Possession (by a being / force)

Listening to the Shakti: a path toward Auroville’s healing

An interview with Amrit (Howard Iriyama), By Carel

In 2018, Amrit published ‘Children of Change’, a memoir recounting his early life and the difficult years in Auroville when he and others chose not to take sides in the bitter conflict between the Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS) and the then-dominant Auroville collective.

‘Everyone was caught in the churning’

An interview with Amrit (Howard Iriyama), By Alan and Francis

Amrit joined Auroville in 1969. Recently he wrote about his life and spiritual development before and during his residence in Auroville. As a member of the so-called ‘Neutral’ group, his account offers a very different perspective upon Auroville’s troubled history in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Sri Aurobindo about Jyotish Ghose

From the margins

“The present condition of passivity and indifference is a reaction from a former abnormal state to which he was brought by an internal effort not properly guided from without or from within.

Treating mental disturbance

An interview with Dr Alok Pandey, By Carel

Dr. Alok Pandey from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, has been involved in treating people from Auroville who are experiencing mental problems.