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Energy pyramids and Feng Shui

Autor: D. Harald Alke

A standpoint, not an encyclopedia entry. A worldview-based train of thought by D. Harald Alke – from the geometry of the energy pyramid through leylines to a practical, European Feng Shui. Foundations: encyclopedia entry Feng Shui; on the method → Horus energy pyramids.

Energy pyramids and Feng Shui – working with the energy field of the earth

In the past years, the tradition of Feng Shui has flooded Western Europe. Many people are enthused by foreign traditions because they have lost the connection to our own geomantic tradition. We should beware of applying the methods of Feng Shui mechanistically. We can learn a great deal from it, but we should also differentiate critically what proves right typically for China, but not for us with our own tradition.

The Bagua and the eight corners of the energy pyramid

Bagua diagram of the I Ching: eight trigrams of continuous and broken lines around a central square, from which coloured arrows point into the eight cardinal directions.

I would like to point briefly to the connection from the energy pyramids to the Bagua. If one looks from above onto an energy pyramid, if we represent it with its 8 corners as a mandala, then we obtain the 8-cornered Bagua, the sacred symbol of Feng Shui and of the I Ching, which has already been handed down for more than 5,000 years. According to ancient Chinese tradition, then, the forces of earth and cosmos come together in the mandala of the energy pyramid in a balanced way. Since the energy pyramid corresponds, through its 8 corners, exactly to the Bagua, we can lay the Bagua under the energy pyramid. In this way we learn more.

Of course, in the planning of the great 9 m high energy pyramid, I also heeded the foundations of Feng Shui. This particular energy pyramid has 8 supports all around and a central fastening. Thus the geometric mandala of the Bagua resulted quite of its own accord from the mighty concrete bases!

The eight directions of the Bagua

In Feng Shui teaching each direction is assigned an area of life, along with a bodily correspondence, an element and a colour. The last column is something else: it names the colour I perceive mediumistically at the corresponding leg and corner of the energy pyramid – my own perception, not tradition.

DirectionArea of lifeCorrespondenceElementColour (Feng Shui)at the pyramid corner
Northcareerearwaterblackviolet
North-eastself-cultivation, knowledgehandblue-greenred
Eastfamily, healthfootwoodgreenorange
South-eastwealthhipblue, purplered, dark blue
Southfame, standingeyefireredlight blue
South-westmarriageorange, pinkyellow
Westchildrenmouthmetalwhitewhite
North-westhelpful peopleheadgreygreen

At the centre lie two axes: the horizontal spiral nebula and the vertical axis – both white.

Three examples of how this applies to rooms: A room in the south suits a reception or living room and may carry red tones. A room in the south-west works as a bedroom for a couple, in orange or pink. A room in the north suits an office, perhaps with dark furniture and an aquarium.

These are suggestions, not prescriptions. As described in the lexicon entry: you take up the principle and find your own form for it – what matters is what the room does to you.

Leylines: the energy roads of the earth

In 1976, as a bio-technician, I took the decision to study Kundalini Yoga as the “oldest science of the human and their energy”. If one practises this ancient tradition long enough, then the old forces and faculties awaken in us to new life. In 14 years of intensive training I developed an ever finer sensitive perception. Through the methods of Kundalini Yoga our body is tuned like an instrument. With this instrument we can produce a resonance to infinitely many events in nature. Our body becomes a highly sensitive sensor that can convey to us incredibly much data (experiences).

My largest energy pyramid stands on the great, marginal leyline that runs through and influences all of Western Europe. If we want to investigate these great currents, then it does not suffice to walk about with the rod. The distances are too great. If we sit down on such a leyline and become one, in meditation, with this force of nature, then our perception flows with the forces of the magnetic field and we get an inner overview. Our mental perception rides on the waves of the magnetic currents that circle our planet.

This great leyline comes from the South Pole over the South American east coast with Montevideo, Rio, the Cape Verde Islands and runs, in Europe, over Madrid, Zaragoza, my farm, Lyon (to the south-west), Bern, Lausanne, Zurich (to the north-west), Winterthur, Augsburg, Regensburg, Pilsen, Prague, Breslau (Wrocław), Lodz, north of Warsaw, Vilnius etc. to the North Pole.

