This novel originated from a dream I once had: in a dark night, in a certain piece of broken ruins in the forest, I saw a group of people grabbing a popular star I was familiar with, and at the same time pulled a deer , They exchanged the soul of the star with the soul of the deer, and then said to the star with a smirk: What is "contained" in your body now is the soul of this "deer", so from today , you are called Lu Han and can't fully name and name, so I partially changed my name. From now on, you have to be obedient.
The moment the star's soul was replaced with that of a deer, he couldn't stand up anymore, and immediately fell down on all fours and crawled on the ground. At this time, his eyes saw me.
In the dream, I didn't know to be afraid, but to this day, I can still recall the star who was replaced with the soul of a deer and knelt on the ground.
At that time, he saw my eyes full of despair, fear, and helplessness, but he didn't seem to want to break free.
Although there was only moonlight in the night and it was not bright, I could see clearly the way he looked at me.
Then those people also saw me, one of them walked towards me with a smile, while the other, holding a little white rabbit in his hand, smiled coldly at me.
I know, they will also exchange my soul with that rabbit. From now on, there will only be one animal soul in my body.
I woke up when the man caught me.
After waking up, I was frightened by my dream, because within the first five minutes of waking up, I seemed to be still dreaming in a daze, and what I "dreamed" was the follow-up story of that dream:
Replace some people with the soul of a rabbit, so that they will be obedient and dare not speak.
Replace some people with wolf souls, making them bloodthirsty and killing like hemp.
Replace some people with the soul of a dog, let them be humble, and the dog takes advantage of others.
Replace some people with the soul of a pig, so that they are lazy and do not want to make progress.
Exchange some people for the soul of a cow, let them work hard without complaining, without expecting anything in return.
Give some people the soul of a snake, let them be insidious and cunning, and wait for an opportunity to harm others.
Replace some people with the soul of a fox, let them be full of lies, and deceive all living beings.
Although it was only 5 minutes, it seemed like a very long time for me at that time.
At that time, I vaguely remembered that there was another detail in that dream: It seemed that by replacing the soul of an animal, people could obtain certain abilities, thinking, speed, personality, etc. of that animal. If there were still these temptations, would someone take the initiative? Abandon your own soul and replace it with an animal soul
For a long time afterwards, I wondered, if people really have souls, and there are people who can exchange human souls with animal souls, will there be such terrible behaviors in the world
Thinking of the end, I feel that I am worrying unfoundedly. Even if people have not been replaced with animal souls, they still have the above-mentioned lies, insidious and cunning, demeaning, and unprogressive behaviors. The replacement of animal souls is just "icing on the cake" on these behaviors. .
Later, I figured it out. The reason why I thought this dream was terrible was not because people had changed their souls to do these things, but this dream gave me another worry: after I was changed into an animal soul, would I still be In the eyes of others, all my behaviors are exactly the same as before, I am still me; but in my heart, I know very well that my soul has changed, but the animal soul that penetrated into me is the same as before. I have the same character, but I am not me anymore.
At that time, I knew that I couldn't think about this question any longer, because there is no end to any question involving "who am I".
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But because of this, I started to conceive, hoping to write this dream and some past thoughts into a novel, but I always felt that there were only outlines and no more detailed things.
Until one day, I saw American Gods, and I saw a fantasy system built by the author on the basis of belief in becoming a god.
I clearly remember that at that moment, I seemed to be enlightened, and I got through all my past thoughts. I found an index that could string a third of my past thoughts into a story. The skeleton of this story That is: every "I" soul, through faith, has a story with God.
After realizing this, I knew that I couldn't watch this American drama anymore, otherwise I would be affected by its details: I only need this idea of this novel, not all of it, otherwise, my novel will end up It can only be a plagiarism.
So I started writing this novel. Unfortunately, there are still a few points in the previous story that have the shadow of American Gods. For example, the scars on Zhou Yuan’s body are related to the scars on the shadow’s wife in American Gods. Fan Bingbing on TV is similar to the media god in American Gods.
Fortunately, the following stories were separated from American Gods and became their own set of stories in Liaozhai. I even added the Three Gods Paradox on the basis of the assumption that American Gods became gods. The "research results" of the characters in the book.
And the more I got to the end, the more I discovered a wonderful thing: many times, some plots, some words, I did not say for certain characters in the book, and I did not let these characters do certain things, on the contrary, they As if they "live", they will say these words and do these things by themselves, and I just help these characters to write out what they want to say and what they want to do.
So, together with the characters in the book, I completed the Liaozhai of the Gods.
The addition of quantum mechanics, in particular, allowed me to connect things like awareness of the soul, and the power of God.
But I want to declare: I am only interested in quantum mechanics. Some descriptions of quantum mechanics in the book are not completely correct, and I even made some processing for certain plots in the book.
