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Psychology and Religion in the film Avatar. "Not What eyes do see."

Very few people would doubt the unquestionable esthetic merit and ethical value of the naturalist-ecological vision or the emotional-sociological effects that are being produced by the cinematic phenomenon Avatar . The profound symbolism, psychological framework and religious connotations of the film deserve special consideration. Therefore, we will try to see in Avatar “what eyes do not see” , that internal and spiritualized “I see you” of James Cameron’s film.

The original concept of the word “avatar” stems from Hindu mythology and refers to the reincarnation of God in a divinity that possesses the power of Divine Light, spiritual illumination. Thus, each avatar is a manifestation of the Divine, a chosen one, a reincarnation, the descent of a deity on earth. The word or concept of “avatar” also refers to reincarnations of God in influential Masters of other religions besides Hinduism, such as when attempts are made to explain personalities such as Christ or Buddha. In the film our avatar is one that runs barefooted through Planet Pandora’s mystic forests towards the unknown.

From a psychological perspective , the film Avatar primarily represents an “initiation,” that is to say, the tale of a profound experience in which an individual finds himself in extremely hostile situations. These encounters produce a change in the protagonist’s awareness. He becomes a more conscious being, who discovers that he has an important mission or destiny to perform in the new external reality he finds himself moving in. His character and spirit progressively become modified, creating a beneficial change in his personality. The stages of the defined rites of passage are of increasing difficulty and always lead to a horizon, a goal. These experiences are physical but above all psychological, and once surpassed, result in a complete transformation of consciousness, similar to the journey that guides an individual towards a spiritual initiation. An additional viewpoint of this concept is defined as a journey of knowledge to a more expanded world view or meaning of life discovered through the path of initiation. It is a journey only for heroes.

The crisis in the transformation of consciousness of the soldier Jake Sully in Avatar , evolving from a paraplegic marine into the avatar of a new age for the Na’vi community, constitutes the basic process followed by all journeys of initiation, a necessary and painful fall into a profound crisis. The crisis, with its known states of rupture, fall, separation, solitude, struggle, and regression, leads to accomplishment and ascension until the attainment of ecstasy, triumph and final transcendence. Despite it all, the process at times results in the death of the hero or character. What needs to be done first is a gathering of courage in order to explore, physically and, above all, at a conscious level, the dangerous jungle of the unknown. One of the first comments that Princess Neytiri makes to Jake’s avatar clone is: “You have a strong heart. No fear… Come.” These words imply that Jake has surpassed that second test, the eradication of fear, and is in a condition to continue going further into the jungle of his own journey of initiation. Physically, that is what he does thereafter: he risks his life following Neytiri and her dangerous dashing through the jungle and the precipices that surround it.

This process of initiation is similar to the structure of other great epic episodes of universal literature. Homer’s Ulysses, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Goethe’s Faust, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Dante’s Divine Comedy, etc., follow the same stages and dynamic psychology. As we know “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them,” Einstein dixit . When Jake’s clone is expelled from the Na’vi community, he is forced to reappear before them (and his beloved Neytiri) from a more elevated spiritual position than previously. This enables him to recuperate his lost credibility. He needs to tame Toruk (the great red Mountain Banshee); another biblical symbol of the Devil, of whom we are told represents “the last shadow.” After its domination, Jake returns before the clan of the Omitacaya, no longer with a shadow within himself, but as an illuminated spirit and pure soul. They immediately recognize and venerate him as their avatar and redeemer.

The confrontation, battle and war in Avatar inevitably emerge from the short circuit between two states of consciousness whose interaction has stained with blood the surface of our planet for at least the past twenty centuries. The first is what is known as Stage III, or the “Ego” stage, with its patriarchal and authoritative values: ego-centrics, ego-maniacs, ego-ists, megalomaniacs and narcissists. This stage is the one that conforms to the evolutionary level of consciousness of the dualistic, officially violent and historically cruel Western religions: Medieval Christianity/Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam. This represents the level of consciousness, individually and globally, of the majority of our civilization, progressively more uncivilized. From a religious perspective, this level of human consciousness, “meme,” stage III, or egoist, dualist and conventional, demands the existence of a personal and anthropomorphic concept of a God as a separate and transcendent entity, that rewards the good and punishes the evil, possessing as well a will parallel to that of man. This is a concept that Einstein himself considered insultingly infantile, incomprehensible and unacceptable. This creation in the human mind, probably a consequence of fear if we at least analyze the consequences, has caused the greatest absurdity of all of human history, initiating and being the prime cause of the majority, if not all, the wars in the depth and breadth of the history of this blood stained planet.

