Thursday, August 1, 2013

Visiting the Oracle from Pipera Area...(II)



You can read the first part of the article, here.

So, where were we?

So I left from Mrs Andreea, with a DVD of the movie ”Avatar” in my backpack and with my soul more lighter because I told about very intimate things to a stranger whom I felt, still, pretty close to me. That was on the evening of 6.03.2013, somewhere between 5 and 7 pm, for those fascinated by numerology.

I arrived home and I was thinking if I should watch the movie then or the next morning. Because the movie was about two and a half hours long (162 minutes, to be precise), and because I had somehow a state of tiredness, I decided to look at it the next day before lunch. In this way I wasn’t mixing the impressions and sensations I had after this meeting, with the movie, and I would let the night somehow settle down things.

Before I go on with my story, I want to say that in that week some significant things were also happening. In the previous days, Monday and Tuesday (4 and 5 of march respectively), I had a sharing and talks with the girl I had broke up on New Year Eve Party, in such an open and straightforward way I could never imagined. This opened my heart to the unknown even more. I could say to her, for example, that it seemed to me not right to kiss me if she didn’t love me :).
And she admitted that she knew somehow deep inside that I’m not “the right person” for her, but she indulged in that uncertainty.

One more thing that is worth mentioning about that week is that I was doing an exercise, a meditation technique called “walking with no head”, in which you have to imagine yourself in whatever you do, as having no head. This was done together with other friends, each one on his own, of course. The idea of the technique is to connect you more with your heart space and to look at the world not through the eyes of the mind but more through the gentle and loving eye of the heart. For me, one of the effects was that I somehow didn’t feel the need to look into the mirror anymore. It was like, if I don’t have a head, what to look at anyway?

Now let’s get back to the main story.

So I slept and I dreamt of M, who was beside me (in my dream), and then we had to move from some room with all our things and I see her going but she is with somebody else and she plays in her unique way with that boy. Her image like a photo of an actress, much more beautiful and clean than I knew her, remains in my mind.

And I wake up very early, around 5- 5.30 am, very fresh and with a trance-like awareness state. I meditate for about an hour, and then I fall asleep again. When I wake up, after I make my usual cleaning service, I start the computer and I watch “Avatar”. A movie launched in 2009 on the market, so it was kind of outdated, but I didn’t feel the need to see it then, although everybody was talking about it around me. For some good years, I just don’t feel the need to watch movies or read books anymore. It seems that my brain reached a saturation point and needs to be washed before writing something new on it.

So I look at the movie, which doesn’t have romanian subtitles, and I’m forced to put to work my foreign language abilities in order to understand something about what’s going on there. The movie does have a spiritual meaning, as Andreea told me, it is about the eternal fight between old and new, between mundane and holy, between unconsciousness and consciousness. In “Matrix” we had Neo and Smith, the two antagonist faces of the same character, here we have Jake and his Avatar.

What touches me in this movie is not, yet, the special effects or the actual idea of the movie, but the moment when Jake’s Avatar is under the shoot of Neytiri’s arch, and some delicate creatures like jellyfishes come to sit on him, as a sign that she shouldn’t kill him. I saw this as an expression of love, which became visible by putting together the raw force (Jake’s muscles, the Arch of Neytiri) with the softness of those virtual creatures. My tears fell.

And again, on the fighting scenes where the solidarity of the natives was put on test, I was touched till tears. I felt that it was a fight of justice against injustice, of truth against lies, in which somehow I was involved also.

That was about the “Avatar” movie.

What I can still remember is that I was looking through my window, from my room, and I was seeing gulls flying and floating slowly in the sky, as in a dance with the wind. There was so much poetry in their slow fly….

All day I had the sensation that I live in another movie of my life, not the one I knew till then. Everything was moving so slow, everything around me seemed changed, transfigured, different. I had a silence in me from another world. And I was really asking myself then, how much is it gonna last this state? Is it something temporary or not?

Meanwhile, I came back to “my senses”. The magical feeling disappeared but his echo is still there and will probably come up again, in some other special day like that 7 of march 2013.

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