Libri di Beira Hamamelis

Since time immemorial the woods are the home of life. The Damanhurians have transformed their Woods into a sacred place, a meeting point for the different worlds of existence which hosts meditation paths, altars, pyramids, as well as plants, animals, spirits of nature and human beings.Damanhur, with more than forty years of history and over a thousand members worldwide, is a social and spiritual experience with many stories to tell. “Damanhur Con Te” is a way to collect, share and bring home pieces of the wisdom—or the foolhardiness, depending on how you look at it—that has guided us on this adventure.

At sixteen, the young Oberto, who in his adulthood with the name of Falco Tarassaco would have become the founder of Damanhur, collected his poems in a book and soon after published a short story in the form of letters. There was no trace then of what would have happened a few years later, of his consciousness awakening, or of his social, artistic and spiritual adventure in Damanhur… Or maybe there was! How much of Falco Tarassaco, as an enlightened spiritual guide, is contained in these writings? How many fine threads link the thoughts of young Oberto to the philosophy developed by Falco in his forty years of spiritual teachings? Let’s find these signs together: the meditative reflections which lead us to the themes that Damanhur will later develop. Let’s try to give meanings to the images, the words and the metaphors that seems to be just somepoetical exercises. Who knows, out of them we could draw some valuable suggestions for ourselves and, maybe, following his example we could learn our first steps towards spiritual freedom.

In an interplanetary system there is an empire formed of worlds inhabited by alien beings with decidedly original characteristics: flying creatures that never settle, attracted by the depths of the sea; a species that moves at ultra-high speed; creatures convinced they are the only one of their kind, alone in the world they inhabit; species whose senses are limited exclusively to touch; beings amazingly similar to Earth people; trees with very highly developed intelligence. Science fiction? Falco tells us that "these are stories with a specially built-in mechanism to help us dream, learning in this way to guide our dreams. We only need to read them before going to sleep". And in any case, they remind us that the Earth is a just small planet on the very edge of a galaxy...