Bioelectromagnetic and Subtle Energy Medicine

The concept of a “life energy” can be found in many cultures in the present time, as well as in past eras reaching back to the ancients. Variously called qi (chi), ki, the “four humors,” prana, “archaeus,” “cosmic aether,” “universal fluid,” “animal magnetism,” and “odic force,” among other names, this purported biofield is beginning to yield its properties and interactions to the scientific method.