Product Description

The Secret Science of Numerology is unlike any other book on numerology, because it explains why numerology works. It reveals the science behind this ancient mystical art. And, the book introduces the Inner Guidance Number, a powerful tool for accessing our inner knowing.

The Secret Science of Numerology is the first book to present a thorough explanation of the numbers and letters, starting with their origins-the how and why of their design, and exploring their nature in names and in language.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #405566 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 287 pages

Customer Reviews

Letters and there numbers
A very easy book to read and understand numerology. This is a great book to see the math in your name or any words. All letters have a number or vibration to them and if you ever wonder why you do certain things the numbers in your name or address or any words what they mean. Its interesting to see why a word is spelled the way it is like light instead of lite. Shirley's books are simple and easy for anyone to understand.

Amazing Insight
Shirley has been practicing numerology longer than most of us have been alive. She brings this depth of experience alive on the page, as she explores the meanings of the various numbers and their vibrations.

Shirley takes each number back to its Kabbalist Roots. She demonstrates how the meaning and energy captured in the original pictograms is still alive, if hidden, in the meaning of the numbers and letters we use today. The Example of how the Hebrew Letter
Alph, which evolved into our letter A, is in fact a pictogram of an Ox's head, turned upside down. Now take that image, it is also a stylized picture of the female reproductive system. So A is tied intimately to the creative principle of the universe. This is just a tiny example, but letter by letter she lays bare why given shapes where chosen to represent different vibrations. Shirley's vision of numerology is rooted deeply in the tradition that sees number as vibration, and vibration as music. She will truly introduce you to the music of the spheres.

Shirley's ease with the subject makes the style of this book very conversational, and yes that leads to a lot of anecdotal passages. Personally I find the anecdotal material one of the strengths of the book. Here we have the direct experience of a practitioner with 40 plus years in her craft. This is one of the best books I have ever read. Even if your not interested in divination now, by the time you finish the book you may well be! An author with a wonderful voice, talking passionately, and knowledgably about the craft she loves. It doesn't get much better than this.

All that glitters is not gold
If I were to rate this book on marketing and appearance, it would get 5 stars. The cover is nice, the title is catchy, the paper is high quality, and the text is nice.

But all that glitters is not gold. And maybe not even silver, or come to think of it, worthwhile. This book glitters, but definitely isn't gold.

The main problems I had was that it is full of logical fallacies and irrelevant, anecdotal, and circumstancial "evidence." Actually that's two problems. Big ones.

But don't believe me because just *I* said so. Here's an example: she says that because the Hebrew equivalent for the letter "h" has a particular meaning within Kabbalistic Numerology (itself a distinction she slyly fails to make), the letter "h" in English therefore has the same meaning. Since when are different languages interchangeable? Next thing we know it'll be Greek, or better yet, Korean!

And her "evidence" is largely anecdotal. Most people know that if you set out looking for something, you'll find it; if you have a preconception about the way it's supposed to be, it quite likely will end up being that way. And of course she found the "evidence" she needed to "flesh out" her dog- er, I mean beliefs. As such, her stories become very shaky "evidence," at best circumstancial.

This reminds me of another thing that bothered me a lot. Ms. Lawrence should probably study physics along with metaphysics; there are four elementary particles so far discovered: neutron, electron, proton, and neutrino. She also made several other scientific errors - perhaps the next version will correct those "minor errors" as well. Bad Science isn't such a big deal ... unless your book has "Science" in the title.

All of this -[in my opinion] - thoroughly destroyed Ms. Lawrence's credibility.

I don't have anything against Ms. Lawrence or numerology (I'm quite fond of the latter, actually), but it was seriously disappointing to buy this book and find it to be so uncredible. If I disregard what I knew both before and after reading this book, the "hidden meaning of numbers and letters" would still be "hidden."