India 2009 Fall
Integral Sustainability at Auroville
It's taken me a while to pull this together, but I wanted to share this short video of Emilyn and Molly at their Service Learning projects at the Learning Community, a school that moves around within Auroville. Fun!
Well, today we spent the day in a shared program with Pondicherry University, hearing presentations from students in their Sustainable Development Masters Program, giving our own, and creating dialogue between our two programs. It was quite fascinating. I think it was a great opportunity for our students to get to interface with Indian students looking at environmental issues from the perspective of a fairly traditional university. Afterwards we went to …
There was a time in my life when the word “spirituality” brought images of meditating on a mountain while clouds move above and stillness moves below, waking before dawn to practice yoga on hardwood floors, and reading holy texts while sipping tea in the calm quiet of morning. Spirituality was something you did- something that took a piece of your life, and in exchange united the pieces of your mind, …
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To Life or Auroville or The Feeling You Get When You Fall Backwards, Eyes Closed and Hoping Someone or Something Will Catch You
8 days? 8 days left. Shit there's so much i still want to do here, in Auroville, in India. I travelled to Spain last summer with my cousin and before we left my mom said to him "Teddy might not want to leave. make sure he comes back with you". Not going leaving on time wasn't something i'd felt much like doing in Spain. But here.. there's such a beautiful culture, …
Hello! My full name is John-Thomas Riley Horgan, but ever since I can remember, I’ve been called Jake, by both friends and family. I was born in the great city of Boston, Massachusetts in 1986 and moved to the gorgeous coast of southern Maine at the age of two. I grew up in Brunswick, a town of about fifteen-thousand residents, which is home to Bowdoin College and Brunswick Naval Air …