What is Chi or Electro-Magnetic Life Force?

Chi, otherwise called the Warm Current, Kundalini Power or electromagnetic

life force, is very difficult to describe because this energy,

or life force, cannot be seen. However, we can feel the life

force in the body. In the early days of Tao, chi was expressed as

nothing in the top portion of the Chinese pictogram and as fire in

the lower part, so that no fire might be conceived of as defining

Chi. More contemporary Taoist sources classify many kinds of Chi.

There is pre-nature Chi, the kind you breathe, as well as the Chi

that is transmuted in our bodies and the kind that has been awakened

from sperm or ovary called Ching-chi.

Ching-Chi, the main energy source of our practice, is ultimately

transformed into spiritual energy. We all have Chi from the time we

are conceived. The Taoist teaches us that life force or Chi begins

as the energy you derive from the food you eat and the air you

breathe. In Taoist practice, you draw on many different sources of

energy, which reside in different energy centers in the body, such

as the heart, adrenals, prostate, pineal and the pituitary. There is

yet another kind of energy that we absorb from the solar system,

mix and transform in our body, which produces still another kind of

Chi in a process called Alchemy.

Taoism stresses practice and theory; philosophy and discussion

are discouraged as futile. By a simple method of relaxation

and concentratiing on your navel, you can experience for yourself

what the flow of Chi is.

Several of my students had spent as many as five to twenty

years trying to develop Chi and complete the Microcosmic Orbit,

but to no avail. After a short time with me they completed their

objectives in one to four months. They all found this method easy

and natural. Spending just thirty to sixty minutes a day, many who developed power quickly thought that they were dreaming or that it

was an act of imagination. Yet, when they practiced they felt warm

and soon reported how much healthier they seemed to be getting.