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[henry]

glowing reviews for Avatar . my hollywood gumshoe instincts tell me that "Unobtainium" may have the same bio-chemical profile as Ormus . ready,set, go!

[Jana]

Definitely high spin stuff as it is antigravity, and shiny like rhodium and iridium. It also grew the biggest tree on the planet. It was an amalgamation of various mythologies...the expression of love "I see you" was namaste, there were polynesian words in the language, Am-indian appearance...and the earth currents and energies reminded me of Herbert Friedman's daughters books CS Friedman.
Incredible art direction/design.
It appears that the human body is very primitive compared to the Omaticaya. Since they are able to directly mindmeld with other animals they embody far greater sentience than one organism alone. This fuses them with Nature and so they become guardians of the "Tao" of the balance of Nature...their mother goddess called Eywa is the "spirit" of all Nature combined...the "creator of them and their world."
The Omaticaya represent what we humans have lost with our insane divorce from nature, due to our creation of sky Gods of war...and abstract fictitious spirituality that condones killing and ecocide in an all out drive of the ego for power. To the sensitive human the presence and way of the Omaticaya would represent a fierce attraction for a return to the sanity and vibrancy of the Real. A return to human dignity and self-love that cares for the All as it genuinely cares for itself. And that care is evolutionary, it grows sentience, love and union with Spirit.

Yes we do have similar one-mind abilities, but they have been stymied by  eons of trauma, control, suppression and repression. Raw foodism and regeneration in Nature are perhaps the greatest method of reclaiming our lost receptors and sensitivities. Self-communication is the sensory organ of communication with the All, and this primary intimacy has been undermined by our material collectivism, which overrides truth to preserve the power mechanisms in the group hierarchy. We come into the world relatively sane, and then are made progressively insane by the discombobulated culture. The more superconducting light that flows in the body, the more  at One we are with our environment...to the point of global psi. We do not need sensory amplifying transhumanist technology...we just have to cleanse the doors to our own perception and exercise the abilities that we already have. ORMUS represents a fast route back to our Self and greater communion...but we risk treating it like another drug without remineralization, rawfood, Nature's energies, kundalini initiation and the exercise of our abilities.

[feral]

Just watched the Michael Douglas movie "The Game" for the second time.
Interesting metaphor for life. Guess I'll have to wait till I'm dead to find out how accurate it is.

"The purpose of the Game is to find out what the purpose of the Game is."

Woo hoo! What a ride!

[jimtzu]

i watched this movie last night  http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=19092
well worth checking out, if you don't mind subtitles.

Departures (Regent Releasing) is an exquisite cinematic masterpiece that is funny and sad and all the emotions in between; it touches the heart with its treatment of beauty, music, death, and abandonment.

[Michael]

Thanks for the reco Jim.  Downloading it now.

I really like the movie The Game.  So much so that I really wish someone would do a re-make to get it right.  It's such a fine metaphor for life, but the film-makers fumbled a bit too much with that particular aspect, stressing too much the Hollywood thriller aspect IMO...

It's partially about scaring ourselves* to death with our* interpretations of our* experiences based on our* interpretations of our* stories.  And then we* die.

* Speaking for myself and my cat...

[Liz]

I LOVE that film, one of the best ever. First time I saw it I knew nothing about it..brilliant!
Liz

[henry]

we also need reports/reviews on the much ballyhooed "Avatar"

[feral]

i watched this movie last night  http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films.php?id=19092
well worth checking out, if you don't mind subtitles.

Departures (Regent Releasing) is an exquisite cinematic masterpiece that is funny and sad and all the emotions in between; it touches the heart with its treatment of beauty, music, death, and abandonment.

Wow Jimtzu, thanks for the recommendation. That was a really, really fine movie. I was very touched by it.

[jimtzu]

glad you liked it, i thought it was great. i found it off this site http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/features.php?id=19235
i've seen a few of these..  i doubt any will match Departures tho.

[Daniel]

Roger Dean

http://www.rogerdean.com/

 influence big time in the landscaping of Avatar. The floating rocks, arching landscapes, dragons, etc.

His name was not in the credits. The film is a direct Roger Dean rip off.

http://io9.com/5426120/did-prog-rocks-greatest-artist-inspire-avatar-all-signs-point-to-yes/gallery/

Still, good to see his work come to life on film in 3D.

Dan

[Jana]

Floating islands is big throughout sifi and visionary art. Especially german and russian...Vladimir Kush for example.
Roger Dean is one of my favs.

[Michael]

One of my favs too.

Just got back from Avatar.  Yes indeed, a stunningly beautiful movie.  A wonderful concept of the avatar, and a vividly realistic realization of an alien worldscape.  But marred IMO by a rather tired and wornout storyline of the stupid, disconnected technologically powerful vs the noble, beautiful and grounded indigenous.  Yet still all too timely unfortunately.

Sometimes I feel like I'm an amnesiac avatar stuck on the planet of the stupids.  I bet I'm not the only one who sometimes feels that way...

[Daniel]

Who influenced who? Vladimir Kush or Roger Dean ? Or someone else? Where's the genesis, anyone? I agree with Michael on the plot line, I guess they had to go through the motions to get a general message out to a general audience. It's grossed $1.48 billion so far if that is any indicator of the influence the film will have on mass consciousness.

[Jana]

People read the Avatar at their own level. There really needs to be a full length documentary of the worlds greatest philosophers talking about this movie, because the most basic points are not being received...such as it takes all of our human technology to even begin to touch the sentience of the Na'vi. People are also not aware that this so called war on terror is simply a front for resource wars and pipeline territory etc... This idiocy must be the old brain blood lust in action and an overwhelming desire to "belong" to a successful authoritarian group. Religion has so screwed up the basic dignity of Man we become easy pawns in the hands of psychotic leaders. This is so because the Gnostic, pagan and Druidic wisdom of the deep human has been lost to us over the centuries as the Machine has grown like a cancer on the body of man.

[henry]

there are a couple of interesting pieces about Avatar on realitysandwich on Heartmind's home page today....has anyone seen James A. Sinclair's "What if?" A wee too new agey ? my kind of science fiction anyhoo