Deborah Lawlor passed on at 7:59 pm Tuesday night, May 2nd, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
She and her husband, Robert, were pioneers in Forecomers and presented the first harvest from Auroville to Mother. With a background in dance and theater, they presented a torchlit drama in the Forecomers canyons during the early years and built a check dam in the canyon by hand that was soon washed out by a major cyclone. They left Auroville for two years to recover their health, holding a summer immersion in upstate New York in 1972 introducing a group of college students to the philosophy behind Auroville and taught yoga, dance, macrobiotics and organic farming. Other teachers and visitors included Marjorie Spalding, Zena Daysch, Robert McDermott, “Mickey” Finn, Jehangir Chubb and Admiral Rutledge Tompkins.