A Feng Shui man gazes intently at his compass, or Luopan. An illustration from the Imperial Illustrated Edition of the Historical Classic. We all want to create a new moral authority that will work in this time. We are all searching for authority in history whether we're New Age mystics, fundamentalist Muslims, conservative Christians, baalei teshuvah, Native, Asian or African Americans rediscovering our heritage. Authentic Feng Shui, like other cultural and spiritual systems, has fallen victim to the ravages of spiritually hungry hordes .
Spiritual problems create desperate people.
The New Age movement is infamous for mixing half-baked ideologies and philosophies and marketing overpriced syncretistic products to consumers who can't be sure of the products' authenticity or lasting value. Perhaps they are too starved for spiritual product to employ their powers of discernment. Some lines of research are genuinely uncovering new approaches to the past, and fresh facts and perceptions are emerging. It makes for a babel of competing claims and ideas, and what is essentially a fictional view of ancient wisdom is created. He thinks people are tired of their old religion but not ready to eschew religion entirely.