Chapter 43 miracle of good luck

The workings of the human brain are quite complex.Through some details or special signs, we can clearly find that people's subconscious is always working.Certain thoughts, words and deeds of human beings are some kind of revelation from the subconscious.We can think that the so-called "self-induction" is very likely to be related to the subconscious mind.However, we cannot precisely describe the process of telepathy.Montague?Uman and Stanley?Klipner, two famous psychologists, conducted a series of well-designed experiments.They succeeded in causing the awake person to transmit the image in the head to the sleeping person in multiple rooms one after another, causing the image to appear in the sleeper's dream.In fact, this kind of image transmission not only occurs in the laboratory, but two people who know each other often have dreams with the same or similar images.

We can even prove the existence of this phenomenon through scientific methods.One night I had a dream in which I saw seven images in succession.Later, a friend who was staying at my house a few days ago told me that he had the same dream as I did that night: he dreamed the same seven images, in exactly the same order.We cannot explain why this happened.My friend and I had different experiences in the past, but we actually "created" almost the same dream on the same night.We have to come into contact with countless people and things in our life. From millions of images, our mind can choose arbitrarily and combine them into a dream. My friend and I chose the same seven images. an image.Generally speaking, this probability is close to zero, so in the face of this incredible phenomenon, we are sure that it is definitely not an accidental coincidence.

This incredible phenomenon cannot be explained by known natural laws, but they occur with alarming frequency. We call this situation the "synchronization principle".My friend and I don't know why we have similar dreams.We just know that the time we dream is close.In this bizarre phenomenon, time may be an important and even decisive factor.We often hear that in a serious car accident, there is always a lucky guy who miraculously escaped from the smashed car and was safe.To say that a car can deliberately bump itself into a certain shape with the help of "intuition" in order to protect a certain passenger, or that a passenger will use intuition to curl up into a certain posture to adapt to the deformed vehicle, sounds too obvious. absurd.According to the known laws of nature, we cannot explain the fact that why the vehicle undergoes a certain deformation to keep the passenger alive (event A), and why the position and shape of the passenger's body can make the vehicle into a special shape ( Event B).There is no causal relationship between the two, but A and B are miraculously synchronized, they occur at the same time, allowing the passengers to escape.The principle of synchrony cannot explain the cause and process of events, but can only explain the probability of similar events occurring at the same time, which is higher than the result predicted by pure probability.Nor can the principle of synchronicity explain the miracles themselves, only to convince us that the so-called "miracles" may be very mundane events, but they are ingeniously coordinated with special timing to the extent that they are seamless.

It is also statistically almost impossible for two people to have similar, synchronized dreams by chance, unless it is telepathic or paranormal.Chances are themselves ambiguous, and most telepathic, paranormal phenomena are perhaps equally ambiguous.Nevertheless, the abundance of certain telepathic phenomena has the potential to bring us good luck.In other words, to some extent, they may provide unexpected help to those involved. A respected, mature, and skeptical scientist once described his personal experience in this way, and analyzed it with me: "After attending an academic conference last time, I saw that the weather was fine that day, so I decided to walk along the lake. I was driving home on the road next to the lake. You know, there are many corners with no exits next to the road along the lake. I was about to approach the tenth corner when it occurred to me that a car might come out of the corner and head towards the road where I was. Without thinking too much about it, I slammed on the brakes and brought the car to a complete stop. That's when a car literally sprinted around the corner with its wheels six feet past the yellow line. Although my car was standing still, I was almost hit. If I hadn't stopped decisively, we would have undoubtedly collided at the corner. I don't know what made me decide to stop immediately. In There are more than a dozen other corners, I could stop at any of the corners, but I didn't. I have driven on that road many times before, although I also thought that this road is dangerous, but I have never stopped before. This It also makes me wonder if there really is ESP or something, anyway, I don't have any ideal explanation."