In the terminology of the Na’vi clan , the invaders called the “sky demons” represent this state of consciousness (Stage III). These demons roam and settle as they wish at an American military base on a satellite of the planet Polyphemus named Pandora. The reason: a precious mineral valued at 20 million a kilo, known as “unobtanium”. This hidden treasure beneath the Hometree, residence to the Omitacaya clan of the Na’vi race, could represent a clear reference to the American ambition for foreign oil that motivated the war with Iraq. In order to appropriate the precious mineral, the crass and insensitive base’s head of security, Colonel Quaritch, in the barbaric style of a primitive savage always ready and desirous to carry out the cruelest and most violent actions possible, justifies himself by proposing to “… fight terror with terror.” War happens when someone has something you want and refuses to give it to you.

The civilization of Na’vi humanoids on the planet Pandora is initially presented as a primitive savage and undifferentiated tribe. It is gradually revealed that they are quite the contrary, possessing a vital religious attitude, and a much more spiritually elevated, ecological, compassionate and integrated mind-set towards life and nature. This is the Stage IV; non-dualistic, transpersonal, supra egotistic and post-conventional, proper of an individualist and global consciousness that is more evolved and ascended. Such a civilization simultaneously carries a clear evocation of Jainism, and also Buddhism, where even animals are conferred a spirit. In this light, when a hunted animal is killed by necessity Jake tells it, “Your Spirit goes with Eywa. Your body stays behind to become part of the people.” Princess Neytiri tells Jake, “A clean kill. Now you are ready.” These words make it clear that Jake has surpassed the test of purity and is eligible to proceed on his journey of initiation.

This superior state of religiousness is known as “mystic panentheism,” a term expressing that “all of Nature is alive and integrated in God, or in the Goddess,” without any dualism or separation in neither time nor space. It is necessary to clarify that “panentheism” is a concept very different from pantheism, which is pure unadulterated atheism, defending that “the totality of nature is God.” The God of panentheism is the vital energy of the universe, as well as the fountain of natural law. The religiousness of the Na’vi moves at this level, which Goethe denominated “The Religion of Nature,” and agrees with the terminology of the philosopher Spinoza to define the most elevated level possible of this religious sentiment. This level is a massive step above all the monotheistic and official religions of whichever orthodox church, all of them imprisoned and stagnated to date in the most ferocious dualism (see: Goethe, in: ”Conversations with Eckermann,” March 11, 1832). Einstein even said that this integration between body-mind-spirit constitutes the only religion possible, being the most elevated and evolved state of human spirit, as well as the only rational hope to the existing evolutionary delirium. More recently, the North American philosopher Ken Wilber has coined a parallel concept labeled “integral spirituality.” Wilber proclaims that if there is a reason for the existence of religion, or of the religions, it is to help humans evolve through their consciousness to ascend spiritually into the most elevated levels possible, attaining a non-dualistic unity, inseparable and seamless, with an immanent-transcendent Divinity. This is what has been traditionally taught by the most pacifying spiritual cosmic concepts of the non-dualistic religious attittudes, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, as well as by Plotinus, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Panikkar, San Juan de la Cruz, etc. The English philosopher Raimon Panikkar asserts appropriately “our enemy is dualism.”

