Become the Alchemist of the New Era

Why Alchemy, Why Now

We're living through a shift many traditions have named: a new way of being becoming possible; structures that once held everything together loosening their grip. Some call it the Age of Aquarius. This era asks for tools that reach further than the mind alone. Damanhur has spent 51 years building exactly those tools. The Alchemist of the New Era doesn't wait to see what happens. What they set their mind to, they create.

Alchemy at Damanhur means working directly with your own energy, your emotions, your creative power, and your connection to the elements: the Alchemy of Living Forces. These forces run your life every day, whether you're directing them or not. Guide them, and you manifest what you desire. Not by accident, not once in a while, but as a discipline you can rely on.

Order your inner world, and it shows up everywhere you act. At work, it looks like purpose and direction. In relationships, people show up for you, support you, and make your life richer.

Most people spend their lives chasing self-control. “If I could just be more disciplined, everything would change,” that's the quiet hope behind half of what you try. Alchemy doesn't ask you to force it. Every time you clean your Athanor, bringing order to your inner laboratory, you generate the energy that makes discipline easy to hold onto, not something you have to fight for every morning.

That's what rituality gives you: access to real power, power you direct on purpose, with your own will. Keep your inner world ordered, and discipline stops being the thing you're missing. It becomes the natural result of the work.

Damanhur practices this at every scale. The Temples of Humankind were carved down into the mountain using the same presence and precision Alchemy teaches. That same practice runs the community's daily life: its governance, its economy, and its work in theurgic magic on behalf of humanity's future.

You need your own life to finally work the way you already know it can: your effort generating results, discipline holding, intentions becoming real, on purpose, every time. That's what this School teaches you to master.

Fifty Years of Practice Behind Every Teaching

51 years practicing Alchemy, inside a real, living community

15 years teaching it as a structured School

10+ years of students who completed the full three-year path

What You'll Learn in Level 1

Your Body as the Furnace You Learn to Master

Alchemists call it the Athanor, the living furnace, where you turn raw material into something refined, like ancient Alchemists turning Lead into Gold. In you, that furnace is your body. You'll learn to keep it clean and running, and how to call on your masculine and feminine energies, along with the elements, so nothing is wasted—less effort spent fighting yourself, more of it creating the results you aim for.

Time as Something Still Being Written

Time is not a line behind and ahead of you. It is a territory you can move through, on purpose, to specific points, past or future, and act from there. Learn to change what you find, and you change what follows. Within that space, Alchemy teaches you to read the subtle signs around you, like road signs, with real precision, so you know exactly which point to act from.

Perception as What You Learn to Create With

Expand your perceptions beyond the commonly known senses. On its own, that can be overwhelming, more input isn't automatically useful. This is where you learn to work with creativity: not as a talent you either have or don't, but as a skill that turns everything you perceive into something you can use to achieve your goals: a potion, a ritual, a precise action in the world.

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Three Levels, One Great Work

This is the full arc of the school: three levels, one continuous transformation.

Level 1 gives you the foundation: the body as furnace, shifting consciousness in time, opening to expanded perception.

What follows is longer, because what you're becoming isn't a skill, it's a way of acting where effort and result stop being two different things.

The people who teach here didn't study this from the outside. They built their lives with it, and it shows: in their work, in what they create, in how little of what they give ever drains them. The world outside is not getting steadier. This is how you stop needing it to be.

Three levels, refined from over 50 years a real community has lived this way.

The Language the World Already Speaks (Reading the Signs)

Every day, the world places things in front of you: a repeated number, a chance meeting, an object out of place. Most people call this coincidence and move on. Alchemy teaches you to read it as language, using real instruments built for exactly this: divination tools like tarot and the seven stones, dowsing pendulums, instruments that have carried this practice for centuries. You learn to notice these signs, understand what they're pointing toward, and act on them with real precision, so the world stops feeling random and starts feeling like something you can actually navigate.

Building What Doesn't Exist Yet (Chimeras)

Imagine a creature built from the best parts of many others: a dog's sense of smell, a bat's sonar, a pelican's grip, an earthworm's ability to move through solid ground. In this practice, you learn to build exactly that, not in flesh, but as a working tool of perception and creation. Send it somewhere you cannot go yourself. Let it sense what your own body never could. Chimeras extend your reach past the edges of what's humanly possible.

