Hello,
Below are 3 different articles that were sent to me today about Avatar. As we probably all know, Avatar is the biggest box office hit in history.
Yet I have a few VERY BIG QUESTIONS.
The first article is from CNN and says that the movie is making many people depressed and even suicidal. Then there are the articles following saying that the movie is a beautiful insight into higher consciousness and James Cameron must have been inspired by Earth Angels or Star people or the like to make such an incredible movie.
Now I shouldn’t make any judgment because I have not seen the film – nor do I intend to see the movie.
Initially, when I saw the trailers and promotions for it, I had no intentions of seeing it. The trailers and the promotional material was, for me, the biggest turn-off possible. Obviously the rest of the world thought differently.
Then I read these articles and began to think, well maybe there’s another side that I missed in the publicity.
So this afternoon, I went onto the Avatar official website and I was so depressed and angry YET AGAIN just by watching the trailers and reading the promotional material.
So I’m interested in your opinion.
HERE’S HOW I SEE IT – even though I haven’t see it at all 
Again, keeping in mind that I’ve not seen the movie.
BUT from the trailers, I see it as arrogant, greedy Earth humans out to exploit – AGAIN – a beautiful sensitive race on Pandora purely for the greed and money they can make out of Pandora’s resources. Not enough that we rape and exploit our own resources here on Earth. And these horrid Earth humans in the movie don’t care what they do or who they hurt just for the almighty dollar.
I have nothing whatsoever against money or becoming financially rich. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU DO IT and it must be done without hurting or exploiting others!
I can sure understand why people might come away depressed. As I said, I get angry and depressed just by watching the trailer. I also get so angry and upset by that sort of thing each day here on Earth when I watch the evening news. I don’t need to pay to go and see it in a very big way at the movies.
Having Said That – Let me Say this …
My training as a Philosopher taught me to always look for other perspectives.
And so, apart from the cinematography and incredible filming techniques which I’m sure that I’d love, I can see that there could be another perspective to the movie that is also very positive. And that’s why I’d love your opinion.
Now, I don’t really know , but I could put forward the possibility that James Cameron wanted to present to us the incredibly negative and despicable attitudes that all too many people here on Earth have.
And he did it by contrasting the arrogant, greedy Earth humans – the badies; with the beautiful Spiritual 5th Dimension people on Pandora - the goodies.
If this is the case, and it well could be, then my question still is “has it succeeded in doing what it’s meant to do and that is to give a heck of a lot of greedy humans on this planet a kick up their 3D back-side?”
Yet Again,
As Richard Boylan highlights in the 3rd piece below. This is an opportunity to see what living in a beautiful, harmonic, and loving world could be like.
Therefore, if so many people are getting depressed by watching the movie and getting a REAL EYE-FULL reminder of what a lot of our Earth world attitudes here are really like.
THEN what about if we all start to make Pandora here on Earth.
It really is possible to do. And my current research indicates that this is the time that we can do it.
If you’ve seen the movie, let me know what you think about it all.
Love
Kashonia
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ARTICLE #1
Audiences experience ‘Avatar’ blues
By Jo Piazza, Special to CNN
January 11, 2010 8:06 a.m. EST
CNN) — James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle “Avatar” may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
On the fan forum site “Avatar Forums,” a topic thread entitled “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible,” has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.
“I wasn’t depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ,” Baghdassarian said. “But I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don’t have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed.”
A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.
“That’s all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about ‘Avatar.’ I guess that helps. It’s so hard I can’t force myself to think that it’s just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na’vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie,” Elequin posted.
A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site “Naviblue” that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
“Ever since I went to see ‘Avatar’ I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na’vi made me want to be one of them. I can’t stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it,” Mike posted. “I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in ‘Avatar.’ ”
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.
Cameron’s movie, which has pulled in more than $1.4 billion in worldwide box office sales and could be on track to be the highest grossing film of all time, is set in the future when the Earth’s resources have been pillaged by the human race. A greedy corporation is trying to mine the rare mineral unobtainium from the planet Pandora, which is inhabited by a peace-loving race of 10-foot tall, blue-skinned natives called the Na’vi.
In their race to mine for Pandora’s resources, the humans clash with the Na’vi, leading to casualties on both sides. The world of Pandora is reminiscent of a prehistoric fantasyland, filled with dinosaur-like creatures mixed with the kinds of fauna you may find in the deep reaches of the ocean. Compared with life on Earth, Pandora is a beautiful, glowing utopia.
Ivar Hill posts to the “Avatar” forum page under the name Eltu. He wrote about his post-”Avatar” depression after he first saw the film earlier this month.
“When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed … gray. It was like my whole life, everything I’ve done and worked for, lost its meaning,” Hill wrote on the forum. “It just seems so … meaningless. I still don’t really see any reason to keep … doing things at all. I live in a dying world.”
Reached via e-mail in Sweden where he is studying game design, Hill, 17, explained that his feelings of despair made him desperately want to escape reality.
