(Published in GralsWelt Issue 11/2003) THE SEVEN WORLD TRADITIONS The natural scientist Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896), who teaches in Berlin, gave a widely acclaimed speech in Leipzig in 1872 on “the limits of the knowledge of nature”. He explained that there were a lot of scientific problems [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 19/2001) In memories of the time after the First World War, people speak of the “golden twenties”, the “golden twenties”. During that decade, between 1920 and 1930, Europe slowly recovered from the wounds of war, and art and culture flourished. Many developments, the effects of which can still be felt today, such as the rise [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 31/2004) A rare astronomical event On June 8, 2004 and then on June 6, 2012, a rare astronomical phenomenon awaits us: Venus, visible from Earth, will pass the solar disk. Such a "Venus passage" presupposes that Venus is at a knot *) of its [...] in the conjunction Sun / Venus
(Published in GralsWelt 32/2004) The world is full of wonders, in the greatest and in the smallest. One of these miracles - something that we cannot explain - is the fine interplay, the precisely balanced coordination of the laws of nature. These had to be exactly the same, were not allowed to be slightly different, so that suns, planets, plants, animals, people could arise in our universe [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 26/2002) THE HOLY LAND A strip of land at the transition from Africa to Asia, the only land bridge between these great continents, has been a passage and connection point between peoples, countries, nations and cultures for thousands of years: Palestine. Trade and cultural exchange enriched, war campaigns devastated the country, which, like most transit countries, wedged between larger empires, only found tranquility temporarily. [...]
By Johannes Huber (editor) Styria Verlag, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-222-12863-4. (Published in GralsWelt 22/2001) A team of authors that covers a wide spectrum from medicine to natural sciences to philosophy and theology has tackled one of the hot topics of our time: the question of ethics and morals in an era in which genetic engineering, Cloning, research with embryonic [...]
By David Keys, Goldmann, Munich, 2002. (Published in GralsWelt 31/2004). If we deal with the past, then we find in the historiography above all king lists, political intrigues, wars, battles, conquests, tricks of strategists, etc. Relatively little can be learned about everyday life, and the influence of climatic fluctuations, epidemics or Natural disasters on historical developments will [...]
(Published in GralsWelt 25/2002) By John Anthony West, Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 2000: Anyone who asks about the origin of Western culture will get an unequivocal answer from historians: Greece. This is where the first speculative thinkers were born, where philosophy, geometry, drama, architecture, sculpture reached the first climaxes that are still admired today. We judge Egyptian culture very differently. Longing […]
(Published in GralsWelt 43/2007). A NEW SCIENCE: PHEROLOGY For some years now, there has been a new branch of ecology that has given itself the scientific name of pherology (from the Latin "pherein" = to carry) and is concerned with the carrying capacity of ecosystems. In particular, pherology is concerned with the number of people who are using our earth, or individual [...]
(Published in GrailWorld 37/2005) Since Donna W. Cross' historical novel "The Popes" (3) became a worldwide success, an enigmatic figure has once again moved into the general consciousness, which has been the subject of controversial discussions for centuries: Pope Joan. Although this novel is fictional, historical novels can sometimes convey a more impressive picture of past times than scholarly historiography. [...]
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