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by John Neal
Long-time friend and collaborator, John Neal, reveals the importance of
discoveries in the science and history of measurement, made by the recently
passed John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933- 24 April, 2009).
The father figure of the modern earth the world is made - The story of creation came from a background of wartime
mysteries movement and described according to sacred geometry’ will be austerity, rigid short-back-and-sides
as a “Great British Antiquarian” - published by ‘Thames & Hudson’ later conventionality and Lord’s Day
though he referred to himself as a this year. In addition to all of the above, he Observance type orthodoxies. Suddenly
“Philosopher Antiquarian”, “Fortean” was renowned for his nonpareil company we were having visions and pigging into
and “Radical Traditionalist” - he was and conversation and as a generous host, every powder, pill and mind expanding
a true Renaissance man, a gentleman who opened his home in Notting Hill to a substance we could lay our hands on.
scholar, mathematician, researcher, diverse array of international friends. He is Things would never be the same again
metrologist, poet, painter, linguist, wit, deeply missed by all who knew him. and the world was irrevocably altered;
and above all, original thinker. Over Suzanne Isabella Trimble (aka Land) & consciousness, art, fashion, music and
40 years, John Michell authored more Diana Rosalind Trimble more subtly – the sciences, entered new
than 40 acclaimed books on subjects dimensions.
ranging from gematria to geometry; Our interest in heavenly
crop circles to Shakespeare; megalithic phenomena we realised was to remain
monuments to euphonics; including My name is John Neal, most often called a mystery; but it was the parallel works
the counterculture classic ‘The View Nosh. No one of academic or literary of others that made us look downwards
over Atlantis’ (1969), which ignited consequence would know who I am instead. One in particular, Aimé Michel
worldwide interest in Glastonbury and but for the influence of John Michell, a had written about something he called
renewed the study of long distance polymath with the most eclectic range of “orthotenies” and these were straight
alignments between sacred sites, along interests possible. lines across the landscape along which
earth energy currents known as “leys”. We met in 1967 during the acid there had been UFO sightings; they
His eagerly awaited masterwork ‘How revolution. All of the youth at that time connected prehistoric sites, he claimed.
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