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Auroville as an intentional spiritual community and the practice of Integral yoga

Cogent arts & humanities, 2018-01, Vol.5 (1) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Auroville as an intentional spiritual community and the practice of Integral yoga
  • Author: Pandya, Samta P
  • Fosl, Peter Stanley
  • Subjects: Auroville ; divine quest ; human existence ; Integral yoga ; intentional community ; theistic existentialism ; worldview ; Yoga
  • Is Part Of: Cogent arts & humanities, 2018-01, Vol.5 (1)
  • Description: This paper discusses Auroville as an intentional spiritual community in South India and the way facets of Integral yoga are manifested. The existential thinking, aspirations, existential anxieties, daily spiritual experiences and worldview of the residents also called Aurovilians, were studied through a 10-year period. Aurovilians' scores on measures of existential thinking, aspirations, and spiritual experiences were higher and existential anxieties scores were lower than their phase 1 scores. At phase 2, scores on the integrative worldview were higher. In-depth discussions showed an evolution of existential thinking and spiritual inclinations as well as integrative worldview of residents of Auroville as an intentional spiritual commune. Theistic existentialism of Aurovilians is, drawing from Sri Aurobindo's Integral yoga, a phenomenological quest for the Absolute. The study is a demonstration of the practical applications of Integral yoga as a world affirming philosophy to qualify the divine quest of humanity, through an intentional community's experiment.
  • Publisher: Abingdon: Cogent
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2331-1983
    EISSN: 2331-1983
    DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2018.1537079
  • Source: DOAJ : Directory of Open Access Journals
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