(Published in GralsWelt 5/1997) When people talk about "economic growth" today, one looks confusedly at East Asia. There the economy is expanding, there have been growth rates in production for years that classic industrialized countries can only dream of, and there one expects the rapidly growing markets of the future, in which Europe and America will have to be present, if [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 33/2004) In esoteric circles, the view is widespread that man was already aware at the beginning of his incarnation that the actual human being - his soul or his spirit - continues to exist after he has discarded his earthly body, that there is therefore a "this world" and an "afterlife". This human soul can then either [...]
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From the beginning of our time
(Published in GralsWelt 5/1997) ARE WE ALREADY LIVING IN 2004? A calendar is something so natural that we no longer have to worry about how and when it was created. We also take the upcoming year 2000, a magical date for Christian cultures, almost as "given by nature", without going any further about the beginning of our "Gregorian calendar" [...]
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Fateful year 2000
Is the great turn of the world coming? (Published in GralsWelt 4/1997) The turn of the millennium is approaching - and with it the fears of the future of many people are increasing. But what can we expect from the "year of destiny 2000″? Does this calendar year mark nothing more than a round number to which we attach an unjustifiably high significance - or does it stand, as gloomy prophecies [...]
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Life on mars
(Published in GralsWelt 3/1997) NASA “discovery” and life in space In August of the previous year, in the middle of a news “summer slump”, NASA launched a sensational report: There were traces of life on Mars rocks which suggest that primitive life forms existed on our sister planet about 3.5 billion years ago. Life on other stars? [...]
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Subdue the earth
What does love for nature, nature conservation, animal welfare actually mean? (Published in GralsWelt 4/1997) Anyone who seriously deals with animal welfare, who discovers a love for nature and flora, will soon be faced with crucial questions: Do plants and animals also suffer? Do you have a consciousness? Or, as Christian ethics teaches, does man really have the right to own the earth [...]
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Prophetissa Teutonica
(Published in GralsWelt 8/1998) The German prophetess It was the Staufer Friedrich I - Emperor Barbarossa - who called Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) so. But as famous as the seer was during her lifetime, after her death her visions got lost and her work was forgotten. In the century after her (13th century) the monastery and [...]
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Around the moose test
(Published in GralsWelt 7/1998) “Mercedes Benz” also fell victim to the “global acceleration”. Since the end of the 19th century, German industry has earned an excellent reputation, and “Made in Germany” was and is to this day a globally respected seal of approval. (See "Made in Germany an obituary") The structure of the [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 2/1997) On August 23, 1887, the British Parliament passed a law requiring all goods imported into Great Britain to have the country of origin indicated either on the goods themselves or on the wrapping. This early "consumer protection law" was mainly directed against Germany, which in the last decades of the 19th century had huge exports [...]
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War of religions
(Published in GralsWelt 45/2007) By Victor and Victoria Trimondi, 600 pp. EUR 39.90 ISBN 3-7705-4188-X, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn, 2005. This book closes a gap in the book market. It is an important standard work on religious fundamentalism of the present, behind which old apocalyptic visions stand as the driving force. The end-time expectations of traditional [...]