Energy


 * Yogis in India speak of a similar energy called Prana or Kundalini
 * Chinese and Japanese herbalists, acupuncturists, and martial artists all claim to manipulate an energy with the names chi or ki
 * In parts of Africa and Polynesia they have Mana
 * Sufism reffers to it as Baraka
 * Some of the Plains Indians call it Wakan
 * In the christian faith the idea is exemplified in the biblical concept of divine glory as halos over the heads of saints in medieval art
 * In the sixteenth century, Paracelsus claimed to observe an energy he called Munia
 * In the eighteenth century, Goethe claimed to observe a similar energy called Gestaltung
 * Franz (Anton?) Mesmer (1734-1815) coined it Animal Magnetism
 * Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) called it the Vital Force (?)
 * Philosopher Friederich Schelling (1775-1854) named it Dynamism
 * Karl Reichenbach called it the the Odic force
 * Walter Kilner called it the Human Atmosphere
 * Rudolph Steiner reffered to it as the Formative Forces
 * Wilhelm Reich claimed to discover Orgone
 * Russian scientist's called it Bioplasm
 * Star Wars characters popularized it with The Force
 * PSI energy coined by Russell Targ. (?)
 * Hippies reffered to it as Vibes
 * The New Agers reffer to it auras