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Did you love the movies Star Wars and Avatar? Have you ever wondered why these movies resonated with so many people? Joseph Campbell said that Star Wars used archetypes that people identified with: the hero and his arch enemy, who is his mirror image. Star Wars was so successful in its time because it used traditional archetypes which resonate with a populace, but the more recent movie Avatar has some other, more intriguing and pertinent reasons for its popularity. One of these is an ancient archetype called an “avatar.”
In Hinduism, an avatar is an incarnation in human form; a deliberate descent of a higher form of awareness into a lower physical plane.
