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A Phase-Two Golf Lesson with Kris Barkway
When I arrived for my golf lesson at Balgowlah golf course, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’d heard about Kris Barkway for years, I knew he was the real golf pro behind the Steve Addington character in The Magician’s Way book, and I’d even recommended him to lots of my friends, but I’d never actually had a lesson myself.
It wasn’t until William Whitecloud told me the amazing story of what had been happening in Kris’ life (flying to the States to do golf lessons with the cast of the movie, The Secret, and rumours of $10,000 sessions with big-wigs like Mark Victor Hansen, the co-author of the world’s best-selling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul), that I was inspired to finally get off my butt and have a lesson, before he disappeared into the land of billionaires and Hollywood starlets and was no longer available for regular sessions.
When we got to the green, the first thing Kris did was line up some golf balls and ask me to hit them. I was nervous enough without the added pressure of my friend Rachel being there with a camera, and after swinging and missing the first, and sending the second flying off on a bizarre right-angle, I wanted to stop. He asked me what was going on.
“I’m afraid,” I said.
“Afraid of what?” he asked.
“I’m afraid that you’re going to see through my façade and see what’s stopping me from creating what I want.”
“Well that’s true, I will see that,” he said simply.
I stared at him in horror.
He continued: “With golf, there’s no place to hide. When you hit the ball, I can see everything’s that going on.”
“Oh,” I replied, even more scared than I had been before.
“So what are you afraid of me finding out?” he asked.
“That there’s something wrong with me.” I’d answered before I’d even had time to think about it, yet it was true. I was afraid of him seeing what I carefully hid from everyone, including many people with whom I did personal development work. I was afraid he was going to confirm something was wrong with me and that I’d be faced with the awful truth.
Instead of confirming it, Kris asked me to listen carefully to what he had to say, and to heed the little voice inside of me, even though on the outside I might not think what he was about to say was true. He explained that we were all pure creative spirit and that we could do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted, however we wanted. Being this pure creative spirit, we had found the all-powerful thing a bit boring, and so had decided to create a game, called the “Human Game”, so as to experience the challenge of not being all-powerful. We created a vehicle, our bodies, and a playing field confined behind an invisible fence, which were our perceived lacks and limitations. Every time we went near our perceived lacks and limitations we experienced discomfort and pain (as though it was an electric fence!), and hence we stayed away.
This was why I didn’t want to continue hitting the balls: I was hitting up against the fence of thinking there was something wrong with me, and it hurt.
Kris explained that our power was hidden behind this fence and those feelings of discomfort. He asked me to imagine how much power it would take to convince an all-powerful being that they were not powerful. The incredibleness of this feat astounded me. Not only was I all-powerful, but I’d managed to fool myself into thinking otherwise, into believing that my lacks and limitations were real. Wow.
I looked around at the beautiful golf course, the cloudy sky, the golf buggies and the cars driving past. It was all an illusion. I’d just re-watched The Matrix on the weekend, and I felt like I was looking at the digits now. “There is no spoon,” I said quietly, half to myself. Kris laughed.
I was left there staring at the golf club in my hand and the ball and the ground. Well, this is all great, I thought, but what do I do about it? How do I get the power from the fence, or my feelings of discomfort, and go beyond the fence? How do I live as the powerful creator that I am?
“That’s easy,” said Kris, with a huge cheeky grin. He’d been grinning nearly the whole session, but I’d only just really noticed, since before now I’d been overwhelmed with the fear of him seeing my shortcomings. It was obvious that he was having a great time: not only with this lesson, but also with life.
“It’s what I call Phase Two living,” he said, “Phase One is the part of the human game where we’re stuck behind the fence. There’s nothing wrong with Phase One: you can have a lot of fun there: there’s plenty of happy, successful people there, plenty of billionaires there.”
“However if part of you feels like there’s got to be more in life, then what you’re secretly wanting to find out about is Phase Two.”
“Okay, so how do I find out about Phase Two?” I had a feeling that I was pushing the session ahead, but after three-and-a-half years of personal development trainings, I felt I was up for it.
“It’s easy,” repeated Kris, the grin seeming like a permanent fixture on his face. “You find the discomfort and you take back the power that’s hidden within it.”
“And how do I do that?” I felt like a persistent school-child, always asking, “But how?”
He simply grinned, yet again.
“When you feel discomfort, you welcome it. And you say to yourself: ‘I am pure creative spirit, creating this. It is not real.’ “
“When you say this, make sure you feel it, and know within every inch of your body that it is true. Imagine yourself taking back the power out of this discomfort.”
I tried it with the ball in front of me. I sat with the feeling of discomfort of thinking that there was something wrong with me, and told myself that I was pure creative spirit, creating this, and that it wasn’t real. I felt it, and it was like a moment from the Matrix, where Neo sees the bullets coming in fascination, and stops them effortlessly, even pulling one out of mid-air to examine it. I felt connected to everything, and able to see how everything in life is like the Matrix, an illusion that we’ve made up so as to play the human game.
So where did I go from here?
Kris explained that if I was up for Phase Two living, he could coach me to create it, that is, when he was in the country. With all his connections with celebrities, he often jumped on a plane at a moment’s notice.
“That’s what it’s like in Phase Two living,” he said. “When you take the power out of your discomforts and are left with your pure creative spirit, then things start happening by magic, you don’t really have to do anything.”
It sounded great to me. It may have taken me years to get to a golf lesson with Kris, but now I was there, standing in the awareness of my power and the illusion around me and I was keen to go further.
“I want to live in Phase Two,” I said. “Where do I sign?”
Jamie Louise Bloom
Kris Barkway runs one-hour Phase Two golf lessons at Balgowlah Golf Course near Manly, Sydney at 7am, 8am, 9am and 10am Monday to Friday. The cost for each session is $220 incl. GST. He is also author of the book, The New Golf Paradigm, RRP $25.
A special offer for Silver Lining readers: buy a copy of both The New Golf Paradigm and The Magician’s Way (combined price of $55) for only $45– a saving of $10. Offer ends 19 August, or while stocks last. For more information about Kris Barkway call 0425 229 981 or visit www.krisbarkway.com.
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