Tamera
However, its history goes back to 1978 when these three left their professions and tried to create an interdisciplinary research center to find solutions to the ecological and technological problems the world was facing at that time.
They acknowledged that for their project's survival they first had to research what they consider the core human relationship questions hidden under all issues, preventing "real solutions" – such as competition, greed, and jealousy.
In 1983 they began a three-year "social experiment" with fifty participants in the Black Forest of (Germany), and then further developed the results of this research into creating a functioning community in other projects throughout Europe, until they finally established Tamera in 1995.
Tamera is also a "free lab" and an international meeting place where peace workers and specialists in various fields from many parts of the world share their expertise.
[citation needed] The research in Tamera is based on a complex world view explained in detail in The Sacred Matrix by Dieter Duhm.
“What will determine the success of such peace projects is not how big and strong they are (compared to the existing apparatus of violence), but how comprehensive and complex they are, and how many elements of life they combine and unite in a positive way.
The Global Campus is a worldwide educational initiative designed to offer knowledge in community development as well as the basic principles of decentralized energy supply, architecture, and ecology required to establish autonomous peace villages.
It also hosts an annual “Summer University” that brings these different people and projects together in a “think tank.” Verlag Meiga publishes books, literature, and essential thoughts to disseminate the knowledge and experience of over thirty years of research into the development of the “plan of the healing biotopes.” Its main headquarters is in (Germany), with a branch in Tamera.
Ecology, technology, architecture, and community are combined in a holistic pilot project designed and monitored by physicist and inventor Jürgen Kleinwächter.
Sepp Holzer, Austrian mountain farmer known throughout Europe as the "Agro-Rebel," is cooperating with Tamera to build a sustainable "lakescape" in the dry Alentejo region of Portugal, surrounded by a self-sufficient edible landscape with trees, gardens, and wetlands.
[5] In 2015, Dieter Duhm wrote the book Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love to expound upon and clarify the basic ideas of the movement.
Tamera has created experimental buildings as models for the construction of peace villages, designed by various architects such as Gernot Minke, professor of Clay Architecture at the University of Kassel, Germany.
In Tamera, spirituality and religion are not questions of some profession of faith or creed, but of a clear perception, openness, and connection with universal forces in daily life.
There is also a stone circle in Tamera made up of more than sixty monoliths, created and arranged by Sabine Lichtenfels in cooperation with Marko Pogacnik and Peter Frank, that serves as a place of meditation and power.
