Towards a geomantic compass for strategic feng shui ?

Strategic Challenge of Polysensorial Knowledge: bringing the "elephant" into "focus" (Part #6)

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Susantha Goonatilake (Toward a Global Science: mining civilizational knowledge, 1999) has argued the case for the exploration of the metaphor of non-western civilizations, as discussed elsewhere (Enhancing the Quality of Knowing through Integration of East-West metaphors, 2000). In the spirit of those arguments, the above table might be reformatted as follows.

Polysensorial metaphoric dimensions of a strategic geomantic compass (indicative)

As a purely indicative diagram, it is of course far simpler than the cognitive complexity integrated into the geomantic compass (feng shui compass) or luopan traditionally used in the feng shui practices of Chinese culture.

Of relevance in any strategic context is that, like a conventional compass, a luopan is a direction finder. The challenge in strategic development is arguably precisely that, namely to determine a direction for socio-economic development. In traditional use, the practice of feng shui is notably employed in choosing a place to live and arranging that location appropriately. Arguably again, the challenge of current understandings of strategy is that of enabling the decision processes with regard to the making of such a choice -- for humanity as a whole.