Doctor Strange: What is the experience of being preached?

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a doctor of medicine who has received more than ten years of elite education and only takes challenging cases. He is full of confidence. He lives in the center of New York, wears Jaeger-LeCoultre watches, and drives Lamborghini. It is the most typical intellectual elite image.

However, a car accident changed his life. The lancet hands were pierced by broken glass, and even the shaver could not be held securely.

The next step is of course the routine: try, fail, try again, fail again, then sink, then become decadent, until the closest friend is also disappointed and left.

The desperate doctor heard that someone in the mysterious Kathmandu might cure his hand disease and went to the doctor in a desperate way. He took the last money to buy a plane ticket and flew to the east.

After some routines, he met the Gu Yi mage played by Tilda Swinton. The Gu Yi mage in the original comics was an Asian born in the foothills of the Himalayas, but white people were chosen to play the role in the movie, but there are still some oriental settings that do not Change, Master Gu Yi treats guests with tea, rubbing a folding fan in his hand, explaining the magic theory to the doctor, and showing a medical book with acupoint diagrams of the human body.

Although the Ph.D. is down, he has not forgotten the education he has received. He sneered at this kind of witch doctor stuff, and it was really bad for him to laugh at himself. In the intense debate between the doctor and the mage, some very representative words appeared.

You are totally distorted! ——"Do you think you understand how the world works?"
Persuading the body to heal on its own is totally inconsistent with the laws of medicine! ——"If I tell you, the reality you know is just the tip of the iceberg?" After

a few rounds of intense debate, Gu Yi mage suddenly showed the doctor a "miracle"-she slapped the doctor's "spiritual body" with a palm ", so that the doctor can experience the feeling of being out of his body. However, the doctor still didn't believe it. He thought that the tea the Master gave him contained hallucinogens. For the second time to show the miracle, the mage simply came to a big one. She pushed the doctor into the "different time and space". Here, the film uses CG methods to reproduce the hybrid 2001 space roaming space-time tunnel and Inception space. The magnificent picture of architectural folding and oriental kaleidoscope style. Both the audience and the doctor were convinced by this "miracle". The doctor knelt down and worshipped, begging the mage to accept him as a disciple.



Some of the above sentences may be interpreted by some people as "a collision between Eastern and Western philosophical concepts." But if you look into it carefully, that's actually not the case. In the society we are familiar with, what is more similar to this kind of discourse is the discourse of various emerging religions.

The target of preaching is often selected: people who have nothing, and people who have encountered major setbacks, are more likely to believe in religion. Doctors belong to the latter, but his previous knowledge structure determines that he is not so easily persuaded. In his preaching, Master Gu Yi first used traditional words: "The world is not what you are supposed to do, all you know is the tip of the iceberg" to attack his original worldview, which is invalid.
So she began to show miracles, which is a method used by almost all religions. From ancient times to the present, people have come up with various miraculous forms: stories about the sacred sites, walking the knife mountain, testing the oil pot, and breathing fire. , Snake hidden in the crotch, the soul emerges from the body, the god possesses, and the stone becomes gold. In modern times, you can also see new miracles assisted by new methods, such as the "Buddha light" picture synthesized by PS. Of course, this form is not only used by religions. In direct sales venues, you will definitely see people who are paralyzed from a wheelchair, or a therapeutic device that seems to be able to cure all diseases. Once a miracle is not enough, do it again. When you see more and more believing around you, many people will believe in emotional contagion.



The doctor believed the miracle and worshipped the mage as his apprentice. This is the first step to becoming a believer. The next step is to give believers a sense of superiority and let them "share" their power. "You are the one chosen by God", "We are the guardians of the world in seclusion, and the secrets of this world are in our hands", "I will teach you the truth of the world, and I will teach you powerful spells" and so on .

While giving a sense of superiority, we must also pay attention to the experience of the sense of ritual. The ritual can involve everyone taking lessons together, observing the sacred objects, the instructor’s extremely serious face-to-face instruction, and the mutual evaluation of group members that are not allowed to hide any information, and so on. In the process of sharing secrets and power, believers gradually became convinced, integrated into existing groups, and developed a strong sense of dependence. At this time, the mission was basically completed, and a qualified believer was born.

Let us return to the mysterious magic in the film, not talking about the CG spectacle, only the magic theory in the film: drawing energy from the invisible world of ordinary people, this energy can change real objects, compress space, reverse time, and make people Immortality. Is this routine a bit familiar?
What's more interesting is that the villain mage played by Mads Mikkelsen rebelled against the original religious school, dragged away a group of believers, and set up another door. The two factions attacked each other, accusing each other of being a world-wide liar and a heretical doctrine. It was too noisy. In the eyes of outsiders, the difference between the two schools of teaching is too small to be distinguished. This kind of thing is simply commonplace in the spread of religion in the real society. The birth of a new religion is often a fission in the spread of the old religion. The new leader can change the doctrine a little and add a little content to give the interpretation of the new religion. Control in their own hands, and then cultivate their own religious forces, forming a situation of competition with the old religious forces.

Religious controversy is not so much a doctrinal controversy as a human heart controversy. Religious thoughts are often full of wisdom and beauty, which can bring the spiritual experience of the best to the practitioners. But religious organizations are not a pure land. Any place that can grab benefits is always full of intrigue, unfathomable and unfathomable.


Religion may be able to save a person from despair, but sticking to the doctrine and being a loyal believer will not make you a better person. The habit of thinking and self-learning ability cultivated in the academic career made the doctor become the most advanced person under the master. Master Gu Yi talked with the master doctor before his death: Your big brother has a staid temperament and cannot inherit my karma, and your talents are different. Talent, flexible mind, if you can be as persevering as your brother, and integrate what you usually learn, you may be able to inherit my career. After that, although the doctor was in distress frequently and was at a disadvantage in the fight against the villain mage, he was able to resolve it wittily at every critical moment-he was injured in the heart and sent himself to the hospital, borrowing the power of modern medicine to save his life; When the "spiritual body" confronted the middle body and was downwind, accidentally discovered that the heart shock treatment could increase the power of the "spiritual body", and immediately used this to solve the enemy.

In the final battle, the villain's big boss is simply a big killer on the earth. He has surpassed time and has absolute power. No one can beat him. The big brothers and librarians who only knew the teachings of spells were crushed by the strength of the opponent's big boss, and they had no power to fight back. It was the doctor who remembered the unique secret technique that believers were forbidden to practice: this spell can reverse time, but the disadvantage is that a little carelessness will cause the user to fall into an endless cycle of time. This biggest disadvantage can become the biggest advantage; the biggest advantage can also become the biggest disadvantage. The doctor realized that the villain BOSS surpasses time, so it can beat all humans who cannot escape time, but if someone can use spells to drag the villain BOSS into the time cycle, even in such a cycle, humans have been defeated countless times. It will affect others outside the loop. He found the only loophole in the opponent, and finally fulfilled his mission and achieved victory.



Even if you lose everything, even if you believe in another set of life doctrines, those thoughts and abilities that you have cultivated during your Ph.D. degree will not leave you behind. In the end, they will help you open the door to a new life.


Therefore, instead of entrusting yourself to God, it is better to uphold wisdom.

Let's go to a PhD!

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