In this series of articles, well known feng shui expert/consultant Paul Darby (The Feng Shui Doctor from British TV), tells us why feng shui is scientific, explains how and why it works!!

PART ONE.

I have named three books at the end of this first article, I cannot emphasise how helpful they have all been and recommend them to you. If you only read one out of the three-'The Field' by Lynne McTaggart is superb and goes into great detail about the points I will make throughout these articles!

Over the last two years, following ten years plus of study into the origins and practices of feng shui, I have been studying and reading all I can about Quantum Physics. I wanted to do this because I felt, in the 21st century, there must be proof that chi, natural energy patterns exist-- I was not disappointed.

Now I am not a 'quantum' scientific person, but, the books were interesting, and the findings are absolutely astounding. The more I read about the subatomic world of quantum physics, the more that I realised the ancient Chinese had discovered just what made us and our environment tick. They then gave their findings very poetic and metaphorical names, obviously not having the equipment, not really knowing the science behind their findings-just the results which worked for them.

But since the 1950s scientists all over the world, but especially in Europe and North America, have been proving the existence of 'chi' energy, the importance of environment, and the interconnections between us and our surroundings--the vital web---the Tao.

The Sixties band 'The Beach Boys' were right, everything really is 'Good Vibrations'. We know sound is, we have discovered about crystals and colours, but to that add taste, food, diet, air, objects, plants, trees, and lights--everything that exists.

We are picking up vibrations all of the time from all of the things which surround us, all of the things we eat and drink----and more importantly-giving these vibrations out as well. Where do these vibrations come from and what effects do they have?

Quantum Physics looks at the subatomic workings of particles and waves of energy produced by everything. In the year 2000, American Scientists called this-'Dark Energy', which sounds like something out of 'Star Wars'. It is also being called 'The Field', 'The Web', amongst other things-but known to the ancient Chinese as the Tao-- a field full of chi.

More important than any name however, is the fact that this energy has been proven to bring constant, unconscious communication between everything-get that- CONSTANT and UNCONSCIOUS--what us Buddhists would call 'subtle', and so, for feng shui-just what we have always known to be true, a connection between us and our environment exists-which affects us and our way of life.

Everything is made up of patterns of vibrating particles/waves. On a subatomic level, sometimes, they are particles, sometimes, they are waves. The 'becoming and unbecoming' as the Ancient Taoists called it, between the two, is random, and can change at any time--a creative potentiality, the Chinese always accepted-the cycles and processes of nature--the constant change- the moving from yin to yang.

These vibrations, these patterns, are what the Chinese call the Tao--made up of natural vibrating electro- magnetic energy-a subtle 'photon' light, the web of life, which connects us all--affects us all.

We tap into it, we give to it, and we take from it. The Tao is a pulsating natural vast 'Internet' of pure potential which can be drawn upon, by tapping in correctly to the right frequencies, the right wave patterns, the correct vibrations--something which feng shui experts over the centuries have done.

Meditators, healers, acupuncturists, psychics, healers, shamans, yoga practitioners-all tap into the same energy source. The Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Native Americans, Aborigines, Sufis all talk of the chi, the ki, the 'singing lines'-- the natural energy which is there to be tapped into, to be used.

In modern times, because of electricity, oil pollution, buildings, obstructions, some of these natural vibrations have been distorted by artificially made vibrations---leading to stress, illness, cancer, M.S., M.E., aggression and selfishness!

Feng shui, aligns us again with our surroundings, tunes us back into the right frequencies-the good vibrations, gets us to resonate with the natural, helping, creative potential around us!

I acknowledge the valuable information given in the following books and would recommend them to you:

The Field -Lynne McTaggart-published by Harper Collins
The Tao of Physics- Fritjof Capra-published by Flamingo
Jacobson's Organ - Lyall Watson- published by Allen Lane

PART TWO.

Good vibrations then, are the answer! I always suspected the hippies had the right idea!!!. As George Harrison sang' Life goes on within you and without you'!

The energy vibrations given off and taken in by everything in the 'Web', the Tao, are simple, electrically charged resonances, in a kind of digital code which our bodies and indeed everything else in the Cosmos can tune into and use, absorbing its information and creative potential. But remember, we give out the vibrations as well and so contribute to the Tao as well as taking from it.

These electrical charges of energy- vibrating waves of pulsating very weak photon 'light' are constantly reacting and responding to each other. The vibrations-the natural energy, or 'chi' as some call it, is creative potentiality in its purest form and by enhancing, protecting and using the environment around us in a positive way, we can learn to tune into this creative potentiality and use it. Remember this is quantum physics not just ancient feng shui speaking!

Why did physicists get into proving this? They see a vast source of untapped energy which can be used for space travel and other every day uses throughout the world. Hence the research, hence the interest. The proof about feng shui is just a fascinating by- product!

I use Compass School Feng Shui, which states that the chi in different compass locations varies in its composition and energy levels-yin/yang and the five elements. This is just the ancient Chinese way of referring to these various and changing energy patterns.

