My experience began on a horse farm in Clarksburg, Maryland, situated on a rise overlooking distant mountains and catching some chilly April winds. It belonged to one of my fellow students in this small class of five. Our teachers, Ron and Linda, took us through simple introductory exercises. The pace was exceedingly relaxed, except for my impatience to get into “the good stuff.” We learned about the mechanics of consciousness conceptually, and then walked the grounds to exercise our new-found knowledge experientially.
The word Avatar means, according to the Hindu religion, “a deity who voluntarily assumes physical form to participate in creation.” Pretty heady stuff. The Avatar Course is a series of techniques created by a guy named Harry Palmer, the most unassuming and humorous writer about higher consciousness I’ve ever encountered. Very refreshing—no talk of astral bodies, joining with the Divine, salvation, nor a call to find this world lacking and leave it behind through inner escapism. Harry has discovered key aspects about the mechanics of consciousness and teaches it through the course, allowing one to “create the reality you prefer,” in his words. I’d read his stuff for years, and it had always had a real solid feel to it. So I finally took the course.
We learned how to create new beliefs and shed old beliefs that might work against what we want (this is why affirmations alone often don’t work—underlying, conflicting beliefs persist at a deeper level and counteract the new belief.)
About day 3 of the course a mammoth weight dissolved that I’d been carrying around for a very long time. What were its psychological contents and mythic roots?
I don’t know. It was gone. That’s what mattered. And, that’s the beauty of Avatar—one need not analyze and understand every thread of a tangle to undo the knots.
That night, I came home to my family a different man.
And, from that week I spent absorbing the Avatar techniques, I gained a set of tools that I use daily. They really do the trick for clearing my thinking, attuning my awareness, and creating what I want. Good stuff.

D. B.
Maryland