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Old 11-19-2006, 10:47 PM   #9
Hanna B
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Re: Poll: Is "ki" as used in aikido a metaphor for you?

I am sure ki/qi is many different things for different people. Personally, I got comfortable with the concept when I started viewing it as a model for something, like Bohr's model of the atoms with the electrons in rounds circles around it. Completely wrong, as we know today, but still helpful for understanding how things work. I had a chemistry teacher who tried to skip the Bohr model and jump straight into sp3-hybridisation. It was terribly confusing, the class did not understand anything...

So yeah, metaphor of... something. Fine with me.
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