Published in Grail World 54/2009. For centuries, it was not recognized that uprisings, revolutions, wars, colonialism and emigration were exacerbated or even triggered by the impoverishment of excessively used arable land, whose yields decline. Justus v. Liebig (1803 - 1873) provided the first important insight into soil fertility with his discovery of the nutrient cycle of plants. This made it possible to replace missing nutrients such as [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 54/2009) Religious scholars assume that religions have accompanied cultural development since the beginning of human history. Religious feeling is apparently an essential part of the specifically human characteristics that express it e.g. B. found in cults, rituals, myths, art, music, education, etc. Religiousness is also one of the fundamental human drives that society and its [...]
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The fire of Christianity
How did a small Jewish faith group become the largest world religion? I have already asked myself several times what might have induced people to profess Christianity in the first few centuries. It is true that the Greek and Roman cults of gods had lost much of their prestige, but in Neoplatonism or Gnosis there were more interesting and intellectually more demanding ideologies [...]
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Religulous
By Larry Charles (director) and Bill Maher (screenplay and talk show host). Published in Grail World 54/2009 In the Grail World we have reported variously on how the religious fundamentalism that was believed to have been overcome in the middle of the 20th century is growing again worldwide. (Cf. “The Apocalypses in the 21st Century” under “History of Religions”; “War of Religions” under “Book Reviews”) This unpleasant development provokes counter-reactions, [...]
by Hans-Joachim Zillmer Langen Müller, Munich 2001. 288 pages with approx. 71 drawings and approx. 79 photos. DM 39.90, ÖS 291, - sFr 37, - ISBN 3-7844-2819-3 (Published in Grail World 21/2001) If errors or gaps in our scientific worldview are discussed, it is good to imagine that we live in the "Middle Ages of tomorrow"; that today's [...]
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Too many people?
The estimates of the "Optimum Population Trust" (Published in GralsWelt 53/2009) In the GralsWelt, we have variously addressed a taboo topic that is hardly addressed in the public discussion: The carrying capacity of the earth. Recently, the "Optimum Population Trust" (OPT), in which world-renowned ecologists collaborate, has also been dealing with this question. According to projections of the "UN Word Population [...]
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Equilibrism
by Volker Freystedt and Eric Bihl, Signum, Vienna, 2005. (Published in GralsWelt 53/2009) The term “equilibrism” is defined in the book mentioned as follows: “Equilibrism (from Latin“ aequilibrium ”, equilibrium) strives for (re -) Establishing a balance between natural and cultural space, especially between ecology and economy. "(P. 12) So the same goal is meant that in [...]
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When diseases made history
On the fall of the Goths and the Incas (Published in Grail World 21) World history, as it is usually taught, is a strange collection of facts and their interpretations that aim to provide a vivid picture of bygone eras. The portrayals of times blown away are inevitably incomplete and also shaped by a "zeitgeist", to which a [...] striving for objectivity
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The message of water
The Message of Water Published in Grail World 22/2002 In Grail World 19/2001, under the heading "The Fascinating Element of Life", Masaru Emoto's book "The Message of Water" was also reported on. Emoto stayed in Germany for a short time, and the Grail World editorial staff took the opportunity to attend one of his much-acclaimed lectures, in which the researcher presented his [...]
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The secret of the portolane
Old nautical charts point to unknown civilizations Published in GralsWelt 22/2002 Do old nautical charts show the legacy of a submerged pre-civilization? A high culture that had great knowledge and where people traveled from pole to pole? At a time when the coasts of Antarctica were still free of ice? Here we go to the "secret of the portolane" [...]