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30th April 2020, 12:12
New AVATAR 2 Movie and Bougainvillea Eco War
I personally had some involvement with the Bougainvillea Eco War which I won't go into here. However, I was honoured to gain some special experiences much later on from the natives on there spiritual endeavours and why I was to meet them.
Part 1 and 2
Summary of Part 1 and Part 2:
Part 1 is the background to a 10 year real war that took place but was won by natives without modern weapons. Part 1 sets the arena of the conflict won by the natives from impossible odds within a modern military perspective using powerful tools that the enemy were unaware of in modern warfare.
Although Avatar is a science fiction movie, it provides the principles on how a consciousness shifting can take place on a fictional planet. Similarly, on Earth we can use similar tools that were applied by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA).
Part 2. Is the background on how BRA won the war which is an inspiration for the world, tools when applied for consciousness shifting to take place. The Na’vi’s in Avatar movie provides the key elements on how to win against others that are not aligned to their planet. Similarly the BRA used tools that not only were used against three aggressive military forces, but is a reminder that human beings are incredibly powerful when working as a collective in what are impossible circumstances.
Background:
Avatar 2 is the second movie to be launched sometime in the near future. Both Avatar 1 and 2 are based on a real war that actually took place on Earth. James Cameron, the producer and director was heavenly influenced by a similar Eco war that took place on a large island in the South Pacific called Bougainvillea. What is not known by him and the outside world is how the BRA won the war against two military countries namely Australia and Papua New Guinea. Similar to Avatar, the natives had no weapons to fight against these two military forces. So how did they win the war? (in Part 2)
Papua New Guinea has the second best jungle war fare defence force after the Gurkhas with 10,000 soldiers. These were deployed against the BRA. The Australian government used helicopter gunships and frigates ships to surround the Island to seal off the outside world. When needed Sandline International deployed the best mercenaries from around the world, in particularly, from South Africa, USA and UK with sophisticated warfare tools.
Avatar Movie background influenced by Bougaineville
The principle of the movie shows human predators are ready to sacrifice the lives of countless living beings in pursuit of monetary gain. This disrespect for life is symptomatic of what the Na’vi see as the calling card of the Sky People, an insanity for which they have concluded there is no cure. This triggers the natives in there co creation with the planet to fight back with a powerful force.
James Cameron created Avatar on the basis of the Bougainville conflict – a scenario that has resulted in an interesting film’s names, plot and characters are almost direct references to the 1997 Bougainville crisis draws the dots between science fiction and South Pacific fact.
The events that inspired Avatar writer and producer James Cameron can only have been the long guerrilla war that scarred the Bougainville for a decade between 1988 and 1998. The armed revolt began in 1988 when a group of indigenous rebels stole explosives and sabotaged the electricity supply to the environmentally destructive Panguna copper and gold mine, opened in 1964 and controlled by the CRA, an Australian subsidy of UK mining giant Rio Tinto. The largest mine in the Southern Hemisphere. Controlling 30 per cent of copper prices on the international stock exchanges.
The Panguna mine was opened on land stolen from the Nasioi tribe and tailings were dumped in a nearby river, eliminating aquatic life and forcing 800 tribespeople to lose their land. For a decade, the Pacific conflict festered between the eco-guerrilla Bougainville Revolutionary Army BRA and the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.
Tight Blockade
The conflict caused the deaths of between 10,000 and 20,000 Bougainvilleans, as Australian-supplied gunships strafed rebel camps and civilian villages and a tight blockade left the islanders often without food or medical supplies and allowed malaria and tuberculosis to spread with impunity. The International Red Cross was not allowed on to the island. The end of the conflict came in 1997 when the Papua New Guinea government hired Sandline International, a British mercenary outfit led by former British Army Colonel Tim Spicer, to destroy the Bougainville Revolutionary Army BRA.
Cameron has infused his film Avatar with so many allusions to the Bougainville conflict. Cameron based coincidentally was developing the script a good 13 years well before Avatar 1 came out – the same time as CNN and BBC were broadcasting to the world the first eco war.
