民間宗教的「他界」修行

Religious Practice via Dreaming Visions for Folk Believers in Taiwan

本研究從某神壇系統的修行師姐來探討民間宗教修行的本質。從民間宗教虔信徒的各種說詞＋夢景的組合，我們發現所有的虔信來自於感受的質感（percets）的感覺邏輯，一方面透過身體對夢境的體覺，一方面羅織各種可能的奧祕資訊，而共構成靈知系統，這套靈知系統介於概念（concepts）與知覺（perception）之間的搓合，既不全然屬於觀念，亦不全然屬於體察，因此，我們稱之為「身體的人文空間」，即透過夢視的身體情緒的驚動，進而啟動神話的框視，由上而下進行詮釋。「他界」指的是由夢視所獲得遷移的另一世界，與現實世界只有部分的一致。此一他界即由夢景及其神話說詞所構成。虔信徒生活於其中，並以此「他界」作為修行的真實環境，其修行之道即是以他界的精神生產作為修持之道。本研究透過R師姐的夢視，觀察其如何發展成個體靈知體系（個人神話），並指導其一生的感情事件。從R師姐的夢視為論點的基礎，本文提出質感的感覺邏輯才是民間宗教修行的底層平臺。根據這樣的理論，夢視本身就是將身體情緒誘發出來的「視見」，這視見被安置在神祇的眼下而獲得詮釋的空間，修行故事由此開展。

This research is to reveal the essential elements of religious practice in Taiwan through a folk religious practice believer's story. By the rhetorical description and her dreaming visions, we found her piety come from her feeling logics of her dream percepts. Two sources of feeling logics: one is the embodiment of dream feelings, the other is her fabricated mythical language. Both constitute a gnostic system which goes between concepts and perception, neither as cocept nor as perception. Thus we call this realm ”humanity space of body”, it operates on the ground of bodily emotions via dreaming visions, and then open up the mythical framework and forms a upside down hermeneutic world. The world, we call it the other-world, for just a little coincidence with reality, the most part of the world is full of dreaming visions and myths. The practical believer devoded herself in this world and developed a life scripts to follow. Thus we argue that the percepts that lead to the other-world is the basic operational platform for folk believers.