Feng-Shui for Beginners E-Book

Harry Eilenstein

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 144

Beschreibung

Feng Shui is the knowledge of how to grasp the quality of a place and shape it according to one's own ideas with the help of physical and magical methods. Feng Shui is therefore related to geomancy, leyline lore, dowsing and pendulum. However, there are also close and very direct connections to crop circles, knowledge of acupuncture meridians, chakras, astrology, dragons in myths, and much more - which may not be immediately apparent at first glance. The method of recognizing the quality of a place is as precise as a science - certain forms can be clearly assigned to certain qualities. This analytical approach is then complemented by magical methods such as dream journeys, clairvoyance, family constellations, tarot cards, and the like. Imprinting the life force of a place is ultimately the same as charging a talisman or consecrating a temple. One should not overestimate the influence of places, but one should also not underestimate the benefit of shaping a place according to one's own ideas. In such a materially and magically designed place, one can do what one wants to do in an effortless way. And why not make life a little easier for yourself?

Leseprobe

Feng Shui

Wind and Water

Table of Contents

I Life Force

II Analysis

1. Observations in nature

a) Places

b) Simple forms

c) Special places

d) Houses

2. Grasping of the place with the help of the Ba Gua

a) The nine areas of the grid

b) The grid of the Ba Gua in a place

c) Abundance and lack

d) Objects in the grid

e) Paintings in the grid

f) Drawings in the grid

3. Surrounding space

a) The Ba Gua in the surrounding space

b) The zodiac

c) The Luopan

4. Qualities

5. Systems

6. Angles

7. Natural forms

a) Fire

b) Water

c) Air

d) Earth

e) The importance of the elemental form

s

8. Differentiated forms

9. Direct perception

a) Riding the dragon

b) Dream journeys

c) Clairvoyance

10. Examples

a) The earth

b) A continent

c) A country

d) A landscape

e) A city

f) A plot of land

g) A house

h) An apartment

i) A room

j) A table

k) An object

11. The size of the effect

a) Accordances

b) Differences

c) Successes

d) The intensity of the place effect

III Designing

1. The place

2. The goal

a) The search for the goal

b) The search for the image

3. The purification of the place

a) The physical purification

b) The purification of the life force

4. The change of the physical situation

5. The change of the life force

a) Imprinting of the place with an image

b) The four elements

c) Spirits of animals, plants and minerals

d) Personal spitrit beings

e) The soul

f) External contacts

g) Homeopathic remedies

h) Deities

i) Symbols

j) Earth Kundalini

k) Creativity

Book List

I Life Force

"Feng Shui" is a Chinese term meaning "wind and water" – these are the two things that move most obviously in nature.

The subject of Feng Shui is the movements of the life force in external things. Consequently, Feng Shui is something like the acupuncture lore of nature or the chakra lore of landscape. The two terms "water" and "air" indicate the movements and flow of the elements, which has been associated with the life force. The life force (Chinese: "Chi") is sometimes personified in this context as water spirits and air spirits.

There is also an older term for Feng Shui, which is "Kanyu" and is a development of the older "hamjyu", which means "looking at the mountain and the land": Kanyu describes the activity in Feng Shui.

There are two sides to Feng Shui: One side is concerned with recognizing the life force and its conditions, and the other side is concerned with influencing the life force. In medicine this corresponds to diagnosis and therapy.

The second side of Feng Shui, i.e. directing the life force, has again two parts: On the one hand directing the life force with the help of physical changes and with the help of objects and on the other hand with the help of direct influence on the life force, i.e. by magic (will and imagination).

Feng Shui was created in a traditional way, i.e. by observation and experience – it is not an analytical system described by a logical system like mathematics. This means for the one who wants to know something about Feng Shui that he has to try out one or the other, because Feng Shui cannot be recognized as right or wrong by abstractly looking at the experiences gathered in Feng Shui – and also not by judging the inner logic of a system (which does not exist in this form in Feng Shui).

Feng Shui as a pure collection of experiences can of course be complemented by experiences in other areas. These other areas include power places, leylines, family constellations, astrology and crop circles. They are included in this introduction to Feng Shui.

The term "geomancy" actually means "earth divination" and is used to refer to an oracle in which signs were carved into the ground. Today it is largely used synonymously with Chinese "Feng Shui".

II The Analysis

The first step in Feng Shui is to be able to recognize the forms in a place and their effects, and on this basis then to be able to describe the quality of this place accurately. In addition to these intellectual, that is, analytical method, there are also some direct ways of recognizing the state of the life force at a certain place.

II 1. Observations in nature

The landscape and its elements, as well as the simple forms and conspicuous places, are the foundation of the observations in Feng Shui.

II 1. a) The quality of places

First of all, the general qualities of the elements of the landscape are considered in Feng Shui: Mountains, volcanoes, hills, gorges, valleys, seas, lakes, springs, rivers, shores, coasts, marshes, swamps, floodplains, forests, deserts, wastelands, pastures, fields, gardens, houses, cities, roads, bridges, railroads, etc.

