Nancilee Wydra

July 6, 2010

Constructing Reality

Filed under: Feng Shui,Physical Sciences,Science,Social Sciences,Tao,Yin/Yang — Tags: , , — Intelligent feng shui @ 2:48 am

Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human behaviors.

 This summer of 2010 I would like to take the reader on a road of exploration to realms that while not being quantifiable, are in my opinion, real. Let me know what your think.

What we experience as out there is as much our invention as it is our discovery.

 Why is reality programming such a hot ticket? In the last few years TV reality shows have multiplied like bubble bath in hot water. What makes the viewing public so interested in watching ordinary people react to uncommon events? Is it the fact that our lives are so predictable, so routine, that we long to construct novelty? Or has a gene for novelty become a preference in today’s DNA? Perhaps, the popularity of this type of programming stems from our need to hold onto the notion of reality as a result of cause and effect.

We humans hold a rather narrow belief, that the past pours its content into the present. Thus, we are deluded into assuming that things are predictable insofar as they emerge from what has been. This theory holds some truth because the past in every living thing has an influence in the present, but that role is elastic and cannot be predicted.

Scientists whose time honored goals have been to quantify phenomenon have, in the last century, been challenged by the belief of cause and consequence. Take for example; the results of Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist,which indicated that outcomes cannot be predictable. Wikipedia writes “Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states …that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot simultaneously be known. That is, the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the other can be measured and that the mere fact of observing something can alter its outcome.” Well, that certainly undermines cause and effect!

A contemporary of Heisenberg, Niels Bohr developed theory of complementarity, which states that that there is a dual nature to things. A sphere, for instance, has a convex and concave aspect depending upon your point of view. If we are outside the sphere, it appears convex, but from inside it seems concave. In the last hundred years, decades of belief about reality have been questioned and the answers don’t always point to one absolute or a single truth.

 Reality shows give the appearance that the end is a direct result of efforts, determinations and thus is rather foreseeable. I would like to suggest here that underlying my material of how place can support healing of physical, emotional and spiritual dis-eases, is the iconoclastic view that Western medicine with it’s stated outcomes (like this medicine works 48% of the time) undermines a notion of while results might be unknowable, one cannot discount the quantum leap, which is to say that seeming miracles are merely results that cannot be predicted and that the duality of not being able to see all sides as in the convex and concave example, all sides exist. To a large degree we organize, either actively or passively what we experience. But that organization is not only the result of cause and effect, but of something more fundamental to the universe. Using this concept, we can embrace what we know and what we don’t know for both may have equal potential. This summer of 2010 I would like to take the reader on a road of exploration to realms that while not being quantifiable, are in my opinion, real.

Let me know what your think. Should you be interested in discovering and learning about Pyramid feng shui go to: windwater.com

May 23, 2010

ARE YOU AXIAL OR BLASTOMORPHIC?

Filed under: Feng Shui — Tags: , , , — Intelligent feng shui @ 10:07 am

Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human behaviors.

What do you look for when you enter a space? Do you look at the architecture, the windows, beams, moldings, and any egresses? Or do you check out what is laying on a table, or for things that might interest? Most of us lean toward seeing the world one way or the other.

What are the differences between these two ways of observing? If you check out the architecture, observe the placement of windows, doors, columns, ceilings, floors and those items that comprise the structure’s integrity, then you are an axial person. In our body, the axial skeleton is the system of bones oriented vertically along the longitudinal axis. In other words our vertebral column, the spine, and much of the skull, those things that we hang our flesh on and house our organs inside.

The other way to scrutinize a space is to look for things of meaning that have nothing to do with the “bones of the building”, except if it’s a fireplace where you can envision relaxing, while warming yourself on a blustery winter night. Those of us who seek visuals that support activity for and results of human activity are blastomorphic.

The difference is a basic as the two entities needed to engage life in humans, the egg and the sperm. Both the egg and the sperm are very different in their approach to life. Take the sperm, when released it’s a race, each one independent and competitive. The winner penetrates an egg and thus becomes the winner, the one to get their gene pool into the next generation. The egg, on the other hand, hangs out a short time until the sperm penetrates and then voila, starts adding cells, each one continuous to another until the final product, a human.

Axial people are ones seeking out structure; they look for the bones of the structure. For them the structure is more important than what activities will be supported inside. They are interested in the container, its visual, integrity and its embellishments.

Blastomorphic people might not be able to draw a floor plan of a space, but they will remember seeing a stack of board games, a chenille comforter thrown over the back of a sofa or an ottoman in front of a chair.

For us in pyramid feng shui, the need to know which kind of persons we are dealing with when shaping a space to help those living there thrive is paramount. We have to know where the initial interest lies and then how to make supportive to their goals.

Should you be interested in a pyramid feng shui test for axial or blastomorphic, you can use the comment section of this blog to ask for the test.

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May 22, 2010

Intention of Nature for Design

Filed under: Feng Shui — Tags: , , , — Intelligent feng shui @ 11:30 am

If you have ever a pondered tree’s branches, you have been seduced upon a key element of nature. Nature reveals building blocks of relationships that organize a story. For example, branch pattern that you see above the ground is similar to the root system below and its dance of lines, proportions and relationships are the winners in that species’ dance of life for they provide the very best relationships for this form to survive. While that may seem abstract, consider the relationship of line to survival should the branches get thicker than the trunk or the root system not be proportional large enough to carry nutrients and water to the form above.

All things have lines, proportions and relationships that best support not only its survival but the degree it flourishes. The foundation of all built-environments rest upon these relationships, which are not arbitrary, but sustain the aggregation of matter.

While we humans live in constructed environments, we still respond to the laws of nature and should consider what is proportionally viable in sustaining matter. We need to include in our aesthetic choices, those elements that sustain our planet. In other words, the geometry of life should be infused in the geometry of our habitats.

Consider the article in Unte Reader which talks about industry use of nature’s structures in building a better mousetrap. The word, “ Bionature duplication”illustrates my point, that certain forms or relationships of lines have evolved to be the most proficient for the primary organization which sustains their existence.

Further, the physical apparatus that we humans rely upon to exist, needs to be contemplated in any built environment. Our sensorial system works and responds in very particular ways. A simple fact, that the eye when confronted with an edge, be it the horizon or a wall seeks four things before all else. We notice the most distant, the brightest, movement, and the diagonal line before other details. Thus, what we shine a light on, what we place at the furthest point from the entrance, what is light enough to respond to air currents and those items which include not just right angles, but diagonal lines, will be shape the experience of place.

Tomorrow I will address the two ways humans experience place, blaustomorphically or axially.

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