The movie Avatar, is speaking to the hearts and minds of viewers in so many personal ways, that I am starting to believe that this is a “sign” that our collective “awakening” is expanding to embrace a much larger whole. The overriding theme of Avatar is one of western Colonialism, where western nations use their military might to invade lesser developed countries, terrorize their people and pillage their lands for valuable natural resources. As the top military commander says in the film in response to the natives resisting their lands being pillaged, “We’ll fight terror with terror!”
Pandora is a planet that is inhabited by large, blue-skinned life forms called the ‘Na'vi.’ They are like an idealized form of the Native American, or the tall African from the native Nubian tribe. They're in tune with nature, live in trees, and thank the spirits of the animals they kill for giving their life. They don't like us humans, even though the humans have created schools to teach them English. The humans in the film offer them medicine and knowledge, but they don't care. There’s also some magnificent design and detail in the lush Navi forest at night where all the plants and vegetation glow with bio-luminescence and multi-coloured iridescent lights;or a huge fern leaf that is used as a hanging mat to sleep in, or a fungus like plant that seems to disappear when it is in contact with other living creatures.

With anticipation I watched and questioned, what’s there to eat? Maybe a sacred meal, a Essene supper with four courses of nuts and fruit and four cups of wine; foods that require the death of no living being, not even a carrot or a radish that dies when its roots are plucked from the earth. Maybe they eat a daily sacred meal of the nuts and fruit that grow in such profusion that to eat them kills no being, because is itself a meal of life.

And the four cups of wine are: all-white; white with a drop of red; red with a drop of white; and all-red: the union of white semen and red blood that the ancients thought was the start of procreation. The progression from pale winter to the colorful fruitfulness of fall also betokens the growing-forth of life. The theme of Fours embodies the Four Worlds of Kabbalah: Action, Emotion, Intellect, Spirit.

Avatar is much more than a love story. In my view, it’s an urgent message for our modern world where many of the atrocities committed by the human invaders in Avatar are being carried out right now against our own planet. When it comes to planet Earth, after all, humans are the imperialists. We have destroyed much of the natural habitat on our planet; we’ve poisoned the rivers and oceans; we’ve polluted the sky and burned up much of the planet’s natural resources. In our quest for more energy, more consumption and more profit, we are stupidly destroying our own planet... and destroying our own future in the process.

We are, in effect, both the invaders and the natives on this planet, and through our misguided collective consumption, we are destroying our own land, our own trees and our own home. And because life is so delicately interconnected, in destroying our own planet, we are only destroying ourselves. Human arrogance, ignorance and greed are the main reasons for the environmental problems we face today.

This is one of the many messages that Avatar delivers. Go see the film yourself to catch the rest.

Have a great life

Mien