Sacred Geometry for Artists, Dreamers, and Philosophers: Secrets of Harmonic Creation

HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! This is definitely a book that you want to own a physical copy, not kindle. There are a lot of helpful graphics that, to me, explain the theory behind "harmonics". As a residential architect & kinda musician this is the book I would recommend to anyone interested in, especially if you are new, to understand sacred geometry & harmonic balance. This is the kind of book that you will read a passage or chapter & sit and think about it for a while. I have really enjoyed that aspect of the book. If you think you would like it I am fairly confident in saying you would. Read the kindle sample & order a physical copy.

Great condition

I am an artist and I love this books as inspiration and to get more in deep knowledge on Mandala Art

Lovely cover & illustrations. I scanned through the first couple chapters, is definitely not easy to grasp right of the bat. Will need to set time aside to really delve into it to see whether or not the information presented is useful.

Great

Is this a book for Artists, Dreamers, and Philosophers? Not really, unless they have some decent math background. I'm comparing this book to Patterns of Eternity, about the starcut diagram, because they are both contemporary sacred geometry books with a particular gimic that is a discovery/rediscovery of the author. I am about half way through and have not really found the magic of this gimmick, the variable sized vesicas and equating them to harmonics. There is a lot of gee whiz around commmon sacred geometry stuff like relations of planets and music, but that material can be encountered elsewhere. Comparing this to the gimmick of the starcut diagram-- something that you can easily remember and use in the field, well, no comparison. This one feels a bit forced. It is an interesting idea, exploring different sized vesicas and their harmonic relationships, but there is too much other stuff in this book and not enough different interesting things done with the vesicas for my satisfaction.

No me gusto que mi libro vino con la portada rasgada y doblada. Muy mal!!!

Outstanding content for creatives. Amazon needs to provide a way to separate the physical description versus the ideas presented in the context of a book when we do our ratings.

Eine Art Bibel für alle, die in Geometrie mehr als nur die Abmessungen von Streckelängen sehen, sondern Fragen nach der darin ausgedrückten Struktur des Universums stellen. Von der Gestaltung her erinnert es etwas an Tufte's Bücher über Visuelle Erklärungen und Informationen, aber worum es hier geht ist nicht weniger uns umgebende Strukturen von Raum, Zeit und Bewegung. Das Buch enthält keine Hochglanzabbildungen, sondern ist in schwarz-weiß mit roten Akzenten gehalten, aber es ist wirklich extrem sorgfältig und schön gestaltet. Mit ca. 250 Seiten kein extrem dicker Wälzer, auch nicht besonders groß - aber dadurch eben auch nicht erdrückend - es liegt gut in der Hand und liest sich auch gut. Für mich bisher die größte Arbeit aus diesem Genre der "spirituell unterstrichenen dennoch ernstzunehmenden Geometriebetrachtungen". Neben Bild, Raum und Architektur geht es auch hinüber zu Schwingungen und Stimmungssystemen. Eine Art "Vermächtnis", ohne zu eigenbrödlerisch oder esoterisch zu werden. Freue mich sehr über dieses Buch!

This is a great book for the average truth seeker, providing one of several keys for unlocking the mysteries of Cosmic Unity. It has immense practical value as Lieben walks you through the various "Vesica-Tone Constructions" which you can create yourself and I would highly recommend creating these for yourself for maximum benefit (I used the free software Geogebra). You can draw them as well with a compass. Some of the subjects Lieben touches upon: various Earth-Moon tonal relationships, the harmonics that are integrated into the Mayan calendar, the knowledge of harmony exhibited by the ancient builders of their structures, the numerical relationships between the Earth and Moon existing beyond the solar system, step-by-step instructions for creating your own harmonic ceremonial chambers/structures, and more. There is a great wealth of information here which can reveal a deeper significance to true seekers. If you are a student of the ancient wisdom, I recommend this work.

I'm still at the early stages of reading this book but am already finding it fascinating. It relates musical tones, time and space to numerical values and ratios revealing a hidden dimension to our lives.

I brought this as a Christmas present.

I am enjoying this book and I hope to create art that's a bit more harmonious in structure and form. Something pleasing for the eye, brain, heart.... Anyway, now, about the book: I find it a bit of a stretch when the author, who is theoretically applying geometry to measurements, uses dubious rounding up or down of numbers to suit his purposes of harmonics and astrology. For instance, the earth takes 366 days to rotate the sun.... No, it's actually 365 days 5 hours 59 minutes 16 seconds. 5 hours is a lot less than 24h, so conveniently rounding up to 366 is incorrect. That's only every 4 years on a leap year. Next he rounds up the Moon's diameter to 2,160miles from 2,158.8.... the same length as a precessional year of 2,160 (we are currently in the Age of Aquarius, a precessional year). So he is basically creating these coincidences to prove a point. I guess it is very easy to choose the point you're trying to defend and conveniently create the proof (even if you have to fudge it, apparently). That's not how Maths works!!!! If the proof doesn't hold up, then you are not quite right, are you. Then he conveniently rounds up other numbers to the nearest 3 decimal points. But other than that annoying flaw, I am interested in building up patterns using a compass and straight edge and the harmony in doing that without the numbers, so that's quite interesting. If you're a Scientist, or Mathematician, you will probably want to burn this book. Also, you probably won't need it. If you're an artist, then it's interesting. Edit: ok, there's a lot of Maths here because the author thought "hey, if I add lots of Maths, it will look legit" except it made something that could be interesting dull, the Maths, as I mentioned, doesn't hold. It's like creative accounting. If you did what the author did in Economics or Finance, it would be considered tax evasion! I think what I am m really annoyed at is the fact that there is a beauty to the precision in Maths, which is why there are formulas to solve nearly everything. I recently had to help a student with a Trigonometry problem and we also realised there were 3 (maybe 4) ways of solving this one problem. No matter how we did it, we always come up with the exact same answer. I then explained that this was how we proved whether or not something was correct. In other words, rounding up numbers for convenience sake is not Maths! Anyway, enough finding plot holes....