Inside a Secret Underground Society

We’re back! And… what.. a strange adventure.. We honestly got quite close to not sharing this after filming it but after sitting on this footage for a while we decided to release it. Our friend @LexieLimitless told us about this place a few years ago after she already went to visit. She came with us to help us capture this unique experience, and we recommend checking her channel out if you haven’t already :) youtube.com/c/LexieLimitless

I love how Thomas and Amar were trying to be nice and understand the lady and also them trying not to say it’s a cult

“If it makes them happy, if it makes them productive and if it makes them loving towards each other and the planet… then who are we to judge?” Well said.

Setting asides the time travelling magic, the art in this place is incredible. Hope these people can live in peace.

How has this "community" gone so under-the-radar for so long. Such beautiful, incredible structures and art... Those underground temples! I agree it may be the "8th wonder of the world". Mind blown.

"I'm an ant he's a gorilla, we are both black but different size." Ammar's face says it all lol

That treehouse was such a dream home

Thank you so much for allowing this to be a mystery you couldn’t quite define, and allowing Damanhur people their dignity. I was there this May for about 3 weeks. I had only positive “vibes” and experiences with the people, made friends, benefitted from the trippy looking treatments, and came away with a deep respect for this community. One of the most fascinating aspects to learn is that the people who’ve built and created the underground temples are ordinary people who learned their artistic crafts as they went. They believe everyone has artistic talent of some kind, and it gets better the more you use it. You can see it from room to room, the mosaics for instance in some of the earlier rooms are not as refined as the newer rooms. And over the years teams of artists develop who often refine what was started. It is remarkable!! To help our visiting group understand the process, they led us through an art project where we each had a space on a huge piece of construction paper, yards long, and we were told to paint whatever we wanted. Once we were all done, we were then asked to stand next to someone elses work. Then we were told to start adding to someone the other persons work. No one wanted to do this at first, wanting to respect the painting and not offend the original artist. But once we got into it, everyone working on everyone elses art piece, we got more comfortable and saw that the entire piece was growing more beautiful. Then we switched a 3rd time. By then end, the entire work was exloding with color and creativity that we truly made together. They then explained this is how they work on the art in the underground temples. Together. A bit mindblowing, especially considering how extraordinary the underground temple is.

I am so grateful you posted this story. I love the strange and this was an absolutely magical and beautiful place. The colors...I can’t even imagine how awestruck I would be to see it in person. Amazing!

I went to Damanhur 2 years ago, visited the temples and spent a day talking with tons of different people, but wow guys it’s always impressive to see the magnificence of those underground structures. Good job guys, as usual 💜

Regardless of how absurd their beliefs are, that underground place is beautiful.

If you wanna be successful, you most take responsibility for your emotions, not place the blame on others. In addition to make you feel more guilty about your faults, pointing the finger at others will only serve to increase your sense of personal accountability. There's always a risk in every investment, yet people still invest and succeed. You most look outward if you wanna be successful in life.

I lived here for a few months in 2016. It is still strange to me but I loved the people and community.

I hope the initial tiredness they felt as they entered the hall with the spheres is not because of oxygen deprivation as a result of being underground.

The comfiest looking hoodie has "seek discomfort" written on it

Pushing yourself outside your comfort zone can bring to such an amazing beautiful place. But I also think that over thinking can hurt you.

I love to see people living creatively with a purpose, creating their own mini-society based on the values and ideals they want to have in their world. I was a little embarrassed at the twilight zone asides of the video makers, and it was obvious that they had rather rigid ideas about what is real and desirable, but the openness of the people who welcomed them and who were quite aware of the immaturity of their guests, and yet didn't care at all about it told me that they had a great understanding of how to get along in the world. Kudos to the video makers for their pioneering spirit and worldwide explorations.

Oh man I went here over a decade ago and stayed for 2 weeks, getting a full tour. The trip was organized by artist Alex Grey. I read an article about the place in What Is Enlightenment? magazine and it sounded cool and also saw an ad in the same magazine that Alex Grey was taking a group so I was like fuck it, I'm gonna go. I can honestly say everyone I met there was lovely. We even got to have dinner and hang out in regular people's houses there. I met people my own age at the time (I was 22 then), many of whom had grown up there, and they were totally down to earth and chill, but the one girl I really talked to said she was probably not going to stay living there but had nothing bad to say about the place. It was like a kid growing up in a small town, she wanted to live in a proper city. So yeah after 2 weeks there and having countless interactions with the people there, they all seemed shockingly normal, just decent people trying to live their lives. Also as a community they have a wonderful sense of humor and they live mostly normal lives on a day to day basis. Sure the ceremonies they have are pretty out there, but most people in the community just live a normal day to day lives and are generous and caring towards one another and also good to other locals that aren't part of the community.

Great job on being open minded, listening, discerning; while still being honestly skeptical. Growing up in Southern California there were a number of groups that had similar belief systems that went off the rails. Great job folks! Great work!

What a beautiful community they have! They are literally living their dreams. With them, as with you, I’m sure that individually they each resonate toward specific areas. Just because one doesn’t understand something doesn’t mean it should be dismissed as false or wrong. I feel like we are still barely cracking open the knowledge and wisdom of the multiverse.