[This post was written 6 weeks ago, but not published as it dealt with a court case that was not disposed of yet. In the past six weeks,...

Unsurprisingly, stuff is going south very fast now. Everything is accelerating, and the death-struggle of the Aurovillage cult is...

There are endless calls for “discussion” and “coming together” to solve “our communal problems” and “find harmony again”. Very...

A narrative that has been allowed to establish itself over 50 years (a period that for many people spans their whole life) is not knocked...

It is becoming very hard to write about what is happening here. There are no words anymore to describe it aptly. In fact, I have already...

It seems these scorpions were not very harmful, but we didn't take any risks. Every week I would get at least one Tamil bitten by a...

We would find out that at night, those strange scorpions would roam around in our little house, downstairs. Those ones with these long...

And with time I would also go walking in the very dark nights. You would see nothing but the darkness in front of your eyes. At first,...

I had such a great contact with the animals and nature's elements. A lot of it was new, I had never experienced it like that before. And...

We would look forward to the special days in Auroville, with the celebration and the bonfire. At that time, the bonfire was one of the...

Personally I am a bit visual or I feel things, or have a direct observation. For example, when I wanted to read the words “Om Mani Padme...

I think we all experience spirituality in our own specific way. One will feel it more, the other will have more an intuitive hunch, and...

Matrimandir would bring me relief. Every week I would spend a few hours on the granite bench under the Banyan Tree, and cry it all out....

Günther would connect with a few young British boys in Flower, where they had been given shelter. They didn't want to stay in the British...

An Indian Aurovilian would tell us: “We've been freed from the Sri Aurobindo Society, but it will take a lot longer before people see...

After two years of working on our plot of land, things were getting a lot easier, and I started to work in the crèche. I would receive a...

A little clarification. It's in fact a little comical. Those Aurovilians went to Delhi to get what they wanted, and they got their wish,...

Auroville had agreed that we could become Aurovilians. Now Swamy needed to give us a visa. Or would he not? Samy, Swamy, I don't know if...

And I told these children: “I am so happy to see that you know so much about a real house.” Children are very open and observant, and in...

Be careful what you wish for. Because it may come true. First we had the Aurovillagers begging Indira Gandhi to grab Auroville from the...