Title: James Madison University
Location: Harrisonburg, VA
Description: Film & Discussion of \”Supercharge Me! 30 Days Raw\”
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-04-20
End Time: 21:00
James Madison University
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To your radiant health!
Jenna
See, “Avatar!” - It’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature!
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!
May this one be your best yet!
Over the holidays, I went with family friends, 12 of them, to see the most expensive film ever made, “Avatar.” I didn’t know a thing about it going in, only that it seemed everyone was talking about it and it was a chance to share an experience with good friends I rarely get to see. Since I no longer own a television, I’m sometimes blissfully unaware of things massively publicized via that medium. In the past five years, I’ve “retreated” into another dimension; that of Cyberspace, waiting to emerge when humanity wakes up.
Was I in for an experience! This film gives me confidence that it’s finally happening!
It seems that approximately $750 million was spent on a very engaging 3D film with a message that’s all about the sanctity of Mother Nature, that explores the motivation behind war and that encourages us to reassess our priorities as humans. A military operation invades the jungle of another planet in an effort to take an extremely valuable mineral, called “Unobtainium.” Hmmmm…a little foreshadowing about how this thing is going to end up.
In the film, the native people eat raw food, of course. And they literally plug in to nature. That’s how I feel when I eat fresh, organic raw food. I feel I am plugged in to nature; universal intelligence.
And I love the physiques of the natives. They’re lean and strong and sexy! And they have great agility. Inspires me to stay raw & do more yoga.
Avatar In Hinduism, Avatar or Avatāra (Devanagari Sanskrit for “descent” (from heaven to earth]) refers to a deliberate descent of a deity from heaven to earth, and is mostly translated into English as “incarnation“, but more accurately as “appearance” or “manifestation.”
There’s more violence in the film than I would normally tolerate, but at least it’s for a good cause. And the animation is astounding!
The miraculous thing is that I happened to be watching the film with a friend who had a real-life experience like the one depicted in, “Avatar.” My friend Joe James (featured in my film as “Compost Joe”) was instrumental in saving the old growth rainforest of Tofino, British Columbia (Clayoquot Sound) on Vancouver Island in 1993. Joe’s girlfriend at the time was a passionate native of the land, very much like the story depicted in, “Avatar.”
She is one of the Tia-o-qui-aht people, of which there are only 500-600 remaining on the land.
857 people were arrested that summer in their efforts to stop the clearcutting. They were proud arrests. And it was one of the largest civil disobedience campaigns in Canadian history.
The area had been slated for clearcut logging to provide materials for garden furniture, newspapers, magazines and phone books.
Clayoquot Sound is the oldest continuously-occupied land in North America. The area is home to ancient Western hemlock, Sitka Spruce and Western red cedar up to 1,700 years old and 300 feet tall.
More than 10,000 people gathered to stop the logging that saved that westernmost point of the Trans-Canada highway from being leveled, at least for now. The point is that they were victorious! You can go there right now and experience intense nature! You can re-connect with our source in such a powerful way.
I was in Tofino in 2007 to screen an early version of my film, “Supercharge Me! 30 Days Raw” at the Tofino Film Festival and I experienced what really felt like heaven on earth; hiking through miles of the old-growth forest to get to the phenomenal natural hot springs. Very large bears share that same wooded territory. It was scary at times, but I felt my most alive in that forest. And my prevailing feeling was one of peace.
This is Tofino…
But, I digress.
James Cameron, who backed, “Titanic,” reportedly invested $500 million in “Avatar.” And he spent the last 15 years working on the film.
The bizarre thing, considering the subject matter, is that it’s a Rupert Murdoch production. That’s FOX. Would you have expected an anti-war & pro-nature film coming from FOX? And what’s even more bizarre is that Murdoch is actually Australian. I wonder what he thinks about the Aboriginals. Isn’t it interesting that the word “original” is in their name? Shouldn’t all native people have “original” in their name? Does Murdoch enjoy the vibrational sounds of the didgeridoo?
Interesting that much of the movie is filmed in neighboring New Zealand. Hmmmm…
I’m not sure what to make of it all. Maybe it’s all about money in this dimension and there’s money in sci-fi and nobody’s all that enthusiastic about war right now. But even though this film is billed as a “sci-fi” film, it’s very much about this planet, right now. Doesn’t take much to read between those lines. You’ll understand once you’ve seen the film.
I just know that I love, “Avatar.” It resonates deeply with me. And it’s all about what I believe in my heart. It’s time for us to get back to nature. That is where true magic and our true power resides.
To your radiant health!
Jenna
Jenna Norwood
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