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Articles on Avatar by Harry Palmer (Author of the Avatar Materials)
THE ABILITY TO CREATE SELF
We've all had the experience of reading a good book or watching a good drama and for awhile assuming some aspect of one of the characters. Maybe we pick up a new expression or a new way of dressing: maybe we pick up a swagger or an intriguing opinion. It feels good to explore the new viewpoint.
In our hearts we know it's only play acting and soon our 'real" self reappears, but what if...
On the negative side, most of us have had the experience of recognizing some aspect -- from someone we didn't particularly admire -- as part of our "real" self. Maybe we catch our "self' treating a child like someone who once treated us that way, or expressing an opinion whose only basis is that we resisted it when we heard some other "self" express it.
Even more alarming, we may discover we have the same illness or infirmity of body that some other "self' we knew had -- some other "self" we may not have treated as well as we should have. And try as we might to suppress this resisted aspect, it reappears, but what if.....
When we begin to study what is known about the structure of the self, we find it consists of preferences (beliefs) and a relative time-space location from which the preferences are asserted. The preferences are like the semi-transparent overlays that turn the white light of a projector into an image on a screen. Some of the overlays we cannot easily remove because they contain a forgotten recording of events that automatically assert the overlay as the ONLY choice. The image projected through these overlays onto the screen is sensed as "here I am, this is me."
Most of this is pretty standard phil-ligion-ology (PHIL-osophy, re-LIGION, psych-OLOGY) and is understood by most of the more popular schools.
But since each school is subject to its own belief system overlays, there are wide disagreements as to which overlays are preferable. But a common denominator is that almost every school will argue for some and against others.
The goal of installing, removing or modifying the overlays is the principle task addressed by most of the
doctrines, scriptures or technologies generated by these schools. The means, as well as which overlays are to be addressed, differ, but the determination to change something is remarkably analogous.
The most basic means of modifying an overlay, and probably the least dangerous, consists in reacquainting the individual with the recordings of forgotten events that are causing him to assert the overlay. The hope is that he will draw new conclusions and alter his own overlay, thereby achieving a change in "self".
The major difficulty with such an approach is illustrated by the fact that when white light is projected through both a blue overlay and a yellow overlay it will appear on the screen as green. If we determine to eliminate the green light, we will probably go looking for a green overlay, which in this case doesn't exist. If the green light represents a psychosomatic illness, or a state of depression, or an unacceptable behavior, we might have some difficulty in locating the exact combination of overlays that are responsible for the condition's creation.
This stumbling block has left many of us wishing that we could remove all the overlays, insuring that the right combination was eliminated. Then, on a blank screen, we could replace selected overlays to generate the "self" that would interest the people we wish to attract, or to generate the "self" that would align with what we want to achieve.
And literally, the Avatar Course came to our rescue!
One of the results we all experienced on Avatar was the ability to closely approach and/or achieve identity-less-ness. In other words, to experience a self which is without aspect or location. It was and is an enlightening; an in-every-moment-ability to make any choice or none, to select our own overlays. That state is true self, the AVATAR. It offered us the opportunity to create the image of life that we preferred, but there was no guarantee of success without our own push.
So the first task we faced as new Avatars was to integrate the efforts that had previously obstructed our choices. The world obligingly presented them. To many of us, this integration was even a greater challenge than the exercises on the course, but who would turn their back when the gift of standing at the helm of life was offered?
Could anyone have ever dreamed what an incredible thrill the Avatar Materials would
unleash?****
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