The following was passed along by Ashley Rye, from Great Britain:
If you have trouble accepting the following account, which is said to be an
accurate description of events in Italy, then enjoy it as fiction. It is
the most fascinating piece on time travel I have yet read. Is there an
‘environmentally friendly’ method of travel in time, which doesn’t involve
a dangerous particle accelerator, a huge underground base consuming
gigawatts of power, untold millions of dollars in suspect funding and a
team of fascist mind control specialists at the helm, for example at
Montauk? One would sincerely hope so. It seems that the community at
Damanhur has already been invaded by a small army of Italian soldiers
brandishing machine guns, which, for a dispute over planning permission,
seems like an excessive and totally unecessary use of force. Is this yet
another example of explorers at the frontiers of human experience
threatening the ruling paradigm? It wasn’t sufficient for the City of
Vidracco to order the Temple of Mankind destroyed. When this failed they
tried to turn it into a tourist attraction. I deplore this gross philistine
attempt to demolish a major artistic, spiritual and cultural centre. Take a
look at some of their stained glass work and murals, they are really
beautiful.
Ash
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’I HEARD A CRACKLE: THE ENERGY WAS BUILDING UP. THEN I WAS FILLED WITH
EMOTION AND AS TAUT AS AN ELASTIC BAND. AT LENGTH I HEARD OBERTO, WHO WAS
DOING THE COUNTDOWN. AT ZERO, I WASN’T THERE ANYMORE. AS IF THERE WAS NO
GRAVITY, BUT WITHOUT A PHYSICAL BODY, I HAD AN AWARENESS OF EXISTING, BUT
FELT AS IF I WAS DISSOLVED IN THE ENVIRONMENT. MAYBE THREE SECONDS WENT BY
- WHAT SEEMED TO ME A VERY LONG TIME. I HAD LEFT ALL CROUCHED DOWN AND NOW
FOUND MYSELF STRETCHED OUT ON THE GROUND... FOR MAYBE TEN MINUTES I
REMAINED LYING THERE, MY EYES CLOSED, TRYING TO REGAIN CONTROL OVER MY
BODY... THEN I GOT TO MY KNEES.’
You have just read the first account ever published in any language of what
it is actually like to travel in time. The description above relates to the
trip made on 19 January 1994 by Gorilla Eucalypto (his Damanhurian name,
comprising that of an animal and a plant). two days after the first ever
trip. made by Aracne Orchidea. Antelope Verbena and Ornitorinco Olenadro.
Gorilla and his colleagues went through months of complex preparations to
enable them to achieve the necessary mastery over mind and body. Long
sessions of hypnosis had instilled into them the complicated information
needed to carry out the trips successfully, as well as the receptivity they
would require for detailed recall of the environments in which they would
find themselves. It is likely that even the most open-minded reader of this
article will be tempted to dismiss its contents The implications of the
claims made by the members of the community of Damanhur, featured in the
last issue of Kindred Spirit, that they have devised a system capable of
propelling men and women across vast oceans of time, are staggering. Yet if
there is one lesson that history can teach us. it is that anyone operating
on the very limits of human potential will be ridiculed, dismissed as
insane or even, in some cases, tortured or killed. Copernicus and Galileo
were right, the Catholic establishment (and just about everybody else) was
wrong. Truth will out, no matter how much temporal power is working to deny
it. We need to make up our own minds.
Beyond Star Trek
In the foreword to Lawrence Krauss’s forthcoming book The Sclence of Star
Trek, Professor Stephen Hawking states that: ’If you combine Einstein’s
general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics, [time travel] does
begin to seem a possibility’. According to Hawking, ’building a genuine
time machine will not be as easy as sitting in a chair and twirling a few
knobs. Modern proposals for such a machine face one severe problem: the
energy supply.’ He also asserts that ’it doesn’t involve much money -what
it needs is an openness of mind to consider possibilities that might appear
fantastic’. It would seem that modern science is hamstrung by its own
self-imposed parameters, parameters which exclude alchemical, earth
science, and esoteric wisdoms which have been around not just for
generations, but for millennia. Gattopardo Tek, one of the first time
travellers, told Kindred of the kinds of concepts the community is handling
in its research into the esoteric physical world: ’We try to understand
how the universe of forms in which we are immersed works. We study the
energies through which we can interact with this universe, and also how we
can interact with what is beyond the material world, which means the
divine, the more evolved planes. So it’s very useful to have a deep
knowledge of contemporary physics, as well as of the things that physics
still doesn’t know. We integrate an understanding of physics with esoteric
tradition and also with what Oberto, the co-founder of Damanhur, brings us
from his own knowledge and his own experiments. So we have been able to
build some structures which use a technology that we define as ‘magic’. To
be able to understand this logic represents a step which is complex, but
still quite simple compared to the other structures that we have been able
to make here.’
