Is feng shui racket science? As a recent transgender feng shui expert poseur has shown on national TV news, it is according to three factors obtaining in the so-called "prosperity" market: 1) Greed of both the client and the poseur, 2) Stupidity of client, and 3) Criminal tendencies of the poseur.
Actual field reports by victims swindled are eight common feng shui rackets:
1. The Feng Shui Lucky Charm Store owner posing as an expert in order to sell, trade up and fool the innocent but gullible ones! The usual spiel is that they learned from this or that master and even show off a certificate (a fake one, of course) !
2. The Gifted branding. Claim of having been spiritually gifted with feng shui talents like a psychic is pure baloney and deception since ancient times. It only fits in Chinese comedy movies.
3. The Successor Claim. Even if the father or mom was a feng shui expert, it does not follow the son or daughter is, too. More often, the next generation is just compelled to carry on the business such as a temple or a lucky charm store in order to survive.
4. The Plagiarist or Pirate. It is a wannabe who simply tries to copy what he or she reads from the Internet, books or magazines without even knowing or understanding the real craft.
5. The Great Pretender. This is usually a gay person who claims to be an expert, but secretly asks a feng shui expert contact in the process who unknowingly and kindly gives advice. The result: an unsuspecting client is victimized.
6. The Psychic Quack type claiming to mix ghost busting or mediumship techniques with feng shui copied jargon in order to fool clients.
7. The Real Swindler Thief whose purpose is really to steal from clients with cash, jewelry or other chattel.
8. Commercial so-called experts that put out print ads, billboards, flyers, or even instagram or social media announcements as well as text blasts, with front stores in malls, or in the Web.
The uncommon yet the most damaging of all: the maniac feng shui poseur, out to molest beautiful women especially the single mothers, widows and unsuspecting teens or even showbiz personalities.
Using Chinese medicine as a front seduction, client is induced to go to hotel room or take herbal sedative or barbiturates for a rape date consultation! And repeatedly at that. This is known to be done by a pretender who flies to Manila every weekend to serially victimize innocent employees or wives or the daughters of clients from the Queen City in the South.
There you are, as the saying goes: No one is fooled if no one allows it. Walang manloloko kung walang paloloko!
So even if it is Tarot laced or not, beware. Feng shui is not racket science - but truly rocket science to the initiated esoterically. Do not be like that film matriarch fletched of around P10 million, or that advertising executive who lost her retirement entirely due to greed to be the president of their firm using feng shui, or the horde of media wannabes trying to lift their careers with a fake feng shui expert who harps on-air that they should get to the eyes and ears of their bosses, or a trying hard actress trying in vain not to be a has-been by using feng shui gimmickry on air!
Only when a client is ready will a true feng shui master appear to teach the prosperous loving ways of this world!
If you want to be guided accordingly, just like Feng Shui University of the Philippines on Facebook for free! Afterall, feng shui is rocket science when it comes to real space management!