Any practice that claims to manipulate, channel or balance "life energy" (or 'life force' or any other mysterious vitalist 'power) should be forced to demonstrate the existence of that energy.
If it can't, it should be closed down or at the very least should withdraw any references to 'life energy'.
We actually know a fair bit about energy, so if people are going to use the term they should use it properly.
I want to know what process converts, for example, chemical energy into this "life energy", what the efficiency of the conversion is etc.
If you practice a system of medicine that works but for which we don't have working explanation of
how it works, don't just make up an explanation by bending terms around until they have no meaning.
As far as I'm concerned, suggesting there's a whole type of energy that exists
only in relation to living beings is either arrogance or delusion.
Living things are, from our highly biased point of view, amazing and wonderful things, but to the universe, we're just utterly insignificant specks of highly localised ordered complexity. We are a result of the standard rules of physics.
To suggest that when life came into existence, it bought with it a new type of energy into the universe is surely madness....Spaaaarta!
