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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  But the energy mongers do mean something tangible when they use the word. They are futzing with my qi. They are realigning my chakras. They are waving their hands over my meridians. They are detecting my aura.
I'm certainly willing to grant that they are not talking about one of the four fundamental forces. But they are talking about something tangible. Where the hell is it?
~~ Paul |
I am sure a fair amount of such talk is meaningless, and conceivable all of it is. However, if there is something real here, it is obviously understood in a very rudimentary way - analogous to chemistry in the days of alchemy. But think about it - it wasn't a-priori obvious that you could not turn lead into gold - people had to try and fail in order to gradually tease out the rules that govern chemistry. Along the way, people inevitably came up with wrong theories, suffered self delusions, and invented get rich quick schemes - just as they still do!
I used to take Chris' approach to all such things, but I have come to realise that discussing things that are really poorly understood is very difficult (this forum illustrates that!). It is hard to separate concepts, and there is a tendency to generate too much terminology for concepts that probably overlap each other - as in the list you gave. There is also the problem that the terminology comes from more than one tradition.
This problem is not unique to Ψ - try reading certain reviews of classical music recordings - or wine. The reviewers probably mean something, but sometimes you are left wondering!
I am prepared to accept the
possibility that some people have a healing gift, but that they don't know how it works, and they find what they do almost impossible to describe.
David