Midweek Muse #36
“Thoughts create and feelings bring alive”.
Findhorn, Fact or Fiction? A Sociological Study of a Scottish Intentional Community (1977)
This paper is a sociological analysis of the Findhorn Foundation Community, by Al McLeod from California State University Fresno, California, based on a three-week visit in 1977, and uses a participant observational method. It briefly sketches the history, philosophy and world view, along with a demographic and economic profile. Analysis focuses on such items as rules, roles, relationships, leadership styles, decision-making processes, their informal hierarchy, social control and their use of feedback procedures.
Saturday Snippets #36
It was 1983; we were on vacation in Hawaii. My husband handed me a book, The Findhorn Garden...
Midweek Muse #35
What could be more meaningful than to support this place that provides a safe environment for people to unfold, open their hearts and recognise they are spiritual beings having an earthly experience?
Sanctuary reflections
Findhorn was my home. It provided shelter, food, companionship and purpose. The Sanctuary was the heart of my home.
Our Sanctuaries
This post endeavours to facilitate our collective workspace to gather all the facts, stories, images, music etc over time, so that we can do justice to the history of each of our beloved sanctuaries.
Topic – Park Sanctuary
This Topic gives a brief summary of the history of the Park Sanctuary and brings together stories that make it come alive.
The story of manifesting the sanctuary
Eileen received a vision of the Sanctuary as a simple structure without any symbols or pictures on the wall, and with no altar: people coming from different spiritual paths or religions would thus all feel equally comfortable and at one when they gathered there.
Excerpts about meditation and the sanctuary
The following excerpts are from Eileen’s autobiography Flight into Freedom and Beyond where she talks about her meditation practice and the sanctuary. *** In my time of stillness with God, I was told: “Start the
Sanctuary Meditations (1972)
Many of the community take the opportunity of offering something that has inspired them, sometimes thoughts expressed in prose or poetry, or readings, dances, songs or a combination of these. The variety of these forms reflects the fact that here we have people of all ages, from many ways of life and many spiritual paths.
