Our first stop was at Pondycherry which has been under french rule and might be the only place where you can observe Indians playing Boules... Close by is the town of Auroville, founded in 1968 to become a place of peaceful living that doesn't belong to any nation, but to "humanity itself". The people (from around 40 nations) who live there are dedicated to eco-friendly, coexisting living and research and one aim of the whole project ist to hasten the evolution and become the breeding place of a new kind of human being, a superhuman so to speak, with extraordinary spritual powers. Kind of scary when seen in relation to the biblical book of revelation, also speeking about a man of extraordinary power who will become the world leader and will guide humanity in a global disaster. The philosophy of this future city is based on the writings of an indian guru, Sri Aurobindo, who was also the namegiver of Auroville. The "soul" of the city is a big meditation room inside of a huge gold-plated golfball-shaped temple. But despite its vision of life in harmony, stuggles, conflicts and even murder happened in this place during the last years. posted by particle at 10/10/2006 04:50:00 PM Dienstag, Oktober 10, 2006
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