Handling Hidden Agenda’s & Transgressions

Enlightened Justice Procedure

It is How you Handle a Transgression that is Important as Well as Why You Did It.


Why-Therapies are concerned with explanations of why one acts in a certain way. They are word-lessons that eventually drown one’s free will in some predetermined drama of causes and effects.

These are the steps of an enlightened justice procedure. They can apply only to people who desire to restore their own personal integrity. You can’t legitimately force them onto another. They are a gift of opportunity.

Amends is not punishment, though it may contain an element of self-sacrifice. A successful amends results in personal realizations that create a desire to change one’s transgressive behavior. That is the “reform” part.


Avatar is a path to truth that doesn’t begin with a lie.


CHP: Creation Handling Procedure, an advanced exercise from the Avatar materials that describes the operation of awareness in the universe


A few years ago, a great hurricane blew across southern Florida –Hurricane Andrew. Trees were uprooted. Houses were blown down. The news cameras panned over the area to show the devastation. Every palm, palmetto, and oak tree had been leveled, but the camera showed one small clump of bamboo that had survived. The oak trees, even with their massive strength, didn’t survive. The bamboo did. The flexible strength survived; the inflexible strength perished. It is a lesson. In a world where things are changing rapidly, flexibility is a better survival strategy than force.



Two things: Transgressions-Kept-Secret and hidden agendas.

Transgressions-Kept-Secret1 are the damaging actions and non-actions that you would rather certain people not find out. A transgression is an instance of breaking a law, or breaking an agreement, or violating a social standard, or violating your own values. It is damaging something you have agreed to protect. Examples of TKS are robbing a bank, cheating on your marriage partner, spray painting graffiti on a public building, or acting in a manner that is contrary to your own conscience.

There are lots of possible transgressions and, until you achieve sainthood, it is expected that you will commit transgressions occasionally –if only by accident. When your transgression is not kept secret, it is called a mistake.

If someone tells you that they have not committed any transgressions, realize you are talking to either a saint or a liar. Human beings make mistakes. They are supposed to. That’s how they learn. Human knowledge is the product of mistakes. It is only when the mistakes are hidden or become intentional (as in a hidden agenda) that they lead to inflexible viewpoints.





(TKS – pronounced “ticks”)

When a person commits a transgression, the first question they are often asked is: “Why did you do it? Why? Why? Why?”  This is a totally irrelevant question. Nobody can answer it truthfully. You are asking them to make up an explanation for why they are not source. Lie to me. I want to hear it. The explanation won’t change anything. The explanation won’t teach anybody anything. And the explanation, no matter how good it sounds, won’t prevent them from doing it again. 

Do you know the biggest reason why I think you keep your transgressions secret? You are afraid that someone is going to ask you, “Why did you do it?” And you don’t really, honestly have a clue. So if you are asked, you are going to have to commit a second transgression of lying to explain the first transgression.


The increase in hidden agendas, on the other hand, is a symptom of media and educational systems that are focused on indoc-trination rather than on enlightenment. The root cause of a hidden agenda is always some form of social indoctrination that condones selfish, intolerant, or irresponsible behavior.

Do you want to know what causes the amount of Transgressions-Kept-Secret in a society to rise? Because the society becomes focused on, “Why did you do it?” So you open the door to Why Therapies.

Are you ready for some relief? I don’t care what you did or why you did it. Just fix it, and let’s get on with it. Which brings me to the most important point. If you block out everything else I’ve said, remember this: It is how you handle a transgression that is important, not why you did it. The wrong way to handle a transgression is to hide it, or to justify it, or to deny it. These are the actions (hiding, justifying, and denial) that harden consciousness into an inflexible identity. Hardened consciousness projects a reality that can be viewed only in one way. Listen to these primaries3. Would you make them? “I don’t know anything about it.” “I didn’t do it.” “They made me do it.”

Creating these beliefs is like pouring concrete into your mind. So now you know who hardened your consciousness. You did – with the primaries that you made to keep your transgressions a secret. “I’m never going to tell!” Forever is a long time to install a limitation on your freedom of expression.

If you hide, justify, or deny a transgression, you seldom learn anything useful, but handling transgressions can lead to the most important world-lessons of life: courage, discretion, tolerance, compassion and forgiveness, i.e., wisdom. The lessons you learn from handling a transgression frequently motivate genuine humanitarian endeavors.


1) Sincere repentance – You are sorry for the act (not sorry just because the act was found out) and will do your best not to do it again.

2) Confession – It doesn’t matter who you speak the words to; the confession is really the action of taking responsibility. It is returning to source and dropping all the justification. “I did it.”



These are the steps of an enlightened justice procedure. They can apply only to people who desire to restore their own personal integrity. You can’t legitimately force them onto another. They are a gift of opportunity. Whether or not they should be done, and how they are done, is determined by a person’s own sense of what is honorable. When done sincerely, they restore a happy life. You notice that punishment does not enter the picture. Honest people – people who are sincere about their own spiritual development and enlightenment – do not require punishment to correct their transgressions.


