Lesson Plan Avoidance is not about skipping a lesson plan; it is about how the student avoids the
purpose of the lesson plan which, for all lesson plans, is about the student learning to know and
heal the self. Avoiding the lesson plan in this regard is through judgment which allows the
student to stay ‘safely’ within grip of social consciousness and the composite self and remaining
unaware of the purpose of the lesson plan which is always to learn.
Lesson Plan Avoidance is also called the Pattern, and it consists of three unique lesson plans:
Lesson Introduction, the Engagement
Lesson Combat, the Battle Plan
Lesson Failure, the Retreat
Unlike the lesson plans associated with the Primary and Birth Lesson Plans, The Soul’s Mission Lesson
Plan, the Soul’s Obstacle Lesson Plan, and the Communication Lesson Plan, Lesson Plan Avoidance is
not constantly seeking to influence the student’s behavior. It comes into play whenever a lesson
is presented. Lessons are events that trigger one or more unhealed lesson plans that cause the
student to falsely conclude that the self is victimized by the event and must defend the self to
set ‘things’ right. The rationale for the defense stems from the inevitable judgment that self
makes of the other involved in the event. “If they hadn’t done [fill in the blank] then I wouldn’t
have to defend myself!”
Thus the lesson begins with Lesson Introduction and manifests in one of six ways, or Engagements,
depending on the student’s set of lesson plans or their Profile. Each of the Engagements is prefaced
by the word “self” such as line 1’s Engagement of self-conscious. There is a lesson associated with
each Engagement. For example, line 1’s lesson of self-conscious is to become conscious of the self,
not to be embarrassed but to realize who the self truly is as a spiritual being, and so,
experiencing all events consciously as love. The six Engagements are:
| Line 1 – | The Engagement of Self-conscious with its lesson to become conscious of the self (as love) |
| Line 2 – | The Engagement of Self-righteous with its lesson to learn to identify judgment in all of its appearances |
| Line 3 – | The Engagement of Self-distrust with its lesson to learn to trust the self |
| Line 4 – | The Engagement of Self-delusional with its lesson to learn to resolve all past unfavorable experiences in order to live in the moment, rather than the illusion of the past |
| Line 5 – | The Engagement of Self-pity with its lesson to learn that all experience emotional events equally, for there is never the intention to damage one more than another; damage is never the goal with lesson presentation |
| Line 6 – | The Engagement of Self-contained with its lesson to become conscious of the self, to trust the self, and to share the self with others |
If the student is not aware of the arrival of Engagement, the Pattern will quickly move forward to
Lesson Combat as the second stage of Lesson Avoidance. This Battle Plan is generally a very active
state, for the student, if unaware of the onset of the Battle Plan, will battle the other, the
object of the student’s judgment. Judgment provides the ‘right’ to defend the self at the expense
of the other. There are six Battle Plans and each has a unique character who defines the student
during Lesson Combat. They are:
| Line 1 – | The Battle Plan of The Concealer playing the character that prefers to hide or conceal issues rather than addressing the situation |
| Line 2 – | The Battle Plan of The Belittler playing the character focuses upon the other, belittling, and diminishing that which has threatened the self |
| Line 3 – | The Battle Plan of The Minimizer playing the character who minimizes the self’s participation in order to prohibit further scrutiny of the self’s behaviors |
| Line 4 – | The Battle Plan of The Refuser playing the character who refuses all offerings of the other to safeguard the self’s opinions or ways of being |
| Line 5 – | The Battle Plan of The Guard playing the character who is on guard, protecting the self by deflecting all offerings that indicate that the self’s behavior is inappropriate |
| Line 6 – | The Battle Plan of The Traveler playing the character who departs emotionally to the mental arena, indicating the need to be alone, rather than working through the lesson |
Failure to recognize the arrival of the character ensures that the student will move forward to the
third and last stage of the Pattern, Lesson Failure.
Lesson Failure or the Retreat is entered when the student’s Battle Plan has failed to ‘right the wrong
imposed by the other,’ and the student resorts to still another character and role that will enable
them to exit the event and limit any further damage to the self that could occur by remaining in a
lost fight. There are six Retreat and corresponding character pairs:
Completing the Retreat marks the end of the Pattern and Lesson Avoidance. The lesson is truly not
avoided, for the emotional, negative energies of the unhealed Pattern and Lesson Avoidance remain
in the emotional body ensuring volatility for future lesson presentation guaranteed, due to this
failure to learn, that will return with greater emotional velocity thereby making it more difficult
to be unaware of Pattern onset.
The Pattern occurs thousands of times in a lifetime until, when and if, awareness, identification, and
recognition are harnessed by the student to learn to replace negative behaviors and characters
with positive behaviors that lead to knowing and healing the self. Although the Pattern is repeated
many, many times its three stages are always the same line number energies for the student.
To recap the role of the Pattern, here is the sequence of what occurs that initiates the Pattern. Note
that the Pattern can be cut short any time during Pattern unfoldment through awareness,
identification, and recognition of the true nature of an event as an opportunity to learn to know
and heal the self.
Event ⇒ triggers unhealed lesson plan ⇒ creates a victim mentality ⇒ leads to judging the other ⇒
Engagement ⇒ Battle Plan ⇒ Retreat ⇒ amplification of negative energy awaiting the next event
until, when and if, awareness, identification, and recognition are chosen to defeat the pattern
and progress is made in knowing and healing the self