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Avatar Path 2: Private Lessons

By Harry Palmer

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Table of Contents
I. Fertile Ground
Lesson 1: Tao of Living Deliberately
Lesson 2: Reference Points
Lesson 3: Scales
Lesson 4: Paradigms
Lesson 5: Start By Building a Mind
Lesson 6: Consideration
Lesson 7: Five Steps To Maximize Your Power
Lesson 8: Creative Study
Lesson 9: First Principle: Organizing
Lesson 10: Second Principle: Recognizing Float
Lesson 11: Third Principle: Restructuring
Lesson 12: Fourth Principle: Extrapolating
Lesson 13: Things That Come In Threes

II. Existence and Being

Lesson 14: Three Domains and Nine Modes of Existence
 Lesson 15: Animal Being: The Domains of Responsive Behaviors
Lesson 16: More on Entity Emanations
Lesson 17: Understanding Entity Influences
Lesson 18: Intellectual Being: The Domain of Mental Processes
Lesson 19: Spiritual Existence: The Domain of Being
Lesson 20: The Character of Self In Different Domains
Lesson 21: Intellect Bound Practices
Lesson 22: Spiritual Awakening Is The Highest Human Aspiration

III. Mind Lands

Lesson 23: The Role of The Mind
Lesson 24: The Mistakes of Mind
Lesson 25: Mindful Meditation Levels
Lesson 26: Mind Stuff is Impermanent
Lesson 27: Ego Compared To Spirit
Lesson 28: Be Vigilant

IV. Indoctrination
Lesson 29: Indoctrination
Lesson 30: Eat More Cabbage
Lesson 31: Indoctrination Clarified
Lesson 32: Hope
Lesson 33: Paths of Hope
Lesson 34: Coalescing Light: The Path to Enlightenment
Lesson 35: Evaporating Light: The Path to Despair
Lesson 36: Personal Responsibility
Lesson 37: Discovering Indoctrination
 Lesson 38: Morality: Social and Personal
Lesson 39: This Is Weird (very strange, bizarre)
Lesson 40: Shattering Indoctrination for World Peace

V. Identity and Source Being

Lesson 41: I-less Aware Will
Lesson 42: Identity
Lesson 43: Fixed Identities
Lesson 44: Source Being
Lesson 45: The Powers of Source Being
Lesson 46: Higher Self

VI. Meeting as Strangers

Lesson 47: Actions and Interactions
Lesson 48: Interactions That Lead To Friendships
Lesson 49: Four Elements of Healthy Relationships
Lesson 50: Backing Each Other Up By Sharing Responsibilities
Lesson 51: Exploring Different Viewpoints Together
Lesson 52: Mutually Establish Rules and Expectations
Lesson 53: Hanging Out Together
Lesson 54: The Perfect Mate

VII. Life Strategies

Lesson 55: The Adversarial Story
Lesson 56: Trusting That The Other Will Relax
Lesson 57: Practice

 Lesson 58: Observation
Lesson 59: Four Fundamental Strategies
Lesson 60: Easy Solution
Lesson 61: About Therapy
Lesson 62: Generally Speaking
Lesson 63: Healthy Traits
Lesson 64: Things Not To Be Forgotten
Lesson 65: Vengeance

VIII. Only Gods Speak, Only Gods Hear

Lesson 66: Extraordinary and Ordinary
Lesson 67: Ritual of the Bells
Lesson 68: An Arrow to God
Lesson 69: Suffering
Lesson 70: Grace in Disguise
Lesson 71: Unearned Suffering Is Redemptive
Lesson 72: Don’t Resist, Create New
Lesson 73: The Way of Surrender
Lesson 74: The Great Work

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Forward
There are times for public broadcast and there are times for private lessons.
PRIVATE LESSONS are extrapolated from the advanced Avatar Materials.
They are intended to be contemplative slices of subjects rather than full
explanations. The sequence is subtle to non-existent. Some slices belong
together, for example, the sections on creative study, domains of being, and
relationships. Other slices are single pieces that you will have to stitch to the
whole.
Overall, I wrote about things that I thought were important to know, and that
might be of some benefit to others.
Toward that end, receive my deepest respect and may your heart-sun shine in
service to others.

Harry Palmer
Star’s Edge, 2013

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I. Fertile Ground

The dark glow of unmoving light particles

Their journeys from suns complete
Now resting and decaying
Offering the last of themselves
For the benefit of life

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Lesson 1

 Tao of Living Deliberately

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only

the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David
Thoreau

Living deliberately is looking and thinking for yourself. It is operating

rationally, according to your own aware will. It is assuming personal
responsibility for your diet, addictions, actions, and mental processes. It is taking
your life back.
Living deliberately includes doing nothing as well as doing something. It
includes directing as well as allowing. It includes stopping and starting. Living
deliberately permits the modification of habit patterns and the perfection of
character.
Living deliberately is operating as a source being rather than reacting as an
identity according to some implanted expectation or indoctrination. It is you
against years of justifications, advertising, public education, addictions, habits,
and indoctrinations. You are badly outnumbered by rationalizations and
outgunned by emotions, but the good news is, if you can appreciate the suffering
and drag yourself the first few steps, it gets easier.