There are conjectures as to how many such great leylines run around the earth; I suppose that these leylines form, on the earth’s surface and certainly also in the interior of the earth, a system similar to the acupuncture meridians on our body. It is likely to be a very long, many-times-wound loop of magnetic energy that pervades and enwraps the earth.

In my list of cities it catches the eye that humanity obviously has a 7th sense for these forces of nature. Numerous great cities were erected on this mighty current. People feel the energy. They use the creative impulses that arise from it.

If you are ready to engage with your inner perception, then you can indeed become one with the energy of Mother Earth. In a meditation on the leyline we discover a strong current that flows steadily from the South Pole to the North Pole, on this energy strand that flows through Europe. This energy is part of the so-called diagonal grid network (Curry grid). We feel these currents as “creative, generative force”. This energy flows constantly, coming from the south-west, through Western Europe and onward towards the north-east to the North Pole.

Whoever sets up a small energy pyramid at home should lay in the 2 bio-condenser plates on the middle level so that the cut between the plates runs from south-west to north-east. Such small things promote the flow of free, creative energy in our house. That is applied Feng Shui.

How earlier cultures used the magnetic currents

More about these magnetic-field currents you learn in my book “Der Pyramidenmann” (The Pyramid Man). I assume that people at all times knew of these mysterious forces. Similar to the migratory birds, people have an inner sensory system that enables them to perceive these magnetic forces. We merely no longer know it. Our inner sensory system, however, is today severely disturbed by electrosmog of all kinds.

As already portrayed in other reports, people have, through particular structures, e.g. the megalith culture, Stonehenge, temples, churches etc., used, changed and directed the natural magnetic-field currents. Churches were erected at such places. With their pointed towers, partly still clad with copper, they could catch the magnetic-field energy and bring it down. Thus churches, correctly placed, may have contributed to the cultural fertility of a whole region.

Colours, cardinal directions and crystals

On my homepage you find an overview of the most important forces in the assignment to the cardinal directions, including the colours. If we place beautiful crystals in the right colours, according to the right cardinal directions, in our home, then that quickly contributes to a harmonious climate in our house. Especially suited for this are the crystal rods type B with gilded base developed by me, or the power rods; they distribute the energy, in my experience, more evenly (more on this with the Horus energy pyramids).

The colours given support the flow of the energy. A room in the south would thus be well suited as a reception room or living room, in order to promote one’s own standing. It should be kept in red tones. A room in the south-west is well suited as a bedroom for the married couple and should be kept in orange or pink. A room in the north would be suited as an office, in order to make a career. It should contain black furniture, as well as an aquarium (water). The other directions are to be handled correspondingly. A detailed account you find in my book “Kunst & Magie mit edlen Kristallen” (Art & Magic with Precious Crystals).

Yin and Yang, fire and water

The ancient Chinese observed the currents of water and wind in nature and noted their observations over millennia. They came to the result that the principles of how the energy flows, from where it comes and where it goes, repeat on all levels of the cosmos.

With the ancient Chinese, fire and flame were an elementary symbol of the aspiring male energy Yang. In Chinese there are terms that equate pyramid and fire. The female energy is at the same time water, Yin.

The 8-cornered Bagua, the Yin-Yang symbol, surrounded by the 8 elementary signs of the I Ching (the sacred book of changes), gathers together the earthly and cosmic forces. Just like every pyramid, the Bagua must be aligned with a compass. It then shows which rooms of a house lie in which energy-influence.


Note: This article renders a personal, worldview-based view.

Frequently asked questions

What does the energy pyramid have to do with the Bagua?

Viewed from above, the octagonal energy pyramid forms the Bagua – the octagonal basic symbol of Feng Shui and the I Ching. In this view, the forces of earth and cosmos come together in it in a balanced way.

What is a leyline?

A great magnetic energy current that, according to this idea, runs through the earth like a meridian. Many significant cities lie on such lines. That is a worldview-based reading, no scientific statement.

How does that become practical Feng Shui?

By deploying colours, cardinal directions, plants and crystals consciously and schooling one's own perception – instead of copying foreign dogmas. Background on this in the encyclopedia entry Feng Shui.

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