And yet, we do nothing, because our warrior nature is also wounded. Let's look at Jake as he learns from Netiri how to become a member of the People. He's courageous, daring, strong, inquisitive and persistent, playful, foolish and fearless, willing to take risks and willing to learn, all good warrior traits, and completely opposite the Colonel's attitudes of fear, control, and manipulation. What's our attitude toward life? Will we succumb to fear because of the economy or can we become courageous, daring, inquisitive and playful? Can we take a leap of faith in ourselves? That's the question!
The Divine Feminine
Once we return to our bodies, we reconnect with the Divine Feminine spirit of Life. Eywa is the spiritual energy of Pandora, an energy that pervades the landscape and beings of Pandora. As a matter of fact, it is the Eywa who announces that Jake is important to Pandora. How do we know that it wasn't this Spiritual energy of Life who substituted Jake for his scientist twin, knowing, because all of life is connected, not just the life on Pandora, that it was this particular Being, rather than the scientific "brain' that was needed to save Pandora.
Why would Spirit go outside Pandora for a new hero? Is it because white men, even the damaged ones, are superior to everyone else? I think not. Psychologically, Spirit brought Jake to Pandora because new knowledge has to be integrated into the Na'vi collective psyches if they want to get rid of the Sky People. It is not about a white guy knowing more than the natives, but about the integration between two different types of consciousness that takes everyone to a higher level of awareness.
Spirit operates in our lives, whether we know it or not. Spirit does not take away our free will, but rather opens us to the possibilities available to us in life. It is this deep connection to the Divine Feminine that heals Jake and opens him up to his "kingship', just as a connection to the Divine Feminine can heal our "wounded' body and Earth and restore us to a more balanced understanding of life.
I love Neytiri! She's a perfect expression of how a woman lives the deep power of the Divine Feminine, grounded in her body, open to her intuition, in tune with her instincts. I love her fierceness, and I have promised myself that when my grown sons act up, I WILL say to them with a hiss: You are such a child!
It is Neytiri's fierceness that is called for now in our world, and like her strength and loyalty which open Jake up to his feelings, women need to stand in their fierce beauty and challenge men to open to the power of the Feminine. (Remember, the soul is feminine.) Clarrissa Pinkola Estes wrote about this kind of feminine fierceness in her book, "Women Who Run With the Wolves". Neytiri is one of the best cinematic female characters since Veronica Franco in "Dangerous Beauty". It is this kind of female strength that attracts and helps birth the king archetype in men.
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