Quote Originally Posted by gkathellar View Post
Are there cases of concepts analogous (even roughly) to qi/ki/chi/jin/jing/internal power/whocares/etc appearing in the historical literature on Western martial arts? If so, what are these concepts like and what European cultural concepts do they relate to?
I've never heard of it and given the world view of the Abrahamic religions I wouldn't expect there to be. Chi etc. only seem to exist as a martial concept in cultures that view god/enlightenment/etc. as an internal thing, to some degree. Enlightenment comes from within and so on.

In Christianity, on the other hand, enlightenment comes from God, and though man was made by god we are separate from him. The prophets didn't sit down under a tree for a good hard think, they encountered angels or burning bushes.