Ancient Nordic Feng Shui

Ancient Nordic Feng Shui - Did our fore fathers use the same intuitive method to position houses, runestones and graves as the Egyptians and the Chinese?

If you live in a big city in North America like Vancouver or San Francisco where East meets West, you quickly become aware of feng shui. In Hong Kong hardly a real estate deal is closed before a feng shui expert (at up to $25 per square meter) has been consulted.

What comes as a surprise (to me at least) is that our Nordic forefathers may have gone through the same process before they placed a runestone, established a place of worship or constructed a living space.

Archeological findings have determined that the locations chosen by our forefathers had a remarkably similar orientation.

Feng Shui means wind and water and it is the ancient Chinese art of creating harmony in the environment for good health, prosperity, good luck and a long life.

There are two main schools of thought in feng shui and these are often combined with other beliefs. The 1 Ching "Book of Changes" principles go back many thousands of years and its disciples use a luo pan "cosmic compass" for their calculations based on the" magnetic" orientation of a site. Followers of a younger school base their calculations on astrology and the relative shape of land and water. To complicate matters, every individual feng shui consultant uses elements from both schools as well as the philosophy of yin and yang, numerology, astronomy, geology, metallurgy, architecture and interior design. The "geomancy" building advice is sometimes plain common sense like "ideally you should face south and have a mountain behind and water in front, with two hills left and right". But it also gets complicated as when a a Hong Kong resident was advised to put six coins on top of each air conditioner, five-tiered golden chimes at all the windows facing north, a brown rug outside the door, six bells on the front door, and eight plants on the balcony to eliminate "bad feng shui". The result? "His business has boomed, his home life blossomed".

Many feng shui "experts" are of course charlatans cashing in on superstition but can one totally disregard the many feng shui masters who have inherited their knowledge from father to son for generations?

Dowsers who find water and metals with the help of a wooden twig or other devices are gaining ever more respect from people who regularly use them. There is now Lund University scientific proof that water diviners generally score better than geophysical methods like VLF (Very Low Frequency), Slingram and Georadar. Many North American mining companies first let
dowsers pinpoint promising areas before they set their geologists to work. Dowsers are consulted on a surprisingly large scale in Sweden before a well is dug.

Dowsers can find water, metals and buried electrical cables, but also invisible Curry and Hartmann "power lines". Named after the German doctors who first described them, the Hartmann lines go north-south and west-east forming a sort of map projection grid around the globe, with squares of about 1.5 meters. Similarly the Curry lines go northwest-southeast and northeastsouthwest forming a similar grid with sides of about four meters in Sweden, five meters in Egypt and six meters on the equator.

I had never heard of any of this until a relative of mine Thord Neumüller gave me a book he had written about the phenomenon. (Jordstrålning, vår hälsa och vår kultur, SEK 200 including postage and taxes directly from the author at Vevelsta Gård, S-640 33 Bettna, Sweden). He first read about the lines in connection with a nearby Viking grave and decided to explore the phenomenon himself. He made an Lshaped rod (see below) from copper thread and with that and a, compass found that he could accurately identify Curry-lines like so surprisingly many other people before him.

"It's like music, not everybody can sing". Thord's interest now awakened and he started touring local historic sites and found that all of them were placed according to Curry lines. The so-called Viking ship graves all have a crossing Curryline at the stem and bow. The somewhat similar judging circles ("domareringar" or "allting") have a diameter of 16 meter with crossing Curry as well as Hartmann lines in the center.

Even the local Husby-Oppunda church with parts dating back to the 14th century had a Curry and Hartmann cross right through the altar.

