Oberto airaudi biography

Oberto Airaudi, the founder of Damanhur, an Italian esoteric community, was born in 1950 in Balangero, north of Turin, Italy. As a youth he became involved in the metaphysical community in Turin and found himself drawn to psychic healers, especially some that practiced what was termed pranotherapy, a form of healing that used prana, considered by Hindus the life force, to heal.

He became a pranotheraphist in the early 1970s and soon established offices in several towns in northern Italy.

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He also began to operate as a Spiritualist medium and eventually wrote a book on the subject. By 1974 he had attained a following that joined him in the formation of two organizations, the Horus Centre and an associated School of Pranotherapy.

Airaudi advocated the ideals of the communal life and in 1975 land was rented in the Valchiusella Valley north of Turin as a possible site for the community.

The following year some two dozen people moved to what was called Daman