The Na’vi’s in Avatar:
The Na’vi’s intimate connection to all life on Pandora makes humanity’s vicious attitude toward the natural world unfathomable to them. The Na’vi see the intrinsic value of all life. In their eyes, there can be no justification for the wanton destruction of life on Pandora. All of the unobtanium in the world can’t buy back the lives destroyed in its acquisition. To disrespect life in others—whether plants, animals, or persons—is ultimately to disrespect oneself. The Sky People act as if they are apart from nature, rather than a part of it. Failing to see the intricate connections among all living things, they have no understanding of the moral significance of their actions—on Pandora or on Earth. The Na’vi, on the other hand, attempt to see through the eye of Eywa and evaluate the moral significance of their actions by whether they uphold the balance of life.
Consciousness and planetary connections:
Consciousness is experienced by an organism as a whole, the result of body and sense organs interacting with a world of which the organism is an inextricable component. This entails the surprising corollary that an organism need not have a brain in order to have a mind. Plants on Pandora obviously have minds, as is evident from the behaviour of the atokirina that remind Neytiri of her moral obligations.
“More Connections than the Human Brain”
When the connections were made the implications were astounding—the consciousness of each organism on Pandora does not cease at death but continues, embodied within the network of interconnected trees that are globally linked through a complex root system with “more connections than the human brain.” The roots of plants on Earth may also have something in common with our esteemed brains. Flowing through plants are some of the same neurotransmitters found in the brains of human beings and other animals. Exposure to environmental stress triggers a dramatic increase in the production of these plant neurotransmitters. On Pandora, where life forms evolved the capacity for deep mental communion, plants may be among the most mindful organisms of all, due to their constant exchange of information through a globally-linked root.
References:
See Alva Noë, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (New York: Hill and Wang, 2009), especially chapter 2, “Conscious Life,” and Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2007).
For a brilliant discussion of the social lives and communication of bacteria, see Myra J. Hird, The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Donald R. Griffin, “Afterword: What Is It Like?” in Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M.Burghardt, eds., The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002), p. 472.
Anthony Trewavas, “Aspects of Plant Intelligence” in Annals of Botany 92: 1-20, 2003, p. 6.
Anthony Trewavas, “The Green Plant as an Intelligent Organism” in František Baluška, Stefano Mancuso, Dieter Volkmann, editors Communication in Plants: Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006), p. 3.
I personally had some involvement with the Bougainvillea Eco War which I won't go into here. However, I was honoured to gain some special experiences much later on from the natives on there spiritual endeavours and why I was to meet them.
Part 1 and 2
Summary of Part 1 and Part 2:
Part 1 is the background to a 10 year real war that took place but was won by natives without modern weapons. Part 1 sets the arena of the conflict won by the natives from impossible odds within a modern military perspective using powerful tools that the enemy were unaware of in modern warfare.
Although Avatar is a science fiction movie, it provides the principles on how a consciousness shifting can take place on a fictional planet. Similarly, on Earth we can use similar tools that were applied by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA).
Part 2. Is the background on how BRA won the war which is an inspiration for the world, tools when applied for consciousness shifting to take place. The Na’vi’s in Avatar movie provides the key elements on how to win against others that are not aligned to their planet. Similarly the BRA used tools that not only were used against three aggressive military forces, but is a reminder that human beings are incredibly powerful when working as a collective in what are impossible circumstances.
Background:
Avatar 2 is the second movie to be launched sometime in the near future. Both Avatar 1 and 2 are based on a real war that actually took place on Earth. James Cameron, the producer and director was heavenly influenced by a similar Eco war that took place on a large island in the South Pacific called Bougainvillea. What is not known by him and the outside world is how the BRA won the war against two military countries namely Australia and Papua New Guinea. Similar to Avatar, the natives had no weapons to fight against these two military forces. So how did they win the war? (in Part 2)
Papua New Guinea has the second best jungle war fare defence force after the Gurkhas with 10,000 soldiers. These were deployed against the BRA. The Australian government used helicopter gunships and frigates ships to surround the Island to seal off the outside world. When needed Sandline International deployed the best mercenaries from around the world, in particularly, from South Africa, USA and UK with sophisticated warfare tools.
Avatar Movie background influenced by Bougaineville
The principle of the movie shows human predators are ready to sacrifice the lives of countless living beings in pursuit of monetary gain. This disrespect for life is symptomatic of what the Na’vi see as the calling card of the Sky People, an insanity for which they have concluded there is no cure. This triggers the natives in there co creation with the planet to fight back with a powerful force.
