Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation (RILKO) Journal, No.61, Winter/Spring 2002/03
Reviewed by the Chairman, Bob Harris

Thomas Saunders has written a remarkable book entitled ‘The Boiled Frog Syndrome’. It sets out the unsustainable effects of our recklessly adopting untested high tech answers to our built environment. He pays high regard to the wisdom of the past that utilised equally effective but much less harmful solutions to architecture and design.

The book is well structured and organised into two parts. The first is an introduction to a diverse range of natural and artificial phenomena and the effect that each has on humanity. The second investigates how societies in the past understood and co-operated with natural energies.
Of particular interest to RILKO members is his explanation of the mystical language of numbers and divine harmony. The book successfully links the lost knowledge of the past with the present.

The book heightens our understanding of how the design of any building can provide us with a harmonious healthy and satisfying environment. It includes guidance on practical solutions to prudently avoiding some of our current health hazards.

An immensely readable and compelling book that I highly recommend to our members. It sets the scene for the emergency of a new ecology based on classical principles. Principles which are as relevant today as they were in the past.

Thomas, a long-standing member of RILKO, makes a powerful and intriguing case for change.

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