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Introduction

Exploring complex topics that are difficult to handle for amateurs, even if they are endowed with a curious mind, is not a simple affair. Even more difficult, perhaps, is to successfully draw a parallel between the ancient wisdom traditions and modern science. Finally, it surely would be madness to try to build a bridge between magic, alchemy and the most advanced fronts of contemporary scientific speculation.

This book is all this and more.

Using one’s intelligence and patience and including contributions from mythology and archaeology, the author takes us on a journey that retraces some arduous paths of classical and quantum physics, to offer us an original vision of time as a granular set of events collected in packages with all these packages together forming an oscillating field that recreates itself continuously. This is the origin of the Physics of Time.

It is also an adventure in the fascinating world of the spiral, an ever-present element in all manifestations of our universe. The final objective is to seek a link between the current goals of physics and mechanics and the intuitions and accomplishments of a modern visionary, Oberto Airaudi, alias Falco Tarassaco, who developed Selfica, a new technology in between mysticism and science, to help us become masters of our time once again.

This book deals with technically difficult topics usually reserved only to a select few in a very enjoyable, easily understandable way. It has the precise and successful intention of giving solid, scientific foundations to the technology created by Falco Tarassaco, making it possible for us to access Selfica and perceive the new horizons it offers. It also helps us better understand and link together worlds that, until now, we thought so distinct from one another.

Much gratitude to the author for this successful synthesis. May it be an additional tile on the Path of Knowledge.

Happy reading to everyone!

Cormorano Sicomoro

Preface

Our very strange world

Going out to conquer unexplored lands is a challenge worth facing. Sometimes, the challenge is between us and the environment, and we pray to be able to resist the cold, the heat, the ice, the sea or the desert long enough to finally see the land or the moon that was promised to us. Other times, our goal is an idea or a state of being, a new vision of the world, or happiness.

There are also journeys in which we find ourselves, against our will, feeling the desperate need to escape, as if we had been catapulted into a never-ending nightmare.

Whatever the reason we have for undertaking it, the journey has the power to amaze us, showing us plainly that the place and the moment are the same thing. They cannot be distinguished to such an extent that they become perfectly interchangeable.

Space and time stop living in separate places and exchange roles with ease. Passing a landscape or visiting an instant become natural experiences. We find ourselves contemplating the present moment as if we were in a gallery observing paintings and reading signs.

We watch a sunset, and the feeling that the same sunset has already been observed by a myriad of eyes over the millennia becomes concrete and persistent. The perception of spending a thousand years in a minute becomes as real as the skin on our face or the back of our hands. While we are traveling, we are not aware of any anomaly, nor do we doubt whether what we experience is legitimate or not. We just travel. We leave the conventions until the journey is over and we go back to our place.

Careful observers, though, realize that our place does not exist, and we never return to the same place, whatever itinerary we have followed in our journey. We are convinced that what moves is the train, we do not remember that it is really the Earth beneath us that constantly rotates, moving us even if we remain perfectly still.

So, the journey will never end; actually, to be precise, it never really started. We were born running, from the very moment we found ourselves in a brand new body, full of stimuli and needs, and oxygen burned through our throats for the first time, making us scream.

Good observers also realize that there are different kinds of journeys, but only one of them is truly unique. Its destination is an exotic land, which many travelers will not find very interesting. It does not provide either stimuli or needs; it is bizarre, because the very idea of going there is a contradiction.

Yet it is the only place where the impossible can actually happen, and we can feel that we have finally come back home.

Not only trains remain stationary, but also the planets and suns take a break there. Everyone stops and visits the gallery, showing their interest in silence, so those who really desire to enjoy that special work of art can do it in peace and quiet.

The present, that moment the Greeks called kairòs, is the perfect moment. It is the place where everyone would finally arrive at Ithaca. Yet, strangely enough, almost no one seems to take any interest in it. That’s how it is. We are strange beings, but nature also knows how to be just as strange and amazing. This journey is a contribution to proving how bizarre our world can be.

The Author

Background

Human beings understood the power of light on metals when they discovered the effect of heat on rocks. That discovery marked the beginning of metallurgy, changing the course of history and the evolution of our species.

