Body 108. Contradictions

"I first met my teacher in about 1843. Twenty-three years of Daoguang...... That's right. After the First Opium War, the five ports were traded, and the coast gradually became lively. At that time, I was in my early 20s, and I knew that I would not be able to pass the exam, but my foundation in reading and literacy was good. At that time, it was still very rare for foreigners to come to us, and it was very rare for everyone to come to us. Back then, there was a foreign devil, who was called that at the time anyway, and he was an explorer. After being bitten by a snake somewhere, he was carried to the town. The doctor in the town had no ability to treat it, so he prescribed some analgesic and poison-removing medicines, and did his best to obey the fate of heaven. I was the one who grabbed the medicine for that foreign devil. I didn't think much about it at the time, although the foreign devil hurt badly, according to the doctor, he only stayed up for a day, but he just wanted to give him a lot of money. Several other apprentices in the pharmacy all take foreign devils as ghosts, and I dare to earn this money. Oh, God knows. ”

"The foreign devil asked me to go to a town dozens of miles away to find a friend of his, saying that his friend could save him. By the time I figured out what it meant, it was already afternoon, and I certainly didn't have time to go back and forth that day, but I still ran almost 40 miles, and it was only in the evening that I arrived at my friend, my teacher. Then, the teacher carried me back to town in less than an hour. Moreover, he didn't use much medicine, so he forced the poison out, and he carried me on the way, I was so scared that I thought I had encountered some demons and monsters. But in the end, they didn't do anything to me anyway, so I wasn't afraid. ”

"At that time, it was not easy to make money, and it was difficult for everyone to live. The teacher suggested that I go with them to Guangdong, and he would find me a job at a foreign company, or maybe their expedition team needed a helper. Because of the high wages given, I didn't think much about it, so I followed them. I followed it for almost half a year, and traveled all over Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Sichuan. Most of the time is spent collecting plant specimens in the deep mountains and old forests. After running with them for so long, slowly English will also be able to learn. They promised me that when their business was over, they would recommend me to work as an interpreter in a foreign company. At that time, there were too few people who knew a foreign language, unlike now, where there were all over the place in the fourth and sixth grades. However, at that time, working for foreigners was going to be poked in the back. But I'm just a scholar, and I still have an old lady to raise, so I can't take care of too much. ”

"I've always felt that the teacher was a very strange person. Although everyone says that foreign devils want to kill. He eats human flesh and sells opium, but the only thing the teacher likes to do is burrow into the woods and find all kinds of exotic plants. Many of the plants in the forest are medicinal herbs, and I was an apprentice in a pharmacy and I had a good conversation with them. Later, the teacher gave me the method of cold brew medicine. Nowadays, everyone may know how to do Chinese medicine, but it was a rare technique at the time. ”

"The situation at that time, you can't imagine now, was a mess. Once, I went to a town to buy something, but I didn't know why I was detained by the people of the Worship of God. Fortunately, the teacher saw that I hadn't been back for a long time and came to the town to rescue me. The Worship of God was the prototype of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was still a new group at that time, far from the time when it was an uprising, and it was like a foreigner who retreated. However, there are really a few mages in the God Worship Society, and they don't know what method to cultivate. As a result, he was tied to the spot by the teacher with thorns. It was because of this incident that I knew that the teacher was not an ordinary person. Later, probably because he thought I was quite easy to get along with, the teacher told me about Western things, from ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome all the way down. I, on the other hand, told the teacher about Chinese mythology and local legends. Later, the teacher started teaching me some breathing techniques and stuff. It wasn't until 1845 that I had been working in a foreign firm for a long time, and I had saved a small amount of money. The teacher said that he was going to Nanyang to do something, so I stayed. But the druid's special breathing technique, and the way of meditation, I have never stopped. My wife died in 47, and at that time I couldn't think about it, so I quit my job as a translator and went to live in the forest for almost half a year before returning to Guangdong. But it was during that six months that I began to discover the amazing effects of breathwork and meditation. After all, there is still some foundation, so I checked a lot of Taoist and Buddhist classics, but none of them can explain this state. It was not until the end of the 48th year that the teacher returned to Guangdong. He saw that my natural power had accumulated to such an extent, and he told me that he was a druid. Another half a year passed, and in '49, I should have been 30 years old, and I had completed the trials of the druids. At that time, there was no one at home. Originally, he was poor and couldn't marry a daughter-in-law, but later worked in a foreign bank, with a lot of money, but he also had a lot of infamy, so forget it. Without any pressure, I followed my teacher and set out on a voyage around the world. ”

"If you want to talk about what you did at the time, being scolded as a second devil, in fact, it doesn't matter. Taking a foreigner deep into the interior is actually a big crime, but the problem is that in fact, until the conviction is made, no one will tell you what can and cannot be done. In addition, Guangxi and Guangdong are very chaotic, in fact, not many people care. ”

