by Moonstone
The idea that changing one’s viewpoint alters the experience one has was never more clearly demonstrated to me than when I first took Avatar.
My husband Skip and I had moved to the Florida Panhandle from Colorado about a year and a half before taking the course. We loved Colorado, but wanted to try something new. We felt that our personal and spiritual growth was at a standstill and needed new input.
A year or so after the move, when the novelty had worn off, we were having a rough time and decided to sell the house in Florida and move back out West. We put our house on the market in May. In July we heard about Avatar from an acquaintance, Jerry Fritcher, while visiting relatives in Michigan. He gave us an Avatar Journal. We both sensed a recognition. He had something we both wanted: a sense of confidence, personal peace and, most of all, a presence that felt good to be around.
When we got home we eagerly ordered the books Living Deliberately and ReSurfacing. We discovered through an ad in the Journal that there was an Avatar Master in our local area, Terry Taylor. We decided to meet with her and see if we got the same feeling from her that we had from Jerry. Terry was very low-key and didn’t try to persuade us. She just answered all our questions in a matter-of-fact and unpretentious way. Yet there was something about her we felt very attracted to as well.
We decided to take Avatar right then because she had a class starting in a week, and we wanted to take it before we sold the house.
We both had tried a lot of personal growth modalities in the past— everything from group therapy to sweat lodges and rebirthing, to name a few. In addition, I was a certified massage therapist with an orientation toward mind-body patterns. Avatar took us beyond where we had been able to go before. And so easily!
At one point on the course I came face-to-face with myself when I recognized I could just drop a lifetime of emotional baggage and behavior patterns. “Can it really be that easy?” was the most stunning and liberating realization of my life. I felt overwhelmed with emotion—sorrow at how I’d lived for 43 years and relief that it was over.
Over the next several hours a euphoria grew in me that seemed to have no outer limits. I felt identityless as the old me dropped away, yet I felt bigger, more expanded, larger than life itself. For the first time I was truly happy to be me, just as I was. And I hadn’t even begun Section III!
Everything else I had done to improve myself in the past seemed like mere entertainment, at best stepping stones along the way. Avatar was the destination.
Skip had some marvelous experiences and realizations of his own —but that’s his story.
On the way home on the last day of the course, we were happily discussing our new insights. As we came up the driveway we noticed the For Sale sign in our yard had blown down that day. We just looked at each other and giggled. We both knew we weren’t going anywhere for awhile. Without even discussing it, we knew we were going to stay in Florida and go on to take the Master and Wizard courses. We wanted to deliver Avatar! And what was it exactly that we hadn’t liked about living here? That couldn’t have possibly been us. How could anyone not love it here along the beautiful Emerald Gulf Coast? Someone with a different point of view, I guess.
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