The problem of energy, though, remains. How can they generate
the vast amounts of it needed to alter, even for a minute, the universal
laws within which our physical world operates?
Wired for a vision
The answer lies in the ‘Templo dell’Uomo’, the underground complex at
Damanhur, known as the Temple of Mankind. It certainly looks beautiful, and
the ceremonies held there are vital to their community life, but the Temple
is something else, too. It could be described as a gigantic battery. Buried
in the walls, twined around the pillars, set into the highly decorative
plasterwork and embedded in the rock out of which the structure has been
hewn, are 300 tons of circuits and connections utilising a veritable
periodic table of metals and minerals.
This ’battery’ has been constructed according to the science of
’Selfica’, which, say the Damanhurians, is ’an ancient science derived from
the basic form of our universe, the spiral. It was known to the Egyptians,
the Celts, and the Arabs, who utilised it up to the 8th Century B.C.
’Selfica is the practical use of spirals and metals to concentrate and
direct vital energies. ’Selfs’ are built mostly out of gold and silver,
because they are the best conductors, but it is also possible to use copper
and brass.’ The energies which can be concentrated and directed by the
’self come in a number of forms. The subterranean position of the temple
makes it ideally situated to store the energy which the Damanhurians say is
flowing through the ’synchronic’ lines of earth energy, several of which
converge at Damanhur. The ritualistic environment of the Temple means that> large amounts of energy can be generated within its rocky embrace through
the human activities of dancing, chanting, meditating and singing; energy
which can then be stored by the Temple’s circuitry.
This stored energy can be extracted by the act of excavating
(they say there is a precise relationship between the quantity and quality
of rock excavated and the amount of energy extracted and fiom the works of
art - results of the application of Will, Creativity and Meaning to create
Beauty. The Damanhurians, once again, work on the basis that there is a
precise relationship between the extension of the decorated surfaces and
the amount of energy generated. (The use of glass, for instance, allows
them to double the surface area in the same space, as it has two sides.)
This is just one of the reasons why art is so important to them.
The Temple, then, might more accurately be described as a
huge capacitor, building and then releasing energy, as directed from deep
within its metallic structure.
Strange Science
Some of the structures contained in the temple look like the experimental
designs of some giant new age jeweller. Little glass spheres filled with
coloured liquids nestle in convoluted spiral constructions of copper, brass
and gold wiring, which are then ’plugged in’ to the walls. The Damanhurians
say these ’spheroselfs’ are ’instruments able to perform many different
functions. They make use both of Selfica and of alchemy at very high
levels, applying more advanced principles of esoteric physics than the
traditional Selfic circuits’. These spheroselfs are also used both as
’memory cells’ and as vital ’energy accumulators’ for the Time Cabin (as
explained below). As well as energy, they are able to hold wholly abstract
’soul information’, such as artistic talent, the potentiality of which can
then be transferred from one person to another, through the medium of the
spheres. In time travel the more ordinary ’spheres’, the size of glass
footballs, are used to monitor what is happening to the travellers, just as
if they were special TV sets. The Damanhurians we spoke to have been
operating for so long in this abstract geotechnical milieu that they are
astonishingly blase about about what, to any layman, would be fantastical,
Asimovian inventions. Kindred Spirit’s guides to the underground
wonderland, Esperide and Oberto himself, talked about these weird and
strangely beautiful objects with a matter-of-factness which suggested that
they considered the ’spheroselfs’ to be old hat. It was as though we were
from the age of horse-drawn carts being told by a car salesman: ’Forget
about the Austin Princess. Check out this Porsche 928’.
Synthesise...
The equipment the Damanhurians have spent years building up, 40 metres
underground, looks for all the world like the creation of a 1930s Hollywood
set builder working on a science fiction epic. And yet here are several
hundred emotionally and mentally well- balanced adults who have complete
faith in its efficacy. There is simply not enough space in this article to
go into the details of how Oberto Airaudi claims to have been able to send
his coileagues thousands of years into the past - that would take several
volumes of dense scientific explanation. It is suflicient for our purposes
to say that their knowledge is based on a detailed understanding of
contemporary quantum physics, the laws of relativity and space-time theory,
and the results of an arduous programme of research into the alchemical
properties of metals and minerals, not to mention the potentiality of the
human spirit and will.
