Permalink Reply by Mark on November 24, 2007 at 9:25pm
This is very true. But even more than the 'Orient', I think there is a great deal to discover about the 'Occident', that people have abandoned a long time ago. Such things like these existed in the Occident as well and much more. Only in the orient it has been better preserved from persecution and adulteration.
The body of chi, or the "vital body" is what the Gnostics of Samael also describe as the "ethereal body", related to the sephirah Yesod on the Kabbalist tree of life.
"In TIbetan Buddhism, the vital body is known as the subtle body (lus phra-mo)."
Notice how, as I noticed myself, in that first video the healer challenges the crew to touch his lower abdomen, to which they recieve a significant heat or shock. That area of the belly is called the lower 'Dan-Tien', the primary gathering place of chi. There is a curious verse in the New Testament which I consider sheds some light on this when Jesus says:
John 7:37
"He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water"
Permalink Reply by Mark on November 27, 2007 at 2:44pm
What is incredible about the practice of Qigong in Asian society, is that the government in China eventually supported it when they realized there was no other cost effective alternative for the budget. To their surprise, it worked wonderfully.