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Introduction In another article, it is suggested that a person should be a "Living Bagua" rather than rely on a physical Bagua talisman. If you want to use the Bagua you should try to comprehend the scientific reasons why it may work.
The responses of the other panelists are interesting:
A heated argument followed between some of the members. None of the panelists really answered the question of the Malay professor; which was how the Bagua actually works as purported in Feng Shui. As a scientist and one who studies and respects widely the religious cultures, the author has found that sound geomancy or Feng Shui principles and practices abound widely in the traditional religions. The ancient people were not naive. The traditional religions faithfully contain almost all the extant ancient records of what geomancy or Feng Shui is really about. There must be some scientific ways by which the Bagua works!
How the Feng Shui Bagua Scientifically Works Put the same question to some other Feng Shui practitioners: how does the Bagua work? One of them said it is not the design but the mirror which works. The Bagua without the mirror is powerless. This Feng Shui practitioner has a similar idea as the lady Feng Shui practitioner on TV, that there are some forms of waves operational in Feng Shui. Thus, the mirror of the Bagua is able to deflect the waves. What should be realised is that the ancient mirror is not the modern type, of glass and amalgam of mercury. In the ancient times, the mirror was a shiny bronze or brass piece. Bronze is an alloy of copper with not more than 11 percent tin, while brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.
The lady Feng Shui practitioner could be right; that there are ill-understood waves in the environment which work in Feng Shui. These waves have electromagnetic components which react with the copper, which is a good conductor. The copper mirror in the Bagua may have prevented adverse electromagnetic waves produced in the outside environment from entering into the house.
Modern Perspectives vis Feng Shui The Bagua is a universal symbol which belongs to a whole culture besides Feng Shui. The symbol is also found in non-Chinese cultures. It is essentially a diagram to show how the seasonal variations in solar radiation can be arranged into eight major packages of energies. These seasonal variations of solar energy are important in not only Feng Shu, but also astrology and magic. However, the symbol is placed onto a special media to encourage people to benefit from the medical properties of that particular media, which is copper. There will be arguments whether such a copper piece is a Feng Shui object or it is a cultural symbolism object. I am inclined to believe that it is primarily a cultural symbol object. This is because a wide range of cultural symbols are actually based on chemical and medical properties of the objects. The chemical and medical properties of these things can regulate qi, and if properly used, can enhance Feng Shui effects.
In the end, what the reader should comprehend is that there are a number of ways to produce and manipulate qi. Feng Shui is only one way, and, as one Chinese philosopher rightly knew, only a fraction of the power of the I Jing. However, non-Feng Shui means to manipulate qi can be used to enhance Feng Shui effects. That was how it was meant to be in ancient times, different methods can be effectively mixed. |
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