Certain concepts of Transpersonal Psychology assist in a more profound symbolic interpretation of the initial scene between Jake’s clone and the Pandora horse. At the onset the horse throws its mount, or it would perhaps be better to say, its “mount and his ego,” such as a new Paul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus . A similar event occurs in the taming of the large bird of prey that ends up choosing Jake as the only one who will be able to bond with him for the rest of his life. Neytiri warns him that before he is allowed to mount and tame the bird “It will try to kill you.” The question being: What is it that we humans are burdened with during our entire life that attempts to psychologically and spiritually kill us? What is that beast that we must first tame, then surpass and transcend? Answer: The ego. Sometimes, the damned ego! Once the new initiatic test and rite of passage has been surpassed, the final union of man and horse, in body and mind, will give rise to the “Centaur”, or that which is the same, two beings as one now for the rest of Jake’s life, without any separation whatsoever nor remnants of dualism. Precisely, it is that level of non-dualistic or adualistic consciousness that has been labeled as “centauric” by Ken Wilber, due to its existence “beyond ego” itself, and defined by himself as “The great integration of the mind, the body and the emotions in a unity of the highest order, a ‘profound totality’.” It is that crucial moment of a psychic leap and triumph over the personal/transpersonal crisis that leads Paul of Tarsus, now more comprehensibly, to say: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” Comparatively, Jake Sully is no longer the former Jake, but has from that moment commenced the transfer of his entire being and personality to the Na’vi avatar that lives in him and within which he lives. Due to his purity he has been “chosen” by the mystical, white and semi- transparent, small innocuous jellyfish-like spirits of the sacred Tree of Souls.

A great problem arises in many humans, progressively with greater frequency, which is not at all evil, but indeed very hard and painful. The ascension from the violent and competitive dominant state of egocentric consciousness (Stage III) to the more benevolent, integral, compassionate and post-conventional Stage IV, demands crossing a great personal crisis. A crisis not only at a physical level but also at a psychological one as well, including experiencing a “psychological death” as a crucial rite of passage. In this sense, modern psychology has shown us that before a psychological and/or spiritual “rebirth” can occur, some type of “death” experience is necessary. Similarly, we also know, thanks to initiatic psychology and philosophy and as a parable of the New Testament, that “who desires to save his life will lose it and who loses it will gain it.” That is the same unavoidable demand, but now also more comprehensible, of the ceremony of passage and great critical test, as occurs with the hero Jake Sully in the film. All this reflects what is known in the terminology of modern Transpersonal Psychology as “the crisis of the narcissistic ego.”

With the ascent towards the awakening of a new and higher level of consciousness, which Jake Sully refers to with a subliminal, “Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up” and which the wicked space base’s head of security asks, “How does it feel to betray your own race,” that the inevitable war between the confronting states of consciousness is set. From that instant there is no turning back, the point of no return has arrived. The sudden change that evolves in the inner being of paraplegic Jake, together with the challenges the hero must meet in order to ascend from one state of consciousness to another, imbues soldier Sully, without being aware of it, with the Buddhist concept of reincarnation. He says: “One life ends and another begins” and in the moment his mind and spirit are to be transferred to his clone, “It’s my Birth Day, after all.” This coincides perfectly with the assertion by Ken Wilber in defining the concept of hero (the wounded healer) as “The one that attempts to jump to the next state of consciousness.” Every initiatic journey, regardless of how much of a hero one is or believes himself to be, is a very difficult, dangerous and solitary ascension process towards its culmination. Finally, in the last scene of “Avatar” Jake achieves a complete transmigration of his spirit or soul to his avatar. Jake, being human, dies, giving his life as a savior to the Na’vi “humanoid-ity." Upon achieving total transmigration, he emerges as a symbolic form of the resurrection of Christ or the Buddhist reincarnation of a “bodhisattva.” He now no longer needs to depend on the transportation machine of his human consciousness to the Na’vi avatar, reviving independently in his cloned body upon opening his eyes in the final instant, his human body lying inert by his side, dead.

In the meantime, the botanist Dr. Grace Augustine does not manage to survive her wounds. Her soul, however, becomes integrated into the Tree of Souls – Voices of the Ancestors, which is in intimate contact with the Mother Goddess Eywa, and through which is manifested the transcendence of the spirit. It is true that divine wisdom placed by Divinity in a splendid tree (its magic always hidden) and with a great symbolic content is often found in any marvelous Paradise. On Pandora it is the Tree of Souls of the matriarchal Goddess and in the myth of the Garden of Eden it is the Tree of the patriarchal Father God (a personal God which men will interpret and will give life to as “someone” progressively more subjugating, authoritative and even revengeful). Finally, esthetically at least, the rubble and dust of the destruction of the Hometree in Avatar might remind some spectators of the rubble of the World Trade Center on the ill-fated 11th of September, 2001, and the phallic Twin Towers, until then symbols of imperialism, representing the strength and power of patriarchal money.

