By Nia Dalton A small commune located in the foothills of the Alps claims to have found ways to talk to aliens and time travel. Tucked away in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, the Federation of Damanhur is a spiritual ecovillage that has been around for nearly 50 years. It’s made up of more than a thousand members dotted across the world and around 600 of them live together in a rural commune. Very little has been documented about the ‘secret society’ in the public eye – up until now. Travel enthusiast Warren Robie spent four days with the Damanhurians, who are named after animals and pr…