Sri Aurobindo’s occult writings and Pondicherry correspondence

Record summary

At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo developed an integral-yoga vocabulary involving planes of consciousness, subtle beings, psychic transformation, and spiritual evolution. His letters and later published works discuss occult experience while warning against some forms of mediumship and uncontrolled spirit contact. This makes the corpus useful for comparing esoteric phenomenology with organized spiritualism. The writings are primarily theological and experiential, not reports from a controlled laboratory. Dating, editorial selection, and the distinction between Aurobindo’s own statements and later Ashram interpretations require close verification.