as yet, hadn’t found it.I worked with two spiritual

teachers in the 80’s and discoveredmany remarkable things: otherrealities, other beings, meditation,channeling, healing. The lessonswere fun and very valuable, butstill the answers were outsidesomewhere. I mean, what if theArchangel Michael was busy or onvacation?I started meditating a lot, touch-

ing places that were so peacefuland so beautiful that I didn’t wantto come back. I thought meditat-ing was better than not meditat-ing, and that people who medi-tated were really better than thosewho didn’t. I became kind of aNew 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 achance of ever finding anything.So, I stopped looking. Which, ofcourse, is when the magic hap-pened. I received some informa-tion in the mail about a coursecalled Avatar. I don’t know why,but I just felt that there was some-thing extraordinary there for me.So I immediately registered for the Course. Wow.The first thing I discovered at

a very deep level was that mybeliefs were responsible for myexperiences in life. Not only that,but that different beliefs wouldattract different experiences. Andthat “I” is something distinct andseparate from the mind and it’sbeliefs. And amazingly, the “I” caneasily choose the beliefs that itwould like to have, and then

by Rich Brenckman

This striking new point of view allowed me to quiet mymind, get “out of my head,” and really start to feelthings–to finally experience life fully from my heart.

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experiences that are in accord withthose new beliefs will manifest.Pretty radical!In the course I learned a very

simple technique that allowed meto observe and feel the beliefs thatwere running my life. It was easyto see which beliefs were workingfor me and which ones weren’t. (Infact, I saw that I was often tryingto create results on top of strongbeliefs I held which were in totalopposition to what I truly wanted).No wonder I felt stuck in someareas.This striking new point of view

allowed me to quiet my mind, get“out of my head,” and really startto feel things–to finally experiencelife fully from my heart. This allhappened by the fourth day, andit’s a nine day course. It gave newand expanded meaning to the oldphrase “mind-boggling.”Avatar didn’t teach me what to

create, just how to create. What tocreate was totally my decision. Isaw my own beliefs with crystalclarity and insight, and saw thatthere wasn’t really a “right” or“wrong”...just different beliefscreating different experiences. TheAvatar technology is so easy, theinstructions so clear, the results soundeniable that I was lifted farbeyond the scope of what I’d pre-viously accepted as the inherentlimits of reality.After the course my business

expanded and flourished, even inthe recession. My health, whichhad been excellent, got even better.I lost 20 pounds without eventrying. My relationships improveddramatically, and my ability to be at ease and at source becameconstant and consistent. And I

totally gave up suffering and com-plaining. Major miracles!I guess I never directly answered

the question in the title of the arti-cle. But you know by now that my beliefs about myself and theworld are very different than theyused to be. I just don’t ever tellthose “life isn’t working” storiesanymore.It’s become apparent to me that

the real question wasn’t “Is therelife after Avatar?” but “Was therereally life BEFORE Avatar?”

Rich Brenckman is a Star’s EdgeTrainer from California. He can bereached at 858-794-9480 [email protected]

by Rich Brenckman

This article was written inlate 1990, just after I'd finishedthe Avatar Masters Course. Mywife, Lori, went on to do Avatarand the Masters Course shortlyafter me, and we’ve been deliv-ering Avatar full-time eversince.

Life after Avatar is filled withmore joy and satisfaction than Icould ever have imagined possi-ble. I’m in a constant state ofamazement about the possibili-ties that are present when welearn to quiet the mind andcreate life completely fromSource.

Avatar is the world’s #1 self-development course. If you’reinterested in exploring yourown beliefs, and learning atechnology that will allow youto live your life joyfully anddeliberately, we invite you tocontact us.

About Avatarfrom Students On Course

• Avatar has helped me find the courage to step out intothe light, be noticed and find the person I came intothis world to be.

• I corrected or stopped thedefault patterns of my life.

• I see that releasing fixedattention creates relief.

• I’ve found my own, personal pot of gold.

• I can now be with my loved ones in such a different, closer way.

• I’ve got the tools to sweepaway the pretense and show myself the games I’m playing.

• I got what I was doing,owned it, and stopped it.

• The Avatar tools create thespace where something isallowed to change.

• With Avatar you’re able todiscover the patterns in yourlife that keep you away fromyour true nature and limityour growth.

• I have the inspirational clarity of who I am.