Jake, afterwards, binds himself with the sacred Tree of Souls in an attempt to invoke protection of the Na’vi using the intersection of the extended soul or spirit of the deceased Grace with the deity of Mother Nature. This connection is not a fallacy or imaginary. Jake announces in the film, almost before we became accustomed to the 3D glasses, “I got this!” And goodness how he got it, some Gnostics would add. The fact is demonstrated and confirmed in the film when Princess Neytiri yells excitedly and joyously to Jake: “Eywa has heard you!” as all of the wild animals of Pandora take sides with the Na’vi community in their Armageddon battle against the sky demons. Furthermore, it is there at the majestic and floating Hallelujah Mountains, in whose scenary and mountain tops “the salvation” will take place in an apocalyptic and miraculous final victory against Evil. At the luminous Tree of Souls, Neytiri states, “Our great mother does not take sides, Jake. She protects only the balance of life.” A deified Nature a la Rousseau, although perhaps more a la Goethe or Lao Tse, in order to not fall into the famous “Pre-Trans Fallacy”, finally sides with the Good. The fairy tale, in which the blue prince conquers the dragon and kills it to liberate the princess from its claws to then marry her, is coming to an end … and they all lived happily ever after.

It seems that the anthropologic writings of Mircea Eliade has had a certain influence on the director of Avatar. In addition, in a recent interview, James Cameron declared: “I have tried to follow the Bible to the letter.” and it becomes clear that this is evidently so. One only has to be aware of the coincidence that in his revolutionary, or more accurately, “evolutionary” film, the space station of the American military is called “Hell’s Gate.” So what would one expect to come out of the gate of Hell? Well, probably the Devil, of course. In this case it is in the form of a terrifying mother ship, curiously named “Dragon” and commanded by Colonel Quaritch, together with “angelic” scout ships of fallen angels. Another feature to take into account is that “dragon” is the word that is repeatedly employed in the Bible in order to define the Devil, “The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.” (Apocalypse 12:9). In yet another reference to the Devil/Dragon in the King James Version of the Bible: “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and, behold, a great red dragon …” (Revelation 12:3). The colors even coincide with the majestic bird of prey that the clone Jake tames, in order to transcend and leave behind “the last shadow” that could darken his spirit. The metaphor is that by mounting and taming it, Jake has conquered, although only internally and spiritually, the Devil/Evil. Now he is the avatar chosen by Providence.

Finally, Good has conquered Evil , at least on the fictitious planet Pandora. We have to begin somewhere, let us not despair. During a dramatic moment in the film, Jake the Na’vi says to Eywa at the Tree of Souls, “You chose me for something,” another known reference to Christ (symbolic son) as chosen by God. Thus he will be constituted, thanks to the mystic activity of the Natural Law (call it the Taoist wu-wei or the èlan vital of Henri Bergson) into the redeemer and savior of the “humanoid” Na’vi.

All in all, it is to be expected that the avatar Jake and the consciousness of the Na’vi will also help our humanity, in which the modern man of Huxley’s Brave New World has lost its soul, compassion, unity, and respect for the planet. Mankind, in its Faustian desire to dominate the forever invincible Nature, even at the price of destroying it (or itself) has almost terminated with all of life in general, human, animal and vegetable. With “… look into her memories, see the world we come from. There is no green there. They killed their Mother,” Avatar directs a final message towards what remains of this Western civilization, which has been transformed into little more than an accidental un-civilization. “Humanity will have what humanity deserves,” is the comment in this respect that echoes from the words by Albert Einstein from the beyond, although he would not have believed in it, at least on a personal level.

