Damanhur
The Federation of Damanhur is an Italian religious organisation recognised by the United Nations as "a model for a sustainable future," according to an impeccable source their own website.[1] They keep pretty much to themselves most of the time, dedicating their lives to "ritual tradition, social realization, experimentation and dynamics, and individual inner refinement" - according to another impeccable source Wikipedia.[2] They also dedicate themselves to other matters which have attracted various forms of attention: cultish behaviour;[3] the building of "the eighth wonder of the world" - actually just a rather pretty temple;[4] and naked time travel involving German pop singers[5]
The whole thing was started in 1975 and now has about a thousand members in its 500-hectare[6] property.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Damanhur home page
- ↑ Life at Damanhur
- ↑ according to disgruntled ex-members
- ↑ if you like that sort of thing
- ↑ No really.
- ↑ Or, for the non-metric, 900 cadastral yokes.