Balder Ex-Libris - Von Däniken ErichReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearVon Däniken Erich - In Search of Ancient Godsurn:md5:c338c25c6e68d1a50df459d2b6f1de0e2012-08-26T01:55:00+01:002014-05-05T15:30:12+01:00balderVon Däniken ErichForbidden HistoryUFO <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Von_Daniken_Erich_-_In_Search_of_Ancient_Gods_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Von Däniken Erich</strong><br />
Title : <strong>In Search of Ancient Gods My Pictorial Evidence of the Impossible</strong><br />
Year : 1973<br />
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Erich von Daniken believes that the 'Chariots of the Gods' that appear in the myths and legends of peoples all over the world from the Mayas to the Ancicnt Egyptians, from the Australian aboriginals to the Jews of the Old Testament, were really visiting space-ships; and that the gods themselves were none other than cosmonauts. <strong>...</strong></p>Von Däniken Erich - Twilight of the Godsurn:md5:eb7dc8e2543aab9e9186787c17692a8f2012-08-26T01:45:00+01:002014-05-05T15:30:08+01:00balderVon Däniken ErichForbidden HistoryReptilianUFO <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Von_Daniken_Erich_-_Twilight_of_the_Gods_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Von Däniken Erich</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Twilight of the Gods The Mayan Calendar and the Return of the Extraterrestrials</strong><br />
Year : 2010<br />
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What is a "cargo cult"? The term refers to the real-life ethnological phenomenon of what happens when a technologically primitive society comes in contact with a technologically more advanced society. On countless documented occasions, ethnologists have observed that if technologically advanced visitors live among technologicallynot intellectually!-primitive cultures for short periods of time and then leave, soon thereafter, the visitors' advanced nutsand- bolts technologies cause the native population to view these rather ordinary humans as gods and begin to worship them. On many occasions during their stay, the visitors would interact with the native population, giving them goods and food-cargo! After the departure of these "gods," the native culture surmised that they would return if they practiced intense worship, sacrifice, and emulation. Examples of modern-day cargo cult behavior can be found in the regions of the South Pacific during WWII. Why is this phenomenon so important? It is important because if cargo cult behavior still takes place today, then it is a rather logical conclusion that cargo cult behavior also took place thousands and thousands of years ago. The cargo cult phenomenon illustrates the basic premise of the classic Ancient Astronaut Theory: Thousands and thousands of years ago, technologically advanced flesh and blood extraterrestrials arrived on Earth in nuts-and-bolts spaceships. Intellectually speaking, our ancestors were not stupid (they essentially had the same brain as we have today); however, because their technological frame of reference was limited, they did not comprehend the nuts-and-bolts aspects behind the arrival of those flesh and blood extraterrestrials, and so our ancestors misinterpreted them as being divine in nature, which, of course, the visitors were not. And thus, the "gods" were born. Out of a simple (yet major!) misunderstanding. According to the ancient texts and traditions, a long, long time ago, the gods (lowercase "g") descended from the sky and instructed mankind in various disciplines. Why is it so hard for us to believe, living in a culture so rich in metaphor, that our ancestors drew similar comparisons? Is it really such a stretch of the imagination that whatever is described in the ancient texts is nothing more than the description of misunderstood, flesh and blood extraterrestrials who arrived here in nuts-and-bolts spaceships? Mainstream science believes it is. They believe that all of these ancient stories and traditions are a figment of our ancestors' imagination and that all of those legends were nothing but fantasy. But can something really be created out of thin air? For many years, I attended an international boarding school high up in the mountains of Switzerland. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, our school welcomed a few new students from the former USSR. I remember sitting in art class, and our assignment for the day was to draw a "fantasy castle," a "dream castle" floating in the clouds with shining towers and magnificent architectural features. The assigned project sent the entire classroom into a tizzy and we started drawing with unbridled enthusiasm. Everyone, that is, except our three new Russian classmates. None of them touched their pencils. They just sat in front of their large, empty sheets of paper. "What's wrong?" the teacher asked. "Why aren't you drawing?" The students replied: "What's a fantasy castle? What does it look like? We've never seen one. Since we've never seen one, we can't draw it." What an extraordinary reaction! This incident underscores one point: If something has not been seen, then it cannot be invented. Translation: It is impossible to conjure up something out of thin air if the basic elements are missing. Nothing happens without the initial spark of inspiration, without a catalyst. Therefore, mythologies, legends, tales, whatever-which mainstream science today discredits as mere fantasy inventions