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Η Κοιλάδα των Ρόδων
Θα υπάρξει η Πλατωνική Πολιτεία το 4000 μ.Χ. στη Γη;
To 1921 o Ελβετός φιλέλληνας Πάουλ Αμαντέους Ντήναχ, μετά από ένα ατύχημα πέφτει σε ληθαργικό ύπνο (κλινικά νεκρός για 15 λεπτά). Η συνείδηση του διολισθαίνει μπροστά στον χρόνο. Βρίσκεται στο έτος 3906 μ.Χ. διατηρώντας όμως την συνείδηση του εαυτού του. Είναι μεταβιωμένος στον φυσικό επιστήμονα Ανδρέα Νόρθαμ.
Γνωρίζει τότε και μας μεταφέρει τα ιστορικά γεγονότα που συγκλόνισαν την ανθρωπότητα από το 2000 εώς το 4000 μ.Χ. Αναφέρεται στα επιτεύγματα του μεγάλου εκείνου πολιτισμού της 4ης χιλιετηρίδος στον οποίο θα ζήσουν οι μακρινοί απογόνοι των σημερινών Ευρωπαίων. Οραματίζεται μιά Πανοικουμένη με ιδιότυπο σοσιαλισμό, υπό την αιγίδα των Ευρωπαίων η οποία διαβιώνει μέσα σε μιά ανώτατη πνευματική ζωή - παράλληλη με την υλική ευημερία. Ο λυρικός λόγος, η καλλιτεχνική δημιουργία, ο φιλοσοφικός στοχασμός, η μεταφυσική πίστη, και όλες εν γένει οι αξίες και τα υψηλά ιδανικά φθάνουν στο απόγειο τους.
Το 3906 μ.Χ. Η ΚΟΙΛΑΔΑ ΤΩΝ ΡΟΔΩΝ - Η ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΩΤΕΥΟΥΣΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΗΣ (κάπου στη νότιο Ευρώπη στην περιοχή της Μεσογείου), κατοικείται από 6.000.000 ανθρώπους οι οποίοι είναι το απαύγασμα του πνευματικού κόσμου της υδρογείου. Εκεί ο HOMO SAPIENS-SAPIENS (Αλέξης Βόλκυ) μεταμορφώνεται (αποκτώντας την ΥΠΕΡΟΡΑΣΗ, την άμεση φώτιση και επαφή με το ΘΕIΟ/ΦΩΣ), σε HOMO OCCIDENTALIS-NOVUS, τον νέο άνθρωπο με ανατομικές αλλαγές στα κυριότερα εγκεφαλικά κέντρα.
Ο Πάουλ Αμαντέους Ντηναχ, κατέγραψε την εμπειρία του και παρέδωσε τα χειρόγραφα του στα Γερμανικά, στον μετέπειτα πρύτανη της Παντείου, Γεώργιο Παπαχατζή, τον μεταφραστή, σχολιαστή και πρώτο εκδότη, του εκπληκτικού αυτού σύγχρονου (προφητικού ή ιστορικού;) κειμένου. Πάντως τα όσα αναφέρει ο Ντήναχ (λέηζερ, πυρηνική ενέργεια, θερμοπυρηνκή έκρηξη, τρισδιάστατες εικόνες κ.α.) από το 1921 εώς το 2000 έχουν όλα επαληθευθεί. Καλή ανάγνωση με... ΑΝΑΜΝΗΣΕΙΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΜΕΛΛΟΝ... ΟΤΑΝ Ο ΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΕΞΑΦΑΝΙΖΕΤΑΙ.
To 1921 o Ελβετός φιλέλληνας Πάουλ Αμαντέους Ντήναχ, μετά από ένα ατύχημα πέφτει σε ληθαργικό ύπνο (κλινικά νεκρός για 15 λεπτά). Η συνείδηση του διολισθαίνει μπροστά στον χρόνο. Βρίσκεται στο έτος 3906 μ.Χ. διατηρώντας όμως την συνείδηση του εαυτού του. Είναι μεταβιωμένος στον φυσικό επιστήμονα Ανδρέα Νόρθαμ.
Γνωρίζει τότε και μας μεταφέρει τα ιστορικά γεγονότα που συγκλόνισαν την ανθρωπότητα από το 2000 εώς το 4000 μ.Χ. Αναφέρεται στα επιτεύγματα του μεγάλου εκείνου πολιτισμού της 4ης χιλιετηρίδος στον οποίο θα ζήσουν οι μακρινοί απογόνοι των σημερινών Ευρωπαίων. Οραματίζεται μιά Πανοικουμένη με ιδιότυπο σοσιαλισμό, υπό την αιγίδα των Ευρωπαίων η οποία διαβιώνει μέσα σε μιά ανώτατη πνευματική ζωή - παράλληλη με την υλική ευημερία. Ο λυρικός λόγος, η καλλιτεχνική δημιουργία, ο φιλοσοφικός στοχασμός, η μεταφυσική πίστη, και όλες εν γένει οι αξίες και τα υψηλά ιδανικά φθάνουν στο απόγειο τους.
Το 3906 μ.Χ. Η ΚΟΙΛΑΔΑ ΤΩΝ ΡΟΔΩΝ - Η ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΩΤΕΥΟΥΣΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΗΣ (κάπου στη νότιο Ευρώπη στην περιοχή της Μεσογείου), κατοικείται από 6.000.000 ανθρώπους οι οποίοι είναι το απαύγασμα του πνευματικού κόσμου της υδρογείου. Εκεί ο HOMO SAPIENS-SAPIENS (Αλέξης Βόλκυ) μεταμορφώνεται (αποκτώντας την ΥΠΕΡΟΡΑΣΗ, την άμεση φώτιση και επαφή με το ΘΕIΟ/ΦΩΣ), σε HOMO OCCIDENTALIS-NOVUS, τον νέο άνθρωπο με ανατομικές αλλαγές στα κυριότερα εγκεφαλικά κέντρα.
Ο Πάουλ Αμαντέους Ντηναχ, κατέγραψε την εμπειρία του και παρέδωσε τα χειρόγραφα του στα Γερμανικά, στον μετέπειτα πρύτανη της Παντείου, Γεώργιο Παπαχατζή, τον μεταφραστή, σχολιαστή και πρώτο εκδότη, του εκπληκτικού αυτού σύγχρονου (προφητικού ή ιστορικού;) κειμένου. Πάντως τα όσα αναφέρει ο Ντήναχ (λέηζερ, πυρηνική ενέργεια, θερμοπυρηνκή έκρηξη, τρισδιάστατες εικόνες κ.α.) από το 1921 εώς το 2000 έχουν όλα επαληθευθεί. Καλή ανάγνωση με... ΑΝΑΜΝΗΣΕΙΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΜΕΛΛΟΝ... ΟΤΑΝ Ο ΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΕΞΑΦΑΝΙΖΕΤΑΙ.
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First published January 1, 1972
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July 16, 2016
I was dying to pick up this book: what a fascinating subject. The idea that someone from the early 20th century entered a future man's body and experienced life while his 1920s self was in a coma is beyond fascinating.
Whether or not this was simply an extraordinary dream, fantasy or an actual occurrence (something I'm open to) is not proven here; or even provable (yet). But the story shows great credibility for a few reasons:
- descriptions of technology similar to tvs, computers, tablets, Internet, virtual reality and so on. This is a fellow who did most of his living during the Belle Époque era; he would have no idea about this sort of technology.
- the descriptions of the state of society in the late 20th century and early 21st century is completely apt.
- without giving away specifics, his descriptions of the future seem in the realms of possibility.
Given that we are reading a diary excerpt, there are times when the entries get a bit repetitive, and that really is my only complaint about the book.
I'm hopeful that the author's insight into the future is apt. It is an inspiring, spiritual and hopeful story. It would be a good outcome for mankind.
Whether or not this was simply an extraordinary dream, fantasy or an actual occurrence (something I'm open to) is not proven here; or even provable (yet). But the story shows great credibility for a few reasons:
- descriptions of technology similar to tvs, computers, tablets, Internet, virtual reality and so on. This is a fellow who did most of his living during the Belle Époque era; he would have no idea about this sort of technology.
- the descriptions of the state of society in the late 20th century and early 21st century is completely apt.
- without giving away specifics, his descriptions of the future seem in the realms of possibility.
Given that we are reading a diary excerpt, there are times when the entries get a bit repetitive, and that really is my only complaint about the book.
I'm hopeful that the author's insight into the future is apt. It is an inspiring, spiritual and hopeful story. It would be a good outcome for mankind.
December 20, 2015
Just came across it 2 days ago.
