Icons of the Future

Photo: Maria Soares Photo: Nigel Dickinson
Photo: Nigel Dickinson
Photo: Juliane Paul
Photo: Tamera
Photo: Tamera
Photo: Volker Schneiderait
Photo: Elias Barrasch
5. The Place: Healing Biotope 1 Tamera
The Lithopuncture Circle is built on the approximately
134 hectares of terrain of the Healing
Biotope 1 Tamera. The place chosen for the circle is a
hill in the middle of the site that had been previously
identified by Marko Pogačnik in 1996 as the “heart
place” of the site. At the same time it is the geographic
centre of the site.
The Healing Biotope 1 Tamera is located in southern
Portugal in the Alentejo, one of the least densely
populated areas of Europe. Tamera is a planetary
centre of research for the development of a sociological
and ecological peace culture model. Throughout
the year approx. 150 scientists and practitioners,
students and apprentices, children and youngsters,
specialists and co-workers coming from various
areas of life, from nature and future research, work
here on a comprehensive peace information, on a
replicable model for peace villages in the crisis areas
of the earth.
The fields of research include ecological technologies,
energy production and mater recycling without
the use of industrial chemicals, self-sufficient food
production using permaculture and agroforestry, cooperation
and friendship with animals and plants, all
aspects of culture such as arts, communication, music
and nutrition, as well as child raising, love, sexuality
and religion. In this sense the co-workers of Tamera
have committed themselves to a way of life where all
areas of living belong to the research.
Tamera was founded in 1995 after many years of
preparation. The initiators are Dieter Duhm, sociologists
and one of the leading minds of the German ´68
student movement, Rainer Ehrenpreis, physicist, musician
and economist, and Sabine Lichtenfels, theologian
and peace activist. Sabine Lichtenfels´ extensive
study of the pre-historic utopia of the stone circle of
Almendres near Évora has considerably influenced
the foundation of Tamera.
6. A Network of Lithopuncture Circles
The Lithopuncture Circle that is being built in Tamera
is the first in a series of further comparable
stone icons: circles, individual stone settings, and geomantic
peace monuments at selected key places in
the energy system of the earth. These includes magnetic
nodal points of the Earth as well as crisis areas
or scenes of important peace initiatives.
In 2005 Marco Pogačnik and Peter Frank assisted in
the construction of a Lithopuncture Circle in Zagreb.
And in 2008, Sabine Lichtenfels started to build a
Lithopuncture Circle together with the inhabitens of
San José de Apartadó in Columbia, that reflects their
basic values.
The idea is – to use terminology drawn from Chinese
medicine – to set a system of acupuncture points
in the organism of the planet and to thereby install a
global field of power. This healing field of power is to
support peace activities of many groups worldwide
and anchor their work in the network of life.
The builders of the Lithopuncture Circle of
Tamera will gladly support the development of further
Lithopuncture Circles or geomantic stone settings
if certain conditions are fulfilled under the
appropriate conditions. It is important that a responsible
group or initiative forms that will continue to
care for to cultivate and use the stone icon.
As an expression of the fact that we do not follow
a certain dogma, religion or a teaching, we have decided
that the centre of the stone circle will always
remain empty. This is an expression of the fact that
we are always open for the processes of transformation
and the development of the new.
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