Love, love, love, love, love….
My husband and I are in Salt Lake visiting some of my family for the Thanksgiving holiday. He and I secured a lovely hotel room nearby, as my sister’s home is full to overflowing with babies, kids, grandmothers and greatgrandmothers… it’s full up.
Normally, we don’t watch any television nor do we have a large screen to view movies on… we just use a small computer to watch movies at home, so there’s this added addition of a huge television, front and center in our room. Last night, after returning from an incredible day of hanging out, eating and laughing together, my husband turned on the movie Avatar…
It’s a story that jumps out at me; a foreign planet with resources earthlings need to continue to live, that is taken over by said earthlings who use tremendous force to overcome “The People” of the planet Pandora. These people live in harmony with nature and listen to the whisperings of their ancestors by way of a tree that possesses a network connection to “all that is”.
How strange the truth of this movie is for someone like me! When I tap into things, I can see and sense the overarching connection we all have to all that is. Also, I perceive our bodies as the sacred mother “tree” so well depicted in this movie… It’s a lush and imaginative tale, peopled with a society governed by the females, supported by the males, committed to truth in every way.
REMARKABLE!
Do we actually think that there’s no connection to what we see in movies and the underbelly of our consciousness? Is there any way that all of us could miss the salient points so well exhibited in this story in our own lives, or perceive it only as the ramblings of a creative writer? Are the movies we watch and books we read just pulled out of someone’s imagination, or the direct influence of something much bigger than our small little selves possess?
No way… it’s all connected and it’s not a “story” so much as a possibility.
Being aware of other dimensions or planets is not so far fetched but can be seen as fantastic, for sure. Still, I was aware of the tears of recognition I had once the movie was over. As my husband drifted off to sleep I saw the healing circles that will be commonplace in our collective future, based on the imagery so generously offered by this movie. My mind was full of the fantastic imagery I generally see only in my mind’s eye, not in actuality and in blazing color right before me.
Wonder if we lived in a society that honored life above all else? Wonder if we lived in a time where relationships with other beings was commonplace and peaceful, instead of aggressive and grasping? Wonder if we were able to accept the richness of prayer as our first line of defense, not the last desperate resort?
These are just a few of the jewels this movie presented, but I imagine that much of it’s beauty (and importance) is lost on many. It’s simply an avenue for entertainment, nothing more.
Being immersed in my family’s lives; my sister and my mother, in particular, is many things. Mostly very wonderful, but there’s a slice of something bigger for me, too. Throughout most of my life, family has been important to me. Not only my children, but my sisters. Also, my mother had a great impact on me due to her determination and resiliency throughout the many heartbreaks and disappointments she lived through. What she showed me was love… she simply kept loving her daughters – no matter what.
Over the years, I have followed her example with my own children and it has been the secret of my success as a mother. Avatar had at its core, that same example… Love would always win out…even in the face of incredibly ominous odds.
Also, the power of numbers combined with the power of one. Many beings with the same intent have a much bigger impact on the success of an endeavor than just one or two. At the same time, the power of only one who KNOWS love and the presence of light is the absolute truth… and lives it… That one will overcome thousands of others committed to fear and darkness, no matter how loud they yell or how big their guns and bombs are.
Throughout time, the most powerful element of survival has always been love… without love, our little bodies would never have progressed to where we are today… Pure Love, generated via our instincts; to protect our young, provide for our clans and love for the earth that supported us.
The fact that popular culture insists that we are being richly provided for through our military might and apparent political leaders is laughable, but we allow this to remain, because we’re scared of the consequences.
A revolution of spirit is the next step in our collective evolution… not conquering some far off planet or a little country in the middle east.
In the movie, Avatar, the protagonist is a crippled soldier who becomes a part of The People’s tribe by taking an avatar body; one that looks like the people he is infiltrating. Where the military arm (led by a character who embodies the totality of darkness and it’s methods) thought they were gaining an inside advantage against The People by planting a soldier in their midst. What actually occurs is his defection to their way of living and commitment to support them instead of betray them.
He becomes like them; fierce and gentle, simultaneously. He adheres to the perspective that “life” does not only live in human-like beings, but the rocks and the animals… the water and the planet itself… In his acceptance of the truth of love, he becomes a leader unlike any they’d seen in generations, effectively overcoming incredible odds against the small people of earth.
At the center of this story is the old story of love between two beings, but it’s a smoke screen for the larger love of the connection everyone shares and how it’s capable of destroying the core of darkness completely. With one single prayer to something greater; all that is, rushes in to support a life that’s being lived with integrity.
What a thrill to see that… and what a wonderful idea. We could use some of that in our own society, but here’s a start… it’s a fairy tale that I’d like to come true.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all…