Damanhur : The Story of the Extraordinary Italian Artistic And Spiritual Community

Contents 7 Acknowledgments 11 Foreword 13 Prologue Perchance to Dream 21 A rude awakening October 1991 21 The green light August 1978 22 A glimpse of the dream March 1996 24 Part One: A Journey Within: Templi dell'Umanit /TD> 29 Chapter 1 Construction Matters 31 Chapter 2 Incredible Artwork 47 Blue Temple 48 Hall of Water 51 Hall of the Earth 59 Hall of Metals 72 Hall of Spheres 77 Hall of Mirrors 79 Labyrinth 84 A new entrance 86 The Myth of the Magic War 89 Part Two: From Group to Federation and Beyond 91 Chapter 3 A Unique Experiment in Social Living 93 The social structure 94 The Federation 98 The Spiritual People' of Damanhur 100 Citizens of Damanhur 102 Damanhur's relationship to other groups and communities 103 The Constitution 104 The College of Justice 109 The School of Meditation 110 Community and social structure 112 The new horizon 119 Living at Damanhur 123 ValdiChy 124 Primi Passi and the 100 New Citizens project 126 Color Plates 128 Chapter 4 The Seven Ways 129 Way of the Word 129 Music A sub-section of the Way of the Word 132 Way of the Knights 135 Way of the Oracle 139 Dance A sub-section of the Way of the Oracle 146 Education A sub-section of the Way of the Oracle 147 Way of the Monks 149 Esoteric Couples A sub-section of the Way of the Monks 152 Way of Art and Work 157 Way of Art and Integrated Technology 161 Theater A sub-section of the Way of Art and Integrated Technology 163 Way of Health 164 Damanhur's health statistics 165 Olio Caldo (Warm Oil) A sub-section of the Way of Health 169 Chapter 5 A Stable Base-The Cooperatives and Arts Workshops 171 Chapter 6 Forces Against-Negatives to Positives 181 Chapter 7 Oberto Airaudi Man of Vision 197 Part Three The Game of Life 211 Chapter 8 The Game of Life Life as a Game 213 Olio Caldo 215 Battle rules 222 Surrender declaration by the Lattanti 228 Chapter 9 Quesiti Questions and Quests 231 First Quesito 233 Second Quesito 234 Third Quesito 236 Fourth Quesito Feminine 238 Fifth Quesito Masculine 239 Sixth Quesito 239 Seventh Quesito 241 Eighth Quesito 243 Chapter 10 Education for Life 247 Olami University 254 A school for spiritual healing 256 Chapter 11 God and Humanity as a Divinity 261 Chapter 12 Personalities Within-Structure of the Soul 273 Chapter 13 The Development of Selfica 279 Epilogue Beyond the Dream-Dawn of a New Era 287 The media obsession with cults 289 Local relations 291 Damanhur's economic vision and practice 296 The credito: A complementary currency system 297 Damanhur's mutual credit union 299 National and international politics 299 A model for world peace 301 Damanhur beyond Damanhur 301 Expanding the Temples, expanding the mind 305 Damanhur Crea: Center for the arts, research, and continuing education 308 'Tecnarcato' 317 Illustrations 321 Index 329