A Spiritual Web Far Larger Than You Realized (Spiritual Ecosystem)

You are not a single, separate point moving through the world. You are part of a much larger web: material and spiritual, seen and unseen, connected in ways most people never learn to perceive. This includes the people around you. Your own evolution creates real effects in the people you work with, live with, and love, not as a side benefit, but as part of how the practice actually works. Learn to feel that web directly, and to act with the weight of your true place inside it, rather than the smaller, more isolated version of yourself you've grown used to.

Senses Waiting to Be Awoken (Outer and Inner Senses)

Five senses are only the beginning. Beneath them, you carry inner senses—real, specific faculties not listed in biology textbooks. Most people have forgotten how to use the full range of their physical and subtle bodies. Activate your senses directly, through easily repeatable exercises, so you can perceive what your five ordinary senses were never built to catch, and learn to trust what you find there.

You Don't Wait for the Right Moment, You Create It
(Moving Synchronicity)

Most people wait for the right moment to arrive. In Damanhur, this is turned inside out: each conscious action sets off a chain of synchronic events, and that chain brings the next supportive action closer. Each action builds on the last. Learn how to act deliberately with conscious attention, and watch the world respond, instead of staying still in the hope something will happen.

Tools That Extend What You Can Do
(Creation and Use of Magical Tools)

Some tasks need more than your body alone. In this level, you learn to build your own energetically charged tools, extensions of your own reach, amplifiers of your own capacity. You'll use them to open doors within yourself and around you, increasing what you can sense and what you can direct, well past what's available to you unaided.

What's Included in Level 1

Learning

Five online Sunday sessions, six hours each, plus one hour of personal coaching between every session, tailored to what you're actually working through. Four follow-up webinars carry you through the months after, so the momentum doesn't stop between live sessions.

The Residential

Six days in the First City of Damanhur. This is teaching you cannot get anywhere else, activations and direct work inside the Temples of Humankind and the Sacred Woods, structures that exist nowhere but here. This is where a year of online learning becomes lived experience, not a retreat built around it, the place where the deepest part of the work actually happens.

Your Own Tools

During the residential, you receive the Alchemist's Kit, materials prepared on your frequency for your own practice. You bring them home, and you use them.

Everything, Always Available

Every session is recorded. You keep permanent access, so you can return to any lesson whenever you need it, not just once, for as long as you're working this path.

Learn From People Who Live This

Every teacher at the Alchemy School has spent decades inside this practice, each specializing in a different branch of it: time, ritual, healing, art, the elements. What they teach isn't theory passed down from books. It's what they've tested in their own lives, year after year. Here are four of the people who will teach you.

Condor Girasole

Condor is one of the original founders of Damanhur, present with Falco Tarassaco since 1979, one of 12 people who chose to build something that didn't exist yet. He learned Alchemy directly from Falco, not secondhand, and has spent over 45 years living what he was taught. Today, he's one of Damanhur's Sages. When Condor teaches, it comes from lived experience. He's passing on what he built and others built with Falco.

RAGNO LATTUGA

For more than 22 years, Ragno has practiced Alchemy inside the Damanhur community, trained directly by Falco Tarassaco. He co-founded Oro Crea, where he creates jewelry charged through alchemical practice, then uses what he's learned to manifest the exact person a piece is made for. Someone travels to Damanhur, sees the piece, and knows it's theirs. This is what Ragno means when he says Alchemy works in business the same way it works in life: put your full practice behind something, and the result finds its way to you.

GOURA LOTO

Goura has lived in Damanhur for over 20 years, the first 11 as a nun. Today, she guides visitors from around the world through the Temples of Humankind, seeing almost instantly what each person in front of her needs, and giving it to them. Most people would find this kind of constant giving draining. For Goura, it's the opposite: each encounter returns to her too, as deeper awareness and a more intimate knowledge of herself. This is Alchemy fulfilling its true purpose, transforming both the person who receives, and the person who gives.

Gazza Solidago

Gazza has spent decades welcoming people from around the world to Damanhur, and decades more working directly alongside Falco Tarassaco as an interpreter and teacher. That closeness gave her something rare: the ability to recognize where Damanhur's work could grow next. She has used it to help open new areas for the community around the world, turning her relationship with Falco's teaching into new ground, not just preserved history.

