Why Tamera Was Founded: Addressing the Roots of Global Violence

In this article, we aim to shed light on Tamera’s founding purpose and our approach to systemic change.

Photo: Monte Cerro Peace Education, at Tamera, 2006

In December 2025, after several internal conversations, we published a joint statement announcing new visitor policies in response to the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Like millions of people around the world, we have been shocked by the magnitude of violence perpetrated against Palestinians.

However, seen in a broader global and historical context, what is happening in Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a continuum of violence that has shaped the history of patriarchal cultures.

This reality calls for a fundamentally different level of response—one that deeply inquires into and addresses the root causes of this global predicament. This is the purpose for which Tamera was founded.

In the following, we refer to the introductory chapter of the foundational book The Sacred Matrix by Tamera co-founder Dieter Duhm. We invite you to take the time to engage with these thoughts. May this work help initiate a future in which fear, violence, and oppression can no longer occur—for the benefit of all.

Introduction

(Excerpts from the chapter of the same name in the book The Sacred Matrix by Dieter Duhm)

The frenzy of killing must come to an end. The Earth has been seized by a global killing rampage that will engulf more and more people unless we succeed in building a global force for peace that is stronger than the forces of destruction. Appeals for peace and minor reforms are no longer sufficient. The destruction is carried out in the name of individual groups, banks, corporations, the arms industry, governments, the military, intelligence agencies, lodges, and so on—entities that orchestrate the global massacre. Yet these groups could not prevail against the rest of the world if human civilisation as a whole were not on a false path. Behind the global catastrophe lies a false matrix of life in which we all, to varying degrees, exist. The massacre can only be ended if we find and realise the right matrix.

This book is concerned with exploring the new matrix and with the possibilities of realising it worldwide. In the course of this exploration, we encounter certain structures within the fabric of reality that clearly enable the transition from the old matrix of violence to the new matrix of life. The logic of liberation that emerges from this process is convincing to all who are willing to follow the path of understanding. It is based on a model of thinking that becomes accessible today through a novel synthesis of historical, scientific, and spiritual knowledge.

The universe is not unambiguous, but multi-layered. It contains—like a kind of super-hologram or cyberspace—not just one, but many possible realities. Which of these realities human civilisation calls forth and brings into being depends on our knowledge, our will, and our commitment. Today, at the end of the patriarchal epoch of history, we stand before a comprehensive revolution of a new kind. The fundamental assumptions underlying our way of life and culture must be replaced by others. This is not a struggle for power in the old sense, but a process of redirecting the existing matrix of violence—through decisive shifts—into the matrix of universal life.

This process holistically integrates the ecological, social, sexual, and spiritual questions of our time and leads toward the vision described in this book as a “universal mode of being.”

The book offers answers to many fundamental questions of our existence, our origins and history, our society, and our personal lives—for example, questions concerning the emergence of evil in the world, the primal trauma of history, the roots of our alienation, the origins of sexual fear, the possibilities of healing, existence beyond birth and death, and the prospects for a future world culture without fear and violence.

In searching for reliable answers, I had to discard or revise many existing theories, while consistently developing others further. I am aware that all the answers presented here are historical statements and therefore limited. We exist within a process of universal becoming; no insight is ever definitively finished or complete. Yet the deeper and more essential these thoughts become, the closer they come to the energetic field of a new, unstoppable revolution and liberation.

At times, the vision of a new Earth becomes so concrete that the goal seems almost within reach. Alienation has become global and complete, yet the historically constructed wall separating us from the matrix of life has grown thinner—as if we were standing right before it. Vision, thought, and reality arise from the same source, and this source is evidently very near.

The concrete vision and theory described in this book could not have been articulated if they were not already in the process of being realised. In this sense, there is a profound truth in Albert Einstein’s words: “What can be thought can be done.” I would add: whatever is perceived as a new possibility of being, a new self-image, a new Earth, and a new heaven, is already in the process of being realised through the very act of perception.

There is a realistic possibility of comprehensive healing; the necessary new ways of thinking and solution models are available.