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VITA THEODOR LANDSCHEIDT
Theodor Landscheidt was born in Bremen in 1927. He studied philosophy,
law, and natural sciences at the University of Goettingen where he earned his
doctorate. He was, until his recent retirement, a West German High Court
judge. He is the Director of the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of
Solar Activity, and is on the board of directors of the International Committee
for Itesearch in Environmental Factors at the Free University of Brussels. He
has been elected a member of various German academies and of the American
Geophysical Union.
Since 1974 Landscheidt has made long-range forecasts of energetic solar
eruptions and geomagnetic storms. When checked by astronomers and by the
Space Environment Services Centre, Boulder, Colorado, his predictions have
been shown to have a quality better than 90%. He successfuIly forcast the end
of the Sahelian drought and has correctly identified the turning points in
various economic cycles.
Special publictions dealing with research in cycles:
Landscheidt, T. (1976): Beziehungen zwischen der Sonnenaktivitaet und dem
Mc~sscnzenh~um des Sunnensvstems, Nachrichten der Olbers-Gesellschaft 100,Z-19
Landscheidt, 7'. (1980): Saekularer Tiefpunkt der Sonnenaktivitaet, Ursache einer
Kaelteperiode um das Jahr 2000?, lahrb. d. Wittheit zu Bremen 24. . 189-220 - ---
Landscheidt, T. (1981): Swinging Sun, 79-Year Cycle, and Climatic Change, I. interdisc.
Cycle Res. 12, 3-19
Landscheidt, T. (1983): Solar Oscillations, Sunspot Cycles, and Climatic Change, in
McCormac, B. M.. ed. : Weather and Climate Responses to Solar Varia tions, Colorado
Associated University Press, Boulder, pp. 295308
Landscheidt, T. (1984): Cycles of Solar Flares and Weather, in Moerner, N. A. and
KarlCn, W., eds.: Climatic Changrs on a Yearly to Millenial Basis, D. Reidel
Publishing Company, Dordrecht, pp. 47H81
Landscheidt, T. (1954): Funktioncn kosmischer Organismen: Schwingungen der Sonne
und irdische Rcsonanzen, in Resch, A., ed.: Geheime Miichte, Andreas Resch
VerIag, Innshruck, pp. 37-130
Landscheidt. T (1986): Long Range Forecast of Energetic X-Ray Bursts Based on Cycles
of Flares, in Simon, P A., Heckman, G., and Shea, M. A,, eds.: Solar-Terrestrial
Predictions: Proceedings of a Workshop at Meudon, France, June 18-22, 1984,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration, Boulder, pp. 81439
Landscheidt, T. (1986): Long Range Forcast of Sunspot Cycles, in Simon, Heckman, and
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Shea, pu. W 57
Landscheidt, T. (1986): Cyclic Distribution of Energetic X-Ray Flares, Solar Physics 107,
195-199
I.andscheidt, T (1987): Wir sind Klndcr des Lichts- Kosrnisches Bewusstsein als Quelle
der Lebenshejahung, Verlag Herder Fretburg, Basel, Wien
Landscherdt, 7'. (1987): Long Range forecasts of Solar Cycles and Climatic Change, in
Rampino, M. K., Sanders, J. E., Newman, W. S., and Koenigsson, L. K., eds.:
Chmate History, Periodic~ty. and Predictability, van Nostrand Reinhold Company,
New York, pp. 421445
Landscheidt, T. (1988): Solar Rotation, Impulses of the Torque in the Sun's Motion, and
Climatic Variation, in press for Climatic Change.
I. INTRODUCTION
1. INTRODUCTION 5
The mass-man of our age, so aptly described by Jose mega y Gasset in "The
Revolt of the Masses", is dominated by the principles of mechanistic
materialism. This anachronistic view of life was au fait with the world view of
the exponents of science in the 19th century which looked at the universe as
a mechanical device, an assembly of separable parts subject to local effects
caused by local interaction. Meanwhile, the avant-garde of scientists has
overthrown these local theories that split the world into separated parts which
can only be influenced by their immediate environment. The new
interpretation of the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox and the violation of the
Bell inequality provide irrefutable evidence of the inseparability and non-
locality of the fundamental processes in the universe.' This epochal
achievement in the history of human knowledge has not yet been valued
appropriately. There are even scientists that have never heard of Bell's
theorem and those sophisticated experiments that prove its violation. All
experts, however, agree on its paramount importance in the history of
science.'
The unanimous message of mystics of allages that allentities in the universe
are interconnected and constitute an indivisible whole ' is proven now by
unequivocal physical experiments that have been replicated again and again.'
From this undeniable unity, connectedness, and inseparability follows that
any action or configuration in any distant part of the universe can influence
processes in the solar system inhabited by man. This is also valid for the
interrelations of Sun and planets within the solar system and especially the
Earth's connections with other cosmic bodies in the solar system environment.
To look at the solar system and its constituent parts as a whole that embraces
a complex web of holistic interrelations, is a premise of traditional astrology,
which seemed antiquated, but turns out to be trend-setting. Thus, it appears
promising to subject the astrological thesis of an influence of celestial bodies
on the Earth and life on its surface to a new test. The quality of the astrological
body of theses matches the holistic results of modem research, as it represents
the archetype of an integrating science. Astrology of this brand was a historical
reality in the era of Kepler, Galileo and Newton. It is well known that Kepler
was both an astrologer and one of the creative founders of modern science.
Book IV of his principle work "Harmonics Mundi" with the heading "Book
on Metaphysics, Psychology, and Astrology" is evidence of this, as well as his
papers "De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus" and "De stella nova". Those
who pretend that Kepler was not really engaged in astrology should read these
writings.
Galileo, the other master scientist, was also an astrologer. Figure 1 from
Owen Gingerich5 shows on top a drawing of the Moon made by Galileo after
his construction of an astronomical telescope in 1609. On the same page is the
start of a horoscope he cast for Cosimo I1 di Medici. This concurrence is typical
of the holistic approach of Kepler and Galileo. They did not talk about
interdisciplinary research, they lived it. Kepler was not only an astronomer and
astrologer, but also a meteorologist, mathematician, hamonist, philosopher,