The Place Where Teachings Become Reality

People who study Damanhur say the same thing its own teachers tell you. Stanislav Grof, the psychiatrist who founded the field of Transpersonal Psychology, called the Temples of Humankind "a remarkable flaring forth of creative genius." Physicist Nassim Haramein called Damanhur "a great example for humanity of a society that can work and function together." A UNICEF advisor who has spent a lifetime studying human potential called what happens here "exceptional, unique, and very important for the future of humanity."

In Damanhur, Alchemy is lived. Every day, in the First City and in Damanhurian communities around the world, people use exactly what you will learn here to build real lives: relationships, work, decisions.

This School is where you live your alchemical life.

Damanhur

Damanhur is a Federation of Spiritual Communities founded in 1975 in the foothills of the Alps.
It is an experience of research into the profound values of existence, conducted through exploration in every area: in the field of work, shared life, culture, art and the search for Consciousness and the subtle energies that guide the universe.

People Who Were Where You Are

Still Deciding? Real Answers →

What if three years is too much to commit to right now?

You already have a lower-risk way to find out: Beginning of the Journey, introductory course. Most people in the full School started there. If you haven't done the weekend yet, that's the honest place to start.

What if I invest, and it turns out this isn't right for me?"

Every level builds real, usable skill on its own, even if you go no further. Nothing here is wasted if you decide to stop.

What if I don't have the time, or the money, right now?

That's a real constraint, not a small one. This isn't a decision to make quickly, and it isn't the only path available to you this year. If the timing isn't right, the newsletter keeps you close to the work without asking for anything, so you can come back when it is.

What if it doesn't work, and I still can't manifest what I want?

That fear makes sense. You've hoped before, and been disappointed before. But manifestation was never the missing piece, the ability to direct your own energy is. Most methods hand you a new technique and leave the rest of you exactly as disordered as it was before. Alchemy puts your inner world in order first, so whatever you do next, including everything you've already learned, finally has something solid to work from.

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You do not have to decide from this page alone. Book a free 30-minute call with one of the School's founders. Ask your questions, share your doubts, and find out directly whether this path is right for you, no cost, no commitment.

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Beginning of the Journey

The Introductory Course
€197
September 26–27, 2026, live online.
What's included:

• 12 hours of live teaching

• 2 downloadable handbooks

• Recordings of every session

• A 30-minute personal consultation

If you continue to Level 1, this €197 comes off the total price.

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Level 1, Full School

€2,970
(€2,773 if you've already paid for Beginning of the Journey)

Includes everything in the introductory course, plus:

• 5 online Sunday sessions
6 hours each, 15:00–18:00 and 19:00–22:00 CEST

• 6 hours of personal coaching
one hour between each session

• 4 follow-up webinars
May through August

• 6-day retreat in the First City of Damanhur
activations and activities in the Temples of Humankind, Sacred Woods, and other sacred spaces

• The Alchemist's Kit
prepared for your own practice

• Permanent access to every recording

A deposit of €880 reserves your place.

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Questions Before You Decide

Do I need to attend the live sessions, or can I catch up with the recordings?

Recordings are there for review, not as a substitute for live attendance. This is a group school, learning happens partly in the room, through coaching, discussion, and shared practice with the other students walking this path alongside you. If your schedule genuinely cannot support attending the live sessions, this program likely is not the right fit right now. The recordings will help you go deeper into what you experienced live, not replace being there.

I already completed Beginning of the Journey elsewhere, or a while ago. Does it still count toward Level 1?

Yes, it counts. Reach out to us directly, and we will help you figure out exactly where to start.

How do the schedules work for people in different time zones?

Sessions run 15:00–18:00 and 19:00–22:00 CEST, with a one-hour break between them. For those on the US West Coast, the farthest time difference, that's roughly 6:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific Time. Check the schedule against your own time zone before enrolling, so you know exactly what you're committing to.

Is room and board included during the residential?

No, they are not included in the price. We will help you find the right option for your needs and budget once you enroll.

What language is the course taught in?

The course is taught mainly in Italian, with simultaneous translation into English by professional translators who have worked with the School for years. You will not miss anything by attending in English.

Who is this school for, complete beginners or people with experience?

Both. If you have real prior experience and feel like you have hit a wall, this program is built with you specifically in mind. If you are new to this work entirely but feel genuinely called to it, you are welcome here too. What matters most is your commitment to the practice, not how much you already know.