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Just like employing psychics to find and prevent future murders in the recent futuristic movie Minority Report, real feng shui masters can be employed to help prevent disasters for individuals.

Sound too good to be true? Not so for Wu Chen Zi*, 33, a 10-year disciple of the legendary Chuan Zhen sect Chinese feng shui master Xu Ji Zi of Kai Fong city in Henan Province, China.

For Wu, this concept is a real possibility, and is only one of the many ways that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can be applied to benefit modern society. Coming from Beijing to San Francisco in 1999, Wu has had only one mission in mind: to open the way for feng shui research and scientific verification with East Asian scholars and Western scientists at American universities.

Wu Chen Zi.

“Even though most Americans do not believe in feng shui, the U.S. government does,” points out Wu. “The architects of U.S. government buildings [were] careful to respect the laws and principles of feng shui, especially in the design of the White House and the Pentagon, which was designed by an Israeli architect who studied feng shui in China and used its auspicious five-[point] star shape.”

According to Wu, the keys to future scientific breakthroughs have already been found in ancient China, in the I-Ching, “The Book of Changes,” written, collected and interpreted by four of China’s most revered sages — Fu Xi, King Wen Wang, the Duke of Zhou and Confucius. An ancient handbook of divination, the I-Ching is the closest thing we have to a natural time machine. A collection of abstract symbols or ideographs (origins of Chinese characters) recording the natural structures of human development in relation to the universe, the I-Ching originated from observations of nature that were refined through thousands of generations and confirmed in experience by history.

Xu Ji Zi.

However, feng shui is useful only when it is linked to a particular person’s birth date. “Watch to see if [the master] asks for your exact birth date and time before doing feng shui on your house,” advises Wu. “There are many feng shui ‘experts’ today who look at your feng shui without looking at your birth time. That is wrong because the two are intimately connected. If you just look at the feng shui of a place, there is no result and no purpose to do that.”

Moreover, feng shui is not for everyone, as many practitioners would like people to believe. “Usually those with good birth dates don’t need the help of feng shui. They seem to have an internal radar that helps them make the best choice in major life situations,” observes Wu. “Our work is geared toward those who do not have so good a birth date. For some reason, these people tend to make poor choices in housing, business and relationships over the course of their lives. It’s like they are out of alignment with themselves, but can’t figure out why.”

So how does one know if they really need the expertise of a feng shui practitioner? What kind of problem can a feng shui master solve that others can’t? “If you are going to do a correct thing, your thinking is right, your environment is right and you do your best, yet you fail in your goals every time,” says Wu. “If all the energy and effort you put into something does not yield the good results you foresee or expect, then it has something to do with your feng shui being out of alignment.”

Thus feng shui is more than just about predicting a person’s life destiny — it shows a person how to confront or handle a confusing situation by revealing the simpler components of a complicated situation.

Even so, Wu has learned not to answer just anyone’s call for feng shui help. What most people don’t realize is that real feng shui work actually harms the body of the feng shui master. Practicing feng shui is not interior decorating, as many Americans would like to believe. It is a dangerous, self-sacrificing work, more akin to doing battle with invisible natural forces. “Because all energy in the universe has to balance out, if a feng shui master helps you by bringing you good energy into your life, he is changing the natural laws of the universe, so the bad energy has no place to go except to him,” points out Wu. “He has to take the opposite energy, which is always negative. That becomes his responsibility to dispose of.”

That is why a real feng shui master must develop in himself a very high level of energy self-defense, or suffer the negative consequences meant for someone else. In Wu’s case, his teacher taught him the Taoist qi-gong, a Chinese meditation practice that changes the energy of the human body at the cellular level, which he now practices daily for at least three hours.

“In China 5,000 years ago, the best feng shui masters all have no good results in their own personal lives. Their self-defense was not strong enough to divert the negative energy coming at them,” explains Wu. ”False masters don’t change a thing in terms of energy in a place. With real experts, after their work, you feel a change in the energy of your house. Usually, after a feng shui change, you will experience some minor body reactions to the energy changes in your environment, such as mild fever or vomiting.”

Because the practice of feng shui can effect such powerful changes and consequences for human life, Wu’s teacher will not teach feng shui to just anyone. Real feng shui is intimate knowledge passed on directly from teacher to student, not learned through textbooks or on-line courses. If anyone learned these principles, they could use this knowledge to their own ends to help or hurt people.

“That is why there is no such thing as a feng shui book. It is taboo to publish feng shui knowledge. Instead, feng shui writings are kept in Taoist temples and never allowed to leave. Most feng shui books in bookstores contain diluted and distorted rudimentary concepts published to make money.”

It is very difficult to become a feng shui practitioner, confesses Wu. Prospective feng shui students must possess the following basic qualities: a keen, discerning and intuitive mind, a good heart and character, a protective instinct, and they must be kind, giving and tolerant to people. Above all, they must understand the times of this age and the next, and love this world enough to sacrifice, if necessary, his or her entire youth and life to help people. Furthermore, these basic requirements must be developed and trained through at least 10 years of discipleship under a true feng shui master, with 10 hours of study every day, usually six hours of I-Ching study and four hours of Taoist qi-gong practice.

Wu belongs to the oldest feng shui school in China, originated from the Han Dynasty, with a 3,000-year unbroken lineage and only a few students in a generation at a time. His feng shui master, Xu Ji Zi, is the last missionary of the Chuan Zhen religion.

Master Xu Ji Zi’s scientific approach to dispelling myths about feng shui and earning credibility among Chinese scientists working at Henan University has made him a legendary innovator among circles of feng shui masters in China, says Wu.

“We hope to establish [the] first Chuan Zhen Taoist temple here in the United States,” says Wu. “People who are interested in Taoism and have resources to share should contact me. If there is a university or business willing to work with us on research, I totally welcome their input.”

For more information about the Zhou Yi Cultural Base Operations Enterprise or to request a feng shui consultation, please contact Wu Chen Zi at 415-681-6563 or at xujizi@yahoo.com.