Rules and Revelations

by John Michell, Jason Goodwin (Editor)

A collection of last essays by the English author and philosopher John Michell. A paladin for traditional orthodoxies, in each of these short essays Michell confronts the boojums and panjandrums of our age with unabashed rigour and mordant wit.
Rules and Revelations contains more than fifty essays not previously anthologised in 'Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist.'

147 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 16, 2012

About the author

John Frederick Carden Michell was an English writer whose key sources of inspiration were Plato and Charles Fort. His 1969 volume The View Over Atlantis has been described as probably the most influential book in the history of the hippy/underground movement and one that had far-reaching effects on the study of strange phenomena: it "put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age."

In some 40-odd titles over five decades he examined, often in pioneering style, such topics as sacred geometry, earth mysteries, geomancy, gematria, archaeoastronomy, metrology, euphonics, simulacra and sacred sites, as well as Fortean phenomena. An abiding preoccupation was the Shakespeare authorship question. His Who Wrote Shakespeare? (1996) was reckoned by The Washington Post "the best overview yet of the authorship question."

Reviews

[Jason Goodwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The follow-on from Confessions Of A Radical Traditionalist, this Kindle e-book contains John Michell's last fifty three essays for the Oldie Magazine. Reading them will change you perceptions of the world, and ought to make you wiser and happier. It should be required reading for Darwinists, bankers, atheists, art collectors and crooks of a humorous turn of mind.