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
Director, Institute of Biology and Medical Oncology Clinical Endocrinology
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