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I guess this explains a bit the Spirit Bomb Goku sometimes used in the Dragon Ball Z. Seems like in Japanese culture spirit and energy is the same thing?

• hosh 9y ago
  That is generally true of any traditional, shamanic practices. DragonBallZ owes more to Chinese Taoist alchemy than it does with Shintoism, but there are going to be some shared similarities. Traditional Chinese Medicine, for example, is a healing modality that was modernized. It retained some of that animist leaning, but lost a lot too in the modernization. I'd say, if you talk with most shamans, there will be some understanding of spirit being energy, though often in the sense that energy is not dead, without intelligence or consciousness. A lot of this has to do with this being a lived experience that is oddly shared across cultures. You might find this, say, talking with an Australian Aboriginal shaman with one of the surviving shamans in say, Poland. Different words, different perspectives of the same underlying experiences.