“What has to be developed is there in our being and not something outside it . . . It is, besides, a step for which the whole of evolution has been a preparation and which is brought closer at each crisis of human destiny . . . What is necessary is that there should be a turn in humanity felt by some or many toward the vision of this change, a feeling of its imperative need, the sense of its possibility, the will to make it possible in themselves and to find a way.”

Sri Aurobindo, Life Divine, p. 1059

From the office of Collaboration

• Notes on this issue 4
• 11 September 2001: A meditation

New letters on yoga

• 9/11: ‘No other way’
• From our readers

Current affairs

• AUM 2001 held in Redwood City, California
• AUM photos come to SASP
• AVI meeting held in St. Petersburg, Russia
• New center established in Canada
• Centers email list is resurrected
• Wilmot Center and Lotus Press conduct outreach
• Briefs
• Passings: Micheline Etevenon and Joe Spanier

Chronicles

• Interview with Tehmi Masalawalla: Poet and translator of The Adventure of Consciousness -- Anie Nunnally
• Interview with Richard Pearson: Teacher, botanist, captain, and editor of Flowers and Their Messages -- Anie Nunnally
• Interview with Sunanda Poddar: Keeper of Srismriti, the Mother’s museum -- Anie Nunnally
• Interview with Gauri Pinto: Teacher in the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education -- Anie Nunnally

The yoga today

• AUM 2001 conference notes -- Dave Hutchinson
• Behind AUM 2001 -- August Timmermans

Source material

• Sri Aurobindo on self-consecration
• Mother on surrender and yoga

The poetry room

• Seer -- Joseph Kent
• Leaves of alabaster -- Gene Maslow
• Vision of the invisible -- Nirodbaran
• Your face -- Nirodbaran

Gnostic knots

• Goin’ for the gold -- Rick Lipschutz and Vishnu Eschner

Apropos