The character of these elements of the landscape can essentially be discerned simply by looking at the element in question.

When looking at a specific place, knowing the qualities of these elements makes it easier to recognize the quality and life force dynamics in that place.

Mountain: concentration of the life force, connection upwards, independence, cohesion of the life force inside, flow of the life force on the surface, contact with the great movements of the life force in the wind, slowing down (on the slope), meeting of earth and air, masculine

Volcano: fire, rise of life force, kundalini, concentration, upheaval, transformation, great power, encounter of earth and fire

Mountain range: barrier, separation, inner tensions, high energy level, connection to the top, place of the sources of the great rivers

Gorge: separation, depth, gathering, breakthrough through a mountain range, the hidden becomes visible, access, entrance, passage, encounter with the earth

Cave: interior, hidden, protection, security, darkness, encounter with the earth, feminine

Valley: collection, relaxation, slowing down, rest, contemplation

Sea: depth, vastness, mystery, separation, great power

Lakes: collection, contemplation, tranquility, looking into the depths, meditation, dream journey

Source: origin, access to the underworld, life-giver

River: movement, flow, separation, revitalization

Shore: border, pause, separation, meeting of earth and water

Cut bank (outer curve of a river bend, against which the flowing water flows and erodes the bank there): release of life force to the bank, attack.

Slip-off lope (inner curve of a river bend, from which the water flows away and deposits sand and gravel there): deposition, absorption of vital force, relaxation.

Deposition (e.g. where a mountain stream enters a valley and deposits in a semicircle the sand and gravel washed along with it): the bud shape shows that something has been brought there from one area (mountain) to another area (valley level) – enrichment, nourishment, increase

Mouth (tributary into main river): enlargement, union, increased concentration

Delta (river mouth into the sea): surrender, dissolution, slowing down, transformation

Coast: border, separation, meeting of earth and water, connection to wind

Fjord: separation, gathering, hollowing, splitting

Headland: insecure place, connection to the sea, view into the sea, open, connection to the wind

Island: separation, independence, strong connection to the water or the sea

Swamp (soggy earth, morass): connection of earth and water, danger, hidden, dissolution

Marsh (overgrown lake): connection of earth and water, danger, hidden, dissolution, depth, unknown, gate to the otherworld

Floodplain: borderland, meeting of earth and water, fertility, alluvium, passivity

Oxbow lake (of a river): stagnation, silence, flourishing, hidden, sedimentation

Forest: liveliness, the unknown, wilderness, the unformed

Forest edge: encounter between nature and culture, between open and hidden, between light and dark, between vastness and narrowness, therefore a great dynamism and diversity

Glade: openness, gathering, free space, attention

Steppe: little vitality, encounter of earth and wind, wilderness

Heath: medium life force, wilderness

Desert: little life force, wilderness

Wasteland: little life force, abandoned place, wildness

Plants: imprinting of the secondary radiation of a place (plants need minerals and water to live) => imprinting of the postures that form preferentially at a place

Animals: imprinting of the tertiary radiation of a place (animals need plants to live) => imprinting of the dynamics which are preferably formed at a place

Pasture: low life force, connection with animals, little formed

Fields: increased vitality, connection with plants, more strongly designed

Gardens: much vitality, connection with plants, strongly designed

House: protection, shell, living space, people, very strongly designed

City: little life force, very strongly shaped

City wall: protection, separation

Temple or Church: place of contemplation, connection upwards, source of life force and community identity

Shop or Market: exchange, meeting, distribution of vitality, meeting point

Station: departure, change, movement

Castle: protection, defense, demarcation, dominance, gathering of life force from the surrounding space

Tower: protection, farsightedness, superiority, sometimes a connection to the top

Palace: Ruling place, charisma, steering, dominance

Skyscraper: dominance, imprint

Barracks: power, domination, command

Cemetery: rest, end, reflection, transformation

Capital: center, steering, dominance, gathering of life force

Street: movement, connection of cities, straight movement, separation in nature

Crossroads: center, structuring, choice, rigidity

Distributing circle: center, structuring, possibility of choice, circular movement

Fork in the road: possibility of choice, pressure on what is in the fork in the road

Bridge: Connection, new flow possibility for the life force

Railroad line: movement, connection of cities, separation in nature

Power lines: movement, hard-imprinted life force, main artery of civilization, separation in nature

II 1. b) The qualities of simple forms

There is a whole series of simple shapes such as straight lines, arcs, corners, breaks, points, circles, etc., which have the same qualities in all places where they appear.

Straight line: The straight line accelerates and focuses the life force – it corresponds to a laser beam. It makes the life force become hard and hurtful.

Therefore, longer straight lines are avoided as much as possible in Feng Shui.

Arc: It makes the life force vibrate and become soft. Arcs give rhythm to the life force.

Therefore, in Feng Shui, all larger forms are curved, or all longer straight forms, such as roof edges, are ended with an arc.

