Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures and Tables ix
4. Glossary xi
5. About the Author xiii
6. Acknowledgements xiv
7. Foreword xv
8. All Life is Yoga: An Introduction 1
9. Culture
10. Auroville Is … 19
11. A Spiritually Prefigurative Culture: The Uniqueness of Auroville’s Utopian Practice 35
12. Polis
13. Divine Anarchy? The Development of the Auroville Polity 57
14. Spiritually Prefigurative Politics in Practice: An Embodied Account of an Auroville Community Decision-Making Process 80
15. Economy
16. ‘No Exchange of Money’? The Development of Auroville’s Communal Economy 101
17. The Institutional Potential of Prefigurative Experiments: The Evolution of Collective Accounts in Auroville 124
18. Auroville and Beyond: The Grounded Hopes and Horizons of Spiritually Prefigurative Practice – A Conclusion 146
19. Afterword 151
20. A Dream (The Mother, 1954) 153
21. The Auroville Charter (The Mother, 1968) 155
22. To Be a True Aurovilian (The Mother, 1971) 156
23. Notes 157
24. References 163
25. Index 177