Monographs

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New Age Feng Shui

March 2002 — Koln, Germany — Presented at the Traditional Feng Shui Conference
New Age Feng Shui

Feng Shui Revelations

17-18-19 August 2001 — São Paulo, Brasil — see images
Building the Chinese Universe

The discovery in the 1970s of manuscripts in the third tomb at Mawangdui testifies to the rich culture of China at the time of the Former Han dynasty (206 BCE–CE 8). The release of Mawangdui Hanmu wenwu, celebrated at the First International Conference on the Mawangdui Tombs (Changsha, Hunan, August 1992), has afforded China scholars a wealth of information about the Xing-De divinatory method (Punishment and Virtue), Yinyang wuxing (Yin-yang and the Five Agents), and the manuscripts’ place in the technical traditions of late antiquity.

However, what has not been clear until now is how these discoveries affect the current flood of fengshui books, Web sites, and marketing materials. Scholarly treatises show that the material provides unquestionable evidence of fengshui as part of long-standing technical traditions. Conspicuous in their absence are the “intuitive,” method, the “Three Mouths of Ch’i” method, and other fengshui fads.

This three-day course introduces the background of the Mawangdui texts from anthropological sources, including tantalyzing links with the BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archeological Complex) and Andronovo culture, along with the following information:

• the Xing-De method
• the nine palaces and sectors/agents
• the symbolism of cord-hook diagrams and their relation to divination boards, liuren astrolabes, liubo boards, TLV mirrors, and sundials
• the ya-shaped world of the Shang and its influence on cord-hook diagrams, astrolabes, and liubo boards
• astronomical and meteorological considerations

Along with the historical and theoretical information, the Mawangdui texts provide additional ways of looking at a fengshui audit that bridge cosmology and human actions, ancient techniques and modern conditions. The texts provide us with the following:

• ancient ways of interpreting the Luoshu and Hetu that explain later developments in fengshui application
• additional understanding of the rings of the Luopan and their use
• supplementary analysis techniques
• case studies that show how to incorporate these techniques into current practice
• other solutions that oppose fengshui fads and fakes with superior information