Life-Force Energy: The Sacred Root of Place, Architecture, and Community
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Oct 31, 2016
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life-force energy Feng-Shui Vaastu sacred
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Virtually every historical culture using designs rooted in life-force energy has created architecture, everyday places, and communities with spiritual power far exceeding what is achieved today even in “spiritual” buildings. By generating an understanding of this energy, and the examples of its use from cultures in Cambodia, Japan, India, Thailand, China, Hawaii, Nigeria, Egypt, Peru, Mexico, and Native America, new possibilities are dramatically opening for places and lives today.
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Bender, T. (2016). Life-Force Energy: The Sacred Root of Place, Architecture, and Community. Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning, 12, 131–148. Retrieved from https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nakhara/article/view/103522
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