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Issue No: 320, March 2016

Three Months in Auroville, or Why I Think Auroville Is Perfect

Gaëlle When I first arrived three months ago, I imagined I was going to learn about new governance and economic structures, a new way of making decisions and managing money. What I discovered was different. I realized that the gap between the dream and the reality was not due to the impossibility of materializing the dream but to something else. Possibilities in Auroville are almost endless (especially compared to other countries in the world with all their regulations) and that is what makes it a laboratory. Aurovilians have the space to innovate, discover, try and fail to finally arrive at the most suitable system. So what is preventing Auroville from becoming the dream? What follows is what I discovered as I tried to understand Auroville from the inside and how my experience of Auroville changed my vision of myself and the world. During my three months stay, I had one goal: to try to understand the economic and governance systems of Auroville as much as possible. ...
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Issue No. 320, March 2016

  • Between the Gold and the Blue
  • Golden Day Thoughts
  • Celebrating Tamil Culture
  • Breaking Down Caste Distinctions
  • Exploring Auroville Farming
  • What Else Is Going on with Farming in Auroville
  • "Landing Auroville - The Time Is Now!"
  • Food on the Mind
  • Crossing an Invisible Boundary
  • Leaking Roofs, Lack of Privacy, Plenty of Sound Pollution
  • Three Months in Auroville, or Why I Think Auroville Is Perfect
  • News in Brief
  • The Joy of Learning Experiment
  • Auroville International
  • Mani (Passing)
  • Roy (Passing)

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