James Cameron created Avatar on the basis of the Bougainville conflict – a scenario that has resulted in an interesting film’s names, plot and characters are almost direct references to the 1997 Bougainville crisis draws the dots between science fiction and South Pacific fact.
The events that inspired Avatar writer and producer James Cameron can only have been the long guerrilla war that scarred the Bougainville for a decade between 1988 and 1998. The armed revolt began in 1988 when a group of indigenous rebels stole explosives and sabotaged the electricity supply to the environmentally destructive Panguna copper and gold mine, opened in 1964 and controlled by the CRA, an Australian subsidy of UK mining giant Rio Tinto. The largest mine in the Southern Hemisphere. Controlling 30 per cent of copper prices on the international stock exchanges.
The Panguna mine was opened on land stolen from the Nasioi tribe and tailings were dumped in a nearby river, eliminating aquatic life and forcing 800 tribespeople to lose their land. For a decade, the Pacific conflict festered between the eco-guerrilla Bougainville Revolutionary Army BRA and the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.
Tight Blockade
The conflict caused the deaths of between 10,000 and 20,000 Bougainvilleans, as Australian-supplied gunships strafed rebel camps and civilian villages and a tight blockade left the islanders often without food or medical supplies and allowed malaria and tuberculosis to spread with impunity. The International Red Cross was not allowed on to the island. The end of the conflict came in 1997 when the Papua New Guinea government hired Sandline International, a British mercenary outfit led by former British Army Colonel Tim Spicer, to destroy the Bougainville Revolutionary Army BRA.
Cameron has infused his film Avatar with so many allusions to the Bougainville conflict. Cameron based coincidentally was developing the script a good 13 years well before Avatar 1 came out – the same time as CNN and BBC were broadcasting to the world the first eco war.
The Na’vi’s in Avatar:
The Na’vi’s intimate connection to all life on Pandora makes humanity’s vicious attitude toward the natural world unfathomable to them. The Na’vi see the intrinsic value of all life. In their eyes, there can be no justification for the wanton destruction of life on Pandora. All of the unobtanium in the world can’t buy back the lives destroyed in its acquisition. To disrespect life in others—whether plants, animals, or persons—is ultimately to disrespect oneself. The Sky People act as if they are apart from nature, rather than a part of it. Failing to see the intricate connections among all living things, they have no understanding of the moral significance of their actions—on Pandora or on Earth. The Na’vi, on the other hand, attempt to see through the eye of Eywa and evaluate the moral significance of their actions by whether they uphold the balance of life.
Consciousness and planetary connections:
Consciousness is experienced by an organism as a whole, the result of body and sense organs interacting with a world of which the organism is an inextricable component. This entails the surprising corollary that an organism need not have a brain in order to have a mind. Plants on Pandora obviously have minds, as is evident from the behaviour of the atokirina that remind Neytiri of her moral obligations.
“More Connections than the Human Brain”
When the connections were made the implications were astounding—the consciousness of each organism on Pandora does not cease at death but continues, embodied within the network of interconnected trees that are globally linked through a complex root system with “more connections than the human brain.” The roots of plants on Earth may also have something in common with our esteemed brains. Flowing through plants are some of the same neurotransmitters found in the brains of human beings and other animals. Exposure to environmental stress triggers a dramatic increase in the production of these plant neurotransmitters. On Pandora, where life forms evolved the capacity for deep mental communion, plants may be among the most mindful organisms of all, due to their constant exchange of information through a globally-linked root.
References:
See Alva Noë, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (New York: Hill and Wang, 2009), especially chapter 2, “Conscious Life,” and Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2007).
For a brilliant discussion of the social lives and communication of bacteria, see Myra J. Hird, The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Donald R. Griffin, “Afterword: What Is It Like?” in Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M.Burghardt, eds., The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002), p. 472.
Anthony Trewavas, “Aspects of Plant Intelligence” in Annals of Botany 92: 1-20, 2003, p. 6.
Anthony Trewavas, “The Green Plant as an Intelligent Organism” in František Baluška, Stefano Mancuso, Dieter Volkmann, editors Communication in Plants: Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006), p. 3.