tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592299285314049812.post7768395805304852338..comments2023-05-10T03:12:14.823-07:00Comments on Twilight Traveler: Avatar and PaganismTwilight Travelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09448409786117732696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592299285314049812.post-15107827436779898872015-11-29T16:02:16.271-08:002015-11-29T16:02:16.271-08:00this post is deeply moving, if I may say. You'...this post is deeply moving, if I may say. You're not just reviewing the movie, you continue to create under its influence in your soul and the result, is that by considering so many layers all intertwine in the heart of the ages. Its an archetypal movie, and as a symbol it keeps on producing meanings. It brought me back to the day I saw Avatar and to some sort of deeper truth that echoes like a longing for something distant yet familiar - this essential psychic connection to nature. I just realized that tension in between Paganism and Christianity and as you accurately say, it so well expresses the evolution of these deeply religious attitudes in the wstern world. Where are we heading as a species? The sacredness speaks mysteriously. The cinemas are the new chapels for fantastic travelling, plugging inner realities instantaneously to the viewer's dreams! I think this is one of those movies to awake collective consciousness channeled by Morpheus and Morphina. <br /><br />The energy of that matter-tree its so alive and yet death keeps coming so strongly, perhaps as a remembrance from all trees mutilated in the name of God. The modern missionaries of economy keep christianizing the world, as deprived from beauty and light, as they were 500 years ago. <br /><br />"A cry went through late antiquity: 'Great Pan is dead!" Plutarch reported it in his 'On the Failure of the Oracles,'yet the saying has itself become oracular, meaning many things to many people in many ages. One thing was announced: nature had become deprived of its creative voice. It was no longer an independent living force of generativity. What had had soul, lost it: or lost was the psychic connection with nature." <br />J. Hillman, "An Essay on Pan." In Pan and the Nightmare. <br />New York and Zurich, 1972.<br /><br />Alongside your visual style of writing, please allow me to share some images<br />they are from an image folder where I gather all that reminds me off the subtle atmospheres of the movie. <br /><br />Luckily I could find their links online:<br /><br />https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Lactarius_indigo_48568_edit.jpg<br />(LACTARIUS INDIGO - it just so reminds of the Avataresque world in blue tonalities)<br />https://www.pinterest.com/pin/552957660473697918/ (REGENERATION)<br />http://fictionart.tumblr.com/post/4002954190 (ART IS CONTACT)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592299285314049812.post-67412613834387222932011-03-09T20:22:19.611-08:002011-03-09T20:22:19.611-08:00The question/challenge also arises as to what happ...The question/challenge also arises as to what happens when a Real Avatar appears on the planet?<br /><br />www.kneeoflistening.com<br /><br />These two references have some congruence with the themes of the Avatar film.<br /><br />www.fearnomore.org/literature/observe_learn.php <br /><br />www.aboutadidam.org/readings/bridge_to_god/index.html <br /><br />www.beezone.com/news.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592299285314049812.post-57687400853343813902011-03-09T20:02:49.022-08:002011-03-09T20:02:49.022-08:00Good review.
I would suggest that this film was/i...Good review.<br /><br />I would suggest that this film was/is a Parable for our time.<br /><br />But who were the pagans, or more correctly the barbarians in the film?<br /><br />According to the usual definition anyone and any culture who/that is NOT a Christian or a scientific "realist" IS a barbarian.<br /><br />Having already "created" a dying planet (just like we have), the techno-barbarian invaders were compelled by the inexorable logic/drive of their death saturated "cultural" meme to conquer "virgin" territories (just like we always have).<br /><br />It was interesting to observe the response of so called conservatives to this film, especially those that presume to be religious.<br /><br />They are came out loudly for the techno-barbarian "culture" of death.<br /><br />When did the True Avatar appear in the film?<br />I would suggest in the very last frame.<br />The two seemingly lifeless dead bodies of Jake were somehow enlivened by a mysterious force, and woke up as a completely new being/entity, and hence cultural possibility.<br /><br />Jake's earth body knew at the somatic level all about the Earth-world culture.<br /> <br />Via a comprehensive series of initiations Jakes Navi double (body) had learnt at the somatic feeling level all about the Navi culture and their lived shamanic understanding of the all pervasive enlivening Spirit(s) of Pandora.<br /><br />The new being, that is the awakened Avatar, was a spontaneous manifestation who combined a deep organic/somatic understanding of both world-views. And thus the possibility of transcending them both.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592299285314049812.post-34425013169138073062010-01-31T08:08:53.579-08:002010-01-31T08:08:53.579-08:00You're right, my sister who is an evangelical ...You're right, my sister who is an evangelical did not see much more in the movie but an amusement park ride. I haven't seen it because of my constitutional antipathy to the popular but you make me want to check it out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com