The Value of Avatar - Beyond Avatar

There are moments on the Avatar course when all thought processes stop, and one becomes fully aware of existence without creating any reaction or response to it. Awareness moves beyond the scope of daily concerns, slips time and definition, and realizes itself as the descriptionless source from which all things, real or imagined, have their beginnings.

This is the transcendental experience, the divine ground. This is the source from which all differences arise and to which all differences ultimately return to be integrated. It is the eternal moment in which the seer and the seen, the knower and the known, share the same root.

In this state there is no conflict between the good of others and benefits for oneself, as one clearly perceives the unified nature of consciousness.

In this state there is no need to seek or reject anything or anyone, as one clearly perceives the arbitrary structures of preferences and judgments.

In this state there is no permanence and no impermanence, as these are qualities and this state is without quality, without characteristic.

The Buddhist calls this state of awareness the "calm and infinite sea." The Brahmin labels it the "descriptionless void." The Christian calls it "Jehovah" (I am that I am). The Muslim calls it the formless or unnamed God. The Avatar refers to it as SOURCE.

No words or symbols can contain this state, far as the source of description, it is itself beyond description. BUT, it can be experienced!

The value of Avatar, and I suspect the reason for its worldwide popularity, lies not in the written materials but in the ease and efficiency with which a trained Avatar Master can apply the techniques to lead a student to repeatedly achieve, or to progressively achieve, an experience of this long-sought state of consciousness.

As source, the Avatar student is "behind" or "outside" the filters of the intellect, "behind" or "outside" belief systems, and is "behind" or "outside" conflict with any identity pattern.

In this here and now the student can take a non-judgmental, com passionate view of his own creation of reality. If he chooses, he can return his awareness through the same old belief filters and watch as his creation of the world re- arises with its freedoms (opportunities) and limitations (problems), its truths and facts, its allies and enemies.

Or if he chooses, with the assistance of his Master, he can dis create the old filters and redirect his awareness through new filters of his own creation and watch a new world arise.

Perhaps the student will choose to alter a belief and turn a limitation into an opportunity to explore a new experience. Perhaps the student will choose to change a belief that was causing the projection of an enemy and create a friend or ally instead.

SOURCE HAS NO LIMITATION THAT IT DOES NOT CHOOSE, NO FREEDOM THAT IT DOES NOT CREATE.

Returning to source is the path of experiencing. Returning to the world is the path of creating.

...Either after the initiation session in Section III of the Avatar course, or somewhere on the Section IV Masters course, the person begins to discover his or her own patterns of creation. It is quite a remark able discovery and opens a very private and personal door to the exploration of the templates for one's own existence.

This is the path that awaits beyond the Avatar materials; it goes beyond Star's Edge, and there are no maps and no footprints to follow. The final instruction, the last guidepost before the gate--which will appear to some as the blessing of source and to others as the curse of blame--says simply: YOU are a more fundamental reality than any aspect the world can reflect!

At this threshold, the uninitiated turn back to the world to "logic for explanations" and seek "reasons why." But the trained Avatar student will pass beyond any need of instruction and directly experience the inexpressible that gives rise to the patterns that shape his existence. This plateau of awareness is quite a relief for the sincere seeker of enlightenment. From it, one sees how the actions and events of his or her life align with a higher consciousness desire to explore one's own potential.

It is with a mixture of amusement and amazement that one recognizes the incredible conservation of effort behind every life's event and every changing moment to offer the perfect lesson for personal unfoldment. The struggles with life, the resistances and fixed ideas, are replaced by a willingness to experience and a natural alignment of one's personal efforts with the efforts of a higher universal consciousness.

This is undoubtedly what the I CHING refers to as being aligned or in harmony with the Tao.

Without reflection or calculation, one acts in perfect harmony with the template of one's own higher design. At long last, there is the feeling that one is where one ought to be! There are no unpaid obligations, no accounts due. It is an end to the struggle between self and the world.

Beyond the patterns is the final fulfillment of the deep, haunting desire to again exist as unity. It is the inseparable that one truly is. The no- boundary space that hosts the circus of life and death. It is the infectious gleam of joy in your own eye reflected in the Avatar Master's eye. It is source awareness.

...Not from the world, but here, now, from this inexpressible beyond, arise the patterns that determine one's role in existence. Using the tools of Avatar one is, of course, free to modify and to continue to explore potentials....

An Avatar Master understands that beyond the lessons he can teach awaits a private and personal world path that only the self-honesty of his student can reveal. He does not burden nor comfort the student with his own or others' belief systems. He does not delay the student with hidden fees in the form of worship, homage, enforced loyalties to a cause or enforced agreement with a creation. He asks for some form of currency for his service and nothing more.

The Avatar Master equips; the Avatar Master trains; the Avatar Master points...but then, the Avatar Master moves aside!

It is this ability of the experienced Avatar Master to know when at last to step aside that makes the Avatar training so powerfully liberating.

There has never been any real question as to the effectiveness of the Avatar materials, even though some individual has occasionally shown a reluctance to step aside or to go beyond. But now, with a worldwide network behind us and thousands of successful graduates, even this is only a minor glitch. * * *

Enchanted am I

by the simple truth

that unveils the long sought mystery.

Contained am I

in the mighty grip

of overwhelming victory.

Empowered am I

to create a destiny

filled with love and unity.

The view from Source

is vast and wide and deep.

Emblazoned on the sands of time

in moments it has left behind.

Yet like a finger

moving through water,

it leaves no trace

as it fills all space

by Judith Whitman-Small

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