Rating: 6
Keywords: psychic gems and monkeys;
1. Psychic;
The core of horror is still the battle for souls centered on psychics, so I won't repeat it.
In fact, only Jesus really has the ability to "psychic". Moreover, even for Jesus, the premise of channeling must be self-sacrifice. The prototype of any Western horror story is Jesus—Jesus sacrificed himself and built a passage for the soul to save mankind from the dark world.
However, this series of channeling did not use sacrifice, or even "take home as spirit." Instead, there is an Indonesian horror film-Satan's Slaves. It is obviously a story constructed with the "spiritual universe" as a horror template. Instead, sacrifice and home are used.
2. About channeling;
First of all, channeling is not a ghost.
There are three kinds of spirits in the world, the Holy Spirit, the human spirit, and the evil spirit. Talking with any of these spirits is a channel. Of course, the psychic in the Western horror themes is generally to communicate with evil spirits, that is, to deal with ghosts; in the horror of Southeast Asia, psychic is not only to deal with ghosts, but also to raise and manipulate ghosts. These two are an interesting contradiction. In the Western world, channeling is at most constructing a dialogue mechanism. In addition, people cannot control evil spirits, but it is easy for evil spirits to control them; but in the Eastern world, channeling often also means The use and control of evil spirits. In fact, this is precisely the essential difference between Christianity and Buddhism-the foundation of terror is religion.
Secondly, communicating with the Holy Spirit and communicating with evil spirits are still two different things. It is generally believed that it is impossible for a person to possess these two psychic abilities at the same time. Based on the Bible, those who communicate with the Holy Spirit are called prophets in the Old Testament, and after the New Testament, they are priests, pastors and other clergy. Moreover, the essence of faith is also considered to be the ability to build channelling, of course the Holy Spirit. And those who communicate with evil spirits are the characters of wizards and wizards. There is also the human spirit. Most of the time, the human spirit is not an independent spirit.
Finally, to be more precise, God stipulates that no one can psychic, and psychic means death, no matter what kind of spirit.
As a routine digression, let’s talk about a very interesting setting for this film. Ordinary evil spirits want to parasitize people in order to escape the dark world, which means to be a new person. And some evil spirits, not only do not want to escape, but also drag their spirits into the dark world-people who are familiar with Christianity know who this is talking about. And the intriguing thing about this is, is everyone an opportunity for evil spirits to regain the light? A person, with one and only one spirit, to live, is a kind of salvation? Human nature is evil, which also means that people have the opportunity to change from evil to good, provided that they are alive.
3. About the spirit in Chinese culture;
It is more obvious that China has gods and ghosts but no spirits; but there are exceptions, such as A Dream of Red Mansions and Journey to the West.
Let's talk about the Red Mansion first; many people think that the piece of jade left by Nuwa's refining stone to fill the sky is Jia Baoyu. This is probably because I have never seen the Red Mansions, or heard from the hearsay. In fact, jade is jade, and Jia Baoyu's original body is the waiter of Shenying-the original writing is clearly and plainly written and there is no dispute. It should be noted that the name of that piece of jade is "psychic jade". Not only the concept of spirit is involved here, but also the concept of psychic is involved. Moreover, Cao Xueqin also sets spirit jade as Jia Baoyu's lifeblood. This logic It is in line with Christian cognition. Even more magical, the entire Red Mansion, hundreds of figures, only Jia Baoyu is alive. The first female protagonist Lin Daiyu is just the Fairy Crimson Pearl, as she said, how can everyone have a jade (spirit)?
Let's talk about Journey to the West; the stone monkey is called the ling monkey, and the concept of spirit is also used. At the same time, "heart ape" was used many times in the later essays. In other words, Wukong's innateness is spirit and acquired nature is heart, which is exactly in line with Christian cognition.
However, when I think about it, the spirit that Chinese people say is more like a kind of strange spirit, not the soul of the Western world.
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