Does your friend practise Feng Shui?

I am asking because most of the feng shui authors only talk of the form or compass schools of feng shui.

Those forms work great in Asia where building plans are drawn with good feng shui in mind.

Here in the westl houses are built facing in ebery direction imaginable, with odd shaped rooms, etc.

and those forms of feng shui just doesn’t work here; unless your home was accidentaly built facing the correct direction with symetrical features.

There is another form of feng shui that will work no matter which direction the house faces, and can deal with those odd shaped rooms. That is the black hat school of feng shui. In this they realize that the chi enters and leaves the house primarily through the exterior door you use most often, and the windows you open a lot.

When you rotate the compass according to the direction most of the ch’i enters your home; you will have a lot more success in your feng shui practise.

Feng Shui was invented before the harnessing of electric energy and relies
on methods that have little to do with it. Anyone claiming that electrical
devices are part of authentic Feng Shui must have beamed in from another
planet. Though it is marketed as some kind of Asian environmental
Band-Aid, modern Feng Shui caters to American consumer obsessions and
feeds on their environmental excesses. After all, we are the ones who own
the most electric and electronic devices on the planet. It arrogantly
defies America’s Rio Summit goals, it conveniently sidesteps the issue of
Global Warming and the sober pronouncements of the conference in Kyoto
(December 1997), and Principles 8 and 9 of the Rio Declarations (1992). It
dismisses all responsible environmental policies. It aids and abets our
environmental wastefulness and irresponsibility. The fact that it also
disagrees with traditional Feng Shui barely registers next to its overall
environmental insanity.

One wonders how to accomplish this Feng Shui ³cure² in the developing
world. Electrical objects are a luxury in the homes of Africans (who have
an average per capita electrical consumption under 200 kilowatt-hours per
year, which is roughly the equivalent of one light bulb burning a few
hours each day), and in homes of the nearly 2 billion people worldwide
with no access to electricity. In the U.S., electrical consumption is
primarily generated through coal-burning plants that contribute to the
greenhouse effect. Though energy companies have advised consumers to save
energy, in the 1980s electric consumption jumped 11 percent. Petrochemical
products also account for global warming. Fifty-one pounds of carbon
dioxide are released into the atmosphere for each barrel of oil we
consume, according to Syracuse professor Charles Hall.

A study published by the Sierra Club in 1996 says that a personal computer
that is on but ignored for three hours a day (left on, we assume, for
those "enlivening and stimulating" wisdom benefits only an unattended
computer can give) is responsible for some 200 pounds of CO2 pollution
each year. That’s about 2 percent of the annual CO2 emitted by a car
that’s actually doing something!

Air conditioners, which consume more energy than any other household
appliance, are responsible for 2 or more pounds of CO2 pumped into the
atmosphere every operating hour. They also have a litany of health-related
complaints associated with them. A dirty filtration system in an air
conditioning unit harbors biological agents that can cause anything from
allergic reactions, asthma, and flu to deaths from Legionnaire’s Disease.

Air conditioners also account for one-sixth of the voracious American
appetite for electricity. Yet by simply following the principles of
traditional Feng Shui (which echo sound environmental policy) and planting
more trees and using lighter colors for roofs and pavement, our cities
would suffer less air pollution and would be cooler than the surrounding
countryside. We could reduce the need for air conditioning and create less
energy "brown-outs." By following sound, Classical Feng Shui principles we
could effectively reduce our pollution problems, our energy consumption,
and drastically cut global warming. We’d live more equitably and
sustainably on the planet these faux Feng Shui "cures" are working so hard
to irrevocably damage.

For all their shifting powers and emphasis this curative is often sharply
contradictory. In the book Subtle Energy, author William Collinge says
that ³our use of electrically power dramatically alters our magnetic
environment, and unnatural fields have potentially serious impact on us,²
and ³appliances we use every day are potentially hazardous² ; yet Feng
Shui as he explains it uses electrically-powered objects ³such as air
conditioners and televisions² to stimulate ³disharmonious or undesirable
energy patterns.² Terah Kathryn Collins believes electrical equipment has
a ³demanding physical and energetic presence² and that they ³dominate
their surroundings.² And although ³computers and microwaves can emit
enough EMR to be harmful to us,² Qi is ³activated by electrical
equipment.² Considering that practitioners of this kind of Feng Shui do
not use geomagnetic sensing devices to determine the local magnetic field,
how do they differentiate from beneficent and maleficent energy patterns?