Energy

List compiled from different unverifoed sources (aka the internet so it likely contains mistakes)

• Yogis in India speak of a similar energy called Prana or Kundalini
• Chinese and Japanese herbalists, acupuncturists, and martial artists all claim to manipulate an energy with the names chi or ki
• In parts of Africa and Polynesia they have Mana
• Ancient Egyptians called it Ankh
• Sufism reffers to it as Baraka
• In the christian faith the idea is exemplified in the biblical concept of divine glory as halos over the heads of saints in medieval art
• Kabbalists call it astral light (?)
• Some of the Plains Indians call it Wakan
• Australian Aborigines call it Arunquiltha
• In some South American countries it is called Gana
• Hypocrates called it Vis Mediatrix Naturae
• Galen called it Pneuma
• In the works of the wise Hermes Trismegistos this energy is mentioned under the name of Telesma.
• The alchemist Robert Fludd called it spiritus
• In the sixteenth century, Paracelsus claimed to observe an energy he called Munia
• In the eighteenth century, Goethe claimed to observe a similar energy called Gestaltung
• Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) coined it Animal Magnetism or Magnetic Fluid
• Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) called it the Vital Force (?)
• Philosopher Friederich Schelling (1775-1854) named it Dynamism
• Karl Reichenbach called it the the Odic force
• Walter Kilner called it the Human Atmosphere
• Rudolph Steiner reffered to it as the Formative Forces
• Wilhelm Reich claimed to discover Orgone
• Russian scientist's called it Bioplasm
• Star Wars characters popularized it with The Force
• PSI energy coined by Russell Targ. (?)
• Hippies reffered to it as Vibes
• The New Agers reffer to it auras
• Lately, referring to the primary and the subtle force of life, some scientists and the parapsychologists call it Bioenergy and/or Biomagnetism

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