The Avatar Course: The ReSurfacing Workshop

✦ 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆? ✦

Around 1920, the Harvard Psychology Department threw out introspection as a reliable tool for studying consciousness. They argued that it was capricious and a risk to the mental health of the subjects. All reports based on introspection were invalidated by the declaration, "People only see what they expect to see." And Harvard’s fail-safe argument was, if you really studied consciousness by introspection, the only thing you would see would be consciousness introspecting on itself. (Existence as an observing spirit was still considered a derangement.)

🖋️Copthorn McDonald, a writer and independent scholar, notes that after rejecting introspection, “Psychologists turned almost exclusively to studying behavior, and describing it in terms of stimulus and response. Consciousness was totally bypassed as a subject.”

1️⃣There were two principle arguments for rejecting introspection. The first argument was that when looking inward you only see what you expect to see, (anyone who has had a dream in which something unexpected happened, will see that the statement “people only see what they expect to see” is not true.)

2️⃣The second argument was that it was capricious and a risk to the mental health of the subjects. (This was probably true for people who lacked self-control and were not trained in how the mind operated, but to generations of meditators, and spiritual seekers, it was just an amusing superstition.)

💢The fact is, nullifying introspection as a reliable source of knowledge about consciousness was a big league, ivy league mistake. It would not be corrected for fifty years.

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙, 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙖.

But they dropped the ball and went down a different path – a behaviorist path of rewarded and punished behaviors. Psychology ceased to be about consciousness...

💡In the 1960’s, a human potential movement began to grow, and its preferred method of research was looking inward. Their message was a one-hundred-eighty degree flip from the idea that introspection was a risk to mental health. The new message was,𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙧, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚. There were not many people who disagreed with that.

💫Looking inward, learning about your own consciousness, is variously called meditation, introspection, or self-examination. Today, notably in the Avatar® Training, there are 𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙥𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙤𝙮𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚.

📖 𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘳. 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦.𝘤𝘰𝘮

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✦ 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 ✦ 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝘆 ✦

Are you engaged in a struggle between deliberate will and habitual mental inertia?

Will is a broad term referring to the motivating force behind an activity.

🔁Will is a two-way bridge between thinking and doing. It transforms mental activity into 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮.

When successfully employed, the will makes humans victorious in their endeavors. When the will is not successfully employed, people fail and efforts revert to thinking.

🔑𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 is essential to control of mind and attention. Identification with will is a characteristic of enlightenment.

𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡: the power of making a reasoned choice or decision, or of controlling one’s own actions.

When attention is not directed by the will, it behaves in response to the environment or according to past patterns.

📖𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘙𝘦𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘳. 𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦.𝘤𝘰𝘮

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“Such a magic-filled ReSurfacing in Paris. Mille mercis !!!
Love,
Jennifer & Natalie & Maritza 🦋💖”

You can do this.
You can make these goals into future realities.

— Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar® materials.
Visit www.TheAvatarCourse.com for more information.

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✦ 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 ✦ 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿? ✦

✨Each of us brings a little flavor from our private universe into the universe that we share. These flavors can ease our interactions, or stress our interactions, or prevent them altogether.

🤝Contact and connection are the fundamental 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 for establishing interactions with others. They are the tools of the ambassador. It doesn’t matter if you come from across the hall or from an extraterrestrial civilization. They are, in fact, so fundamental as a purpose among living creatures that there is a general assumption that everyone knows how to contact and connect.

❗️Nothing could be further from the truth.

👥Contacting someone means attracting enough of their attention to support a 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙛𝙪𝙡 exchange of communication. Establishing contact is an outflow of effort...

👂𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩. Connecting is an inflow of the other person’s viewpoint. It requires that you suspend judgment and listen with neutral attention. It means knowing and respecting the customs, manners, and social rituals that open the path to communication beyond superficial expression.

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✦ The magic of waking up in a dream ✦

🌙 Most of you have probably experienced a phenomena called lucid dreaming.

💭A distinctive characteristic of lucid dreaming is that you become aware that you are dreaming. “Oh, I am dreaming.” This is a moment of self-awareness within the dream.

✨A lucid dream is like a moment of awakened spiritual awareness. You are no longer identified with the mental activity that is taking place in the mind, but have become a formless outside viewer.��I’m using lucid dreaming here as an analogy of spiritual awakening into lucid living.

🌎What if you could operate a mind without getting drawn into it? Life is still going on, but now you can see the flaws in thinking that lead to suffering, and the paths that lead to an Enlightened Planetary Civilization®.

𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙧-𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝-𝙒𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙. 𝙒𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨* 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙫𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡.

*𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 / 𝘞𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘞𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮. (𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺)

📖𝘌𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦.𝘤𝘰𝘮

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“With gratitude for the tools much love from an inspiring Resurfacing® workshop in Vienna❣️”

✦𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆? 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 ✦

In Living Deliberately, I briefly outlined four types of belief systems:�
🔹 Type One contains mostly dogma, indoctrination, and controlling beliefs.

🔹Type Two contains common sense beliefs.

🔹 Type Three contains scientific, fact-supported beliefs.

🔹𝙏𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨...

Type Four belief systems contain intentionally created beliefs. They are created so that their creators can acquire experiences, new perspectives, and ultimately reassure themselves of their own unlimited source....
�Type One, Type Two, and Type Three belief systems are various degrees of unawareness of the existence of Type Four belief systems. Type Four belief systems establish the rules and playing fields for the other types.

⏳Type Four belief systems are usually temporary and changeable as there is no hard reality that they pretend to reflect.

The Avatar® materials contain instructions and tools that one can use to deliberately create, manage, and enjoyably experience the many variations of Type Four beliefs.
�The adherents of Type Four systems look upon their beliefs, as well as those of others, as the blueprints for experiential reality. Type Four believers employ beliefs to knowingly create in the medium of experience. They believe for the purpose of experiencing.

They tend to be appreciative and respectful of different belief systems, but will seldom defend any.

They frequently change their beliefs to explore new possibilities and new facets of experience.
�𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲?

🎧𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 4 𝘛𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘜𝘱 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘳. 𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘤𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢.𝘤𝘰𝘮/𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰/𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳.𝘩𝘵𝘮𝘭

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“We finished the Avatar Course, and today we're celebrating ❤️😍 “

✦ 𝗦𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀 ✦ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀 ✦

📖In Living Deliberately, I briefly outlined four types of belief systems:
Type One contains mostly dogma, indoctrination, and controlling beliefs.
Type Two contains common sense beliefs.
Type Three contains scientific, fact-supported beliefs.
Type Four contains intentionally created beliefs...

🔍First some basics: 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚?

If you trace the word ‘believe’ back to its roots you will find that it means to be comfortable with or satisfied with.

The belief that a believer in a Type One belief system is comfortable with, or satisfied with, is not always the same belief that a believer in a Type Three belief system is comfortable with or satisfied with. We have an idiom in English for that: Different strokes for different folks.

🗣️When I say, “I believe you,” what am I really saying?

I’m saying that I’m comfortable with what you told me, or that I’m satisfied with what you told me. 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙄 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪.

Some truths are very uncomfortable and hard for me to believe.

Some lies are easy for me to believe, because they are satisfying and make me feel comfortable.

If you tell me my mistakes are not my fault, that is easy for me to believe. If you tell me my mistakes are my responsibility, that is uncomfortable, and I would rather not believe you.

✴️𝙎𝙤 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝.

An effort to find truth will likely take you out of your belief comfort zone.

📖𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘳. 𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦.𝘤𝘰𝘮

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