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Summary: Encyclopedia of FengShui by Lillian Too
Review: Feng shui has become a very popular subject and only because Mrs Lillian Too has done so well to popularize and articulate a much forgotten science and philosophy. I've read many of her books and this encyclopedia covers her methods of feng shui quite extensively. I recommend this book as a starting point to beginners, and a reference book to advance feng shui book beaters. Mrs Too also likes to throw in a dash of Tibetan arts and philosophy, so watch out for these lasting touches!
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Summary: Encyclopedia of FengShui by Lillian Too
Review: I read a few other books before I found Lillian's Too's book. This encyclopedia has helped me put everything together. I got so confused to have read different FS, there's the Indian FS, the Western FS, the Japanese FS, I also was surfing the net and just read whatever was there. Thanks to Lillian, it all then finally made sense why other FS contradicted each other. It's also good to know that you can also use FS principles/cures from other FS as above in different rooms in your house. This is an excellent excellent book, anyone starting in FS should not be without.
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Summary: A superb book for reference - it has everything!
Review: I was given this book by my daughter after I became interested in feng shui and could not put it down. It is far more comprehensive than many other feng shui books I have read and has everything in it - I find it extremely useful as a reference manual - it has all the tables would want to look up, plus stunning pictures and diagrams. A real treasure for any feng shui enthusiast.
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Summary: The Most Comprehensive Book I have ever come across
Review: I would like to thank Lillian Too for the most fabulous book on Feng Shui that I have ever come across. The author has taken great pain in explaining the details, with illustrations and pictures, on all pages. Each and every page of this book is worth its weight in gold!Keep up the good work!!
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Summary: Good pictures and text
Review: My wife gave this to me to read and I have to comment that this book is so practical compared to all the other feng shui books I've seen in the market. This author sounds educated because she has put them in proper categories. I am pleased to say that I have finally found a reference book that covers all the practical viewpoints an encyclopedia should have.
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Summary: The bottom line of Feng Shui
Review: The bottom line of Feng Shui
Time ago I decided to select and buy the 5 best Feng Shui books I was able to find, after several months of research (I had already bought another 5).
Maybe the best books on the subject are those in the realm of the so-called "traditional Feng Shui" (that is: F.S. using a compass, your birth date, the date of construction of your home, and some complex formulas to arrive to conclusions about the effects of your home over specific areas of your life). On the other side, "Western Feng Shui", in general, ignores the compass and takes the entry door of the home as the base for any further analysis, and uses mirrors, wind chimes and other cures to fix any existing problem. (Of course these are crude descriptions, F.S. goes far beyond this!!) In this book, Lilian Too includes all her knlowledge on Feng Shui, based in what her experience has shown to be effective. I must stress this: based ONLY in what her long experience in F.S. has proved to be EFFECTIVE. And the result is a mixture of formulas and procedures from Traditional Feng Shui (mostly) and some "cures" and "boosters" that you will find also in "Western" F.S.". Well, the point is that at the end, I found myself using this book more and more than any other I have. The reason? It simply works, and works in the deep and in the simple. So I left the deep T.F.S. literature for later, Western F.S. was absorbed in a couple of evenings, and in the meantime I'm using, applying and enjoying what this book shows, more than any other I've found. Now I have some mixed comments:
-Lilian has written specific F.S. books (F.S. for love. F.S. for success, F.S. for the home, for the garden, etc. etc.) in those books she makes a complete analysis of every subject, but you can find the bottom line in this book. You might not need anything else (at least for a while). People buying these specific books may sense that they include almost the same information... -The book has many illustrations and tables that make reading easy.
-I was not only amazed, but SCARED when I applied the "flying star formula" to several homes of people I know, it described circumnstances you thought were simply natural, but at the end seemed to be an effect of the kind of plan and location of things there.
-In some instances, it explains very easily with pictures, principles from traditional F.S. that I found hard to retain in memory when reading other books
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Summary: a great living room book
Review: Within design, the one pragmmatic and problematic extents is the ability to integrate mind/body to the environment. Feng shui offers a solution or should I say an answer in allowing design and the mind to come as a unified form.. the placement of elements and the position in relation to ones elemental disposition enhances and focuses energy or chi. The Illustratated Encyclopedia offers an amazing vocabulary and resource to feng shui allowing an ease and vast knowledge in understanding the fundamentals as well as the essential understanding of placement, elements with directions. Take this knowledge and apply it to your site, consider site constraints.. apply the pa kua and the elements that enhance the directions with the ingenious use of materials to enhance water, wood, etc. The encyclopedia has given me the essential and important infomation and knowledge I needed to integrate to design and to create an aesthetics that not only creates flow of people, and energy but a symbiosis between landscape / building and humans.. a great book which in my mind takes a step further and pushes the edge on the practice of feng shui...
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