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Avatar Basic Will Course
OBJECTIVE:
To increase the students understanding of the functioning of will.
EXPECTED RESULTS:
An increase in your ability to function deliberately.
A recovery of self-determinism.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Complete the checklist below.
16 Debrief
2003 by Harry Palmer. All rights reserved
DEBRIEF
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Waking Up
Will is a broad term referring to the
motivating force behind an activity. In
humans, this motivating force is capable
of evolving through several operational
realmsinstinctual, emotional, moral,
self-determined, and transcendental. This
evolution, however, is not inevitable.
Many individuals, and even whole soci-
eties, become entrapped in one
operational realm of will, which eventu-
ally can become the dominant influence
on their choices in life.
To avoid getting into a purely abstract
understanding of will, please do the fol-
lowing exercise, and pay particular atten-
tion to the motivational force that is mak-
ing the choices and decisions.
Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials
Objective: To place the control of atten- d. Recall the earliest time you can when
tion under the will. you discovered something important.
Think it through, beginning to end, for
Expected Result: Noticeable increase in approximately one minute.
self-control. e. Recall the earliest time you can when
you helped someone. Think it through,
Instructions 1: Pick a stationary object. beginning to end, for approximately one
Direct your attention to it (examine it) for minute.
a period of two minutes. Any time your
attention wanders, bring it back. Repeat steps a through e at least three
times, each time seeking an earlier
Instructions 2: Do each of the following memory.
five steps for approximately one minute.
Instructions 3: Pick a spot 8 to 10 feet
a. Recall the earliest time you can when from your location. Draw an imaginary
you survived a threat to your survival. line from the tip of your nose to the spot.
Think it through, beginning to end, for With the forefinger of one hand, and then
approximately one minute. the other, trace the imaginary line from a
b. Recall the earliest time you can when few inches in front of your nose to the full
you felt good. Think it through, beginning extension of your arm. Repeat this exercise
to end, for approximately one minute. until you can willfully control the motion
c. Recall the earliest time you can when of your finger. (Try the same exercise with
you were right. Think it through, begin- an imaginary line from the throat and the
ning to end, for approximately one heart.)
minute.
L e a d s to
L e a d s to
L e a d s to
What the being is Admiration
Feeling good Being right Altruism service
most concerned Physical survival achieving
not feeling good not being to others not
with not dying acquiring not
bad wrong evil selfish interests
failing
Realms of Will
The first appearance of human will is as according to cause and effect patterns that
instincts. Instincts generate a motivating have previously made the organism feel
force to cope with the most fundamental good or bad. This is the realm of operant
needs of survival. This is the realm of conditioning, habits, cravings, and addic-
classical conditioning, autonomic nervous tions. Overwhelm of will in this realm
system functions, and involuntary reac- usually results in instinctive attack or
tions. The will that exists at this stage is retreat.
generally unaware of itself. Overwhelm of In the next realm of will, development is
will in this realm usually results in fear, strongly influenced by the intellect, which
pain, or death. refines the concern with feeling good into
As the will matures, it supplements a concern with being right. Of course, to
instincts with a motivating force derived be right requires adopting a moral code or
from past experiencesemotions arise. conviction of some kind.
The emotional will directs behaviors The desire of the will to be right can be
continues
Hidden Millions
What if you are a multimillionaire and to take more than someone telling you to
you dont know it? You have millions of act, think, or feel like a millionaire. Moti-
dollars in your bank account, but you vational tricks are not going to satisfy you.
dont have any memory of itnot even You want to write checks and be able to
the slightest suspicion. Even worse, you cash them. You dont want promises, pre-
are suspicious of the people who are try- tenses, or possibilities. You want the expe-
ing to tell you that you are a millionaire. rience of having cash. Show me the money!
It is not that you wouldnt like to be a Put the cash in my hand!
millionaire; you would. You could use Youre probably comfortable and
the money to enhance the quality of somewhat familiar with the stages of
your life in ways you have will from instinct to self-deter-
only dreamed about. You mined choice, but transcendent
could sit back and relax. will may well be met with a
Smell the roses. You could skeptical frown. It is the hid-
go on that great adventure. den treasure that you cant
You could enjoy the finer remember. The transcen-
things of lifeI mean, you dent will is like your miss-
could if there was some- ing millions, but even more
one who could really valuable.
convince you that you But like the forgotten mil-
are a millionaire. lions, its going to take more
But its going to take to convince you than words;
more to convince you its going to take experience.
than words. Its going
Aware
Will
Mind Source
Path of Avatar
(Lower Realms Training
Being
of Will) (Transcendent
Will)
Conflicting Motivation
It may seem like a strange statement, that are not necessarily reflective of what
but you, observing and operating in the is at this exact moment. Thinking before
present moment, are a lot smarter than you act may be good advice, but thinking
your mind. The mind operates in the past before you look is not.
and associates and makes assumptions
Obstructions to Will
At some point in your life you have growl means one thing, a purr means
probably had to confront an emergency. something else.
