So, while we don’t have any scientifically valid theory about what such “energy” could be—all traditional explanations of it make no sense to the modern understanding of physiology—we can bring a certain empirical sensibility to our experiences anyway. We can become spiritual pragmatists. We can accept “energy” and its various traditional maps in a... See more

just let go of needing to explain it at all, and just go with it as an experience. There is something there, but we don’t really understand it, and maybe we can’t really understand it. And that’s OK.

Most people who get involved in a meditation tradition or a serious school of yoga, and who do a significant amount of practice, will eventually find themselves having an up close and personal encounter with prana —or, if they are practicing many martial arts, with chi. Whether or not they are expecting it, they will feel freaky (and sometimes... See more