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Issue No: 318, January 2016

Nourishing the Newcomer Seed

Beatrice Beatrice reflects on her process of joining Auroville in 2014 I was born in France, lived in Canada and New Caledonia, and then returned to France. Each time I chose to adapt my skills to the necessity of the place where I was. So, I have been a French teacher for migrants and for young people from difficult backgrounds, and then a social counselor. I saw that I was good at helping people individually to find their own strength, so then I decided to become a therapist. I did training and gave individual sessions with an intuitive reading tool that has a psycho-spiritual element. Someone then spoke to me about going to Auroville as an experiment. I had read Satprem’s book L’aventure de la conscience on Sri Aurobindo’s vision when I was 24, but the effect was not so strong on me at the time. When I was planning to go to Auroville, I read Satprem’s book again, and this time it was a strong discovery. I said, “I will go to Auroville to study Sri Aurobindo and Th...
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Issue No. 318, January 2016

  • Rain, Rain and Yet More Rain
  • Selecting New Members for the Working Committee and the Auroville Council
  • An Interview with the Organizers
  • What Has Been Happening Since the Retreat
  • Solar Pumping in Remote Villages
  • A Project on Community Participation
  • Building Bridges: The Paalam Project
  • Responsible Energy Management Workshop
  • Nourishing the Newcomer Seed
  • The Auroville Radio Story
  • Don't Hold your Breath
  • News in Brief
  • Ursula Mack (Passing)
  • The Kallialay Surf School and the INDI Surfboards

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