But I think that even though this book contains a mix of science explaining the soul, faith, and gods, this does not prevent the book from describing the essence of the story:
As powerful as the Monkey King, if you lose your heart and don't know who "I" is, you will get lost in the world.
No matter how powerful Zhou Yuan's false reality is, he can even turn into a whole fake earth to deceive everyone, and finally rival Mr. Fei's Zhuxian Sword, but the fake is still fake.
Zhou Yuan does not resist or escape this falsehood because of the "falseness", but has been comprehending this falsehood. When his "falseness" becomes empty, our Wukong will come back.
Regardless of whether it is because of the chimera, or the help of Haoran with cosmic-level consciousness, Haoning's "goodness and falseness in things" is the way we deal with things in this world: borrow all kinds of power that we can borrow, To solve the difficulties and ups and downs we encounter in reality.
Until one day, like Hao Ning at the end, we realized that we had "borrowed" so many supernatural powers, so that we could have our own "supernatural powers", and then we were able to draw the "Tai Chi diagram" of our life in our hearts , Through our eyes, under our observation, we can fix this chaotic and uncertain world like a quantum state in our hearts. If learning to "borrow" supernatural powers is to "stand", then "fixing" the world in our hearts means "not to be confused." "Are.
We cannot choose our parents, whether they left us when we were young, whether they demanded too much from us when we were growing up, whether they stopped loving us for some unspeakable reasons, Hurt us when we were young, all we can choose is to
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One thing: how to treat them. We can choose to fight against our father like Liu Shuai, or we can choose to be obedient to our parents like Zhou Yuan, or we can choose to treat our parents as brothers and sisters like Li Yufei, but no matter what choice we choose, the result of our choice will be the final result. , we still bear it.
Similarly in love, we may meet love at first sight like Liu Shuai and Xiaowen, or we may love each other like Azhe and Xiaoye but occasionally quarrel, or we may be like Wang Shiming and Paixiu, or we may be like Xiaoyun. Like Jie Nan, she has admiration but has reservations, and she may also be like Xiaohong and Lele, who plan in every possible way but are unexpected. These loves may be as "uncertain" as quantum states, but when someone appears, When we look at the person opposite, it is like the observer begins to observe the quantum. The uncertainty about love in our hearts becomes certain because we look at the person opposite. No matter how "uncertain" our future love is, But when we look back at the love of these years after decades, they will all become very "certain", so what we can do now is to "optimize" the love in front of us, and turn its "uncertainty" into "Sure".
Our bodies are changing all the time, our consciousness is also changing all the time, and our soul is naturally changing all the time, but we seldom suspect that "I am not me" because of this "change".
We can have many, many reasons to guide our thinking: we can choose to believe in "Heaven is moving forward, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement", or believe in "like a dream bubble", or believe in the "ship of Theseus", or believe that we live in a "tank". In the "brain", or believe that consciousness and soul are connected through quantum mechanics, or even believe that the entire Internet and the universe are conscious, but no matter which one we believe, there is a bottom line: don't lose your heart because of extremes.
If you lose your original mind and pursue bliss, what you get in return may not be a pure land, but a piece of sand, a sand where no tiles exist.
So in this book, I have neither the extreme worship of science, nor the infinite praise of theology, nor the praise of change, nor the obsession with tradition. Existence is reasonable, and everything here has its reason. And each of these reasons can be justified, the key is whether we can use our "self" to judge them seriously, "borrow" their supernatural powers, instead of getting lost in them, Inextricable.
Superstitious superstition, superstitious words come first, and the root of superstition lies in losing one's original mind.
I have to admit that the subject matter of this book is not popular, the stories it tells are not mainstream, and the topics discussed are even a bit "hypocritical": Today, everyone is fighting for housing prices, second child, salary, wealth and freedom, getting rich overnight, and intrigue. When cultivating, there is such a rebellious book to discuss the "original mind" and "see yourself"
what's the use
This book is naturally not that useful, and I have never been so arrogant that what I said can be as "useful" to other people as the success science in the airport bookstore.
I write this book just to record my past imagination and thinking, and share it with you who see this place.
Mr. Yang Jiang once said a sentence, which I like very much. She said that reading is like "invisible" visits. She does not need to say hello in advance to ask for a meeting, and is not afraid of disturbing the owner. Go there often, go there all the time, if you don't get the point, you can leave without saying goodbye, or ask someone else to confront it.
I think her metaphor is very good, I don't know who you are when you read this book, I don't know how you feel, let alone when you read this book, but in any case, I You are very welcome to enter the door of Liaozhai of the Gods, let us see ourselves from the world of the Gods together.
So, I want to say to you who have been seeing this all the time:
Hello, welcome to Gods Liaozhai, I am Hao Ning, and who are you
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