by Linda Decker
Every day Avatar Masters receive calls from people who are interested in learning more about Avatar. How is Avatar similar to, or different from, self-improvement practices that the person is familiar with. They may have leafed through a copy of the Avatar Journal and picked up a few terms that are frequently used like, “create your own reality,” “live deliberately,” or “experience source” along with the unmistakably upbeat feel of the people and discussions in the Journal.
Here’s a sample telephone call:
Brrrinng!
“Hello- Avatar Center.”
“Um, hi. I’m not sure where this magazine came from, but it sounds pretty interesting. Can you tell me a little about Avatar?”
“Sure. Avatar is a self-evolvement course based on the premise that the beliefs we hold have consequences in our lives—both positive and negative. Beliefs are such powerful influences in our lives that learning how to manage them is probably the most important task a person can undertake. Part of Avatar teaches how to manage beliefs.”
“Oh yeah—like positive thinking. I’ve done that. And visualization, too. God, that takes a lot of effort! My refrigerator door and bathroom mirror were plastered with stickie-do’s for months! I’d go around saying, “I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m rich...” and picture myself having lots of money. Didn’t work. What’s different about Avatar?”
This caller has made an understandable connection, given the similarities between the language used among Avatars and that used by positive thinking and visualization techniques. But the similarity ends there.
The difference is that when you visualize, think positively, or do affirmations, you are imagining yourself in more preferable circumstances. Imagining is different from creating. When you create what you want in your life, you actually feel and experience it. That’s right, up close and personal — tactile contact with reality.
Imagination is a vital tool and is useful in deciding which realities you’d prefer—not to mention other cool things you can do with it, like dream, invent and fantasize. The trouble comes when one confuses imagination with creating. The result of this confusion is the frustrating, unfulfilled potential that holds its breath out on the horizon, maddeningly just beyond your grasp.
Have you ever daydreamed about what you’d like to eat for dinner? Seen a traffic accident on the evening news? Visualized yourself closing that big sale? Vicariously enjoyed a love scene in a movie? Been there, right? On a scale of intensity ranging from one to ten, they probably come in between two and six.
Now, compare that with the reality of tasting the first morsel of a finely prepared meal, being involved in an accident, shaking hands with your new customer after the contract is signed, or relaxing into your lover’s embrace. A 3-D, full motion, stereo ten on the scale!
Thinking, remembering and imagining concern themselves with mental replicas of experience. Only when you step outside these cerebral activities, do you really feel and experience. To feel alive, that is the primal purpose of existence. That is where vibrancy, power and peace reside. The home state. That makes Avatar different.
Avatar may not be the only way to recover this state, but on a one to ten scale of strength, speed and effectiveness, it’s a ten!
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