Utopia and large-scale experiment “globalization” (Published in Grail World Issue 3/1999) Nobody likes to be cramped, hindered in their freedom of movement or even locked up. Freedom through open borders began to become a reality in the 20th century; Since then, the term “globalization” has also been on everyone's lips. It is about more than just the right of the individual [...]
The wrong approach of our economy (Published in GralsWelt Themenheft 3/1999) The boundless growth (not only) of the economy is seen as inevitable today. Thereby the striving for "more, more and more, even more" has become an end in itself, hardly anybody asks about the sense of this - in view of the limitedness of our ecosystem actually highly questionable - [...]
In the year 1710 - 300 years ago - the first edition of the "Theodicy that is, Trial of the Goodness of God, Freedom of Man and of the Origin of Evil" by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) appeared in French in Amsterdam. Further editions followed, in German and several other languages. The extensive font, which in baroque style [...]
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The hatred of the West
Wie sich die armen Völker gegen den wirtschaftlichen Weltkrieg wehren By Jean Ziegler, C. Bertelsmann, Munich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01132-4, EUR 19.95 (original edition in French "La Haine de l'Occident", 2008). (Published in GralsWelt 56/2010) In GralsWelt we have already quoted the non-fiction author and globalization critic Jean Ziegler several times (e.g. in the box "Monetarism or [...]
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Casino capitalism
How the financial crisis came about and what to do now By Hans-Werner Sinn, Econ, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-430-20084-4 Published in Gralswelt 56/2010 The world financial crisis of 2008, the one world economic crisis is on everyone's lips. The guilty party is sought and not found. Instead, politicians are spreading the hope that the bottom has been reached. By 2011 at the latest [...]
(Published in Grail World 13/1999) Buddhism is currently something of a "fashion religion" in our latitudes. Many Europeans are drawn to the ancient teachings of this world religion; disappointed they turn away from Christianity and seek enlightenment in the wisdom of Asia, in immortal teachings from ancient times. Without Buddhism, East Asia is in its quiet, [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 20/2001) Has the fabulous bowl of the Lord's Supper really been found? In the Grail Message from Abd-ru-shin it is stated that the life-giving "Holy Grail" is not to be found in the earthly, but in the highest spiritual heights. From the text, however - see quotation box - it can also be seen that in addition to this actual Grail, the [...]
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Japan III: Asia to Asians
(Published in Grail World 17/2000) A society fixed in Confucian tradition seeks its way into the future: Japan has recently attracted attention through many a crisis. But the "Land of the Rising Sun" has managed many an unexpected rise in the past... The opening of the Japanese ports in the middle of the 19th century brought the country economic [...]
(Published in Gralswelt 16/2000, page 63 f.) The “Land of the Rising Sun” went through decisive developments in the early modern times. Contact with Europe's Christian missionaries, who were advancing colonization, led to the ban on Christianity in Japan. From then on only Buddhism and Confucianism played an important role. The time from the 12th to the [...]
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China II: China and the West
(Published in GralsWelt 6/1998) In medieval Europe, almost nothing was known about the gigantic Chinese empire. It was only when Marco Polo, who had traveled and got to know China thoroughly for two decades, reported on his adventures that Europe received the first halfway reliable information. "China is a sea that salts all rivers that flow through it." [...]
