Starting with the first word fascination, and dwelling into many, which are commonly use in our daily lives when we're talking on certain subjects-that was Prof. Edwin Zappe lecture on The Fascination of Words yesterday in Unity Pavilion in International Zone. Zappe's lecture was fascinating to the audience, has took us to our thoughts reaching further, beyond the mental understanding of particular word. The new world has opened in front of our eyes.The joyful way of displaying the vast knowledge of Prof. Zappe has brought smiles on the faces Read more

This has been the fifth year running that communication and political science students from the American University of Paris have been coming to Auroville for their undergraduate practicum. Also for the past few years they have been joined by students from Linneaus University in Sweden. Auroville provides a perfect platform for the students with all the different projects and activities they can get involved in. To round of their 2-3 week visit they all gave a presentation of the work they have been doing in Auroville. Read more

Auroville Integral Sustainability Institute shares the experience of hosting 2 different groups of visiting planning students from Queens University, Canada & CEPT, Ahmedabad - ‘It was very enriching for all’, says Lalit, Programme coordinator. Auroville being an inspiring & interdisciplinary learning field provided very conducive environment to experience a different way of life which gave them a very real life glimpse of integral life & sense of purpose. Read more

Jean Fracois Noubel made a presentation on the 8th of January at the MMC. "Today many humans follow the perilous journey of inner transformation and awakening. They want to build a society that embodies the consciousness that animates them, hence they invest themselves in pioneering projects like new cities, new enterprises, new collectives. New vessels get rigged to reach the shores of the next humanity. We already know a certain number of things about this new world. Some have reached the shores a long time ago and have lived there. Read more

Jean-François Noubel a une vie de chercheur et d’aventurier. Chercheur, il a fondé le CIRI -- Collective Intelligence Research Institute -- en charge de la recherche scientifique de cette nouvelle discipline, et de ses applications pratiques autant par le levier des technologies que des méthodologies. Aventurier, il parcourt la planète pour rencontrer, apprendre et échanger avec les Hommes, le monde et la nature. Se demandant toujours comment vivra et se vivra l’Homme de demain. Read more

Bahman A. K. Shirazi is former director of graduate studies at California Institute of Integral Studies(CIIS). He has been actively affiliated with that organisation since 1983. His doctoral dissertation, "Self in Integral Psychology" was the first of its kind in the field of integral psychology. He came to share with us part of his personal background ,in his quest for joy and happiness , and mainly spoke about integral consciousness and the history and organisation of of the CIIS. Read more

A busy weekend lies ahead for Auroville, with the Auroville Festival opening in New Delhi and the Auroville traiathalon Sunday on the home front. Today's news features interviews with Sebastian, an organizer of the Auroville Festival, on the phone from Delhi and an interview with Ing-Marie about the trialthalon, which begins at 5:30 Sunday morning. Tune into Auroville Radio everyday this weekend for updates with Aurovilian participants and organizers of the Auroville Festival. Also, more triathalon coverage will be reported early next week.

To conclude summer holidays Lisa wanted to share some of her favorites songs with friends and community, expressing what she pursues in her studies in Holland. Lisa, with exquisite voice, heading in a soul direction, was accompanied by Matt on keyboards and saxophone, Martin and Holger on classical guitar; Jonas and Tina joined in a couple of songs. As music is about emotions, feelings, the songs lulled us into those zones, where the only right thing is to be with friends, family and loved ones. Read more

Although Michael Miovic, a psychiatrist and longtime student of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother has spent hours to explore the subject of Yoga, it took a personal experience: to be struck with the chakras (or jewel earth centres) presence. He had a deep experience of the Earth consciousness and the quality of American land which is described as Muladhara chakra. Since then he is amazed by the topic, the revelations of spiritual anatomy of the world. But also aware that for human unity to come we must appreciate and accept the differences. Read more

Third talk sponsored by ICITI, which tries to create opportunities for interaction with experts to explore potential linkages and deployment of new tolls in Auroville, was a talk on Collaboration in Research and Education by Stefan Listrom. At NRENs (National Research and Education Networks), they are dedicated to provide services in research and educational networks, they try to disseminate information and results in better ways, in order to help students and researches all around the world. Questions followed the presentation. Read more

