I was listening to a podcast, where two famous men were joking about what kind of energy might be palpable in the home of “P. Diddy” aka Sean Combs. They both agreed that sometimes you can just walk through a space and feel residual bad energy, which could linger from traumatic events having taken place there.

Multi-tasking as I always do when listening to podcasts, I kept one ear waiting to hear if either of them would utter the words “feng shui” in relation to this notorious person and the crimes he has been charged with.  Would either Joe Rogan or Elon Musk say that they can feel it when a house has bad feng shui or acknowledge its existence?

They both said that they can sometimes feel the past in certain spaces and referred to this phenomenon as “stored memories.”  Well, think about how much stored information can be kept in a micro-chip.  Surely it is not such a leap to consider that other physical materials around us resonate with either their own “Qi” and/or they can absorb or filter the surrounding Qi (energy). We have devices that capture images, sound, and temperature, so why not the house itself, as in “If these walls could talk”?

While this is a very multi-layered metaphysical and paranormal topic, it also lends itself to other related phenomenon, such as the idea of “déjà vu,” where a person gets an immediate sense that they have returned to a place which they know they have never been to before in their current life time.  I have experienced that myself, with one memorable reaction I had in Rome where I just had to get outside the Coliseum. I was filled with dread as I walked through this ancient empty piece of architecture.   Had I been there in Roman times when gladiators were fighting and dying as a sport?  In comparison, I did not feel particularly uncomfortable when visiting tombs in China. One lady in our tour had to be rushed out of the tomb.  She was not experiencing claustrophobia; rather she was sensing the energy of death and spirits inside.

I have also experienced “Deju Vu” with people who are so familiar to me that I feel like I have known them in another lifetime or understand immediately that there is some kind of karmic connection and we were not meeting by happenstance. Perhaps the sense of Déjà vu is triggered by a variety of input, conscious or not. One time I did a Feng Shui audit on a house just a few miles from where I lived. It had the identical floor plan as my own home and I struggled to stay focused during the consultation. It really felt like I was in my own house.

When we walk into a house and feel a strong sense of the energy, the mood and the consciousness of the current or past occupants, that is just one example of the house possibly “storing memories.” We have a saying, “the tension was so thick you could cut if with a knife.”  People often feel this in a home or workplace where there are many arguments.  We can even speculate that some materials are more porous or resistant to holding these energies, which can be thought of as “memories.” Those who work with natural crystals feel they can be programmed, as well as cleansed of their programming. Those who practice Space Clearing also deal directly with stored memories.

From a Feng Shui perspective, we consider the house as having more than just one magnetic field. One of those layers could be the “stored memories.” This occurs outside with the land as well, which is why we have such notions as “sacred” burial grounds or the haunting influence of old battlefields.

Another magnetic field, which I work with on a regular basis, is the unseen flying star energies which were created in the house based on when it was built and its compass alignment. Our feng shui forefathers were tracking this type of energy for a long time and it was even easier to do so back in times when a person might live the majority of their life in the same home. We might consider this “baked in” energy as a type of “memory” or programming, which can influence any number of occupants similarly.

Usually, feng shui consultants don’t describe it this way, but there is really no conflict in doing so.  For example, if a bedroom indicates that a magnetic field was created there when built which could cause sickness, then any occupant could potentially interact with that magnetic field/memory and succumb to some level of sickness. Sometimes it is called the Predecessor Law. It’s also an assumption that the house has its own living, breathing personality and agenda.

Author: Kartar Diamond

Company: Feng Shui Solutions ®

From the Feng Shui Theory Blog Series