For me it isn't question of blind faith. I can feel it. I can feel energy move, and make it flow. I experience it every day. What convinces me is when I do some energy work on someone and I ask them to describe what they feel and their description is congruent with my experience, without me having told them first what I feel. I have taught (some skeptical) people simple exercises to feel the energy around them in under 5 minutes. After a few minutes of focused attention, the majority of people are able to sense and experience energy moving through them and around them. I'm not the sort of person that blindly takes things on trust. I spend 2 years playing with and learning about energy before even discussing it with my husband for fear he would think I was nuts! It was only when I was 100% sure of what I was experiencing that I came out of the energy closet (as it were).
The problem we have is that we are using the same word for entirely different meanings. This is a failing of the English language and is probably reflected in the fact that in English speaking cutures the concept of life-force energy isn't generally understood so there isn't a proper word for it and one that was already in existence has be co-opted. The energy I am talking about is called chi, or prana in other languages. It isn't the same thing as the scientific concept of energy and shouldn't be mistaken as such.
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