It was then that we began to use fire, the furnace and the forge, and since then metals became the cause and effect of all human events. The bond between us and metals is so strong that the ages of human history are divided according to the use of rough stone and the use of metals, and the evolution of human societies further depends on their use of different metals and alloys. Metal is time and time is metal.

The success and failure of entire civilizations depended on metals, and even today, the power contained in metals moves and ignites the entire world.

In 1905 Albert Einstein wrote an article in which he gave a correct explanation of the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon discovered in 1887 by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. In that moment, the world of science realized that the relationship between light and matter was much deeper than it thought, and the true power of metals was actually still to be discovered.

PART ONE

SPIR, 1964

Spir

The first time Falco Tarassaco sensed that the curves of a spiral conceal a secret for changing reality was in April 1964. That date did not mark the precise beginning of the experimentation with Selfica, which took place over the following 50 years, but it was then that Falco discerned the marvelous nature of spirals.

Those youthful insights hinted at other more important achievements that he was able to attain during his lifetime: sketching out a new physical model, which would bring together—technically we should say generalize—the discoveries of the 1900’s and the ancient alchemical tradition, inherited from many ancient peoples.

He was 14 years old, and later on he would tell us1 that he had already been waiting for several years for that moment, feeling that it would happen. His ‘feeling’ concerned the reason for the existence and the nature of those magnificent forms that can be observed in the cosmos and that come from the cosmos: spirals.

The story of a boy who, at that age, had the desire to revolutionize physics and reconcile the traditions of knowledge of the past with modern scientific theories... well, that is a story worth telling.

So, rather than introducing an alternative to other theories, here we are, describing a sort of glue that joins different theories together, to generalize what, even today, seems irreconcilable.

After those first intuitions, eleven years later to be precise, Falco started working with Selfica.

He made prototypes, trial-and-error experiments, achieved positive results, eventually involving thousands of people in a sort of huge laboratory—Damanhur—for half a century. His work has allowed us to refine, improve and enhance both the technological model itself, and its effects on reality, an experimentation that still continues today and includes all those who desire to use and test the many Selfic structures designed by Falco and his collaborators.

I first met Falco in 1988, and after just a few years I began to study the physics that he ‘taught’, but probably a more appropriate term could be ‘shared’, since his lessons were often debates, and many propositions were the result of intense and hard-fought elaborations among people with very different ideas. After all, it could not have been any other way, given the nature of this research. Working with him was a remarkable experience for many people, who, over a period of almost 45 years and up to the present moment, shared his work and expanded on it, developing a model that can be applied in many areas of research.

If we were to divide the world between scientists and artists, we could say that both groups contributed to the development of Selfica: scientists with the passion of their ideas, and artists with imagination and beauty.

This is the spirit of Selfica: returning to an ancient concept, that of the Greek tèchne, where art and technique were one.

In Damanhur, the debate and theoretical teachings concerning the physics at the basis of Selfica involve a great variety of people, not only a chosen few. These sessions are carried out during public meetings that Falco started in the 1970s, in order to deal with the research in the most comprehensive way possible. To check if a Self does its job, it is not necessary to be a scientist, and those who are not directly involved in an experiment have always contributed many good ideas and valuable viewpoints.

When Falco died on June 23, 2013—surrounded by the people who had built Damanhur with him and who loved him—the Selfica technology, and its relevant physical model, had already been defined, so they could be passed on to be further developed even without Falco’s presence.

Thanks to notes, drawings, and decades of training in close contact with Falco, Cicogna Giunco has now taken the present and the future of Selfica in hand, designing and realizing new-generation Selfs. By doing so, she has proven that not only the challenges in this field have not yet come to an end, but also that there are many objectives and aspirations still to be fulfilled. Today, Selfica is considered a mature technology, and it could be the right time to start talking about it more widely.

Like many other disciplines, Selfica brings together people who are involved in practical experimentation, and also theoretical physicists, such as the author of this book. I have not done the hands-on work and built a Selfic device since the 1980s, and I have not the faintest idea how to make a Selfic painting. This is the reason why I have deliberately written a few more lines about the ‘collaborators’, those who have made so much material available to me so I could undertake this journey.

