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.
In this post, we take a look at the ancient Greek concepts of ether (aether), pneuma, and psyche, how they relate to each other and to the idea of Vital Force or Vital Life Energy. [ Read more … ]
Henri-Louis Bergson (1859 – 1941) was a French philosopher who used the term Élan Vital to describe the mysterious force that drives Life, present in all creatures, one that, according to Bergson, cannot (yet) be [ Read more … ]
The concept of the existence of Orgone Energy (or Orgone Radiation) was developed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957), an Austrian physician and psychoanalyst. The idea of Orgone roughly corresponds with the [ Read more … ]
Prana is an Indian term often translated as Vital Life Force Energy (or alternatively Life Force or Life Energy), and typically refers to vital energy circulating through our body. It’s thought to be the key [ Read more … ]
Vital Life Energy (Life Force), Life Energy Channels, and Vital Points concepts play an important role in quite a number of traditional medicine and spiritual systems around the world. In those systems, Life Energy is [ Read more … ]
Vital Life Energy concepts (Qi, Ki, Lom Pran, or Prana) play an important role in quite a number of abdominal massages, notably those that originate in Asia. Without diving deeply in the theory and practices [ Read more … ]
The Dantian, also written as Dan T’ian, Dan Tien, Tant tien, or Tan T’ien, can be translated as “elixir fields,” “burners,” “furnaces,” or “energy centers,” and are part of the so-called Microcosmic Orbit in the [ Read more … ]
Chakra (or Cakra) is the Indian Sanskrit name for wheel, circle or cycle, and is thought to be a location in the subtle or pranic body, a “distribution center” of Prana (Vital Life Energy), which, [ Read more … ]
Prana is an Indian Sanskrit word for Life Force or Vital Energy, and an important concept in Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM), notably in Thai Massage. Prana is known as Lom Pran in the Thai language, [ Read more … ]
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory says that the human body is permeated with Meridians (Channels), a network of Qi Life Force energy and conduction routes that nourish the entire body. Additionally, it’s thought that on [ Read more … ]