Feng Shui for Skeptics: Real Solutions Without Superstition

by Kartar Diamond

Book Overview

Although feng shui has become a trendy concept and popular practice in recent years, it is still vastly misunderstood and undervalued by many Westerners. Books on the subject tend to be either highly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967193788
• ISBN13: 9780967193786
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Four Pillars Publishing
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Easy reading

This book helps you understand feng shui. It was very easy to apply feng shui to my home and workspace using this book. Thanks to Kartar Diamond for explaining feng shui in layman' terms.

Exactly the book I was looking for

I had often skimmed through the Feng Shui titles but been put off for one reason or another. I am a skeptic, and I don't think a house with bad feng-shui elements will bring anyone's demise. But since I'd rather have an auspicious home environment that works for rather than against me, I decided to spend a few dollars on this one. One thing I like about this book is that it gives example houses, showing striking differences in the different schools of thought and how these differences will result in very different recommendations for remedies for the very same house. In fact I liked this book so much that I contacted the author and hired her to analyze my home (even though her book is thorough enough I could have followed the steps and done my own analysis). Her report was clear and thorough and easy to follow, just like her book. The remedies that she suggested were pleasing aesthetically to me and easy to implement, so I followed them. That's about the highest recommendation one can give, I think.

Excellent guide

I highly recomend this book to anyone who is struggling with feng shui and who want a no nonsense approach to learning it. Kartar's book is a good multifaceted guide that shows her readers how apply traditional FS in their lives. There are interesting stories of celebrities (O.J. Simpson, Menendez murders, more) and telling details of their houses. If you are serious but new to Feng Shui and want to stop the confusion, this may be the book you are looking.

Feng Shui for Skeptics

I have been a professional interior designer in the Los Angeles area for many years. Yet lately , there have been many requests from my clients to comment on their Feng Shui . I have read Feng Shui books over the years, both to satisfy my clients' desire that I incorporate the principles into a project and also out of my own curiosity. Since it is assumed by many in my field that good interior design is also automatically good Feng Shui, I have learned that this is not necessarily so. In fact, the more I read, the more confused I became because of all the different 'schools and philosophical principles.""Feng Shui For Skeptics" advanced my whole understanding of the topic. It was a real eye-opener. What I thought was universally accepted as Feng Shui, Kartar Diamond reveals to be a newly re-constituted version that is very generic and not nearly as sophisticated as the traditional methods practiced for centuries. In every chapter, Diamond educates and re-educates. As an example, before reading Feng Shui For Skeptics, I never knew that houses have energy which changes from year to year. Nor did I know that the colors or furnishings in a room could affect someone's long term health in a specific way, and not just their mood or energy level. I also appreciated her chapter on how feng shui is implemented in a commercial setting. It totally made sense that you wouldn't treat each place the same way and that you can tailor the feng shui corrections to the type of business you are evaluating. I became more aware about the personal aspect to a feng shui audit. Prior to reading this in Feng Shui For Skeptics, I was confused as to why the positioning of a bed or desk could be disputed. Another section that was fascinating to read was her explanation of how certain areas of a house can be accident-prone from year to year and how much that can affect a remodel or construction project. While I am involved with building and landscaping projects on a regular basis, I am going to pay more attention to this important cycle, for the safety of all concerned! However, after years of training as a designer, I feel that I will definitely refer an expert when it comes to getting an accurate reading for my clients and leave the calculations and complicated diagnostics to a Feng Shui master. I have enough to do just to create a harmonious design concept and satisfy my clients lifestyle and aesthetic needs!Kartar Diamond's book is an important contribution to the body of literature about feng shui and Chinese metaphysics. It was easy reading, and yet the concepts and remedies were clearly more advanced and specific than anything I had ever encountered before in a feng shui book. I can recommend Feng Shui For Skeptics to fellow designers, architects, building professionals of any kind, as well as the lay person.----Home2Haven Design

Feng Shui For Skeptics

Feng Shui for Skeptics is beyond doubt the best book I found on Feng Shui (and I have read a few!). The book is straightforward, easy to read and understand, and full of wonderful visuals that clearly illustrate the topics Kartar Diamond writes about. She openly discusses fake Feng Shui, myths, superstition, and the misconceptions most of us have about Feng Shui. Through specific case studies Ms. Diamond demonstrates the various "kinds" of Feng Shui the "experts" practice in the US today, and she shows how they differ in their beliefs and practices (a real eye opener!). The Feng Shui she writes about is not the "one-direction-fits-all". Instead, she explains why it is important to understand the full picture before making any changes in one's house or business, and why - because we all are different with unique needs - different solutions are needed. And as a bonus - Kartar Diamond has good sense of humor!