In the end, the conquered, humiliated and inhuman humans of Pandora are forced to return, justifiably conquered to “their dying planet.” It has been the “civilized” humanity of the East and West that has some time ago opened the mythical Pandora’s Box, liberating all of the evils and human disgraces: greed, unsustainable growth, egoism and uncontrolled materialism, exploitation, poverty, pollution, aging, sickness, fatigue, madness, vice, ecological tragedies, cruelty to animals, stupidity, political and inter-ethnic violence, crime, etc., etc. All except hope. Perhaps everything isn’t lost. Perhaps we still have a second chance. Perhaps we will find some crack to escape from this increasing ecological hell. Perhaps…

© 2010, Salvador Harguindey

English translation: Miguel Cabezas

Salvador Harguindey MD., PhD

Director, Institute for Clinical Biology and Metabolism

Medical Oncology and Endocrinology

Transpersonal Psychology

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Psychology and religion in the film "Avatar." What the eyes see.

are undoubtedly the aesthetic merits, ethical values \u200b\u200bof a naturalistic-ecological vision and the emotional and sociological phenomenon that is producing the film "Avatar" far and wide on this planet. However, the deep symbolism, the psychological and spiritual-religious connotations of the film deserve separate consideration. Therefore, let us try to see Avatar "which is not visible to the eye." In other words, that "I see you" interiorized and spiritualized the James Cameron film.

The original concept of the word "Avatar", from the Hindu mythological literature, refers to the incarnation of God into a deity who possesses the power of light, spiritual enlightenment. Thus, each Avatar is a manifestation of Divinity, a chosen one, a reincarnation and descent of a deity on earth. In this film, one that on the mystical land of forests on the planet Pandora running barefoot into the unknown. The word or concept of "Avatar" is also used to refer to embodiments of God in very influential teachers of other religions besides Hinduism, such as dealing to explain characters like Christ.

"Avatar" is primarily a "rite of passage", ie the story of a profound experience in which an individual is in hostile situations that make your personality change after he becomes aware of itself, reality external or have an important mission in life. Throughout the journey his character and spirit are changing achieving an improvement in him after achieving overcome a number of situations almost humanly impossible to overcome. Such experiences, physical but mostly mental and mood, once passed, will make the character able to complete its mission to the time you complete a transformation of consciousness. The term also refers to this journey that leads to individual spiritual initiation, making these trips always have a horizon, a goal, with clearly defined stages through various rites of passage of increasing difficulty. A third meaning of this concept is defined as a journey of knowledge, in which a person does not know whether it somewhere hitherto unexplored to a broader perspective or meaning of life, and through a spiritual journey finds out. It's a trip just for heroes, whether real or fictitious.

transformation crisis awareness of the soldier Jake Sully in "Avatar", evolving from a disabled former Marine to become the avatar of a new era for the people Na'vi, is the process followed by a voyage of initiation. However, this systematically involves and requires a necessary and painful fall into a deep crisis, to some extent shamanic with known stages of rupture, loss, separation, loneliness, fighting back, overcome and rise up to the ecstasy, triumph and final transcendence. What nevertheless sometimes ends in death of the hero or character in question. Almost the first thing to do is muster the courage to venture, physically and especially at the level of awareness in the dangerous jungle of the unknown. Therefore, one of the first things that the princess tells the clone Neytiri Jake avatar is: "You're not afraid. Follow me. " words with which implied that Jake has passed this second test, overcoming fear, and is able to continue deep into the jungle of their own rite of passage, that is, physically, what you do: play Neytiri following life and dangerous forays into the jungle and cliffs that surround it. The initiation process

recalls the structure of other major episodes of the epic literature that follow the same psychological dynamics, such as the Ulysses of Homer, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Dante's Divine Comedy, etc. And as we know that "no crisis is overcome at the same level that originated" Einstein said, once the clone is expelled from the village Jake Na'vi, this will force him to stand again before him and to his beloved Neytiri from a spiritual position higher than the previous one that allows you to retrieve old now lost credibility. To do so is to condescend to the "great red dragon", another synonym for Devil's Bible, which, last but not least, we are told that represents "the last shadow . After submitting / her, Jake returns, without any shadow and, like enlightened spirit and pure soul, before the clan Omitacaya, who immediately recognize and revere him as their avatar and redeemer.

