Oscar Kiss Maerth

Oscar Kiss Maerth (8 October 1914 – 26 August 1990) was a Hungarian-born entrepreneur, philosopher and writer. He studied the living habits of people living close to nature in Southeast Asia. In doing so, he pursued questions about the causes of emergence and development of human beings, their intelligence and behavior. Maerth rose to prominence in 1971 as the author of The Beginning was the End, a book he wrote in 1967 in seclusion at the Tsin San Buddhist monastery in Guangdong Province, China. In this book, he advocated the thesis that humans descended from apes, which systematically consumed the brains of their fellow species for many thousands of years. As a result, their brain volume gradually increased. Ultimately, humans came into being through cannibalism. The thesis is widely considered pseudo-scientific.

Quotes

Der Anfang war das Ende (1971); translated from the German by Judith Hayward, The Beginning was the End (1973)

• Man came into being through cannibalism—intelligence can be eaten.
  • Epigraph

• No man can remember the hour of his birth. Not because he has forgotten it. He has never consciously experienced it. Birth is a passage to a new consciousness and in the course of it what has been known before sinks into the subconscious.
  • 1. The Newcomer without a Memory

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Oscar Kiss Maerth on Wikipedia