For 40 years the visionary ideas behind the Avatar Materials incubated in the mind of Harry Palmer. Like many of us, Harry had occasional glimpses into the patterns that creation semed to follow, but for Harry Palmer, a glimpse wasn't enough. In 1976, Harry resigned his tenured teaching position and began what was to become a decade of study and investigation of consciousness.... Since Palmer's release of the Avatar Materials in 1987, his organization has mushroomed into an international network of Avatar Masters that now offer the course in over 450 offices in 26 countries. His work has been translated into 8 languages, including a Russian version which was presented to the Moscow Institute of Psychology in 1988. --- excerpts from book's back cover