Where to ask for advise on Feng Shui book

WithCheesePlease

Looking to buy a Feng Shui book for my girlfriend but don't know where to get advise on possible titles. I'm just looking at reviews on amazon but you don't really know what kind of people wrote those... Would trust people here sooner.

Anyway - anyone know the best place / forum to ask opinions on a few titles? I'm just trying to make my mind up between a few. I'm actually surprised there isn't a dedicated self-help kind of a forum.

Thanks...

Chi chi

Seriously? Maybe u can drop in some temples for the fortune teller. Though u should be cautious, things like this these days tend to be a lot more commercial.... which means, if the writer happens to be making up things for money rather than writing from the point of view of a truthfully believer for this, you know....

Anyway, I believe there is something worth noticing in Feng Shui. I believe in this. Not everything can be fully explained. Just as alternative therapy (Chinese medicine) really works and saved so many lives, though controversial opinions are accusing it for the lack of scientific proof.

Good luck with ur searching .

ChocolateSauce

I'd buy her a skeptics dictionary instead. http://www.skepdic.com/fengshui.html

Nevyn

I suggest you try the spirtuality forum
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=535

Calibos

Chi chi wrote: »

Seriously? Maybe u can drop in some temples for the fortune teller. Though u should be cautious, things like this these days tend to be a lot more commercial.... which means, if the writer happens to be making up things for money rather than writing from the point of view of a truthfully believer for this, you know....

Anyway, I believe there is something worth noticing in Feng Shui. I believe in this. Not everything can be fully explained. Just as alternative therapy (Chinese medicine) really works and saved so many lives, though controversial opinions are accusing it for the lack of scientific proof.

Good luck with ur searching .

Yep, those Bronze age eastern asian tribespeople really knew their stuff, both medicinally and interior decoration wise. Its lucky we have an infinite supply of tiger penises to make those highly effective alternatives to Viagra. Speaking of penises. Isn't it very very lucky that there are no accupuncture points on the Penis. You'd swear that the bloke that 'discovered' this amazing technique didn't relish the thought of sticking needles into his manhood. :rolleyes:

conchubhar1

people - ye dont have to believe in it

the op asked where to get a book on feng shui......

Calibos

conchubhar1 wrote: »

people - ye dont have to believe in it

the op asked where to get a book on feng shui......

My advice would be to get a Feng Shui book from any bookshop or indeed Amazon. My point is that he doesn't have to be selective in his choice of Author. A Feng Shui master or someone just trying to make a buck by plagerising Feng Shui philiosophy from the internet and publishing it as his own. ie. Feng Shui written by a Master or Feng Shui written by a hack. It doesn't matter. Nonsense is still nonsense no matter who writes it.

That said, the OP doesn't need to believe to buy a book for his partner. She doesn't even have to believe. There is a lot of common sense in terms of furniture arranging in Feng Shui. Buts thats all some of it is. If anyone thinks they are balancing the ying yang lifeforce of the house bringing harmony to the occupants, they should understand that it comes about from the husband not stubbing his toe on a stupidly placed item of furniture and taking it out on the wife. Mystical forces aligned along the dragons back??? Gimme a break!

conchubhar1

just because you dont believe in it doesnt mean it is nonsense

now having said that i couldnt give a crap about feng shui, besides that gnarles barkley song

but it is the principle - you can rubbish it but the op obviously has not.... so..... let it be...

Calibos

conchubhar1 wrote: »

just because you dont believe in it doesnt mean it is nonsense...

I don't believe in the tooth fairy either

conchubhar1

not on the same level and you know it
bad choice

Calibos

My bad. I didn't realise there were different levels of nonsense. Anyway, I've said my piece. Bowing out of the thread now you'll be glad to see.

ChocolateSauce

conchubhar1 wrote: »

just because you dont believe in it doesnt mean it is nonsense

Very true. The fact it's rubbish means it's nonsense. :pac:

slinkyg

Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui

By Karen Kingston


Is excellent!

http://books.google.com/books?id=_1EDpa15vjEC&dq=Creating+sacred+space&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=-FB1St74BdqRjAelpuynBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11

Happy Reading!

Slink

Chi chi

(For one replier here) If you don't understand, I am not surprised. Even I myself can't fully comprehend honestly. It is written in ancient Chinese so is hard to read even for me. But it deals on great themes thousand years ago and is inspiring for comtemplation, for ideas even today. And I still read literatures on reincarnation, on eternal souls etc. and you are welcome to teach us that it is pseudoscience. And I wish that this wisdom wasn't misinterpreted by too many people.

First point is, in cause and effect thing, the cause is not always known to humans. So some theories still have the values when they at least confirm to the order of the nature in some way. Chinese medicine is one of the examples.

Another point is, the "Yin and Yang" thing is one of the central themes in ancient Chinese philosophy, in Feng Shui for example. And it is in its summation in Daoism. It is about balance, about balance of two extremes, like good and evil, fire and ice. Regarding this epistemology, that is how this universe originates or composed of. Everything is existing according to the hidden rule, the nature of the universe.

This really was thought thousands of years ago, but is still speaking across ages and once effected people so many generations. Maybe when so busily engaged in living and pursuing what we think as right, we can stop for a while, for there is some ancient wisdom much more valuable than the news in a soap opera or the brand for a new car....