- "The
"Mystic Spiral" is the clearest
expression I have ever come across of the system
I have glimpsed in the intuitive flashes my poems
are composed of. The bones of the universe, one
potent sunbird structure. Ms. Purce is the magic
maiden with the skeleton key that opens a myriad
of doors."
- George Andrews
- Poet and author.
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- "Jill Purce's
book is extraordinary, it shows the spiral going
through all the manifestations of life- art,
music, literature, dance, religion, mythology,
physics, biology, botany and astronomy.
Everything is spiral. She points to the unity of
the cosmos, and acts as a counterbalance to the
atomization of the world. There are hundreds of
wonderful illustrations. She gives you the key -
like the thread of Ariadne which leads you out of
the labyrinth."
- Karlheinz
Stockhausen in "Stockhausen, Conversations
With The Composer" by Jonathan Cott.
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- "A brilliant
and beautiful book...superbly written, stunningly
illustrated and extremely illuminating."
- Michael Sayers.
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- "I deeply
appreciate, this marvellous book, "The
Mystic Spiral". It seems to me that this
book- and indeed the whole series "Art and
Imagination" of which Jill Purce is the
General Editor - heralds the consolidation of a
new philosophy of life in which art takes its
place as an essential guide to, and expression
of, our development -if the world is to continue
to live."
- Peter Redgrove
- Author of "Wise Wound".
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- Mere words can not
do justice to the beauty of this book. Elegant,
graceful, profound, these spirals embody such
concepts as eternity, evolution, birth and death,
expansion and contraction, the Tao, and
God."
- Stanley
Krippner in "Association for Humanistic
Psychology Newsletter".
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- "The Mystic
spiral, together with its spiritual message, has
much to tell us architects of the laws of growth
and its archetypal forms. This would help us
design buildings which are within the flow of
nature rather than in opposition to it."
- Professor of
Architecture, Birmingham School of Architecture.
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- "Jill
Purce"s The Mystic Spiral is thoughts I have
thought and is the most thought-furthering /
interesting work I have read for a very long
time."
- Dean Melles -
Hacks, Singapore.
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- "I found the
Mystic Spiral one of the most absorbingly
fascinating books I have ever laid hands
on."
- Lionel Miskin -
Professor of Art, Falmouth School of Art.
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- "Her book,
The Mystic Spiral and the BBC film of the same
have enlisted not so much my imagination as my
heart. I count myself a genuine admirer of her
work. Jill Purce is an alchemist, the first I
have noticed in this age."
- Sebastian
Barker - Author of "Guarding the
Border".
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- "Purce's
prose has the ultimate effect of poetry."
- Chellis
Glendinnng in "Codex Shambhala" Vol. 4
No.2.
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- "It is
bridging the gap, the irreconcilable chasm
between Science and Religion- "reason"
and "feeling" which Ms. Purce has
dexterously pursued by way of "The Mystic
Spiral"- The spiral is both a universal
mythological symbol as well as an empirical
picture of the most fundamental ordering of
matter and energy.
- In "The
Mystic Spiral" Jill Purce has excelled in
the dovetailing together of rational and
mythological language and ideas, and by so doing
she illustrates how the spiral is an archetypal
symbol which reverberates, unaltered, between the
extremes of empirical science and spiritual
growth. Her juxtaposition of images as well as
her well-chosen words unite the disparate threads
of our experience into a single,
self-perpetuating, spiral expression."
- Dr Lawrence
Blair. Author of "Rhythms of Vision".
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