of our ancestors' imagination-cannot possibly all be unfounded inventions or mere figments of someone's imagination. Quite on the contrary! Something had to be there in the first place to act as the catalyst, the basic element that sparked the story. Something happened to our ancestors; they witnessed something that compelled them to tell of these events in their traditions. I think we'd all have to agree that it is impossible to create, let alone solve, an algebraic equation without knowing the basics of mathematics. It cannot be done. In this scenario, the basic mathematical elements represent the aforementioned initial spark, the catalyst. Everything else follows quite naturally afterward. It is said that each legend has a true core. It is this core that represents the base element, the catalyst. Without a base element, or initial inspiration, nothing is possible. Therefore, if something like this happened to my Russian classmates living in the 20th century, then why couldn't something similar have happened to our ancestors many thousands of years ago? The Ancient Astronaut Theory shows that it has. We must remind ourselves that when all of these legends and stories first were written down, the art of writing itself was a fairly new invention. Our ancestors realized very quickly that this new invention was the most powerful tool with which to preserve important knowledge. Is it really logical to think that the first stories and legends put in writing by our ancestors were only figments of their imagination? Of course not! Why? Our ancestors lived in a time fraught with uncertainty and upheaval. The most important order of the day was raw survival, the gathering of food, finding of shelter. So it is a logical conclusion that the first people empowered with the written word had better things to do than to sit around a fire, get drunk, and invent fantasy stories! "What story shall we conjure up tonight so we can painstakingly carve this stuff into stone?" But that is exactly what mainstream science proposes: All ancient stories are made up so that the story-tellers could "come to grips" with the world and its surroundings. I consider this type of thinking to be an insult to the intelligence of our ancestors. I hear the Ancient Astronaut Theory is insulting to our ancestors because it "undermines human ingenuity." I ask you, who exactly is insulting our ancestors' intelligence and ingenuity by pompously insisting that the records of our ancestors are "false" or that "they made mistakes in recording some dates" etc.? It is most certainly not the Ancient Astronaut Theory. With the invention of the written word, for the first time in human history, people were able to permanently record the most significant events of their time. Just like we have newspapers and books today, in which we report about things that are important to us, why would it have been any different for our ancestors? For example, Native Americans still today refer to a train as a "fire horse," a throwback to a time when they did not have the word "train" in their vocabulary. The same applies to the things and events our ancestors wrote down. They had no way of calling a flying object by the words "aircraft" or "plane," so they did the next best thing: They described it with objects with which they were most familiar in their everyday lives. Misunderstood technology. So if there are detailed, intricate descriptions of beings that descended from the sky on flying shields or fiery chariots and taught ancient humanity in various academic disciplines in the remote past, then we must start to explore these accounts from another perspective. What they immortalized at the time was their history! Their lives! They diligently recorded and attempted to circumscribe events that really happened to them (or their ancestors). Little did they know that future "scientists" would relegate their writings into the realm of symbolism and fantasy. That type of pompous attitude shows a great disrespect to our ancestors, not the idea that extraterrestrials showed up here on Earth thousands of years ago. Five hundred years from now, after establishing permanent bases on the Moon and Mars, humanity will venture out to explore deep space. One of our generation spaceships will eventually arrive at a planet harboring intelligent life. What if the intelligent life we encounter turns out to be technologically primitive? What will we do? Will we just stand back and study them from afar? Yes, maybe for a month or two. But then, after we have studied and mastered their language (as ethnologists do every day), we will make physical contact with them because, well, that's what we do-we poke and prod at things because we can't help ourselves. We will interfere with their cultural development. We will guide their technological direction. We will give them a gentle push. We will teach them a few things. We will make them aware of the essentials of science and various academic disciplines. And many, many generations after our departure, our "ancient" visit will be regarded as myth and fantasy because accounts of our visit in ancient texts will be deemed as "unscientific" by the oh-so-smart scientists of that society ("A long time ago, the gods descended from the sky and taught our forefathers! etc."). By now that society will also have reached such an "advanced" technological development that it now readies itself to go into deep space. But our physical visit will be regarded as a figment of their ancestors' imagination and relegated into the realm of quirky mythology because it is "preposterous" to read ancient history as recordings of actual events. Remind you of anyone? And thus the cycle begins anew.... One day in the not-too-distant future, we, too, will become Ancient Astronauts ourselves on some faraway planet. So why couldn't this have happened here on Earth, thousands and thousands of years ago? The answer is self-evident, and it's time we shed our arrogant attitude and opened our minds to what really happened in our cosmic past. With my very best regards, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos Director, Center for Ancient Astronaut Research/A.A.S. R.A. Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine. <strong>...</strong></p>Von Däniken Erich - The Gold of the Godsurn:md5:3d0d1a5a6b2af697bc5c9c7626ffc9962012-03-05T19:52:00+00:002014-05-07T21:34:29+01:00balderVon Däniken ErichForbidden History <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Von_Daniken_Erich_-_The_Gold_of_the_Gods_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Von Däniken Erich</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Return to the Stars Gods from outers space</strong><br />
Year : 1973<br />
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The Gold Of The Gods. To me this is the most incredible, fantastic story of the century. It could easily have come straight from the realms of Science Fiction if I had not seen and photographed the incredible truth in person. What I saw was not the product of dreams or imagination, it was real and tangible. A gigantic system of tunnels, thousands of miles in length and built by unknown constructors at some unknown date, lies hidden deep below the South American continent. Hundreds of miles of underground passages have already been explored and measured in Ecuador and Pent. That is only a beginning, yet the world knows nothing about it. On July 21, 1969, Juan Moricz, an Argentine subject, deposited a legal title-deed (Fig. 1) signed by several witnesses with Dr. Gustavo Falconi, a notary in Guayaquil. The deed sets out Moricz's claim to be the discoverer of the tunnels as far as the Republic of Ecuador and posterity are concerned. I had this document, which was written in Spanish, translated by a UN interpreter. I quote the most important parts of it at the beginning of this incredible story of mine: "Juan Moricz, Argentine citizen by naturalization, born in Hungary, Passport No. 4361689 ... "I have discovered objects of great cultural and historical value to mankind in the Province of Morona-Santiago, within the boundaries of the Republic of Ecuador. <strong>...</strong></p>Von Däniken Erich - Return to the Starsurn:md5:fc8432d728662ce7ced3cb22089b57a42012-03-05T19:49:00+00:002014-05-07T21:34:35+01:00balderVon Däniken ErichForbidden History <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Von_Daniken_Erich_-_Return_to_the_Stars_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Von Däniken Erich</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Return to the Stars Gods from outers space</strong><br />
Year : 1968<br />
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About Erich Von Daniken. Erich von Daniken is not a scholar. He is an autodidact, which the dictionary defines as a man who is self-taught. Probably this helps to explain the success his first book met with all over the world. Completely free from all prejudices, he had to demonstrate personally that his theses and theories were not unfounded and hundreds of thousands of readers were able to follow him along the adventurous road he took—a road that led into regions that were surrounded and protected by taboos. Besides, his fearless questioning of all the previous explanations of the origin of the human race seems to have been long overdue. Erich von Daniken was not the first man who dared to challenge them, but his questions were more impartial, more direct and more audacious. In addition, he was able to say exactly what he wanted to say, unlike a professor, for example, who would have felt bound to take the opinions of his colleagues or the representatives of similar academic disciplines into consideration. What is more, he came up with some startling answers. Men who bluntly ask bold questions that cast doubt on time-honoured, accepted explanations have always been a nuisance and people have never been over-fussy about how they silenced them. In the past their books were banished to secret libraries or put on the Index; today people try to hush them up or make them look ridiculous. Yet none of these methods has ever succeeded in disposing of questions which concern the reason for our very existence. Erich von Daniken has the spontaneity of the enthusiast. In the summer of 1968 he read articles by Vlatcheslav Saizev in the Soviet journal Sputnik with titles such as 'Space-ship in the Himalayas' and 'Angels in Space-ships'. Von Daniken booked a flight to Moscow on the spot. There Professor Shklovsky, Director of the Radio-Astronomic Department of the Soviet Academy of Science's Sternberg Institute, answered his questions. The author of Chariots of the Gods? was barely nineteen years old when his curiosity first drove him to Egypt where he hoped to track down the real meaning of some cuneiform inscriptions. Since his first journey in 1954, he hops on planes to clear up his theories the way we catch a bus. Thinking on the space scale as he does, distance means nothing to him so long as the