Harmony through environology

IN landform environology (feng shui), the impact of earth’s natural features is assessed when selecting a site or constructing a building. At the most fundamental level, we look for the mountains and rivers. All other considerations, such as a person’s birth date and Gua number (derived from said date), are secondary.

This is because the earth exerts energy, and its pattern can either enhance or diminish the conduciveness of a location. Regardless of whether a person is born under a lucky star or is experiencing a period of good fortune in his life, if he lives or works in a non-conducive environment, he is likely to suffer from it.

Our tour of the Klang Valley has not been to pass judgement and declare if such-and-such a place is bad.We observe the landform and make comparisons between what environology principles say would happen, and the actual reality.

OBSERVATIONS, NOT PREDICTIONS
We observe facts to confirm or disprove our hypothesis. Where we come to a new property development, we offer conjectures based on the landform, and are not making predictions. Time will tell if we are on or off the mark.

For a more complete analysis of a property’s compatibility with the occupant, a proper audit is required. But be careful of unscrupulous people masquerading as feng shui masters. Unfortunately, there is presently no regulatory body that is responsible for accreditation or certification of feng shui practitioners.

The Malaysian Institute of Geomancy Sciences is a non-profit organisation committed to setting up such an accreditation standard and institute a regulatory framework. The practice of environology must first be recognised as a science before it can take the next step.

Professional bodies in Malaysia— lawyers, architects, accountants and so forth—are regulated either by law or their respective associations and rightly so because their work impact the lives of others. They must be held to a high standard.

The same must be done in environology. We hope to create sufficient awareness and dispel the misconceptions of the public to the point where town planners and architects become mindful of environologic forces when designing properties so that they are in harmony with nature.

In landform environology, we first look for the mountains or high land for that is where earth energy originates. It starts from the highest point and flows down to the lowest. Along the way, it may travel up and over smaller hills. The energy moves in a swirling vortex. At and near its point of origin, it is very powerful and some of its energy was probably expended to shape the land and create some of the present-day formations of mountains, hills and ranges.

Town planners and architects should be mindful of environologic forces when designing properties so that they are in harmony with nature. -Filepic

It gets progressively weaker as it moves further from its point of origin. It in turn is shaped and altered by the landform at this point.

The next thing we look for is the river or any other large bodies of water.Water has a different rigidity to land and does not allow the transfer of earth energy. Thus, the energy is reflected and deflected back from the riverbank. This rebound energy is gentle and homogenous, unlike the original oncoming energy. It is considered conducive for success.

Properties that are constructed to face pools of such energy will tap into them to generate an environment that is harmonious and beneficial. Properties with their backs to the river experience the opposite because they cannot tap into that beneficial pool and they face the more powerful overwhelming oncoming earth energy from the high land. The effect is more pronounced on uphill-facing properties built on slopes.

Environology principles also state that a good alternative to facing the river is for properties to follow the direction of the river’s flow. The logic is that this direction eventually leads to a bigger body of water – the ocean. Another reason is that such a direction shields the property from “detritus” flowing downstream.

OLD KLANG ROAD
In our tour of Old Klang Road, we look again for the high land and the river. The road runs along the eastern bank of the Klang River (and subsequently south, when the river turns westward). (For Google map reference, please log on to http:// maps.google.co.uk/ and search for “Kuala Lumpur”.)

The high land is found further east in the form of smaller hills and ranges extending from Ampang and Cheras. At this point, the earth’s energy has been significantly expended and thus the hills are rather low compared to Ampang and Cheras.

Old Klang Road starts from Seputeh. Further down this road is Petaling Lama.

Between the river and road, there are several blocks of shop-offices. Due to their orientation—facing Old Klang Road and Bukit Desa, with their backs to the river—these properties are not considered ideal or conducive. The occupants may not fare as well as their counterparts on the opposite side. Properties on the other side ought to fare better, as they generally face west toward the river. The Intec College, a relative newcomer, has a very eye-catching facade. The BHP and Shell petrol stations and Bangunan Tan Lai Kim also share this ideal orientation.

However relatively speaking, the Shell station is likely to fare better because the BHP is located on a slight elbow of Old Klang Road. The convex shape of the road tends to deflect and disperse earth energy. So, although the BHP is strategically located before Shell, motorists may still opt to patronise the latter more. Of course, it could also be due to Shell’s marketing and branding.

Behind this row of properties, the land climbs up quite steeply and yet, there are several houses built here along roads such as Jalan Meru, Jugra and Morib, Many of these branch into dead-end roads. Houses that face west are likely to do better than their east- and uphill-facing neighbours.

Even then, dead-end roads are considered undesirable in environology for the lack of circulating traffic somehow causes the energy to stagnate. Therefore, the overall conditions here would be somewhat suppressed and depressed.

Further down the road, we come to Taman Shanghai, which also share similar traits –hill slope and dead-end roads.