• I moved from suffering and despair to the joy andpurpose found in service to others.

• I’ve broken the victim pattern.

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Eric SantosLas Vegas/Nationwide

(702) [email protected]

Patricia JuhaszFlorida/Worldwide

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(404) [email protected]

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(720)480-7379www.candoavatar.com

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847-757-8579, 847-356-8856,[email protected]

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505-699-7083,[email protected]

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THE AVATAR TIMESWe have come a long way; we stillhave a long way to go. The worldis changing. Hope is awakening. Itis a good time to be alive. It is agood time for noble deeds andsharing humanitarian endeavors.Perhaps for the first time ever, wehave the means and the will tocreate a new civilization. That isour opportunity. These are theAvatar Times. Subscribe to theFREE Avatar Times Newsletter atTheAvatarTimes.com

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the disaster we left behind? Some-times it’s just too painful to con-sider the consequences. So wenumb ourselves or check out, orwork our fingers to the bone onthe level of damage control.Today’s really Big Deal is to

crawl out from under the coversand make a personal commitmentto Life, to do whatever it takes tocontribute to awakening, to shift-ing consciousness, NOW!This morning I woke up with a

renewed sense of commitment to“I do whatever it takes tocontribute to a shift in conscious-ness.” Compelled to jot down afew thoughts about this, I bootedup my laptop. Just as I startedwriting this article the phone rangand I heard the voice of a strangeron the other end of the phone,“WAKE UP!”It was a wrong number, the kind

of wrong number that was right

for the moment. At first I wasannoyed to be taken off my task,and then laughed aloud at the waylife works to emphasize when weare on the right track…or alert uswhen we have strayed from oursoul’s purpose.How would your day be differ-

ent if everything and everyonewas aligned to co-create joy, peace,care, kindness and cooperationtoward the betterment of Earthlife? How would your day be dif-ferent?Which direction will we turn as

a human family? We each have achoice to make. We each have apart to play, or not...Making it a big deal to ask these

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our lives and create an incomestream toward a greater goal.Choose to believe it can be done.

It’s a big deal. Make it a big dealto fulfill (y)our human potential!What would it take for you, for

us, to do it TODAY?

Linda has been an Avatar Mas-ter/Wizard since 1993. She invitesyou to make a difference and join aworld-wide movement by taking thenext Avatar Course. [email protected]

*Thoughtstorm: a group process ofexploring and creating greater possi-bilities than a single mind alone canachieve. A Thoughstorm session isexperienced in Section II materials ofThe Avatar course. A Thoughtstormmanual and instructions can be pur-chased at AvatarEPC.com/bookstore

• continued from page 10BIG DEAL

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USA

ALABAMA

Alabama/Statewide: Joann Cebulski Woods, 404-668-6224, [email protected]

ALASKA

Statewide/Anchorage/Homer: Gina Allison, 907-223-1613, [email protected]

Fairbanks/statewide: Barb Carlin & Bev Byington,907-978-3559, [email protected]

Darla Hans, 907-223-9116, [email protected]

Graham Macdonald, [email protected]

ARIZONA

Flagstaff: Deborah Lindquist, MD, 928-699-2359,[email protected],beyondlimitshealing.com

Phoenix/Other Areas: Barbara Pizzuto,602.938.6581/ Rai Dudley, 800.205.7432,www.speedreadingworld.com/avatar

Phoenix/Sedona/USA: Helen & Maurice, 602-418-6822, [email protected], www.AvatarFollowYourHeart.com

CALIFORNIA

AnnMarie Glodich, PhD & George S. Thompson, MD,785-865-0676, [email protected]

California: John Pasqualetti, 415-789-0539,[email protected]

Central Coast/San Luis Obispo: Kathy Wensloff,805-305-2538, [email protected]

Chico/Northern CA: Bruce Davidow, 530-345-4945,[email protected]

LA/Ventura Co.: Sandra Ma, 805-587-3700,[email protected]

Marin/SF Bay: Wendy Lyon, Ph.D., 415-342-1300, [email protected]

Orange Co./LA: Beth Nelson, 714-546-6270,[email protected]

Sacramento: Kathryn Jelten, 916-799-6005,[email protected]

San Diego/San Francisco: Ben Teeter & BerniceTom, 619-226-0101, www.CreateYou.com

