An infinite imagination of Weiss's Past and Present Lives
Past and present lives do not feel particularly peculiar to Chinese readers, because Chinese generally acknowledge the existence of ghosts in their hearts and firmly believe in reincarnation. The green marks on the buttocks of small babies are considered unwilling to reincarnate or dissatisfied with the fetus, and they are kicked out by the yin. At first, the author tried to explain this from the perspective of psychology, but the more mysterious things developed later. As a Western scholar, from believing to believing, he completely subverted his worldview and had a profound impact on his life.
In the West, self and reality are two dimensional things, and Westerners are either one or the other. The Orientals have both. Most Chinese although there is no research on psychology, psychology may be more of a dispensable disease-free groan, or a plausible chicken blood incentive. But with the preparation of China's ghost culture, Chinese readers are open to the mentality of this book, at least I am.
So while reading this book, I asked questions while trying to find reasonable answers according to my own understanding.
For everything Catherine narrates in hypnosis, it seems unusual, but it is all reasonable, such a feeling makes us feel familiar, we all have a voice in our hearts "this I can also" The so-called reincarnation scene has been presented in various forms in movies, television, and novels, and the only thing that surprises me is the state of transfer, that is, the energy replenishment field mentioned in the book, and the existence of countless masters. What I want to ask is, are these masters a higher civilization than humans? Or is it a necessary procedure set by human beings by a higher level of their own civilization? How deep is the whirlpool in it?
The Light of Introduction is so familiar that the harm or defect of the past life will appear "fruit" in the next life, that is, the things in people's subconscious, the external manifestations of daily life, such as fear, anxiety, sadness, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anger. Interestingly, you will find that all the emotions given by the subconscious mind are basically negative and are all feelings that cause discomfort. Many times, as a carrier of emotions, we are not clear about where such emotions come from. This is explained in the book because your soul does not learn enough in the intermediate state.
I suspect that the author was too deeply influenced by Jung's psychological theory, and Jung's important doctrine theory came from the Tibetan Buddhist scripture "The Tibetan Sutra of Crossing the Dead". You will find that the author describes the important intermediate state of life and death, which is very similar to the bardo realm, and the Buddhist scriptures believe that the intermediate state of past and present lives is a method of cultivation, while the bardo state is irrational, only a torrent of consciousness, not driven by the laws of physics, but only by the laws of cause and effect.
There are three states of the bardo:
The first: the dying bardo: the emergence of a space, people return to the "base light", is the most primitive state of life. After the death of a person who has "Dao Light", "Basic Light and Dao Light" merge together, and there is no difference between them, and there is a bright and beautiful scene in front of them, directly entering bliss.
The second type: Dharma-nature bardo (reality bardo): Those who have not entered the world of bliss have developed consciousness in the basic light, and once consciousness is generated, anger and silence Buddha-figures will appear, most of them have green fangs, teeth and claws, very terrifying, and constantly appear in a cycle, most people can not face such a terrible scene, choose to avoid and flee. But at this time, there is still a chance to ascend to bliss, that is, when you first see these demons, you do not run away, but choose to face the opposite. These demons will disappear and you will see the sight of light and beauty and enter bliss. If you choose to flee every time you see a demon, the escape again and again will continue to reduce your level, but if you choose to face it at one time, you will increase it by one level. It looks a bit like playing monsters through the level. Of course, your final rank will determine what kind of fetus you will cast.
The third type: samsaric bardo: After 14 days of real-life bardo, your level has been determined, and you finally enter the samsaric bardo.
The bardo is like an invisible hand that sifts most of the souls down and reincarnates into the next life according to rank
The study of the intermediate state of past and present lives in the book may come from how to eliminate the demons that appear in the shadows of reality, it is not like the Buddhist scriptures have specific tricks to exterminate demons, of course, there is no blue-faced fangs demons, more from the spiritual troubles of various worlds, for this, the masters can tell Weiss, only some vague concepts, or pretend to be mysterious to wait for the opportunity.
Countless times of treatment and communication have cured Catherine's anxiety, fear of water, and fear of flying. It also alleviates the doctor's meticulous and rigid personality. To make the psychiatrist feel more about life, and to some extent more emotional, a trait that the doctor could not accept before, and now he can not only accept his less rational self, but also enjoy the changes. Weiss, a psychiatrist, felt that this was a huge success. So is this weiss's benefit from learning from the masters of the intermediate state? Or is it self-suggestion and self-consolation between the two parties during the treatment?
In the process of healing and pursuing answers, Weiss sensed his own change and rejoiced in it. Weiss became more and more convinced that what he had heard and seen, whatever it was, was contrary to his previous education. So is this science or metaphysics? And what is the important means of hypnosis? How is the human subconscious formed, is it childhood adversity or past life memories? The infinite cycle of each soul is a process of learning, so is there a test for such learning? So did the soul that passed the examination go to bliss, as the Sutra says, or become part of the collective subconscious? Why is it that the memories of the previous life do not accumulate or help the next life in the slightest, and what is the significance of our continuous learning?
After healing, Catherine still stubbornly lives in her life, although she has experienced many lifetimes through Weiss's hypnosis and often communicates with the masters of the intermediate state. But waking up was very repulsive, those philosophical words coming out of her mouth. Catherine, who had performed the miracle, only healed her fears. So suppose Catherine in the next life, where is her fear? Is hypnosis a kind of dream?
Jung divided the mind into consciousness, the individual subconscious, and the collective subconscious. Jung believes that once a person is born, the mind is by no means a blank piece of paper, the mind is a synthesis of genetic genes of a certain complex, this mental impression is the collective subconscious, it is the psychological sediment of the fusion of species evolution and civilization after the collision, simply put, it is the ancient encoding into the genetic level of the ancestors experience and behavior. And Jung said, "I don't dream, but I dream." It is said that Jung had entered a state of "dharma" in his later period, that is, to warn of the future with dreams.
From what is seen in the book, it is not that the masters are reluctant to come into contact with humans, but because they cannot, they must go through special means- hypnosis, and possibly other means. The masters were anxious to convey some information, but they were like wireless signals, from time to time. Intermittently. For this reason, they are also very helpless, their existence is more like a human teacher, or a human spiritual healer, but what is their ultimate purpose?
If we physically explain these masters, then the masters in the intermediate state may be the existence of a particle of consciousness, a quantum energy field, strong and weak, meaningful or meaningless. Whether it is reality or dreams, the picture that appears in the mind will not appear out of thin air, it is formed by the arrangement and collision of particles of consciousness. According to the uncertainty of thinking and quantum, it may be embodied in the form of thought manipulating quanta, and then neurons accept it in a certain way, but in the process of thinking, it is formless and disorderly. This explains why these masters sometimes come and sometimes cannot come, and only appear in the face of specific objects.
Where do these particles of consciousness come from? This seems to be inextricably linked to Kant's "man-made legislation of nature", Kant believes that any law of nature, it does not exist in nature, but man uses his own innate experience to process and sort out the acquired experience provided to us by the world, and then obtain. In this way, it is natural to pull out the three ultimate questions of philosophy, "Who am I?" Where did it come from? Where are you going? ”。 The brain is a mess, the question goes into an infinite loop, and there is no answer.