A Journey To Consciousness with Alan Lithman

MP3 Download Hitchhiking from London to the extreme desert of Southern India, Alan Lithman followed his calling, merging his 1960s activism with his spiritual hunger, to join the international community of Auroville. Letting his old spiritual beliefs of "transcendence" go, Lithman embraced "transformation", which is described by Sri Aurobindo as an evolution of consciousness that continually reveals itself in matter and the body. "Transformation is not a joke. There is a tendency in the west to want it now. One has to be willing to slow oneself down to bear with what is that, that really needs to be changed." For over 20 years Lithman lived on a plateau in India with the heat, mosquitoes and parasites, without electricity or running water. He put himself on the line, applying his spirituality, overcoming his resistance and in doing so, enriching his life while transforming a dry desert into a lush forest. "Auroville was the place where reality sets in the extreme. When I came there wer