San Diego & San Francisco: Lori & Rich Brenckman,888-753-2121, www.PlanetAvatar.com

San Diego/SF Bay Area: Beth White, [email protected]

San Francisco: Trudy Opitz, Ph.D., 510-797-0112,[email protected]

SF Bay Area: Nancy Young, PhD, 415-663-9452,[email protected]

SF Bay Area: Keith Bradley & María Elena Márquez,305-365-2649, www.ExploreAvatar.com

Silicon Valley/S.F. Bay: Marilyn & Warren Atteberry,408-378-9958, [email protected]

San Francisco Bay area: Marika O’Baire-Kark &Pieter Kark, 650-962-9660, [email protected], [email protected]

Truckee/Tahoe & Reno areas: Stacie Creps, 530-550-9506, cell: 775-750-7630

COLORADO

Boulder/Denver: Summer Jones, 720-480-7379,www.candoavatar.com

Colorado/Statewide: Patti Gardner/Richard Carlson,715-254-1891, www.avatarcargard.com

Colorado/Worldwide: Carrie Jouflas, 303-215-0290, [email protected]

Denver/Boulder: Chad Phillips, 303-520-1910, [email protected]

Southern Colorado Avatar: Lamar Trant/NoraMcAuliffe, 719-542-5911, 719-544-8099

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut/Int’l Courses: Ariela Sarai, 203-345-2777, [email protected]

Statewide: Linda R. Houser, 800-229-3535, 860-561-1330

FLORIDA

Altamonte Springs/Orlando: Jim Jackson, 845-489-2869, [email protected]

Daytona Beach/Orlando: Maria Styles, 407-451-5250, [email protected]

Orlando/Colorado: Amber Strong, 407-451-5251,[email protected]

Gulf Coast: Debbie Jamieson, (941) 639-5251,[email protected]

Miami/Orlando: María Elena Márquez & Keith Bradley, 305-365-2649, www.ExploreAvatar.com

Miami/Ft. Lauderdale: Kathy Schultz, 305-940-5323

N. Florida/Gainesville: Harriet Huss/Florida ForestAvatar, 352-475-1744, [email protected]

Orlando: Lori & Rich Brenckman, 888-753-2121,www.PlanetAvatar.com

Orlando: John Pasqualetti, 415-789-0539,[email protected]

Orlando: Sandra Ma, 805-587-3700,[email protected]

Orlando: Trudy Opitz, Ph.D., 866-269-9723,[email protected]

Sarasota: Lurline Aslanian, [email protected]

St. Augustine: Patricia Juhasz, 828-553-7891,[email protected]

St. Augustine: Jody James, 941-586-5131,[email protected]

Winter Park: Bud Lenox, Esq., 407-645-2474,[email protected]

GEORGIA

Atlanta: Mark Buhrke, 800-753-2055,[email protected]

Georgia/Statewide: Joann Cebulski Woods, 404-668-6224, [email protected]

HAWAII

Aloha Courses/All Islands: Madonna Machado &Dale Sims, 1-800-270-5111,www.avataraloha.com

Kauai/All Islands: Jason Blake & Philip Steinbacher, 1-866-648-0514,[email protected]

IDAHO

Shakti Cain, 208-403-6759, [email protected]

ILLINOIS

Chicago Area: Linda Dean, 847-757-8579,[email protected]

Chicago: Paulette Mulligan, 773-779-7166,[email protected]

Chicago: Audrey Scopilliti, 773-929-9743,[email protected]

Chicago/Nationwide: Marsha Haake, 773-334-2230, [email protected]

Betty Heggemeier, 217-377-9174,[email protected]

INDIANA

Matt Stuebe, 812-320-5296, [email protected]

IOWA

Dave Lowman, 800-528-2827, [email protected]

KANSAS

AnnMarie Glodich, PhD & George S. Thompson, MD,785-865-0676, [email protected]

Topeka/USA: Patricia “Pat” Hyland, RN, MSW,(785) 478-0268, [email protected]

LOUISIANA

Avatar Louisiana: Michele Beisler & Sharon DeLong, 985-781-2454, www.avatarlouisiana.com

Baton Rouge/Statewide: Pamela Ciganik, 225-243-7013, [email protected]

MARYLAND

Montgomery Village/DC Metro Area: Carol Plummer, 301-330-4771,[email protected]

