[2] After studying anthroposophy as autodidact for seven years, he tried to bring Rudolf Steiner into the discussions of the scientific world.
In 1935, an exhibition was organized for him by Hildebrand Gurlitt, who would later be tasked with selling degenerate art on the international market.
[2] In 1938, together with his friend, Edith van Cleef, he leaves Hamburg, Germany and moves back to Switzerland.
Ballmer, similar to Steiner, could be himself seen as an "Event" in development of mankind – as confrontation with the world process, of which he takes part.
Karl Ballmer's research in cognitive science and the evolution of the human self-awareness was influenced mainly by two books, 1) Rudolf Steiner's "Occult Science" (1909) and 2) Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin's "Irrthümer und Wahrheit, oder Rückweiß für die Menschen auf das allgemeine Principium aller Erkenntniß" (1782).