The book contains the essence of the two authors’ life experience and over 40 years of work on a new human foundation for a culture of peace. It contains perhaps the most profound things that can be said today on the topics of love, sexuality and partnership.
If the heart guides human history, then there can be no more violence.
Dieter Duhm
This audio book is based on the book of the same name by Dieter Duhm and Sabine Lichtenfels. Part 1 by Dieter Duhm is read by a narrator – Jonathan Benjamin – and part 2 by Sabine Lichtenfels is read by a narrator – Tinka Müller.
All sound recordings were made by Archie del Ray at the Sacred Museum recording studio.
The producer is Stefan Mühle, who runs a practice for sexological bodywork and pelvic floor work in Winterthur, Switzerland. He was so enthusiastic about the book that he took the initiative to turn it into an audio book. Thank you!
Dieter Duhm, born 1942 in Berlin. Art historian, psychoanalyst and sociologist with a doctorate. As a youth, he was involved for several years in the “Bread for the World” campaign, and in 1967 became an activist in the German student movement. He combines the idea of political revolution with that of individual liberation and becomes known for his book “Angst im Kapitalismus” (Fear in Capitalism). Trials for breach of the peace, amnesty by President Heinemann. Several years of work in the Marxist left, then forays into rural communes and alternative projects. Two years of psychoanalytic practice, which he wanted to combine with political content and translate into collective healing work. Three professorship offers, which he rejects. Several visits to the Austrian Friedrichshof followed, led by the artist Otto Mühl. There he had an ideological confrontation that led to a final separation. In 1976 he goes to a hermitage in Lower Bavaria for five months to reflect.
From spring 1978, development of the “Bauhütte” project. In addition to pioneering ecological work, introduction of free sexuality, which leads to fierce slander in the German public. He develops the plan of the healing biotopes, a concrete strategy how a worldwide peace could be brought about.1990 Move to Lanzarote, where he increasingly follows his penchant for painting.
In 1995, together with his partner Sabine Lichtenfels and others, he founded the project “Tamera”, a center for concrete utopia and international peace work, with the goal of connecting global peace work with the building of new models of life and creating places where people live together with all fellow creatures in cooperation and mutual support. Establishment of the “political ashram”, the peace school of Tamera. Today he leads the department for Eros, Art and Healing in Tamera – and works together with Sabine Lichtenfels and others on the master plan of a planetary peace community.
Sabine Lichtenfels, born in 1954 in Münster, Germany. From an early age she was deeply connected with questions of love. Jesus was her revolutionary role model. At 16, she dreamed of a village where all lovers would live together and no one would have to be abandoned. In 1978 she met Dieter Duhm and joined a three-year social research experiment initiated by him, in which the foundations for peaceful coexistence under real living conditions were to be found. The experiment was successful. Basic principles for building functioning communities could be formulated.
Sabine Lichtenfels focused her work more and more on reconciliation and truth between the sexes as the core area of a future culture of peace. She supported especially young people in their questions in the area of love, sexuality and community and became more and more an orientation.
Through her medial talent she was able to connect with early matriarchal times, as they must have existed on Malta, Crete and Nubia. In this way she also gained deep insights into indigenous cultures and early Christianity. She wrote her books Dreamstones and Temples of Love, published her thoughts in seminars and lectures. Her political work took her to many crisis and conflict areas. She was in the regions affected by civil war in the Colombian rainforest, in Palestinian refugee camps, in Israeli settlements always with the aim of softening the fronts and connecting people.
Shaken by the threat of war in Iran, she set out alone and without money in 2005 on a peace pilgrimage that lasted several months. Her journey led her on the first Grace Pilgrimage through Israel and Palestine. Other pilgrimages followed, some with several hundred participants.
Also in 2005 she was honored by a Swiss initiative as one of the “1000 Women for Peace”. Today she lives in Tamera, where she directs the Global School of Love and Terra Deva, the department for spiritual research.
