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  Wednesday   April 12   2006       11: 52 PM

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Joan Fontcuberta
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Isolated by perpetual fog and the labyrinthine islands of Lake Saimaa, Valhamönde is a small monastic community that is interdenominational and ecumenist. It is a place where monks from all walks of religions come to master miracles, from the "classics" like levitation and weeping blood to the newest postmodernist ones, like dolphin-surfing. Ran by the Esoteric Society of Karelia, Valhamönde in the last millennium has produced "awakenings" in such notable students as Rasputin and L. Ron Hubbard.


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