Energy

• 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
• Sufism reffers to it as Baraka
• Some of the Plains Indians call it Wakan�?
• 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 Mesmer coined it Animal Magnetism
• Karl Reichenbach called it the the Odic force
• Walter Kilner called it the Human Atmosphere
• Rudolph Stiener 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
• 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
• The New Agers reffer to it auras