Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry Kindle Edition

I really appreciate how the author expresses her personal opinions and experiences with numbers throughout this book -not in long anecdotes -but in small ways that give a full grasp of the material. Also, this allows here to express her own theories of numbers, history, and religion in a way that I found refreshing -despite not always agreeing.

Great primer! I really enjoyed the mix of math, history and mysticism and how it combines all three in a practical guide for mindfulness when approaching this subject. The chapter on the Knights Templar was particularly good

Book is in good condition and doesn't smell like anything else but a book.

Not what I actually expected, but lots of research went into this. I liked the approach of the author and all the uses for numbers.

Great book

There are times that we need to have a base for our existence. Math for Mystics involves our heart, spirit and body.

Fills in the history of math.

This is an interesting and fun read. The book provides many interesting concepts and information I had not previously known.

Some years ago I was in the thrall of mathematics. I made a series of paintings about “the mysteries hidden in mathematics” (...) and I was hanging out with mathematicians at every opportunity. They helped me navigate territories I stood no chance of accessing on my own. Therefore I was delighted to come across Renna Shesso’s book. In her Introduction she talks about the “Post-Traumatic Maths Disorder”, so common in our culture! Renna Shesso’s book is “delicious” because it invites us to connect with the “magical mysteries of numbers” without needing to master any “high school mathematics”. Our ancestors were well aware of the magical properties of numbers and they needed to ‘get their maths right’ because survival depended on predicting seasonal changes. I have three sons doing maths as a crucial part of their Middle and High School curriculum. I often share snippets from Renna Shesso's book with them, just to “keep the magic alive” and to encourage them to enjoy the more mystical and quirky properties of numbers! This book is for anyone who wishes to regain the childlike joy and delight in the properties and quirks of numbers. Picking up this book today has just inspired me to plan a session for my shamanic group for young people about maths. I think I will call this session “Mathemagicians”!Imelda Almqvist, shamanic practitioner, teacher and painter, London UK

A very interesting interpretation of the history of math, I enjoyed reading this a lot. I very good book. I would buy a more detailed verwion of the book, with detailed math computations.

Lots of great info and some neat tricks for remembering lunar cycles, but the title is a bit misleading. It should be "Math for Wiccans" - as a person with some mystic views, I could have done without the wiccan spells at the end of each chapter. Still a good book worth reading.

Was not that great of a book

As a pagan wanting to look into the long history of maths and sacred geometry this book seemed the ideal choice, and it started out well, fascinating chapters on various culture's choices for counting on fingers, information about moon phases and the like, and some detail on the planets and the history of the days of the week based on same, which devolved into mainly long lists of examples a tad too quickly but still. And then it got.. very weird and very hippy-dippy, ideas for using the maths in your ritual, except in a rather vague way. I persevered but then we had page upon page of the history of the Templars (supposedly, not sure how much of it was historically accurate or the stuff of a Dan Brown novel) leading into a complex thing about codebreaking, and then so much detail about magical squares my head was spinning and.. no. Far more mystical than maths. These ancient cultures used maths and geometry for practical purposes, as early science, and that's what I wanted to read about, not cod theories or convoluted modern applications based on rather woolly thinking.Disappointing.