Chapter 36 PART IV THE POWER OF THE MIND

witchcraft The term witchcraft is synonymous with evil today. In cartoons, witches are a symbol of ugly and terrible things. Bad things are done, but good things are not served. In the Middle Ages, people who were accused of being witches or wizards would be burned to death or stoned to death, showing people's respect for poison. The fear of supernatural powers such as curses, until today, or in one sentence can sum up the world's views on it, that is: witchcraft is a trick to deceive people. The power of witchcraft is just a fantasy plot in fairy tales, and it can only melt like ice in the sunlight of the real world.Witchcraft no longer exists in this age of science and enlightened reason.

This attitude towards witchcraft is unfair, let us sit down and put aside our preconceived notions of witchcraft as a phenomenon that has existed since the beginning of man. It may be the most precious key for human beings to understand their own inner space and hidden power, leading us into a treasure house neglected in this scientific age, which is hidden deep in our hearts.Witchcraft represents the human attempt to call upon the powers sealed within this treasury. This does not mean that everyone should practice dharma and chant mantras.Everything related to human beings has pros and cons, just as any tool can be used for good or evil.

Just as witchcraft is also divided into white witchcraft and black witchcraft, that is a human problem and has nothing to do with witchcraft itself. Witchcraft is a long and widespread phenomenon. It appears in the annals of every nation under different names.Like the Five Dou Rice Road and Zhang Tianshi in the Han Dynasty of China; the White Lotus Sect and the Boxers in the Qing Dynasty.But the impression they leave on us is too bad. It can only remind us that the country is about to perish, and there must be monsters. That has become a historical fact, but whether Zhang Tianshi or the boxers do have a certain kind of strange power But no one went to the bottom of it. What posterity remembers is that the Boxers were vulnerable to foreign guns and collapsed.

Today, China's witchcraft still exists in the dark layers of society in various forms such as Maoshan Magic, Liuren God Fighting, etc. Of course, there are many swindlers, but as long as you catch anyone who is practicing magic, he will tell you with certainty You are absolutely true. The rise of parapsychology in the West in recent decades has enabled scholars to explore and study various supernatural phenomena. Experts with a rational and objective attitude have witnessed and collected a large amount of amazing data, and they have been blinded. The notorious witchcraft is being quietly overturned, and a revolution is going on quietly outside the perception of most people.

Human beings always have a tendency to reject things that they don't understand, especially witchcraft is only like the patent of a small group of people, which is especially disgusting, but as long as they realize that kind of power is hidden in everyone, a new era will usher in a new era. born. How did witchcraft begin? In 1868, French geologists excavated Cro-Magnon near Essid-Tajac, Dordogne, France, and discovered the most complete prehistoric human civilization. These prehistoric humans were named Cro-Magnon. . Judging from the condition of the site, the Cro-Magnons were very successful hunters, hunting reindeer, bison, wild horses and even mammoth elephants.The most amazing thing is the large number of artworks they left behind, small pieces of carvings, reliefs and various animal statues.Then in some caves in France and Spain, other remains of the Cro-Magnon man and many exquisite animal murals were discovered one after another.

For some modern people, the murals of the Cro-Magnons may show that ancient humans from 15,000 to 30,000 years ago already had the instinct to pursue beauty, but archaeologists pointed out that ancient humans were in the process of natural selection In the primitive world full of dangers, survival of the fittest, and full of dangers, there is no leisure and mood to engage in extravagant artistic activities, and everything is done for survival. The Cro-Magnons painted the animals they hunted on their walls, like wizards making stuffed animals for their spells.Through the lost rituals, ancient humans concentrated their spiritual power on the objects to be hunted, summoned and controlled them, so as to achieve the ideal of hand-to-hand.

Witchcraft in a broad sense is to control matter and other living things with spirit. When this power is turned to other people, it becomes terrible black witchcraft. In the eyes of many modern people, the primitive witchcraft of the Cro-Magnons is just an ignorant superstition that is not worth mentioning.They will say that assuming this really helps the Cro-Magnons, it is just self-hypnosis to increase confidence, so that the possibility of success increases, and it has nothing to do with any supernatural power. Before making such a conclusion, let us take a look at Dr. Laing DR. j. B． RHINE's famous experiment at Duke University.

Laing conducted a series of eighteen related experiments over a period of eight years to see if humans had the ability to influence the number of dice that fell.The results were published in 1943 and became an epoch-making experiment in the study of human beings controlling matter with spiritual power. The result of the experiment is thought-provoking, that is, when the person participating in the experiment influences the points of the falling dice for the first time, the success rate is much higher than the chance rate.That is to say, spiritual strength can indeed affect the fall of the dice.The second time the test was run, the success rate dropped dramatically, and it went from bad to worse after that.That is to say, when people's interests are reduced and their spirits are scattered, their spiritual power cannot be condensed.

This is also the essence of witchcraft. Through trust in some kind of divine power, through the ritual process that makes people enter hysteria, people's spiritual power is condensed, just like a magnifying glass concentrates the sun and ignites a match. Witchcraft is not just blind superstition, it is an attempt by people to become gods.