The Space Clearer - by George Vaughan

Have you ever walked into a room and had the hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention? Have you ever felt that something's wrong leaving you unable to concentrate on what you are doing? Maybe - just maybe - you need the services of ''The Space Clearer''.

Susie Shaw is a rather unique individual who has a completely different outlook on life from most of us other mortals. But 15 years ago, the world was a very different place for her. Back then, she was a city worker in a high pressure job earning a six figure salary and living life to the full.

''At the time l was working in a high tower block that had windows you couldn't open and a cluttered layout which 'spoke' of chaos and confusion whenever you set foot in it. One afternoon I happened upon a seminar in the local paper and decided to go and take a look. Little did l know that the experience would alter my whole perception of life.

"I had two young children and was returning to an environment that I couldn't really settle back into. My circumstances had changed, but since the birth of my daughters something else had changed within me too. Suddenly I was ready to strip away the material world I had allowed to grow around me and reach out for something more spiritual and rewarding.

''And with that realisation life changed forever for me" she admitted.

Susie Shaw - A rather unique individual

Susie has spent the last 10 years of her life helping people come to terms with this kind of problem and, thankfully also assisting them in finding a solution. During that time she has featured in various newspaper and magazine articles as well as being interviewed on BBC Radio. She has been given a variety of titles from ''Space Clearer'' to ''Spirit Doctor" to ''Psychic Cleaner'' but when I caught up with Susie at her London home, she told me that she always introduced herself as a geomancer. Seeing my blank expression, she explained exactly what a geomancer does. Some people believe that the energies within a house can determine a lot about how it's inhabitants actually live their lives. Whatever happens in a home is absorbed by the walls, the floors, the ceiling, furniture, objects, plants, animals and people in that space, so it sticks around. If previous occupants had financial problems, divorce, illness or other traumas, or the company or business suffered, these negative energies remain in the space or object and affect future occupants and businesses.

"Repetitive patterns, moods and atmospheres get deeply imprinted and can cause future occupants to experience the same problems." Feng shui experts might put it down to where you position your furniture or how much lighting illuminates a particular area; psychics might suggest it's more about the people within a place who lend it an atmosphere; and estate agents would probably just tell you it's nothing that a skylight can't fix: but, explained Susie, a space clearer will take a very different approach.

''When this happens I am usually called into remove the ''stuck'' energy and transfer it away from the area where it is causing problems. "So, she added, '' . . . as a geomancer, it is my job to move energy via the use of crystals, pendulums or any other means at my disposal in an effort to ease the living environment''.

Lines of magnetism run invisibly through the landscape

Now by any stretch of the imagination, this might seem a difficult concept to grasp; and there has to be a line of sceptics longer than your arm waiting to disprove such notions and Susie is the first to accept this. In fact, as a quiet and initially reserved individual Susie isn't someone who wanted to force her theories and beliefs down anyone's throat but neither did she want the basic principles of her practice to be misinterpreted. I went on to ask Susie about the kind of people that come to her for help and she admitted that they hail from all walks of life. ''Problems with living space are not confined to particular social classes or business groups.

In my experience these problems affect everyone. l've had fighting couples, disenchanted teenagers and even traumatised pensioners approach me about issues they feel are connected to their living environment.

I pressed Susie on how she went about her work; and although she didn't want to reveal too much about her specific procedures she told me that it was not always necessary to be on site to resolve a problem.

'' My work is probably split evenly between site visits and remote clearing. If people from overseas, or at more remote areas of the country, contact me with issues relating to their living environment I can do a lot of the necessary work simply with the help of floor glans and photographs.

''Although this might seem unusual to anyone unfamiliar with the art, as a geomancer, I can 'tune' into a location using these floor plans and photographs and move any energies that are causing problems.

''I do not advertise outside of my website, so the majority of my work comes to me via referrals or word of mouth. If people have a need they usually somehow find the solution, even if it takes them a little while.

There is something Karmic about the whole process."

It might be easy for people to dismiss Susie Shaw's theories and ideas as crackpot superstition but there is no doubting the fact that she has a Iong list of satisfied customers who would willingly testify to the validity and success of her work. You cannot argue with the results.