The world has never seen a book like this before. It changed my perspective of life.
Awe!
The world has never seen a book like this before. It changed my perspective of life.
Awe!
May 29, 2016
Sui generis book.
This is not a ticket to a roller coaster amusement ride but to a great spiritual journey.
It's the diary of a man that apparently went through a lot more than a human mind can handle. Whether he was hallucinating or not is not the primary concern.
This diary will force you into our dark deep future through what is indeed likely to happen. However, the final destiny will fill your soul with joy and hope.
During this journey you will realize what kind of society we live in nowadays and it will become clear to you what it should be done to, at last, evolve to the species this planet deserves.
This is not a ticket to a roller coaster amusement ride but to a great spiritual journey.
It's the diary of a man that apparently went through a lot more than a human mind can handle. Whether he was hallucinating or not is not the primary concern.
This diary will force you into our dark deep future through what is indeed likely to happen. However, the final destiny will fill your soul with joy and hope.
During this journey you will realize what kind of society we live in nowadays and it will become clear to you what it should be done to, at last, evolve to the species this planet deserves.
Shelved as 'dnf-not-my-cup-of-coffee'
August 28, 2020Abandoned at 20%. I’m not the one who can judge his experience, however it’s hard to believe people in year 3906 have almost the same hospitals as we do today and still believe in miracles and the hand of God.
August 12, 2014
Ο λόγος που βάζω 5 αστέρια είναι ο εξής: Το βιβλίο πραγματικά αποπνέει αισιοδοξία για το μέλλον του ανθρωπίνου είδους. Έχουν επικρατήσει τα ιδεώδη της αγάπης και του αλτρουϊσμού στην εποχή του 3906, που τοποθετείται η ιστορία του βιβλίου.
Έχω αρκετές ενστάσεις ωστόσο: Ο Ντήναχ παρουσιάζει ως πρωτοφανέρωτες κάποιες συλλήψεις και ιδέες της μακρυνής αυτής εποχής, όπως το γεγονός ότι το Απρόσωπο Υπέρτατο Ον είναι πολύ πέραν οποιασδήποτε ικανότητας του ανθρώπου να Το αντιληφθεί και πολύ πέραν του τι νοηματοδοτείται από τις απόψεις μας περί Ωραίου, θεωρείται αυτονόητη η ύπαρξη δισεκατομμυρίων κατοικημένων κόσμων, η ύπαρξη πνευματικών διαστάσεων, κτλ. Όμως, αυτές οι έννοιες και απόψεις είναι ήδη γνωστές σε διάφορους φιλοσόφους και μύστες όλων των εποχών και θρησκειών. Το καινούριο στην εποχή αυτή την μακρυνή, είναι η μαζική διάδοση τους.
Επίσης, ο Ντήναχ είναι απόλυτα Ευρωκεντρικός και θαυμάζει απεριόριστα τον Ευρωπαϊκό πολιτισμό, θεωρώντας αυτονόητα κατώτερους τους άλλους, υποστηρίζει την αποικιοκρατία, κτλ. Ωστόσο, αυτά μπορούν να αποδοθούν στις προκαταλήψεις της εποχής του Ντήναχ (αρχές 20ου αιώνα). Το γεγονός ότι ο Ντήναχ δε γνωρίζει για τα πνευματικά επιτεύγματα των θρησκειών και λαών εκτός Ευρώπης (και είναι πάρα πολλά και ίσα, αν όχι ανώτερα των Ευρωπαϊκών, κατά την άποψη μου), δε μειώνει την αγνότητα της ψυχής του Ντήναχ και το γεγονός ότι, άσχετα αν αυτά που περιγράφει γίνουν ή όχι, εξωτερικεύει ένα υπέροχο μήνυμα: αυτό της παγκόσμιας αδελφότητας και της πίστης ότι ο άνθρωπος θα το υλοποιήσει.
Άσχετα λοιπόν από τις προκαταλήψεις και τα κενά τα γνωστικά και πνευματικά του Ντήναχ, το βιβλίο μεταφέρει πανέμορφες συλλήψεις, σε ωραία ποιητική γλώσσα και με ανοιξιάτικη αύρα.
Έχω αρκετές ενστάσεις ωστόσο: Ο Ντήναχ παρουσιάζει ως πρωτοφανέρωτες κάποιες συλλήψεις και ιδέες της μακρυνής αυτής εποχής, όπως το γεγονός ότι το Απρόσωπο Υπέρτατο Ον είναι πολύ πέραν οποιασδήποτε ικανότητας του ανθρώπου να Το αντιληφθεί και πολύ πέραν του τι νοηματοδοτείται από τις απόψεις μας περί Ωραίου, θεωρείται αυτονόητη η ύπαρξη δισεκατομμυρίων κατοικημένων κόσμων, η ύπαρξη πνευματικών διαστάσεων, κτλ. Όμως, αυτές οι έννοιες και απόψεις είναι ήδη γνωστές σε διάφορους φιλοσόφους και μύστες όλων των εποχών και θρησκειών. Το καινούριο στην εποχή αυτή την μακρυνή, είναι η μαζική διάδοση τους.
Επίσης, ο Ντήναχ είναι απόλυτα Ευρωκεντρικός και θαυμάζει απεριόριστα τον Ευρωπαϊκό πολιτισμό, θεωρώντας αυτονόητα κατώτερους τους άλλους, υποστηρίζει την αποικιοκρατία, κτλ. Ωστόσο, αυτά μπορούν να αποδοθούν στις προκαταλήψεις της εποχής του Ντήναχ (αρχές 20ου αιώνα). Το γεγονός ότι ο Ντήναχ δε γνωρίζει για τα πνευματικά επιτεύγματα των θρησκειών και λαών εκτός Ευρώπης (και είναι πάρα πολλά και ίσα, αν όχι ανώτερα των Ευρωπαϊκών, κατά την άποψη μου), δε μειώνει την αγνότητα της ψυχής του Ντήναχ και το γεγονός ότι, άσχετα αν αυτά που περιγράφει γίνουν ή όχι, εξωτερικεύει ένα υπέροχο μήνυμα: αυτό της παγκόσμιας αδελφότητας και της πίστης ότι ο άνθρωπος θα το υλοποιήσει.
Άσχετα λοιπόν από τις προκαταλήψεις και τα κενά τα γνωστικά και πνευματικά του Ντήναχ, το βιβλίο μεταφέρει πανέμορφες συλλήψεις, σε ωραία ποιητική γλώσσα και με ανοιξιάτικη αύρα.
July 16, 2021
Is this a hoax? The undertone of eugenic thinking does seem accurate to someone from 1914, but he doesn’t use terms and turns of phrase that someone growing up during the Victorian era would use, so that was one of my first red flags.
Another red flag was the many words used in the book were coined post-1940 and weren’t italicized like the other “futuristic� words. I’m guessing someone wrote this book sometime after WWII. If that is true, then this isn’t even a good example of speculative fiction; the popular science fiction authors of the time period had already introduced most of these ideas in better works.
My last red flag was that this book focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries, while leaving the next 1300 years rather vague. Besides mentioning a failed Mars colony and an atomic war, there isn’t much detail of what happened during those years.
It’s an interesting read, but I don’t believe it is real.
Another red flag was the many words used in the book were coined post-1940 and weren’t italicized like the other “futuristic� words. I’m guessing someone wrote this book sometime after WWII. If that is true, then this isn’t even a good example of speculative fiction; the popular science fiction authors of the time period had already introduced most of these ideas in better works.
My last red flag was that this book focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries, while leaving the next 1300 years rather vague. Besides mentioning a failed Mars colony and an atomic war, there isn’t much detail of what happened during those years.
It’s an interesting read, but I don’t believe it is real.
July 1, 2016
This book claims to follow a Swiss teacher named Paul Amadeus Dienach in his 360 days in the future. In his diary, he took over the body of one Andrew Northam, a resident of the year 3906. This is actually the claim made by Georgio Papachatzis. Of the two, Georgio was an actual person, although Dienach I am not so certain.
Papachatzis makes the claim that, as a student of Dienach's tutelage teaching the German language in Greece, circa 1920. According to Papachatzis, Dienach left his diary to Papachatzis before his death, explaining only to the student should read them to improve on his understanding of German. When Papachatzkis read the diary, he discovered the amazing story of Dienach's experiences in the future, while the latter resided in the body of Andrew Northam. Papachatzis purportedly translated the diary, which was actually released in 1922 in as "Valley of the Roses".
