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by Bill Sullivan
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You have virtually arrived in Auroville, India. Auroville
is a state of consciousness under construction. It is not exactly
what you think it is because there's nothing really like it for comparison.
About a thousand people are here from all over the world to work for
the
new world that is trying to be born on our earth.
few clarifications may or may not help you to find out what it is.
Auroville is not a religion but it has a spiritual basis. The Government
of
India has recognized that it belongs to "humanity as a whole" so there's
no
private property. The Community attempts self-organization and aims
toward
self-sufficiency in this bio-region.
Auroville began in 1968 on a few thousand acres of barren coastal land
and
has over the years restored the eco-habitat towards a sustainable future.
An extreme diversity of Aurovillians make Auroville their home to create
a
living laboratory for the human species. Such a unique experiment has,
however, been endorsed by the United Nations and many other governmental
and non-governmental organizations throughout the world.
If all this makes Auroville seem even more difficult to comprehend,
the
secret is nobody really does know how or why it works and many "experts"
said it would not work. Still, many of the processes, the projects,
the
on-going work can be explained and explored, but there's more to it
as you
can guess. The more you get into it, the more intriguing it becomes.
Step
inside.
Bill Sullivan, a long time resident of Auroville, has written
a book about
the city titled The Dawning of Auroville.
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