First encounters with ragas As a teenager, I listened to ragas for hours. I didn't know anything about them. I looked them up a little: Microtonality, meditation, tone sequence. That was all I understood. But it was the most profound musical experience - a meditation on music. To this day, ragas lead me into my inner self or into deep states of insight, which are not rational [...]
Auroville wurde 1968 von Mirra Alfasse gegründet. Der Architekt Roger Anger entwickelte den Stadtplan dazu. Er ist an einen kosmischen Spiralnebel angelehnt. Das Land, das Auroville zur Verfügung gestellt wurde, war ein trockenes Plateau. Seit den ersten Jahren wurde ein Wald gepflanzt. Es gibt eine schöne, langsame Dokumentation darüber (Ever Slow Green (2020) – S.O.S. […]
The forest is a wonderful habitat. I recently heard a little story about a man who whistled a tune whenever he entered the forest. The animals recognized him after a while and accepted his presence. They no longer ran away and sometimes even greeted him. We usually don't see the forest as it is, [...]