理想的蓝图，等你一步步实现

?本文选自《个人与群体事件的本质》第870节

“理想”的发展蓝图存在于基因知识库里，为人类提供了多种多样的实现途径。在精神层面，那些蓝图作为“理想”存在，并通过人类个体成员的冲动与创造表达出来。

例如，天生的运动员通过身体的专业技能来彰显某种理想的身体状况。他们也许是非凡的敏捷、活力或力量的化身：他们展示个体的特质，树立肉体的理想供人欣赏，尽可能地表明了人类与生俱来的能力。

我相信现在的人跑完一英里路比30年前快得多（差不多快12秒）——是身体的有效速度突然加快了吗？并非如此。相反地，是对身体表现的精神信念改变了，从而导致了身体速度的提高。身体确实可以比当前的记录（3分49秒）跑得更快。我只想阐明信念对身体表现的影响。不过，并不是每个人都想成为跑步专家。他们的创造力与理想可能展现在完全不同的领域，但个人表现永远在增益人类的知识。好、更好、最好。做一个差劲的跑步者是不是很坏呢？当然不是，除非跑步是你的嗜好。如果是，你练习就会进步。

现在，无论你们的理想是什么，最初都是从你们的内在经验里浮现出来的，而这也适用于作为一个整体的人类。你们对社会与合作的概念，来自出生时就被赋予的一种生物性及灵性的知识。人在观察动物的合作之后，认识到团体的重要性。你们的文明，是身体细胞内在社会分组的外在演绎，是赋予肉体生命的自然合作过程的外在演绎，这演绎精彩而富于创造性。这并不意味着理智是次要的，而是意味着理智被用来帮助你们形成物质文明——那是内在文明在精神、灵性与生物上的反映。你们永远从自然中学习，而且也永远是自然的一部分。

你们在任何领域都追求卓越的表现，这种追求——你们的理想主义——全都是在灵性与生理上根深蒂固的。如果本书所提及的诸多社会状况不是那么理想的话，那么，作为一个个体，你可以开始去改变那些状况。你能做到这一点，通过接受自己作为人的正当性；通过抛弃无价值及无力量的想法——不论它们的来源如何；通过开始观察自己的冲动、信任自己的方向。就在今天，由你所在之处开始。

不要老是想着环境中的不幸状况，而要在生活中切实采取行动，以任何可行的方式表达你的理想。那些方式是多种多样的。

比如，一般来说，如果你对某种身体状况非常担心，就去看医生吧，要不然你可能会被自己的信念吓坏。不过，你可以从烦人的小毛病开始，试着自己去解决问题。试着去发现你为什么心烦。当你头疼或只是胃不舒服，或是有一种烦人却不严重的慢性症状，比如鼻窦炎或花粉病——在这类情形里，提醒自己，你的身体的确有能力自我疗愈。

做《个人实相的本质》一书中的练习，去发现是哪种精神状况或心理根源引起了你的不适。不要因为头痛而吃阿斯匹林，而是坐下来，安静地呼吸，并提醒自己你是这个宇宙不可或缺的一部分。让自己感受到一种对自然的归属感。这样一个练习常常能立刻减轻你的头痛。但每一次这样的经验都会让你对自己身体的运化过程建立一种信任感。

The blueprints for "ideal" developments exist within the pool of genetic knowledge, providing the species with multitudinous avenues for fulfillment. Those blueprints exist mentally as ideals. They express themselves through the impulses and creativity of the species' individual members.

Your natural athletes, for example, show through their physical expertise certain ideal body conditions. They may personify great agility or strength or power: individual attributes, physical ideals which are held up to others for their appreciation, and which signify, to whatever extent, abilities inherent in the species itself.

I believe that man runs the mile much quicker now (by about 12 seconds) than he did, say, thirty years ago. Has the body's effective speed suddenly quickened? Hardly. Instead, mental beliefs about the body's performance have changed, and increased physical speed resulted. The body can indeed run faster than the current record (of 3:49). I merely want to show the effect of beliefs upon physical performance. All people do not want to be expert runners, however. Their creativity and their ideals may lie in quite different fields of endeavor, but individual performance always adds to the knowledge of the species. Good, better, best. Is it bad to be a poor runner? Of course not, unless running is your own particular avocation. And if it is, you improve with practice.

Now your ideals, whatever they may be, initially emerge from your inner experience, and this applies to the species as a whole. Your ideas of society and cooperation arise from both a biological and spiritual knowledge given you at birth. Man recognized the importance of groups after observing the animals' cooperation. Your civilizations are your splendid, creative, exterior renditions of the inner social groupings of the cells of the body, and the cooperative processes of nature that give you physical life. This does not mean that the intellect is any less, but that it uses its abilities to help you form physical civilizations that are the reflections of mental, spiritual, and biological inner civilizations. You learn from nature always, and you are a part of it always.

Your searches toward understanding excellent performance in any area — your idealisms — are all spiritually and biologically ingrained. If many of the conditions we have mentioned in this book are less than ideal in your society, then you can as an individual begin to change those situations. You do this by accepting the rightness of your own personhood. You do this by discarding ideas of unworthiness and powerlessness, no matter what their sources. You do this by beginning to observe your own impulses, by trusting your own direction. You start wherever you are, today.

You do not dwell upon the unfortunate conditions in your environment, but you do take steps in your own life to express your ideals in whatever way is given. Those ways are multitudinous.

Generally speaking, for example, if you are seriously worried about a physical condition, go to a doctor, because your own beliefs may overfrighten you otherwise. Begin with innocuous but annoying physical conditions, however, and try to work those out for yourself. Try to discover why you are bothered. When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever — in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself.

Do the exercises in my book, The Nature of Personal Reality, to discover what conditions of a mental nature, or of psychological origin, are causing you distress. Instead of taking an aspirin for a headache, sit down, breathe quietly, and remind yourself that you are an integral part of the universe. Allow yourself to feel a sense of belonging with nature. Such an exercise can often relieve a headache in no time. But each such experience will allow you to build up a sense of trust in your own body's processes.

Examine the literature that you read, the television programs that you watch, and tell yourself to ignore those indications given of the body's weaknesses. Tell yourself to ignore literature or programs that speak authoritatively about the species' "killer instincts." Make an effort to free your intellect of such hampering beliefs. Take a chance on your own abilities. If you learn to trust your basic integrity as a person, then you will be able to assess your abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them or underassessing them.

You will not feel the need, say, to "justify your existence" by exaggerating a particular gift, setting up the performance of one particular feat or art as a rigid ideal, when in fact you may be pleasantly gifted but not greatly enough endowed with a certain ability to give you the outstanding praise you think you might deserve.

On the other hand, there are many highly gifted people who continually put down their abilities, and are afraid to take one small step toward their expression. If you accept the rightness of your life in the universe, then your ideals will be those in keeping with your nature. They will be fairly easily given expression, so that they add to your own fulfillment and to the development of the society as well.

编译：Jennylau婷、        美编：Jennylau婷

《赛斯说?第194期》

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