‘Curing’ with Doctor’s Feng Shui

Feng shui "experts" have been so coming out of the woodwork it's unbelievable! How many of them can be believed if they don't know how to read the ephemeris (in Mandarin) that tracks the movements of planets?

One practitioner who tugs a long string of heavyweight clients - bankers, developers, architects and designers - has been in the business 20 years but keeps a low profile in spite of his fame within that limited but influential circle, such as the owners of the Rockwell projects. He also happens to be an MD, and he sees ghosts, labeling himself a G.R.O. (ghost relations officer). Some of those ghosts he claims to have seen coming out of a large mirror in Malacaang - they were Katipuneros who didn't think the revolution had come to an end.

"Where do you send the spirits that you encounter?" we asked him over lunch at Toni Lo's LRI Plaza. It was the first time Dr. Andy Tan, 50, of Chinatown Manila, wearing a wispy goatee and a rat tail, sat down with journalists, and did he have tales to tell!

"You cannot send them away," he said, "you can only counsel them, like informing them the revolution has long been over."

Dr. Tan met the press to give a preview of the feng shui talk that LRI (on Nicanor Garcia st. in Makati) has set up for Feb. 7. "Just the basics," he said, which ought to interest those who have heard so much about feng shui even if what they've heard is wrong, deceitful and outrightly fraudulent. Feng shui is not about little mirrors to drive away bad spirits, it's not fortune-telling and placing lions and unicorns to "guard the main door," and it's not for snake-oil salesmen to pull the wool over their unsuspecting customers' eyes.

Feng shui may be a science but it works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, a project with everything going for it - first-class talents, materials, marketing - will refuse to take off until wind-water "cures" are applied and then voila, there it goes, it flies! But who can explain it?

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‘Curing’ with Doctor’s Feng Shui