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His first book, The Flying Saucer Vision, was published in 1967. Michell began to offer courses in UFOs and ley lines.

The Black Power activist Michael X, having previously run a gambling club in the basement, had now become active in the organisation of the LFS and brought Michell into counter-culture activities. In 1966 one of his properties, the basement of his own residence, became the base of the London Free School. He then worked for a while as an estate agent in London. He did national service in the Royal Navy, during which time he qualified as a Russian translator at the Joint Services School for Linguists. Michell was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. His Who Wrote Shakespeare? (1996) was reckoned by The Washington Post "the best overview yet of the authorship question." An abiding preoccupation was the Shakespeare authorship question. In some 40-odd titles over five decades he examined, often in pioneering style, such topics as sacred geometry, earth mysteries, geomancy, gematria, archaeoastronomy, metrology, euphonics, simulacra and sacred sites, as well as Fortean phenomena. His 1969 volume The View Over Atlantis has been described as probably the most influential book in the history of the hippy/ underground movement and one that had far-reaching effects on the study of strange phenomena: it "put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age."

John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933 – 24 April 2009) was an English writer whose key sources of inspiration were Plato and Charles Fort. The Flying Saucer Vision, The View Over Atlantis, The Measure of Albion, Who Wrote Shakespeare?