It's just that demon life has got me in 'Feng Shui'
Posted on 01/01/2007 6:08:37 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The administrative office in Fulmore Middle School is probably the last place anybody would expect to see a tiny crystal hanging from the ceiling. But the spinning object isn't just for show at the Central Austin school: It's good feng shui. Stacy Davenport, a feng shui consultant, has spent the past two months bringing the basics of the ancient Chinese philosophy to the campus grounds, offices and classrooms. Feng shui emphasizes using space and colors as a way to achieve harmony with the environment.
The crystal on the office ceiling is meant to deflect energy. The back wall is painted red to activate vision. Wind chimes both inside and outside the office "help to bring song into the space," she said. Davenport was asked to donate her services by a friend, Ellen Miller, who volunteered at the school through the Austin Rotary Club. Another feng shui devotee, Miller said she encountered a lot of negative energy at the school last year. "The energy was so bad and down," she said. "Now, it's heading uphill." Students and teachers painted two main areas of the administrative offices and cleaned the entire school: hallways, cafeteria, bathroom and 75 classrooms.
"Schools have so much more different kinds of energy," Davenport said while strolling the grounds one recent afternoon. "Plus, (kids) are so sensitive. If you shift the energy, they'll feel it." Yolanda Melendez, a sixth-grade teacher, incorporated information about feng shui into a lesson about Asia. She also reorganized her classroom, moving her desk to the "power" area in the back, decorating her room with purple and green accents and putting pictures in a corner, meant to emphasize a connection to others. She said the change has been good. "I totally believe in feng shui," Melendez said. "I believe it's made a difference to the attitude of students and the overall atmosphere of the school."
Counselor Jeffrey Healey agrees. "When people put forth the effort and energy, you see a change in the staff," he said. Davenport said she sees a larger benefit to the seemingly small changes: "You're touching over 1,100 people immediately here, and then there's the rippling effect into the community." Davenport hopes to work with six schools annually. In addition to Fulmore, she has donated time to St. Stephen's Episcopal School. She plans to start at American YouthWorks and the University of Texas Elementary School in the spring.
I thought I was supposed get an egg-roll with Feng Shui.
"Did you check out her web site?
"Hand Analysis Consultations"
What rubbish. How about she can analyze my foot up her ass!"
I'm not mad at her, she's a modern day grifter, nothing more, and simply sells her snake oil to WILLING customers. She's the modern day gypsy woman, the wierd woman in every village who cast runes and bones and made love potions.
I'm mad at the idiots at the school who allowed her access to the facilities and school. What next, fortune tellers in study hall?
Remember the scene in Harper where Strother Martin is the cult leader dressed in robes in this mock open air cathedral complete with a firepit high on the hill overlooking Malibu and he begins to chant in his patented, plaintive way, "Where's the harm? Where's the Harm?"
LOL
FENG SHUI - the idolatry of furniture arrangement...
What's all this here "Chung Phooey" business about, anyway?
I don't believe in feng shui, but if I wanted a nice Chinese style garden or house, I would hire a Chinese landscaper or architect. Not a freakin. American fakir!
It is part of the Left's "liberation theology," their esoteric hobgoblins... with teachers/professors as witch doctors proclaiming taboos, students dancing around totems and making sacrifices...
I would prefer a Japanese archiect myself...
My wife is from Shanghai. I would have no choice in the matter!:)
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The way I see it, feng shui is a lot like astrology or the Democrats. It's fun to explore some of its ideas -- mostly because they're so silly -- but you run into danger if you start to take it seriously.
ROFLMAO
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