ALCHEMY SCHOOL
LEVELS I, II, and III
2024 – 2025
2024 – 2025
A Journey Towards the
Perfection of the Human Being
Perfection of the Human Being
“In alchemy you want to reach perfection.”
An Alchemist is an eclectic artist who aspires to achieve completeness in every aspect of life. The alchemist takes a block of marble, or a piece of wood and begins to sculpt it, refining his work more and more. And while he works, he refines himself at the same time. When God’s face emerges from his artwork, the alchemist becomes enlightened, not because he was able to reproduce God’s face in that stone or piece of wood, but because he has reproduced it inside himself. This is alchemical artwork: the ultimate masterpiece in Alchemy; the transformation of the base metal into the noble metal. When the alchemist has come to produce gold from lead, he has overcome the world of attachment; he is no longer attached to matter; this is the proof that he has come to transform himself. Falco Tarassaco (Oberto Airaudi)
THREE-LEVEL SCHOOL
EACH LEVEL INCLUDES:
THREE-LEVEL SCHOOL
EACH LEVEL INCLUDES:
4 VIRTUAL MEETINGS on ZOOM
1 WEEKEND EACH MONTH
(SATURDAY AND SUNDAY)
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12 HOURS OF LESSONS
4 MONTHS (48 HOURS IN TOTAL)
+
4 GROUP WEBINAR OF ONE HOUR
IN BETWEEN EACH WEEKEND (4 HOURS IN TOTAL)
+
INDIVIDUAL COACHING
HALF AN HOUR ONCE A MONTH (2 HOURS IN TOTAL)
+
RETREAT in DAMANHUR
FROM 4 UP TO 6 DAY FINAL
(FOR A MINIMUM OF 28 HOURS OF CLASSES)
4 VIRTUAL MEETINGS on ZOOM
1 WEEKEND EACH MONTH
(SATURDAY AND SUNDAY)
+
12 HOURS OF LESSONS
4 MONTHS (48 HOURS IN TOTAL)
+
4 GROUP WEBINAR OF ONE HOUR
IN BETWEEN EACH WEEKEND (4 HOURS IN TOTAL)
+
INDIVIDUAL COACHING
HALF AN HOUR ONCE A MONTH (2 HOURS IN TOTAL)
+
RETREAT in DAMANHUR
FROM 4 UP TO 6 DAY FINAL
(FOR A MINIMUM OF 28 HOURS OF CLASSES)
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- Each weekend you will receive recorded exercises and related written materials
A graphic presentation with the topics covered during the weekend
All recordings of the lectures!
- For each Level you will receive specific tools and materials
- In the LEVEL I RETREAT you will have included also the guided visit to Damanhur Central Area and the Temples of Humankind
- In each LEVEL TREAT you will have a meditation in one of the halls of the Temples of Humankind and a meditation in the Sacred Woods
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- Each weekend you will receive recorded exercises and related written materials
A graphic presentation with the topics covered during the weekend
All recordings of the lectures! - For each Level you will receive specific tools and materials
- In the LEVEL I RETREAT you will have included also the guided visit to Damanhur Central Area and the Temples of Humankind
- In each LEVEL TREAT you will have a meditation in one of the halls of the Temples of Humankind and a meditation in the Sacred Woods
- Each weekend you will receive recorded exercises and related written materials
CALENDAR OF LEVEL I
ONLINE
CALENDAR OF LEVEL I
ONLINE
MONTHLY LESSONS ON ZOOM
September 28-29
October 26-27
November 23-24
December 21-22
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WEBINAR
October 6
November 3
December 1
December 29
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RESIDENTIAL 5-DAY RETREAT IN DAMANHUR
January 13-17, 2025
September 28-29
October 26-27
November 23-24
December 21-22
October 6
November 3
December 1
December 29
January 13-17, 2025
PROGRAM
LEVEL I
PROGRAM
LEVEL I
During this level you’ll explore your body and its possibilities as the first alchemical ATANOR (distiller). You will start from the exploration and management of the physical body and the subtle bodies, to reach their development as an alchemical laboratory; you’ll deal in depth with the use of the external senses and the “Inner Senses”, the senses of your soul, the management of emotions as a substance, to create useful “potions” for your refinement. You will learn to build and use objects conceived and “energetically prepared” for you. You will learn to reorder your energies and bring yourself gradually to your own basic and purest frequency, you will come into contact with the Nature Elements and the parts of you connected to them.
In this exploration you will use patterns, magical geometries and personal ritual exercises.
You will also enter in contact with your male and female aspects, giving the right space and value to each of them. You will also begin to use both dreams and nutrition as an alchemical path. Psychic patterns and activations will also be employed to support the preparation to become an alchemist.
Very special energetic locations such as the circuits/spirals in the Sacred Woods and the Temples of Humankind and other powerful tools and dynamics will be used in your exploration, while you’ll attend the final retreat in Damanhur.
PROGRAM
LEVEL II
PROGRAM
LEVEL II
Specific topics will be developed that will allow you to expand the awareness of your potential and characteristics. These will also supply knowledge to deepen the practice within certain fields of alchemy.
The fields of research you will explore during the second level are:
- Review rites and potions. Exchange of experiences.
- Symbols and signs. Reading the reality around us as a mantic.
- Expanding perceptions through different exercises:
- The use of one’s subtle, ectoplasmic body.Symmetries of the body.
- Learning to move on different timelines.
- Developing precognition.
- Temporal alchemy.
- Time-theoretical parts about the nature of time and how it can be manipulated in Alchemy. Experiential practical parts to choose and give density to the events to want.
- Activations in the selfica art gallery to make one’s subtle bodies stable and compact and use the gallery as a particle accelerator, to move through time.
- Mantics, tarot cards, seven stones.