Reading this book, I found the story to feel very much more of a work of prose than a diary. As for its validity as a presentation of an actual journey to the future, I cannot bring myself to agree that this is likely. It may be that there was a man called Paul Amadeus Dienach who went comatose for an extended period, and that he left his diaries to Papachatzis exactly as described, yet there is little here to suggest Dienach actually visited the future. Most of the predictions are largely unsurprising to a science fiction writer of the era, containing a feel not too dissimilar to Bellamy's "Looking Backward" written in the late 19th century.
As a piece of relatively engaging Radium Age Speculative Fiction, I would recommend it as a good read. As a factual account of the future, I would not recommend it at all. Without a confirmation from Dienach that the diary entries were anything more than a fiction, it's impossible to corroborate. Even with that, it's possible Dienach only dreamed he visited the future while in his comatose state, believing the events as having occurred.
Papachatzis makes the claim that, as a student of Dienach's tutelage teaching the German language in Greece, circa 1920. According to Papachatzis, Dienach left his diary to Papachatzis before his death, explaining only to the student should read them to improve on his understanding of German. When Papachatzkis read the diary, he discovered the amazing story of Dienach's experiences in the future, while the latter resided in the body of Andrew Northam. Papachatzis purportedly translated the diary, which was actually released in 1922 in as "Valley of the Roses".
Reading this book, I found the story to feel very much more of a work of prose than a diary. As for its validity as a presentation of an actual journey to the future, I cannot bring myself to agree that this is likely. It may be that there was a man called Paul Amadeus Dienach who went comatose for an extended period, and that he left his diaries to Papachatzis exactly as described, yet there is little here to suggest Dienach actually visited the future. Most of the predictions are largely unsurprising to a science fiction writer of the era, containing a feel not too dissimilar to Bellamy's "Looking Backward" written in the late 19th century.
As a piece of relatively engaging Radium Age Speculative Fiction, I would recommend it as a good read. As a factual account of the future, I would not recommend it at all. Without a confirmation from Dienach that the diary entries were anything more than a fiction, it's impossible to corroborate. Even with that, it's possible Dienach only dreamed he visited the future while in his comatose state, believing the events as having occurred.
May 29, 2016
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Biltur partners: Travel agency workers.
Bilvej: Colossal motorway running through Eurasia.
Bigvirch: The great Virch.
Civesheim: Luxury inn or permanent residence for citizens (Cives).
Civeshostels: See Civesheim.
Civis[pl.Cives]: Citizen who has completed the two-year service.
Civesgard: The crimson palace.
Consumfiorinin: Consumer collective.
Daner: Immense oblong aircraft named after the man who invented them.
Eldere: Old times.
Forening: Collective or union. In northern Europe they are called Brugsforening.
Furgos: Specially designed car parks.
Gammel epoke: See Eldere.
Gestalad: Luxury hotel.
Gestel: Luxury inn similar to a Gestalad.
Glothner: Vast state-owned industrial cities.
Gretlys: The Great Light.
Gretvirch: The Great Virch (see Virch).
Ilector: High-ranking officials of the intelligentsia with a special position in society.
Kierketaarns: Round or ellipsoid temples with white, circular colonnades.
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Larinter: Sport centres.
Lilleskole: Primary school.
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Lipvirch: True love, sharing many similarities with young love. It is considered a glimmer of the Samith.
Lorffe: High-ranking officials of the intelligentsia, leaders of society.
Lys: Light.
Mindre skole: A smaller school of primary education.
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Nojere: New times.
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Oversynssans: see Oversyn
Quay: Airport runway.
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Swage: see Reigen-Swage.
Storlys: The Great Light.
Tilteys [pl.]: Officials of the intelligentsia but not the highest ranking ones.
Troje: work uniform.
Unge: Youngster up to the age of 17 who voluntarily participates in the ‘following� of the intelligentsia greats.
Vigioza: Private flying vehicles.
Vindebros: Bridges designed for mild hiking.
Vilenthen: Secondary school.
Virch: Term coined by the Aidersen Institute of unknown etymology meaning the valuable new intellectual and spiritual capabilities added to human cognition and psyche after the appearance of the new species Homo Occidentalis Novus in 3382 AD.
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Biglys: The Great Light.
Biltur partners: Travel agency workers.
Bilvej: Colossal motorway running through Eurasia.
Bigvirch: The great Virch.
Civesheim: Luxury inn or permanent residence for citizens (Cives).
Civeshostels: See Civesheim.
Civis[pl.Cives]: Citizen who has completed the two-year service.
Civesgard: The crimson palace.
Consumfiorinin: Consumer collective.
Daner: Immense oblong aircraft named after the man who invented them.
Eldere: Old times.
Forening: Collective or union. In northern Europe they are called Brugsforening.
Furgos: Specially designed car parks.
Gammel epoke: See Eldere.
Gestalad: Luxury hotel.
Gestel: Luxury inn similar to a Gestalad.
Glothner: Vast state-owned industrial cities.
Gretlys: The Great Light.
Gretvirch: The Great Virch (see Virch).
Ilector: High-ranking officials of the intelligentsia with a special position in society.
Kierketaarns: Round or ellipsoid temples with white, circular colonnades.
Kjole: Ritual robe.
Lansbee: Rural area.
Larinter: Sport centres.
Lilleskole: Primary school.
Linsen: Flying vehicle for private use, named after its inventor.
Lipvirch: True love, sharing many similarities with young love. It is considered a glimmer of the Samith.
Lorffe: High-ranking officials of the intelligentsia, leaders of society.
Lys: Light.
Mindre skole: A smaller school of primary education.
Nibelvirch: Term coined by the Aidersen Institute of unknown etymology meaning the new cognitive ability attained by people, a new antenna of comprehension. Thanks to the Nibelvirch, the human brain was able to perceive new fields of reality.
Nojere: New times.
Oversyn: Enlightenment due to the Nibelvirch, a new dynamic in cognition.
Oversynssans: see Oversyn
Quay: Airport runway.
Ragioza: [pl.] Transcontinental, multi-storeyed, articulated vehicles used as public means of transport.
Reigen: see Reigen-Swage.
Reigen-Swage: Projection device named after its two inventors combining sound and image in varying sizes ranging from small personal devices to wall-screen. Something like our television.
Retsstat: The establishment of the Universal Commonwealth with law and order.
Roisvirch: Spiritual happiness of a higher level, a very intense emotion similar to ecstasy often beyond what humans can bear. In the latter case, it may lead to suicide.
Samith: Term coined by the Aidersen Institute of unknown etymology meaning the whole of all existence. Its essence is incomprehensible to finite human capabilities
Slaabrok: A uniform of short, dark-coloured trousers with black stripes that stop slightly below the knee, green silk high socks, a white double breasted vest with white lapels, a green stole-belt and special white boots.
Swage: see Reigen-Swage.
Storlys: The Great Light.
Tilteys [pl.]: Officials of the intelligentsia but not the highest ranking ones.
Troje: work uniform.
Unge: Youngster up to the age of 17 who voluntarily participates in the ‘following� of the intelligentsia greats.
Vigioza: Private flying vehicles.
Vindebros: Bridges designed for mild hiking.
Vilenthen: Secondary school.
Virch: Term coined by the Aidersen Institute of unknown etymology meaning the valuable new intellectual and spiritual capabilities added to human cognition and psyche after the appearance of the new species Homo Occidentalis Novus in 3382 AD.
Werksted: Factory
June 11, 2019
This book is extremely interesting. It has been under intense scrutiny since it's publication, both from believers in time travel and non-believers alike. Either way, what happened to the person whose journals are translated here are quite a mystery.
Paul Amadeus Dienach is a Swiss-Austrian teacher who falls into a coma in 1921. It is during this time that his consciousness travels through time to 3906 and enters the body of a man.
When Dienach awakens from his coma, he writes down of his experiences 2000 years into the future as he remembers them. In fragile health, he does not want to leave the Earth without putting what happened to him down in writing. What does the future hold for mankind? What technological breakthroughs will happen? When you read this, you must keep in mind that it was written in 1921 before many advances that we now have weren't even being thought about, so try to imagine yourself leaving 1921 and awakening in 3906.
Since he realizes his time is short, he entrusts his diary to his student George Papachatzis, one of his very favorite students and the only one he trusts with his diaries. Papachatzis eventually becomes a Professor of Law and Rector of Panteon University, located in Greece. While there, the knowledge contained in the diary is shared with a few select people, including some in The Masons, who consider the book to be holy and one which must be protected from the world at large.
However, many years late (1972), Papachatzis decides to publish the diaries in Greek. To say some people were not happy with this would be an understatement. Another edition was published in 1979, and then the books basically disappeared without a lot of fanfare.
Eventually the book is found, interpreted, and made public, and this is the result of that effort. It is not a book to go quickly through or you will miss a lot of important information.
