Temples of Time Travel
By Dan Watson, Ph.D.
Published in InnerChange Magazine August/September 2004
Photos by Orata, Federation of Damanhur.

Located in the foothills of the Italian Alps, north of Turin, Damanhur is a
highly organized and integrated community dedicated to the unification of art, spirituality, and technology. Damanhur was founded 1977 by a group of spiritual visionaries of the Horus Centre of Turin lead by Oberto Airaudi, a modern day Leonardo DaVinci, who continues to lead this vibrantly dynamic and creative community. Since the birth of Damanhur, Oberto Airaudi, also known as Falco (Falcon), inventor, artist, scientist, and philosopher, has ceaselessly continued to inspire new leaders of research, within Damanhur, in nearly every aspect of life from sacred art, music, and language, organic agriculture, medical healing arts, and textiles to name a few, and time travel.

Damanhur also has a social and political structure, a Constitution, 40 economic activities, schools, a daily paper, and it's own currency (at the same value as the Euro and both are mostly interchangeable within Damanhur).

In 1995, Kindred Spirit magazine, in collaboration with Damanhur, gave the world it's first glimpse into some of their highly complex and fantastic experiments with time travel that most scientists consider impossible.  There are exceptions of course as mentioned in Kindred Spirit: "In the foreword to Lawrence Krauss's forthcoming book The Science [Physics] 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'."

For anyone reading this article who has traveled by airplane from the East Coast to the West Coast, wasn't your first time a little surreal in the fact that everyone in there perceived themselves as existing within a temporal plane three hours earlier than where you just were, which in West Coast time was now your future? Perhaps you could you say that today we are able to travel across time (zones) and back with amazing speed, but what if you could travel 'through and into' time without aging? Where would you find the energy needed to accomplish this and how could you harness it if you found such a source?

According to the researchers at Damanhur: "The answer lies in the 'Tempio dell'Uomo', the underground complex at Damanhur, otherwise known as the Temple of Humankind."1 The Temple of Humankind is a fully underground temple of vast corridors that lead to astonishing and enormous inner temples filled with wall to wall art made of remarkable sculptures, fantastic murals, elaborate stainglass including the largest Tiffany stainglass cupolas in the world, and the full range of various metals, gemstones, and colors. Deep within the inner structures of the temple is a highly intricate system of 'Selfic technology' composed of 300 tons of detailed energy-conducting circuits, connections, and pathways made of virtually every mineral and metal known. This "[gigantic] '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 utilized it up to the 8th Century B.C."1

"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.'"1 The use of Selfic technology is not limited to time travel research and is a very important aspect of life in Damanhur for enhancing personal health and energy management, stimulating creativity and insight, accessing deep states of meditation for spiritual growth, and the appreciation of art and beauty that is also created in the form of Selfic jewelry. 'Selfic art' is also found nearly everywhere in Damanhur from the outdoor temple to the vast network of stone spirals and labyrinths found in various locations with in the hills of Damanhur.

The greatest use of the 'Selfica' is found within the underground temple
where it concentrates and directs the energies of several convergent
factors, part earth created and part Damanhur created. The most unusual of these factors a rare mineral called Mylonite that is characterized by its ability to transport the physical energies of the earth and in the case of the Temples of Humankind, on a massive scale. As it turns out, the Damanhurians built the Temples of the Humankind completely "inside a vein of Mylonite located at a point where the Eurasian continental plate meets the African one, creating breakthroughs of this rare mineral dated over 300 million years old." "The recent discovery of the Mylonite fault has left the geologists of the leading engineering firm appointed by the Italian Government to study the Temples, speechless. After over twenty years from the start of construction, official scientific research confirms that there is only one point of energy on the planet such as the one where the Temples are built."1

A second earth factor that exists at this unique location is the convergence of major synchronic lines of the earth that form a 'synchronic knot'2, like at Stonehenge and in Lhasa, Tibet. These massive energy lines circulate the earth's energies along these synchronic lines and also store large amounts of energy in rock formations. As a result, these 'synchronic knots' are turned into 'Time Mines.'1 Before it is possible to utilize the 'Time Mine' energies, the mineral must first be extracted. For years, the Damanhurians dug into the rock by hand, pickax, and shovel fully engaging their "awareness, as if it were a meditation, a digging deep inside the self."1

A third factor is one of human generated energies through the ritualistic
activities of dancing, chanting, meditating and singing that serve not only as a centerpiece of social and spiritual life, but also as a source of
energies that can be stored by the Temple's circuitry. A fourth factor
involves the skillful blend of human creativity, engineering, and artistry.
"The Damanhurians 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."1

The Damanhurians believe that there are two main ways to time travel:
one is with the physical body and the other is with the consciousness and subtle bodies. Utilizing elaborately designed 'Selfic Time Cabins', the
extensively trained time traveler or 'Temponaut' concentrates on his/her mission as the researcher on the outside makes the final adjustments.  "After a while, a Time Door appears in front of the Temponaut. Usually it looks like a large comma in a dark color. The Temponaut, following the instructions received during training, jumps into the door and travels to another point in the fabric of time."1 The Temponaut's body then dematerializes and then rematerializes "in another time dimension, maybe even in the same place from where they departed, but several centuries or millennia before."1 Due to the many serious potential risk factors involved to the body of the time traveler and the time line itself, only the most rigorously trained Damanhurians consider physical time travel.

The initial preparation for time travel using the vehicle of consciousness
and the subtle bodies is similar to what the physical time traveling
Temponaut undergoes, only for the subtle body Temponaut, "a Time Door appears it looks like a jagged window of light on another reality.
Following the instructions received during the training, [the Temponaut]
goes beyond the window with his/her thoughts and will and finds him/herself at another point in the fabric of time. In this case, however, in order to move, the Temponaut needs to use the body of a living being of the time in which he/she has arrived. The Temponaut's consciousness aligns with that of the person in whom he/she has to 'enter' and for a short period of time there are two in the same body."1

The Damanhurians also believe that the soul's consciousness can travel in this way and be temporarily transferred "not only inside other human beings, but also inside animals. [In this way,] it becomes possible to see through the eyes of a hawk, to hear with the hearing of a fox, to smell with the senses of a dog."1 The second method of time travel, using consciousness and subtle bodies, is considered highly complex and requires of the traveler a constant awareness of "keeping the fabric of space-time 'open' in order not to lose the connection between the body left behind inside the Cabin and the subtle bodies that are traveling."1

How many of us have felt that we have traveled through time with our
consciousness and our subtle bodies during a particularly powerful energy healing session or a similarly transcendent meditation experience? I believe that the number is much larger than we would imagine. What purpose does this serve in the greater picture of things and why would a community such as Damanhur spend so much time and effort to create such a force? In our experience of the Damanhurians and in our spiritual energy healing work in the United States, my wife, Rio, and I feel that it all serves the same purpose - to heal the past, live in the present, and to evolve the soul, literally. As stated in the Isaiah scroll(3), the Damanhurians believe, as I would imagine many of us do on some level, that we have many possible realities and that the more we consciously choose create a better world, the greater the force will be towards the creation of a new timeline, one based upon world unity.

Notes:
1. Kindred Spirit. Magical History Tour, Winter 1995/1996, Vol. 3, No. 9.
2. Merrifield, J. Damanhur: The Community They Tried to Brand a Cult.
(London: HarperCollins, 1988).
3. Braden, G. The Isaiah Effect: Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and
Prophecy. (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000).