Feng Shui: The influence of spirits
We have to go one step further. Anyone who seriously embraces the methods of Feng Shui and applies them consistently and uncritically here with us must expect difficulties. Not only do you acquire a certain amount of knowledge about interior design, but you also come into contact with the spirits of the respective masters. If you are rather a naive person and follow the recommendations of a Feng Shui master well, then it is possible that your living space and your well-being will change quite positively. This will especially be the case if you pay the master well. If he is poorly paid or not courted with the “necessary respect”, then he may very well give you completely wrong advice and you may soon slide into a personal catastrophe!
In any case, the people we met had no inhibitions about rewarding and building up or punishing their clients depending on their mood and “good behavior”. And since very few people have enough personal power and insight to see through the nature and consequences of such a feng shui consultation, it’s a tricky game.
If you go to a European architect or interior designer, they will offer you all sorts of things based on European taste. You have to decide for yourself whether you like that. In any case, you are dealing with this architect and his personal taste. The personal needs of the customer are usually taken into account, because they want to satisfy the customer! So you have a good chance that such a western consultation will go well, and if not, just change your consultant. Then the unsuitable consultant may be annoyed because an order has slipped through his fingers, but there will be no after-effects.
In contrast, it is unfortunately all too common for Chinese Feng Shui consultants to take rejection by potential clients personally, to be offended, which of course they hide behind a friendly smile, and then afterwards to try to harm a man or company that has rejected them with their methods. These things are not common knowledge, at least they are not talked about openly, but unfortunately it is a fact that when you hire a Feng Shui Master, you are caught up in their belief system from the start, whether you like it or not.
Do you understand what I am getting at with these explanations? Every Feng Shui master is a member of a particular family clan, and also of a secret order, and therefore a member of an ancient belief system. He only feels committed to this tradition. He wants to contribute something to make himself great, to honor his clan, his order and his ancestors and to increase their power and influence! After all, that is his right – to live his own life. But you should definitely know this if you don’t want to forfeit your own freedom.
We foreigners and Europeans have very little insight into their systems, and certainly no influence on what they think! We are never fully recognized by them, unless such a master would suspect the reincarnation of one of his ancestors in one of us. Then, of course, he would do everything in his power to promote this person to become a valuable member of the clan again.
It’s a bit like the gypsies. They have their traditional rules and commandments, according to which they are first and foremost obliged only to their own family, secondly to their clan, and they have no obligations towards strangers. In this ideological system, it is perfectly okay to cheat strangers in trade or steal from strangers. It’s not against their law. You just mustn’t get caught, because that could bring shame on the clan, and that is now forbidden again! So the gypsies only come to terms with our law to avoid getting into trouble. Morally, they see it completely differently.
This is nothing unusual. For all nomads and wandering peoples, theft was often the only method of obtaining new valuables or a wife. This only diminishes when the peoples become settled and the dense population makes other rules and laws necessary. So there is no need to get worked up about this Chinese morality of the Feng Shui tradition. It is just the way it is, and you have to come to terms with it if you want to apply or even study Feng Shui .
You will certainly find a lot of western Feng Shui consultants here in Germany and Europe who are just a little bit inspired and use some Feng Shui rules when they work in interior design or landscape design.
One could make the rule that the less traditionally trained Feng Shui consultants, who have a high degree of personal sensitivity, are the better ones for us.
The highly trained people, on the other hand, who have studied the old tradition intensively and for expensive money, are up to their ears in the respective Feng Shui school. They will represent the interests of this school, which does not necessarily coincide with the interests of the client.
These “excellently trained people” have certainly spent a lot of money on their qualified training with a well-known master, feel encouraged by their own expenditure of money and study that they are doing the right thing, are always trained one-sidedly, in the interests of the respective school, and their recommendations should really be taken with a grain of salt. Only if someone has gone through the high school and yet has still become – or again – his own master, will he advise his clients well in his own style, which he has now developed. Such western Feng Shui consultants certainly exist, but you have to recognize them first!
I started working with Feng Shui 20 years ago. Over the years, I have gained more and more experience. Thanks to my many years of intensive training with Indian masters and with a ZEN master from Japan, I can empathize very well with other belief systems. If you can feel and see the subtle energy levels, if you can see the aura and feel how people change just because you address a certain topic, you can also recognize the hidden consequences of a Feng Shui consultation.
I call this “extrapolating”. I receive a suggestion, new information, connect it to an existing system and new energy patterns emerge from it. These patterns show me how certain people will develop in them, whether this is helpful for them or not. In this respect, I am not dependent on what a Feng Shui consultant says, but I can feel where his advice and the recommended changes will lead.
Every good feng shui consultant is first and foremost a persuasive speaker. These people and their recipes are not always easy to see through. On the surface, they make clever, intellectual speeches. Western clients are welcome victims. They have poor intuition and are easily persuaded by clever words that often have no meaningful content at all, but only pretend to be an important insight.
Over the past few years, I have witnessed several feng shui consultations that were very convincing and completely deceitful, with the aim of ruining the client who had just been advised. It is impossible to say exactly why such destructive advice takes place. It may be that the client has “offended” the master through his behavior – in his perception. And as punishment, he gets a lesson that ruins him or his company.
It could just as well be that a hostile company is preparing a takeover and hires a Feng Shui master to approach a company to give it the wrong advice so that the company gets into trouble and can be taken over more easily. Such hostile takeovers are being prepared today at every conceivable level. And people in the West are largely “naive” and often don’t take it seriously. However, feng shui has long been a weapon in the repertoire of international businessmen. I personally know several companies that have been ruined by such inadequate advice. However, we will never know whether it was deliberate because the master was offended, whether it was on behalf of someone behind the scenes, or whether it was due to the incompetence of the Feng Shui consultants.
With these words I would like to make it clear that Feng Shui can indeed work, in both a positive and a negative sense. However, the western client should be very careful whether this is the right way for him to improve his personal success or his quality of life.
If a businessman wants to present himself better with his house and his company, then he would probably do better to send his wife on a short Feng Shui course, get her a few books, and later ask his wife to redesign his own house or the foyer of his company with female intuition and a few new skills than to bring in an expensive master who might help him, but might also give him the wrong advice. And that can be really expensive!
After a series of negative Feng Shui consultations, the consequences of which I had to experience with various clients, I have to assume that these Chinese clans are trying to conquer the Western world, or rather the whole world, with their traditional methods. I could not discover any humanistic or even spiritual intentions in this context, on the contrary, it was always and exclusively about the personal power interests of the respective masters, which are always placed above the interests of the clients.
The disciples of these masters may be told that they can be assured of a certain positive support as long as they help to increase the honor and wealth of their master. However, if a disciple from a classical school of Feng Shui no longer serves the master and his clan, even criticizes him or goes his own way, then he will be attacked on all levels with the spiritual means of Feng Shui and of course also by the spirits (the deceased members) of the respective clan. If he is not strong enough, these mental attacks mean illness, ruin and perhaps death. What we consider to be undue influence on other people, or “black magic”, is a normal part of Chinese Feng Shui masters’ practice.
If you find yourself in such a situation because you did not know everything I am describing here and stumbled carelessly into such a Feng Shui school, you should get involved with pranayama and energy training as soon as possible in order to strengthen your personal power against negative influences. They should also purchase an energy pyramid, as this offers optimum protection against such negative forces. Feng Shui uses mental techniques to achieve its goals, and anyone who engages in it should be fit in these things!
© DHA Kyborg Institute