The Damanhurians contend that ‘contemporary physics cannot, as
yet, conceive of the kind of energies on which Selfica is based’, but that
‘some explanation comes from Wilhelm Reich’s work on orgone energies and
that of De La Warr on mysterious radiations that seem to act outside of
time and space according to Karl Jung’s law of Synchronicity’.
If we remind ourselves of what Professor Hawking believes, that
research into time travel ‘doesn’t involve much money’ - what it needs
is an openess of mind to consider possibilities that might appear
fantastic’, the Damanhurians seem to fit the bill like a lycra glove.
They seem to have not excluded anything from their considerations.
In fact they regard it as their spiritual duty as human beings
to synthesise all aspects of the human experience, including the intellect.
Their aim is divine unity, of form and spirit, and for Gattopardo, the
community is developing the ‘technical ways to get there. So the goal now
is ultimately unite the spiritual and scientific.
‘In Damanhur, on the one hand we have the School of Meditation,
which is the ritual, spiritual aspect, that gives us the fuel,
the power of energy that we need. And on the other hand we have the
esoteric physics that explains the same thing with different logic - a
logic more aligned to the rational. But, of course, this more rational
logic cannot progress without inner growth, the intimate knowledge of the
self, because all the answers are inside us. So the study of the universe
and the principles that regulate it cannot happen without deep research
inside ourselves. Otherwise it would remain just notions that could not be
translated into deep understanding. We believe that through knowledge you
can become conscious. Esoteric physics is just one way of getting to the
same end.’
Energise
The Damanhurians have developed two separate ways of travelling in time.
One involves the transmission of what they call
the ’subtle body’ of the traveller, which could be more accurately
translated as the ’essence’ or ’spirit’ of that person. The other involves
full dematerialisation and rematerialisation, of both subtle and physical
body. Two crucial concepts relating to Damanhurian time travel are the Time
Mine and the Time Cabin. The Time Mine is a ’geographical area- natural
orman- made - and usually underground’, characterised by the presence of
’synchronic flowings’ (lines and knots) These are the same as ley lines.
Time Mines are at their strongest when several of these synchronic lines
converge to form ‘knots’ (as they do at Damanhur). The Damanhurians believe
that Time Mines ’enable us to build energy stations of real advanced
complexity to use for dimensional exchanges, time and space tnvel,
alchemical laboratories for reincarnation programmes or for character
exchanges, healing cabins, etc.’ Time Mines are places which have the
potential to store sufficient energy, both from the synchronic lines and
from human activity, to enable time travel to occur. The ’Tempio dell’
Uomo’ has been built on a very large Time Mine, the characteristics of
which have been greatly amplified by the ritual singing, dancing, chanting
and art which occurs therein, as well as the alchemical language that
adorns the walls and pillars of the rooms. The vast circuitry of the
Temple, connected to the spheroselfs and other storage mechanisms, allows
sufficient energy to be stored in that one place to enable time travel. The
Time Cabin is ’a very complex Selfic structure used to travel in time and
space. It is the application of a very advanced magical and physical
technology. It makes use of selfs, spheres, spheroselfs, crystals, electro-
magnetic fields, oscillators, laser technology, and a sophisticated Selfic
and alchemical plant for its activation, planning and charging.’
How Time Travel works
The physics - both conventional and esoteric - behind this structure is
immensely complex. It has to be said that a modern day physics that
separates itself from esoteric subtle energy knowledge simply does not
fully account for reality as it exists in this universe. To summarise how
time travel works is an impossible task in a few paragraphs. But here is a
brief attempt: Time is conceptualised as a circular sea of eternal present
where all events are at the same time, hut also as a flux moving in the
direction of complexity. When time is considered as a flux, we can imagine
it to be composed of different time packages. A Time Package is a container
of events/forms. Each ’ time package’ contains not only ’used’ events-
things which have already happened, forms already manifested - but also
some neutral events, which can be defined unrealised possibilities of
expression - those events not as yet used by our Free Will.
