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Actual Problems Actual Problems Orientations and Documentaries, Articles from "The Free Thinker" Magazine 1992-2005 collected by Christian Lanciai, with contributions from Rabbi Yohanan (Israel) Doctor Sandy (the Levant) John B. Westerberg (the Himalayas) Kim (India) The Raoul Wallenberg Society Edvard Milaszevski (Poland) John Bede (Ulster) Jaap Knevel (Holland) Helena Norberg-Hodge (Ladakh) The Loreto College in Darjeeling Carl O. Nordling (Stockholm/Borgå, Finland) Göran Michanek Laila Roth John Michell Mark Twain A.D.Wraight (London) The Marlowe Society (with other Marlovians) Anders Ekman (Bollnäs) Don Mahan (Massachusetts) Michel Peissel Christmas Humphries Doctor Sun Carl Gustaf Lilius (Hangö) Jamyang Norbu Rahayu Ratnaningsih (Indonesia) Terry McCarthy David Rennie (Daily Telegraph) Sri Shankar Menon (India) Michael Trend (Daily Telegraph) Human Rights Watch, Asia Dana Dillon (National Review) Epoch Times (Hongkong/New York) with my greatest and sincerest thanks to my oldest and closest colleagues John Bede, John B. Westerberg, Doctor Sandy and Laila Roth, with everlasting affection and gratitude. Copyright Christian Lanciai 2005 1 Music Muriel Carlmark in Memoriam 5 The Mysterious Origin of Richard Wagner 6 Films In the Name of the Father 8 Four Weddings and a Funeral 9 Priest 10 Rob Roy 11 JFK 11 K2 - The Adventure 12 Shakespeare in Calcutta 14 Second Thoughts on "The English Patient" 15 The Orient File Pius XII and the Jewish Question in the Second World War 17 The Baruch Goldstein Case : 17 Heard from Israel 17 Talks in Jerusalem 18 The Palestinian's Complaint 22 The Strange Meeting at Ely 22 The Cyprus Problem 24 Studies in the Turkish Mentality, by Doctor Sandy 25 The Kurdish War in Turkey, by Doctor Sandy 26 Religious Assessment by John 27 Interesting Situation in Israel 30 Doctor Sandy Concerning "The New Frontier" 31 What the Holy Quran does not say about Mahomet 32 The Problem Concerning Turkey, Armenia, Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran, etc. 33 The War in Afghanistan (1996) 34 Eric Newby: A Short Walk in the Hindukush 36 Two Letters from an Old Doctor 36 Moslem News 39 Doctor Sandy's Lecture 40 The Raoul Wallenberg File. 42 The Raoul Wallenberg Literature 45 Raoul Wallenberg Today 45 The Empire of Evil 46 The Sikorsky Case 48 Raoul Wallenberg and Tibet 49 The Jesus File The Christmas Letter of John B. Westerberg (1996) 51 Apology for the Bible and Christianity 55 The Importance of Religious Criticism, by John Bede 56 The Jesus Debate, by John B. Westerberg 60 2 Scientifical Problems and Speculations. The Strange Case of Giordano Bruno 64 Concerning the Bomb 66 Plutonic Problems 67 Concerning Information Technique 68 Doctor Sandy on the Drug Situation 68 Concerning Drug Liberalization 69 The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift 70 John Westerberg Concerning UFO 72 The Consumption Society 75 Concerning Einstein, by Doctor Sandy 76 One of the Most Exciting Books of Our Time (Podvoll) 77 Philosophy and Literature An Eternal Issue - about the desert island 78 The Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the European Community 87 Talks with my Doctor 89 An Interview with John B. Westerberg 93 Gore Vidal's Three Greatest Novels 95 The Most Important Authors of the 20th Century 97 The Finest Author of the 20th Century 100 An Orientation in Contemporary Literature 102 The Shakespeare Debate Shakespeare's Identity Revealed? 104 Two Views on King Arthur 108 King Arthur and Shakespeare - a Third View 109 The Shakespeare Debate with John Bede and Carl O. Nordling 112 A Case for Christopher Marlowe 113 The Sun-Spots of the Poet 118 The Revelation of the Sonnets 122 The Controversies of Timon, Pericles and Henry VIII 124 The Method of Doctor Mendenhall 126 The Unfathomable Melancholy of Robert Burton 127 The Contribution of David Rhys Williams 129 The William Shakeshafte Mystery 131 A Temporary Summary 133 Ventilating the Theories, by Laila Roth 134 Scrutinizing the Sonnets 135 John Michell's Solution to the Problem 137 All We Know About William Shakespeare, by Mark Twain 139 The Secrets of Anthony Bacon 142 Comments on A.D.Wraight 148 The Marlowe Case - Another Presentation 150 The Difficult Case of Sir Francis Bacon 151 Fact and Speculation in the Case of John Penry 153 A Shakespeare Apology, by John Bede 155 Presenting a Baconian Problem 156 The Perfect Set-Up - a Summary of the (lack of) Evidence 157 Melancholy 159 The Mystery, by Laila Roth 160 3 More Marlowe Theories 161 The Gothenburg Shakespeare Symposium, May 2002 164 Comments to "Arden of Feversham" 170 Main Traits of the Marlowe Theory 171 Doubts about Bacon 174 The Tibet File A Short History of Tibet in Modern Times 178 Tibetan Chapter, after Michel Peissel 180 Documents from the Darjeeling Conference 182 John's Letter 183 The Darjeeling Conference : Aftermath 186 Prelude and Aftermath 188 Heroes of Tibet 189 Later Heroes of Tibet 194 Tibetan Letters (John Westerberg, Kim, Doctor Sandy, Doctor Sun) 198 The Panchen Lama 205 The Tibetan Problem - a concise summary 207 What Is To Be Done About China? - by Doctor Sun 210 Talks in Kathmandu 211 It Happens in Lhasa 218 Concerning Buddhism 218 Letter from Calcutta 220 Concerning Hinduism 221 The Rules of the Buddhistic Order 223 The Ten Precepts 224 Peter Fleming and the Great Game 225 The Murder of Panchen Lama 226 A Political Reflection 227 Problems in East Turkestan 227 Whatever Happened in Mongolia? 