Rod Hemsell is an educator and author who lived in Auroville

Auroville

Auroville is an "experimental" township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, near Pondicherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa and designed by architect Roger Anger...

 and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Sri Aurobindo Ashram was founded by Sri Aurobindo on the 24 November 1926 . At the time there were no more than 24 disciples in the Ashram...

 from 1968 to 1983. During this time he also travelled widely and spoke about Auroville and Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress...

's philosophy at centers and universities in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, as well as publishing articles and essays.

In 1991 he founded the GAIA Learning Center in Crestone, Colorado

Crestone, Colorado

Crestone is a statutory town in Saguache County in Southwestern Colorado, United States. The population was 73 at the 2000 census. It is a small village at the foot of the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range, in the northern part of the San Luis Valley. Crestone was a small mining town, but...

, USA

United States

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, and the GLOBE Charter School in Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...

, Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

 in 1995.

He gave a lecture and presentation on Savitri

Savitri

Savitri or Savithri may refer to:*Savitri, with all vowels short, a Roman-phonetic spelling of the Vedic Hindu sun god Savitr*Sāvitrī, a name of the Gayatri Mantra dedicated to Savitr...

and participated in a panel on Auroville at the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions in Chicago

Chicago

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.

Since 1994 he has conducted annual Savitri Immersion workshops at the Sri Aurobindo Learning Center in Crestone.

External links and essays

• Rod Hemsell (2002) Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Perspective mirror
• --- (2002) On the Divine Mother : A Mystery and Prophecy
• --- (2003) Essays for the New Millennium. 198 pp
• AUM 2005 panelist: Rod Hemsell
• --- (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://universityofhumanunity.org/bibliodetail.php?biblioid=2232