About the author

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I'm Gregor (*1961), author of three books (in German, I'm afraid):

·        My most recent book is about the question, whether or not the supernatural dimension, in which religious and spiritually oriented people believe, does exist:
Das Übernatürliche: Fakt oder Fake?
Weltbuch Verlag, Sargans / Schweiz, Mai 2021

·         In 2014, I published a book about what thinkers of classical and biblical antiquity have thought concerning the meaning of life: 
Von Homer zu Jesus. Sinnangebote der klassischen  und biblischen Antike
Selfpublishing 2014/2018 

·        My first book was about how people lived in Jesus' days, and how Jesus may have affected some of them.
Leben zur Zeit Jesu. Ein Doku-Drama zum Schmökern
First published as "Das Rätsel von Hagalil" at Pattloch Verlag München, 2008
Re-Published via Selfpublishing, 2016
 

Raised in a Catholic family, I was very enthusiastic about faith until around the age of 14, when I started doubting God's existence. 

Since then, again and again I have tried to put my convictions concerning God on solid ground. Around the age of 21, I thought I had made it and felt ready for becoming a missionary. I did an agricultural apprenticeship, intending to live as a farmer in an African monastery. My idea was to provide physical as well as mental nourishment to the poor. What a misjudgment! I wasn't good for one or the other.

Having realized that, I caught up on high school and started studying philosophy in Bamberg, Germany, intending to prove God's existence once and for all. But Immanuel Kant convinced me that proving God's existence is impossible. Philosophy, I thought, has failed in solving the crucial question and today only deals with trivial matters. 

Disappointed, I quit the subject, turned to German studies and became a teacher of German as a Foreign Language. I married and was teaching German in Prague at Charles University and at the Goethe-Institut for some years. During that time, my two children were born. Later, I returned to Germany and was working for 17 years as a copy-writer for various agencies, enterprises and organisations like Brot für die Welt, Clariant, Deutsche Telekom, ING, Knorr-Bremse and Siemens Enterprise Communications.

In 2015, I took part in a course for volunteers supporting people at the end of life and volunteered for some months in a hospice in Wiesbaden, Germany. That experience made me see matters of faith from another perspective: What if our faith will turn upside down when facing death? And what are your arguments in favour of an afterlife good for? In the hospice, they were never required.

In 2016, when many refugees arrived in Germany, there was an urgent need for teachers of German as a Second Language. So I returned to my previous profession, and I have been working as a teacher for immigrants ever since.

I am a member of a small liberal church, misleadingly called the “Old Catholic Church”, and of the “Netzwerk Nahtoderfahrung”, the German branch of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). For both, I'm writing articles from time to time. I'm divorced on good terms and happily re-married.