journal d'une transition

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- Membership is for a minimum of one full year. - The work of the Entry Group requires mobility, so as to assess the physical situations directly; an effective secretariat, to minimise all chances of confusion, delays and misunderstandings; an active coordination with other working groups and with the Residents Assembly. - The Entry Group is there to serve actively the spirit and truth of the Charter of Auroville. It must enable itself to establish an atmosphere as conscious as possible, so that the process of admission to Auroville is governed increasingly by the true spirit of Auroville, rather than be the realm of human inadequacies. It must never hesitate to point out whatever contradictions may be prevailing at the time in the collective life of Auroville.

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Note: The drive to corner and hang our team was relentless, and despite our statements and expressions of a call for genuine collaboration, the planned Residents Assembly loomed closer, which would surely kill the possibility represented by the Matrimandir Forum. I drafted the following statement, as a last attempt to save it. I have not kept the exact date.

*Communication to all from the MMCG.

“We do not feel that this Assembly is being called on a sound basis, but mainly as a result of a build-up of frustrations and tensions, battling of wills and influences.

Yet, as it is anyway happening, we wish to communicate to each one present the following, attempting to express in a general way our understanding of the situation and our position as a team. We deeply understand how difficult and challenging a proposition is the Matrimandir; how difficult and challenging a proposition is human unity. And we feel that it is mostly due to the fact that as individuals and as a group we have not attained the commensurate level of consciousness, that we are all repeatedly swept and manipulated by forces which seek to destroy, prevent or at least postpone. All through these past years, notwithstanding the endorsement by many of the view that we have become a separate body, we feel that we have each of us remained and grown as “Aurovilian” as the next one, and as representative of the community as the next one. With as many shortcomings and as much capacity to serve as the next one. There is not a single issue being raised at present that we have not debated at length in the context of our duties at Matrimandir. We seem to have made in the process a lot of “enemies” on all sides, mainly because we have not adhered blindly to the exclusivism of any “side”. We could not do so, being so close to the needs of the Matrimandir and all the aspects of the work to be done.