Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Figures and Tables

pp ix-x

Glossary

pp xi-xii

About the Author

pp xiii-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xviii

1 - All Life is Yoga: An Introduction

pp 1-16

PART I - Culture

pp 17-18

2 - Auroville Is …

pp 19-34

3 - A Spiritually Prefigurative Culture: The Uniqueness of Auroville's Utopian Practice

pp 35-54

PART II - Polis

pp 55-56

4 - Divine Anarchy? The Development of the Auroville Polity

pp 57-79

5 - Spiritually Prefigurative Politics in Practice: An Embodied Account of an Auroville Community Decision-Making Process

pp 80-98

PART III - Economy

pp 99-100

6 - ‘No Exchange of Money’? The Development of Auroville's Communal Economy

pp 101-123

7 - The Institutional Potential of Prefigurative Experiments: The Evolution of Collective Accounts in Auroville

pp 124-145

8 - Auroville and Beyond: The Grounded Hopes and Horizons of Spiritually Prefigurative Practice – A Conclusion

pp 146-150

Afterword

pp 151-152

Appendix A - A Dream (The Mother, 1954)

pp 153-154

Appendix B - The Auroville Charter (The Mother, 1968)

pp 155-155

Appendix C - To Be a True Aurovilian (The Mother, 1971)

pp 156-156

Notes

pp 157-162

References

pp 163-176

Index

pp 177-184