Avatar considered by many to be one of the most groundbreaking movies of our generation
It stands as a testament of how far our technology has come
Allowing us to create and bear witness to new worlds like we've never seen them before
Yet under the surface of the technological achievement of this film lies a very deep undercurrent of hidden
spirituality
At the highest level of this movie
We see the story play out as a narrative between the dualistic nature of our human consciousness and our relationship with our planet
you can describe this duality in ways such as
Organic versus mechanic the soft versus the hard the light versus the dark the enlightened versus the asleep
Or the alien versus the native
This dualistic theme is introduced to us by a look at how the human world has evolved and a reflection of the same consciousness
We have today that got us there in
This futuristic world people are cold and the earth has been polluted and there's no sign of things improving
Those in power are using their resources to leech off of another planet to support their own dying world
Jake the lead protagonist lands on pandora with the same conditioning as the rest of the military
Pandora is a hostile and the natives are deadly and everything wants to kill you as the story progresses
We see the transition from one paradigm of consciousness
into another through Jake's own discovery that the story he's been told is not the highest truth as
We are introduced to the Navi
We are invited to explore a fresh take on spirituality
Which has been designed for this movie based on African Native American and other indigenous cultures of the world
They teach us of a WA the deity to whom the Navi prays in reverence and we are taught that to them
God is feminine and nature is infused with her divine spirit
Scientifically we are given explanations of this - through the electrochemical neural network that exists between all of the plant life on the entire world
connecting life together as if one giant living organism something the Navi are a part of and can tap into
Around their sacred tree. We see rocks formed in the shape of an electromagnetic field further illustrating the symbolism
What's amazing here is that this is not exclusive to Pandora in that we see this reflected in the whole universe
Scientists today have observed that the universe itself appears to form much like a neural network
Suggesting that everything in existence is a part of a giant interconnected mind
These are foundational teachings of hermetics and James Cameron clearly has embedded these ideas deep into the foundational structure of the story
Further it may not be coincidental that a watt sounds similar to Yahweh one of the names for God in the Bible
It's almost as if through this film we are shown this connection to the religions that we have in the world today and how life
Changes when we look to the feminine side of deity versus the masculine
Throughout this movie. We see Jake begin to soften to the experience of the Navi and just as this process is happening
We see a very clear
juxtaposition between the two different states of consciousness
The first is the perception that you are separate from nature a mentality
Embodied by the entire human army and Jake too when he goes on his first mission
he is curious about the environment but it is separate from him and this is made very clear once he finds himself alone in the
wilderness
struggling to survive
this is deeply relevant to a quote by Albert Einstein who said the following I
Think the most important question facing humanity is is the universe a friendly place
This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves
For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place
Then we will use our technology our scientific discoveries and our natural
resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the
unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all of that which is unfriendly and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology
Is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process?
If we decide that the universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly and that God is essentially playing dice with the universe
Then we are simply victims to the toss of the dice and our lives have no real purpose or meaning
But if we decide that the universe is a friendly place
Then we will use our technology our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to create tools and models for understanding that universe
Because power and safety will come through understanding its workings and its motives
God does not play dice with the universe
For Jake in the forest. We see him light a torch drowning out the light of the natural beauty around him
This is not dissimilar to how in a city. It is difficult
If not, sometimes impossible to see the lights of the stars above our heads
It's only when we turn out the light can we truly learn to see?
Just before Neytiri rescues him
There is a moment when she is going to kill him but a spirit of the forest comes and stops her from firing the era
this may very well be one of the most
Significant scenes in the entire movie because it shows the difference between Navi consciousness and human consciousness
She is able to listen to nature. She hears what it has to say and she surrenders to the divine will
Instead of firing. Anyways, she stays her weapon and then saves his life
She remarks that he is like a baby making noise not knowing what to do speaking to his own spiritual immaturity
She points out that it's his fault the Jackals attacked him because he wasn't in tune with nature
This speaks to our own ability to take responsibility for what we are creating. Even if it's unconscious to us
over the course of the following hour or so of the movie we watch as Jake deeply connects with the Navi and their ways and
in doing so discovers his spiritual self and falls in love for
viewers watching this film we get to experience the transformation of Jake within us because we are
Experiencing the movie within our own consciousness and so Jake and the other characters actually become our own
Avatar, as for those of us who are receptive we to learn to soften to the more natural ways of life
The film provides a lens for us to ask ourselves
Where are we being hard rigid or otherwise emotionless in our journey through life
And how can we connect deeper with ourselves and the natural world around us?
