CHINESE FENG SHUI COMPARED TO THE WEST'S LEY LINES
In Scotland, and indeed, Europe, our ancestors used standing stones and circles to focus the energy which they pick up from geological fissures below them, and focussed it through their burial grounds.
This is “The Chieftain” Loch Rannoch, with Schiehallion, the “Faery Hill of the Caledonians” behind.
When East Meets West
The Sun setting at the foot of King Street, Crieff, Scotland, on the Winter solstice
The town of Crieff as a right-angled triangle with its main streets aligned to ancient sites.
Above: During my research I have found the churches in this old market town have their main roof ridges carefully aligned to other churches and burial grounds, occasionally to standing stones and circles, with straight streets and even short paths aligned with ancient sites spanning several thousand years.
One church does not follow this example. That is the new Roman Catholic church (above) which sends a form of energy to the obelisk outside the Vatican, almost a thousand miles away. One end roof ridge points to the “Witches stone” in Ferntower road.
In China such a practise is abhorent, as straight roof ridges pointing to a house, especially the door is very bad sha chi, or poisoned arrows, leading to ill health and bad luck. Yet here in Crieff there are many houses on these alignments which seem to have no difficulty, even with the Roman Catholic church aligned to the obelisk outside the Vatican.
Oddly I have found there are some terraces in the town which adhere more to the Chinese tradition and have been built in a semi-circle (above). Extending these to full circles shows other churches and ancient sites on this circular pattern.
Modern Hospital Built on the Ley Line System
And, there is a modern hospital, in Crieff, Scotland, built in 1995 which has been carefully placed on three straight ley lines, completely against the Chinese tradition.
Below: Dundurn burial ground hosting the remains of Saint Fillan. It is now obvious to me that the builders of the energy ley system also knew how to neutralise the unhealthy energies from burial grounds, partly by placing them on the cup-mark leys, and partly by using small cup marked boulders which attract the negative spirit energy back into the planet where they belong. You can see in the illustration below there are two spirals of energy from each grave, one healthy and one unhealthy. Here the black, unhealthy energy is shown as white lines for easy viewing. The white, healthy energy, seeks out people in their homes. The black energy does the same, unless being diverted underground by small cup-marked boulders.
Another boulder at Fortingall church, Tayside. I believe that all of the old burial grounds would have a similar method of dumping the unwanted spirit energy back into the ground.
Houses in China had to be built where the blue dragon and the white tiger meet. These were where two south facing hill ridges curved round to meet each other like a huge armchair where the most propitious place for a dwelling would be snugly at the seat with a pool of water below. Another propitious place for a dwelling would be where two healthy rivers would meet in a gentle curve. Since chi could be dispersed by the wind, siting a house at the top of a hill was considered very bad feng shui.
Healthy Leys Can be Changed to Unhealthy
I find it interesting that both forms of chi can be dissipated by the wind, as the ley lines from standing stones seem to be electro-magnetic waves picked up by a standing stone above a geological fault and transmitted across country, quite oblivious even to a howling gale. A healthy ley line crossing a stagnant river or canal, contaminated ground, burial ground, abattoir, etc., will change to unhealthy, and, conversely, an unhealthy ley stream will change to healthy when it chances to cross a clean river, probably picking up healthy negative ions on its way, while chi, on the other hand seems to be free floating neg ions carried by natural earth energies
Strangely, the Pow streams, irrigation ditches dug by the Culdee monks (in bue) are all aligned to a Neolithic burial chamber (far left). Chinese feng shui would never allow this (they called them “poisoned arrows).
The Pow stream
Breaking the Dragon's Bones
Quarries, and especially open cast coal mines were abhorrent to the Chinese they called them “breaking the Dragon’s bones.
Geopathic Stress and Ill-health Many years ago when I was investigating ill health associated with ley lines I went to Bonnybridge, a village in Stirlingshire, where a woman had the disease of necrotising fasciitis, the dreadful flesh-eating disease. She had some 5 lbs. of flesh from her abdomen following an operation. Her little bungalow, I found, had many hundreds, perhaps over a thousand, of black waves focussing into it.
Checking her bed with my divining rod I found a black spiral, centred where she would be lying (these energies stay at the site of an illness or injury and amplify any problem). The lady looked at me in surprise and said “my husband had cancer of the kidneys last year, that must surely be the same thing”? These spirals precess like a child’s spinning top, one time it would be beneath her body, later under his.
I had found a long time ago that the best way to understand these energies was to follow them to their source and their target, so I followed the ley stream to the east for a few miles to the source, a huge open cast coal mine. From her bungalow to the west it tuned in to a working quarry. A circuit of energy if you like, many waves focusing into a spiral in her bed. The spiral was caused, presumably, by a gallery of a derelict coal mine gallery beneath. On my way I discovered that the black ley line passed through a huge pyramid of empty whisky casts and changed its polarity to healthy!
There is a road pointing at my own flat, as it happens, which is very unhealthy according to the Chinese, although I have large crystals in the window which feng shui believe that they believe alleviates the problem. The energies here in Crieff, however, built on an entirely different system of ley lines projected from standing stones and circles which have been placed above and take their energies from, the powerful Highland Boundary Fault which splits Scotland in two don’t seem to have that ability.
Sources of Unhealthy Energy
This is the unhealthy aspect of earth energies which I have found as waves of energies from a wide variety of sources, like volcanic plugs, geological faults, polluted underground streams, electric transformers and even from graveyards. These cannot pass through glass and prefer to enter a dwelling between the glass window and the fabric of the building before being attracted into the centre of a black spiral.
Black spirals are initiated from underground streams, tunnels or fissures and even from a person if s/he is ill, especially where s/he spends most of his time, like his bed for instance.
Using crystals to clear back waves in western geomancy is possible, but they must be in the form of a solid wall as in the picture below of Drummond Castle, near Crieff. A wide black ley from a nearby burial ground is negated, leaving only the white healthy aspect to give the occupants good health.
Most important to feng shui is the siting of graveyards. The ground should be on a slope for good drainage and consist of red loamy soil, full of life, so that the coffin and body of ones ancestors decays very slowly and can give their children good energy for as long as possible. A pool of water lower down the slope fed by a meandering stream is also beneficial.
When a person was gravely ill in China he would be taken to another room to die, otherwise the family bed would be “haunted”. They believe/d that each person had three souls: the “hun” the “po” and one other. Upon death one of the souls would remain with the body in the grave and would benefit from feng shui. Another soul would migrate to the shrine in the ancestral home. The third soul would migrate to the other world for trial in the courts of purgatory or perhaps even paradise, but it was out of reach of his descendants or any professor of feng shui.
When placing the coffin in the ground a feng shui practitioner would tie a red thread exactly down the length of the coffin with two assistant holding another red thread in the air above and take some time to align the coffin perfectly to the most propitious direction with the help of a lo p’an, a feng shui instrument containing a compass.
Masonic Lodge Aligned With 16 Ancient Sites
It would appear that both East and West have much to offer their populations in the recovery of this ancient knowledge. Feng shui and Geomancy are both available to anyone who wishes to practise.
I mentioned the local Masonic Lodge aligned with 16 ancient sites. There must be a powerful knowledge behind Western Geomancy as it is still obviously known about and occasionally used, as in the case of the local hospital. The local Freemasons have no inkling of the power inherent in geomancy and certainly have no idea of how to use it, but there are 33 degrees in this order. Certainly for thousands of years this sacred knowledge has been kept from the profane, but now our cultures are much older, populations much wiser. Perhaps it is time that everyone should have access to the ancient secrets for the benefit of all.