Using the Avatar Experience to Improve Yourself and Improve the World

[auroraglacialis]

There are a couple of more movies and documentaries with similar messages . Avatar was definitely not the only one, but it was the one that had quite a huge impact, also because of the powerful images, borrowing heavily from dreamscapes and psychedelic imagery. I have to admit when "dances with wolves" and "emerald forest" came out in the cinemas (yes I am really that old ) - I was as deeply impacted as many of you here by Avatar. Together with the novels of Jean Auel about a life in the palaeolithic these never left me ever since. I had the longing for a different way to live ever since then. And recently I have found an interesting bit:

It seems that back in the times of the American frontier, it happened quite a few times that natives were captured by whites, put into schools and treated well, basically became adopted in a family. At the first chance they really had to choose freely, they returned to their tribes. Nothing special so far, huh? But get this: Also the natives captured some white settlers, kept them for a while but the ones that have been freed and returned to the settlements atfer some time there took the choice and returned to the tribal people. This went as far that the military and government posed death sentences on settlers who defect to the native peoples! Isnt that amazing? Similar thing happened in the 1960ies - literally thousands and thousands of well educated white middle class people left all that to live in a commune or in a trailer. Back in history, kids often ran off with the circus. But the fact that on prisoner exchanges between native americans and the american settlers, the natives ran back to their family happily while the white people had to be pushed along says everything.

There always had been something to it - to a different way of life, one in which community, interdependance, freedom and acceptance, spirituality and equality, abundance and affluence is part of the daily life. And it is not a myth, as people want to make us believe, that these people really have a good reason for that. It is not a romantic fantasy about some utopian life - it is reality, proven by the behaviour of the people who have experienced that. The old hippies that still live in their communes, the native people who do not want to become civilized, the anthropologists, missionaries, settlers that for one reason or another spent long times with native people and either have a hard time leaving, a strong longing to return or simply go for it

Avatar and the other movies made us as moviegoers experience a tid bit of that and even this sparks in us the need - the desire - the deep wish to "go for it". So it serves as a motivator, as a kick in the butt, as an inspiration to strive for our dreams.

If I have started doing something for the world - I have to say that the effects are not what I wish for. I mostly needed the past year to put togehter a puzzle, to look into myself and to become stable in my visions and the way I look at the world. I mostly talk - to people here, to our "Revolutionists" group, to people at work about possible futures and probllems we are facing. I enjoy one thing a lot - edicating young people about nature. I like showing them how to shoot with bow and arrow, to show them that one can cook over a fire and that there are live animals involved in many things we use. I want them to know that milk is made by cows, that people can make things out of wood with just hand driven metal tools. So that little bit I probably what I really did to influence the future. But I definitely intend, once I have progressed a bit more in my own journey, to go for more than that.

Oh - on the 1000 aliens thing - I am aboslutely not convinced about that article. It is buying too much into a techno-utopian view about "we will solve all our problems with enough technology" and going to space as the ultimate goal for humanity. People will become bored once they solve all their social problems and then die off? WTF - just look at the incredible abundance of different cultures on Earth - one can travel a lifetime and not see all of them. Of course, if you are bound to destroy all of them and replace them with a single starbucks.culture, you might actually get bored. But even then - if a collapse results from that - following would be a new cultural abundance than once more can spread. I do not think, that a species is bound to die off just beacuse thes do not find other civilizations to talk to.

@Tsyal - do you want to describe your Techno-Tribe society with us? I would like to hear about it