3 Flesh Eye Through
Contents of the Chapter：3.0 Preface；3.1 Making Flesh Eye Through；3.2 Function of Flesh Eye Through；3.3 Cultivation of Fate Intelligence；3.4 Pavlov Building；3.5 Identification of Flesh Eye Through；3.6 Trait of my Childhood；3.7 Disputes after The Makings；3.8 Rumor of a Medical Experiment；3.9 Annotations on the First Three Chapters
3.0 Preface
One day in September 1973, Uncle Dragon came home from Fushun to visit his family again and came to our house as a guest. I was very happy to see him. Mom said to him: "You and Luyan are destined to be together. He was happy to see you, as if he still knew you."
Uncle Dragon said: "I see that Luyan remembers me."
Mom said: "You don't know! After you left last year, Luyan always asked, ‘Why isn't Uncle Dragon coming?' I told him you were gone. Luyan then cried and got on fire！His throat swelled up for days couldn't talk."
Mom was haunted by what happened when Troupe Leader Liu came the year before, in addition she still remembered the effect Uncle Dragon had on me last year, saying: "I still remember it! Since the last time you told Luyan that Peach Flower Catastrophe story, he's been much more understanding. In my opinion, you can be considered his Revelation Teacher!"
Uncle Dragon's face turned fiery red, kept laughing, walked around, and said: "You could say that. However, people say that kindergarten or elementary school teachers are Revelation Teacher."
Mom said: "I know, but I've heard that the original meaning of Revelation was, somehow, to blindfold a child. The child looked at things as if there were fogs and couldn't see far. After the blindfold is revelated, he can see clearly near and far."
Uncle Dragon stood on middle of the floor with his back to me, looked sideways at my mom, after a while replied, "That's what I heard."
Mom excitedly requested: "How did you hear that, tell me about it!"
3.1 Making Flesh Eye Through
Uncle Dragon walked back and forth on the floor of the house. After a while, he made a stern face, turned his back to me, and said: “There are three steps in a normal Flesh Eye Through making procedure.”
The first step is to put the child in a place where there is no one around when the child is just sensible and not very sensible. Let a stranger stand at a distance and let the child see him. Then the stranger rushes to the child, surprises the child, and quickly leaves. The child looked at it like this, and with this shock, it is said that the child's eyes were blindfolded. (Cf. chapter 1 for an example.)
Mom said in surprise: “Isn't that just being charged (or rushed)! No wonder the older generation said that children should not be allowed to see strangers casually.”
Uncle Dragon laughed and said: “Listening to you, I realized! Isn’t it just being rushed (or charged)! They also say that when a child's eyes are blindfolded, that child is always looking for the one who rushed him; however, the child must not be allowed to see the one who rushed him at this time. Fengling! They say that the stranger who rushes the child is generally the child's future godfather. If that stranger is sought out by the child, then this Flesh Eye Through making fails, and the Flesh Eye Through cannot be done.”
Mom thought about it and said: “This is about blindfolding; How to revelated?”
Uncle Dragon said: “This is what I have heard. Revelation is to find another person who looks like the one who rushed (or charged) the child, and whom is neither a stranger nor an acquaintance of the child. Do the same thing that the stranger who rushed (or charged) the child did again, this time letting the child see it clearly. They say that by doing this, the child's blindfold is revelated.”
Mom says: "Ah! How long does it take from blindfold to revelation?"
Uncle Dragon said: “I have heard that the interval is not fixed. How long is determined by the child’s godfather. The godfather, let's think of it this way, is not an ordinary person who can do this. Godfather’s decision is according to the child's stage of intellectual development and the effect of the making. After he blindfolded the child, he observes it. Generally, the blindfolding period is from three months to one year.” (Cf. chapter 2 for an example.)
Uncle Dragon added: "The workings of the Flesh Eye Through are not finished with revelation."
Mom said anxiously: "Big Brother! Then say it quickly, what happens next? In case you forget it later?"
Uncle Dragon said: "I have heard it said that the third step of the Flesh Eye Through practice is that when the child is seventeen or eighteen to twenty-three or twenty-four years old, when the child's Flesh Eye Through has been formed, the child's godfather, the child's parents, and the person whom the child trusts the most, together, tell the child about the affair of the Flesh Eye Through making."
Mom said: "Ah! When the kid's eyes are blindfolded, he's always looking for the one who charged (or rushed) him. After a few months, the child finds a fake one. The child understands, but the blindfold is removed. The child still looks for the one who blindfolded him. When he grew up, the child's godfather and parents deliberately let the child find the person who blindfolded him. Then, together, they explained to the child what had happened to him when he was a child. The mystery in that child's heart was then completely solved."
Uncle Dragon said: "I just heard about it and thought it was just like you said."
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