Avatar

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Just what does this poetry have to do with Avatar? I think it is more that just the idyllic world portrayed in both this verse and in the movie.



Do you remember the comic strip Flash Gordon? He invents a rocket ship and goes off to save the world. This was science fiction in the comic book world in the 1950’s. Then, the sound barrier was broken, (suggesting space travel could be possible), Yuri Gagarin went into space in the early sixties, and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969. Now, numerous probes into outer space and amazingly strong telescopes are providing us with information that virtually proves that there are other earth-like forms out there. A lot of science fiction has become science.

Today our current science fiction is Avatar in 3D (remember 3D comic books?). But, we are no longer trying to save the world - we are destroying it for profit. We have become the bad guys. Is the same foreshadowing at work here in the current sci-fi?

I’ve always liked to think that we are moving into the Age of Aquarius – a new age, loving, gentle, peaceful, sharing world. Our tribal tendencies are giving way to the needs of the global village. Metaphysics suggests that we can very possibly exchange molecules (but maybe not exactly like they do in Avatar or the way they did with Beam my up, Scotty). Even time warps are beginning to exert a new reality.

Could William Blake have known something in the early 1800’s that was only discovered in the mid 1900’s? Did the writer/writers of Flash Gordon have some kind of future knowledge? Has James Cameron possibly been gifted with this ability as well?



Go see Avatar. I thoroughly enjoyed it.