Thord Neumüller found that the large and ancient batau stones believed to be pre-historic "calendars" were also placed on crossing Currylines perhaps on top of heathen places of worship. Ancient borderstones between properties were also placed on crossing Curry lines.
Studying old buildings or their ruins, Thord found that they too were placed in such a way that the Curry lines went through the walls of the generally four by four meter large rooms so that the living space was free from lines. This was particularly apparent in the soldattorp - soldiers houses - that you see all over Sweden where the measurements were defined by law but their orientation for some strange reason was always such that the Curry lines were inside the walls.
After the "time of enlightenment" in the late 17th Century when one said goodbye to superstition there are few examples of new construction in Europe that is aligned with the Curry-lines.
Thord Neumüller continued with his research on a more personal level and found to his honor that his wife who had died of cancer had always had her bed where two Curry lines crossed. He followed up other cases and found disturbing evidence of occurrences of cancer, illnesses, migraine as well as bad dreams when people had been sleeping right on the lines.
Käte Buchler, an Austrian teacher, has researched more than three thousand homes in fifteen countries and documented a surprising co-relation between illness and Curry lines. Thord Neumüller himself has seen remarkable improvements when people sleeping on Curry lines have moved their beds. When he checked out four people all over a hundred years old, he found their beds to be away from any Curry lines. He himself has now moved his bed to the center of the room.

Doctors, who of course will not acknowledge the phenomenon, have all the same stories about how they avoid certain hospital beds that somehow have slowed down a patient's recovery.
As a farmer and an avid hunter Thord also studied how animals reacted to the Curry lines. Cows placed in certain spots in the barn were more often sick and produced less milk. These spots and in particular one where a cow had died by suffocation trying to get away from it, were found to be Curry crossings.

But not all living creatures are uncomfortable on the Curry lines. Beehives placed on Curry crossings produce more honey than those that are not. Ants place their stacks on Curry crossings and their "roads" are always on Curry or Hartmann lines. Thord found that termites showed the same pattern in Zimbabwe. When there is snow one can see that animals generally follow Curry lines. Hares sleep on Curry crosses while elk and deer avoid them. Cats prefer them too while dogs keep away from them. If you have a dog that refuses to sleep in his basket until you have changed its position, you know what I mean.

Fruit growers sometimes identify spots where trees always die or produce less. In Sweden you often have tree-lined avenues where sometimes inexplicably some trees in the line become sick or are smaller than the others. Studying these, Thord found that the location of these trees often coincided with Curry and Hartmann lines or the two other earth radiance phenomenon that have also been associated with health risks: underground water lines and the meeting of subterranean fault lines.

Henry Dorst in Vancouver who works with what he calls Geopathic Radiation cautions against believing too much in the Curry and Hartmann lines.

"They are there for sure," he says "but there are also so many other influences". He claims that just building a stone foundation in a building can divert the Curry lines to take a route through the walls.

Today people have become much more aware of health risks associated with e.g power lines and magnetic fields. Canadian regulations allow up to 1000 milligrams of public exposure to magnetic fields while Sweden is considering a 2 mg limit citing them as possible cause of leukemia. No health official would consider implementing building standards based on Curry and Hartmann lines, but Seattle mapped most of these phenomenons in a "lay-line map" that may be a first step in this direction.

Thord Neumüller's curiosity over the phenomenon has also taken him to Egypt. He found that both Tutankhamun and Totme Il's resting places are on combined Curry and Hartmann crosses. So are the pyramids that must have been constructed using the Curry and Hartmann lines to achieve their amazing precision and perfect north-south orientation at a time when there were no compasses.

When Thord took his research to China he found that not only old construction like the Ming dynasty graves in Peking and Nanking but also modern hotels and houses were all placed according to Curry lines and crosses. So while Europe abandoned its ancient ways of placing buildings, graves and places of worship, the old principles remain intact in the feng shui system.
It is fascinating to think that our forefathers may also once have been specialists in aspects of what we today call feng shui.

DO IT YOURSELF DOWSING: 1. First you make simple L-shaped rods with 10 cm and 30 cm sides out of 3 mm iron or copper rod. 2. Then you work out the Southwest – North East or North West South East direction with the help of a compass. 3. Hold the rods loosely pointing
forward. 4. If you have the gift the rods will swing out on the Curry line and 5. back when you have passed it.