Erich

The novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque has been translated into more than fifty languages.

The German scientist Erich von Wolff, who measured the rate of iron (Fe) in various vegetables, had a mistake in adding the decimal point when copying the data from his notebook.

My father believed that when he would die, he would be reborn in a different body in a different world—a different "planet." I was not sure if he was talking of Buddhist "rebirth" or Hindu "reincarnation." Nevertheless, he said that the "mind" as he put it would transmigrate into a new body. Before he converted to a Baptist Protestant, as a Roman Catholic, he did explore the paranormal genre, such as books by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa and Erich von Däniken.

My father, still when he was a Roman Catholic and after when he became a Protestant, was always interested in the paranormal, which entailed non-Christian ideas. He read books of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, Erich von Däniken, Deepak Chopra, and James Redfield.

In its preparation we have gratefully made use of comments from many students of Interlingua, especially Mr. Erich Berger of New York City, Mr. Woodruff W. Bryne of Caracas, and Dr. Eugen Wüster of Vienna.

Before my own father passed away, we talked about the afterlife. My father had said that at his death, his "mind" would transfer to a newborn baby on a different faraway "planet," and there, he would grow up. Despite Roman Catholic and Baptist influences, my father believed in rebirth or reincarnation and other non-Xtian ideas. In the 1970s, he read books by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa and Erich von Däniken. Also my Filipino friend Greg believes in some non-Xtian ideas, despite that he claims to be a hardcore Baptist. It is difficult for others, especially Westerners, to understand my religious stance, of being a Syncretist, chiefly Buddhist-Animist, but not discounting other belief systems, and even inclining towards Science.

Both my parents grew up Roman Catholic in the Philippines. In the 1970s there, my father liked reading the paranormal genre, like books by Erich von Däniken and Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. So, he then even liked non-Xtian ideas. My parents, in the 1980s, converted to Protestant Baptists several years after landing in Canada. But my father continued reading the paranormal genre, like books by Deepak Chopra and James Redfield. He believed in meditation and rebirth or reincarnation. He recounted to me his afterlife scenario that his "mind" would migrate to a newborn baby on a faraway "planet," and there he would grow up in a new life. I showed to my parents my elaborate Buddhist temple, and my father was on the verge of reading literature from there. My father passed away in 2013.