Integrated into the “Natural Psychology” series, José Ramos, physician in Traditional Chinese Medicine and director of New Acropolis in Coimbra and Viseu, presented at the Lisbon Center, the lecture entitled “The Mental States (Shen) and the Global Harmony of the Human Being”.

The concept of Qi, in the West translated as Energy, is that which is beyond physical and energetic forms. Energy being one, it can be in five vibrating states, Movements or Elements. These five Elements are in the very conception of the human being and the lecture deepened their significance, and discussed their correspondence in the Western world.