goal of his journeys provides arguments for the impossible. Wilhelm Roggersdorf. Foreword Return to the stars? Return? Does that mean that we came from the stars? The desire for peace, the search for immortality, hankering for the stars—all these are deeply rooted in the human consciousness and have been ceaselessly pressing for realisation from time immemorial. Is this urge for realisation that is so deeply implanted in human beings something to be taken for granted? Is it really only a question of human 'desires'? Or does this striving for fulfilment, this nostalgia for the stars, conceal something quite different? I am convinced that our longing for the stars is kept alive by a legacy bequeathed by the 'gods'. Memories of our terrestrial ancestors and memories of our cosmic teachers are both at work in us. Man's acquisition of intelligence does not seem to me to have been the product of a long and tedious development. The process took place too suddenly for that. I think that our ancestors received their intelligence from the 'gods', who must have possessed knowledge that made the whole process a rapid one. Obviously we shall not find proofs of my assertion on the earth if we stick to the existing methods of archaeological investigation. If we do, we shall simply and inexorably increase the existing collections of human and animal remains. Each find will be given its catalogue number, put in a glass case in a museum and kept clean by the museum staff. But we cannot approach the heart of the matter with such methods alone. For the heart of the matter, I am convinced, lies in the important questions of when and how our ancestors became intelligent. This book is an attempt to provide new arguments for my theory. It is meant to be another peaceful incentive to reflection about the past and future of mankind. For too long we have failed to investigate our remote past with daring and imagination. It will not be possible to produce the last conclusive proofs in one generation, but the walls which still separate fantasy from reality will have more and more breaches in them. I shall try to do my best to keep on breaking through them with new aggressive questions. Perhaps I shall be lucky. Perhaps questions of the kind that are also asked by Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier and Robert Charroux will be answered in my lifetime. I should like to thank the countless readers of my Chariots of the Gods? for their letters and suggestions. I want them to accept this book as the response to their encouragement. I should like to thank everyone who helped me to write this new book. I wrote it during my imprisonment on remand in the Remand Prison of the Canton of Graubunden in Chur. Erich Von Daniken. <strong>...</strong></p>Von Däniken Erich - Miracles of the Godsurn:md5:17de80e03acea46be6d9579a2329d5ff2012-03-05T19:45:00+00:002014-05-07T21:34:40+01:00balderVon Däniken ErichForbidden History <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Von_Daniken_Erich_-_Miracles_of_the_Gods_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Von Däniken Erich</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Miracles of the Gods A hard look at the supernatural</strong><br />
Year : 1975<br />
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Foreword. This is a book I had to write from the heart. I've been carrying it around inside me for ten years, ever since my first visit to Lourdes, that vast caravanserai where hope, despair and commercialism thrive side by side. I was haunted by the images and dirges I had seen and heard there. While I was following the trail of my astronaut gods through the five continents, I made a point of visiting every accessible visionary shrine. How alike they all were in essence! It became increasingly clear to me that the phenomenon of visions is something that concerns us all. I did not forget my space- travelling gods, but there are some books that ripen like autumn fruit. What are the people who seem to be predisposed to have visions really like? Are they psychologically unbalanced religious fanatics? Are their 'miracles' simply an attempt to ingratiate them- selves with the Christian churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church, that accept their wonders as 'genuine'? Did the dogmas of the Catholic Church, which also play a vital role in visions, originate by divine inspiration? Are we really supposed to believe that God's word, the last Court of Appeal when authoritative Christian judgments are-delivered, is inspired by the Holy Ghost? Are the multifarious miracles which undoubtedly happen at places of pilgrimage delusions or self-delusions? Is there a broad basis of medical and scientific fact behind these miracles which makes them credible and explicable? While mountains of documentary material were piling up, while I was making special journeys to places of pilgrimage while I was rummaging in many of the world's great libraries, a deluge of questions assailed me. As I am not by nature the sort of person who can believe, in the good old-fashioned way, but want to know what can be explained by our god-given reason without appealing to an anonymous and muchabused Holy Ghost, I set to work. I set to work as a curious labourer in God's vineyard, as someone who considers God too exalted an arbiter to be constantly invoking him in support of his arguments. After studying visions for years, I think I can say fairly safely that this is the first compendium of its kind. Consequently