Paul Amadeus Dienach is a Swiss-Austrian teacher who falls into a coma in 1921. It is during this time that his consciousness travels through time to 3906 and enters the body of a man.
When Dienach awakens from his coma, he writes down of his experiences 2000 years into the future as he remembers them. In fragile health, he does not want to leave the Earth without putting what happened to him down in writing. What does the future hold for mankind? What technological breakthroughs will happen? When you read this, you must keep in mind that it was written in 1921 before many advances that we now have weren't even being thought about, so try to imagine yourself leaving 1921 and awakening in 3906.
Since he realizes his time is short, he entrusts his diary to his student George Papachatzis, one of his very favorite students and the only one he trusts with his diaries. Papachatzis eventually becomes a Professor of Law and Rector of Panteon University, located in Greece. While there, the knowledge contained in the diary is shared with a few select people, including some in The Masons, who consider the book to be holy and one which must be protected from the world at large.
However, many years late (1972), Papachatzis decides to publish the diaries in Greek. To say some people were not happy with this would be an understatement. Another edition was published in 1979, and then the books basically disappeared without a lot of fanfare.
Eventually the book is found, interpreted, and made public, and this is the result of that effort. It is not a book to go quickly through or you will miss a lot of important information.
March 7, 2020
Traducción pésima. Menuda Trola.
December 18, 2023
Took me a long time to read, hard to get into. I was initially interested in the main story, but after the story got into the future there was too much over explaining every detail of life in the future and the philosophy of it all. Most of the time it felt like some kind of travel guide. Mentioning minute details about all the fantastic places the author was describing.
May 18, 2021
Non so neanche da dove iniziare. Questo libro mi ha un po' sconvolto la vita; mi ha insegnato ad essere fiduciosa nell'ineluttabilità della storia umana, delle sue brutture come passaggio necessario al fine di "salire di livello" - diventare una civiltà più evoluta e consapevole che scienza e religione possono unirsi e ogni disparità appiattita.
Partiamo dal principio: Dienach non era uno scrittore di fantascienza né, stando alla testimonianza del suo ex allievo, avrebbe mai voluto che il suo diario fosse pubblicato. Se non erro, Dienach era un professore di letteratura. Che ne poteva sapere di tecnologia antigravitazionale, pellicce sintetiche e ologrammi, negli anni '20?
Nel libro, sono presenti molti, inquietanti elementi che corrispondono a quello che poi si è effettivamente verificato. Droni, personaggi dello spettacolo che vengono osannati, video-olografici, autostrade con corsie preferenziali, antigravitazionalità e tante altre cose precise, descritte nel dettaglio - che un uomo degli anni '20, a mio avviso, non avrebbe mai potuto concepire perchè, appunto, troppo aderenti all'attualità di oggi.
Dunque, dove sta la verità? Dienach era un ciarlatano? Anche quando si è ritrovato a menzionare il titolo esatto di un film (Waterloo) - ricordiamolo, scrivendolo negli anni '20! - girato nel 1970?
Il mistero rimane, perchè le controversie sono molte, in "Chronicles from the Future" - il mio nuovo libro preferito. Ammesso e non concesso che Dienach si fosse inventato tutto perché voleva scrivere una bella favoletta - rimane comunque il fatto che la storia di un uomo che, risvegliatosi da un coma, si ritrova in un futuro del genere non è originale... di più. Cinque stelle sono poche.
Altro punto a favore dell'innocenza di Dienach è il suo stile narrativo svelto; tutti i dettagli sulle verità e gli oggetti del futuro sono buttati lì uno dopo l'altro, con le parole di chi sa che la sua mente non è all'altezza di quello che sta guardando. E non riesce a descriverlo appieno, ma ci prova.
E questa recensione la protrarrei all'infinito, perchè c'è tanto - troppo - da dire su un libro del genere, che non ho neanche compreso appieno per via dell'inglese un po' complesso e intriso di concetti filosofici ultra-futuristici e quasi inafferrabili dalla mente umana. Ma concludo con questo estratto del libro che, secondo me, è davvero eloquente e inquietante.
Parla degli anni 2000 (!):
"Perchè quel tempo libero dei lavoratori fu riempito di spettacoli di bassa qualità e intrattenimento in generale, come il gioco d'azzardo, le corse di velocità, giochi sportivi e mass media volgari. La musica ridotta a semplici melodie e ritmi, i capolavori della letteratura circolavano in riassuntini illustrati e il pensiero era considerato una perdita di tempo! Un'altra caratteristica di quel tempo era che la gente aveva perso la sua capacità di distinguere il bene dal male e il bello dal brutto nell'arte e nella creazione (...)"
Paul A. Dienach, 1923
Partiamo dal principio: Dienach non era uno scrittore di fantascienza né, stando alla testimonianza del suo ex allievo, avrebbe mai voluto che il suo diario fosse pubblicato. Se non erro, Dienach era un professore di letteratura. Che ne poteva sapere di tecnologia antigravitazionale, pellicce sintetiche e ologrammi, negli anni '20?
Nel libro, sono presenti molti, inquietanti elementi che corrispondono a quello che poi si è effettivamente verificato. Droni, personaggi dello spettacolo che vengono osannati, video-olografici, autostrade con corsie preferenziali, antigravitazionalità e tante altre cose precise, descritte nel dettaglio - che un uomo degli anni '20, a mio avviso, non avrebbe mai potuto concepire perchè, appunto, troppo aderenti all'attualità di oggi.
Dunque, dove sta la verità? Dienach era un ciarlatano? Anche quando si è ritrovato a menzionare il titolo esatto di un film (Waterloo) - ricordiamolo, scrivendolo negli anni '20! - girato nel 1970?
Il mistero rimane, perchè le controversie sono molte, in "Chronicles from the Future" - il mio nuovo libro preferito. Ammesso e non concesso che Dienach si fosse inventato tutto perché voleva scrivere una bella favoletta - rimane comunque il fatto che la storia di un uomo che, risvegliatosi da un coma, si ritrova in un futuro del genere non è originale... di più. Cinque stelle sono poche.
Altro punto a favore dell'innocenza di Dienach è il suo stile narrativo svelto; tutti i dettagli sulle verità e gli oggetti del futuro sono buttati lì uno dopo l'altro, con le parole di chi sa che la sua mente non è all'altezza di quello che sta guardando. E non riesce a descriverlo appieno, ma ci prova.
E questa recensione la protrarrei all'infinito, perchè c'è tanto - troppo - da dire su un libro del genere, che non ho neanche compreso appieno per via dell'inglese un po' complesso e intriso di concetti filosofici ultra-futuristici e quasi inafferrabili dalla mente umana. Ma concludo con questo estratto del libro che, secondo me, è davvero eloquente e inquietante.
Parla degli anni 2000 (!):
"Perchè quel tempo libero dei lavoratori fu riempito di spettacoli di bassa qualità e intrattenimento in generale, come il gioco d'azzardo, le corse di velocità, giochi sportivi e mass media volgari. La musica ridotta a semplici melodie e ritmi, i capolavori della letteratura circolavano in riassuntini illustrati e il pensiero era considerato una perdita di tempo! Un'altra caratteristica di quel tempo era che la gente aveva perso la sua capacità di distinguere il bene dal male e il bello dal brutto nell'arte e nella creazione (...)"
Paul A. Dienach, 1923
January 20, 2021
Dienach's personal story is amazing, and the man who published "The Valley of the Roses" (used as the basis for "Chronicles from the Future"), Georgios Papachatzis, was an illustrious professor of law and a jurist in Greece, not some crackpot cult leader.
Looking into this further, however, I have to wonder if Dienach's experience was colored by the racial thinking of his era. First, the people of the future speak an unknown Nordic language (with Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian roots). Second, the globally-depopulating future atomic world war he describes wipes out most of the "yellow and black races." Third, to top it off, Dienach reported that a new species of human being, named Homo Occidantalis Novus, will follow today’s Homo sapiens. These three things sound eerily reminiscent of the "racial thinking" popular in the German-speaking world at that time.
Some make much of the fact that Dienach predicts things like atomic bombs that were unknown in 1921. This is not entirely true. In 1914, H.G. Wells wrote of uranium-based "atomic bombs" thrown from aeroplanes, so the thought of nuclear weapons was already "out there" by the early 1920s in popular literature. It is quite possible that the well-read Dienach was familiar with H.G. Wells and similar writers and thus it is not extraordinary that Dienach would incorporate this futuristic thinking into his "experience."
Whatever it is, Dienach's story is an unusual one. If we take the story at face value, while in a year-long Encephalitis lethargiea coma, he fantastically experienced an entire year's life "elsewhere." Even as a prolonged dream, this is interesting in itself.