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston/International: Angela K. Atwell (617) 877-7107, [email protected]

Eastern MA: Charlie Scimeca, 617-721-4721,[email protected]

Western MA/International: Alison Berman, 413-687-2726, [email protected]

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor/Detroit Metro: Jane McLaren, Space for Grace Avatar Center, 248-348-4410, cell: 248-345-3890

Detroit Metro: Bill Lee, 313-342-1350,www.AvatarUniverse.info

Grand Rapids/Statewide: Pamela Ciganik, 616-822-0996, [email protected]

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis/Rochester: Kathryn Thorngren, 651-491-1980

Minneapolis/Rochester: Charlie Scimeca, 952-470-0738, [email protected]

Grand Rapids: Terri Blaha, 218-247-0008,[email protected]

Avatar Worldwide: Elleva Joy McDonald, 888-407-5245, 952-906-0227

MISSISSIPPI

Jackson Area: Dorothy Porter, 601-940-3992,[email protected]

MISSOURI

Kansas City: AnnMarie Glodich, PhD & George S. Thompson, MD, 785-865-0676, [email protected]

Springfield/Statewide: Beth White, [email protected]

Springfield/Statewide: Mary Mike Taylor, 417-827-8334, [email protected]

NEVADA

Thomas and Patty Fleming, 775-423-8539, [email protected]

Las Vegas/Worldwide: Kelly Bershinsky, 702-392-7710, [email protected]

NEW JERSEY

NJ/NYC Metro: Maryann Fitzgerald, 845-729-2296, [email protected]

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque/Everywhere: Carol Rosen, D.C., 505-604-4052, [email protected]

Albuquerque/Santa Fe: Radman Shafie, 267-679-4422, [email protected]

Santa Fe: Rebecca Koch, 505-466-4525,[email protected]

Taos: Joanie Kirk, 505-699-7083, [email protected]

NEW YORK

L. I. NYC Metro & Orlando: Sima Levy, 516-897-4877, [email protected]

Manhattan/Midtown: Susan Davies, 917-513-9654, [email protected]

NYC Metro: Maryann Fitzgerald, 845-729-2296,[email protected]

New York/Westchester/Worldwide: Claudia Zipkin, 914-242-3299, [email protected]

Rochester: Gretchen Tierson, 585-654-6502,[email protected]

NORTH CAROLINA

Asheville/Nationwide: Glen & Irene Pier, 828-216-1964 or 828-216-1956,[email protected]

Asheville/Statewide: Brenda Jones-Rafferty & Jim Rafferty, 828-658-1142,[email protected]

Asheville/No. Carolina: Richard Provost, 828-279-9856, [email protected]

Raleigh: Hubert Winston, 919-859-0017,[email protected]

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OHIO

Central and Beyond: E. Randall Loop, 614-496-4595, [email protected]

Karen DeLong, 614-899-0272, [email protected]

OREGON

Portland: Warren Birnbaum, 503-860-2182,[email protected]

PENNSYLVANIA

Philadelphia: Eric Levin, PhD & Julie Krug, LCSW,267-939-1912, [email protected]

RHODE ISLAND

New England/International: Karen Ryder, 401-723-9515, [email protected]

SOUTH CAROLINA

Patricia Juhasz , 828-553-7891,[email protected]

TENNESSEE

Nashville: Beverly Brown, 615-227-5262, 866-615-5262, [email protected]

TEXAS

Austin/Nationwide: Teal Thompson, 512-294-7511,[email protected]

Austin: Nancy Young, PhD, 415-663-9452

Austin/Nationwide: Devkirn & Shakti Khalsa512-447-7460 [email protected]

Austin: Cata Low, 800-375-7529, [email protected]

Austin/Corpus Christi: Karen Watson 512-292-7258, cell 512-470-6100

Blair Jacob, 512-585-8199, 512-292-7857,[email protected]

Dallas/Carrollton: Dan Coppersmith, 972-492-3426, [email protected]

Texas/Nationwide: Karen O’Neal, 512-402-1164, 832-723-7375

UTAH

Statewide/International: Fred & Karla DuVall, 801-782-5565, [email protected]

Statewide/International: Linda Waters, 435-574-2800, [email protected]

VIRGINIA

Northern Virginia: Cristi Cook, 571-344-5346,[email protected]

