By Happy Sleepy, 19 March 2009
Supramental descent. Drawing by Marc Ngui.
I’ve spent six weeks in Auroville, India, an honest to goodness attempt at a utopian community, a “town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.”
Auroville’s ideals are based on the consciousness evolution ideas of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950). Aurobindo’s life work is a compelling synthesis of the modern ideas of evolution with Vedantic models of spirituality and existence.
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By Magda, 11 March 2009
The Italians came and built a wood burning stove. The mozzarella is locally made, the olives are imported. I don’t know who originally brought the arugula seeds. Most of the ingredients are organic.
The pizza cost CAN$3 and was pretty good (ie. excellent by most people’s standards which are not as stratospheric as mine).
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By Magda, 7 March 2009
Customers wearing lungi in front of the village butcher in the early morning light, Auroville, India. (Click image to view larger)
A lungi is sort of a dohti, which is the men’s version of the sari and widely worn in the south of India.
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