Am I a Bill Gates? Well, no, but fortunately it's a labor of love for Robin and Michael Mastro at vastucreations.com and is affordable.

They have "The Way of Vastu: Creating Prosperity" on amazon and are working on "Making Room For Mr. Right."

I've only carried out a few of their suggestions, but I am already very grateful for their work and am deeply grateful to Swami Kaleshwar's "Victory through Vaastu" from kaleshwar.org for introducing me to this important field.

Yoda

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Yoda, all that orgone not powerful enough for ya?

Karen,

I just can't get enough! One thing about these Vastu folks... they don't know about orgonite. Btw, if orgonite were an element which one would it be. I'd say metal, but Vastu/Indian system doesn't do metal though.

Yoda

Yoda, I just want to say that I really love the way you're continually trying stuff out and always so enthusiastic.

I always get a happy vibe from you and it's much appreciated. I don't think I've ever read a negative or critical post from you.

Don't know why this burst out of me at this particular moment, but who cares.

Blessings to you.
I

Thanks Ian!! Posting etiquette is definitely a practice of mine... yoga for the Internet!

It got a lot easier after I put everyone on 'ignore'.

Your pal,
Yoda

I prefer to just call Yoda "The Great One" myself.

He is like the Pele of Taoist discussion boards.

What exactly is orgonite, and has it worked for you? It sounds a bit pseudo-scientific, so I'm curious to hear any firsthand reports on its actual effectivity?

Vortex,

Just search it at the taobums index. It's good stuff. I just wonder "where" in terms of Vastu it would be good to place it.

Yoda

I'm not sure it can be or needs to be fit into another system.

And Dennis has lots of new toys on the Orgone Crystals site

thanks for pointing out his updated site! I like his writeup on black tourmaline. I was inspired to buy some, but I've not played with it. I'm a believer in black rocks and I've heard that black tourmaline is the best.

two overlapping articles on Vaastu:

http://www.bleepingherald.com/node/115/print

http://www.theglobalintelligencer.com/node/131/print

I think the essence of Vastu is sleeping with the head pointed in any direction other than north.

Check it out... another sleep to the south convert:



From another thread, but relevant here:

Science, astrology, vaastu/fengsui, and karma are simply different articulations of the same thing.

For anyone who doesn't have time or the patience with the campiness of the Thunderbolt film, here is the essence:

Science has always articulated the sun, the planets, stars, the galaxy, the moon, etc in terms of gravity. Several problems with that: gravity is an extremely weak force and a force that we can't relate to very well and it leaves the distinct impression that the relation between the sun, planets, the moons, stars, etc is that everything simply holds each other in a certain position like a string would giving the impression that planets and moons are about as interactive as several marbles just sitting on the living room floor are with each other.

Makes it hard to see the connection between planets, the moon, karma and vaastu and our spiritual evolution. There's a real disjunct between our intellectual understanding of science from our immediate experiences and intuitions that it's very hard for these two perspectives to help each other see more clearly.

The best scene of the film was when a small probe was shot at a comet by a spaceship. Scientists were concerned that this small speeding chunk of metal wouldn't make enough of a dent to really notice anything… they were hoping to kick up some dust. What happened was totally unexpected… the impact resulted in a large explosion that knocked out the monitoring spaceship's sensors. What happened there? We thought that comets were dead snowballs and not powderkegs of energy.

According to the film, we need to get past this idea of these planets and meteors etc being like baseballs floating in nothingness. The film follows the field of plasma physics to unpack their perspective that the sun, planets, moon, stars, galaxies are all **highly** interactive electrically and if you shoot a bullet at an object moving towards or away from the sun you had better be standing back as was the case with the comet exploding. This interaction extends throughout the universe: plasma physicists believe that electrical interactions are responsible for the swirling patterns found in galaxies, not so much due to gravity. Large planets like Jupiter transmit radio waves that we have detected that reach us all the time. According to this theory, we are constantly interacting with radio/electrical signals from the sun, moon, *all* the planets, meteors, comets, stars and even other galaxies transmit to us to some extent.

Not in the film, but there has been a lot said about humans being very electrical creatures from muscle contraction and nerve impulses, to more subtle perspectives of prana flow, the distinct electrical charge of each organ, the distinct charge of each cell, to the level of auras and the spirit itself is sometimes articulated as at the most subtle dimension of this spectrum.

The different positions of the sun, moon, and planets would all carry a different charge here on planet earth and may have subtle interactions with each organ of the body as per Chinese medicine. It becomes easier to ponder that each soul or a soul's karma may have a more comfortable moment of entry into the world due to the fields and currents created by the relative positions of the heavenly bodies.

How an antenna may pick up on a signal and filter and amplify certain aspects of that signal may be a useful analogy of how vaastu/fengsui operate within this setting helping or hindering our interactions with these many signals to determine whether we experience music or static.

While the exact interactions and mechanisms will likely remain very mysterious, this new scientific perspective at least offers an intellectual perspective more consistent with human intuition and subtle perception on these matters.