On a naval vessel, this is called going to Unfortunately, willful behavior is often
battle stations. At that moment, some real associated with past traumatic events, and
or imaginary danger threatened one or the lesson we learn is to avoid personal
more of the following: 1) your physical exertions of the will. The associations can
survival (engaging the instinctive will), 2) become so strong that the physical and
your emotional well being (engaging the emotional phenomena connected with
emotional will), 3) your moral code earlier traumatic eventspain, muscle
(engaging the moral will), or 4) your suc- tension, fear, etc.become connected and
cess (engaging the self-determined will). reassert themselves with any present time
Because of the threat, the intensity of the exertion of the personal will. This may
motivating force generated by your will partly explain why some people welcome
was at or near maximum. This intensity of the control and direction of others, as their
will is not the product of (nor associated own employment of the body and mind
with) happy times. No. This intensity of realms of will has become painful.
will is the product of shock, fear, anger, There is, however, a realm of will that is
and paintraumatic events. Under these more enduring, more compassionate,
conditions, people have been known to more fundamental, and more source than
perform super-human feats of strength your body, your mind, or any emotion,
and display exceptionally strong determi- including grief and painthe transcen-
nations of willmothers have lifted cars dent will. It is the center of existence, a
to free trapped children, soldiers have timeless source from which, when awak-
sacrificed their lives in suicide missions, ened, you can learn to recognize and con-
and martyrs have burned themselves in trol the painful associations of mind and
the street for a cause. rise above them, and from which you can
The mind naturally associates events endure the craving of habits until they
and circumstance with one another. It is
how we learn. Its why ice cream trucks continues
have bells and fire trucks have sirensa
Figure 3: The
Realms of Will
diagram Transcendent
Will
Selfdetermined
Each realm of Will
will functions
independently, Moral
but also contains Will
the functions of
lower realms. Emotional
Will
Instinctive
Will
Afterword
The problem with self-determined will may insist that their behavior, regardless
is that the motivational forces of its lesser of how senseless or destructive, is really
cousinsmoral indoctrination, emotional an exercise of their self-determined will.
reaction, and instinctsexert hidden influ- Here you will find the emphysemic
ences on it. For example, a person, let us smoker who insists that she smokes by
say his name is Fred, may represent his choice, and the alcoholic who insists that
choice of pink slippers over yellow slip- he could quit any time. Unreasonable
pers as an exercise of his self-determined insistence upon a viewpoint is a character-
will. But careful investigation will reveal istic of predisposed influences. The
that pink slippers were the habitual smoker and the alcoholic are under the
footwear of his doting mother, a fact that delusion that they are making self-deter-
he has forgotten. mined choices, but they arent. These are
So is his choice of pink slippers a coinci- predisposed behaviors being justified by
dence, or is there some motivational force the self-determined will. This self-decep-
(hidden influence) that predisposes his tion becomes apparent as soon as you
attention to desire pink? awaken the viewpoint of transcendent
Do you know this word predisposed? will.
In psychology it means to have uncon- So back to Fred, is he predisposed to
scious reasons for favoring a certain choice choose pink slippers? The answer can be
even before the choice is offered. In determined by observing how consistently
another sense, it means the outcome is Fred chooses pink slippers. Imagine some
highly predictable. If you have ever gam- magic that would allow you to offer Fred
bled at a casino, you could say that the the same choice over and over without his
odds of winning are predisposed in favor remembering. How often would you
of the casino. You might win occasionally, expect Fred to pick the yellow slippers
but the longer you play the more over the pink slippers?
predictable the outcome of your losing If he always picks the pink slippers,
will be. then this is really a predisposition, a habit,
A predisposition is a hidden influence
on reasoned choice. It arises from the
motivational forces of the lower realms of continues
will. Without effective education, people
2003 by Harry Palmer. All rights reserved 10
Basic Will Course
Afterword continued
rather than a self-determined choice. If As long as youre experimenting on
Freds choice was self-determined, and all Fred, imagine that you could teach Fred to
else was equal, you could expect a 50-50 transcend his mind. Fred-the-source-being
split50 percent of the time he would (Avatar state) is fully present, aware of,
choose yellow slippers. but in control of the motivating forces of
Lets say you discover that Fred always the lower realms of will. In other words,
chooses the pink slippers, even insists any predispositions that he might have are
upon pink slippers. Now you know that off-line. Transcendent Fred looks the same,
Fred is predisposed to choose pink. Maybe but he acts differently. Fred has found his
millions.
Now offer Fred the choice between yel-
low and pink slippers and youll find that
Self-determined choices dont really appear as long as both fit and keep his feet warm,
until the motivating forces of the lower realms he doesnt really care about the color. He
has achieved the ability to really make a
of will go off-line. self-determined choice based on what is in
front of him. He is no longer influenced by
any subjective preferences. Ironic, isnt it?
the predisposition came from his genetic Self-determined choices dont really
instincts, or from some emotional rein- appear until the motivating forces of the
forcement, or from his indoctrination that lower realms of will go off-line.
pink is the right choice. Fred experiences This natural self-determinism of the
the delusion of self-determinism, because being, so often lost in a maze of predispo-
he has not been awakened to the transcen- sitions, reawakens with the waking of the
dent will viewpoint. He is not aware of his transcendent will.
own predispositions. And even though If you talk with Fred-the-Avatar, you
Fred will give hundreds of good reasons will find him intelligent, logical, with high
for choosing pink, for instance they match integrity, and refreshingly free of any
his pink bathrobe, his choice is really asserted opinions or habitual preferences.
motivated by lower realms of will. Many And, as he gains more and more experi-
people who are acting under the influence ence with the Avatar tools, he will recog-
of emotional or moral nize more and more the motivating forces
motivations will of lower realms of will and discreate
argue that they (become free of) their influence.
are being self- You will discover that his life and his
determined. environment have suddenly become much
This may lead happier and more peaceful.
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