How Feng Shui Can Help You Stay and Feel Safe and Secure. Why Home Matters?

Feeling safe and secure is critical to our health, development and success. Feng shui aims at creating safe, healthy and harmonious environments for working and living to allow us to thrive as well as feel happy and secure.

Albert Einstein asked this very potent and as always current question:
“I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.

Is the universe a friendly place Albert Einstein

Is the universe a friendly place? Albert Einstein

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Top Stories that Explain How Feng Shui Works

Storytelling has been around since the beginning of humanity, to help people to remember, learn and explain how things work and pass on timeless wisdom. These stories below explain how feng shui works. Enjoy.

Feng shui = intention + energy + ritual. These stories show that sometimes the intention and positive energy are enough to make a positive change and sometimes all three are required

Feng shui stories

Feng shui stories

The wicked feng shui master and a trusting woman

The story explains how the placebo effect works in feng shui.

Many centuries ago there was a feng shui master who was known for his skill but who was also easily moved to anger. One hot summer he was commissioned to assess a burial site in the mountain far from his home. It had taken him three days to walk to the site and a day to carry out his work. After sleeping in a small mountain shelter, he had packed his compass and papers and set off for the long journey home. On the second day, he had run out of water in the overbearing heat, but as he surveyed the fields of rice ready for harvest that lay across the plain before him, there was no sign of a well.

In the distance, he saw a woman and three of children working in the fields and so he headed in their direction. The woman stopped winnowing the long stacks of rice and her three sons lay down their scythes and baskets to stare at the strange.

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Summary of Peg Rawes’ Space, Geometry and Aesthetics: Through Kant and Towards Deleuze

Space, Geometry and Aesthetics Through Kant and Towards Deleuze Renewing Philosophy

Space, Geometry and Aesthetics Through Kant and Towards Deleuze Renewing Philosophy

“Peg Rawes’ Space, Geometry and Aesthetics: Through Kant and Towards Deleuze delves into a unique exploration of aesthetic geometries within ontological philosophy. The work is rooted in a post-Kantian framework of aesthetic subjectivity, charting a path through geometric thinking and figurations such as reflective subjects, folds, passages, plenums, envelopes, and horizons. These concepts are explored across ancient Greek, post-Cartesian, and 20th-century Continental philosophies, offering insights into the construction of space and embodied subjectivities.

The book is structured around six chapters, each dedicated to examining ‘geometric’ texts from influential thinkers like Kant, Plato, Proclus, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Husserl, and Deleuze. Rawes highlights geometry as a profoundly embodied aesthetic activity, where each geometric method and figure is charged with aesthetic sensibility and sense, as opposed to being mere disembodied scientific methods.

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Summary of The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Summary of The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories and dreams. One of the best books on feng shui, environmental psychology, interior design and architecture and one of the best books that changed and transformed my life. A classic book – not suitable for speed reading.

“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard was written in the last stages of Bachelard’s philosophical career and if focuses on the subjective perceptions of the house, its interior places and outdoor context. Bachelard’s reasons for writing this book is his philosophy on poetry. Poetry and metaphor are used to explain our relationship to space. The poetic imagery emerges into our consciousness as a direct result of the heart, soul and Being. Poets help us to discover the joy in looking, Bachelard suggests that image comes before thought. In this book, he expands his phenomenology of the soul, not the mind. In earlier work, he had tried to stay objective, true to science but he concluded that this approach was incomplete to explain the metaphysics of the subjectivity of imagination.

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Bachelard proposes that any inhabited space that has a notion of a ‘home’, has a function of a shelter to comforts us and protect. He sees the house as a maternal figure or container in which we contain our memories. Bachelard explores psychologically different aspects and feature of houses. For example, he makes a distinction between a doorknob and a key. Although a doorknob is used to close and open doors, the key is perceived more often to close and the doorknob more often used to open.

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Summary of “Deleuze and Space,” edited by Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert

Deleuze and Space

Deleuze and Space

“Deleuze and Space,” edited by Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert, is a comprehensive exploration of the philosophical implications of space as conceptualised by Gilles Deleuze and further elaborated by various contributors. The book situates Deleuze as a significant spatial thinker, examining his and Félix Guattari’s ideas on the production of space, its conceptualisation, and its implications for subjects within various sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Through a collection of essays, the editors aim to elaborate on Deleuze’s spatial concepts, such as smooth and striated space, nomadology, and the Body without Organs, among others, applying these ideas to diverse fields ranging from architecture and urban planning to art, literature, and cinema.

The introduction by Buchanan and Lambert sets the stage for the collection, emphasising Deleuze’s contribution to understanding space not just as a physical dimension but as a complex conceptual framework influencing and intersecting with various aspects of life, thought, and creativity. The book argues that Deleuze offers a revolutionary way to think about space and spatial relations, challenging conventional notions and encouraging a reevaluation of how space is produced, perceived, and experienced.

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