I’ve been hearing about Avatar: The Last Airbender for a few months now from my co-worker and on podcasts, and last night I found the live action movie on Netflix. I wanted to get the gist of the story in an hour and half rather then like 6 hours from the show, and it was amazing.
The world we live in today is drastically different than the world of our ancestors-ancestors-ancestors, and it’s become imperative that we rediscover the secrets of that time. What is it we need to remember to overcome the slavery, the oppression and the endless wars we inherited from our immediate ancestors?
Are we magicians capable of great power or are we lower class citizens incapable of finding a well paying job?
In the aftermath of every war and every battle, we have lost most if not all, of our sacred knowledge. For many of us, we disconnected ourselves from those far reaches of our history and traded it for some strange state of hypnosis we call modern life.
I’m certain that in the teachings lost, we will find the importance of our individual power and restore the balance that was once here on earth.
Getting back to Avatar:
The Fire lord and his Fire army conquered many of the lands on Earth and they plan to claim them all, even the spirit worlds, but with the discovery of the Avatar, a 12 year old air-bender, the earth has a chance to take it all back.
This is symbolic to the zombie like state we find our populations around the world in. We’ve been convinced that we have no earth bending abilities and we must remain in our prisons while the Fire lords conquer the planet.
Avatar’s symbolism is unique in that we need to resurrect something that we forgot long ago to get out of our vegetable like stupor. Do we need to resurrect a person that will show us the way or is that person inside of us? There’s a duality to this understanding: how we definitely need help to awaken and that we also need to have the courage to awaken ourselves.
“Instead of seeing what they want you to see you got to see the possibilities.”
Support Each Other
You can’t stand alone, as much as you’d like to define yourself and be an individual you also need to surrender to the love others can offer you and the love you can offer them. There’s a reason every major philosophy talks about the importance of balance and the duality of nature.
“You are angry, you need to let this go. As the avatar you are not meant to hurt others.”
You can find this film and the show on Netflix by the way.