some questions remain open to discussion, but I hope that in the future competent scholars and ecclesiastical courts, too, will accept my researches into the cause and effect of the vast and complicated field of miracles and visions to rectify frankly and honestly the false conceptions that are still in circulation. I should like to thank Dr. Robert Kehl, Zurich, most sincerely for many suggestions and for his special help when he acted as guest author for one section. Dr. Kehl first studied theology, but later switched to law and political science. His legal commentaries are in daily use by Swiss lawyers and he has made a name for himself with important works on moral theology, among many others. At the same time I should like to express my thanks to the thirty-two publishers who are going to arrange for the worldwide publication of this book. <strong>...</strong></p>Von Däniken Erich - Chariots Of The Godsurn:md5:6fe80f84f3a8f87bdcba38ea2c079bdf2012-03-05T19:33:00+00:002014-05-07T21:34:43+01:00balderVon Däniken ErichForbidden History <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Von_Daniken_Erich_-_Chariots_Of_The_Gods_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Von Däniken Erich</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Chariots Of The Gods Was God an astronaut ?</strong><br />
Year : 1968<br />
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Chariots of The Gods? Introduction. It took courage to write this book, and it will take courage to read it. Becauseits theories and proofs do not fit into the mosaic of traditional archaeology,constructed so laboriously and firmly cemented down, scholars will call itnonsense and put it on the Index of those books which are better leftunmentioned. Laymen will withdraw into the snail-shell of their familiar world when faced with the probability that finding out about our past will be evenmore mysterious and adventurous than finding out about the future.Nevertheless one thing is certain. There is something inconsistent about ourpast, that past which lies thousands and millions of years behind us. The pastteemed with unknown gods who visited the primaeval earth in manned space-ships.Incredible technical achievements existed in the past. There is a mass of know-how which we have only partially rediscovered today.There is something inconsistent about our archaeology! Because we find electricbatteries many thousands of years old. Because we find strange beings in perfectspace suits with platinum fasteners. Because we find numbers with fifteendigits—something not registered by any computer. But how did these early menacquire the ability to create these incredible things?There is something inconsistent about our religion. A feature common to everyreligion is that it promises help and salvation to mankind. The primitive godsgave such promises, too. Why didn't they keep them? Why did they use ultra-modern weapons on primitive peoples? And why did they plan to destroy them?Let us get used to the idea that the world of ideas which has grown up over themillennia is going to collapse. A few years of accurate research has alreadybrought down the mental edifice in which we had made ourselves at home.Knowledge that was hidden in the libraries of secret societies is beingrediscovered. The age of space travel is no longer an age of secrets. Spacetravel, which aspires to suns and stars, also plumbs the abysses of our past forus. Gods and priests, kings and heroes emerge from the dark chasms. We mustchallenge them to deliver up their secrets, for we have the means to find outall about our past, without leaving any gaps, if we really want to.Modern laboratories must take over the work of archaeological research.Archaeologists must visit the devastated sites of the past with ultra-sensitivemeasuring apparatus.Priests who seek the truth must again begin to doubt everything that isestablished.The gods of the dim past have left countless traces which we can read anddecipher today for the first time because the problem of space travel, sotopical today, was not a problem, but a reality, to the men of thousands ofyears ago. For I claim that our forefathers received visits from the universe inthe remote past. Even though I do not yet know who these extra-terrestrialintelligences were or from which planet they came, I nevertheless proclaim thatthese 'strangers' annihilated part of mankind existing at the time and produceda new, perhaps the first, homo sapiens.This assertion is revolutionary. It shatters the base on which a mental edificethat seemed to be so perfect was constructed. It is my aim to try to provideproof of this assertion.My book would not have been written without the encouragement and collaborationof many people. I should like to thank my wife, who has seen little of me athome during the last few years, for her understanding. I should like to thank myfriend Hans Neuner, my travelling companion for many thousands of miles, for hisunfailing and valuable help. I should like to thank Dr Stehlin and Louis Emrichfor their continuous support. I should like to thank all the NASA personnel atHouston, Cape Kennedy and Huntsville who showed me round their magnificentscientific and technical research centres. I should like to thank Professors DrWerhner von Braun, Dr Willy Ley and Bert Slattery. I should like to thank allthe countless men and women around the globe whose practical help, encouragementand conversation made this book possible. Erich Von Daniken <strong>...</strong></p>