Posted by The 2009 film Avatar can be viewed on multiple levels. Simplistically, it can be viewed as a visually-exotic love story.
Alternatively, for most politically-aware people, the focus is on its ‘environmental’ message and also the anti-colonial expansion message – in other words, a powerful military country uses its might to extract (loot) valuable minerals from a foreign country/world even though it destroys the sacred living environment of the natives.
Another alternate view is that different highly-sentient species exist, beyond human, and are just as relevant.
Less apparent, but equally important, are the out-of-body experiences that are the main feature of the film, the soul transfer (or consciousness transfer) from one body to another, and the ability, often reported in the standard NDE, where a disabled person can walk or see when in his/her physical body he/she couldn’t.
In the film, the “avatar” is the bodily form used by the humans to access (in their out-of-body ‘avatar’ form) another existence, and to enable themselves to be ‘seen’ in the new world they operated in, in a form accepted and recognisable on the new world.
The main thrust of the film is that in order to survive in the planetary atmosphere where the minerals need to be extracted from, the human needs to transfer its consciousness to a new body designed for that environment. Thus, most of the film takes place in what can best be described as a Dreamzone, the world our souls inhabit when we are asleep.
The message at the end cannot be questioned: the disabled war veteran stops being violent and transfers his soul/consciousness to the body he uses on the foreign planet. Perhaps our current planetary leaders should watch the film more closely.
An anti-war viewer might wish to fast-forward through the military destruction of the foreign planet at the end, which went on for a good 15 minutes, truly hard to watch it has to be said, but it certainly made clear the point about the futility, greed, and ignorance of those promoting war.
There is something else too: Some viewers may also feel something strange, a fleeting memory from somewhere else: that perhaps their true home is somewhere else.
This topic was explored in the recent blog “Do You Belong Here” on this website.
It is why some inhabitants of earth haven’t settled here, and find happiness fleeting. It’s why such people rage against the injustices here.
For most however, the physical world is the limit of their understanding.
For those that are awake and aware however, perhaps this film helps to spread the message that awakened souls can help others through the coming earth changes.
There is a good message in Avatar: “From bad can come good”.
9 February 2023
Piers Morris Blogspot 