What is NREN - National Research and Educational Networks, what does it do and how is that connected to Auroville? were questions asked Stefan Listrom. As he told us NREN have been founded about 30 years ago but in last decade became more active.Stefan will present his work on Tuesday 7th of August at 3.45pm at Conference Room in Town Hall with the talk on Collaboration in Research and Education. Team of NREN is driven by making a better future, better world where information and education are available to all via network with its conectivity

There are about 500 children in Auroville, and most of them are studying in Auroville schools. My friend Atchuthan and I (Seraphina) thought of interviewing some children in different schools and asking about how they feel studying in an Auroville school, rather than elsewhere. We visited Deepanam, and there we interviewed the 8th grade Unicorns class, and later went to Transition to interview some random graded students. Read more

Aswapati and Sri Aurobindo in Savitri : The book of the Traveller of the Worlds, in which the levels of the World Stair are described, contains one of the great revelations of Savitri. It is of prime importance to realize that the Traveller, named Aswapati, is Sri Aurobindo himself writing from his experience. Savitri is given to us to participate and grow in its reality. If thought of as the poetic experiences of a mythical or legendary figure, the experience of sharing in Sri Aurobindo’s mantric evocations might become removed from us.

The walls of reality: shedding our evolutionary impediments : Seeing the world from inside out, normally we humans are not aware that our perceptions of Reality are not direct, and therefore not really real, because we are enclosed within the deforming walls of the evolutionary species to which we belong. This existential way of being became critically important in the experiments of quantum physics, where Reality remains indefinable and only the interaction of the scientific instruments with Reality can be interpreted.

‘Philosophy had become too much a thing of abstractions, a seeking for abstract truths in a world of ideas and words rather than what it should be, a discovery of the real reality of things.’ (Sri Aurobindo) True philosophy in the East, but originally also in the West, was indeed a search for mental truth but at the same time for ways to apply such truth to life. Essentially the true philosopher is a yogi and the yogi a philosopher.

Town Developing Council Mr Doshi’s visit to Auroville: a presentation and discussion of housing projects. According to Mr. Doshi there are 3 principles for which Auroville stands: SELF-RELIANCE, FREEDOM and COMPASSION; are we fulfilling this? Miriam and Marlenka chat about arbitration. 16 students have completed their Future School studies; 8 will attend universities in India and abroad, 3 will apprentice in France and Germany, 5 have chosen to stay in Auroville for the time being to be involved in Auroville projects and work areas. Read more

Since studying media choice for Auroville Radio was a logical option for Stella who wanted to spend and volunteer some more time in Auroville. She finds AV radio different mostly because is not searching exclusively for bad news, which would be the practice everywhere else, but still wishes that it would be more focused of Auroville values, reflect a state of the town with it's truth. Whole team admire Stella for her honesty, sense for a team work, and for her excellent photographic portraits she have taken over her volunteership.

As part of the "Matter Precipitates" program by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies, India and the World, we had a chance to experience a small preview of Anu's recently published book "God Enchanter : Beings in Transition" at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture in International Zone. This is a story that begins during the war in Iraq and is spoken by different people around the world as their lives transform when they come in touch with the God Enchanter. Read more

Living Routes is a university accredited study abroad program in sustainability studies. By offering students the opportunity to actively live and study in communities across the globe that are striving to live more ethical, just and sustainable lifestyles, Living Routes provides students with ideal campuses to learn and experience personal and community-based solutions to real world issues. After more than 12 years in Auroville, Living Routes Auroville - Integral Sustainability continues to be a strong presence within the Auroville community. Read more

"Passage" - a contemporary dance performance organized by Auroson, we can see on Saturday 11th of Febrauary at Sri Aruobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas in International Zone. Auroson stopped at our studio and talked about it. Town is busy with many events, workshops and performances, so tonight we can listen to musical event at Pitanga at 7.30 pm with Jacky Mouvillat playing on Champan Stick, with Anaka, Matt and Manosh Bardhan. At Bharat Nivas we can see Loretta's preimere of a fim "The Teachings of Flowers – The Life and Work of The Mother" Read more

As every year in the second week of February also this year Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies... India and the World Bharat Nivas, prepared series of talks and cultural events with the read thread "Matter Precipitates... It is in a a hurry to transform itself". Starting with Thursday 9th of February for three days many scientists and researchers, as well as artist will share with us their particular view on fluidity in our beings, transitions which so adventurous lead into unknown world of changed matter, so much palpable with its new qualities. Read more

