After the most destructive war in their history, people struggle to re-establish the life-style they remember. That is the setting for the movie Hugo. A wounded veteran of the First World War is the police authority in the Parisian train station. His world is the shops, vendors, the travelers, and the trains. He lives in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Avatar’
Hugo’s Steam Punk World
Posted in gnostic wisdom, Movie Reviews, Reincarnation, Spirituality, Theosophical Society, tagged Avatar, Gnostic, Indwelling Spirit on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Charles Who?
Posted in Leadbeater, Liberal Catholic Church, Peyote Ceremony, Reincarnation, Theosophical Society, tagged Avatar, Eagle, Krishnamurti, Native American Church, Raven, Spirituality, Sweat Lodge on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes we need to listen to the spirit, which speaks in strange ways. Like women pastors continually calling one by a different name. After too much synchronicity we eventually pay attention. Why do all these spiritual leaders call me Charles? Who or what are they responding to? Is the Spirit speaking through them trying to tell me something?
Become Green “Man”
Posted in Carl Jung, I Ching: Book of Changes, Initiation, men's issues, Mentoring, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Alchemy, Avatar, Erotic love, Gnostic, Men's Movement, Organic, Wisdom on January 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Become a Green Man dedicated to the re-greening of the planet. Start your own group of allies, other men who want to belong to the greenmen’s lodge, the universal brotherhood of man. All indigenous society attempts to live in harmony with the environment. She is the Mother who gives us birth and takes us into herself when we depart for the spirit world. How can we save her right now?
Bright Shadows and Dark
Posted in Carl Jung, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Avatar, Grandmothers and Aunties, Psychology, Shadow, The Feminine on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Grandmother’s wisdom on how to recognize, dispell and integrate the shadow qualities of our personalities is offered here. Imagine her as a Na’vi spiritual counselor talking to Jake Sully in Avatar. Can you hear what she is saying? Can you see her?
The Ordained Fire
Posted in entheogens, Initiation, Mentoring, Peyote, sacred ceremonies, Spirituality, tagged Avatar, Indigenous, Native American Church, sacred ceremonies, Spirituality on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Traditions of indigenous people are passed to intiates when they have proved themselves. We see how this works in James Cameron’s Avatar. In today’s world of multiple culture mixing, such as we have in the United States, misunderstandings can easily turn into woundings and conflicts. The Native American Church is no exception. Even though its major tenet is love, when there is poor communication and lack of understanding the subtle expectations of indigenous traditions, painful rips in the fabric of community often are the result. When I took care of the fire for the first time the other night, I had many insights . The films Avatar and Dancing with Wolves came to mind and how my brother and sister’s European upbringing worked at cross purposes with the mission they have taken upon themselves. Judging others wrong often means seeing our shadow traits in the people closest to us. When we don’t try to understand one another, we wound. All of this could be healed if we followed the advice of our elders and “try to get along.”
Avatar 3D Making the Invisible Visible
Posted in Dreams, Initiation, Movie Reviews, Psychology, Spirituality, Synchronicity, tagged Avatar, Dreamwork, Indigenous, Psychology, Spirituality, The Matrix, Wisdom, Zeitgeist on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Art is prophetic and Avatar in 3D shows us how to manifest the future. Cameron’s visual feast demonstrates a very familiar story of conflicting values between the indigenous cultures and the conquering mindset. It also makes visible the relationship between us and our dreams, how we can be Dream Walkers in an alternate reality. The myth of Pandora structures the magical setting for Avatar. Her curiosity about what is contained within the mysterious box creates its opening. She releases pain, suffering, and death upon the people. What is the last gift in the box? Hope. That’s what Avatar is all about, hope for the future if we can act together to save our Mother Gaia.