Quantum physicists would agree with this and point to the natural environment, the winds and the weather as the explanation of the differing electrical charges, the subtle vibrations all around us. This huge, endless field of energy, means we are all interconnected with one another and with our surroundings constantly-a 'domino' effect-all pushing against each other---so, as feng shui as always stated--changes in colour, movement, light, plants, sounds will affect the vibrational qualities of the air around us and so therefore affect the vibrations, the energy patterns and as a result--us, our moods, our health, our feelings, our positivity.

That's feng shui in a nutshell!

We are resonating-human 'tuning forks'-harmonising with these vibrations-the cells of our body trying to pitch exactly to the vast 'tunes of the universe', either tuning in, or being in discord, with our environment all of the time. No wonder it affects us if we sleep in the wrong place, if lots of pointed corners speed up the vibrations, if beams push them down at us. Hopefully now, it all makes sense- and this is the rub, it always did make sense-but some of us needed scientific experiment and proof-read 'The Field' by Lynne McTaggart--it is a book full of proof!

Feng Shui is common sense, an earth science, applied practically and logically with the added experience of the practitioner in what works best and why. Feng shui is an ancient knowing of the principles of the universe, without the fancy names quantum scientists give to it today. The important thing is IT WORKS- it always has and always will work. But the vibrations- as we shall see, explain all other therapies, healing, natural ways of 'de-stressing', -even reincarnation and the death process-which I studied with Tibetan monks and nuns.

We are all part of the soup-the Tao, as is everything else. All in the Tao effects everything else in the Tao - the recipe has to be spot on, or the taste will be off--we are part of it-it is part of us!

This vibrating, powerful sea of energy flowing around us, coming from us, and being taken in by us, needs us to be in tune, literally 'in tune' with our surroundings. If we are not, confusion sets in - storms in the ocean rock our little boats.

These storms, this discord, this confusion can lead to stress, illness, and emotional problems. If we are not able to 'pick up good vibrations' - it is usually because the man-made world around us has spoilt the natural electrical charges, the 'light', the 'sounds', the 'music', 'jamming' the frequencies with artificial electromagnetic energy - so - we live in discord!

Feng shui, when performed correctly, 'tunes' our world, allows the instrument to be played properly, like a radio tuned in precisely to a frequency-cutting out 'nasty' interference--stopping the 'jamming'.

This natural energy, this 'chi', is all electrically charged packets of energy - vibrational patterns. The closer the patterns rub together, close together and unite, the more likely, matter, something solid, is formed.

We are then-closely knit, vibrating packets of energy. Our vibrations are unique and respond to the vibrations around us in general, but in slightly unique ways. General patterns of reactions have been worked out by the feng shui masters, so that career, health, wealth, relationships, creativity can all be 'tuned in'.

PART THREE.

This 'tuning in' to the vibrations has intrigued all the wise people throughout time and still does- from shamans to scientists, from philosophers to psychics and engineers. Aristotle and Michael Faraday knew there was more to things that those that could be actually seen! They knew, but could not prove that the most important part of energy was not its source but the field of influence around it.

Quantum Physicists in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the 21st century are now explaining why meditation, acupuncture and feng shui work. The chi is simply an electromagnetic field, an influence which either can be helpful- if used well, or can hinder, if ignored, or put 'out of tune' by where, and how we live.

A famous physicist puts it simply-'Every time you use a toaster, the field around it changes its vibrations slightly throughout your environment'.

That's just one toaster, so look at all the other things, electrical, non-electrical, which 'pollute' the vibrations, the natural energies, and the potential around us. No wonder we are in such a mess! Read Lynne McTaggart's 'The Field' for more scientific experiments into these vibrations and their effects!

Feng shui minimises the interference and enhances the resonances- the good vibrations! The constant exchanges of vibrations, these dynamic dancing waves of energy are bound to affect us, our surroundings, our world--positively and/or negatively charged, with differing wave length frequencies-- this is the yin and yang, the five elements, the compass directions, the metaphors of the Celestial Animals used by the Chinese for thousands of years.

They knew they were onto something- must have been for it to last-they did not understand it completely, they just knew it worked!!!

Now quantum scientists tell us that every particle, every wave of energy, of this 'natural electricity', this weak and subtle 'photon light' dances, radiates its own vibrations, its own patterns. Some patterns create and grow, others, disintegrate and are lost--the constructive and destructive cycles described by feng shui experts for many centuries! We harmonise with our surroundings, we tune in, and we pick up on what is around us--either in a constructive or a destructive way.

Quantum physics says there has to be harmony, a balance, a meeting of positive and negative electrical charges. The timeless balance of yin and yang used by feng shui and Chinese medicine for thousands of years. All is a 'trembling motion'--jiggling energy.

We are concentrated energy--not really solid at all, as are all 'solid' objects, live or inanimate. We vibrate, everything vibrates- in a harmonic natural pattern of dynamic energy flow. What do we do!!!-Surround ourselves with metal, plastic, microwaves, TVs, mobile phones, electricity- all kinds of poisonous concoctions, and then wonder why we do not feel so good--we are losing the 'music', we are not tuned in-we have drifted off the right frequency and cannot connect!!

