Revision as of 18:32, 14 March 2005 by imported>Kunda
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 (?)
- The Aboriginal American:
- Huron tribe call it Oki
- Iriquois tribe call it Orenda
- Dakota tribe call it Ton
- Lakota tribe call it Wakan (Wakan Takan is the name of the creator)
- Inuit peoples call it Sila
- Aboriginal Hawaiians call it Tane
- Australian Aborigines call it Arunquiltha
- In some South American countries it is called Gana
- Algonquins call it Manitou (?)
- In Gana, West Africa it is called Mulungo
- Ashanti call it Ntoro
- Bantu call it Ntu
- Hiru Pygmy call it M'gbe
- Hypocrates called it Vis Mediatrix Naturae
- Galen, in ancient Greece, 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
- Also reffered to as Subtle Energy