“One can say my depression was twofold: I was depressed because I really wanted to live in Pandora, which seemed like such a perfect place, but I was also depressed and disgusted with the sight of our world, what we have done to Earth. I so much wanted to escape reality,” Hill said.
Cameron’s special effects masterpiece is very lifelike, and the 3-D performance capture and CGI effects essentially allow the viewer to enter the alien world of Pandora for the movie’s 2?-hour running time, which only lends to the separation anxiety some individuals experience when they depart the movie theater.
“Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far,” said Dr. Stephan Quentzel, psychiatrist and Medical Director for the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. “It has taken the best of our technology to create this virtual world and real life will never be as utopian as it seems onscreen. It makes real life seem more imperfect.”
Fans of the movie may find actor Stephen Lang, who plays the villainous Col. Miles Quaritch in the film, an enemy of the Na’vi people and their sacred ground, an unlikely sympathizer. But Lang says he can understand the connection people are feeling with the movie.
“Pandora is a pristine world and there is the synergy between all of the creatures of the planet and I think that strikes a deep chord within people that has a wishfulness and a wistfulness to it,” Lang said. “James Cameron had the technical resources to go along with this incredibly fertile imagination of his and his dream is built out of the same things that other peoples’ dreams are made of.”
The bright side is that for Hill and others like him — who became dissatisfied with their own lives and with our imperfect world after enjoying the fictional creation of James Cameron — becoming a part of a community of like-minded people on an online forum has helped them emerge from the darkness.
“After discussing on the forums for a while now, my depression is beginning to fade away. Having taken a part in many discussions concerning all this has really, really helped me,” Hill said. “Before, I had lost the reason to keep on living — but now it feels like these feelings are gradually being replaced with others.”
Quentzel said creating relationships with others is one of the keys to human happiness, and that even if those connections are occurring online they are better than nothing.
“Obviously there is community building in these forums,” Quentzel said. “It may be technologically different from other community building, but it serves the same purpose.”
Within the fan community, suggestions for battling feelings of depression after seeing the movie include things like playing “Avatar” video games or downloading the movie soundtrack, in addition to encouraging members to relate to other people outside the virtual realm and to seek out positive and constructive activities.
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ARTICLE # 2
Since I’m in the medical field as a NP, I’ve been hearing about people
becoming depressed after seeing the movie Avatar. Here’s an article on
this:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html
What I’m wondering is if this is part of an awakening of the general
population?
This seems like an incredible opportunity since so many people are seeing Avatar to let people know that we can live in harmony with our own Earth/planet being and that there are places here that are amazing and beautiful. And that the joy they feel comes from being hooked into a system that recognizes them as a valued and loved member.
I think what people are sad about is feeling the harmony and communication and interdependence depicted in the movie, then returning home and turning on TV to one of the deadening offerings they have.
Despite all the social networks, we are really not “connected” to people in general.
Read the comments in the article – it seems like this is a real opportunity for more education. I recognized the feelings of depression as those I’ve had when returning to the “default” world from a gathering that focuses on creativity, communication and kindness (for example, returning from the StarSeed conference in TN a few years ago). It’s
hard to get back to the uncaring, cookie-cutter world.
And just as an interesting side note – I saw an interview with James Cameron who, when asked how he came up with the idea for the world of Pandora, stated that he didn’t come up with it — he wasn’t that creative. He was taken there many years ago and he had been trying to figure out how to convey what he saw and learned there!! Pretty
interesting, huh!?
In Light,
Kat Fasnacht
ARTICLE # 3 – in response to the above
From: UFOFacts@yahoogroups.com [mailto:UFOFacts@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Kat Fasnacht
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:59 PM
Subject: [UFOFacts] More preparation for Disclosure and move into 5th world??
Kat, I’m assuming that NP stands for Nurse Practitioner, and not Neurolinguistic Practitioner.
Your final remarks about the director of the film Avatar, James Cameron, are astounding. James Cameron is of course a Star Seed. But then you go on to describe an “interview with James Cameron who, when asked how he came up with the idea for the world of Pandora, stated that he didn’t come up with it — he wasn’t that creative. He was taken there many years ago and he had been trying to figure out how to convey what he saw and learned there!!”
Did Cameron go on to say how he was taken to the equivalent of the lovely forest moon Pandora? Was it physical travel in a starcraft or out-of-body travel, perhaps accompanied by a Star Visitor Guide?
And who took him there? Was it the Zeta? Or some other Star People?
Since Avatar just broke the box-office records of all time and is now the highest grossing film in the world, meaning that many tens of millions of viewers world-wide are getting their consciousness altered and uplifted by this depiction of what Fifth World society might look like on some worlds.
Could it be that the Star Visitors provided this vision to James Cameron’s mind so that this inspiring film could come out now to help people see tangibly a bit of what a reformed and transformed Earth society might function somewhat like?
While some viewers may have felt depressed coming out of Avatar back out into our polluted, power-and-money-hungry world, many more came out touched and inspired about what a society in total harmony with nature and each other might look like.
In the light,
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
www.drboylan.com/
President, Star Kids Project, Ltd
