Don't you just love the Avatar movie? Wasn't seeing it the biggest 3-D screen viewing experience of a lifetime? Of course you've seen it, having grossed more than $1 billion in less than three weeks of being released. Written and directed by James Cameron, no movie has ever grossed more money other than his film Titanic.
The Avatar story takes place on a far away moon called Pandora. Pandora is such a beautiful place that after the exhilaration felt in the theater, regular life seems drab in comparison. Yes, this world is not like lush Pandora. That realization of hard reality is making people depressed because they know our world is lacking. And ain't it the truth!
"Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas." -- Michael J. Cohen
The movie is about the All-Mother and the religion of Nature. Where has it gone? It was once all there is, but alien ideas of separation, artificiality, and domination have done their darnedest to try and wipe it out. Thing is, even though the religion has been suppressed, Nature still rules. Nature is still both the universe and the cause of it. Our ancient ancestors saw that, and modern scientists through keen methods of observation are rediscovering it.
"Nature is the unseen intelligence that loved us into being." -- Elbert Hubbard
When you commune with pure nature, you just know things, because everything is connected. Without grounded contact with that source of all life, our understanding of its mysteries gets replaced by ignorance, doubt, superstition, blind faith, fanaticism, and tyranny. Our Earth and everything grown from it is no longer seen as living and feeling. They get considered as things. Things to conquer, own, dominate... and through this attitude they get destroyed.
"Man talks of battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side." -- economist Fritz Schumacher
In the movie you heard a whole room full of people laugh at the Deity depended upon by the residents of Pandora. That Deity encompassed the whole planet. Today people dismiss Earth religion because they look to the sky and say their Deity is beyond. BUT THE SKY IS NATURE TOO! There is no getting away from Oneness. Why separate yourself and deny the relation of everything? Is it to say you are different from everyone else? Better than anyone else? Well, just like the sky people in the movie, look what happens when you do that!
"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think." -- Gregory Bateson
We have a deep bond with nature and all living beings. Maybe by cultivating this awareness and letting it move us in love, our planet can once more become a paradise. Today we are seeing a growing respect for others and the earth we live on. Seeing images of Pandora in the movie evokes something we have lost and makes us feel home sick. The story of Avatar brings up an archetype of our interconnectedness. That is from where beauty flows. Notice how beauty tends to absorb us into its clarity. The closer you get in appreciation of nature, the more beauty you perceive.
"We have repressed far more than our sexuality: our very organic nature is now unconscious to most of us, most of the time, and we have become shrunken into two dimensional social or cultural beings, aware of only five of the hundreds of senses that link us to the rich biological nature that underlies and nourishes these more symbolic and recent aspects of ourselves." -- Norman O. Brown
The message of the movie is that we need to re-align with nature in a religion of harmony because we are all ONE. We are all children of nature, children of the Great Mother. Everyone and everything should be accepted and respected no matter how seemingly different they are from you. You may have once been just exactly like them in a previous vehicle, body, incarnation, or avatar if you will. It is Nature's way of balance. She does not take sides, is not for or against anyone.
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
In the Vatican's newspaper called L'Osservatore Romano, Gaetano Vallini criticizes the Avatar's aspect of "spiritualism linked to the worship of nature." Well, without links where does that leave us? DISCONNECTED! Catholic means universal and there is nothing more universal than Nature.
"For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts." -- Seneca the Younger circa 25 A.D.
Nature provides all our needs freely when not owned and exploited by Mr. Monopolizing Middleman Corporation for profit.
The story of Jesus correlates with the Avatar. He was born of the Mother, not in a fancy inn, but out close to nature among the animals. In harmony with Nature, he was able to do things like walk on water. He said we should be able to do even more than what he did, saying that we are no different from him. He often clashed with those claiming superiority through political position or dogmatic religious belief because Jesus was more aligned with the free ways of nature. It was when he got in the way of their business of making money that those powers moved to destroy him.
The very same thing happens to the Na'vi people of Pandora. The stories are totally congruent and have identical messages if you just look to see them. A scholarly investigation will reveal that Bible stories are actually derivatives of older pagan tales. The resurrection of Jesus is inexorably tied with the celebration of spring because that is what Nature does. She renews and resurrects. Just like we can do by following Her Will.
"The purpose of life is to live in agreement with nature." -- Zeno, circa 520 BC
At a ceremony where The Avatar won the Golden Globe for best drama picture and James Cameron best director, Martin Scorsese gave a Gavin Stevens quote that William Faulkner wrote for the character in his book "Requiem for a Nun" saying, "The past is never dead, it's not even past." Past, present, future, you, me, them, us... everything is interconnected, so to argue one form against another is nothing but bigotry.
