Saturday, July 17, 2010

Avatar and What Do the Bleep Do We Know? – Metaphysical Implications

Energy beyond our understanding is a dominant theme of both movies.


Metaphysics, the study of our origins which relates to and includes the studies of ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology, is the ultimate connection to the understanding of this energy. Common threads include: This energy contains an organization that reflects accurately, perhaps in the form of a “Life Force”, all that has gone on before, such as past lives, souls of ancestors, and forces that have an effect on the present and the future and/or entities that can exert a force on the future of lives, healing forces, etc. In What Do the Bleep do We Know and other sources such as The Field by Lynne McTaggart, and The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot, also eminent physicist David Bohm, a colleague of Albert Einstein who wrote Wholeness and the Implicate Order suggest this energy or force is encoded in holographic form possibly in the structure of water found throughout our bodies but most particularly in the cells of the microtubules that maintain the structure of our nerve cells. The Tree of Souls in Avatar and their God very closely epitomize this theoretical structure. The name for God in Avatar is very similar to the word Yaweh, a Hebrew name for God, and in Avatar , is the female godhead,"Aiwa".

So, we have ontology in both movies from known chemistry, the physics of a chemical, water, and existence being encoded in the holography of a dimension we are not yet familiar with. We also have an epistemology that transcends the known limits of human knowledge but is not that far-fetched considering some of the findings about plants having feelings and machines even reacting in a way that suggests their matter and functioning responds to human attitudes and thoughts in their immediate environment.

We may not have concrete proof of these mechanisms, but we have the choice to remain open to any new ontological or epistemological concepts. For the present, I believe we also have the spiritual option to have hope in these things. It is my choice currently to push the spiritual envelope and hope that some or all of these possibilities exist; which gets us into cosmology, and I again choose to maintain hope as we understand better the origins of our universe that we will discover that Dark Energy, which is necessary to explain the equations that govern the speed and pattern of evolution the galaxies of our universe are taking, may also explain some of these other phenomena.