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    The largest Community in Europe
    The largest Community in Europe
    The largest Community in Europe
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    The largest Community in Europe

    By Coboldo Melo

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    Damanhur is one of the most structured communities in the world and its story contains so many initiatives and events that we should need a much bigger volume than this to tell them all. For that reason, in these pages we have condensed the following phases: the conception of the community project (1969 – 1979), its physical creation and subsequent consolidation (1980 – 1992), the period of rapid expansion (1993 – 2000), and the further growth that still continues, uninterrupted.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDEVODAMA
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9788899652425
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      The largest Community in Europe - Coboldo Melo

      communities.

      Where dreams are built

      Damanhur is one of the most structured communities in the world and its story contains so many initiatives and events that we should need a much bigger volume than this to tell them all. For that reason, in this little book we have condensed four major phases: the period of conception of ideas, which coincides with the decade from 1969 to 1979 and in fact represents the incubation period of the community project; followed by its physical creation during the period from 1980 to 1992, with the direct effort of the founders who went on to consolidate the Community; this was followed by the period of rapid expansion which began around 1993 and continued uninterrupted until the year 2000 and achieved considerable international fame for the Community; then later growth, in some respects more carefully thought-out than in the preceding period, having its focal point in 2012.

      Falco Tarassaco (Oberto Airaudi), the original founder of Damanhur and its spiritual guide, left his physical body in June 2013 and from then onward Damanhurians have engaged in a series of transformations based on their experience and the drive coming from international relations: today the Federation of Communities is a more open arena than ever, quick to compare, full of discussions and projects.

      In its forty years of life, Damanhur has consistently developed original organizational patterns as compared with the other community experiences that unfurled during the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the third Millennium. The story of this adventure begins with Falco and the initial founders primarily focused on opening the building site of dreams upon which the Community would be built. However, it would be helpful to go back, first of all, to a less well-known period before that, in which the individual experiences of certain spiritual seekers matured and enabled them to come together. These people were prepared to follow a young man of scarcely eighteen who until just a few years earlier cultivated, in solitude, such original passions as Selfica, which was not one of the subjects normally discussed at that time in Turin’s intellectual circles.

      As Falco himself wrote shortly afterwards, his first eighteen years of reading, meetings and continual experimentation, helped him awaken memories of other lives and piece together knowledge that he would then easily speak about in the first public presentations and in the meetings reserved for his friends. With the rediscovery of these complex notions, he already had a clear idea what the primary objective of his life was, so much so that a year earlier, aged 17, he had been recognized by the courts in Turin as having attained the age of majority which at that time, in Italy, never happened before one’s twenty-first birthday. Immediately afterwards, he also gained economic independence and began associating with people of standing who were open minded, capable of accommodating and integrating several topics of research—not least the creation of a community for living in, devoted to the study, experimentation and daily use of esoteric knowledge.

      Oberto Airaudi, Falco Tarassaco, in a photograph taken in the late Seventies, at the end of a Past-Lives course.

      In the esoteric salons of Turin

      Oberto Airaudi, who several years later was to take the name Falco, was at that time a restless young man—yet totally uninvolved in the teenage protests typical of those years—who in his own way broke with the Savoy tradition1 and, with studied discretion, devoted himself to discussions of astrology, herbs, alternative medicine, reincarnation, alchemy, radiesthesia, spiritism, telekinesis and the paranormal. He alternated with Benedetto Lavagna in the public lectures given in the hall next to the Chiesa Valdese in Turin’s Corso Principe Oddone, close to the historic center of Turin. He soon attracts the attention of the public with his experiments in hypnotism and telekinesis and even more with the original way he links seemingly distant topics; he is just as quick to draw considerable criticism for insisting on divulging information that had always been considered the exclusive prerogative of a very small number of seekers.

      In 1970, Falco brings together the first group of people interested in the idea of building a village, while in

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