by Sandy Robertson
While reading The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper a few weeks ago, this article jumped out at me: “Spreading word on a mystical approach to suburban life.” “What,” I wondered, “is a mystical approach to suburban life?”
My mind conjured up visions of incense, chanting, and secret rites by candlelight, offered at the mall.
Instead, it seemed that the woman interviewed is a suburban soccer mom who lectures at a local night school. Her class teaches that “a mystic is somebody who has an inner knowing that there are higher powers that impact our day-to-day life...and how to use these techniques when you’re at the shopping mall or basketball practice or just schlepping.”
Which higher powers and which mystical techniques? Now I was very curious.
As I read on, the teacher explained that “the universe does not give you what you want, but what you expect.” “Wow,” I thought, “that sounds like Avatar.”
Completing the article, I concluded that the class was a course about alignment of goals and expectations—looking at what we are getting compared to what we say we want to create in life. It was teaching that people’s beliefs create their experiences.
And then I had two reactions. One was, “How great that this information is so aligned with the principles of Avatar, and how wonderful that the mainstream world is waking up to embrace and talk about these concepts everywhere, and apply them to all facets of everyday experience.” My second reaction was, “But what about the packaging?”
I thought the concept of “belief management goes suburban” was terrific, until I realized that judging by the title of the course, I would have completely mislabeled what the course was about.
I would have seen the words “suburban mystic” and immediately judged the content. And I would have been wrong.
We frequently label people or situations to help us categorize or understand them better. A neat label helps us to package the situation and communicate it better to others; often humor is attached. But how often do our labels lead us astray, misguide us, or steer us away from an opportunity that would be profoundly awesome, life-changing, transformational? The Avatar Course is such an opportunity.
By examining our innermost core beliefs (the real ones) and seeing how they guide and shape our lives and how they can be changed at will simply by deciding to do so is an incredibly rich and profound experience.
But how many people miss the opportunity to do The Avatar Course because they have misapplied a label to the course or do not fully understand the words used to describe the experience?
Many people ask me, “What is Avatar about?” It is so hard to succinctly describe an experience of stepping back and viewing my beliefs, discovering my power, re-directing my attention to accomplish my intentions, learning simple yet profound relaxation techniques, and discovering that I can radically shift my viewpoint, at will, to discover a higher and more all-encompassing view of things, all in a brief explanation.
So I usually say, “It is a powerful personal mastery training based on the fact that your beliefs create your reality.”
Maybe I should just refer to the definition in Webster’s dictionary of a mystic: “to fill one with wonder and awe.”
The Avatar Course fills you with wonder and awe—no matter where you live!Sandy Robertson, New York City
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