In fact, no matter how skilled one might be in the sort of channeling of energy, or metaphysical athleticism, that I have described in terms of qi, one’s actions count for nothing if they aren’t guided by one’s conscience, which is the mechanism by which the Holy Spirit would speak to us. For the person who heeds their conscience, though they might die today, is ready for death, insofar as a harmony with one’s conscience is the measure by which a peaceable death occurs. Whereas the person who does not heed their conscience, though they might postpone death, and accrue to themself the sort of material and social and psychological effects that make life, for a while, pleasant and easy, will find, when finally they meet it, that they are not ready for it, as the shape of their soul no longer fits the shape of the passage through which their soul would travel, for they have so disfigured it.