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Qi "vital energy, life force; breath, air, vapor; vitality, vigor; attitude, abdominal cavity" Shen "spirit; soul, mind; god, deity; supernatural being and yang in action, upper thoracic cavity" This jing-qi-shen ordering is more commonly used than the variants qi-jing-shen and shen-qi-jing.
Energy medicine – The ability to heal with empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy. [3] Ergokinesis – The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction. Electrokinesis - The ability to control all form of electricity. Aerokinesis - The ability to control air and wind.
In new age thought in Europe and the United States, a "spiritual vortex" is a place where vortices erupt with energy from the earth. Sedona, Arizona is a famous example. [2] [3] Hiroshi Aramata claims that "a power spot can be thought of as a place where the power of the earth is felt."
Thus, this New Age concept of the body having an "energy field" is fatally doomed. There is no such thing as an energy field; they are two unrelated concepts. [8] Despite the lack of scientific support, spiritual writers and thinkers have maintained ideas about energy and continue to promote them either as useful allegories or as fact. [9]
Shén (in rising 2nd tone) is the Modern Standard Chinese pronunciation of 神 "god, deity; spirit, spiritual, supernatural; awareness, consciousness etc". Reconstructions of shén in Middle Chinese (ca. 6th-10th centuries CE) include dź'jěn (Bernhard Karlgren, substituting j for his "yod medial"), źiɪn (Zhou Fagao), ʑin (Edwin G. Pulleyblank, "Late Middle"), and zyin (William H. Baxter).
Okada explained that we have a spiritual counterpart of the body and when the spiritual body is pure, the physical body receives the life/light energy it needs to stay healthy, but when the spiritual body is clouded, the light is blocked and clouds occur and toxins build up in the body.
In philosophy and religion, spirit is the vital principle or animating essence within humans or, in some views, all living things.Although views of spirit vary between different belief systems, when spirit is contrasted with the soul, the former is often seen as a basic natural force, principle or substance, whereas the latter is used to describe the organized structure of an individual being ...
The etheric body, ether-body, or æther body is a subtle body propounded in esoteric and occult philosophies as the first or lowest layer in the human energy field or aura. [1] [2] The etheric body is said to be in immediate contact with the physical body and to sustain it and connect it with "higher" bodies.