My "two stars" rating is in response to those who take it seriously as something more - as some concrete "prediction of the future."
Looking into this further, however, I have to wonder if Dienach's experience was colored by the racial thinking of his era. First, the people of the future speak an unknown Nordic language (with Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian roots). Second, the globally-depopulating future atomic world war he describes wipes out most of the "yellow and black races." Third, to top it off, Dienach reported that a new species of human being, named Homo Occidantalis Novus, will follow today’s Homo sapiens. These three things sound eerily reminiscent of the "racial thinking" popular in the German-speaking world at that time.
Some make much of the fact that Dienach predicts things like atomic bombs that were unknown in 1921. This is not entirely true. In 1914, H.G. Wells wrote of uranium-based "atomic bombs" thrown from aeroplanes, so the thought of nuclear weapons was already "out there" by the early 1920s in popular literature. It is quite possible that the well-read Dienach was familiar with H.G. Wells and similar writers and thus it is not extraordinary that Dienach would incorporate this futuristic thinking into his "experience."
Whatever it is, Dienach's story is an unusual one. If we take the story at face value, while in a year-long Encephalitis lethargiea coma, he fantastically experienced an entire year's life "elsewhere." Even as a prolonged dream, this is interesting in itself.
My "two stars" rating is in response to those who take it seriously as something more - as some concrete "prediction of the future."
January 27, 2021
Ταξιδιωτική πεζογραφία. Προφητικό η όχι, ήταν ένα υπέροχο ταξίδι που το φιλοσοφησα αρκετό καιρό εξαιτίας του μεγέθους του.
January 12, 2022
Whether it's fact or fiction, it's worth a read
December 30, 2020
Seems legit, though important to note one of many timelines, it in highly improbable one will experience the same future as the one Dinach experienced in the late 1910's. There will be Some similarities such as that people will be more spiritual in far future as we are entering the age of love and understanding.
The saddest part of the book was that pretty much all non white races got exterminated during the 2300-2400AD timeframe, and the future culture Dinach was in was almost devoid of any understanding of spirituality beyond the joy of arts, crafts and dance.
There was no meditation or Eastern mysticism since they had exterminated all Asian people.
They also blamed the extinction of African and Asian people on African an Asian people.
The saddest part of the book was that pretty much all non white races got exterminated during the 2300-2400AD timeframe, and the future culture Dinach was in was almost devoid of any understanding of spirituality beyond the joy of arts, crafts and dance.
There was no meditation or Eastern mysticism since they had exterminated all Asian people.
They also blamed the extinction of African and Asian people on African an Asian people.
September 17, 2017
I couldn't resist reading a book with this title; that details the story of a Swiss-Austrian man who in 1921, falls into a one-year long coma, during which his consciousness slides into the body of another man...in the year 3906. Both the title and the subject matter sounded great, but unfortunately I found this a rather difficult book to get into. Firstly, it is actually a diary, so you don't have the smooth flow you would get from a novel or a work of non-fiction. Secondly I suspect much is lost in the translation. This diary was most likely translated into Greek and then later English. The end result just doesn't read well. Then there are all the new words and concepts (from the year 3906) that you're forever opening the glossary in the back of the book. At times I found the book quite tedious. As for for the subject matter of the book, it's certainly food for thought. Could this have been a future life (reincarnation)? Was it our future or an alternate Earth? Some of the things he records about the future, certainly seem plausible, e.g. A Mars colony in the 24th century. Other things leave me doubtful, e.g. a nuclear war that devastates most of Europe (except Scandinavia) and Africa. How our world could recover from something like that and go on to build an advanced and unified global culture after that is beyond me.
January 12, 2022
A waste of time: Out of body experience meets Marty McFly, or a tv gossip show.
As a first-person esoteric book, these Chronicles from the future fall into a rather simplistic 20th century European new-age depiction of an "all-is-well" futuristic society after "the great nuclear war of 2309". Too predictable and boring. As a fictional reading, it is decently supported although patronising and flimsy.
The narrative revolves about spiritually and personal romanticism leaving behind a more interesting description of future happenings between now and then. At stages it feels like the narrator is in awe for rediscovering Buddhism in a Jaques Fresco's Project Venus scene.
A more serious recommendations on the same topics: (OBE) Journeys Out of the Body by Robert A. Monroe. (Austrian New Age) How to survive capitalism? by Ursus Schwarz (Sci-fi Futurism) Any book or short story by Isaac Asimov.
As a first-person esoteric book, these Chronicles from the future fall into a rather simplistic 20th century European new-age depiction of an "all-is-well" futuristic society after "the great nuclear war of 2309". Too predictable and boring. As a fictional reading, it is decently supported although patronising and flimsy.
The narrative revolves about spiritually and personal romanticism leaving behind a more interesting description of future happenings between now and then. At stages it feels like the narrator is in awe for rediscovering Buddhism in a Jaques Fresco's Project Venus scene.
A more serious recommendations on the same topics: (OBE) Journeys Out of the Body by Robert A. Monroe. (Austrian New Age) How to survive capitalism? by Ursus Schwarz (Sci-fi Futurism) Any book or short story by Isaac Asimov.
November 1, 2016
This is , without a doubt, one of the strangest books I have EVER read. This purports to be non-fiction, a true story of a man who someone slipped into our future - 2000 years hence. It is written in a way that makes you believe this is truly a diary of a non-writer. I hated the writer of the diary; he was always whining, depressed, obsessed. But the story is pretty incredible. It becomes hard to follow at times, so it is not a pleasant or easy read. Don't quite know what to make of it all.
September 14, 2024
Щях да дам 5 звезди и да я нарека прекрасна фантастика, ако не претендираше за достоверност.
Книгата проследява преживяванията на реално съществуващата личност Пол Динах(1886-1924), която през 1922 г. изпада в кома и преживява "духовно пътуване във времето" към далечното бъдеще.
В съня си Пол вижда едно утопично морално общество, лишено от конфликти и живеещо в просперитет. То следва философия, която лично на мен много ми напомня за дъновизма и вероятно отразява авторовите виждания за света.
Интересното за мен е броят на ре��лно случилите се събития, които Динах предвижда\вижда като глобализацията, създаването на компютъра и изкуствения интелект, формирането на Европейския съюз, който постепенно се превръща в обща за всички европейски народи държава, изобретяването и употребата на атомни оръжия, колонизорането на Марс (което описва като неуспешно) и др. Говорим за човек, умрял след края на Първата световна война (книгата обаче е публикувана по-късно от негов ученик по записките му и е възможно да е пипнал това-онова).
Трябва обаче да се отбележат и някои недомислиц��, които според мен затвърждават, че това е просто една утопия, създадена от мозъка на историк, а не задължително пътуването във времето, което той самият смята, че е изживял. Динах описва много подробно образованието и ценностите на това перфектно и безгрешно духовно извисено общество, но има доста пропуски що се отнася до неговата икономика и управление, което струва ми се, би било полезно знание, към което всеки би проявил любопитство. Знаем, че цялото население е подложено на двугодишен трудов стаж в производството в края на средното си образование. След това е свободно да се занимава с духвони дейности. Как тази младеж изхранва всички останали? Защо тогава се появяват по-възрастни герои, които все още работят? Как функционира пазарът? Какво е здравеопазването? Какви са данъците? Ползват ли се въобще пари? Какъв е строят - знаем, че глобалното правителство се управлява не от политици, а от интелектуалци и професори (въпреки че това е глупаво разграничение, защото и днес голяма част от политиците на световно ниво са специалисти и професори), но как те биват избирани? Какви са приоритетите на едно глобално правителство и как се развива то без конкуренция?
Динах пропуска и да спомене едно ключово събитие, от което бихме помислили, че ще се поинтересува - Втората световна война. Както и всичко след нея - това, което за неговите съвременници е било близко бъдеще. Но пък хей, може да не споменава никъде за геноцида над евреите и издигането на национализма, но в неговата история има друг геноцид - на всички раси, които не са европедината. Дап, перфектното общество на Динах е бяло и говорещо футуристичен език, принадлежащ към германската езикова група. Действителен сън на един друг човек от 20-ти век.
Книгата проследява преживяванията на реално съществуващата личност Пол Динах(1886-1924), която през 1922 г. изпада в кома и преживява "духовно пътуване във времето" към далечното бъдеще.
В съня си Пол вижда едно утопично морално общество, лишено от конфликти и живеещо в просперитет. То следва философия, която лично на мен много ми напомня за дъновизма и вероятно отразява авторовите виждания за света.
