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Editor's Desk -- Vastu is the Energy Energy, after all, was not discovered or invented. It has powered the Sun for billions of years, made organisms grow for millions and driven industrial machines for hundreds. In general, the concept energy refers to "the potential for causing a change". May issue of Vastu times is on Energy, Vastu & Architectural Energy - how environmental energies affect the human body. When we talk about Energy, I would like to involve a very strong subject which Vastu Shastra has profess few 100 years back, what is now called environmental psychology, which is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between humans and their surroundings. Vastu Architect Mayank. Architecture Energy John Maitland Current architecture is losing its understanding of and connection with one of life's most powerful yet subtle elements...ENERGY. My belief is that, Architects who approach their work with an awareness of these energies will produce buildings, which sustain physical heatlh, support emotional well-being, uplift the spirit and enhance the environment. Architecture = Energy Architecture is a process of reading all the relevant energies, and bringing them together in a balanced, harmonious and beautiful expression, in a tangible recognizable physical form. In the designer's process of spatial definition and arrangement they simply manipulate a myriad of elements, all of which are expressions of their individual energy systems. Building material = Energy Selection of materials involves the designer in searches through masses of information, including descriptions of the energy performance, energy of production, visual energy, and inherent energy of the materials. These terms describe, in order of appearance, the way in which the material behaves in its use to form environments of comfort; the energy expended in the human involvment in the production; the visual impact on the users; and the capacity of a material to store, or contain energy. Psychic = Energy Thought waves are energy. They are emitted from us as we think; they have specific qualities, and imbue our environments with their qualities. I suggest that some 'psychic' phenomena can be traced back to the energies emitted from stonewalls, these energies having been previously absorbed. I suspect that it is the stronger energies, which are better stored, are stored for longer periods, and are better able to be emitted. Earth = Energy The earth supports a range of energies too. These energies have been 'seen' by humans, and in older cults the energies have been used. Spiritual ritual has been heightened by the 'addition' of the energies of the earth, by using stones placed in strategic energy locations in such a way that they amplify and radiate the energies at the location in which they have been placed. These previous communities used the energies of the earth to endow their temples with 'spirituality', and to imbue their dwellings and public places with comfort and well being. They 'knew' these energies and were clear as to their value or detriment to the environments they were creating. Life = Energy Qi energy, named as such by the Chinese, is the 'life flow'. This is the overriding life force and is 'seeable'. It is with this energy that the science/art of Feng Shui from China works. The specialists know this energy, although they may not operate with it in a lineal manner, and are able to read the environment they study and therefore prescribe design criteria to suit. It is interesting to look at the basis of Sthapatya-ved- Vastu Shastra. This Hindu science of establishment does not work from the analysis to solution; it instead works from the basis of all existence. Through meditation, a connection with the source of existence presents the basic pattern of 'life' upon which the layout of towns, regions and buildings is formed. Human = Energy Human energy is powerful. It seems to be able to over-ride the energies we encounter. I don't say we do this all the time, however it seems that people are able to influence their environment. It seems that each individual is an energy entity, that the physical state is second to the energy state, and that the physical is simply a tangible projection of the energy state. The sick body is a picture with a texture, of a sick energy system.
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