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Lesson 2
Reference Points

Organizing is the easiest way in the world to improve your life. Simple
organization consists of sorting, ordering, and storing in categories. Things
 that are in their place are easily found and require only minimal attention.

To sort things you have to have at least one known reference point that you
can measure against. A reference point is a basis or standard for evaluation,
assessment, or comparison. It could be an archetype for a category, a scale for
measuring, or a beacon for navigation. It is something against which you
compare other things. It is a point of orientation that helps you understand
something.
For example, the reference points for sorting your closet might consist of
color categories, or the usefulness of an item, or a scale of how often you wear
something.
Establishing reference points requires considered decisions, but once the
decisions are made you have a structure that you can use indefinitely. Sorting
into an established structure is much faster than having to consider and decide on
every item or event you encounter.
When something new is encountered in life, to avoid confusion, you can
temporarily sort it by using a generalized reference point (new stuff). But
eventually, as the new stuff accumulates, you will have to decide on sub-
categories of new stuff.
There are two principle types of reference points: self-selected and
indoctrinated.
Self-selected reference points are created from experience and education.
They are stable considerations that can be inspected and changed.
Indoctrinated reference points are established by authorities and are not
easily changed. Often they are shared with others, e.g., map locations, time
zones, street signs, phone numbers, etc. Commonly they regulate behaviors.
What is good or bad? What is right or wrong? What is permitted or not
permitted?

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 Lesson 3
Scales

A scale is a series of marks at regular or graduated intervals that are

used to measure or register a relative quality or quantity of something—
brightness, weight, speed, etc. Basically a scale shows degrees of difference
in things that have at least one reference point in common.

A scale can be linear with polar opposites at each end, or it can be divided
into developmental or hierarchical stages along a certain path. A scale can begin
in the middle and move upward or downward, inward or outward. There are
cyclic scales, harmonic scales, compression scales, spiral scales, and infinite
scales, all based on degrees of difference of things that have the scale in
common. There are scales of intensity and scales of relativity. There are scales
of quantity and scales of quality.
Apparently the imposition of meaningful scalar orders upon the universe is
the fundamental purpose of consciousness.
Scales allow us to observe the relative order of similar things and gauge our
efforts or reactions. When you know the continuum of a scale, and the speed and
direction of change, prediction and invention are possible.
Scales are extremely useful for organizing and understanding information.
You can use scales to create, to investigate, to order, or to make connections.
Teachers use scales to organize subjects that might otherwise be misunderstood.
Scientists use scales to investigate phenomena. Scales allow for large bodies of
data to be conveyed in less time and with fewer words.
Ramps are scales that parcel effort. It requires less effort to traverse a ramp
than to lift something straight up. It also requires more time. Ramps can be
scaled too steep, resulting in overwhelm, or scaled too flat, resulting in boredom.
Gradient scales, where each step prepares you for the next step, are a
learning ramp.

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Lesson 4
Paradigms

In the Avatar Materials the word paradigm is defined as a conceptual

structuring of beliefs and data into a useful representation of reality.

A good paradigm can turn chaos and confusion into understandable cause
and effect relationships. It is history, a belief structure, and an expectation
generator rolled into one.
Good paradigms are developed from a mix of reference points, study,
observations, intuition, guesses, and testing. They contain explanations for
circumstances and events, and methodologies for solving problems and/or
avoiding problems. They are mental widgets, gadgets, and tools.
Initially a paradigm reflects how reality works, or might work, but eventually
it evolves into a virtual source that creates as well as predicts and explains.
The flaw of paradigms is they can continue beyond their usefulness, and
when they do, they are sometimes enshrined as doctrines of faith. When this
happens, instead of contributing to human understanding, the believer-
empowered-paradigms reverse process. Their explanations of this-is-how-it-
works are faulty and create chaos and confusion. Something that was once a
practical tool for understanding becomes a source of flawed reasoning—a false
prophet. The paradigm is now a back-step into ignorance and superstition.
Fortunately, over time, source beings can create new paradigms and
dismantle paradigms that have grown dangerous. This is what is happening in
the world as the Avatar movement awakens it.
“A concept (paradigm) is like the thorn that you use to dig out another
thorn. In the end, you throw them both away.” — Maharaji

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Lesson 5
Start By Building a Mind

Pretend that you happened upon this universe and nothing makes sense
to you.

