Black Sect, Pyramid Feng Shui, Fuzion, Intuitive Feng Shui ®, etc -- move beyond this ancient history. These offshoots typically use methods with concepts from the 19th century Spiritualist movement, and self-help techniques and affirmations, along with modern interior design and studies of environmental psychology. For example, the Black Sect version of feng shui, which began in 1960s Hong Kong (and incorporated as a U.S. church in 1986), explains feng shui as the art of arranging objects within a home to obtain an optimum flow of qi. In traditional feng shui, the objects within a structure are of lesser significance than the position of a building and its local environment -- especially microclimates. Some skeptics believe that individuals using modern methods seek to profit from naïve consumers in much the same way that alternative or complementary medicine has been thought by some to be largely superstition. According to recent fieldwork in rural China by Ole Bruun, qi flow is rarely a concern in traditional feng shui yet is the fundamental basis of the study of personal health in Chinese medicine. Intuitive Feng Shui ® is described as "the art of harmonizing the way people relate to their environments" and examines "the architecture of consciousness" in making changes in ones core beliefs and concepts while simultaneously altering the external surroundings.   During the early 1800s, feng shui was introduced to the U.S. with the first Chinese immigrants. The notorious Four Corners section of New York, which was then a Chinese ghetto, featured gambling houses and other structures that incorporated feng shui, as did the Chinatowns in San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 19th-century Australia, the Joss House was built using feng shui. It has also been practiced by western "hongs" or trading companies to satisfy local business communities and to encourage luck in business.
Since the mid-20th century, feng shui has been illegal in the PRC, primarily because Mao Zedong (who had studied feng shui) denounced many practitioners' propensity for fraud. Other reasons have been suggested, which is why a department of the Chinese government was assigned to oversee its use. Ole Bruun's fieldwork has shown that during the Cultural Revolution, most feng shui practitioners had their books burnt, were persecuted and jailed, and underwent extreme privations for their knowledge of ancient Chinese culture. Very few were willing -- or had the means -- to leave the country.
Feng shui is still used in rural China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It is not well-known among younger Chinese in the PRC. However, the rapid modernization of China has led to feng shui becoming a worthy subject for scholarly inquiry at Chinese universities. As Chinese scholars increasingly work with their counterparts in the rest of the world, a new picture is emerging of the history and application of this ancient ceremonial custom.  (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/Feng_Shui)