Every once in awhile a movie comes along that captures you, heart and soul, like no other. This is my experience with Avatar.
I don’t know that I’ve ever been so entirely inside a movie while watching it, and though there have been other movies that have moved me deeply, I can’t recall another movie that has ever taken me inside its world in such a way that I felt it undesirable to leave that world when the movie ended. I felt at home on Pandora, and like characters in the movie, I felt a longing to stay.
It’s been weeks since seeing it now and what I realize is that Pandora is not a distant planet. Instead, she is inside me. Everything that felt right and true to me about Pandora lives and breathes within me, in much the same way that the essence of Aloha lives and breathes within me. Living on Kauai stoked the flame, but the spark of Aloha was there all the time.
It’s All Inside
This is comforting somehow. To know and feel that something I see as outside myself…another physical location…is actually just a beautiful representation of those qualities that are alive and well within me.
Perhaps the very reason they appeal to me in the outer 3-D experience is specifically because they already exist within me, therefore my resonance barometer goes off and my recognition of alignment heightens my experience.
Of course that’s what it is. That’s how it works, doesn’t it? Everything I am is within me. And thus, everything that is attracted to me is a result of what is at play within me.
I love how examples like this carry the theory home with great ambition.
The more aware I am of my Brilliance, my true nature self…the more consciously and purposefully I draw that which is a perfect match into my reality.
The more I increase my awareness of this, the more that I choose to responsibly and deliberately create my world.
The more I focus on aspects of my reality that I cherish, appreciate, love and adore…the more those aspects become a part of my expanded reality.
This is why sometimes people ask me if I’m living on a different planet!! Hah! (Apparently they see my reality as quite different than the one they’re living and wonder just where I reside.)
Life on Pandora
Maybe I am living on another planet, in essence. In this case, we’ll see it as Pandora. (Forgive my references to the movie if you haven’t yet seen it…and if you haven’t…what are you waiting for?)
There is so much about the way of life on Pandora that is a match to my very own. Maybe not the extremely tall, sleek body…maybe not the blue skin…maybe not the remarkable agility and grace with which they move about. No, maybe not so much those things…but that’s just what’s on the outside, isn’t it?
It’s what’s on the inside that I’m referring to. It’s what is inside the words, “I see you” that are spoken several times with great meaning throughout the movie.
My resonance with the Na’vi, the people of Pandora is in what I see inside them. I see a people who know in every fiber, every cell of their being-ness that they are all connected in this great web of life. They see the connection. They feel it.
The Na’vi have a deep-rooted awareness of their reverence and appreciation for all life. They see the heart and soul of their fellow sentient ones, all. Plants, trees, sky, soil, two and four leggeds, winged and every other mix there is on Pandora. They see the Divine Essence alive and breathing in all…and by recognizing that essence, they know the truth.
The way of life on Pandora has much to share with us. The Na’vi clan can guide us to the promised land that lives within each one of us.
That part of me that is Na’vi is alive and well. She looks out at the world and sees hope, promise and life eternal. She looks out at each living creature and sees the heart that connects us all. She looks at you and smiles in recognition, “I See You”, she says.
And in those moments, absolutely everything is right with the world. And that moment can be every moment. It’s my choice. It’s our choice.
Through the Eyes of the Na’vi
- Can you feel it?
- Can you feel the heartbeat of our planet pulsing through you?
- Can you see the heart and soul of those around you?
- Do things look different through the eyes of the Na’vi?
- What if we chose collectively to see through these eyes?
- What if we made a plan, as a planet to see through these eyes…and we all agreed to do this on the same day at the exact same time, forever more?
What a tremendous transformation that would be!
From this day forward, I am committed to living the truth of the Na’vi within me. I am committed to seeing with the eyes of my heart and soul. I am committed to honoring what my heart-soul eyes see. I am committed to honoring my Divine Self…my Brilliance…the Light that is alive and well within me.
Will you join me? Let me hear you proclaim it!
19. January 2010 at 9:38 am
I felt it too, and am glad you are able to express it all so eloquently. I already made a commitment to myself to try to see all around me as it is with as much compassion as I can. Glad to have a fellow traveler
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19. January 2010 at 3:07 pm
Indeed, Fellow Traveler! I’m pretty sure I entered the world with this commitment and it feels so good to re-affirm it with deeper levels of understanding and heart as I journey on.
Thanks for reading, Sue…and especially for commenting. It feels good to SEE you in the stream. I LOVE your Ancient One Mandala…so powerful the messages each mandala delivers!
19. January 2010 at 10:28 am
Hey there. This article piqued my interest.
I saw Avatar a couple weeks ago, and trying to figure out how I feel about it is still driving me completely insane. I mean, I too found myself feeling a real connection and love for Pandora, so that by the end I almost felt like one of them. In fact I felt like I was going along with Jake at the exact same pace, learning more and more about the world, understanding it more and more deeply as it went on. I think there is a lot to learn from their way of life, but on the other hand I don’t feel so good about the implication that technology is evil and that we should *only* sit and be connected and hunt and meditate and ignore the human drive to create. Y’know? As a guy who loves both technology and nature pretty much equally, I can’t make heads or tails of my feelings on this, hah.
