Debbilyn's India Adventure

Tuesday  September 5 th was a tourist day. We went to south to Pontecherry which is a former French colony and was French until India became united, also when the British left in 1947. This is also when Pakistan was created, carved out of India as a pure Muslim country. There are strict regulations about coming into India from Pakistan with special registration required.  We were brought to an interesting community, Auroville, which is named after the French word for light. It was created in 1968, the brainchild of a spiritual guru called the Mother with the Influence another guru Sri Aurobindo an Indian guru educated in Europe. The Mother was a  Turkish woman who grew up In France and then came to Pontecherry,  India. The gurus wanted to create a collective society  a " laboratory of evolution " with divine consciousness as a goal where anyone practiced spiritual advancement but had to renounce any former religion or country affiliation. You are  no ...

After another lunch at the school of what? ... rice and curry, we had a presentation from the dance master Susie who is a dancer, ballerina, and teaches 5 hours of dance classes to students every day. She is a Byu student who had never been out of the USA before this trip and is spending 6 months in India teaching dance. Because she is on a work visa, she can live at the school. She told us about the program she is working at the school through which is a US. Non profit that is in several countries called Promethian Spark. Prometheus was the Greek character who gave fire to humans so they could elevate themselves. It was started by a broadway dancer Sean Perry, also a BYU graduate who taught dance in Peruto teach life skills - success, discipline, goal setting, tenacity, spirituality, responsibility, confidence and respect through dance.  He saw some kids begging in Peru and told them he would come back the next day and teach them to dance for of money instead of begging. He next...