Category: Book and film reviews

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, CH Beck Verlag, Munich, 2003. Published in GralsWelt 52/2009 In the GrailWorld we have repeatedly dealt with the Bible, the most influential book, not only of occidental history, but of world history. In doing so, we had to familiarize ourselves with the fact that historically tenable evidence for the [...]

Published in GralsWelt46 / 2007 Science and esotericism are mostly alien to each other. Scientists often see esotericism as a relic from superstitious times. Esotericists especially accuse natural scientists of a one-sided materialistic vision. Only in exceptional cases is one prepared to see esotericism and science as two fundamentally different but equal ways of explaining the world; two approaches that [...]

By Walter Wittman Langen-Müller / Herbig, Munich 1995 (published in GralsWelt 6/1997) When it comes to economic issues, one speaks particularly of the Maastricht Treaties, the imminent introduction of the “Euro” and the seemingly unstoppable globalization of the world economy . It is overlooked that all these expected - good or bad - innovations from the increasingly dangerous [...]

(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 [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 44/2007) By James Lovelock Why the earth defends itself List-Verlag, 2006 James Lovelock (born July 26, 1919) is a chemist, doctor and biophysicist, one of the most prominent representatives of the environmental movement. As a chemist, Lovelock developed the electron capture detector (ECD) with which chlorinated environmental toxins can be detected sensitively. At the beginning of the 1970s he formulated together with [...]

(Published in GralsWelt 42/2007) The most successful documentary of all time has recently been released in Germany (and many other countries): An Inconvenient Truth. The topic is “global warming” and the consequences that it will have to deal with. The updated scientific data and statements in image and sound [...]