Since my trip to Auroville & Pondicherry (more later on that) I am feeling a pressure behind me above the shoulders and head. It is as if a golden disc, much larger than the body, much larger than myself, is pressing down, forcing something out of the human that wishes to express or perhaps to co-evolve with it. The disc looks something like one of the discs used for the Matrimandir only its texture is ...   more »

After visiting the rooms of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, we return in the afternoon to our Keet (thatch) hut in the community called Adventure (Auroville) for a rest and a change of clothes. As Ron is in the process of changing, a snake falls through the roof our our Keet hut, missing Ron’s head by about a foot.   more »

Nothing could have prepared us (Ron and me) for the impact of physically being in the rooms where the Double Avatar lived and breathed and worked ceaselessly to transform this plane of existence. Thanks to Aster Patel, this was made possible on Thursday, January 12, 2006. Our group was six and when we made our way slowly up the staircase to ...   more »

Twenty years ago I read Franklin Merrell-Wolff's spiritual chronicle, "Pathways Through to Space". As a fellow seeker, it impacted me greatly. Today I am reading about Sri Aurobindo's life with fascination and awe.  It has occurred to me, with some urging from Ron, to document here on SCIY some of what is in my own inner experience. To some this may seem arrogant, to others naive. The purpose is not to wallow in irrelevant diaristic ...   more »