Интересното за мен е броят на ре��лно случилите се събития, които Динах предвижда\вижда като глобализацията, създаването на компютъра и изкуствения интелект, формирането на Европейския съюз, който постепенно се превръща в обща за всички европейски народи държава, изобретяването и употребата на атомни оръжия, колонизорането на Марс (което описва като неуспешно) и др. Говорим за човек, умрял след края на Първата световна война (книгата обаче е публикувана по-късно от негов ученик по записките му и е възможно да е пипнал това-онова).
Трябва обаче да се отбележат и някои недомислиц��, които според мен затвърждават, че това е просто една утопия, създадена от мозъка на историк, а не задължително пътуването във времето, което той самият смята, че е изживял. Динах описва много подробно образованието и ценностите на това перфектно и безгрешно духовно извисено общество, но има доста пропуски що се отнася до неговата икономика и управление, което струва ми се, би било полезно знание, към което всеки би проявил любопитство. Знаем, че цялото население е подложено на двугодишен трудов стаж в производството в края на средното си образование. След това е свободно да се занимава с духвони дейности. Как тази младеж изхранва всички останали? Защо тогава се появяват по-възрастни герои, които все още работят? Как функционира пазарът? Какво е здравеопазването? Какви са данъците? Ползват ли се въобще пари? Какъв е строят - знаем, че глобалното правителство се управлява не от политици, а от интелектуалци и професори (въпреки че това е глупаво разграничение, защото и днес голяма част от политиците на световно ниво са специалисти и професори), но как те биват избирани? Какви са приоритетите на едно глобално правителство и как се развива то без конкуренция?
Динах пропуска и да спомене едно ключово събитие, от което бихме помислили, че ще се поинтересува - Втората световна война. Както и всичко след нея - това, което за неговите съвременници е било близко бъдеще. Но пък хей, може да не споменава никъде за геноцида над евреите и издигането на национализма, но в неговата история има друг геноцид - на всички раси, които не са европедината. Дап, перфектното общество на Динах е бяло и говорещо футуристичен език, принадлежащ към германската езикова група. Действителен сън на един друг човек от 20-ти век.
August 26, 2024
This, as far as I am concerned, is a fiction. Worse, it is a poorly wrought bit of fiction.
The idea that each human only need work for two years and can retire fully after that is a socialistic pipe dream. In many cases... strike that... in virtually every case, it would take two years to become proficient enough to perform a given occupation well enough to be left alone. You don't simply walk up to a machine and know how to operate it without sufficient training. Imagine going to the food store right at the beginning of the next two year employment cycle only to find that nobody knew what they were doing at the factory and the box touting your favorite cereal contained, say, dog food instead. Imagine having you car "fixed" by someone with less than two years experience?
Another idea, that there is no need for money because everything is provided is another socialistic pipe dream. Any society which has tried this has found that too many participants do not participate because the individual outcome is the same: work, get paid � don't work, also get paid. The whole scheme doesn't hold water.
And while we're on the subject of money, this book claims that because there is no need for money, gold has no intrinsic value so they gathered it all up and made a building out of it. Really? No... And here's the reason why: gold is one of the best conductors of electricity. If it wasn't used as money due to its implied rarity, it would replace copper in the world of electrical components. Making a building out of all the available gold is something a person naïve not only about financial affairs, but also about the alternate uses for the raw material would write. The world as we know it came off the gold standard about the same time this was written, so it was fresh on the minds of people back then. This can only be written by someone with no wherewithal.
Whether Paul Amadeus Dienach wrote this, or even existed, or if this whole diary thing was fully written by George Papachatzis, his purported student is certainly more believable than Dienach dropping into a coma for a year and manifesting into the body of a man in 3906 AD. Heck, we don't even use the term AD any more because of its religious inference; we use CE for "common era" thereby avoiding hurting the sensibilities of the unbeliever.
And if Dienach did exist and did write this as something he felt he experienced, it was more likely experienced as a series of dreams, perhaps even lucid dreams, of a very physically sick person who did finally succumb to tuberculosis. A tragic end.
As for this story, I read the whole of it, looking for signs of believability and did not find it.
The idea that each human only need work for two years and can retire fully after that is a socialistic pipe dream. In many cases... strike that... in virtually every case, it would take two years to become proficient enough to perform a given occupation well enough to be left alone. You don't simply walk up to a machine and know how to operate it without sufficient training. Imagine going to the food store right at the beginning of the next two year employment cycle only to find that nobody knew what they were doing at the factory and the box touting your favorite cereal contained, say, dog food instead. Imagine having you car "fixed" by someone with less than two years experience?
Another idea, that there is no need for money because everything is provided is another socialistic pipe dream. Any society which has tried this has found that too many participants do not participate because the individual outcome is the same: work, get paid � don't work, also get paid. The whole scheme doesn't hold water.
And while we're on the subject of money, this book claims that because there is no need for money, gold has no intrinsic value so they gathered it all up and made a building out of it. Really? No... And here's the reason why: gold is one of the best conductors of electricity. If it wasn't used as money due to its implied rarity, it would replace copper in the world of electrical components. Making a building out of all the available gold is something a person naïve not only about financial affairs, but also about the alternate uses for the raw material would write. The world as we know it came off the gold standard about the same time this was written, so it was fresh on the minds of people back then. This can only be written by someone with no wherewithal.
Whether Paul Amadeus Dienach wrote this, or even existed, or if this whole diary thing was fully written by George Papachatzis, his purported student is certainly more believable than Dienach dropping into a coma for a year and manifesting into the body of a man in 3906 AD. Heck, we don't even use the term AD any more because of its religious inference; we use CE for "common era" thereby avoiding hurting the sensibilities of the unbeliever.
And if Dienach did exist and did write this as something he felt he experienced, it was more likely experienced as a series of dreams, perhaps even lucid dreams, of a very physically sick person who did finally succumb to tuberculosis. A tragic end.
As for this story, I read the whole of it, looking for signs of believability and did not find it.
January 13, 2025
I'm only less than 1/2 of the way through this book, but here's an overview of what I know so far.
To clarify, this book is non-fiction.
In 1921, Dienach went into a coma and stayed in a coma for about a year. During that time, he experienced living through the body of someone who lived around 3900 AD who had nearly died, had been frozen just in time and had been revived at the same time Dienach apparently entered his body. The person closest to him for that period and a few of the elders knew of his predicament, but otherwise his own social group (the people who had been friends with the person whose body Dienach was inhabiting) had no idea, including the woman he had a love affair with, who never loved the previous inhabitant of his body who had loved her unrequitedly.
Dienach wrote down all of his experiences while in the future, but of course he couldn't take his notes with him back to his own time, but fortunately he had a photographic memory and he realized he could just recall them. Sometime later somebody else made a book out of his notes.
I didn't read all of the Amazon summary, but apparently it says the people of the future time are religious, and that would be a mischaracterization; they're more spiritual. They have a belief system, but it doesn't seem to be very specific or dogmatic, and they also recognize their own limitations as humans in understanding the cosmos. Apparently, though, they've learned how to directly access (at least some aspects of?) cosmic truth, so they don't all disagree on fundamental worldviews like people of our time do.
This book paints an extremely bright and uplifting view of the future. Due apparently in part to technology saving people from having to spend their lives laboring and in part due to their spiritual understanding (or maybe the latter followed from the former), they've become nearly universally good-willed, wise, and yet childlike in their enjoyment of life. Lies, subterfuge, exploitation, or basically any kind of shadiness is almost unheard of. This makes them appear to Dienach as having a certain naivety or innocence in their perception and expectations of him and his actions, expecting no ill-will whatsoever, which makes him desire to live up to those expectations.
I was particularly impressed by their wisdom and grace regarding their approach to romantic relationships; it stood in stark contrast to the strife, neediness, possessiveness, manipulativeness and subterfuge and games, miscommunication and misunderstanding, power struggles, commonly bitter breakups, winner-loser mentality, etc. of the relationships of today.
Dienach says on page 150,
"everyone, without exception, knew how to dress, how to talk, how to enter a group for the first time, how to walk and stand in any given circumstance. [...] a world [...] doesn't consider this commitment to 'good manners' as something superficial, something too formal or conservative [...] but they argue that something that a real emotional and moral wealth cannot be classified as shallow or superficial.
Seeing them give this tone of joy and happiness to everything they do is truly delightful. You see them socialise with each other and the current perception that has passed from generation to generation comes to mind: this guileless and selfless love combined with courtesy an good manners: a true masterpiece!
