A recent discussion helped crystalize thoughts I have been working on for a while now in the somewhat serendipitous form of an impromptu dialogue. It was in the Spiritual forum on "Ki, Chi and energy" but the physical side really departed the main thrust of that thread, so I split it off here, after I developed the dialogue more formally in my aikiblog.
http://www.aikiweb.com/blogs/but-why...-of-aiki-3404/
I hope there some critical and constructive comments on where these ideas stand at this point.