Feng Shui is the definitive art of living in harmony and balance with nature. And virtually every feng shui article ever written focuses on how you can increase your income, stop fighting with family members or co-workers, and improve your health by adhering to feng shui principles in your home or place of business.
But what about the darker side of feng shui? I will share with you some little-known facts:
Certain house types are more prone to attracting ghosts, especially when they have not just one, but several of the following components:
• Houses built right into a mountain side.
• Houses that are perpetually dark and damp.
• Houses that are older because there is statistically a greater chance of past occupants being relentlessly attached to the property.
• Houses where someone died.
• Houses built on top of native American battle fields or grave sites.
• Houses within blocks of a cemetery or even a church.
• Houses very close to criminal activity, prostitution, alcohol and drug consumption.
• Houses close to hospitals (where people die).
• Houses close to slaughter-houses.
• Houses with a lot of banana trees on the property.
• Houses with poorly-placed wind-chimes. This one comes as a surprise to many feng shui novices who think that hanging wind-chimes is a symbol of good luck and protection. There are some house types where wind-chimes can ATTRACT a ghost!
How to rid your home of ghosts:
Based on some of the circumstances which attract ghosts to begin with, it is not always an easy task. This is where the popular practice of ritual space-clearing can often help. Burning sage, thoroughly cleaning your home, and eliminating excessive moisture and darkness in the environment are usually mandatory. It also requires a very concentrated meditative mind to address the ghost and gently usher it back into the light.
Ghosts are confused beings. They somehow missed passing on to the next after-life dimension and they hang out on earth without a physical body to express basic human urges. How would you like to be hungry with no stomach to feed? How would you like to be confused and disoriented as to why other people are living in your house and completely ignoring you? This is why priests, “ghost-busters”, paranormal experts and shamanic type space-clearers need to muster incredible focus to help free the ghost from being trapped on the earth plane.
Sometimes a home owner can talk frankly to the ghost and ask it to leave, but that is only if the ghost recognizes what has happened. Not all ghosts are former human beings either. Your beloved cat that you buried in your back yard may have returned. Non-human spirits also make their way into our dimension.
Grave sites:
• Historically, a big branch of feng shui knowledge (called Yin House Feng Shui) is devoted to the divination of grave sites. For centuries, the Chinese have believed that a poorly situated grave site could cause a spiritual, social, political or economic downfall for future generations of the deceased.
• This still remains one of the most secret parts of feng shui wisdom since the application of Yin House Feng Shui can impact families for so many generations. In order for the dearly departed to truly rest in peace, the total surrounding environment adjacent to the grave must have specific topographical features, such as the proper shapes of nearby mountains.
• The actual grave needs to be positioned so that the body can rest in a good direction for that person, based on their own astrology. This means that it is very individualized, just like feng shui for the living.
• Cosmic lines of energy are transmitted from underground and into the bones of the body at rest. Those bones are energetically connected to the bodies of all living descendants. We even have a saying in our own culture that someone could be “turning in their grave” if they knew what misfortune or negativity was happening to a living relative.
Author: Kartar Diamond
Company: Feng Shui Solutions (R)
From the Philosophical and Metaphysical Musings Blog Series