Nothing is identifiable. Everything is completely chaotic, unrecognizable as

either this or that. Something and nothing are in such a tangle that you can’t say
what exists and what doesn’t exist. There are no scales, no paradigms, and no
reference points— only random, pointless, sensory stimulation. Nothing is
measurable or recognizably connected, or separate, from anything else.
Now occurs that magic moment when undefined awareness decides to design
a mind to make sense of things—baby eyes open. First, solids are separated from
space. Solids moving in space reveal motion. Motion reveals points of beginning
and points of ending. Time rests in between. These are the genesis level
decisions: “Let there be…”, followed by the command imperative, “Be fruitful
and multiply.”
Spirit moves into high gear.
As mental perceptions and instincts become operational, you begin to
recognize groupings and repetitions in sensory patterns. Mom. Cuddle. Eat.
These first sensory patterns become archetypal memories. They anchor other
broad categories, safe and dangerous, up and down, light and dark, and hard and
soft. The mind is using reference points and scales. You separate things by
determining edges. You sort by similarities and differences. You organize by
type. The primordial intellect brings order to chaos.
As soon as you have memories, you begin to predict future consequences. A
forward-looking imagination is born. And with imagination, the ability to reason
begins to awaken. Sub-categories are created to accommodate subtle differences
between similar things.
 The more aware you become, the more subcategories you need. The mind
continues to grow, evolve, and become aware of finer details.

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Lesson 6
Consideration

When it comes to making decisions, considerations (careful thought and

deliberation) are preferable to jumping to conclusions, but the best
decisions are made on the basis of seeing what is as it is.

Are you experiencing realities or are you experiencing your own

considerations? Do you see the rose or is it just a pretty red flower? Are you
really hungry or is it just time to eat? Are you listening or do you already know?
Sound considerations are the product of thinking over some period of time.
Generally speaking, the longer the period of time and the more data involved,
the more reliable the consideration, but still, it is a consideration.
The worst kinds of considerations are uninspected considerations.
(Indoctrinated)
Considerations create a personal reality that says how something is. They
may or may not be accurate. To the degree they are mistaken, a personal reality
falls out of alignment with others. This “out of alignment” can create conflicts,
upsets, and disasters. For example, the pilot decides to land the plane where he
considers the runway to be, rather than looking at his instruments.
Considerations are a move from perceiving what is to thinking what is. If
your decisions could stand a little tune up, or the mistakes in your life are on the
rise, try replacing your considerations with real time observations.

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Lesson 7
Five Steps To Maximize Your Power

Receiving more than one gives causes laziness. Giving more than one
receives actually creates energy.

• Lower the distraction of compulsions and reactions.

• Be non-responsive to critical opinions and judgments.
• Observe without expectations.
• Align thoughts, words, and actions with your purpose.
• Align your purpose with a collective goal.

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Lesson 8
Creative Study

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ―Albert Einstein

The word study in English has the same root as the word eager, which means
an enthusiastic pursuit of something. Creative refers to the power of imagining
something from new viewpoints or creating new connections.
Two definitions for study are: 1) the mental effort of understanding,
appreciating, and assimilating something. 2) The earnest and protracted
examination of a question by reflection or by the collection and examination of
evidence.
These definitions are very formal, but at least they do imply that study is
more of a participatory experience than a passive ability to imitate behaviors and
absorb beliefs. Creative study is a bridge from the narrow confines of one
doctrine, or one curriculum, or one belief system (paradigm) into the broader
subject of life.
In the next four pages, you will encounter four creative study principles.
They are among the first lessons taught to Avatar Wizards. May they serve you
well.

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Lesson 9
First Principle: Organizing

A datum or phenomenon that is recognized as belonging (or is

assigned) to a certain category within the structure of consciousness frees
attention.

Data and phenomenon (taught or gleaned from experience) are stored in

consciousness by assigning them a relative position within the framework of the
rest of what you know.
This is simple bead sorting. Black beads go into the black-bead box, white
beads go into white-bead box. Once the bead leaves your hand there is no more
attention on it. If you need a black bead, you know where to find it. If you need a
white bead, you know where to find it.
 Recognizing data and phenomena is the process of transforming sensory
input (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell) into concepts. (Conceptualization) For
example, from seeing and touching something, you recognize a cat. The label
“cat” is a mental concept, e.g., a black or white bead.
Conceptualized data and phenomena, acquired from study and experience,
are the beads of consciousness. As long as you have a metaphoric, assigned,
container in your mind to store the conceptualized data and phenomena you
acquire, there is no attention loss. The mind knows where to find it and can think
with it.
Organized concepts are the optimum condition of a mind. Intelligence soars.
Creativity is effortless. You understand.
Failure to recognize or organize concepts leads to mental overwhelm.
Organizing is a required function of growth—growth ceases without it. The
cause of most discontinued studies can be traced to a failure to organize. Each of
us has a finite amount of attention, and when it is exhausted the results are
confusion, stress, and seriousness.

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Lesson 10
Second Principle: Recognizing Float

A datum or phenomenon that is left unrelated, or that doesn’t fit any

known category, fixes attention.

Float refers to data and phenomena that are not recognized. This is the red
bead that shows up when you only have containers for black beads and white
beads. What do you do with the red bead? It sticks your attention.
Float has just enough resist or unknown in it to keep it from being
conceptualized (labeled) or organized. It creates uncertainty and obstructs your
ability to think clearly or make informed decisions.
The main symptoms of float are distraction, confusion, exhaustion,
irritability, and wanting to quit or give up.

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