Book of the Month September 2024

The Mystic Spiral

We love this book by Jill Purce; an exploration of the spiral from the galaxy to the smallest forms of life. A journey through ancient cultures, spiritual belief, art and much more. It is an essential book for anyone looking to explore patterns in nature.

‘The spiral is the natural form of growth, and has become, in every culture and in every age, man's symbol of the progress of the soul towards eternal life. As the inward-winding labyrinth, it constitutes the hero's journey to the still center where the secret of life is found. As the spherical vortex, spiraling through its own center, it combines the inward and outward directions of movement. In this original and engrossing book, Jill Purce traces the significance of one of man's central symbols from the double spirals of Stone Age art and the interlocking spirals of the Yin Yang symbol to the whorls of Celtic crosses, Maori tattoos and the Islamic arabesque. Many of the superb images here were intended as objects of contemplation; for the spiral is a cosmic symbol.’