Depictions of blue people are not new and worship of the Great Mother still exists in Hindu India and She is worshipped everywhere whether you know it or not. There is a book called "The Living Goddess, Reclaiming the Tradition of the Mother of the Universe" by Linda Johnsen, that quotes from a classic text called "The Mystery of The Triune Goddess." It is a scripture where the Divine Mother says, "Who and what I really am--cosmic awareness so vast I effortlessly hold trillions of universes in the palm of my hand--is beyond the capacity of human minds to understand. Therefore imagine me in whatever form appeals to you, and I promise in that very form I will come to you."
Diversity of form does not preclude oneness of spirit. So now you know, and with this knowledge have the ability to look and say, "I see you."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." -- William Shakespeare circa 1580
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Why We Like the Music We Do
What is music? All sounds are comprised of sound waves. What distinguishes music from other sound waves is the manner in which the sound waves vibrate and decrease from loud to soft. Dropping a metal pan on the floor presents jarring, erratic vibrations. Striking a note on a piano chord presents a softer more uniform and smooth transition from loud to soft. Obviously, a musical note is going to be much more pleasant to the ear.
There’s an old adage about how “music sooths the savage beast.” Not only is this true, it is actually an understatement. Music plays such a profound part of our lives, that we will barely scratch the surface here, but let’s give it an overview.
All of us grew up with certain songs or instrumentals that strike a chord that reverberates through our entire being. For example, when I hear “A Summer Place,” it immediately carries me back to summer months in the fifties. The experience is so profound that I can remember the feel of the sun on my face, the smell of hot dogs cooked over an open fire and the laughter of friends and family.
There is a theory that certain notes or chords resonate with a vibration that is particularly harmonious to specific people. Have you ever heard a song that gave you “goose bumps?” If so, then you give validation to this theory. When this occurs, the music has a profound affect on the subconscious. Add intense emotion to the equation and you have one powerful, indelible, blueprint on your subconscious that will follow you the rest of your life.
For example, let’s say that you receive news of the death of a loved one while a specific piece of music is playing on the radio. That particular music may have a lasting impression. Years later, for no apparent reason, you may find yourself immediately thrown into a state of depression upon hearing that same tune. The same can be true of “positive” feelings as described in the story above.
The subliminal effect of music is a proven fact. How often do you find yourself humming a fragment of a tune that you can’t identify only to discover that it’s a new “commercial” message you heard on your television. The advertising industry pays huge amounts of money to conduct research into why and how music works on the subconscious mind. This is also the reason why you see the recent trend by large companies to reconstitute classics originally performed by some of the greats of stage and screen.
Just for fun, the next time you find yourself humming a tune, try and remember when, where and under what circumstances you heard it for the very first time. The exercise will probably help you to better understand how past events have shaped your musical preferences. And, I’ll wager that the next time you hear “A Summer Place,” you will remember reading this article.
Happy Listening!
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There’s an old adage about how “music sooths the savage beast.” Not only is this true, it is actually an understatement. Music plays such a profound part of our lives, that we will barely scratch the surface here, but let’s give it an overview.
All of us grew up with certain songs or instrumentals that strike a chord that reverberates through our entire being. For example, when I hear “A Summer Place,” it immediately carries me back to summer months in the fifties. The experience is so profound that I can remember the feel of the sun on my face, the smell of hot dogs cooked over an open fire and the laughter of friends and family.
There is a theory that certain notes or chords resonate with a vibration that is particularly harmonious to specific people. Have you ever heard a song that gave you “goose bumps?” If so, then you give validation to this theory. When this occurs, the music has a profound affect on the subconscious. Add intense emotion to the equation and you have one powerful, indelible, blueprint on your subconscious that will follow you the rest of your life.
For example, let’s say that you receive news of the death of a loved one while a specific piece of music is playing on the radio. That particular music may have a lasting impression. Years later, for no apparent reason, you may find yourself immediately thrown into a state of depression upon hearing that same tune. The same can be true of “positive” feelings as described in the story above.
The subliminal effect of music is a proven fact. How often do you find yourself humming a fragment of a tune that you can’t identify only to discover that it’s a new “commercial” message you heard on your television. The advertising industry pays huge amounts of money to conduct research into why and how music works on the subconscious mind. This is also the reason why you see the recent trend by large companies to reconstitute classics originally performed by some of the greats of stage and screen.
Just for fun, the next time you find yourself humming a tune, try and remember when, where and under what circumstances you heard it for the very first time. The exercise will probably help you to better understand how past events have shaped your musical preferences. And, I’ll wager that the next time you hear “A Summer Place,” you will remember reading this article.
Happy Listening!
Music that Heals
Read Music Notes Easily
How to sell you music on itunes
Recently Viewed Sites
USB Turntable
2012 theories
rent games online free trial
golf courses
humminbird fishfinder
cheap hotels in rome
platinum mens engagement rings
best electric food smoker
fish tank aquariums
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