{"id":102,"date":"2008-03-16T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20080316\/exquisite-underground-temple-damanhur\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:30","slug":"exquisite-underground-temple-damanhur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/exquisite-underground-temple-damanhur\/","title":{"rendered":"Exquisite underground temple of Damanhur"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ornate and beautiful underground temple was discovered in secret in the hills of northern Italy in November of last year.<\/p>\n

. . . the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.<\/p>\n

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It all began in the early Sixties when Oberto Airaudi was aged ten. From an early age, he claims to have experienced visions of what he believed to be a past life, in which there were amazing temples.<\/p>\n

Around these he dreamed there lived a highly evolved community who enjoyed an idyllic existence in which all the people worked for the common good.<\/p>\n

More bizarrely still, Oberto appeared to have had a supernatural ability: the gift of “remote viewing” – the ability to travel in his mind’s eye to describe in detail the contents of any building.<\/p>\n

“My goal was to recreate the temples from my visions,” he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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An ornate and beautiful underground temple was discovered in secret in the hills of northern Italy in November of last year. . . . the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood … <\/p>\n

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