Our articles about Vital Life Force, which address a broad range of Life Energy concepts across a variety of cultures. Think of conceptions such as Prana, Lom Pran, Qi, Kundalini Energy, Orgone, Mana, Anima, and Pneuma.
Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733 – 1794) was a German scientist, and is considered one of the founders of modern embryology. He was a proponent of epigenesis, which is the term used to refer to the [ Read more … ]
Among the Native American Algonquian groups, Manitou is considered to be both the primordial Life Force (seen as an impersonal life giving energy) and the Great Spirit (rather seen as a more personal Supreme God). [ Read more … ]
Although the term monad was already in use by Greek philosophers, meaning “the smallest units of matter,” or in other contexts meaning “God” or “first being,” it’s perhaps best known as a concept of Gottfried [ Read more … ]
The term and meaning of vitality can be seen as a quality that has no connotations with a “divine or spiritual life force” like Prana, Qi, or Mana, but rather as a natural function (or [ Read more … ]
Magnetism — Magnet Therapy or Magnetic Therapy — in the context of complementary or alternative medicine is about using the weak static magnetic fields or weak electric fields created by permanent magnets in order to [ Read more … ]
Quantum Healing is an Energy Healing modality that is influenced by concepts found in quantum mechanics, psychology, philosophy, and neurophysiology. One of the core ideas behind Quantum Healing is an early quantum mechanics concept that [ Read more … ]
Emergence Theory, also called Emergentism, is a philosophical and scientific theory (already propagated by the Greek philosopher Aristotle) that is about the fact that sovereign entities i.e. phenomena, groups of entities, or systems can have [ Read more … ]
Anima is a Latin word, which can mean “wind,” “air,” “breath,” “vital principle,” “life,” or “soul.” It’s a word sometimes used synonymously with animus, which rather means “mind,” “desire,” “spirit,” “temper,” or “will,” but can [ Read more … ]
In esoteric, mystical, and occult teachings, but also in a range of traditional medicine systems, the subtle body is considered an aspect of the human body, which is neither merely physical, nor merely spiritual. The [ Read more … ]
Mesmerism, also called Animal Magnetism, was coined by the German doctor Franz Mesmer (1734 – 1815). He claimed that there’s an invisible natural Life Force or Vital Energy — called Lebensmagnetismus — possessed by all [ Read more … ]