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Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Mary Helen/English/Articles by Mary Helen/PROGRESS in AUROVILLE Sept 79 – No. 1- Introduction .htm
PROGRESS in AUROVILLE
Sept 79 – No. 1
Introduction
Auroville
at birth, eleven and a half years ago, was a wide expanse of barely productive
farmland and overgrazed fields dotted here and there with a few isolated trees,
patches of scrub jungle and cashew groves, and
Scored with deepening canyons. But there was a feeling of pregnancy in
the land, people began to arrive drawn by some deep inner response to the
promise and challenge of an ideal, and the manifestation of the Mother's Dream
began.
The span of time from the beginning to the
present has been full – comings and goings, of discovery,
experimentation, learning, and growth, - the future constantly races
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Mary Helen/English/Articles by Mary Helen/PROGRESS – A Note from Narad.htm
PROGRESS – A Note from Narad
Introduction
In 1979 Mary Helen began the first journal
of Auroville. She called it
'Progress'. Each day she would visit a different community where Aurovilians
were beginning to settle in, creating gardens, building homes, infrastructure,
planting forests, bunds to allow the rains to seep into the ground and prevent
the them from washing away the topsoil into the canyons and then out to sea.
These pioneers of AurovilleÕs early days
spoke of their hopes and dreams for this city to be built on the ideal of human
unity. Although Mary Helen
completed only four issues when it was decided that a larger newsletter should
be started with a proper building an
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