Observations From Avatar - Are the Na"vi Prehistoric Or Advanced?
Recently I had the chance to watch Avatar.
The film is very rich on many levels, however, all through the movie the viewer gets an understanding of the of the Na'vi people's appreciation of the energy between us all.
It is very difficult to work out if in fact the Na'vi are meant to be advanced people or a race that hasn't advanced as far as our modern society here on earth.
Western culture is very individual.
My family didn't have any understanding of a connection of energy between people or between people and other living things as far as I am aware.
However, my mother has a very strong connection with her two daughters.
Often I will call Mum and Dad and if they are out, then Mum will often say that one of us is trying to call.
So, a connection is evident.
However, it is often explained as a coincidence.
Maybe out of purely lack of understanding, but also to avoid knowledge of a kind of superstition or maybe a black art associated with witch craft.
In Avatar, the Na'vi people connect with other living things and they connect through a powerful universal source.
Jake links to a Toruk (dangerous flying predator) via fibres that run from his hair into a kind of antenna on the Toruk.
At first the Toruk resist taking a rider when they are broken from the wild.
However, once the Na'vi people bond with a Toruk, they are able to communicate with that animal as if by mental telepathy.
There is an interesting parallel between the very physical link between the Na'vi rider and the Toruk and natural horsemanship or natural dog handling.
In horsemanship, the connection between rider and the horse is so precise and subtle that the rider only has to think the command in their mind and the horse will know.
I have been on highly sensitive horses and given a leg command that was too physical and had the horse buck and kick as if to protest my ignorance! Similarly, when there is a bond between a dog and a handler, there is communication that in the case of working dogs has no physical link but the dog and the handler understand each other perfectly.
My father understands this relationships very well.
Deepak Chopra explains the energy and the connections the best I think when he talks about how the basic particles, the energy that moves through us all, at some time has moved through so many other parts of our environment.
When you look at the world from that view, it seems naive even to think of each individual as an isolated part of the universe.
When I first came to New Zealand, I was confused by the Maori understanding of shared being and I would have said that this was a representation of a less developed culture.
Now, some 10 years on, I am revising my understanding to one of knowing that through some of modern societies technical revolution, we are losing some of that important understanding that was known by previous generations.
The film is very rich on many levels, however, all through the movie the viewer gets an understanding of the of the Na'vi people's appreciation of the energy between us all.
It is very difficult to work out if in fact the Na'vi are meant to be advanced people or a race that hasn't advanced as far as our modern society here on earth.
Western culture is very individual.
My family didn't have any understanding of a connection of energy between people or between people and other living things as far as I am aware.
However, my mother has a very strong connection with her two daughters.
Often I will call Mum and Dad and if they are out, then Mum will often say that one of us is trying to call.
So, a connection is evident.
However, it is often explained as a coincidence.
Maybe out of purely lack of understanding, but also to avoid knowledge of a kind of superstition or maybe a black art associated with witch craft.
In Avatar, the Na'vi people connect with other living things and they connect through a powerful universal source.
Jake links to a Toruk (dangerous flying predator) via fibres that run from his hair into a kind of antenna on the Toruk.
At first the Toruk resist taking a rider when they are broken from the wild.
However, once the Na'vi people bond with a Toruk, they are able to communicate with that animal as if by mental telepathy.
There is an interesting parallel between the very physical link between the Na'vi rider and the Toruk and natural horsemanship or natural dog handling.
In horsemanship, the connection between rider and the horse is so precise and subtle that the rider only has to think the command in their mind and the horse will know.
I have been on highly sensitive horses and given a leg command that was too physical and had the horse buck and kick as if to protest my ignorance! Similarly, when there is a bond between a dog and a handler, there is communication that in the case of working dogs has no physical link but the dog and the handler understand each other perfectly.
My father understands this relationships very well.
Deepak Chopra explains the energy and the connections the best I think when he talks about how the basic particles, the energy that moves through us all, at some time has moved through so many other parts of our environment.
When you look at the world from that view, it seems naive even to think of each individual as an isolated part of the universe.
When I first came to New Zealand, I was confused by the Maori understanding of shared being and I would have said that this was a representation of a less developed culture.
Now, some 10 years on, I am revising my understanding to one of knowing that through some of modern societies technical revolution, we are losing some of that important understanding that was known by previous generations.
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