[...] is it the property of each person individually or is it another admirable achievement of their current upbringing and education? In my opinion, it's neither of the two on their own [...] This unpretentious finesse and courtesy of their complete indifference to cheap humour, to the instinct gaining the upper hand and to following some pre-planned strategy in their everyday social life are not things that come out of the blue or that are earned only through persistent exercise."
There are no laws that are applied on an individual level in the 3900s. There are guidelines, but they're not enacted by force. People, by and large, willingly follow them.
People only have to work 2 years of their lives, when they're about 19, but they can choose to spend a lot longer in service of the community if they want to. People who choose to spend their lives serving the community aren't satisfied with the leisurely life and feel compelled toward a higher calling. They're considered more noble than the average person, who seems to have some level of humility about living a life free of vocation.
Scientists are highly regarded in their time, if I remember correctly, but artists are even more highly regarded. They're basically rock stars, and I don't think they're talking about musicians when they say artists. They make the more or less ineffable spiritual reality tangible. The future people's sense of the metaphysical gives them a constant yearning for some sort of truer life they're only liminally aware of as long they're experiencing the limitations of being incarnated.
This revolution in culture seems to have started a few hundred years prior to the 3900s in which the book is set, when a certain person came along and was able to embody and survive some kind of blissful state that had killed thousands of others before him, and then taught everyone else how to do the same.
Another possible factor in their success is mentioned on page 153: A biologist discovered that, after "centuries of life in this vast spiritual capital and drawn out initiations of several generations into long-term self-cultivation that had transformed them into more sophisticated human beings," there were "tiny but extremely significant anatomical changes in the most delicate and important neurons of the brain," which apparently weren't the result of deliberate biological tampering. They didn't know whether those changes were the result of the quality of their spiritual life or vice versa.
I can't be sure that Dienach's experience was just one long hallucination (though I rule out his having just made it all up for the lol's, but then, I tend to be gullible, so who knows), but it seems unlikely because of all the specific details over the course of the year, how coherently his experience of the future reality and all its inhabitants were presented to him, and the advanced nature of the future culture that we can hardly dream of today and how it struck him (for example, he seemed to criticize their childlike nature, at least at first, while it seems completely intuitive to me), including insights they had into the pathologies of the culture of his time that they knew from history, which seemed never to cease to ruffle his feathers and that he often flat-out disagreed with.
Dienach (who was a Christian) said, in other words, that the people of the future managed to embody the ethics and good will of Christianity/Jesus' teachings without themselves being Christian.
To clarify, this book is non-fiction.
In 1921, Dienach went into a coma and stayed in a coma for about a year. During that time, he experienced living through the body of someone who lived around 3900 AD who had nearly died, had been frozen just in time and had been revived at the same time Dienach apparently entered his body. The person closest to him for that period and a few of the elders knew of his predicament, but otherwise his own social group (the people who had been friends with the person whose body Dienach was inhabiting) had no idea, including the woman he had a love affair with, who never loved the previous inhabitant of his body who had loved her unrequitedly.
Dienach wrote down all of his experiences while in the future, but of course he couldn't take his notes with him back to his own time, but fortunately he had a photographic memory and he realized he could just recall them. Sometime later somebody else made a book out of his notes.
I didn't read all of the Amazon summary, but apparently it says the people of the future time are religious, and that would be a mischaracterization; they're more spiritual. They have a belief system, but it doesn't seem to be very specific or dogmatic, and they also recognize their own limitations as humans in understanding the cosmos. Apparently, though, they've learned how to directly access (at least some aspects of?) cosmic truth, so they don't all disagree on fundamental worldviews like people of our time do.
This book paints an extremely bright and uplifting view of the future. Due apparently in part to technology saving people from having to spend their lives laboring and in part due to their spiritual understanding (or maybe the latter followed from the former), they've become nearly universally good-willed, wise, and yet childlike in their enjoyment of life. Lies, subterfuge, exploitation, or basically any kind of shadiness is almost unheard of. This makes them appear to Dienach as having a certain naivety or innocence in their perception and expectations of him and his actions, expecting no ill-will whatsoever, which makes him desire to live up to those expectations.
I was particularly impressed by their wisdom and grace regarding their approach to romantic relationships; it stood in stark contrast to the strife, neediness, possessiveness, manipulativeness and subterfuge and games, miscommunication and misunderstanding, power struggles, commonly bitter breakups, winner-loser mentality, etc. of the relationships of today.
Dienach says on page 150,
"everyone, without exception, knew how to dress, how to talk, how to enter a group for the first time, how to walk and stand in any given circumstance. [...] a world [...] doesn't consider this commitment to 'good manners' as something superficial, something too formal or conservative [...] but they argue that something that a real emotional and moral wealth cannot be classified as shallow or superficial.
Seeing them give this tone of joy and happiness to everything they do is truly delightful. You see them socialise with each other and the current perception that has passed from generation to generation comes to mind: this guileless and selfless love combined with courtesy an good manners: a true masterpiece!
[...] is it the property of each person individually or is it another admirable achievement of their current upbringing and education? In my opinion, it's neither of the two on their own [...] This unpretentious finesse and courtesy of their complete indifference to cheap humour, to the instinct gaining the upper hand and to following some pre-planned strategy in their everyday social life are not things that come out of the blue or that are earned only through persistent exercise."
There are no laws that are applied on an individual level in the 3900s. There are guidelines, but they're not enacted by force. People, by and large, willingly follow them.
People only have to work 2 years of their lives, when they're about 19, but they can choose to spend a lot longer in service of the community if they want to. People who choose to spend their lives serving the community aren't satisfied with the leisurely life and feel compelled toward a higher calling. They're considered more noble than the average person, who seems to have some level of humility about living a life free of vocation.
Scientists are highly regarded in their time, if I remember correctly, but artists are even more highly regarded. They're basically rock stars, and I don't think they're talking about musicians when they say artists. They make the more or less ineffable spiritual reality tangible. The future people's sense of the metaphysical gives them a constant yearning for some sort of truer life they're only liminally aware of as long they're experiencing the limitations of being incarnated.
This revolution in culture seems to have started a few hundred years prior to the 3900s in which the book is set, when a certain person came along and was able to embody and survive some kind of blissful state that had killed thousands of others before him, and then taught everyone else how to do the same.
Another possible factor in their success is mentioned on page 153: A biologist discovered that, after "centuries of life in this vast spiritual capital and drawn out initiations of several generations into long-term self-cultivation that had transformed them into more sophisticated human beings," there were "tiny but extremely significant anatomical changes in the most delicate and important neurons of the brain," which apparently weren't the result of deliberate biological tampering. They didn't know whether those changes were the result of the quality of their spiritual life or vice versa.
I can't be sure that Dienach's experience was just one long hallucination (though I rule out his having just made it all up for the lol's, but then, I tend to be gullible, so who knows), but it seems unlikely because of all the specific details over the course of the year, how coherently his experience of the future reality and all its inhabitants were presented to him, and the advanced nature of the future culture that we can hardly dream of today and how it struck him (for example, he seemed to criticize their childlike nature, at least at first, while it seems completely intuitive to me), including insights they had into the pathologies of the culture of his time that they knew from history, which seemed never to cease to ruffle his feathers and that he often flat-out disagreed with.
Dienach (who was a Christian) said, in other words, that the people of the future managed to embody the ethics and good will of Christianity/Jesus' teachings without themselves being Christian.
April 30, 2024
I picked and chose from chapters here and there. How interesting that the author states that a high portion of the energy systems for cities was located remotely on a separate CONTINENT (Australia in this case). Kind of makes you wonder about the overall radiation concerns we are experiencing today.
There is just one part that I think this book made it worth reading. An account of the a rapturous religious experience that was recorded and kept by this future civilization. It became the epitome of their society, that single event. The author explodes with a sudden passion that far exceeds anything else in the book I breezed over.
The rest is a collection of misrepresentations that are clinged to by the groups that idolize this book as a prophecy of the future. One being the over-population myth. If humans could recover the grace they had lost at the Fall, o how we would prosper to provide for ten times as many lives on this Earth.. Indeed, the farthest limits of the universe would open before we would quibble over such stupid things as that which are really caused by the selfish natures of those who are born as the seed of Jericho. Greed and envy and self-interest are the cause of our needs, which are constantly blamed on population concerns. Estrogen supplements, "the pill", that cause abortions in countless zygots has been the caused of more harm and cause of heartache and human suffering than anything in comparison in the last 100 years. It has single-handedly been responsible for the decline of morals of the last 3 generations. Where is the mention of any of this in this chronicle? There is no peace where life is not valued. Ever.
There is just one part that I think this book made it worth reading. An account of the a rapturous religious experience that was recorded and kept by this future civilization. It became the epitome of their society, that single event. The author explodes with a sudden passion that far exceeds anything else in the book I breezed over.
