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Chi; Ki; Prana; Pranayama; Vitalism; Vital Élan
1. The word ‘prana’ (meaning ‘vital air’, from the root ‘pran’: ‘to breathe’)
refers to what is known as the vital energy or vital force or life principle ... and has corollaries in other
cultures. 2. The Patanjali Yoga-Sutras lay down an eightfold path consisting of aids to Yoga: (1)
restraint (yama), (2) observance (niyama), (3) posture (asana), (4) regulation of breathing (pranayama), (5)
detachment from the senses (pratyahara), (6) concentration (dharana), (7) meditation (dhyana), and (8) trance
(samadhi). 3. [Question]: What about acupuncture? That’s to do with chi energies, isn’t it?
The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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