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The mass media is messing with your mind, defining reality and feng shui for you. You should be suspicious. You are being force-fed some very ugly stuff. Many people like the idea of the noble savage , a traditional person who is viewed as intellectually incompetent. Noble savages, it is believed, cannot understand the world as well as modern people. Modern people believe they are better at exploiting planetary resources.Translate the “noble savage” concept to feng shui and suddenly... Read Full Story

February 2010 is when the Chinese Year of the Tiger starts, but alarming news about the world’s tiger population might mean that by 2022, the next time the Year of the Tiger rolls around, there might not be any left. … Due to deforestation and poaching, the tiger population has fallen more than 40% in the past decade, which translates to just 3,200 of them left in the wild, worldwide, mostly found in India. That’s not a typo; there are but 3,200 wild tigers left, period. Can you imagine a... Read Full Story

Advocates of Southern Hemisphere feng shui say feng shui was designed for the Northern Hemisphere and feng shui must be made to fit the Southern Hemisphere. They base their ideas on Sherrill and Chu’s book, Astrology of I Ching . Yet the book never says that feng shui calculations must change because of the seasons. The book argues that the hemerological system in Heluo Lishu — the najia system — should change when it is used in the Southern Hemisphere. A two-calendar conundrum Appendix C... Read Full Story

This article explains the momentous discovery of a 4,000-year-old observatory at a site in Shanxi named Taosi. Scholars have increasingly linked this site with Pingyang, the capital city of King Yao. How did sunrise look to those observing the skies in 2100 BCE ? These animations show how an observer would see the sun rising between the pillars (noted in the previous animation) against the backdrop of nearby hills. The first observation point after the one believed to be used for... Read Full Story

Gabrielle Alizay writes in her book Feng Shui for the Rest of Us (page 225) that In China, western facing windows in office buildings are boarded up with wood. The reason behind this is the afternoon, western sun is very harsh. … you can experience severe lessons in any Life Value which has a room with western facing windows or receives rays from the afternoon setting sun. It’s nonsense No one with an ounce of sense builds office buildings with expensive windows... Read Full Story

“ O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. — from  Jabberwocky  by Lewis Carroll December 1, 2009 dawns a new day for anyone trying to sort wheat from chaff in the feng shui market. Your job will be much easier! That day is when new rules set by the Federal Trade Commission go into effect to monitor claims and disclosures on websites. I’m sure you’ve read a site that contains gushing claims like the following: Master Blah-Blah has accomplished hundreds (maybe thousands) of... Read Full Story

“ O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. — from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll December 1, 2009 dawns a new day for anyone trying to sort wheat from chaff in the feng shui market. Your job will be much easier! That day is when new rules set by the Federal Trade Commission go into effect to monitor claims and disclosures on websites. I’m sure you’ve read a site that contains gushing claims like the following: Master Blah-Blah has accomplished... Read Full Story

“ O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. — from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll December 1, 2009 dawns a new day for anyone trying to sort wheat from chaff in the feng shui market. Your job will be much easier! That day is when new rules set by the Federal Trade Commission go into effect to monitor claims and disclosures on websites. I’m sure you’ve read a site that contains gushing claims like the following: Master Blah-Blah has accomplished... Read Full Story

“ O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. — from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll December 1, 2009 dawns a new day for anyone trying to sort wheat from chaff in the feng shui market. Your job will be much easier! That day is when new rules set by the Federal Trade Commission go into effect to monitor claims and disclosures on websites. I’m sure you’ve read a site that contains gushing claims like the following: Master Blah-Blah has accomplished... Read Full Story

If there was a “dashboard” of instruments to see how the planet is operating, it might look something like this. Illustration courtesy of Nature . Click the drawing to read the article. Read Full Story