I've ended up in a place called Auroville... It's in the very south of India on the East Coast in the State of Tamil Nadu.
I had never heard of this place before, but 2 Spanish girls I met in Yoga Teacher Training were traveling in that direction. So, I decided to leave my favourite German in Goa and head east to Auroville.
Auroville is a pretty interesting little community that started in the late 60's with a vision to create unity for mankind. So going to there to experience what it was all about was nothing but interesting.
Wikipedia explains the history way better than I do, so here is a copy and paste.
The history of Auroville begins, 'officially' that is, from February 28th 1968. The Mother broadcasts a speech, actually an invitation to "all people of goodwill". That marks the launching of Auroville, which, everything said and done, is a 'project' and an 'experiment' in Human Unity. It may also be said that Auroville is a laboratory for the growth of consciousness and thereby hastening the evolution upon earth in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
Mother approved following short text, written in 1969, which sheds much light on the purpose and background of Auroville.
"The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection.
The Ashram founded and build by the Mother was the first step towards the accomplishment of this goal. The project of Auroville is the next step, more exterior, which seeks to widen the base of this attempt to establish harmony between soul and body, spirit and nature, heaven and earth, in the collective life of mankind."
http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/History_of_Auroville
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