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Obras por Dieter Duhm

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Duhm, Dieter
Nome legal
Duhm, Dieter
Data de nascimento
1942
Local de nascimento
Berlin, Deutsches Reich
Locais de residência
Tamera, Portugal
Relações
Lichtenfels, Sabine (partner)

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"Terra Nova" is a book written by an old German man named Dieter Duhm who founded an intentional community called Tamera in Portugal in 1995. The book is about his worldview as lived out in the past twenty years at Tamera.

Much of their study at Tamera has gone into researching the sexual dynamics between men and women. Here is an excerpt along these lines:

Basic Guidelines for Love [p. 120]
- Love is the ultimate treasure of human culture.
- Trust between man and woman is the basis of a future without war. Never lie to your love partner.
- You can only be faithful if you are allowed to love others. Free love and the love between a couple are not mutually exclusive, but complementary.
- Jealousy is not part of love.
- Partnership does not derive from mutual possession, but only from mutual compassion and support.
- Sadism and masochism are the result of humanity’s mistreatment of sexuality. Violence is not part of sexuality and submission does not belong to love.
- No sex with children.
- Sexual acts must never be conducted against the will of any person.
- There is no ownership in love. Relationship problems cannot be solved legally, but only with the help of a supportive community.
- If you have a choice between love and something else, follow love.

Although the language in the book was great [using terms such as Field of Potentiality, Implicate Order, Morphogenetic Field, Akashic Records], I didn't feel a strong resonance with the book. I live and work in communities looking at some of the global issues that Tamera has been involved with, but for some reason I feel a bit of a cultural disconnect with this piece.

Duhm brings Christ into the picture again and again. A bold move; most modern alternative communities stay clear of religious figures. But I think that Duhm has found a way to work with the Christian archetype that doesn't detract from his message.

As a side note, something I noticed about this book was it's poor printing quality. Usually I don't pay any attention to printing quality [except when it's outstanding, such as with letter press books]. But the side of the page closest to the binding was often streaky and faint in my copy. Apparently the publisher is at Tamera, so maybe they don't have professional quality printing equipment.
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willszal | Apr 7, 2016 |

Estatísticas

Obras
15
Membros
41
Popularidade
#363,652
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
1
ISBN
19
Línguas
3