The rest is a collection of misrepresentations that are clinged to by the groups that idolize this book as a prophecy of the future. One being the over-population myth. If humans could recover the grace they had lost at the Fall, o how we would prosper to provide for ten times as many lives on this Earth.. Indeed, the farthest limits of the universe would open before we would quibble over such stupid things as that which are really caused by the selfish natures of those who are born as the seed of Jericho. Greed and envy and self-interest are the cause of our needs, which are constantly blamed on population concerns. Estrogen supplements, "the pill", that cause abortions in countless zygots has been the caused of more harm and cause of heartache and human suffering than anything in comparison in the last 100 years. It has single-handedly been responsible for the decline of morals of the last 3 generations. Where is the mention of any of this in this chronicle? There is no peace where life is not valued. Ever.
January 25, 2022
Chronicles of the Future is a compendium of journal entries by as as yet unverified individual known to his (translator's) student as Paul Amedeus Dienach. Mr. Dienach’s past as a citizen of Switzerland was never validated and, as such the consensus was that he used an assumed name for his teaching excusion to Greece in the early 1920’s. This lends a dubiousness to the authencity of the book’s origins and further incongruous anomalies were depcited in the book.
Essentially, Mr. Dienach fell into coma as a result of a neurological disease or infection. This coma lasted for one year and during this time Mr. Dienach claimed to be transported to the distant future of some 2000 years hence. Certainly a much more likely scenario is coma induced hulicinations and a few passages in the book bear this out. For example, when he is reading a future book about history he replorts that a device came with the book to illutrated the book in animated holography. This is rather an odd observation considering that internet would certainly have been available and the need for a paper book and even the accompanying device would be unessessary. In addition, he conveniently can not remember any prominent “historic" names from from our current era (circa 2022) and lastly the story line exactly dupilicated his love for Anna via the book’s proxy of Sylvia. As such, all indication are that of a person who hallucinated the entire story.
On a postive note I did find the book very well edited and it did flow very well for a compendium of jounal entries. Entertaining: Yes; Truthful: No.
Essentially, Mr. Dienach fell into coma as a result of a neurological disease or infection. This coma lasted for one year and during this time Mr. Dienach claimed to be transported to the distant future of some 2000 years hence. Certainly a much more likely scenario is coma induced hulicinations and a few passages in the book bear this out. For example, when he is reading a future book about history he replorts that a device came with the book to illutrated the book in animated holography. This is rather an odd observation considering that internet would certainly have been available and the need for a paper book and even the accompanying device would be unessessary. In addition, he conveniently can not remember any prominent “historic" names from from our current era (circa 2022) and lastly the story line exactly dupilicated his love for Anna via the book’s proxy of Sylvia. As such, all indication are that of a person who hallucinated the entire story.
On a postive note I did find the book very well edited and it did flow very well for a compendium of jounal entries. Entertaining: Yes; Truthful: No.
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February 7, 2022I believe this to be a highly imaginative work of fiction. Either way it's quite fascinating, because it does contain a lot of unique ideas, concepts, philosophies, words, cities, and landscapes. Not sure how I would rate it.
From the end of the book:
3905 AD -3906 AD (YEAR 1509 and 1510): Andreas Northam writes his “Diary Pages." He will have vivid memories of pre-existence for a period of twelve months, before he dies at the age of 29.
How would the author know this? If was returned to his body, he wouldn't know the events that happened to Andreas Northam after that. If while in a coma they switched bodies, Andreas Northam wouldn't have had a pre-existence experience in a comatose state anyhow. It's implausible.
Also the end of the book mentions Mars is colonized for 60 years and then wiped out by a natural disaster before 20 million people are killed. This is 2204 AD that Mars is colonized. So in less than 200 years from today, somehow we will have relocated/birthed 20 million people to Mars. Maybe 200 or even 2,000 people, maybe. But 2o million? Doubtful.
However, the concepts about humanity becoming more enlightened, moving past problems such as totalitarian dictatorships and inequality, among many others, and valuing spiritual growth (not necessarily religious) and the creative arts, for example, are interesting. Could be inspiration for someone's science fiction book.
From the end of the book:
3905 AD -3906 AD (YEAR 1509 and 1510): Andreas Northam writes his “Diary Pages." He will have vivid memories of pre-existence for a period of twelve months, before he dies at the age of 29.
How would the author know this? If was returned to his body, he wouldn't know the events that happened to Andreas Northam after that. If while in a coma they switched bodies, Andreas Northam wouldn't have had a pre-existence experience in a comatose state anyhow. It's implausible.
Also the end of the book mentions Mars is colonized for 60 years and then wiped out by a natural disaster before 20 million people are killed. This is 2204 AD that Mars is colonized. So in less than 200 years from today, somehow we will have relocated/birthed 20 million people to Mars. Maybe 200 or even 2,000 people, maybe. But 2o million? Doubtful.
However, the concepts about humanity becoming more enlightened, moving past problems such as totalitarian dictatorships and inequality, among many others, and valuing spiritual growth (not necessarily religious) and the creative arts, for example, are interesting. Could be inspiration for someone's science fiction book.
March 19, 2023
One of the most fascinating books that I've ever read. It took me a while to finish it, but I'm not sure if this is a hoax or not, but, what is incredible is that it's a perfect story of a man taking over the body of a man thousands of years in the future.
The story is almost believable. The wars that took place, the nuclear ones that destroyed most of the planet. The fact that the human brain has advanced. Scientists taking over politics and there's a very 1984-type aesthetic to it with the idea that people find it's easier to follow a kind of 'non-government' where they don't need to question anything because they are all content with how they live in this utopia kind of environment.
I certainly won't be investing in any property on Mars and I might just tell my child to keep this book in the family for centuries to come.
Who knows, right?
The story is almost believable. The wars that took place, the nuclear ones that destroyed most of the planet. The fact that the human brain has advanced. Scientists taking over politics and there's a very 1984-type aesthetic to it with the idea that people find it's easier to follow a kind of 'non-government' where they don't need to question anything because they are all content with how they live in this utopia kind of environment.
I certainly won't be investing in any property on Mars and I might just tell my child to keep this book in the family for centuries to come.
Who knows, right?
March 30, 2022
Extremely interesting book. Maybe one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read. At times, it took quite a bit re-reading to understand, and I found myself limited to reading roughly 10 pages per day. I love that this book gives us hope for the future. Especially at a time when the future doesn’t look great. It’s extremely interesting to think about what will happen over the next several thousand years, and that we finally reach a period of peace in the world. The author uses such extreme detail and covers a wide variety of subjects that to me this story is very realistic. In 1922, there were quite a few things the author was unaware of that no one from his time would understand or even begin to comprehend. I think that’s what makes it so realistic.
February 20, 2024
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Me parece interesante cómo este libro plantea ideas que siguen siendo relevantes hoy en día. Tengo algunas dudas sobre su interpretación y cómo ciertas sociedades antiguas lo abordaron. Creo que hay historias que aún no conocemos debido a la limitada difusión del conocimiento, aunque reconozco que esto puede sonar conspiranoico. Me intriga la idea de que la mejora de la humanidad y su evolución dependan de nuestro sistema moral, pero me resulta difícil creer que hayamos cambiado completamente nuestras creencias a lo largo de miles de años. A veces me pregunto si es más probable que nos extinguamos antes de lograr la evolución de descrita por el autor.
Un libro que a cualquier persona que le gusta los temas de conspiración tiene que leerlo.
Me parece interesante cómo este libro plantea ideas que siguen siendo relevantes hoy en día. Tengo algunas dudas sobre su interpretación y cómo ciertas sociedades antiguas lo abordaron. Creo que hay historias que aún no conocemos debido a la limitada difusión del conocimiento, aunque reconozco que esto puede sonar conspiranoico. Me intriga la idea de que la mejora de la humanidad y su evolución dependan de nuestro sistema moral, pero me resulta difícil creer que hayamos cambiado completamente nuestras creencias a lo largo de miles de años. A veces me pregunto si es más probable que nos extinguamos antes de lograr la evolución de descrita por el autor.
Un libro que a cualquier persona que le gusta los temas de conspiración tiene que leerlo.
November 3, 2022
This book was truly extraordinary. The thought that a man belonging to the 20th century falls into a coma and awakens in the body of a 40th-century man. The experiences he underwent during his journey in the future were truly amazing. He sees a society which is dreamt of by present-day humans. He sees that the humans there are so peaceful and he couldn't see any violence in any part of the world. Read more about it here: . I hope this makes the people who haven't read this book, go rush to buy this book or download this book on their Kindle.
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