Chapter 134 Staying together (7)
Blowing the cool mountain breeze at night, Qian Xiaoyi asked: "You don't need to know much about the detailed history of my profession. After all, you are not me. The man in the door. This time I’m mainly talking about something a little more recent. As a Japanese, you should have some understanding of the concept of superpowers, right?”
Inuyama Heita was stunned, the ancient Chinese Taoist priest was How is it connected to superpowers? Is this world not just filled with psychics and other supernatural phenomena as I imagined?
He nodded: "That's right, everyone here knows about it." After all, Japan has also seen various crazes in researching superpowers, and until now, there are still a large number of people who believe in superpowers. Existence, use your mind to bend a spoon or something.
“It’s not just Japan.” Qian Xiaoyi began to talk: “In the last century, all countries were studying this kind of thing, and our side is no exception...”
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In the twenty years at the end of the last century, the world situation changed dramatically. With the advent of the information age, people began to desire to understand the world. Various true and false rumors continued to spread at that time. It was also during this period that almost all countries All started studying paranormal phenomena from UF From O to superpowers, from Himalayan snowmen to Mayan crystal skulls... all kinds of strange and weird things in street stall literature actually spread during this period. People have an extremely strong interest in those supernatural things, and people all over the world are interested in them. It set off a supernatural craze.
The same is true in China. Riding the wave of economic opening up, various foreign ideas, good and bad, continue to pour in, impacting people's thinking. As a result, things like qigong and superpowers have become popular. After all, they are developed countries abroad. It is something that all major countries are studying, and you can often see practitioners on the streets holding pot lids on their heads to receive the energy of the universe. These things, which were proven to be scams in later generations, were a world trend at that time, with many believers.
So since there is Qigong, do ghosts also exist? What about the various ancient cultivation techniques? What are their scientific principles?
So in order to catch up with this trend and not fall behind the times, strange people and strangers from all walks of life, either from their families or from their sects, also joined in, just like the superstitions of that era were often disguised as science. Even if they catch ghosts, they must use scientific methods to study them. Qian Xiaoyi and his master Lingkong Taoist are one of the people who responded to the country's call and joined this type of research.
But unlike those funny scams that seem to be similar now, this total really gave these people some research, and they came to a very deviant conclusion.
——There are no monsters, ghosts, or spiritual powers. Everything is just a conjecture based on human beings’ own cognition. Under this common illusion, supernatural phenomena are only at a certain moment and a certain place. , the collective cognition generated among a certain group of people, and depending on the perspective of observation, will also produce different results in the real world.
Those who believe in this theory are called "cognitive factions".
"Cognitive school..." Inuyama Heita was a little shocked. He did not expect that what Qian Xiaoyi said during employee training before would have such a big influence. After a brief shock, Inuyama Heita asked Said: "Since there is a cognitive sect, it means there must be other sects, right?"
"That's right." Qian Xiaoyi said : "Opposite to the cognitive school are those traditional people who believe in the real existence of gods, spiritual power, magic, and ghosts. We call them the 'classical school.' From the moment the cognitive theory appeared, the cognitive school There is an incompatible relationship with the Classical School."
"Why?" Inuyama Heita asked curiously. "Because the methods of cultivation and exorcism are different." Qian Xiaoyi said: "The classical method of cultivation is to constantly consolidate one's own cognition and form a unique logic. After the cultivation reaches a certain level, you can Your own spirit is indestructible, and you can destroy the ghosts you see with some matching magic weapons with specific cognition.
The cognitive school, on the other hand, broke and then stood up, completely discarding the original traditional understanding of itself and replacing it with cognitive theory, thereby constantly changing its mental state to adapt to the environment. Not only for themselves, the cognitive faction can also observe the target ghost through this theory, and then eliminate the opponent's existence from the root. If you want to compare it, it is like two gamblers flipping a coin. The classical school directly replaces the coin and replaces it with a coin with both sides the same. The cognitive school, on the other hand, trains its own vision and skills, and accurately produces the results it wants every time. "
"It sounds...it seems like the classical ones are even more powerful. Heita Inuyama expressed his actual thoughts: "If you just use skills to toss a coin, there is still a risk, right?" ”
“If only in the past, traffic congestion, information did not circulate, and the masses were ignorant, this was indeed the case. Qian Xiaoyi smiled and said: "The problem is that the classical method is very fixed and rigid. No matter what situation they encounter, they can only rely on the coin they forged and cannot replace it with another." Taoist things are Taoist things, and Buddhist things are Buddhist things. If they encounter an existence beyond what they have learned, then they will be blind. As I said before, the gods of the West cannot control the ghosts and ghosts of the East. ”
“But the cognitive school is fine. "Heita Inuyama thought: "Once you break away from the logic of religion and use the most essential cognitive theory to interpret ghosts, then no matter what kind of enemy you are, you can find the weaknesses and develop strategies. ”
"That's right." Qian Xiaoyi nodded: "The classical school allows itself to possess things like 'spiritual power' or 'mana' through cultivation, so as to fight against ghosts and monsters. This is the 'coin' of the classical school, except for this limitation Besides sex, they also have an unavoidable weakness. "What is it?" Inuyama Heita was very curious.
“If we use cognitive theory to answer it, the power of the classical school comes from the common cognition of the public and the self. There is logic in it, such as yin and yang and the five elements, Tai Chi and Bagua, etc.” Qian Xiao B said: "If they know the theory of the Cognitive School at this time and believe it a little bit, then I'm sorry, the 'power' they have gained through long-term practice will have cracks due to self-doubt, or even collapse instantly. The most important thing I want to tell you next is..."
"For those fanatical classical sects, the cognitive sect is like a heresy," Qian Xiaoyi said: "So don't promote cognitive theory in front of other spiritual masters. They will do everything possible to oppose you, and even... kill you."
(End of Chapter)