For now, I’m trying to understand qi from my understanding of the world.
It’s like how we used to think that lightning is formed by the gods.
no, we later discovered that it is formed by static electricity in the sky.
either way, the lightning itself is real, regardless of the explanation of its origin.
Or the superstition that says “cover your mouth when you’re sneezing so your soul won’t escape”.
Obviously your soul won’t escape, but it’s still beneficial to stop you from passing harmful germs to other people.
Same procedures with different understandings, but they still produce beneficial outcomes.
I’ll try to imagine qi as a metaphor, or for lack of a better word, a bootleg explanation of the benefits of the movements & the act of trying to feel the qi.
This is the easiest explanation I can accept for now.
I’ll keep using this explanation for myself until I’m proven wrong.
Normally, I won’t think too hard about it, but AS is explicitly about “energy cultivation”.
I hope AS will still be beneficial for me later when I use it even if my belief about qi doesn’t move away from what I wrote above.


