Life-force and toasters

I have always seen us, humans, as a toasters line-up, all plugged in and therefore, well alive and functioning. The electric power that give them life and function is not different from what we call “life-force” of “Chi” as described as far as ancient China.

Called “ki” in Japan and “gi” in Korea, that same life-force refers to the flow of energy that fuels all living things like plants, humans and animals. It’s in fact the closest thing to the air we breathe and that we know so well as we experience it daily. 

Chi isn’t new and goes back to Taoism and the 5th century BC. In my personal philosophy the melding of our physical body and mind is also like the hardware and random-access-memory of a computer or smart-phone, that just needs to powered on by some electric current or the life-force, without which there’s no life. 

As you can understand that leaves little room for some concept of “after-life”...