Get back to the natural patterns of chi, tune in, resonate, harmonise---feng shui will help you. Around us is a vast energy bank- an 'Internet' of potential. It is positive, creative energy-and we, with our clever inventions, have poisoned, polluted and disrupted the very 'medicine', which can help us!

I can name hundreds of scientists, thousands of experiments to prove what I am saying. Best read the books I recommended at the beginning of this series of articles-- all the evidence is there!

One famous scientist-Popp-proved the interaction of electromagnetic radiation, in its natural and more dangerous manmade forms, with biological systems. He proved that vibrating energy waves called 'photons'- a weak light source-[called by some people auras]-were interfered with by vibrating fields of energy-causing the photons in our body to vibrate in tune with those around us. When those vibrations were natural and healthy--great----if unhealthy resonances were tuning our bodies, then illnesses such as cancer, MS, ME, depression were caused!

Feng Shui gives you access to the subatomic Internet! It allows freedom, access to millions of patterns of positive, creative potential------but 'discord,' produced from nasty energy patterns, can corrupt the system, producing a 'virus' which can destroy- as with a computer ---a 'worm' which destroys from within--'memory banks', 'access' and use- causing our system to CRASH!--Blue Screen! vv.

PART FOUR.

Feng Shui is a method of accessing the 'good vibrations' around us.

Feng Shui tunes us into quantum packets of energy which can help us get through life, support us through hard times, create potential and creativity to bring the best out of us during good times, protect us against the interference of artificial electromagnetic energy-poison arrows, shar chi! Feng Shui is not the only method for doing this- many methods work-I use feng shui, tai chi, chi kung and meditation. Use what works for you-and use them in a cocktail, which gives optimum results for you!

Feng Shui tunes our environment and us, harmonising, energising--blending us together helping internally and externally. All DNA, all cells resonate, vibrate--a cell produces 100,000 chemical reactions per second--yes, that is-per second. Each reaction produces a vibration, each cell liberates billions of vibrations--so the Tao, The Field, The Web, the soup of life comes into being--think of the jiggling, zinging, dancing which is there around you!

The special vibrations- called morphogenesis cause cell co-ordination and communication. They help the body play as an orchestra--in harmony, instead of the discord produced when unhealthy-artificially produced vibrations- 'black streams'---man-made electromagnetic fields- interfere with this building process disrupting and distorting cells.

A scientist named Burr[read more about him in Lynne Mctaggart's book] discovered that all things have energy fields and each energy field of everything is unique.

What he did find interesting was that a chicken's energy field is the same as that emitted from an egg. The baby has an adult blueprint to work to!!!! This pattern is within the object and also radiates form it-- its aura!

Changes in the patterns of electrical charges, the vibrational patterns can produce growth, sleep, light, water, and disease!

For example, by messing around with the energy patterns of a flat worm, Marsh and Beams discovered they could develop the head where the tail was and the tail where the head should be! They had discovered that these collective patterns of vibrations got the proteins in cells to co-operate with each other. The proteins working together produce an electrical charge, this charge sets off waves of vibrating energy, wave patterns---so the soup of life- the Tao is created-ever moving-ever changing.

Later on, scientists discovered that these patterns varied in cyclic rhythms, 7-14-32-80-270 days.

Serious illnesses seemed to be a loss of these rhythms--through outside interference with the natural processes. A 'not feeling right' when ill, is exactly that! A loss of balance, a lack of harmony--getting the wrong vibrations, or not being able to pick up the good ones around you because of 'jamming' and interference from the environment.

Feng Shui helps to rebalance the systems of the environment, producing the right vibrational patterns, which in turn help to resonate and tune the vibrational patterns we need in order to flourish.

We need to be synchronised with our surroundings. In experiments with daphnia [water fleas], quantum physicists discovered that not only do they 'suck up', tune into, and take on vibrations from their surroundings but from each other. Even more astounding, when some were placed in distress, the others picked up on this. This also happened with trees and plants!

Wave resonance between things, between everything produces a positive, creative, growth-enhancing communication 'Internet' 'email' system. If this communication system is broken down, or interfered with--dis-ease, lack of 'ease' begins! Homeopathy is a Wave resonance between things, between everything produces a positive, creative, growth-enhancing communication 'Internet' 'email' system. If this communication system is broken down, or interfered with--dis-ease, lack of 'ease' begins! Homeopathy is a great example of this communication system, but then so is animal, bird and fish migration, meditation, acupuncture and of course- feng shui as well as many other therapies and methods.

By using 'tuning forks' in whatever therapy method or blend of methods you wish, the body can be balanced and harmonised with its surroundings, allowing the environment to help with healing-- the internal is affected by the external and vice versa. Ancient Taoist Alchemy books talk of the internal and external landscapes being one.

This effect has been noted and used by the medical profession in its simplest form for years. Pleasant surroundings, pleasant music [vibrations], during an operation and then afterwards, help the healing. Patients facing trees and hills get better quicker better than those facing a busy car park and buildings. No surprise there surely? Hence the aquarium in the dentists' waiting room! But more about water very shortly!