I saw the movie "Avatar" last night.  I enjoyed the movie for the most part.  I am somewhat anti-Hollywood and it is hard for me not to help view many of their movies with cautious bent of mind.  I think we can agree Hollywood has political and spiritual agendas. Some of the minor themes and ideas in the movie were fairly clever but a major theme was something I think was a parallel to the movie "Dancing with Wolves."  First of all, I can't remember seeing any soldiers who were not white with the exception of a lady who could have been Spanish.  However, she was not depicted under the same stereotype as almost all the human soldiers in the movie.  Almost all the humans were depicted as heartless, hostile, evil, wicked and "anti-tree hugging anti-environmental bastards" whose sole purpose is to serve the corporate interests on Earth.

They were a stark contrast to the enlightened Na'vi people of Pandora who live in a maximum state of harmony with the natural world around them, untouched by any sort of technological renovations that is until, unfortunately, man found it.  Humans had destroyed the natural environment of the Earth before they arrived at Pandora.  I can derive a theme from the movie which somewhat ironically says, there was only one human in their recent history who apparently ever achieved salvation at the end by literally becoming one of the Na'vi.

This metaphysical ideology from the movie seems to be similar to something called "Metaphysical Naturalism".  Referencing Wikipedia, we can find the definitions of "naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism".

Methodological naturalism or scientific naturalism) focuses on epistemology: This stance is concerned with knowledge: what are methods for gaining trustworthy knowledge of the natural world? It is an epistemological view that is specifically concerned with practical methods for acquiring knowledge, irrespective of one's metaphysical or religious views. It requires that hypotheses be explained and tested only by reference to natural causes and events.^[1] Explanations of observable effects are considered to be practical and useful only when they hypothesize natural causes (i.e., specific mechanisms, not indeterminate miracles). Methodological naturalism is the principle underlying all of modern science. Some philosophers extend this idea, to varying extents, to all of philosophy too. Science and philosophy, according to this view, are said to form a continuum. W.V. Quine, George Santayana, and other philosophers have advocated this view.

Metaphysical naturalism, (or ontological naturalism or philosophical naturalism) which focuses on ontology: This stance is concerned with existence: what does exist and what does not exist? Naturalism is the metaphysical position that "nature is all there is, and all basic truths are truths of nature."[2]

The religion of the indigenous people of Pandora is "metaphysical naturalism" taken to an extreme.  The term is almost an oxymoron and it works for them but, is it reality?  Maybe for some of the environmentalists and people of the New Age it is?!  It seems there is no particular way for the New Age religion.  No way seems to be the way since its believers seem to evolve and change with the times and what comes around the corner.  They are kind of like "jacks of trades" of religion or are "like the wind" because they take and borrow concepts from various religions if it seems to be suitable for them at the time.  For this reason, I suspect many of them are more easily swayed by Hollywood agendas. 

The religion of the people of Pandora seems to be that consciousness and spirituality is interconnected and flows from their planet and all that is spiritual comes and revolves from the immediate environment.  There seems to be no higher power other than the planet itself.  Seemingly, they worship their environment.

The reality of this, despite their religious views is, when you live in harmony with nature, you live in subjugation to it.  You live and let die according to the forces of nature and when nature turns against you, it gets ugly.  I'm not saying we shouldn't be good stewards of nature.  I think we are resourceful people when the government leaves its power to its people.  We can overcome obstacles and the person with the best idea (and applies it) usually gets rewarded for it in under capitalism.

You may think socialist and communist countries do more for the environment than capitalist countries do.  This sort of thinking is shallow and history has shown us some of the worst environmental catastrophes occur, fairly unreported, under dictatorship regimes.

I also developed my own theory (I have not studied and tested it in others) that says, when you believe the material world is all that there is and you are no better than the animals, you essentially embrace a state of mind that has foundations similar to the animalistic state of mind.  You still might be intelligent but your personality is partly animalistic and you may abide by some of those instincts.

I think people need to recognize that "metaphysical materialism" isn't the way to go.