I looked up the names mentioned in the last paragraph and ended up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetis

I looked up the names mentioned in the last paragraph and ended up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism , which seems to me to be the Europeans' name for chi. Funky stuff.