Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt:

den Podcasterinnen und Podcastern

Johannes Wolf (Puerto Patida): http://ohneq.de/willkommen/

Mirko Gutjahr (Das geheime Kabinett): https://kabinett.hadar.uberspace.de/

Luis und Steffen (Vor Hundert Jahren): https://vorhundert.de/

Sarah und Rahel (Cluecast): http://www.cluewriting.de/

Mario Prell und Kai Du (Die Geschichtenkapsel): http://geschichtenkapsel.de/

Patrick Pehl (Radio Wolfenfels): https://www.radio-wolfenfels.de/

Ulrike Kretzmer (Exponiert): http://www.exponiert.berlin/

den Musikerinnen und Musikern

Vlimmer: https://blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/

Markus Reuter: https://centrozoon.bandcamp.com/

ROSI: https://rosi-music.bandcamp.com/

Himmelsrandt: https://himmelsrandt.bandcamp.com/

Pictures From Nadira: https://picturesnadira.bandcamp.com/releases

Box and the Twins: https://boxandthetwins.bandcamp.com/

Mutter: https://muttermusik.bandcamp.com/releases

Holygram: https://holygram.bandcamp.com/releases

Xeresa: https://xeresa.bandcamp.com/

den Sprecherinnen und Sprechern

H.K. Dewitt

Jana Vieth

Michail Voland

Patrick Pehl

Timo Tonassi

Kai Du

dem Grafiker

Gianluca Romano: https://www.artstation.com/gianlucaromano

"For only in destroying, I find ease" (Milton, Paradise Lost)

"Telle est, par exemple, l'histoire d'une «pierre noire» envoyée jadis par le «Roi du Monde» au Dalaï-Lama, puis transportée à Ourga, en Mongolie, et qui disparut il y a environ cent ans; or, dans de nombreuses traditions, les «pierres noires» jouent un rôle important, depuis celle qui était le symbole de Cybèle jusqu'à celle qui est enchâssée dans la Kaabah de La Mecque. [...] Il y a encore d'autres symboles qui, dans les traditions antiques, représentent le «Centre du Monde»; un des plus remarquables est peut-être celui de l'Omphalos, que l'on retrouve également chez presque tous les peuples". (René Guenon "Le roi du Monde)

"We shall shortly institute

A syncopation of fear

While it's painful, it will suit

Many customers whose appetites are queer"

"Demeure, il faut choisir

Et passer à l'instant

De la vie à la mort

Et de l'être au néant." (Hamlet)

"Dies ist Wahrheit; darum zäumen

Wollen wir den rauhen Mut,

Diesen Ehrgeiz, diese Wut,

Wenn wir wieder einmal träumen.

Wohl geschieht's; denn in den Räumen

Dieser Wunderwelt ist eben

Nur ein Traum das ganze Leben;

Und der Mensch (das seh' ich nun)

Träumt sein ganzes Sein und Thun,

Bis zuletzt die Träum' entschweben."

(Calderon de La Barca, La vida es sueno)

"This is the old Platonic riddle of nonbeing. Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato’s beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam’s razor". (Willard Van Orman Quine, On What There Is)

Es gibt schlechte Nachrichten.

"The worlds are something like remote planets; except that most of them are much bigger than mere planets, and they are not remote. Neither are they nearby. They are not at any spatial distance whatever from here. They are not far in the past or future, nor for that matter near; they are not at any temporal distance whatever from now. They are isolated: there are no spatiotemporal relations at all between things that belong to different worlds. Nor does anything that happens at one world cause anything to happen at another. Nor do they overlap; they have no parts in common, with the exception, perhaps, of immanent universals exercising their characteristic privilege of repeated occurrence." (David K. Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds)

"When Gushi Khan, the Chief of all the Olets or Kalmucks, finished the war with the 'Red Caps' in Tibet, he carried out with him the miraculous 'black stone' sent to the Dalai Lama by the 'King of the World.' Gushi Khan wanted to create in Western Mongolia the capital of the Yellow Faith; but the Olets at that time were at war with the Manchu Emperors for the throne of China and suffered one defeat after another. The last Khan of the Olets, Amursana, ran away into Russia but before his escape sent to Urga the sacred 'black stone.' While it remained in Urga so that the Living Buddha could bless the people with it, disease and misfortune never touched the Mongolians and their cattle. About one hundred years ago, however, some one stole the sacred stone and since then Buddhists have vainly sought it throughout the whole world. With its disappearance the Mongol people began gradually to die." (Ferdinand Ossendowski, Beasts, Men and Gods)