The objective pursued by the writer is simple: beyond the fact that Selfica’s tangible achievements are such that today we are able to acknowledge phenomena which challenge common sense, it is at least necessary to have the opportunity to understand Selfica’s basic physical principles. So, do not expect a manual for building a Self: we are not dealing with Swedish furniture, but complex devices that tap into the fine structure of space-time using its characteristics, and are even affected by the mood of their designers. However, we will do everything possible to ensure that the basic principles of this technology are clear, so they might even awaken the drive for research within each one of us.

Is it possible to make a Selfic painting? Yes. Falco was able to understand the exact relationship between metals, minerals, forms and colors that need to be used to create Selfic paintings. This also made it possible for Selfica technology to be applied in many unusual and imaginative ways. Imagine that we could paint a mobile phone on the wall and then use it to make a phone call.

1 Oberto Araudi, Tales of an Alchemist. Published by Niatel in 2011..

We have become rational

Selfica is the rationalization of Magic.

Falco Tarassaco

One day in 1996, I cannot remember the exact date, Falco and I were sitting together, alone, in the Caffè Letterario (Literary Café,) in the capital of Damanhur, in the village of Baldissero Canavese.

I was holding in my hands the first Italian version of a physics essay on time. I had flipped through it, reading here and there, jumping between the chapters, spending more time on the parts that interested me. Of course, that ‘kangaroo’ style of reading was insufficient to have a full overview of that work, which I was able to appreciate more in later years when I decided to change species and use the more pragmatic and careful step of the sloth.

Reading that text, the same question had come again to my mind as when I was sitting at my school desk, or, was immersed in the pages of other essays and manuals that dealt with that subject.

Falco asked me what I thought of the text I had in my hands, and so I asked him my question: I find the conflict between the traditions of knowledge and modern science very strange. The more science tries to distance itself from certain beliefs through its pragmatic and rational approach, the more it is drawn into them. Twentieth-century physics presupposes phenomena that are extremely similar to those we find throughout the alchemical narrative and in the most ancient spiritual traditions.

Falco thought about it for a few moments and then spoke: "Magic is a very ancient discipline, which throughout the history of humankind has made it possible to achieve incredible results and produce effects that had unknown causes. In order to pay attention to their causes, it would have been necessary to have the right knowledge.

Today, we no longer accept that kind of reality, that is, Magic and Alchemy, but no one is surprised if you turn on the television by pressing a button, or if by pressing the key of a calculator, you solve a mathematical equation. Yet, a vast majority of people have no idea how a calculator or a TV work.

Today, everyone has become apparently rational, but still we are not really able to identify the true causes for what happens. Selfica works with causes that are not evident yet, but that does not mean these causes do not exist. On the contrary: the causes absolutely exist. Selfica is the rationalization of Magic."

Since then, decades have passed and Selfica has developed considerably. While including myself among those who have spoken about it for various reasons2, I do not want to go into the history of Selfica now, because Falco, as its most important creator, is the only one who could really do this. I would rather set out a path that helps people to understand its basic physical principles in the best possible way.

Thinking back and remembering an exchange of opinions in private between a teacher and a student, in this task I have chosen to follow the rational approach that Falco mentioned to me: I will analyze physical laws, Nobel prize-winning discoveries, negligence as well as points of convergence in science, which demonstrate how similar traditions of knowledge and modern physics are.

This will be a part of our journey, the one that will make it possible to define and explore a series of clear premises that are accessible to everyone. The objective is to do a kind of reverse engineering on Falco’s work, using the language of today. The rest of the journey concerns the knowledge of mechanics and physics, left to us by Falco, on which Selfica technology is based.

2 Esperide Ananas, Selfica, Spirals of Energy. The Ancient Art of Selfica, Devodama, 2013.

The great sea

The sea has no roads, the sea has no explanations.

Alessandro Baricco

Selfica is a technology that makes it possible for us to have an effect on time. It was developed with the primary objective of selecting events and order them in sequences that offer us favorable opportunities to improve our relationship with ourselves, with the environment around us, and with others. To achieve these results, it is necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the nature of time, events and how these events are connected with one another.

Falco and his collaborators faced this challenge starting from an assumption: time is a