We feature excerpt of interview with Aster Patel on Matter Precipitates...Working Committee, Auroville Council, AV Foundation office, FAM would like to inform the community that all the fallen wood is a collective asset of Auroville. Any sale of wood privately is not permissible. Please do not barter or sell wood outside Auroville. they are working out modalities of collective sale and use of the wood. They request all groups, communities and individuals to respect this policy to avoid any legal complications. Read more

Dr Elizabeth Ursic has been visiting Auroville during the month of January as a visiting scholar in residence and hosted an interactive session on Friday 13th January at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies, Bharat Nivas on the Divine Feminine. During this session, Elizabeth shared her latest research describing 3 Christian communities in the USA that have adopted a contemporary approach to prayer and worship by bringing the feminine to the forefront, sometimes generating controversy among the more conservative members of their faith. Read more

In today's news we feature interview with Sarasija talking on the Korea-India Artist International Cultural Festival 2011. On Thursday at Pavilion of Tibetan Culture in International Zone between 6.30 to 8.30pm , and On Friday At Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture at 7.30 pm performance Cultural Union of Korea and India with music and dance. Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies. India and the World presents on Friday 30th in “White Hall” at 6pm Debashish Banerji , who will talk on Contemporary Reality and Superman Read more

On today's news we're featuring three short interviews. Andrea is talking with Ribhu on last meeting with Pudhucherry Municipal Services on waste management. Ronald Rand is talking about his play "Let It Be Art" which we can see on Saturday 24th of December at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, pavilion of Indian Culture, and about his workshop on 26th and 27th of December. University of Human Unity organized International Seminar on Integral Paradigm, and Vladimir talks about it. Later different approaches to knowledge will be discussed. Read more

No doubt that talk on Lucy - mother of us all at the National Museum of Ethiopia , and the interaction on "Human Unity in Evolution" deeply impressed all the participants. Dr. Berhane Asfaw, leading Ethiopian Paleontologist presented Ethiopian archeological finds related to the evolution of the hominid to man, and after seeing Lucy in the next door we were following with huge respect and anticipation. Deepti followed by presentation of the view of Evolutions as seen by Sri Aurobindo, and both talks and interaction were presented by Haimanot. Read more

The aim of the Sri Aurobindo-Mother avatar was to establish the foundations of a new species beyond the human: superman. In The Supramental Manifestation (1949) Sri Aurobindo wrote that, for the superman to be incarnated on the Earth, an intermediary range of transitory beings would be necessary. The Mother called these beings surhommes, overmen. Moreover, she said explicitly that to realize the transitory beings in their presumably huge variety was our task. This talk given by Georges van Vrekhem at Savitri Bhavan on 12 November 2011 is the Read more

'Present and future science: unending paradigms'. Science is generally presented as a search for the truth of Nature, thereby supposing that there must exist such an absolute, unchangeable truth. This view is now severely questioned. Besides, science is a product of the human mind, which is incapable of grasping absolute truth. Therefore science and technology must gradually be replaced by what Sri Aurobindo called a ‘future science’, including not only matter but all levels of Reality. A talk given by Georges van Vrekhem at Savitri Bhavan. Read more

Full title: 'Vanished and retrograde civilizations'. More and more archeological discoveries show that the civilization of Homo Sapiens Sapiens goes much further back than Sumer. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother affirmed the onetime existence of civilizations like Atlantis and Lemuria which vanished from the surface of the globe. This means that the ‘primitive’ peoples were not so originally, but descended from probably highly evolved civilizations of whom they lost the knowledge and the means. This talk was presented by Georges van Vrekhem Read more

During the formation of Christianity, a series of hard fought councils and creeds formulated what was the authorized thinking in the Christian West. This ‘catholic’ faith dominated the minds for centuries, till its irrationality was eroded, attacked and finally overcome by a rational movement culminating in the Enlightenment. Sri Aurobindo calls its main ideas – liberty, equality and fraternity – ‘godheads of the soul’, and has fought to keep them alive in the build-up of the new world. The Georges van Vrekhem's talk was held in Savitri Bhavan. Read more