Meanwhile, confrontation, struggle and war in "Avatar" cutout inevitably arises that erupts between two states of consciousness whose interaction has blood-stained face of the earth at least two thousand years. The first is the stage III, or called the "ego" with its authoritarian and patriarchal values: self-centered, ego-Lateran, ego-ists, and narcissistic megalomaniac. This stage is what makes up the evolutionary level of consciousness of violent dualistic religions and Western officials that have caused so much human cruelty (Christian / medieval Catholicism, Judaism and Islam), where the level of consciousness, individually and globally, that characterizes the vast majority of civilization (?) increasingly uncivilized. From a religious perspective, this level of human consciousness, meme , stage III, or personal ego, and conventional dualistic, requires that there also a concept of personal and anthropomorphic God, a transcendent entity separate and rewards the good and punishes the wicked, and a holder will parallel that of men. Concept that the same Einstein railed as infantile, incomprehensible and unacceptable, and the creation of which the human mind probably the result of fear, at least if we analyze the consequences, has been the biggest blunder in the entire history of mankind, creating and being the primary cause of Most if not all, wars throughout the history of this bloody planet.

In "Avatar" this stage of consciousness that represent, in terms Na'vi invaders called "demons come from the sky" , and camping now at home in a U.S. military base located in a satellite of the planet Polyphemus called Pandora. The reason: a material beautiful (valued at 20 million dollars a kilo, almost nothing), known as the "unobtanium" (English "unobtainable", or something difficult or impossible to obtain), which parallels the infamous "coltan." This hidden treasure under the Mother Tree, home of the clan of the race Omitacaya Na'vi, is said to represent a clear reference to American ambition for foreign oil motivated the war in Iraq. To seize the precious mineral, the rude and insensitive boss base security, Colonel Quaritch, which new barbarian and primitive savage always ready and willing to carry out the actions most cruel and violent as possible, justify a war that happens when someone has something you want and refuses to give it and "responds to terror with terror" . As apparent alter-ego or psychological reincarnation of the infamous theocratic George Bush, Quaritch's character reminds us too much, unfortunately, his predecessor pathetic in real life.

the contrary, the Na'vi humanoid civilization on the planet Pandora, confuses us, fortunately, since Siendones initially presented as a savage tribe of primitive and undifferentiated, we showed in a religious attitude to life and much more spiritual green, high, compassionate and integrated into the life and nature (stage IV, adualism, transpersonal, and postconventional supraegoico), characteristic of an individual and global consciousness more advanced and promoted, while Jain carries clear echoes, but mostly Buddhists, where even the animals are given a spirit when, referring to an animal hunted and killed by necessity, the clone Na'vi Jake says: "Now his spirit is Aiwa. His body will be part of the people ". To add Neytiri: "A clean death. Now you're ready ". Words that implied that Jake has stood the test purity and is able to access the beginning of a journey of initiation.

this higher level of religiosity is called "panentheism mystical term which states that" all nature is alive and integrated into God or Goddess ", without any dualism or separation in time or in space. We must clarify that "pan-en-theism" (meaning: all of nature-in-God) is a very different concept of a "pan-theism" hard-nosed atheist, who argues that "the whole of nature is God ". The God of panentheism is the creator and the vital energy of the universe and the source natural law. Religiosity Na'vi moves to that level, what Goethe called "Religion of Nature", according to the terminology of the philosopher once Espinoza to define the highest possible state of religious feeling. A stadium is a step, step and go!, Above all monotheistic religion and any official Orthodox Church, all dams and stagnant until today in the fierce dualism ( see: Goethe, in: "Conversations with Eckermann, March 11, 1832 ). Even Einstein said that this integration of body-mind-spirit is the only religion possible stage highest and most evolved of the spirit, and the only rational hope to both evolutionary madness. More recently, a parallel concept called "integral spirituality" has been coined by American philosopher Ken Wilber, who in turn agreed that if there is a reason for the existence of religion, or religion, is to help human beings to evolve through their consciences in order to get up in spirit to the highest possible up to the indivisible unity with Divinity immanent-transcendent (as taught by the most peaceful and spiritual worldviews peacekeeping non-dualistic religions such such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, apart from Plotinus, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Panikkar, San Juan de la Cruz, and even that "God and I are one" of Jesus of Nazareth, etc.). And is that "our enemy is dualism," he asserted accurately Raimon Panikkar.

