Is Fengshui superstition? There are multiple reasons that Feng Shui is considered as superstition by some people. First and the major reason, people don’t truly understand what Feng Shui is and hear from others saying Feng Shui is superstition. Obviously this is not the right or fair way to think of Feng Shui. Second, “the new age Feng Shui” does contain lots of non-scientific “cultural superstitions”. There are some examples below in this section. This creates the image in people’s minds that Feng shui is superstition. But there are Feng Shui consultants that practice traditional Feng Shui, based on observable principles. Third, the concepts in Feng Shui are very different from concepts in natural science such as physics, chemistry, biology, etc. People tend to think in terms of white or black but this is not true. Just as “force” is a concept people create to interpret interaction between macroscopic bodies, “Qi” is a concept people create to understand the interaction between objects. Essentially you can replace “force” by any other name you like but in convention people call that “force”. Feng Shui should not be treated as superstition because some concepts in it are abstract or different from other natural science. Fourth, the theory in Feng Shui is not fully developed yet. Even Feng Shui consultants don’t understand the underlying physical mechanism of some theories in Feng Shui. However, based on the personal experiments and data collection from Feng Shui scripts, they work. It’s not right or fair to say something is superstition because some theories in it are not fully developed. You cannot say physics is superstition because Newton’s second law “F=ma” doesn’t take into account relativistic effect.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 02:08:05 +0000
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