I know it's been a while since it came out, but I finally saw the movie Avatar in 3D. It was awe-inspiring in terms of the beauty of the film--and in its message. There are those who read messianic overtones into the character of Jake Scully. I do not. To me, though, he is a kid with attitude who grows into a man of character and integrity who serves what he believes in.
There are those who see an environmental message in the movie--it's there but the movie is about much more. I think you can see much of whatever you value in the movie. What do I value? God. So I saw the spirituality in Avatar.
Some people oversimplify things and consider indigenous peoples, like the NaVi in the movie, pantheists or those who deify nature. I think it's much more complex than that... Their concept of the divine, Eywa, is much more than just "nature" or even a "nature spirit." These people have a sense of the sacred contained in all of life, a mystical spirituality.
I believe in the sacredness of nature too, but I'm not a pantheist. I'm not God. You're not God. But we are all living within God--as St. Paul said, in whom we live and move and have our being. And God lives within us.... so I believe in a Creator who is much more than the created--yet who is intimately connected with us, His creation.... God is within all, yet is more.
I saw the Avatar movie as embodying something similar--an Intelligence within nature, something that heard prayers but might not answer them. And this sense of God intimately involved with creation, of a caring, loving God, is the God I believe in.
I loved how the NaVi people would place the tips of their plaited hair into a place on an animal to link up with that animal--to see through the same eyes, feel with one heart, think with one mind. And it is convenient in the visual medium of a movie to have a physical linkage. But we have the ability to link spiritually without doing something physical like that.
I have always loved pictures of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. For an example, please go to
image. I wasn't raised Catholic, but when I rediscovered Christianity as an adult, I resonated with the picture--I would gaze deeply into Jesus's eyes, feel a tug in my heart connecting my heart to His, and just feel loved... and feel love for Jesus.
You can do this with Jesus yourself, even without a picture. Feel love circulating between your hearts... or you can do this to connect with an animal. Think of your beloved cat or dog, and feel love beaming from your heart area to theirs and back again. It's a good way to reconnect with someone after you've been angry.
I asked the angels for a message:
God is Love. God's love exists within every part of creation. The movie chose to visualize an exquisite connection of all of nature and the indigenous people of the planet. But really, the connection should have extended even to the humans who were determined to exploit the planet. God is not absent from those who reject Him--He is just not perceived. Yet God is still there. Love is still there in the midst of hatred--just unheard.
God is Love. God is loving. God is loved. You are loved by God--share that connection by loving yourself, loving others, loving God.
The interconnection between you and others is not at the level of your differentness, your uniqueness. Your interconnection with others is at the level of the most sacred commonality--you are each the created of a benevolent Creator, you are each the beloved, loved by God. Even if there is a rejection of the nature God would find ideal, there is that inner spark of the divine creation within all--reach for that when you have difficulty loving. You don't have to like to love, and you don't have to spend time with anyone you don't want to--just see God within the person. Because God is there.
That is the true lesson of Avatar. That there is a quiet core of inner light, that God has seeded all of creation with. Some listen to their souls and their light expands. Others feed darkness and encase their light somehow. Yet even covered, the light shines. Remember the light. Remember to love. That is what is truly divine.***
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