Now, imagine a wooden cube, and written on its Faces are clues to
its spatial orientation - ’height’, ’length’ and ’width’. It is the
relative position of the observer which determines the sense of height,
length and width. Now, instead of these labels, substitute the words
’future’, ’past’ and present. Within the ’Time Cabin’ a semi-constant field
is created, whereby the traveller is put in an ’extra-temporal’ condition -
he/she is ’out of time’-and where his or her total mass equals zero and
time also equals zero. Then, using Selfic science, a different direction is
created with respect to the traveller: a ’turning of the cube’, if you
like. The explanation of how this change of direction, a conversion of
quantities of dimensional particles, is possible, involves perceiving time
as complexity. It is the relation of the cornplexity of mass/form to the
time compexity that allows the Damanhurians to send people back in time.
(The past has less complexity than the present or future and therefore time
travel is only possible backwards at the moment.) A mass in the past
(usually water) is utilised to compensate for the traveller’s disappearance.
The bars of the time cabin, working at potential difference, relate this
weight to that of the person being transported (a sort of mass scales in
balance).
The water comes to time and the traveller goes back into the past.
So, senses and directions change as if the traveller was on a sort of time/
space roundabout. Needless to say, a complicated weight-compIexity
referencing system is needed to continuously keep a track of the starting
point and the movement in time. The codes (directions of the roundabout) to
each time and dimension reference that makes up the human form at the
starting point are secret and extremely well-kept. In the case of
non-bodily travel, complexity is tmnsmitted without body support and the
traveller becomes an impossessor (one who possesses another’s body). It is
more complex to travel with this ’subtle’ body, because you need to keep
open a ’passage’ between the present and the past in order to maintain the
link with the body. With body travel you just compensate for the amount of
mass you are moving. As souls are dimension-free it is possible to have two
minds and souls in the same body. Tremendous care is taken to protect the
’impossessed’ body from the impossession and also from any consequences
that could result from the actions of the impossessor.
It should also be noted that you cannot just go anywhere. The
curve of time and space is exploited for travelling, and this prohibits
short-distance time travel within our present time package which is, of
course relative to ourselves, incomplete - The energy required for a trip
even to the preceding time package, would be too great. There are three
conditions; Firstly, there must be compatibility between our time package
and the complete time package selected. a similar kind of rhythm if you
like. The value of each time package depends on the number of events that
have been utilised by free will. Secondly. the traveIler must have had an
incarnation in the time area selected, so a soul connection is already
exisiting there. The third condition concerns the divine forces that were
present at that time.
Interview with a Time Traveller
In Aprll this year, we spoke with Gattopardo Tek, about his understanding
and experiences of time travel.
Could you explain the idea of time packages?
‘It’s difficult to explain. Each time package has a particular
rhythm and you can only go to a time package that has the same rhythm as
the time in which you dwell. So if you live where they are playing tango
you cannot go where they are playing rap. Each time package is defined by
the fact that it contains a certain number of events. It is not defined by
the time but by the number of events each one contains. Each event and all
the events together have a certain weight. The weight of the events
according to this rhythm gives the value of each package. These values are
repeated rhythmically through time. We define an event as a possibility to
which the free will of a human being is able to give expression. In our
universe, which is a universe of forms, each event can be translated in the
end into a form, or into the transformation of a form. The value of each
time package does not depend on the complexity realised inside the package,
but on the number of events that have been utilised by free will. I am
simplifying this a lot.’
Many say that our present time has a particular quality to it, and
that that makes it a time for transformation. Do you agree with this?
‘Yes. According to our philosophy we are now in a special time
because we are very close to the end of this package of time. So the fact
of being able to realise certain spiritual objectives in this era will mean
that when we reach the end of this package, if we have been able to realise
these objectives, then we will have ’fixed’ them. By doing so we will give
this colour, this rhythm to the whole package, and so the next time package
will have a better evolutionary basis to go on.
So what is the force that allows us to go and act in a territory
that is governed by forces different from the ones where we come from? It
is a force that we call the ’graal’. ‘
Do you have to train your subconscious to remember the link, when
you travel with you subtle body?
‘It is the cabin that keeps the link. It is one of the functions of
the spheroselfs. However, there is some degree of preparation. So really it
is both things. The time traveIler’ has a subconscious preparation. The
amount of information that he must memorise, and all the techniques you
have to use to be able to get out and go, are so great that you would not
be able to retrieve them consciously. There is also an ethical reason. In
doing these experiments we have a goal, specific things to learn. It would
not be ethical just to say ’Tonight I am going to go and possess somebody’.
So it is very important that we also forget how to do it. So that
knowledge can only be activated when it is needed, when the cabin and the
whole instrumentation are operational.’
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