New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Is what?
Here in Auroville, a play was recently taken off the program by the hosts of the Bharat Nivas. The reason given was that some in the community had taken offense even before it was performed. This raises questions. What is art allowed to do, when is a ban justified? Linked to this is, of course, the question of what is the task [...]
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Learn more about the artists and their inspiring practices in Pondycherry. Discover the visual language and spiritual depth of the art landscape around Auroville. Immerse yourself in the world of art beyond representational conception and discover the vibration of the senses. Experience how Deleuze's thinking and the Kena Upanishads are interwoven. Be inspired by the question of the body without organs and discover the limits of the physical body.
This text clears up the misunderstanding about art that it is supposed to be a representation. Art is not communication, but a unique experience.
Standing on the loading platform of a small van, I've been driving around Auroville for the past few days collecting various items for the Potters Market. These small vans are the big brothers of tuk-tuks. Sometimes you'll see six or seven dozen people standing on them when a big festival is coming up. It's a popular mode of transportation […]
Discover the spiritual power of the Upanishads and the Rigveda in India. Experience the essence and the pure form of the senses in meditation.
Yesterday I ended the year with a joint meditation. It was wonderful, calm and focused. And right now I want to go to the sea for a swim, which seems like a good start. I let my mind's eye run through how I have lived over the last few years and decades. I have lived in different places [...]
A friend recently asked me about the relationship between Eastern and Western culture. This is of course a huge question, which I also ask myself and which of course nobody can really answer. But I would like to formulate a few thoughts: The distance from an imagined center of The 'Western' world, based on classical antiquity, Christianity, the [...]
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