Rod Hemsell is an educator and an author who lived in
Auroville
Auroville (; City of Dawn French: Cité de l'aube) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district, mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, with some parts in the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. and at the
Sri Aurobindo Ashram
The Sri Aurobindo Ashram (French: ''Ashram de Sri Aurobindo'') is a spiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry (city), Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. It was founded by Sri Aurob ...
from 1968 to 1983. During this time he also travelled widely and spoke about Auroville and
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian Modern yoga gurus, yogi, maharishi, and Indian nationalist. He also edited the newspaper Bande Mataram (publication), ''Bande Mataram''.
Aurobindo st ...
's philosophy at centers and universities in
India
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, as well as publishing articles and essays.
He studied both philosophy and education at undergraduate and graduate levels, founded the GAIA Learning Center in
Crestone, Colorado
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in 1991, and the GLOBE Charter School in
Colorado Springs
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,
Colorado
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in 1995, and was co-founder and executive director of the University of Human Unity project in Auroville, India, in 2007.
He gave a lecture and presentation on ''
Savitri'' and participated in a panel on Auroville at the 1993
Parliament of the Worlds Religions in
Chicago
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.
From 1994 he conducted annual Savitri Immersion workshops at the Sri Aurobindo Learning Center in Crestone. From 2007 to 2017 he lectured on philosophy at the University of Human Unity in Auroville, India.
External links and essays
* Rod Hemsell (2002
Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Perspective
* --- (2002
* --- (2003) Essays for the New Millennium. 198 pp
* --- (2008) The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo: Mantra, Metrics and Meaning (a monograph and course book of the University of Human Unity in Auroville) http://www.universityofhumanunity.org
* --- (2011) The Philosophy of Evolution: Darwin and Sri Aurobindo (a monograph and course book of the University of Human Unity in Auroville)http://
* --- (2014) The Philosophy of Religion - Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (an auro-ebook and University of Human Unity lecture series) http://www.auro-ebooks.com/philosophy-of-religion/
* --- (2017) The Philosophy of Consciousness: Hegel and Sri Aurobindo (an auro-ebook and University of Human Unity lecture series) http://www.auro-ebooks.com/philosophy-of-consciousness/
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Living people
Sri Aurobindo
Converts to Hinduism
American Hindus