Chi, Qi, Ki, Prana, Pneuma

The life energy, Chinese call it Chi or Qi, it's the same word really, pronounced "Chee", just a matter of what form of Romanization is used, Japanese call it Ki, Hindus call it Prana, Greeks called it Pneuma.

In all languages, it equates to breath or wind, we don't know where it comes from or where it goes, it flows. We breath it in, and if we choose we can become aware of it's diffusing into our tissues. It does seem to be intimately associated with breath or air or oxygen, it's flow affected by our breathing, and yet, it is not the same.

It's noticeably missing from Western religious traditions. I find myself wondering what mention of it may have existed in those books of the Bible that the Council of Nicea deleted.

I've had a number of lucid dreams in which I've traveled to other planetary bodies. Among them, Mars and Earth's moon. In both circumstances, I was aware of breath.

On the moon, knowing there was no air, in spirit form I could still breath. I was amazed by this but I could breath freely and easily. I know, if I took my body along for the ride, that would not be possible. Likewise for Mars, although there is some air, it is mostly carbon dioxide and has a thickness 1% that of Earth's atmosphere. But still I could breath easily there too.

I have seen demonstrations of what martial artists that refer to themselves as chi masters can do. I can't say for certain that a portion thereof is not illusion, but it was impressive.

I believe there is a reality to the existence "qi", and I think it's more than something that gives life to us, I think it is a part of God, or of God and directs the evolution of the entire universe.