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At 38, I had been through 24 years of promises by self-help gurus, promising that this―finally―would be “the” answer that would solve all my problems. I had been inspired, uplifted, and enticed by the possibility.

“All the people seem to be speaking from their heart? Check.”
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One of the great many gifts I have gotten from Avatar, is that I would say I no longer have a “bs meter.” I mean, that I don’t have to worry about whether or not somebody is real or not. I can just feel whether they’re real or not. I can decide what kinds of people and ideas and attitudes I want to be around, and decide whether someone matches this [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or doesn’t.
Sometime after lunch, I began to notice―hmm… nothing showing up on the bullshit meter.
“Hmm… Interesting.”
And… they were all smiling so much―what was that all about? “Don’t let these people get to you, just in case their weird in the bad way,” I thought.
As we continued, I started to have more and more fun. I started to enjoy myself more. An amazingly simple exercise that made a past memory lose its power. Intriguing ideas about awareness, and how things worked.
New possibilities began to form in my mind.
As I walked in to the Avatar Course on the first day, in the La Fonda Hotel on the town square in Santa Fe, and sat down―name badge and registration form in hand, my “b.s. meter” was on high alert.
I had to re-frame my thoughts a bit. I relaxed. By the end of the workshop on Sunday evening, I felt so great, so full of possibility! I wanted more, I wanted to do the next step [Section II].
“I thought groups of people all saying the same thing was a sign of the mindlessness of our society―or worse, of a mindless cult.”
Thousands of experiences had taught me that a group coming together, all doing the same thing, was a sign of people who were not thinking for themselves.
“But wait,” I thought to myself.
I invite you to come, and test it out for yourself. Come, and explore past your assumptions of what’s happening, and see what’s really here. Because this is really amazing!
“What if,” I thought, “a group of people could choose to come together for a common purpose?”―As a loner type, this was a new concept to me. I had defined the world in terms of loners, and automatons. But… I was having so much fun! I was feeling better. This was so simple!
“They’re not telling me what to think or believe? Check.”
“Everyone feels real and genuine? Check.”
So it’s no longer a wall [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it’s just a series of choices. Who do I want to be? What will help me get there? What won’t? All very fast, very simple.
As the morning wore on, we did exercises―so simple, some familiar. We stared at an object for a minute. We walked around and looked at things. We had some interesting discussions.

Not only that―I was terribly suspicious of groups. What were all these people doing here, doing the same thing? Reading from the same book, saying the same words?
But years and years of training had taught me to be very protective of what I let in. What were these people about? What were they doing here?
I had read Living Deliberately a few days before, and something struck me about the way he explained the ability to create beliefs. I wanted to know how to do that!
In my life, the world had seemed divided between the majority, who played by the rules, and did what they were told―and the iconoclasts, the “weird” ones, like me, who insisted―and worked hard―to think their own thoughts, do things their own way, and pursue their own purpose in life.
The following morning, I dove in to Section II [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and after a lifetime of thinking about spiritual matters, I was inside it. I felt it. This was different.
“Maybe this time,” I had thought―over, and over, and over again. The answer, the solution, the key I knew was missing.