I suppose what I’m saying is that the world of Pandora would make a *wonderful* basis, but we could definitely stand to mix in some more modern elements, like how nowadays people can pretty much get where they want to be in any way they want, and are not so forced to one way by tradition, for example. Pandora seems to be a strange combination of new and old ideas about what enlightenment is (A lot of it feels right to me, but I don’t agree that being technologically primitive is any indication or requirement of being connected or enlightened). Overall though, there’s really something special about Pandora that does really affect me emotionally, and I See It through everything else in the movie, good or bad.
BTW, I love the phrase “I see you”. I think I’m really going to start using that in real life, it means something so vast and complex yet intuitively understood, in 3 little words. Like “I love you”, but less ambiguous
19. January 2010 at 3:31 pm
I hear you, Fen (So great to SEE you here, thanks for stopping by!)
The layers that exist within Avatar are multi-faceted and vast, for sure. That’s why it’s a movie that I will see several times…just to allow the space for the inner journey to continue.
I understand your concern around the implication of technology being evil…although, I don’t know that I got that…as much as the idea that people’s use of technology and their possible motives or agendas may have reason to be in question. (It’s not really ever about technology, is it? It’s about how it’s used and from what intention/vibe, etc…just like everything else.)
This is an age old archetypal story, really. Joseph Campbell style brought into this century with amazing technology. That’s the catch 22, isn’t it?
Which is why if we asked James Cameron if he meant to imply that technology was evil, I’m pretty sure he might think that would be a pretty interesting paradox…seeing as though it took him 4 years to create this movie (’cause he had to wait for the technology to meet his genius vision…& that was after waiting 8 years to even be able to begin at all. He sees the beauty in technology and his making of this movie solely depended on it.)
For me, I felt…in the undercurrent of the story, the parts unexpressed that the Na’vi may have a deeper understanding of technology than humans and that they would just use it differently. That might be my own fantastical desire to imply or include some Atlantian or Lemurian mythology to the story. LOL!
Remember the part where Sigourney Weaver’s character explains the nature of the ‘grid’…the grid of energy that connects all things? That single line for me implied a reverence for technology that the Na’vi held and never abused. (I know, it may be my Rose Colored Glasses-ness making quite a stretch)
Anyway…my sense is that if we were to remain on Pandora longer than the 2 3/4 hours they gave us…we would discover much, much more about their intelligence and how it is partnered with their consciousness and spirituality. (A girl can dream…)
I love the phrase, “I See You” too. In fact, when I heard it in the movie…I knew that’s what she was going to say. I could see it in her eyes…and I could feel it coming because I do say it, in this context and have for years.
I used to sing it to my son while he was still inside me…and after he was born I continued. I wrote it in messages to my nieces when they were babies. I’ve said it to my hubby. I’ve repeated it to my beloved critters. I love it…it feels so good. And you put it best, “…it means something so vast and complex, yet intuitively understood…”
Thanks for taking me deeper, Fen! In JOY…
19. January 2010 at 4:11 pm
Wow, great reply!
What you said is really interesting, because it makes a whole lot more sense than what I said, thinking about it now, haha. It sorta confirms my suspicion that I’m seeing something I want to see in order to get some kind of payoff… not sure what that is yet, maybe I’m afraid my physical-thing-heavy lifestyle (which I like) will disappear and feel the need to defend it? I don’t know, I’ll think about it some. I do remember the line about the grid, in fact that was one of the most memorable bits in the whole thing for me, so it’s funny that I kinda ignored it in my argument for some reason. Y’know what, I think I might have to see it again armed with your insight. I think I might see it in a whole new rose-coloured light. 
19. January 2010 at 6:19 pm
I love your introspective honesty, Fen!
Know what the most awesome part for me is? That a movie moves us to consider things. Movies have all sorts of purposes and to me, when one entertains, moves us to laughter, tears, emotional intensity…AND implores us to ponder, it’s WINNER.
We’ll have to come back here to continue sharing discoveries once we’ve both seen it again!
You’re awesome, Fen. Just flow in the feel good…the one that’s uniquely you, be open and ready for shifts that feel even better and you’ll always be good to go.
BTW~ You look GOOD in rose colored glasses.
19. January 2010 at 9:49 pm
I see you.
And yes, this movie totally spoke to me. When they walked the ground lit up. How amazingly metaphorical and real is that!?
May all our footsteps leave light and may we truly see.
Weeeee!!!
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19. January 2010 at 9:50 pm
What was that? How did link show up to my latest blog post? Sorry about that! Oh, I see it’s a box-thingie-feature I didn’t notice. Oops!
20. January 2010 at 8:06 pm
Great to SEE you, Alora!
I love that…
“May all our footsteps leave light and may we truly see.”
And so it is, Sister…so it is. In JOY!
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20. January 2010 at 8:35 pm
Great blog, Deb! I love Avatar!
20. January 2010 at 9:29 pm
Thanks Dave! …where’s your GRAvatar? Miss your sweet face! …it’s OK. I SEE YOU any way.