- Radiesthesia and dowsing
- Alchemical readers: integrating different systems to access other states of consciousness and read energy containers of knowledge.
- Dreams in Alchemy.
- Alchemical communication.
- Damanhur magical projects.
PROGRAM
LEVEL III
PROGRAM
LEVEL III
Over time you will be able to evaluate your predisposition to aspects you feel passionate about. You will be able to develop these in collaboration with your teachers and the group you will be working with. This is the program in details:
- 2nd level review, time alchemy, signs and symbol, the great alchemy theory
- Sacred language and sacred dance
- Alchemy and the use of sounds
- Sound and body
- Body in alchemy: sex and energy healing exercises
- The mirror ritual, to discharge negative aspects
- Chimera’s creation, ephemeral creatures, composed and assembled, from different animal and plant characteristics apt to perform different tasks.
- The magic of spirals
- Magical instruments
- Art and Alchemy as a mediumistic act that involves the whole of the individual
- Social alchemy
Alchemy is a Magical Art, the Art of being and expressing one’s true divine essence. It is a path of awareness that leads to rediscovering the ability to actively and consciously participate in the complexity of Life, forging deep connections with all living beings and energies in both the material and spiritual dimensions of our Universe.
This is the ancient yet ever-new Art of Inner Transformation, known in Damanhur as the Alchemy of Living Forces. Alchemy is a journey to deepen the knowledge and use of your physical and energetic body in connection with your very essence—your soul. It involves harnessing the creative power of your mind through the conscious use of thoughts, emotions, and states of consciousness, all in alignment with your soul, to ultimately recognize and live the truth that you are One with the source of creation.
The Damanhurian School of Alchemy offers a fascinating, profound, and intimate journey that guides you to explore the secrets within yourself and the spiritual ecosystem of which you are a part. The goal of the Alchemist is to achieve maximum evolution and the full expression of one’s potential.
In this path, you will be introduced to the original tools and knowledge of our school, through which you can experiment with and test spiritual practices, exercises, and personal rituals. If practiced consistently, these will open the way to your personal refinement and the expression of your magical potential.
The school provides a comprehensive journey, exploring all aspects of human existence from an Alchemical perspective, because an Alchemist is an eclectic artist of life, striving for completeness in every field. Alchemy is constantly evolving, just like the Planet
itself, adapting its expression to the different eras that humanity experiences. In this context, we refer to it as the Alchemy of the New Era.
The first level of the school begins with the introductory course on Alchemy and then choose to continue with the first level of the school, the cost of the introductory weekend will be deducted from the overall school price.
THE ALCHEMICAL BODY
We have many bodies. The physical one, the energetic one, the mental one, the spiritual one, and so on. Each of them produces substances that can be modified, collected and developed to expand our human potentials. We will learn to make order within us with a magical ritual language and tools specifically created to allow us to expand our perceptions.
RITUALITY AND ALCHEMY
It is matter that teaches us to develop our full potential through the use of ritual patterns. These magical patterns interact with our archetypal form and help us to break down and recompose our energetic parts related to the alchemical elements, our personalities and our masculine feminine parts.
POTION EMOTION SUBSTANCES
In this subject you will learn how to create chemicals through your emotions and your states of consciousness. You will also learn how to combine them so that they can generate specific directions for your existence that we call potions. Potions direct and enhance our characteristics.
TIME AS A TERRITORY TO BE EXPLORED
We live in space but we also live in time. Each of the directions we choose to take can lead us into various different spaces and worlds. We have been accustomed to think of time in a linear way but we will learn that with our consciousness we can move to various points in time and move in various directions. We will be able to modify events and situations of our past and also of our future. We will learn to hook and recall events that we wish to manifest in our life.
CREATION USE OF MAGICAL TOOLS
In the school we will learn to create those tools that are true amplifiers of our potential so that we can reach and develop those internal senses connected to our divine parts. We will create tracers of energy figures and magical geometries and also tools that will allow us to read more easily the events available within our lives. This and much more.
CONNECTION WITH THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE
The five elements make up all matter, things and people around us. They are the key to connection with the Universal Laws. Each has its own potential to be discovered within and without us. Doing this we enter the flow of Synchronicity so we can direct our lives where we want and no longer be at the mercy of energy waves or the choices of others.
SPIRITUAL ECOSYSTEM
In the path of alchemy we are going to discover that we are part of a very large spiritual ecosystem. Many spiritual masters say that there are more things that are not seen than those that are seen. It will not be only theory but we will develop in practice our skills and our senses to participate actively in this fantastic world inhabited by spirits of all categories.
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SENSES
The human being to understand what happens in the world around him uses the famous 5 senses. But to go and develop our subtle energy capacities we are going to awaken those that are the internal senses. That is those senses connected to our divine soul that allow us to perceive the magical world around us and then interact with it. This will take place through real activations to awaken our ancient potential within one of us.
View Bio of Your Alchemy Instructor
GOURA LOTO
GOURA LOTO
I am one of the co-creators and instructors of the Damanhur School of Alchemy and Rituality, a transformational travel coach, tour guide of the Temples of Humankind, and a facilitator of personal and group meditations. For more than 16 years I have been part of the Damanhurian Spiritual Way of the Monks/Nuns. I have spent the past 11 years being a nun, fully embracing the discipline of this path to live fully the Mysticism and the Sacredness of my – Self discovery. I currently continue to help and support Damanhur Magical Journeys all over the world.
For over 13 years I have specialized in welcoming and guiding people from all over the world in the exploration of Damanhur Federation of Communities and its Temples of Humankind. I became a student of Alchemy and Rituality many years ago, studying directly with Falco Tarassaco, the main founder and inspirer of Damanhur. I continue to learn the theoretical and practical sciences of these subjects with my research group comprised of passionate people like myself.