Selecting a Feng Shui Practitioner – Part II
A tell-tale sign of a quack is his marketing of himself as belonging to the lineage of great renowned Feng Shui Masters or possessing secret Feng Shui recipes that were passed on to them exclusively by their ancestors, grandfathers or fathers.
Some Feng Shui Masters also like to advertise themselves as being the anointed Feng Shui Masters for celebrities, politicians and VIPs. The destiny and luck of such high profile persons are markedly better and hence even an average Feng Shui Master may be made to look better than they are by riding on the good luck of such high profile persons.
Avoid Feng Shui Masters that appear regularly on television programs because such programs typically are sponsored by these Masters and sponsorship costs can be prohibitive. You get a good sense of who is the end customer who is eventually paying for such prohibitive sponsorship cost.
An overly commercialized Feng Shui Master will logically have little time spend to upgrade his knowledge to stay relevant. While Feng Shui is an art that originated from ancient time, we are living in modern society whereby the houses are built and customs are practised very differently from the times when those Feng Shui classics were written. A lot of the Feng Shui methods handed down from such classics may no longer be relevant in modern society. Hence, choose a Feng Shui Master that is hands-on and flexible whom you can trust to tailor their Feng Shui methods according to the needs of people living in the contemporary society.
Do not be surprised that the above is critical because Feng Shui also evolves with time like any other services. Ask yourself whether a man living in contemporary society like you will like a dish that was cooked exactly the same way 1000 years ago? Hence, avoid Feng Shui Masters that repeats like a broken record, that they practices only Classical Feng Shui.
I have also noticed that the half-baked Feng Shui practitioners tend not to be in the business of teaching Chinese Metaphysics presumably because they run a significantly higher chance of meeting and being embarrassed by enthusiasts who more often than not, are students instead of service-procuring customers.
Lastly, an overly commercialized Feng Shui Master is overly focused on profit and fame that they may be dodgy in the process. For example, some of them claim to know Zi Wei Dou Shu but what they really did was to outsource the reading of Zi Wei Dou Shu to another firm. If you approach them personally to discuss Zi Wei Dou Shu, they will find excuses not to entertain you. They will also not give free Zi Wei Dou Shu advice because they need you to pay so that they can pay the firm whom contracted the Zi Wei Dou Shu reading assignments.
Another unglamorous act of such overly commercialized Feng Shui Master is to subcontract authoring of books to little known Feng Shui academics that write for a living. Releasing an avalanche of books that includes such Yearly Horoscope or Forecast books can boost their visibility and reputation. What comes as a surprise to many is that the contents of such books are usually shared or circulated among Feng Shui practitioners who have formed an alliance. I have come across quite a few instances whereby a few of such books are uncannily similar, word for word and page for page. In any case, such books are usually ineffective simply because using 12 zodiac animals to speak of the luck of the people is as general as talking about the luck of people in the 7 different continents!
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