VERMONT

Jennifer Berman, 802-233-8829,[email protected]

WASHINGTON

Seattle/Nationwide: Pamela Ziemann, [email protected], 425-223-0123

Seattle/Statewide: Beth Edwards, 206-619-3045, [email protected]

Seattle/Nationwide: Nahal Mishel Ghashghai, 425-785-8602, [email protected]

WISCONSIN

Wisconsin/Statewide: Patti Gardner/RichardCarlson, 715-254-1891,www.avatarcargard.com

Madison area: Pat Edwards, 608-334-3546

Milwaukee/Statewide: Todd Krohn, 414-303-1705,[email protected]

Wisconsin/Statewide: Janet Miller, 414-545-9146,[email protected]

WYOMING

Nadine and Chuck Raffelson, 307-634-3670, [email protected]

Jackson Hole Area: Stacey Price, 307-739-9284, [email protected]

• INTERNATIONAL •

AUSTRALIA

Cairns/Worldwide: Stewert Jensen, +61 427 624147, [email protected]

Australia/New Zealand: Caroline Clark, 61 7 54919790, [email protected]

Australia/New Zealand: Laurel Freeland, ph: +61 408 531343,[email protected]

Australia/New Zealand: Shona Macdonald, +61 3 5473-4550, [email protected]

Australia/New Zealand: Dave Sharpe, +61 (0)3 9682 3269,[email protected]

Australia/New Zealand: Andrew Tuck, +61 2 9984 0967, [email protected]

Australia/Worldwide: Amrei & Richard Newcombe,+61 410 189 016, [email protected]

CANADA

British Columbia: Claudia Ring, English & German,250-395-3828, www.avatar-canada.com

Nova Scotia & the Maritimes: Gertrude Bishop,902-542-3992, [email protected]

Ontario & Worldwide: Giovanni (John) Ruicci,888-225-1213, www.avatarnorth.com

Ontario/Quebec: Agatha Samson, 1-866-206-7347,[email protected]

Vancouver/Western Canada: Rob & Neela Falconer,604-762-2006, www.avatarvancouver.com

FRANCE

Carole Hannequin: 011 33 562 97 45 42,[email protected]

GERMANY

Carpe Diem Avatar: Uwe Buehler, 0049 (0) 700-2828 2700, www.avatarkurs.de

Shira Scherzberg-Gross, Erfurt, 0049-(0)361-6017817, [email protected]

INDIA

Shantanu Nafrey, +91-9821558461,[email protected]

INDONESIA

Bali/Jakarta: Susan Roziadi, 62 361 735823,[email protected]

Jakarta/Bali: Irma Reuneker, 62 21 741 5586,[email protected]

IRAN

Nationwide: Radman Shafie, 267-679-4422,[email protected]

IRELAND

Matt Murphy, 353-21-4372693,[email protected]

JAPAN

Atsuko Matsukami, ph/fax 81-3-5313-1012,[email protected]

Tokyo: Kaori Asaki, ph/fax 81-44-989-0309,[email protected]

Yuji Takashi: 81 6-6761-6692 [email protected]

KOREA

Ilu Kim: tel 82-11-9999-7425,[email protected]

MEXICO

Patricia de Ralero, La Máxima Experiencia +52 (229) 921-2305, [email protected]

THE NETHERLANDS

Amsterdam/Europe: Barbara van Stek,+31 (0)20 670 7446,[email protected]

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand/Australia: Andy Shaw, +64 9 8189793, [email protected]

New Zealand/Australia: Mark Tapsell, +64 21 735870, [email protected]

SINGAPORE

Patrick Tan, 65 63671190,[email protected]

SWEDEN

Lars André, 46 31 14 62 76, www.utrymme.se

SWITZERLAND

Mario & Chantal Bernasconi, 0041 79 631 83 21,[email protected]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Yogiraj Kannan, +97150 5740590, [email protected]

UNITED KINGDOM

Birmingham: Juliane Schwarz,+44 (0)121 4444682, [email protected]

Bristol/Europe: Tess Smith, +44 117 9315001,[email protected]

London & Beyond: Julie Armitage, +44 (0)20 8445 4559,[email protected]

UK & Europe: Margaret Williamson, 44 (0)1324 562386, [email protected]

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Aspects of consciousness addressed:Beliefs, Reality, Consciousness

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