During the New Year break I went to watch the new movie Avatar without any expectations. To be honest, the trailer didn’t grab me at all. It gave me the impression that this was going to be just another action movie. I went to see it mostly by lack of choice. I was completely blown away…

It turns out that it’s one of the most spiritual movies I’ve ever seen. After the Matrix, of course. Obviously, the special effects were fantastic, the movie flowed well from beginning to end, the script shows impressive research and depth of meaning, but what really got me is how well they present the essence of the Na’vi people.

The Na’vi are the indigenous population of the planet Pandora, being invaded by a technologically advanced group of humans, who, in 2154 still do what they’ve been doing for thousands of years: push the indigenous population out of the way to rape their native territory of its resources. It’s also mentioned that the human race had by that point wiped out pretty much all natural life forms on Earth, which was now a decaying planet. They have killed Mother Earth.

In contrast, the Na’vi people live in complete harmony with their own planet and all life forms on it. They respect Life. Not only do they respect it but they are One with Life. They communicate freely with other life forms and are aware that as much as they need to take from Life to survive, they also know when to give back Life to their All Mother, Eywa. Eywa is the source of all Life: past, present and future. It is the heartbeat of Pandora. Eywa is Life itself.

Even when they speak of themselves they speak of ‘The People’, as if the differences between the individuals of the group didn’t really matter. They always try to find the best solution that will be the most beneficial for the whole tribe. They are bonded to the collective consciousness of their tribe as well as to the collective consciousness of other life forms: they are One with other people, the trees, the animals and their sacred tree, the ‘Tree of Souls’, by which they communicate with Eywa.

The difference between the Na’vi people and modern society is that their connection with Life fulfills them completely. There’s nothing they desire or want that they don’t already have. The invading mining company unsuccessfully tries to find the ‘carrot’ that will convince them to move out of the way, but the Na’vi are already happy and fulfilled. They don’t need anything else than what they already have. They have the Life Connection state, which is one half of Ultimate Happiness.

I see Jake Sully’s story as the journey of his own ‘awakening’. As he learns from the Na’vi to reconnect with Life, his whole world is turned upside down. He realizes that the world he has always lived in is the fake world and the new world he’s just found is the real world. He has found the way out of the Collective Reality Trap, just like Neo in The Matrix. He has found Life.

In the state of Life Connection, the need to have or desire something you don’t have does not arise. You don’t do things because you need the outcome or the object, you do something because you chose to do it. And that choice is made in harmony with all Life, keeping everything into balance. It’s not about taking, it’s about sharing. It annihilates what I call the Bottomless Ogre, which is the part of you that’s not you, the one that keeps wanting something you don’t have yet. The part that’s never completely satisfied, that sooner or later wants more again. Happiness is always somewhere around the corner.

When you read my book you’ll notice many common concepts between Avatar and certain characteristics of the state of Ultimate Happiness, or the lack of it and the obstacles between you and happiness. The fact that the Na’vi are often seen at night, the fluorescent light of Eywa, the physical neural connection between species and to Eywa’s roots, the music in which you can sense the flow of Life, the bioluminescence of the plants, they are just so spot on.

Even some of the main characters clearly embody various concepts of my theory: the Colonel Quaritch represents very accurately the phenomenon that I call the Guard Dog, and the man in charge of the mining operation, Parker Selfridge, impersonates very well what I call the Bottomless Ogre. The mining company, its people and operation, is just about a perfect analogy of the Collective Reality Trap we live in. I could nearly swear they’ve read my book (even though that’s not possible because it’s not out in bookstores yet…)

You might think that my book is a colourful novel by now, but I assure you it’s not. I just like to use lots of parables and analogies to make certain concepts easier to undertsand. My theory is based on direct experience with the essence of Life through my own experimental research project, not on any other work, legends, myth or book. It’s not a coincidence. The Universe is talking to you via several means.

Avatar is definitely a movie I recommend seeing, and even if you’ve already seen it maybe you’ll see it in a new light with what you’ve just read. I’ve seen it twice already and planning to go a third time. I’ve read some blog comments where some people have already seen Avatar half a dozen times and more, in just over 3 weeks… If you are ready to hear that message, Avatar will make sense to you and you’ll be able to appreciate its philosophy well beyond the special effects or the story. Avatar is definitely a masterpiece. But even more than that, it’s a message of Life.