Auroville is an experimental city, under development in south India. It is intended to be a model township - an international and universal place for personal, spiritual growth and social advancement.

Auroville exists for nothing less than to hasten the evolution of the human species - to develop the mind from its animal instincts to sublime intuition, and to manifest the inspiration of the Divine in the material world. Read more…

I’ve been playing with artwork for a new Dharmasphere logo. You can find the results in this interactive animation… but you’ll have to be clever and work out how to find it! :)

What do you think?

It’s election time in south India and the propaganda is overspilling onto the streets.

Is it just coincidence that so many members of the Gandhi/Nehru family have been in power in this country?

Or that George Bush Junior followed in the footsteps of his father?
Could there be another reason? Read more…

Leap-frogging to a new life…
This world is but a play
And death, a change of scene.

Like sleep at day’s end
And fresh clothes in the morn,
So this body, vehicle for the soul,
Is utilised, spent
And discarded at dusk.

A new skin donned at dawn,
Ready for the promise
Of the new light of day.
A new opportunity
For the final leap home.

VEGETARIANISM & CONSCIOUSNESS
I consider the degree to which vegetarianism has been embraced by a culture to be an excellent indicator of the extent of its evolution. Refusing to kill animals for food demonstrates the ethical progress and humanity of a civilisation.

In India, vegetarian food is widely considered to be the best - a mark of the great advance of consciousness that took place here many centuries ago. Read more…