Probably you may remember the film 'The Last Airbender' written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It was an American fantasy adventure.
The book 'Mind into Matter' written by Fred Alan Wolf ,Ph.D. is in the category of Science and Spirit.
What is the similarity of these two. The only similarity one could find is both are fantacy in the eye of a layman.
But this article is about the connection I found between these two.
I happend to be watched the file back in 2010. It's kind of a film which made me think of some possibilities for the filme to be a real story other and simply a fantasy. Although it was recognized as an immature work, it had the quality of making people think. (The same quallity which Hans Christian Andersen stories' have.)
The book is about the new alchemy of science and spirit. According to the author, Alchemy is not what it is meant in todays vocabulary.
According to his reseach Alchemist were a cult of scientist who were
trying to convert things into different forms of things.
(He goes on to say the dictionary meaning of'chemistry which had its object to transmutation of base metals into gold' was used to hidden the true nature of their experiments.)
This book was with me since 2006 but started to read it in this year. (I am a kind of book worm and this is an exceptional case;))
Both of these works spoke about basic elements; earth, air, fire and water (first mentioned by Empedocles-450 B.C.).Everything in the universe is made from different combinations of these fundamentals.
One hundred years after Empedocles, Aristotle asserted that each of the primary elements is composed of a mixture of two qualities taken from a list of four: hot, dry, moist and cold.
For an example fire is dry and hot ,air is hot and moist, water is moist and cold while earth is cold and dry.
To transform a substance, we would need to change the qualities in the elements making up the substance. This is the fundamental in the film. So I am assuming the benders as alchemist. (It gives the meaning. Isn't it?)
Although the film stops right there the book goes far beyond into introducing the new Alchemy from the Ancient Greek Alchemy.
This article stops right there for the moment till I complete my reading . Needless to say it consumes more time than I thought at first. The process of understanding rather than reading is comparatively slow since this is my very first encounter with a book about Alchemy and Spiritual Science.