Corner: Here two straight lines or surfaces (which are therefore "hard") meet each other – usually at right angles. Consequently, corners are a particularly "hard" place.

Therefore corners are often rounded or columns are placed at them or a tree is planted in front of them to intercept the hard life force at these corners, to disperse it or to let it become softer and more organic.

Tip: It is the end of one or more straight surfaces that end at a point. The hard life force of the straight surfaces does not collide here with the hard life force of the other side, as it does at a corner, but it is concentrated and sent out at the tip.

Therefore, such points are avoided as much as possible in Feng Shui, since it is believed that the life force ray emanating from such a point has an injurious effect. Such a ray is similar to one person pointing his finger at another all the time – which is quite unpleasant …

Pyramid: It occurs mainly as a tomb and corresponds to the mountain: a far visible connection upwards to the ancestors and the gods …

Fractures: They interrupt the flow, they are therefore like wounds or blockages.

They are avoided as much as possible in Feng Shui.

Circles: They form a closed system – they enclose, protect, exclude, isolate, concentrate, create an interior space …

Circles can therefore be used in a variety of ways in Feng Shui, but this is limited to smaller shapes, since a circle tends to generate hard, i.e. tightly focused life force, due to its uniform shape, like the straight line.

Horseshoe: In such a shape, something is gathered, that comes from the edges, but then allowed to flow back out through the opening in a soft form. Valleys can have this form – in them the waters of several streams gather, which then leave the valley as a small river. Such valleys contain a lot of soft life force, especially in their center.

This is a very popular shape in Feng Shui, as it allows for soft, relaxed concentration. The center of such a valley has been a popular place for temples and tombs in China.

Open forms: Open forms collect and release what has been collected in a more concentrated form.

Cosed forms: Closed forms collect, but delimit and isolate.

Pain: On a level, all points are largely equal.

Rise: Towards the top, the energy level increases and so does the concentration and, in some cases, the hardness or concentratedness of the life force.

Descent: Towards the bottom, the energy level and thus also the concentration and in some cases also the hardness or concentratedness of the life force decreases.

II 1. c) The qualities of special places

Finally, there are some places that have a special quality – some of them have already been discussed.

Places of power: These are places with significantly increased life force, such as some valleys and mountains, like volcanoes, temples, places of worship, stone circles, capitals, government buildings, castles, and the like. These points on the earth correspond to the chakras and the acupuncture-points in humans.

Leylines: This term refers to the lines along which life force flows from one place to another. They correspond to the acupuncture meridians in humans, on which the acupuncture points are located. In China, a leyline would be called a dragon path, the path along which much life force flows.

Crop circles: There are some places where crop circles occur almost every year and where the largest and most impressive crop circles are also found such as Alton Barnes' field near the White Horse in Wiltshire in southern England. These are special, "creative" places of power.

Haunted houses: One can also count haunted houses among the power places, although the haunting is a secondary and rather disturbing force at this place …

II 1. d) The qualities in a house

There are also different places in a house, which have approximately the same character in each house. Only the most important and common of them are enumerated below:

Entrance: border, gate, skin, protection

Corridor: distributor, movement

Living room: recreation center, meeting, conviviality

Bay window: extension, accentuation, emphasis, specialness, view

Bedroom: relaxation, rest

Kitchen: processing center, center of vitality

Bathroom: relaxation, purification

Loo: letting go, cleansing

Storeroom: supplies, life force

Basement: supplies, stored things, hidden things, machines (heating, etc.)

Boiler room: warmth, root chakra, life force production

Attic: crown chakra, head

Staircase: life force channel (sushumna, ida and pingala, acupuncture meridians)

Floors: Chakras

Roof: protection

Sauna: relaxation, letting go

II 2. Grasping the place with the help of the Ba Gua

The qualities of the different parts of a single place can be grasped with the help of the Ba Gua. The Ba Gua is a reliable grid of nine areas, in which each of the nine areas has a specific meaning.

This grid exists not only in China, but also in India, where it has been named after the primordial giant Purusha as "Vashtu Purusha".

II 2. a) The nine areas of the grid

The quality of the nine surfaces is obtained in a simple way by combining the properties of the vertical columns with the properties of the three horizontal rows. These properties are:

upper row:

high energy level

middle row:

medium energy level

lower row:

low energy level

left column:

Past

middle column:

Present

right column:

Future

The qualities of the three lines result from the fact that one must use energy to lift something up.

The qualities of the three columns result from the fact that on the northern hemisphere, on which China and also by far the largest part of the inhabited continents are located, one sees the sun, the moon and the stars always moving from left to right.

Thus the nine qualities result that are shown in the following overview. The terms written normally are derived from the quality of the rows and columns; the terms written in italics are derived from traditional Feng Shui.

II 2. b) The grid of Ba Gua at a place

This grid is placed over the place whose qualities one wants to grasp. The place is surrounded with a rectangle in such a way that as little area of the place under consideration as possible is not covered and also as little area as possible that does not belong to the place is covered.

In the Ba-Gua, "down" is always where the main access to the place is.