Some time ago, a friend asked me to
help in writing a history of Auroville for the 50th anniversary. I was very
reluctant. At first, I put this down to the paucity of the available material
and the impossibility, as I saw it, of getting people to remember what had
happened many years ago with any degree of accuracy and without bias.
It was only later that I realized the
real reason for my reluctance was the sheer impossibility, as I saw it, of
writing the true history of a place like Auroville without something
approaching the consciousness of The Mother.
All histories, of course, are heavily
biased versions of reality. The fact that history is normally written by the
victors or, at the least, from a biased point of view, is evident from almost
every school history textbook. But Auroville presents a particular challenge.
Because, as Mother explained, this is a site for an experiment in an
accelerated evolution of human consciousness and, as such, it will not only
fac...
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