Certain coincidences that cannot be explained statistically may be regarded as typical examples of the synchronization principle.Some strange supernatural phenomena are also "masterpieces" of the principle of synchronization.They can be good for us or bad for us.The synchronicity principle makes us believe that there are not only unimaginable accidental events in the world, but also unimaginable "non-accidental" events.There are still some loopholes and deficiencies in our scientific research on the principle of synchronization, but it is still necessary to conduct in-depth research.Personally, I think the principle of synchrony—this statistically impossible situation—is far more likely to do us good than to cause damage.The "benefits" I mentioned are not only saving a life, but also promoting the maturity of the mind and improving the quality of life. The psychologist Jung mentioned "Dream of the Scarab" in his article "On Synchronization", Provide us with useful enlightenment: The example I gave is related to a young female patient. No matter how hard I try, it seems that it is difficult to touch her spiritual essence. The problem is that she seems to know everything. Good educational background, It has become an excellent weapon for her self-disguise. No matter what, she will analyze with reason. Her "Cartesian" logic is too precise, and her "geometric" view of reality is impeccable, making all my efforts ineffective. In vain. I tried in vain to inject some tender humanity into her mask of logic. In the end, I had to hope that something unexpected and irrational would happen to break her self-enclosed life. Intellectual barriers. I just waited for this opportunity. One day, I sat face to face with her, with a window behind me. I listened intently as she explained the events of her life at length. She said that the night before A dream in which someone gave her a gold scarab—a precious piece of jewelry. Before she could finish her sentence, there was a knocking sound from the window behind me. Look, it turned out to be a small bug. It actually wanted to crawl into the dimly lit room from the sunny outside. This is really an unusual phenomenon! I opened the window immediately, and when the bug flew in, I threw it away. I held it in my hand. Looking carefully, it turned out to be a chafer, which looked quite similar to a scarab, with a golden-green shell, as if it was made of gold. I showed it to the patient and said, "Look, this It's the scarab you said. "The impact of this accident on her was unimaginable. Her protective umbrella of intellectualism was smashed at once, and her resistance psychology collapsed in an instant. Since then, her treatment has become more and more serious. It went well.

The above mentioned are some beneficial supernatural events, and they all belong to "serendipity" (unexpected harvest or good luck).According to the interpretation of "Webster's Dictionary", the original English meaning of "serendipity" is: "the gift and talent of accidentally discovering valuable or lovable things. "The most remarkable thing about this definition is that it regards "good luck" as a gift and talent. In this sense, some people have talents and some people lack talents; some people are lucky and some people are lucky. People are unlucky. What I want to emphasize is that accidentally encountering valuable or lovable things is to show the world "magical power". Everyone has a share in magical power, but some people can grasp it. Some people let the opportunity slip away. How to decisively open the window, let the bug in, and grab it, and then give it to the patient? In fact, some people know how to seize the opportunity, while others resist the magical power and sit by and watch the opportunity Disappear. Some people don't know the existence of magical powers, and never know the value of some good luck, so they never "accidentally" find amazing things. In other words, everyone has the opportunity to encounter unexpected things , but some people don't know how to grasp the magic power when it comes. We don't take similar good luck seriously, thinking that it is not worth making a fuss, and finally let the opportunity slip away from us.

Five months ago, I made appointments with various clients in a small city.To pass the time between appointments, I called a colleague who lived there and asked if he could let me write at his house and continue working on the first chapter of this book.I met his wife at his home, a withdrawn and aloof woman.She has always been indifferent to me, sometimes even hostile.We talked awkwardly for about five minutes.During our short conversation, she talked about the book I was writing and asked me what I was writing about.I told her the book was about mental maturity, but I didn't say much more than that.

After the conversation, I sat in the study to write.For about an hour and a half, I was stuck.What I have written on the subject of responsibility does not satisfy me at all.Obviously, a deep and detailed narrative is necessary to make the discussed point more meaningful, but I feel that the large-scale discussion I made may affect the fluency of the entire content.But on the other hand, I don't want to delete all the content, because the discussion of some points is necessary.I was indecisive, thinking hard for over an hour, not knowing how to proceed, and getting more and more frustrated.Not being able to solve the problems of the moment made me feel helpless.

At this moment, the colleague's wife walked into the study quietly, looking shy and hesitant, but her expression was respectful, and her attitude was quite gentle and friendly, completely unlike the situation she had seen before. "I hope I'm not bothering you, Scott," she said, "and if I do, tell me a. I told her she wasn't bothering me. Holding a thin book, "I happened to see this book," she said, "For some reason, I thought it might be useful to you.Really, I don't know why. "I am a little annoyed. It seems to be some kind of coercion. In normal times, I might tell her that I have so many books and my time is limited that I don't have time to read them. But she rarely Humble, I reacted differently. I told her I appreciated her kindness and I would read it if I could. I took that book home. I don't know what "as much as possible" is, but Something seemed to remind me of something that night, and I put the other books aside and started reading the book she handed me. It was a short book called How People Make Change, by It's Alan Willis. Much of the book is about responsibility, and there's a chapter that goes into depth about stuff I wrote during the day that I wasn't happy with. The next morning, I condensed some into short and concise paragraphs, and that's it, my problem was solved.

It's not such a miraculous thing, and I don't need to make any fanfare about it, and I can even ignore it altogether, because I could have written this book without it.But no matter what, I have been favored by magical power after all.The event itself was both unusual and unusual.It is unusual because it would never happen under normal circumstances; it is common because such helpful events happen to us all the time, and they come to us quietly, Knocking on the door of our consciousness—like that scarab beating lightly on the windowpane.Something like this has happened many times in the months since a colleague's wife lent me the book.They happen to me, and sometimes I can recognize them, and sometimes I can use them without realizing their magical nature.Of course, I have no way of knowing how many times I have missed such opportunities in vain.