Today's date:
 
Winter 1998
• POST GLOBALIZATION
• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007
• MADE IN CHINA
• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY
• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA
• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK
• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD
• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY
• PLANET OF SLUMS
• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
     OF FEAR
• THE OTHER
• POST-NATIONAL
    LITERATURE
• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
    CHANGE?
• THE RISE AND FALL OF
    AMERICA'S SOFT POWER
• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY
• SCULPTURE AND THE
     NEW SCIENCE
• BIOTECH AND THE
     NEW BABEL
• WAR THROUGH THE
     BACK DOOR
• ANTIAMERICANISM
• THE RISING SOFT POWER
     OF CHINA & INDIA
• THE BUSH DOCTRINE
• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
    WORLD
• AMERICA'S MIGHT
• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• ANTIGLOBOS
• HOT PEACE
• MODUS VIVENDI
• LOOKING NORTH
• FROM WELL HAVING TO
     WELL BEING
• POST-HUMAN HISTORY
• GLOBAPHOBIA
• THE GLOBAL MIND
• AFTER KOSOVO
• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO
• DEGLOBALIZATION?
• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
    [BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA
• BEYOND CAPITALISM
• ASIAN CRISIS
• CHINA: THE ASIAN
     RENAISSANCE
• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL
• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
    PICTURE
• AFTER THE END OF
    HISTORY
• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN
• HALF-A-HEGEMON
• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM
• HEIMAT
• Fall 1987
• Winter 1987
• Spring 1986
• Fall-Winter '84-'85
• Spring 1984


The Big Bang Meets the Great Spirit

Thor Heyerdahl is the Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer who organized the famous "Kon-Tiki" (1947) and "Ra" (1969) transoceanic expeditions that proved the possibility of contact between distant civilizations in ancient times.

Heyerdahl offered the relections published here last September at the Forum 2000 meeting organized by Vaclav Havel and Elie Wiesel in Prague.

Prague - Physically and mentally the human race is a pure product of nature. Nature alone has had the power, or been given the power, to evolve man with brain and body out of the animal kingdom.

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