The steps are easy:

1) I’m really sorry.
2) No excuses, I did it.

3) I’m going to make it my number-one priority to repair the damage that my actions have caused.


An often-asked question: I know it’s best to make up the damage I have done to the person I have done it to, but what if the person has died?

The answer: You can still make it up by performing a genuine humanitarian service. Assist others. All life is connected. Your own intuition will tell you when your debt is paid. People who mistake or can’t recognize their own intuitive guidance have not completed steps 1, 2, and 3. Their spiritual growth is self-limited.




A person’s hidden agendas will resolve only when they are completely capable of handling their Transgressions-Kept-Secret. If you discover that you have a hidden agenda, the best thing you can do is to openly and honestly align it with the purpose, means, and values of the group’s stated agenda. This requires some discussion, possibly some compromises, and enough mental flexibility to predict broader consequences and see all viewpoints.

Differences in viewpoints, purposes, and goals are destructive to a group only when they are hidden. Diversity can actually strengthen a group, but it must be a matter of common knowledge, rather than a hidden influence.


Have you ever been with a friend, and both of you are chattering away about all sorts of stuff? Both of you are flexible. You can share secrets and talk about transgressions, and there is understanding and honesty. No hypercritical judgments. Suddenly your friend’s mother walks into the room. Your friend has a lot of Transgressions-Kept-Secret from Mommy. (Don’t we all?) What happens? Suddenly the conversation becomes very guarded. Your friend switches from a flexible consciousness into a fixed identity. The mother says something, and your friend is very critical. “Oh, Mom, that’s just your opinion. I hate it when you talk like that.”

Notice the spontaneous primaries that your friend is making: “That’s just your opinion,” and, “I hate it when you talk like that.” Can you imagine the experiences these primaries would create? What your friend really means to say is, “Go away, Mom. Your presence is robbing me of my freedom to be honest.” But even this near-truth is a self-disempowering viewpoint, because he is placing the source of his freedom to be honest in Mom’s universe. When you criticize someone else for how you feel, you’re handing them your power. You are letting them make your primaries.

When you feel you have to keep a transgression secret from someone, you’re handing them your power. So if your friend’s mother doesn’t leave the room, your friend will. Why? Because it is uncomfortable to be around people with whom you are afraid to be honest. It appears that they steal your source, but the truth is that you give it to them. The more Transgressions-Kept-Secret a person has, the less flexible their consciousness becomes, the fewer options they can consider.


Remembering actual events becomes painful, so they create a false past. They imagine and project rather than remember. Then they wonder where all the secondaries are coming from.

A person with TKS has trouble suspending judgment. This will create areas in their life that will not respond to the CHP6. They are unwilling to fully experience certain creations, unable to label them without judgment. In place of discreation, they resist – like oak trees – waiting for death to blow them over. To quote from ReSurfacing®: “No amount of punishment or humiliation is worse than the suffering we create for
ourselves by being dishonest.”



The TKS motivate them to separate and criticize. The majority of these people love feuds and vendettas and will readily rally to the support of anyone that is the target of their criticism. And underneath it all is this hardened consciousness, fixed and pseudorighteous viewpoint created by the Transgression-Kept-Secret. In the worst cases, this pseudo-righteous viewpoint becomes so fixed that its motives become a hidden agenda that justifies all manner of lies, deception, and destruction. Whenever you see someone engaging in unhelpful or unrequested criticism against anyone or anything, realize that they are engaging in a campaign to minimize their own sins. One, two, three. Transgression-Kept-Secret. Separate. Criticize. One, two, three. It’s a demonstrable pattern of human nature. Under stand this pattern, and you will not only sort out the mysteries of human behavior, you will gain an insight into the decay of whole societies. If you ever run into any of these critical people, steer their attention away from their criticisms into a discussion of their own transgressions against the target of their criticism. “What did you do?” You will be amazed at how easy it is to salvage most of them. A few minutes of tears and embarrassed confession, and suddenly their life comes back on track. They’re free. Flexible again. It is quite the miracle7.


The goal in handling Transgressions-Kept-Secret is to become completely honest with yourself8. This means to become flexible about the rightness or wrongness of your own opinions and beliefs. This uncompromising self-honesty has the effect of transforming a solid world that was being viewed critically into a flexible world of possibility. It’s good to be free of TKS.


The fault was not that Adam and Eve committed a transgression by eating an apple from the tree of knowledge. The fault was they tried to hide it. When God showed up and asked who ate his apple, Adam pointed his finger at Eve. Eve pointed her finger at the snake. The snake would have blamed the rat, but it didn’t have a finger to point. So the poor snake had to take the blame. But God wasn’t fooled. He punished them all. What do you think would have happened if Adam had stepped forth and said, “God, I’m sorry I ate your apple. I did it, and it’s my responsibility. I will make it my number-one priority to make it up to you by tending your garden and raising my children to praise your name.” Because Adam didn’t say it, we all have to keep saying it to each other. “God, I’m sorry. God, I’m sorry. God, I’m sorry.”








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