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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 below relates to the trip made on 19 January 1994 by Gorilla Eucalypto.

Gorilla and His Colleagues
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 Science 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 Spirit 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 the 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 kind of 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.

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Gattopardo Tek, one of the first Damanhurian time travellers

Wired for a Vision
The answer lies in the 'Tempio dell'Uomo', the underground complex at Damanhur, otherwise 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 from 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.

Oberto Airaudi-the inspiration behind the time travel experiments

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 or man-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 travel, alchemical laborato-ries 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.'

MORE INFORMATION
Find out how Time Travel works and read the amazing interview with a time traveller plus more information about the interior of the temple time machine by buying ­ issue 33. Also Damanhurian articles in issue 32 and issue 36