本文考察了一個多有留學經歷的台灣學者圈試圖結合宗教、巫術和現代科學技術，對中國傳統生命文化進行整合，使其建制化，並將其發揚光大的一種另類研究進路。文中通過分析其凸顯的學術背景和社會背景，說明這種活動本質上是力圖使巫術科學化和學術化的一種努力；通過分析其生命概念，說明它在理論建構上是在牽強地借用現代科學概念和生造一些概念表徵巫術生命觀；通過分析其研究方法，說明其實施的實驗活動主要是進行個人體悟的手段。在此基礎上，作者進一步分析了這種努力在方法論、歷史文化傳統和社會建制化三個方面所面臨的幾乎無法擺脫的合法性困境。

There is a group of scholars in Taiwan who tries to integrate some parts of religions and wizardry with modern science and technology in order to further develop traditional Chinese life culture. The author analyzes this approach to life. Through an analysis of the academic context and the social background of its emergence, the author observes that this practice appears to be an effort to make wizardry scientific. The scholars’ concepts of life manifest that they construct their theories by mis-applying or coining some scientific terms to embody the wizardry’s views on life. From their methods one can realize that they carried out their “experiments” mainly for gaining personal experiences. As a result, the group encounters almost inextricable difficulties in legitimizing its approach and domain methodologically, institutionally and in terms of establishing a historical social tradition.