Explores how ancient people who grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies. This title features more than 300 colour illustrations that reveal the secret code within the geometrical figures and shows how they express the spiritual meanings in the key[...]

"The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena" is an exploration of the zone that lies between the known and the unknown, a shadowy territory that's home to the lake monsters, combusting people, teleporting frogs and man-eating trees. Taking a Fortean path between dogmatic scientists and credulous belie[...]

The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft and all the institutions of their civilisation. Plato, an initiate in the Egyptian mysteries, said it was the instrument by which the ancients mainta[...]

Understanding the role of sacred geometry in cosmology and human affairs
- Explains how ancient societies that grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies
- Illustrates the social and spiritual values in the natural progression of number
-[...]

A countercultural icon of the 1960s, John Michell (1933-2009) was perhaps best known for his books on sacred geometry, Earth mysteries, and unusual phenomena. He was also beloved and reviled for his radical, idealistic, yet classically traditional views on a wide range of heretical topics, from sacr[...]

A Poet's Dictionary of Enchantments. Do particular sounds have magical effects? This is the age-old question first raised by Plato, and wittingly discussed in this little book by renowned author and philosopher John Michell. Humorously illustrated throughout by Guardian cartoonist Merrily Harpur, be[...]