My PhD: Uncovering Divine Feminine Wisdom through Sacred Geometry

Inspired by the writings & works of Keith Critchlow

In 2020 I lost my father: Keith Critchlow, a renowned Sacred Geometer, architect/designer, teacher, philosopher and author (I would also include mystic ). As well as my father, he was my 1st spiritual teacher and my 1st Art Teacher. He encouraged an inquisitive, curious mind and inspired me to question (research) all I was told was ‘truth’ - this has served me especially well in recent times - as well as teaching me that there is Truth with a capital ‘T’ - and truth with a lower case ‘t’.

I worked closely with him throughout my adulthood from his Research Assistant at what was then the Prince’s Foundation, to supporting some of his key publications. I was fascinated by his philosophies and perspectives on life; learning about fairies to chakra’s to channelling from him, and still maintain the ‘best education’ I received was at home.

If I had a question - he always had the most amazing answers - he was my oracle (yet didn’t tell me what to think), and he always had a ‘book’ to hand. He taught me there were no hierarchies in religion or spirituality, but that each pathway led to the same ‘point’ i.e. Source or the Divine (whichever name you wanted to give it).

When walking through buildings or built up areas, he taught me to look up (not always down at the pavement) and to observe what I saw.

He was one of the kindest, most generous human beings I have ever encountered. When he passed in 2020, I wanted to ‘give back’ and I supported in finding a home for the contents of his studio (research, work and artefacts) that were housed over years in his garden lodge at his home in London (the place I worked closely with him in the last decades of his life), so that his inspiring ‘work’ could continue inspiring and touching lives even if he was no longer here in-person - collectively with my family, we did this.

It was during this period, I started taking my art training into Sacred Geometry. It was in my blood, my lineage, it was what I saw all around me whilst growing up (even if I didn’t understand it at the time). After he passed in 2020, I felt compelled to pick up compass and ruler, and take the philosophical and research learnings - and my art training and all that’d he’d taught me - into learning Sacred Geometry myself.

I wanted answers (to many things) as the world fell into deeper confusion, disarray and flux in the years after he left Earth, and I could no longer ask him questions and hear his reassuring answers. The time had come where I had to find them myself and I knew he’d left a thread for me to follow and this was within his work in Sacred Geometry.

During my teen years and twenties he had patiently answered my questions about where the ‘women were in history’ when he referenced Sacred Sites (I remember discussing this with him and talking about the inspiring women around the time of Chartres Cathedral: a topic and place he was deeply fascinated by).

And then as a parent of 2 children, I also found myself asking where the wise women were that could guide me through these times. Where is the thread, the link, the guidance and wisdom? My intuition told me there was something to be discovered, something that had got lost or erased as there were too many unanswered questions in both culture, as well as my own art training. I often found myself ‘seeking out the women’. They had to be here in Sacred Geometry too - as the womb of creation the word ‘ma’ (mother) had too many links to too many words, yet such a lack of reference to the feminine or Divine Feminine wisdom (so many things I felt were from a ‘male’ perspective or authority).

I know this is changing at this time in her-story and so this research is dedicated to all those who’ve found themselves asking the same question: where are the women and how does Divine Feminine wisdom and meaning link to, and exist within Sacred Geometry?

The following is what has unfolded for me as I study and practice Sacred Geometry and as I have studied and read my father’s notebooks which I became guardian of.

This is dedicated to you dad, and all that you shared, taught and inspired in me. I am forever grateful. (Even knowing the password you gave me to type up your books and research: protoevangellium was a clue and reference to the Divine Feminine, as I learnt it’s the story of Mary’s childhood in the Bible - no-one else ever referred to her-story!)

And as you taught me: from Plato’s Dialogue Timeaus: “in a description of the physical world, one ‘should not look for anything more than a likely story’" - this, therefore, is my most likely story - uncovering the links of Divine Feminine wisdom through the Art of Sacred Geometry to inspire, heal, create and take wisdom from with integrity, humility and service, as Mother Earth calls for support in raising the consciousness of Earth collectively to bring balance and harmony to these times.

I intend for this to be part: research, art and a practical tool for these times to understand how we create with consciousness and how geometric patterns both underlie and at the same time, are tools, to shape (create) both individual and ‘collective’ reality here on Earth.

In loving memory, your daughter, Amelia.