228 Heinrich Harrer's Return to Tibet 228 Successful Pilgrimage to Kailash 229 A Foreigner's View on Kashmir 230 Voices from China 230 Doctor Sun Concerning the Hongkong Issue 232 The Tragedy of Tibet 233 Concerning Genocide 235 Violence or Non-Violence? - a Tibetan Question of Destiny 235 Comments to Karmapa 237 Tibetan Seminar in Gothenburg, Sweden, May 6th 2000 237 Letter from Bihar 238 The Leh Conference 239 Tibetan Attitude Toward Death Not Mystical (Satori Foundation) 241 A Note of Warning, by Doctor Sun 243 The Situation 244 A Bureaucrat's Diary, by S. Shankar Menon: Road to Lhasa 246 Remember Lithang! - by John B. Westerberg 247 Forced Abortion and Forced Sterilization (Human Rights Watch, Asia) 249 Greetings from Darjeeling - by John B. Westerberg 250 Raoul Wallenberg and Tibet 251 4 The 27th Gothenburg Film festival - "The Cry of the Snow Lion" 253 The Himalayas Updated 254 The Defence for China 259 An Apology from China 261 China's Zombie Countries Bringing Dictators Back to Life 262 Anatomy of Political Communism 264 Music Muriel Carlmark in Memoriam The Mysterious Origin of Richard Wagner Muriel Carlmark In Memoriam. There is a Swedish expression which was Muriel's favourite, and which best characterizes her entire being: "full av skoj", which means 'full of fun'. Few knew Muriel from her humouristic sides, but that was in fact her main character. She was a light human being who saw everything in rays of joy and harmony, and she was always enjoying herself. This might be refuted by those who knew her fate and the struggle with which she carried it; but it was her unquenchably bright sides which helped her to endure the unendurable. Her irrepressible optimism in union with those trials she was subject to, which would have broken anyone else from the beginning, resulted in an incredible valour and toughness, which never gave up until even her apparently inexhaustible body had to obey the laws of nature. She was born in 1910 while Leo Tolstoy was still alive and King Edward VII ruled in England, when Elgar and Vaughan-Williams were accomplishing their greatest achievements and when the whole world basked in the light of order, welfare and peace. She came from a richly endowed and highly cultivated family, the Dugdills of Brixton; her father could have become a concert pianist but instead ended up one of England's formost ornitology experts; and also her brother followed the path of art becoming a photographer with poetry besides. She also went quite far in music and mastered pieces by Liszt and Rachmaninov before she was tempted out of England to marry a Swede from Åmål (pronounced Awe-maule). Her life then became that of a house-wife with four children of her own, all musical with international outlooks, and her daughter married a Frenchman during a missionary journey in Peru together with Abbé Pierre, who is still alive and a definite candidate for the Nobel peace prize. During her long life Muriel experienced both the world wars, and in London towards the end of the first one she outlived the first German bombings by air. She almost took it for a joke - "they were like paper aircrafts coming with flying dustbins which exploded full of rubbish and didn't even do any harm." As long as she lived she recalled vividly how she found protection against these bombings in the shelter of her neighbour's kitchen together with a German family, who couldn't understand what was going on. During the Second World War she was in Sweden and thus didn't have to endure how London was bombed for real. 5 She always remained quite English and could never really feel at home in Sweden or understand the Swedish society. She liked it best in Sweden when the family lived out at Marstrand by the sea, where it was closer to the outer archipelago of Gothenburg - the British Isles - than from Älvängen and Gothenburg. A great and lovely smile and light has left us but still lingers on, with the glow of happier times from before the great world destruction of the two world wars, a glow which though always will remain as typically English as a cup of tea with muffins out on a sunny veranda in a neither too shadowy nor too sunny garden of incorruptible beauty with an entire universe outside it to discuss, a world which in spite of all the tragedies nevertheless to her always remained as incurably 'full of fun' as ever.
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