Preliminary remarkIt is actually forbidden to a German - like me - to say something critical about the origin of the Old Testament of the Bible. Because with it the appearance arises unintentionally, one would attack the today's Jewish religion, as well as Judaism as such, directly or indirectly.It is, after all, general consensus that in Germany the Hebrews[1] are only [...]
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Energy, entropy and time
(Published in GralsWelt Theme Issue 5/2000) With the term "energy" is also connected the question about the fate of the universe. According to our present physical world view the end of the universe is inevitable: Either it "dies" the so-called "entropic heat death" or it begins to contract again sometime, whereby also the "arrow of time" reverses, the time thus runs backward [...]
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Shaman women in Korea
An exhibition at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. A phenomenon that is particularly difficult to access for westerners is shamanism, which we usually only assume to exist in Siberia. Occasionally, Native American medicine men, perhaps even African sorcerers are associated with it, and we tend to dismiss shamanism as a form of expression of "primitive" cultures. It is all the more surprising that this archaic [...]
