Comments on: Avatar is real http://lila.info/articles/text/deep-ecology-text-art/avatar-is-real.html Visionary Art, Contemporary Sacred Art, Outsider Art Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 99 http://lila.info/articles/text/deep-ecology-text-art/avatar-is-real.html/comment-page-1#comment-1781 99 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:19:36 +0000 http://lila.info/?p=990#comment-1781 While watching Avatar, it was clear to me that this movie was not only about the destruction of Amazonian land and it's indigenous natives, but also of it's precious plants, which include Ayahuasca. That was clearly the mother tree and how they got their visions and knowledge in Pandora. We had an exhibit at the time Avatar came out at our gallery, called "Ayahuasca Visions" by Pablo Amaringo, and it turns out, Pablo's paintings were all in 3D! We discovered this accidentally, and everyone who saw the exhibit would all comment on how it was so much like Avatar. Since Pablo passed before the movie's release, we can all safely assume, that perhaps filmmaker, James Cameron has experienced the Aya brew and this is his way of sending out the message from mother Aya. Although not direct fact story telling, I'm hopeful and certain, (after reading your stories and comments) that the thinly veiled story of Pandora is already in our consciousness and we are aware that something must be done. Soon. Now. With peace and love, Yvonne/ aka 99 While watching Avatar, it was clear to me that this movie was not only about the destruction of Amazonian land and it’s indigenous natives, but also of it’s precious plants, which include Ayahuasca. That was clearly the mother tree and how they got their visions and knowledge in Pandora. We had an exhibit at the time Avatar came out at our gallery, called “Ayahuasca Visions” by Pablo Amaringo, and it turns out, Pablo’s paintings were all in 3D! We discovered this accidentally, and everyone who saw the exhibit would all comment on how it was so much like Avatar. Since Pablo passed before the movie’s release, we can all safely assume, that perhaps filmmaker, James Cameron has experienced the Aya brew and this is his way of sending out the message from mother Aya. Although not direct fact story telling, I’m hopeful and certain, (after reading your stories and comments) that the thinly veiled story of Pandora is already in our consciousness and we are aware that something must be done. Soon. Now.

With peace and love,

Yvonne/ aka 99

]]> By: core luminous http://lila.info/articles/text/deep-ecology-text-art/avatar-is-real.html/comment-page-1#comment-1726 core luminous Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:01 +0000 http://lila.info/?p=990#comment-1726 These stories which you have told, and more, is what the movie SHOULD have been telling, not as an allegory, but as FACT, if it was to really help a shift in empathy and awareness. It should also have exposed the conditioning the Corporations people underwent in their society so that they behave as such and rationalise their abuse. That same conditioning inculcates emotional blindness in the 'ordinary' folk of the Power countries.. This is avoided in all current discourse about these issues. Unless it is included, what hope is there of success? It is carefully conditioned consumers who pay for the goods made from these abuses, and thus they actually fund the abuse, unwittingly so in most cases. No child is born with such qualities. A South American friend was listening to some Europeans talking animatedly about the coming 'apocalypse' within the context of 'conspiracy theories', 2012, and interjected - "Don't panic! It's already happening!" They didn't get it ..... There is a dangerous subtext to this allegory, which is the stimulation of the concept of a 'just war', a glorification of 'good' violence, which might drive some foolish people to violence,which then becomes and 'excuse' for the Governments and Corporations to apply even more violence... These stories which you have told, and more, is what the movie SHOULD have been telling, not as an allegory, but as FACT, if it was to really help a shift in empathy and awareness.

It should also have exposed the conditioning the Corporations people underwent in their society so that they behave as such and rationalise their abuse. That same conditioning inculcates emotional blindness in the ‘ordinary’ folk of the Power countries..

This is avoided in all current discourse about these issues. Unless it is included, what hope is there of success? It is carefully conditioned consumers who pay for the goods made from these abuses, and thus they actually fund the abuse, unwittingly so in most cases. No child is born with such qualities.

A South American friend was listening to some Europeans talking animatedly about the coming ‘apocalypse’ within the context of ‘conspiracy theories’, 2012, and interjected – “Don’t panic! It’s already happening!”

They didn’t get it …..

There is a dangerous subtext to this allegory, which is the stimulation of the concept of a ‘just war’, a glorification of ‘good’ violence, which might drive some foolish people to violence,which then becomes and ‘excuse’ for the Governments and Corporations to apply even more violence…

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