Returning to Who We Truly Are: Cultivating Qi Life Force for Healing Self and World

• In Event: Infusing Healing Energy into Education: Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian Insights

Abstract

Based on the theoretical framework integrating Daoist cosmology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and contemporary quantum physics, alongside contemplative pedagogy and Carl Jung’s theory of active imagination, this paper proposes a transformative educational paradigm grounded in the Qi-verse theory, which conceptualizes the universe as created and sustained by Qi, the vital life force animating all beings. The work aims to reorient education from its current materialist and fragmented model toward a holistic, healing-centered practice. It responds to crises of ecological collapse, disconnection, and spiritual dis-ease by reframing education as a path of self-cultivation, energetic alignment, and moral awakening.

Author

• Jing Lin, University of Maryland