In life thermodynamics, living energy is a new age term referring to a hypothetical type of energy associated with living beings, living systems, living matter, or living organisms. The term is basically a synonym of vitalism, living force, élan vital, among other defunct terms.

In the 1999 book The Living Energy Universe, American scientist Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek append a section on the second law of thermodynamics in terms of the Humpty Dumpty paradox, arguing that science has never been able to explain how Humpty Dumpty was build in the first place based on random events. [1]

The concept of living energy is used in the 2006 business energetics theories of American consultant Marguerite Callaway. [2]

The term ‘living energy’, for the most part, seems to capture an attempt to reconcile or blend spirituality and residual religious ideas in with science, as in “spiritual energy”. [3] A related term is spiritual entropy, as advocated by American thermodynamics professor Gilbert Wedekind and his 2003 book Spiritual Entropy. [4]

References
1. Schwartz, Gary E. and Russek, Linda G. (1999). The Living Energy Universe: a Fundamental Discovery that Transforms Science and Medicine (afterward: Category 5: the Second law of thermodynamics ‘proves’ the hypothesis must be false, pgs. 190-92). Hampton Roads Publishing Co.
2. (a) Callaway, Marguerite M. (2006). The Energetics of Business: A Practical Guide for Bringing your Business to Life. Lincoln Park Publications.
(b) Wilcox, Joan P. (2004). Masters of the Living Energy: the Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru. Inner traditions.
3. Kerl, Elizabeth. (2007). Living Energy. Author House.
4. Wedekind, Gilbert L. (2003). Spiritual Entropy: Life-Changing Insights Revealed by a Unique Natural law (pgs. ix, xii, 148). Xulon Press.