Discusses leys, the mysterious straight line alignments of prehistoric sites and natural landmarks, and points out the significance of numbers in the construction and structure of prehistoric monuments

The New View over Atlantis

Religion & Spirituality

Michell, John F.

New Age & Spirituality

Harpercollins

The Dimensions of Paradise were known to ancient civilizations as the harmonious numerical standards that were the underpinning of the created world. John Michell's quest for these standards provides vital clues for understanding: 
* the dimensions and symbolism of Stonehenge 
* the plan of Atlantis and reason for its fall 
* the numbers behind the sacred names of Christianity 
* the form of St. John's vision of the New Jerusalem 
* the name of the man with the number 666 
* the foundation plan of Glastonbury and other sanctuaries These symbols suggest a potential for personal, cultural and political regeneration in our new century.

The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology

The great echoing phrases of the King James Bible that have boomed through the English-speaking mind for 400 years – an eye for an eye . . . eat, drink and be merry . . . . death, where is thy sting? . . . man shall not live by bread alone – are largely the work of a man whose genius for words matches Shakespeare. But William Tyndale, the young Gloucestershire tutor who wrote them, paid for them with his life. He was persecuted, exiled and eventually burned at the stake. Book of Fire is the thrilling, moving story of the man who first translated the word of God into the English vernacular. Tyndale did so in defiance of church and state, hunted by the implacable enmity and the agents of the sainted Thomas More. He was finally betrayed, but by then his courage and poetic instinct had provided the backbone of the single most significant work in the English language. The Tudor heretic had changed the literary, religious and political landscape for ever.

The flying saucer vision: The Holy Grail restored

Occult & Paranormal

ABACUS +

Softcover book details 126 pages of the phenomenal world.

Phenomena: A book of wonders

Pantheon Books

The powers of ancient rulers emanated from the ritual center of the tribal territory. This center was also regarded as the birthplace of the tribe and belonged to the people as a whole. Installed upon this sacred rock (the omphalos or "navel of the world"), at the polar axis around which all revolved, the king could survey his realm, ordered from the center according to the divisions of the cosmos itself, reflecting the harmony and balance of paradise. Akhenaten's city in Egypt, Megalopolis of Ancient Greece, the world-centers of Roman Gaul and Celtic Cornwall, all provide clues to lead John Michell to the geographical and sacred criteria for locating a center. From studies of symbolic geography, particularly that of Celtic and Norse territories, he has discovered the leading principle for the siting of the "Thing" places, the main centers of religious and state ritual in Shetland, Orkney, the Faroe Islands and the Isle of Man. He considers the possible locations of the most hallowed centers of ancient Druidry and of the High Kings of Ireland. Finally, the esoteric foundation plan for these ancient societies is disclosed: the sacred geometry, the symbolic numbers. Symbols of the center are among the most persistent elements of myth and belief between cultures widely separated in time and space. Now John Michell traces their genesis, and suggests that their reflection of the ideal Platonic order of the universe can be relevant to the modern world.

At the Center of the World: Polar Symbolism Discovered in Celtic, Norse and Other Ritualized Landscapes

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Thames&Hudson

Describes oddities of animal behavior, reports of rare or legendary animals, and the efforts of naturalists to identify unusual specimens

Living Wonders: Mysteries and Curiosities of the Animal World

Richard, Robert J.M.

Reference

The View Over Atlantis, John Michell's unrivaled introduction to megalithic science, earth mysteries, and the inner meaning of number and measure, was described by Colin Wilson as "one of the great seminal books of our generationa book which will be argued about for decades to come." Across much of the globe are ancient earthworks and stone monuments built for an unknown purpose. Their shared features suggest that they were originally part of a worldwide system, and John Michell argues that they served the elemental science of the archaic civilization that Plato referred to as Atlantis. In this connection the most significant modern discovery is that of "leys," the mysterious network of straight lines that link the ancient places of Britain and have their counterparts in China, Australia, South America, and elsewhere. John Michell's studies of ancient measures have enabled him to define their exact values. The same units recur in the dimensions of monuments all over the world, from Stonehenge to Teotihuacan, and reveal the builders' knowledge of the size and shape of the spheroidal earth, and with it the outlines of their cosmology. 82 b/w illustrations.

Discusses how various ancient cultures worshipped the Earth and shows wells, sacred rocks, standing stones, and symbolic earthworks

The Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries (Art and Imagination)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Natural Likeness: Faces and Figures in Nature

E.P.Dutton

Brief accounts of men and women, from the eighteenth century to the present, whose lives have been governed by unusual and improbable passions, ideas, and dreams

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions

Biographies & Memoirs

Citadel Press

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The New View over Atlantis

The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology

The flying saucer vision: The Holy Grail restored

Phenomena: A book of wonders

At the Center of the World: Polar Symbolism Discovered in Celtic, Norse and Other Ritualized Landscapes

Living Wonders: Mysteries and Curiosities of the Animal World

The New View over Atlantis

The Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries (Art and Imagination)

Natural Likeness: Faces and Figures in Nature

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions