What is Avatar®?
The Avatar Course is a practical and experiential course which enables you to explore and reshape your life. It is a surprisingly effective method to realize desires, big plans, small improvements, dreams, projects, and personal goals. You learn how to let go of negative feelings, doubts, and limitations and to enjoy life moment by moment. The course gives you new potential to live with a deep sense of total freedom, according to your own personal standards and in harmony with your environment.
Avatar is an investment in the rest of your life. After completing the Avatar program you will have a toolbox full of very effective techniques that you can use wherever and whenever you choose, to give your life the quality and form that you wish for yourself.
Background
In
1987 an American educator with a background in educational psychology,
Harry Palmer, discovered some profound insights about the way in
which we create our reality. All events and experiences in your life are
a result of your own way of thinking and the beliefs you hold. Your life
today is a result of your past beliefs. Your future is being sculpted
by the beliefs that you adopt right now. A practical example: If you are
afraid you're going to fail your driver's test, then you probably will.
Every athlete knows that a winner is especially strong on the mental plane.
Harry Palmer discovered that we can deliberately (and very effectively)
influence our beliefs. Based on these discoveries, he developed exercises
and procedures enabling people to deliberately shape their experiences,
and thereby their lives. This set of techniques, he called Avatar.
The development and theory of Avatar has been described in the book Living Deliberately. Avatar is being taught in over 70 countries. Star's Edge International® is the administrative headquarters and provides support to the worldwide network of Avatar Masters.
The mission of Star's Edge is to contribute to the integration of all belief systems and to help realize an enlightened planetary civilization.
When we perceive that the only difference between us is our beliefs and that beliefs 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.
— Harry Palmer —
Method: Learning by experiencing
You experience what you believe
Your (conscious and unconscious) beliefs determine the way you experience your reality. By having certain beliefs you seek out or attract certain experiences, which in turn prove the validity of your beliefs. If you think that only hard work will lead to success, you'll easily find reasons for doing overtime. If you feel yourself to be a victim, you will probably wind up in all kinds of situations where you experience others to be taking advantage of you. If you are convinced (i.e. if you have absolutely no doubt) that you are going to win a match, then you probably will.
During the Avatar course you'll uncover your own beliefs that makeup the blueprint of your life through experiential exercises. Then you can deliberately choose which beliefs are helpful for you, and which ones you would rather change or let go.
Living deliberately
Avatar takes you to the source of your life, the point where everything starts and where you can feel a strong connection to everything and everyone. You will learn to perceive your reality without judgments, preconceived ideas, or beliefs that control and shape your experiences. And from source you decide for yourself what experiences you would like to have, and you choose the beliefs that will help you realize your goals. An example: First you create a rock bottom belief in your ability to pass that driver's test, and only after that you get into the car to take (and pass) the test.
The Avatar program doesn't contain any philosophy or theory that you should adopt. You decide what you would like to believe, create, or let go. And Avatar will provide you with the tools to realize this.
Learning through experiencing
During the entire Avatar Course you learn through concrete, practically oriented exercises and through direct personal experience. After determining your personal goals for the course, you can use the materials to gain insights and make changes in the areas you want to work on. How far you want to go is a matter for you to determine.
Avatar is an individual course within a group context, and the Master - student ratio is usually one to three. You work at your own pace using the Avatar materials, with the support of an Avatar Master as a guide. Coaching is stimulating and supportive without being confrontational or therapeutic.
The content of the program and the nature of the exercises are very diverse. You may study the course material at one point, be given an assignment for self-analysis at another, or be sent outside for perceptual awareness exercises. Some exercises you do on your own, with others you get personal coaching from a Master or other participants. Once in a while there is an exercise involving the whole group.
Within a short time span your experiences can vary from meditative stillness to emotional and dynamic impulses. Often you will be amazed about your feelings and patterns, about your unconscious beliefs, but especially about your unrecognized potential.
During the course you might experience doubts or sense limitations. Therefore your own motivation and input are important prerequisites for a good result.
Here you will find a further description of the course program.
The big questions
In these times of rapid progress in the areas of science, technology, and prosperity, it still seems difficult to get a grip on challenges such as environmental issues, how to deal with conflicts, stress and such pending questions as: What makes my life worthwhile? How do I find inner peace and real fulfillment? Why don't I experience lasting happiness? How can I contribute to more peace and harmony in the world?
In trying to solve these questions, something fundamental seems to be missing: a clear insight into how our lives and society work. Why do we always think, act and feel in a patterned way? And why is it that we often don't achieve what we really want?
The Avatar Course not only deals with your daily life, but also with the big questions:
Who am I?
Why am I here?
What do I want with my life?
Who else but you can answer these questions? The Avatar program doesn't provide philosophies, theories, dogmas, or ready-made answers. What Avatar does give you is a way to find your own answers by experiencing them yourself, within yourself.
You are the Truth which you seek.
— Harry Palmer —
More information
If you want to know more, you have several options to get all the information you need:
- Browse through this website and surf to Star's Edge International
- Read one of the articles on this website
- Read Harry Palmer's book Living deliberately, or one of the other books
- Get in touch with an Avatar master for an informational interview
- Register for a ReSurfacing® workshop and/ or the rest of the Avatar course