Repost: What Is ‘Chi’?

In private correspondence today, I’ve been discussing with an old friend the subject of what practitioners of Chinese martial arts call ‘chi’. It’s a puzzling topic — and so, having no time to write a substantial post tonight, I’m posting a link to something I wrote on this subject about five-and-a-half years ago.

You can read it here.

6 Comments

  1. ol coyote says

    malcolm, thanks for the link to your previous article. the life force, chi, whatever name is/was given it in past civilizations was studied longest without techonological approaches in china, of course. wilhelm reich (discover of “orgone”) was ruined by the kabbalists who have used their studies of it in a /black magick” approach for almost as long as the chinese. the techo approach as developed by reich and others (“orgone”) has shown much promise in applications designed to heal, dissolve chemtrails, fight ionizing radiation, etc. electric universe theories promulgated by physicists “outside” the accepted einsteinian community (hawking big bang dogmatics) are showing that the quantum interconnected reality does indeed allow …. wait for it…. magic! or as arthur c clarke once said “any sufficiently advanced technology would seem to be magic from the standpoint of lesser advanced technologies”. Kabbalistic or Orgonic technologies would indeed seem to fall into this category…. along with human mastery of the “Chi”.. yes/no?

    Posted September 22, 2014 at 9:46 am | Permalink
  2. I don’t know anything about martial arts, and only slightly more about marital arts. But I do know from high-school chemistry that when a positive ion collides with a negative ion, the collision produces two neutral atoms.

    At 2:22 of the video, Lama Dondrup Dorje says, “Positive ions reach the ground and displace negative ions.” Something may have been lost in translation, but displacement is not what occurs. What occurs is neutralization, which is entirely different from displacement. Such an exothermic reaction releases heat energy that is dissipated in the surroundings.

    Posted September 22, 2014 at 1:16 pm | Permalink
  3. I think “chi” is a mispronunciation of “gee,” which is concentrated Jesus-stuff and thus a very powerful life force.

    Jeffery Hodges

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    Posted September 22, 2014 at 2:35 pm | Permalink
  4. I think gee is a word of command to a horse or other draft animal directing it to turn to the right.

    Posted September 22, 2014 at 6:49 pm | Permalink
  5. The gee-stuff can move anything to the right!

    Jeffery Hodges

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    Posted September 23, 2014 at 4:20 am | Permalink
  6. Michael says

    Malcolm:
    Here’s a story of my own personal experience. It took me by surprise:
    http://ombhurbhuva.blogspot.ie/2012/05/last-words-from-ashtavakra-and-blessing.html

    Posted November 5, 2014 at 9:31 am | Permalink

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