Certain concepts of Transpersonal Psychology help a deeper symbolic interpretation from the opening scene between the clone and the horse Pandoran Jake, who at first throws their mount, or better would be to "frame and its ego "as a new Paul of Tarsus road to Damascus. Something similar happens in the taming of the great bird who elect him so that Jake can only ride the rest of his life. But Neytiri alert you before allowing tame ride him and "try to kill you" . And that is why we carry human beings throughout their lives and trying to kill us, that beast to tame, then we must first overcome and transcend? ... The damn ego. Once that new test initiation and rite of passage, the final union of horse and man, in body and mind, as the "Centaur", or what is the same two people in one and forever, without any separation or traces of dualism. Indeed, the level of non-dual consciousness, or adualism, has been called the "centaur" by Ken Wilber, as there is "beyond ego" itself, and defined by the same Wilber as "the high level of integration of mind, body and emotions in a unit of the highest order, a 'whole deep '". It is crucial then jump psychic crisis and overcoming personal / transpersonal leading to Paul of Tarsus, now more understandably, to say "It is not I but Christ lives in me" . In parallel, Jake Sully Jake is no longer above but has since begun the transfer of their being and personality for the Avatar Na'vi living in it and in which he lives, and that its purity "choose" the purest spirits in the form of sacred tree white, semitransparent and harmless medusillas flyers.

The big problem in many human beings to ascend arises when the violent and competitive dominance of the egocentric stage III the most benevolent awareness, comprehensive, compassionate and post-conventional stage IV, we are required to go through a great personal crisis, both physically and conscience, even experience a "psychological death" as highly demanding and crucial rite of passage. In this sense, modern psychology has taught us that before rebirth is necessary to die, but similarly we also know Thanks to psychology and philosophy initiatory and symbolic proposal, mysticism and New Testament parable, that "whoever wants to save the life will lose it and whoever loses the win." That is the demand unavoidable, but now more understandable, the ceremony of passing and great critical test, as happens to the hero Jake Sully in the movie. This reflects what is known as "narcissistic ego crisis" , in the terminology of Transpersonal Psychology.

The ascent to the awakening of a new consciousness , Jake Sully who literally refers to the beginning of the film with a subliminal "at some point you have to wake up" , the evil head of security at the space station "Gates of Hell" calls "betrayal to your race" . From now on the inevitable war between two different evolutionary stages of consciousness, and therefore psychologically confronted, is served. From that moment there is no turning back, has reached a point of no return. Since that time, to fly on spacecraft can only be used VFR for "visual flying rules" , or visual flight rules, or as we informally translates the driver Trudi Chacón, go where see. The sudden evolutionary change that suffers from that moment life perspective paraplegic Awareness Jake - along with the flats that every candidate must have a hero to ascend from one stage to another - makes the soldier Sully imbues us, while imbuing himself is unaware of some of the key concepts of Buddhism, such as reincarnation, when he says: "One life ends and another begins" , or, when your mind and spirit will be transferring to his clone: \u200b\u200b "It will be like being born again" . This coincides perfectly with Wilber's claim to define the concept of "hero" of "healing injured "as " one who tries to jump to the next stage of consciousness ". And everything rite of passage, however hero who one is or is created, is a very difficult climb, dangerous and lonely at the top. Finally, in the final scene of "Avatar" will come to a complete transmigration of the spirit or soul of Jake at his Avatar. Jake, man, dies, and in which life saving "the Na'vi humanity, but rises again, as a symbol of the resurrection of Christ or a Buddha reincarnation transmigrate to achieve fully - now no longer depends conveyor machine human mind to that of Avatar Na'vi - reviving cloned independently in their bodies to open their eyes at the final instant, while his body lies inert at his side, dead.

Unfortunately, botany Augustine Grace, played by Sigourney Weaver, not survive his injuries, but his soul is integrated into the Tree of the Ancestors "Tree of Souls, which is in intimate contact with the Mother Goddess Aiwa as manifested through the transcendence of spirit. And it is true that the divine wisdom (magic) always showed us hidden in a beautiful tree with a large symbolic content posted by Divinity at any wonderful paradise. In Pandora is the Tree of Souls of matriarchal Goddess and the myth of Eden is the Tree of patriarchal Father God (a personal God that men interpret and give life to it as "someone" victimizer increasingly authoritarian and to revenge). Finally, at least from the aesthetic point of view, the dusty debris of the destruction of the matriarchal Mother Tree "Avatar" to some viewers have reminded them of the World Trade Center during that bloody September 11 of those phallic twin towers, to then symbols of imperialism, strength, power and money patriarchal. Wink Coincidence or intentional? We will have to ask the director of the film.

