集体暗示的悲剧

此段摘自《个人与群体事件的本质》第六章“控制下的环境，以及正面与负面的集体行为”第八三五节

有一句令人着迷的暗示语被郑重地复诵了许多次，尤其在本世纪交替之初：“每一天，在各方面我都会越来越好。”这听起来虽然令人愉快，却有点像是过分乐观的蠢话。然而，这个暗示在一定程度上对无以数计的人有效。它并非一剂万灵丹。对于那些相信自己的本性基本上不值得信任的人是没有用的。不过这个暗示却绝非虚张声势，因为它能够并的确起到了一个架构的作用，新的信念得以在其周围聚合。

可是，你们的社会经常给人相反的暗示：“每一天，在各方面我都会越来越糟，而世界也是如此。”你们有寻求灾祸的冥想，有招致个人和集体悲剧的信念。这些信念往往被传统观念的高雅外衣所遮蔽。举例来说，在一场战役或战争里可能有成千上万人死去，这种死亡几乎被接受为理所当然的事。毫无疑问，这些人是战争的受害者。很少人会想到这些人其实是信念的受害者——因为枪炮是相当真实的，炸弹和战役也是。

敌人是显而易见的，其意图是邪恶的。战争基本是集体自杀的范例——不过，发动这种自杀的人，带着战争的所有行头，通过集体暗示，借由国家最强大的资源来实现它。这些人确信宇宙是不安全的，自己是不可信赖的，而陌生人是永远有敌意的。你理所当然地认为，人类是具侵略性而好战的。你必须在自己被毁之前先下手为强。这些偏执狂的倾向多半隐藏在人类民族主义的旗帜下。

“为了正当目的可以不择手段。”这是另一个最有害的信念。宗教战争永远有偏执狂的倾向，因为狂热份子永远害怕互相冲突的信念，害怕包容那些信念的系统。

偶然会有流行病的爆发，很多人得病而死。在一定程度上，这些人也是信念的受害者，因为你们相信自然的身体是病毒与疾病的天然猎物，而除非有医药的帮助，个人对此是束手无策的。医学界流行的整体暗示强调并夸张身体的脆弱，而贬低身体自然的疗愈能力。当人为了自己的理由准备要死，他才会死。没有一个人毫无理由地死去。可是，并没有人这样教你，所以人们认不清自己要死的理由，而且也没人教他们认清活下去的理由——因为你被告知，生命本身就是宇宙机率游戏中的一个意外。

因此，你无法信任自己的直觉。你认为人生的目的必然是做别的东西或别的人，而非做你自己。

There is an enchanting suggestion, solemnly repeated many times, particularly after the turn of the century: "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."1 This might sound like a bit of overly optimistic, though maybe delightful, nonsense. To a degree, however, that suggestion worked for millions of people. It was not a cure-all. It did not help those who believed in the basic untrustworthiness of their own natures. The suggestion was far from a bit of fluff, however, for it could serve — and it did — as a framework about which new beliefs could rally.

We often have in your society the opposite suggestion, however, given quite regularly: "Every day, in every way, I am growing worse, and so is the world." You have meditations for disaster, beliefs that invite private and mass tragedies. They are usually masked by the polite clothing of conventional acceptance. Many thousands may die in a particular battle or war, for example. The deaths are accepted almost as a matter of course. These are victims of war, without question. It seldom occurs to anyone that these are victims of beliefs — since the guns are quite real, and the bombs and the combat.

The enemy is obvious. His intentions are evil. Wars are basically examples of mass suicide — embarked upon, however, with all of the battle's paraphernalia, carried out through mass suggestion, and through the nation's greatest resources, by men who are convinced that the universe is unsafe, that the self cannot be trusted, and that strangers are always hostile. You take it for granted that the species is aggressively combative. You must out-think the enemy nation before you yourself are destroyed. These paranoiac tendencies are largely hidden beneath man's nationalistic banners.

"The end justifies the means." This is another belief, most damaging. Religious wars always have paranoiac tendencies, for the fanatic always fears conflicting beliefs, and systems that embrace them.

You have occasional epidemics that flare up, with victims left dead. Partially, these are also victims of beliefs, for you believe that the natural body is the natural prey of viruses and diseases over which you have no personal control, except as it is medically provided. In the medical profession, the overall suggestion that operates is one that emphasizes and exaggerates the body's vulnerability, and plays down its natural healing abilities. People die when they are ready to die, for reasons that are their own. No person dies without a reason.2 You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.

Therefore, you cannot trust your own intuitions. You think that your purpose in life must be to be something else, or someone else, than you are.

——摘自《灵魂永生》（Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul）

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