The Laboratory of Evolution
Focused on the evolutionary vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and on several related subjects from traditional knowledge to new science discoveries, the LOE Library, a unit of SAIIER is located near the Food Laboratory in Horizon, opposite Svedam community.
The unit known as the “Laboratory of Evolution” began in 1984. a centre of documentation, a dynamic focus for stimulating research done in Auroville and concerning the further evolution of our human species, which Sri Aurobindo and The Mother not only announced but opened the way for. The library provides a great variety of books: complete works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in several languages, Ashram disciples, Aurovilians and archives on Auroville history.
Also a variety of books on religions, esotericism, contemporary sciences: New Physics, Biology, Psychology, Near Death Experience, Body Consciousness and Health.
Aurovilians, Newcomers, Volunteers and Guests can find in the LOE multimedia library a whole range of books, CDs and DVDs about Auroville, Evolution and related topics, with the possibility of obtaining further information.
The unit is engaged in the following research work:
• Integral Yoga and its confluence with the emerging new scientific paradigms in physics, biology, medicine, history, etc.
• Messages by the Mother about Auroville.
• Flowers spiritual names.
• Awakening of body consciousness through hatha yoga and martial arts.
Some years ago the unit put up an exhibition on the ancient idealistic city created more than 3,000 years ago in Egypt by the Pharaoh Akhenaton on the present site of Amarna. This research, which has been published as a beautiful bilingual small book with many remarkable pictures, shows a deep similarity on many points between the ideals of that ancient city and those of Auroville.
A recent work on Evolution
by Pavitra our Aurovilian team member :
EVENING AND DAWN – An Odyssey of Matter, published by Les Éditions du Mithun, India.
Translated from the French Le Soir et l’Aube – une Odyssée de la Matière.
A timely and far-reaching reflection on the human condition at a moment when the Earth faces multiple threats.
This essay traces the evolution of Matter and guides the reader toward a grounded and lucid hope — a hope rooted in the very processes of life.
Here, there is no recourse to abstract metaphysics or speculative philosophy, but a sustained inquiry into terrestrial reality — an attempt to rediscover a sincere, expansive materialism, open and reconciled with the Spirit.
Evening and Dawn calls for a reconciliation between Spirit and Matter — a unity of the Divine, humanity, and Nature.This work stands as a clear homage to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, pioneers of a new evolutionary vision and exploration.
The reader will encounter some of the most powerful passages from their writings.
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Get in Touch
loechu@auroville.org.in
Opening days and time:
Mon-Sat: 9:00 am to 12 noon.
Tuesday-Wednesday &Friday-Saturday: 2.30 to 4.30pm.
