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Old 03-03-2006, 09:41 AM   #33
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Re: Desperate to rehabilitate ki

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Mike Sigman wrote:
Besides, to act like there is a "Ki" without understanding that ki is actually an amalgam of effects gets us off into New Age babble. There is no one-to-one meaing for "Ki" in English.
Which of course leave us at either discarding the term and trying to create or find modern methods to describe the experience or else accepting the term and immersing ourselves into the ancient model.

I suspect that such cultural immersion was the only way to begin to learn this in the past. Today, I'm not so sure.

I think that it's a common mistake for people to mix the paradigms and hence create the kind of arguments that don't really further actual study of the effects.

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Tarik

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