Category: Book and film reviews

By Rolf Krauss, Ullstein, Munich 2000 This book is once again an example of the fact that we are living in a time when (almost) everything is being questioned and many ideas are being shaken. Especially from the past, more and more "facts", which were self-evident until now, and which can be found in every textbook, are being doubted. The Grail World has occasionally reported on this. [...]

 Published in GralsWelt 27/2003 By Charles Hapgood Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 2002. EUR 25, - In the GralsWelt 22/2002 we reported on the enigmatic old nautical charts under the heading “The Secret of the Portolane” (here under “Strange Stories”), which suggest that there must have been a prehistoric high civilization whose researchers sailed around the world. Pioneering work on [...]

By Federico Di Trocchio Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-35976-6. There are tons of academic books of varying quality and level. One of the most interesting and funniest, which is at the same time easy to read, was written by the professor of the history of science at the University of Lecce (Italy), Federico Di Trocchio. As a technical expert, he describes the work of many, from the Orthodox scientists [...]

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 [...]