Preparing for the Miraculous

Georges Van Vrekhem, a Belgian Fleming, has been livingin Auroville since 1978. His seminal book Beyond Man – TheLife and Works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother has meanwhilebeen published in six languages. He also wrote The Mother –The Story of her life, and Hitler and His God, a historical study ofbackground of the Hitler phenomenon and its relevance for thework of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. Overman deals with theintermediate being between the human and the supramentalbeing, while Patterns of the Present explains present-day developmentsfrom the Aurobindonian perspective.In the last months of 2010, Georges Van Vrekhem gave aseries of ten talks in Auroville covering a wide range of subjects,examined from the Aurobindonian viewpoint. He addedthe talk on “The Kalki Avatar” in February 2011. The themes ofthese talks are the following:• Adam Kadmon and the Evolution;• The Development of Sri Aurobindo’s Thought;• Preparing for the Miraculous;• What Arjuna Saw: the Dark Side of the Force;• 2012 and 1956: Doomsday?• Being Human and the Copernican Evolution;• Bridges across the Afterlife;• Sri Aurobindo’s Descent into Death;• Sri Aurobindo and the Big Bang;• Theodicy: “Nature Makes no Mistakes;”• The Kalki Avatar.This book contains the edited versions of these talks.9 7 8 8 1 8 7 5 8 2 0 9 0