JOHN MICHELL (WRITER)

'John Michell' (born 1933) is an English philosopher and a prolific writer on subjects including geometry and number, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, sacred sites, the occult, Fortean phenomena, art and the lives of noted eccentrics.
Michell was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. His better known works include ''The Flying Saucer Vision'' (1967), ''The View Over Atlantis'' (1969, later revised as ''The New View Over Atlantis'', 1986), which stimulated renewed interest in ley lines, ''City of Revelation'' (1972), which concerns sacred geometry, ''A Little History of Astro-Archaeology'' (1977) and "Who Wrote Shakespeare?'"(1996), an investigation of the many claims and counter-claims about the identity of the bard. He has also produced a series of "Radical Traditionalist" pamphlets urging a return to the principles of Platonism. In one of these, ''A Defence of Sacred Measures'', he questions the use of the metric system.
Critics of Michell's work range from those who consider him eccentric to those like Joscelyn Godwin, who says, "It is not too much to say that John Michell is a prophet." Godwin wrote the introduction to ''Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist'', a collection of essays culled from Michell's monthly "An Orthodox Voice" column in "The Oldie", which provides a convenient introduction to Michell's ideas for those unfamiliar with his work. As the title of Michell's column indicates, from his own perspective he is espousing views that were considered orthodox throughout much of history, but which are currently out of fashion.

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Partial Bibliography

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Partial Bibliography

★ with Bob Rickard, ''Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition'', 2000, Rough Guides, ISBN 1858285895

★ with Robin Heath, ''The Lost Science of Measuring the Earth: Discovering the Sacred Geometry of the Ancients'' (''The Measure of Albion in Great Britain''), Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006, ISBN 1931882509

★ ''Confessions Of A Radical Traditionalist'', 2005, Dominion Press, ISBN 0-9712044-4-6. Patrick Hurpur, notable author of "Daimonic Reality" is quoted on the dust jacket as saying, "If Socrates had ever written a column, this would be it."

★ ''Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions'', 1984, Thames and Hudson Ltd, ISBN 0-15-127358-8

★ ''Natural Likeness'', 1979, Thames and Hudson Ltd, ISBN 0-525-47584-2

★ ''The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology'', 2001, Adventures Unlimited, ISBN 0-932813-89-5

★ ''Who Wrote Shakespeare?'', 1996, Thames and Hudson Ltd, ISBN 0-500-01700-X

External Links

★ The HOPE - John Michell Includes a link to some of Michell's geometric art work

★ [http://www.JohnMichell.com includes a more complete bibliography