Spring 2027 Issue

Due by November 1, 2026

There is no specific theme for the Spring 2027 issue. We welcome many kinds of contributions, especially those that share, in ways both personal and universal, the surprises of grace, intuition, and delight in the widening—or frozen—moments of our lives. We also love to publish submissions that challenge the increasing polarization of our personal and social lives or embrace that fragmentation and find its deeper meaning and healing in the integrative and inclusive currents emerging today.

Summer 2027 Issue and Beyond

Due by March 1, 2027

Beginning with the Summer 2027 issue, authors may submit one or more entries on the following four themes. This will allow ample time to reflect and prepare submissions for one or more themes. When we receive enough submissions on a specific theme, we will schedule an issue for that theme. In addition, we may also occasionally include an article or poem that is not connected to a specific theme.

Yoga and the Arts: Creativity and the Evolution of Consciousness
For this issue, Collaboration Journal invites submissions at the intersection of yoga, artistic practice, and creativity. For Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, art is not merely expressive or representational, but a dynamic site for the evolution of consciousness, where higher planes of awareness seek form and embodiment. How does artistic practice lean into yogic progress and collective transformation in your experience? In what ways do rhythm, sound, gesture, image, and form participate in the unfolding of consciousness and world-making? We welcome essays, reflections, lived experiences, and creative works that interweave aesthetic and yogic practice in your life.

Health and Healing in Integral Yoga
Integral Yoga provides a comprehensive framework that takes into account the whole human being. This provides the foundation for derivative fields such as integral psychology, integral education, integral health, and other areas where an integral or whole-person framework can be applied. Collaboration invites your submissions in health and healing, including topics related to Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s teachings in these areas, as well as other flavors of integrative or holistic health, mind-body medicine, or traditional Eastern mind-body practices such as Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and indigenous healing practices.

Democracy, Politics, and Integral Ethics
Collaboration Journal invites submissions that explore the intersection of democracy, politics, and ethics through the lens of Sri Aurobindo’s integral philosophy and psychology. Sri Aurobindo’s writings, particularly in The Human Cycle, offer a compelling way to rethink political life as part of the evolving movement of collective consciousness. In this work, Sri Aurobindo’s vision of spiritual anarchy gestures toward possible futures in which social order arises not primarily from external law, institutional control, or rigid moral binaries, but from the awakening of the psychic and spiritual being. How do inspirations from Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s life and work help us reimagine and embody the meaning of new forms of collective life in today’s uncertain times? What new perspectives does integral ethics offer for governance, justice, freedom, and the evolution of social forms?

The Heart in Integral Yoga
The heart plays a central role in human and spiritual affairs. Recent scientific studies of the brain-heart connection, as well as spiritual traditions, whether they be Abrahamic, Eastern, Indigenous or Shamanic, have essential teachings pertaining to the human heart and its many aspects. Authors of literature and poetry never tire of writing about the heart’s joys and sorrows. The heart figures in so many ways in human experience! How are the heart and its function in the evolution of consciousness presented in Integral Yoga? Have Sri Aurobindo and the Mother elucidated any further or expanded understanding of the part it plays for the new creation and/or the new species? We look forward to receiving your perspectives, experiences and artistic expressions involving the heart now and as we contemplate the future.

Please email your submissions to editor@collaboration.org