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What people have said about the book

“In The Enigma of Numbers, Lance Storm challenges our obsession for organising and quantifying our world with an absorbing exposé of the shadow side of quantity—number as quality. In Storm's hands, qualitative numbers are mysterious symbols, giving rise to puzzling patterns and uncanny coincidences. His journey takes us from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic, through philosophy, arcane religious symbolism and pre-science to the number archetype of the psychologist C. G. Jung, which grounds this work. Measured and authoritative, yet intriguing and always eminently readable, Storm's narrative amplifies the archetypal qualities of the numbers 1 to 10 and their manifestations in an assortment of fields—numerology, synchronicity, chaos theory and modern physics. This captivating journey reaches a crescendo in a beguiling stanza on archetypal number in music. In the Jungian genre, The Enigma of Numbers ranks with von Franz's seminal study, Number and Time, for its scope and profundity, while exceeding it in accessibility. Lance Storm combines sober analysis, wonderment and scholarship in a landmark work.”
Barry Jeromson PhD, has taught Jung Studies and Philosophy at the University of South Australia, where he completed his doctoral thesis, Jung and Mathematics in Dialogue.

“The Enigma of Numbers offers a tour de force through the infinitely fascinating world of numbers. Transcending disciplines the “number archetype” is brought to life for us in its cultural, historical, symbolic and scientific aspects in Lance Storm's book. A valuable addition to the Jungian literature which seeks to explore the links between the scientific and the symbolic worlds.”
Joe Cambray, President-elect of the IAAP (the International Association for Analytical Psychology); Consulting editor for the Journal of Analytical Psychology; faculty member at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University.