Curiously, there is a deleted scene from this movie that almost taught us a deeper lesson here
But unfortunately, it was cut from the final production. But good news. We can learn that lesson now
the scene features Jake in his avatar form
Participating in a sacred ceremony that is not at all dissimilar from an ayahuasca journey
Although this version includes eating a worm and getting bitten by a scorpion
Oh and as a side note Scorpio is the zodiac sign of the invisible
mysticism and transformation
Much like ayahuasca Jake goes through a rather tumultuous period as his consciousness changes awareness
And then he suddenly activates into his energy body
from here
He leaves his physical form and rises as energy into a world of light connection and transcendent beauty where he connects with
What is probably the spirit of a watt through the great tree of life and honestly?
Once you've seen the scene watching the full movie normally just feels like it's missing this big crescendo right in the middle
It's such a powerful and transcendent scene just saying
While we can't say definitively that Cameron and his team participated in ayahuasca ceremonies
The connection here is too striking to suggest that he's never heard of it either
Nevertheless James if you're watching this, I know you probably had some good reason for taking that scene out
Maybe you thought people wouldn't get it that society wasn't ready or perhaps you had some studio executive going
Remember, you can't show that to a million people. But whatever. The reason I implore you please bring this scene back for Avatar 2
Moving on even though we didn't get our ayahuasca scene
We got some other ceremonies that were just as interesting as we see on multiple occasions the Navi also participate in a sacred ceremony
where they link their consciousness together and connect with a hoie for a divine purpose and
In the case of this movie that purpose is sole transference
Through their collective mind and mystic prayer they are able to move the soul from one individual into another body
What's especially curious about this? Is that thinking biologically?
Why would any species need to learn how to do this especially like the Navi?
It doesn't seem like something they'd really ever need to use. They probably don't have tons of empty Navi bodies
Just lying around for them to switch their souls into whenever they want, right
Therefore the significance of these scenes is to demonstrate two things
One to give us an underlying understanding
that consciousness is not limited to the brain or body but exists beyond it and through it and
further that with a connection to the divine
Anything can be accomplished
After this movie came out there were people who were depressed and even a few cases of suicide because the world of Pandora wasn't real
Or at the very least if it's out there it's not accessible to us
And Pandora was just so much more appealing than the world we have now
however
thanks to this movie Pandora now lives within us and
beyond that the film provides us with lessons on how we can restore life on earth to a natural way of being
Through the proper use of prayer ceremony and understanding that we are all connected through our thoughts and feelings
We can amplify our spiritual energy and accomplish things that may even seem impossible for us today a hundred years ago
we could never even have conceived of a technology like a smartphone just
Imagine where we could be in another hundred years
Finally the way that many people experience
This film was a narrative about nature
humans have been
Incredibly destructive on the face of the planet and we must change our behavior in order to thrive in harmony with the natural world
We understand clearly that economic imperialism is disaster
Exploitive and it's time we collectively found a better way to express that desire to create and expand in a way
That is in harmony with all of life. We can see that the Navi live abundantly. They do not have money
Everything is shared
This says to us that we too can create a life like this on this planet if we are able to get to a place
consciously where we see each other as connected and give ourselves freely to each other to infinitum and
most important avatar is a narrative on the relationship between
Colonists and natives which we have seen many expressions of in different ways from frozen to and Pocahontas
to dances with wolves and Fern Gully
This is a very important conversation
Because things in real life didn't go the way they did in Avatar
Civilizations were destroyed and suppressed and today there are entire cultures that are still living under the heel of the colonialist empires
Today films like Avatar helped to bring these conversations to light in a way that makes it easy for the collective consciousness to grasp
It's very easy to take for granted the actions of our ancestors that brought us here today
But we must acknowledge
Our history and learn from it if we are going to create collective healing and a better future for all of us
Now there's one final thing
I wish to speak on while the general mentality of the humans are observed as the antagonist in the movie
There is one aspect of it that we must recognize as important, which is the human technology
You see the Navi live in a different paradigm. They have no need to build spaceships
They do that with their version of ayahuasca, but the humans on the other hand have a lot of very unique and beautiful technology
it's unfortunate that we see this technology used for such selfish and abusive purposes because the
Technology itself isn't evil just the people steering it now avatar itself was praised for its
technological innovation and through the film we see a farther potential as to what humanity could create with our computers and
Even more significantly with our biotech
It's through the technology that the Avatar bodies were created and that
Which allowed a conscious neural link between their physical form and the avatar body?
It's the idea that we are so powerful as a species we can create literally anything
We want to if we follow in this thought we can see that the entire world of Pandora
is actually something that we could completely turn the earth into if we collectively decided we wanted that we have the
Capability to learn how to terraform this entire planet into a thriving natural ecosystem just as much as we can use that same
Technology to completely blow up the planet
Ultimately that decision rests in our hands
Individually and together as a species
the only thing that will limit us from some magical future for us all is if we can learn to live from the heart and
See each other the way that the Navi saw each other one with everything. I
See you and thank you so much for watching. I know that there's actually a lot more in this movie
So if you notice something else that we missed
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With that I'll see you again next week for some more hidden spirituality
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