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Title: Creating Sacred Space With Feng Shui by Karen Kingston ISBN: 0-553-06916-0 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 06 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (26 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too many "shoulds"!
Comment: I bought this book because I loved (and highly recommend) the author's other book "Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui." However, I was really disappointed when I read this book. Ms. Kingston does describe space clearing rituals used in other times and places, but her own space clearing ritual is extremely detailed and requires the use of specialized equipment which you can only buy from her. I think INTENTION is much more important in rituals than, for example, what kind of bell or incense you use.
The other feng shui books I have read can be extremely limiting because they have so many rigid rules for what one can and cannot do. It's quite difficult to live with ALL those rules, and it's confusing because various authors contradict each other. I liked "Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui" because it didn't make me feel constrained to do things "the right way" - but I found this book to be a let down, and I wish I had not bought it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent, but problematic
Comment: Ms. Kingston focuses almost entirely on a particular aspect of Feng Shui that seems to get left out of every other book I have read. She clearly explains everything she knows about this and her own personal experiences upon which it is all based. But, as useful as that is, it is also the beginning of the problem. She found her path, it seems, by herself. Her practice is based on what she learned for herself, by starting with learning to sense vibrational energies. The things she has accomplished with it on that basis are extraordinary; but she lacks a real grounding in tradition. Her practice is derived, in part, from traditional Balinese practices. It is not really Feng Shui, but instead has a dollop of the commonest bit tossed in at the end. She ultimately makes it clear that she does not understand what Feng Shui really is. But it isn't really her bailywick in the long run: What she does is absolutely excellent, but it must be recognized exactly where her strength lies. This is a book, based in Balinese tradition and the author's personal experience, about clearing the energy of a place. As that it is astonishingly excellent, beyond anyone's wildest hopes. But it is not about Feng Shui, which is a related but distinct tradition-- perhaps the one among all the related methods in the world which is most elevated to the level of a science.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Motivating Enough
Comment: I borrowed this book from the local library, and eventhough I had it for over a month and a half, I couldn't get myself to sit down and go through it as it wasn't motivating enough. I skipped through it, read a chapter or two, trying to get myself interested enough in reading it as I am a feng shui fan and strong believer, but still- couldn't care less about it.
The way the writer introduces the information in this book is just too shallow. At points it is very complicated and tooo detailed, but at others you feel like you are reading a children's book on feng shui.
You may like thos book if it actually motivates you enough to sit down and read it, but it didn't do anything for me.
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Title: Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston ISBN: 0767903595 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life : How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect and Happiness by Karen Rauch Carter ISBN: 0684866048 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 06 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sacred Space by Denise Linn ISBN: 034539769X Publisher: Wellspring/Ballantine Pub. Date: 26 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Feng Shui for Dummies by David Daniel Kennedy, Lin Yun ISBN: 0764552953 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 08 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: 101 Feng Shui Tips for Your Home by Richard Webster ISBN: 1567188095 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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