"I followed the teacher first, then went around Southeast Asia, Australia, then went to Japan, and then returned to Guangdong. It was 1854. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has already made trouble, and it feels unsafe to stay in the country. I followed my teacher to Europe. In several countries, I studied under different names and did a lot of degrees. Foreigners also discriminate against Chinese, but the druids really have a lot of friends. Everyone gets along well. I didn't know at the time how much pressure the teacher was under in the Druid Council to absorb a Chinese druid like me. It's not because of nationality, but because I lack an understanding of the whole world, and I have been educated in the imperial examination for many years, and many things are difficult to accept. Especially since I only became a druid at the age of 30, I am quite poor in terms of ability. ”

Later, the teacher finally persevered. But it's also because my abilities have improved a lot. I used to work as an apprentice in a pharmacy, and then I learned medicine from a doctor. When he arrived in Europe, he began to study Western medicine again. Gradually, with the integration of East and West, coupled with the druid's healing skills, my ability to treat surpassed that of my teacher. The teacher studied plants intensively, and he was actually a very strong botanical druid, and medical skills were not his specialty. I traveled a lot around Europe, Africa, and the United States, and by 1870 I had almost completed my first round of the world trip. At that time, Europe was also tossing and turning, and after the first lap, the second round of world travel began. The teacher was really rich, and this time he bought a boat by himself, and the whole ship was full of druids and attendants, and everyone was there chatting about all kinds of things. Everyone had different topics, and it was probably the most interesting time in the entire Druid Council. Speaker Bernard was only 7 years old at the time, and he was already a genius druid. Sophocles hasn't been born yet. There is still a great druid of African descent in the council, and Jukampo, the teacher of Insula. At that time, however, he was just a child kindly adopted by Sir Sureton, a druid master of the zoological department who had followed the colonists' ship to Africa, and he was seasick all day. ”

"The Druid Council was confronted with two main contradictions, one was the contradiction between the understanding of nature by the druids as a mystical system of forces of nature and the Theory of Evolution based on empirical science. The theory of evolution is so shocking, and now, everyone recognizes the status of evolution in science, and also recognizes the great role of evolution theory in promoting social ecology, and at that time, there were also a group of druids who were shocked. Everyone has always sought truth in nature and understood the habits of various creatures, but the rules were revealed by a guy who was not a druid. We've gathered more evidence than any one person at this time. Then, with humility and shame, we learn that our knowledge of nature is not the whole story. Since then, the Druid Council has placed the scientific community's understanding of nature in an extremely important position. ”

Another contradiction is that with the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the wave of colonization, the erosion of the natural world has intensified. It was at that time that some people put forward the idea of taking active action to protect nature. This led to a split in the Druid Council. The one who proposed more aggressive action to protect nature was a spell druid named Giddens. Now it seems that it was very forward-looking to put forward such an idea, but at the time, it did not attract much attention from everyone, and even caused a quarrel. From Roman times to the inquisition of the Middle Ages, and all the way to the Renaissance, the Druidic Council has been a secretive group, with some fear of another blow from the Holy See. Discouraged, Giddens left the council with a few like-minded friends and formed the 'Watchmen' group. However, it seems that due to funding and a lack of knowledge of industrial technology, the group soon faded into disappearance after several failures. Giddens never appeared again. ”

"In 1882 I finished the second round of the world. Because of my exposure to Mayan, shamanism, Shintoism, Buddhism, and other cultures, as well as the collection of a large number of materials on the traditional medicine of semi-civilized peoples, I was probably the only world-class doctor in the world at that time. However, at that time, I played some pranks, hid my identity, used the method of stealing to close the energy fluctuations of my whole body, disguised myself as an ordinary person, and broke into the Holy See. After studying at the seminary in Rome for 4 years, he mastered the Holy See's divine healing techniques, but in the end he was discovered. Wanted by the Holy See in Europe, I returned home. ”

"Although I have always heard about the country, I did not expect that after decades, the situation would deteriorate to this point. And what's even funnier is that I have traveled to famous mountains and rivers, but I have repeatedly encountered guys who have nothing to do to make trouble, saying that I cultivate demons, evil demons and foreign ways, and that I protect spirits and spirit animals, and jump out one by one as if they are presiding over justice to fight with me. At first, I didn't think it was necessary, and I was ashamed of it, so I always wanted to explain. Later, I was also annoyed, and everyone who came to fight was beaten down. Because I fought too much, I was half-dead and then healed people, and later, everyone gradually stopped rejecting me. I, a guy who cultivates the natural power of the druid, has actually become an ingenious Qimen cultivator, and I have the nickname of a secret doctor. But this doctor is a famous name. ”