How the financial crisis came about and what to do now By Hans-Werner Sinn, Econ, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-430-20084-4 Published in Gralswelt 56/2010 The world financial crisis of 2008, the one world economic crisis is on everyone's lips. The guilty party is sought and not found. Instead, politicians are spreading the hope that the bottom has been reached. By 2011 at the latest [...]
(Published in Grail World 13/1999) Buddhism is currently something of a "fashion religion" in our latitudes. Many Europeans are drawn to the ancient teachings of this world religion; disappointed they turn away from Christianity and seek enlightenment in the wisdom of Asia, in immortal teachings from ancient times. Without Buddhism, East Asia is in its quiet, [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 20/2001) Has the fabulous bowl of the Lord's Supper really been found? In the Grail Message from Abd-ru-shin it is stated that the life-giving "Holy Grail" is not to be found in the earthly, but in the highest spiritual heights. From the text, however - see quotation box - it can also be seen that in addition to this actual Grail, the [...]
(Published in Grail World 17/2000) A society fixed in Confucian tradition seeks its way into the future: Japan has recently attracted attention through many a crisis. But the "Land of the Rising Sun" has managed many an unexpected rise in the past... The opening of the Japanese ports in the middle of the 19th century brought the country economic [...]
(Published in Gralswelt 16/2000, page 63 f.) The “Land of the Rising Sun” went through decisive developments in the early modern times. Contact with Europe's Christian missionaries, who were advancing colonization, led to the ban on Christianity in Japan. From then on only Buddhism and Confucianism played an important role. The time from the 12th to the [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 6/1998) In medieval Europe, almost nothing was known about the gigantic Chinese empire. It was only when Marco Polo, who had traveled and got to know China thoroughly for two decades, reported on his adventures that Europe received the first halfway reliable information. "China is a sea that salts all rivers that flow through it." [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 55/2009) Modern Fundamentalism “We have to wait until someone comes who teaches us how to sacrifice and how we should behave towards our fellow human beings. Only a god can give us enlightenment ... In the meantime it is necessary to walk on the ruins of the truth that are still left to us, as it were in a boat [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 2/1997) There has been no other topic in the West for almost two millennia more or more intensely than Christianity and its founder. Belief in the Son of God, Jesus, became the most influential and widespread religious teaching in the world. Recently, however, this belief has been moved with [...]
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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