Avatar: 5 Spiritual Lessons Revealed
Jan 20th, 2010 | By Arlene | Category: Spiritualityby Amy C.…
Avatar, a 2009 movie directed by James Cameron, has several spiritual lessons embedded in it. Here are the top 5 spiritual lessons from the well acclaimed must-watch movie.
1. Everything is Alive. Each particle of creation is filled with awareness, life force energy, spirit, and intelligence. These objects have different consciousness than ours. The universal consciousness, also known as ‘Animism’, is an integral part of several primitive cultures. This beautiful planet on which we live is not a dead lump of rocks circulating around the sun in space. Everything in this earth is pulsating with energy. Every culture knows it differently. Chinese calls it Chi, Indians call it Prana, Japanese call it Ki. The “bio-botanical neural network” described in the movie is real and we can experience it by increasing our consciousness. If there is one thing that I take home from this movie, it is that we should treat this earth and every living and non-living thing on this earth with respect and love. The “tree of souls” is as real as you believe it to be.
2. Love is the most powerful purifier of all. When our heart is filled with love, it heals us. This positive frequency goes out from us and resonates with everything around us. The heart filled with love creates electromagnetic field that affects the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual well-being. Love purifies the spirit. It cleanses the soul.
3. Everything is born twice. Your physical birth is simply the beginning of your consciousness. What you do with your life and how you earn your place in the community decides your second birth. Most people never reach the level of consciousness to be born again. To be born again, a person has to earn his or her place in the community. A real warrior has to earn place in the community by cultivating fearlessness and good heart.
4. Balance is the key to all life. “Mother earth does not take sides; she protects only the balance of life,” a quote from movie reveals that mother earth promotes balance and harmony over everything else. Several Hindu and Zen spiritual theories promote balance and harmony as well. For long term sustainability, nothing takes precedence of balance.
5. This world is a collaboration of energies and every individual has something to contribute. Everybody has a purpose in life. Living a purposeful life puts you in attunement with rest of the universe. All the life force energy comes to your aid when your purpose is in attunement with betterment of the universe as a whole. “All energy is only borrowed…You have to give it back” - a direct quote from the movie reveals the quintessential aspect of how energy of both living and non-living things interacts and creates our universe.
Living your life by these 5 principles is bound to fill your life with love, joy, and serenity.
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Amy C. is a tabletop fountain artist. She invites you to browse through her calming bamboo water fountain collection to rejuvenate your senses and refresh your mind.
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Great article on the 5 spiritual lessons contained in Avatar. I just finally got to see it last night. I would give it a ten out of ten. Loved every minute of it. I would also agree with these five lessons. One of the major lessons I resonated with is that Mother Earth is alive and that we need to respect it and all the living things on earth. We are all one.
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Thanks Annie.
It is a great movie!
Glad that you enjoyed the article.
Thank you very much Arlene, i like the fifth one that every energy is borrowed and you might have to give it back someday, we usually have the tendency of owning something and getting attached to something that is only temporary.
Born twice is a real challenge, to be accepted in the society, and to contribute what you came with, i was just finishing writing about “The law of one”
Also i was wondering which culture are these principles based on? is it Hindu? native american Buddhism? in case if you have any knowledge on that one
Hello Hubert - Thanks for your kind words.
A lot of people believe that this principles are based on Native American culture.
I personally believe that all the basic spiritual principles are same, regardless of the culture or religion. I was recently reading “A New Earth” from Eckhart Tolle, and I was really amazed by how all the religions and cultures represent the same values and beliefs at their core level.
Glad to know that you enjoyed the article.