few weeks ago a colleague told me about a new film made in 3D technology. I'm not a fan of special technical innovations, and probably the movie I chose not to, if my friend did not betray the origin of the title. These few sentences sufficed, I realized that the New Age, finally lived to see his own "tier" of myth. I knew I had to see movie, so even to make the entry.
What did I see?
film takes a lot of threads lately fashionable in popular culture and ideology associated with the Age of Aquarius. You'll find the message label. Nature the beauty and magic. Destroy her evil, profit hungry people - heads of large corporations, who are nothing but economic pillars can not see.
find there also steeped in pacifism allusion to America leading the cruel war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
find display so well loved by his followers njuejdżu idea of \u200b\u200b"Gaia", appearing here under the name Eywa and - apart from the characteristics attributed to the Earth's biosphere by James Lovelock - also endowed with its own nervous system, great intelligence, "knowledge of the" minds of the living and dead people Pandora (the planet on which action is taking place).
film is also an affirmation of the "good savage" smarter than "civilized" greedy and selfish man. Savage, who "live a myth." Thus, the film itself is part of the tradition of the myth of a "good beginning", we should start to return, to give our life a deeper value (here just doubt that this type of return was for modern societies mentally feasible.)
most important, however, completely original and yet another myth is built in Cameron. It connects to the central theme of the story. This myth illustrates the concept of monistic form of parables. The concept, which is located in the mainstream New Age and radically opposed to Gnosticism, and any other dualistic philosophical and spiritual traditions.
Note that the story of Jake, a Gnostic myth put upside down, the "Hymn of the pearl" a rebours . Our hero at first thinks is a "man from heaven", and his body is a disguise that he had put on to fill "mission." Ultimately, however, reveals that this "avatar" is his true self. His "new birth" taking place in the last scene of the film, when it was finally cut off from what it was connected to "heaven."
Let us also note the use of the symbolism of sleep and wakefulness. Jake on several occasions, moreover, at the least appropriate moments, "falls asleep". Fan of him then, that as soon as possible might be awakened. However, wherewith they are falling asleep? They are returning to the world of "people of heaven." It's moments of "separation of spirit from matter." Dissociating from the avatar, from the body, but it is back to what is broken. Awakening and is full of growing acceptance of the return to the matter, the incarnation of all that is good. Using a typical Gnostic symbols and a reversal of their moral significance is certainly not accidental. Nor is it a coincidence that physical love, which for the gnostic or yogi is the bane for Jake turns out to be a way to discover the destination. To accept life in the world, but life wise, free from greed, a life full of respect for nature and respect for tradition.
film is an attempt to build njuejdżowego myth, sympathetic, because it reinforces what I believe in the Aquarian Age as valuable, while overcoming najobrzydliwszą - in my opinion - Spiritual tradition that has created mankind. Tradition of hatred of matter and incarnation, and so - really - a tradition of hatred for existence.