Later, Jake will be linked to the sacred tree to try to convey their prayers and pray for the protection of the people Na'vi through the intersection of the soul or spirit of the late Grace transcended the deity of Mother Nature Eywa . Jake asks for help to mims long been recognized as "the chosen of the Godhead." The connection is not a fallacy or invention, or a primitive voodoo, we are told in the film while struggling with the uncomfortable SEGUMAR 3D glasses. "works!" . And boy does it work!, Add / add some Gnostics. A fact that is demonstrated or check in the film when the princess Neytiri exalted and exultant shouts Jake, Eywa heard you "!" , while all wild animals Pandora get from the people in the battle of Armageddon against " demons come from the sky ". There, in the floating triumphant "Hallelujah Mountains" , whose landscapes and summits will take place "salvation" in an apocalyptic and miraculous victory against evil Eywa, the deity who had told us Neytiri " does not take sides, but only maintains the balance of nature " (a deified Nature to Rousseau, Goethe even better than what or what Lao Tzu, for that not to fall into the famous "Pre-Trans Fallacy"), has finally taken the side of good. The fairy tale where the prince slays the dragon and kills him to free the princess from his clutches and then marry her, is nearing the end. And bunting, red ...

Besides the influence on the director of "Avatar" appear to have been able to have the wisdom of anthropological writings of Mircea Eliade, in a recent interview, Cameron said: "I tried to follow the Bible literally ". Evidently so! Just realize, what a coincidence!, which on its revolutionary, or rather, "evolutionary" movie, the space station the U.S. military is called "The Gates of Hell" ("Hell's Gate"). And what is all that is supposed to be out of the gate of hell? For the devil, of course, in this case the shape of a scary mother ship commanded by Colonel Quaritch, along with his fallen angels escort ships, a shuttle curiously called "Dragon." Another "coincidence" it, if you consider that "dragon" is the word used repeatedly in the Bible to define the Devil ( "the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, and was cast to the earth and his angels were with him precipitates" (Revelation 12:9). The Bible also called the Devil : "the red dragon from heaven" (Revelation 12:3). Match up the colors with the Grand Dragon Jake doma clone to leave behind and below him, or overcome, "the last shadow that might obscure their spirit. The metaphor is that when mounted and Domenico, Jake has expired, but still only interior and spiritually, the devil, the devil. Now is the Avatar chosen by Providence, and thus recognized by the returning Jake Na'vi clan with them.

Good finally has overcome the evil, at least in the fictional planet Pandora . But for a start, do not despair. At one point in the film Na'vi Jake had told the goddess Ewya: "I am the chosen one" , another known name of Christ as God's chosen (or son symbolic). This will be, thanks to the mystical activity of natural law (namely the Taoist wu-wei or elan vital of Henri Bergson ) in the redeemer and savior of "humanity" Na'vi.

Hopefully Avatar Na'vi Jake and awareness also contribute to short-medium term that humanity in the modern man of Huxley's Brave New World has lost its soul, compassion, unity, respect the planet, and his Faustian desire to dominate nature always invincible even at the cost of destroying and destroying itself, has almost wiped out all life in general, human, animal and plant. "In the land have destroyed everything green leads a last message" Avatar "to what remains of Western civilization that has become little more than an" accidental uncivilization. " "Humanity have what humanity deserves ", comments echo the words of Albert Einstein from the beyond, although he did not believe in that, at least on a personal level. In the end, the defeated, humiliated and inhuman human beings Pandora forced to return, due to deserved "his dying planet" . And humanity has been "civilized" East and West, which has long opened the mythical Pandora's Box releasing all the evils and misfortunes of others: the greed, unsustainable growth, rampant selfishness and materialism, the exploitation, poverty, pollution, aging, illness, fatigue, folly, vice, passion, tragedy ecological, cruelty to animals, political and ethnic violence, crime, etc.. Everything but hope. Although perhaps all is not lost yet. Perhaps even have a second chance. Maybe we'll find some loophole to get out of this growing hell. Maybe ...

© 2010, Salvador Harguindey


Dr. Salvador Harguindey
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