Many people have asked me how to reconcile Feng Shui with religion. There are people who know Feng Shui can help; yet they hesitate to consult a Feng Shui master because they are uncertain if Feng Shui will contradict their faith.

The psychobabble of Feng Shui steps sprightly along with the rest of the New Age mythos: With intention, and with clutter out of your way, you can alter the universe.

Intuitive Feng Shui relies on the psychic sensitivity of a practitioner (an unknown quantity at best, unless your practitioner has undergone some sort of testing to determine their receptivity) and a perceptual skill William Spear called first impressions that detects so-called "energy patterns" in a home or office. Unfortunately First Impressions has some conceptual flaws. If it is the foundation of Feng Shui analysis, then all our mothers were born Feng Shui consultants. It is a fact of life that some time in your life your mother will walk into your home and complain about your inadequate housekeeping and announce it as the reason you can't get your dream job or find a mate. Some of us think so little of ourselves that we fall for this, which is why sensitive New Age types pay complete strangers good money to hear the same verbal abuse their Mom provides for free.

Most Western ideas about Feng Shui are utterly wrong and generally based on a variety of weird concepts pulled from European folklore and New Age marketing. Out of the entire scientific system, only a fragment of actual Feng Shui knowledge has reached the public. Despite all of the books rushing into print claiming "Feng Shui this" and "Feng Shui that," the theoretical depth and full potential of the authentic material remain virtually unknown to the public.

When we think of a classic haunted house, images from the movies come up. Sometimes the haunted house is depicted as a dark, dingy, old, dilapidated house, secluded and covered with cobwebs. Oddly enough, these really are some of the "yin" attributes which can contribute to a house attracting a ghost.

When I first started speaking publicly about feng shui in 1992, I was very enthusiastic about promoting it as a natural science, mostly because I believed it to be so. I was also reacting to the mounting trendiness of feng shui, as it was being marketed by people who referred to it as "magic" or a spiritual practice linked to Tantric Buddhism. I could not stand these comparisons because I knew they were not true and I also felt they tarnished the integrity of feng shui.

With a booming demand for classical Feng Shui services and knowledge all over the world, the business of Feng Shui is becoming more and more competitive. Naturally, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the main source of much of today’s knowledge in classical Feng Shui, is where the battle to attract students and clients is most intense.

Most people buy homes as a roof over their heads, or as an investment. In Feng Shui, the approach will vary slightly depending on whether you are looking to buy the property as an investment or as a home. But some of the basic rules remain applicable, irrespective of whether you’re an investor or home owner. I’m going to share with you five features you don’t want to see in a house, irrespective of whether you are buying to invest or to occupy. And these are features that anyone, irrespective of their Feng Shui background, can spot easily.

The Do-It-Yourself trend has become so popular these days that it has even extended to feng shui. With a large number of books on the market designed to enable Do It Yourself feng shui, it is no surprise that many people decide to have a go themselves, before bringing in a professional.

In Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection, every year, month, day, and hour is converted into an individual Hexagram which carries two distinct codes – the Xuan Kong Element number, and the Period Luck number. The secret of XKDG date selection lie in special formations of these numbers, promising infinite wealth and ultimate power.

In flying star feng shui, there are 2 nasty stars that you must avoid. If they happen to be at the direction of your house main door or your bed room door, that year will be full of sickness and misfortune. In less serious cases, it would be flu, colds, fever or migraine. In more serious cases, it may be terminal illnesses.

It’s been a while since I was able to share such a story with you and I am sure this is one of those stories from which I will be receiving lots of mail from our readers.

I was on my way back from Dallas, Texas after my last class and my secretary called me to let me know that an URGENT call had come in from a Malaysian Mastery Journal Basic reader asking to meet with me.

A Trigram, or 'Gua', consists of a set of triple lines, where each line is either solid or broken. The solid lines denote the polarity of Yang (active, positive, bright) while the broken lines are Yin (reactive, negative, dark). Yin and Yang complement each other, and by no means are one better than the other.

Before attempting to define 'good luck' it would be wise to consider what category of luck that is taking effect. The very crucial Cosmic Trinity explains that a person's total Destiny is influenced proportionally by 3 kinds of luck factors - Heaven luck, Man luck, and Earth luck.

8 Mansions Feng Shui, or ‘Ba Zhai’, is well known for the allocating of favourable and unfavourable locations and directions for a house and its people. By utilizing a certain location and facing a certain direction, we are able to ‘tap into’ a specific type of Qi. There are eight different types of Qi (thus the name 8 Mansions) and they are collectively termed as ‘The Eight Wandering Stars’.

Very often, I come across clients who are unhappy with their present situation in life; either with work, family or with their marriage relationships. They feel like the whole world is against them and nothing they do seem to go their way.

Not everyone has the luxury of selecting his or her own office building or work room. Unless you own your own company, chances are, we take what we are given – in this case, sit where we are allocated. Placing your door in the right sector, using the right room, facing the right direction – ideal as it may be; what happens when your boss has not heard of Feng Shui or does not subscribe to it?

A fairly large amount of emails I receive are from people asking about the use of objects, colours, and numbers in the practice of Feng Shui. This is understandable as there is still a lack of resources available dedicated to the study of classical Feng Shui.

Kuala Lumpur , where the Mastery Academy if based, is a wonderful city. And it has interesting Feng Shui features as well. It is not uncommon to find properties with irregular shapes and missing corners, especially some of the more modern designs that cater to slightly more contemporary tastes.

Many people are concerned regarding one particular area that is present in any house or property - the toilet. Many are worried that their washrooms may be emitting 'Sha Qi', or unknowingly 'flushing away their own wealth'. These worries are no laughing matter and now is the time to straighten things out as far as toilet Feng Shui is concerned.