This is quite a broad category, so we’ve broken it down into a number of sub-categories. Arts, Celebrations and Rituals play a central role in our Community culture, and here you’ll find stories that concern these activities.
Mainly Magnus was a TV weekend chat show broadcast by the BBC in the 1970s. In it Magnus Magnusson interviewed people, mainly in the studio but for the programme about the spiritual community at Findhorn,
A photographic exhibition of my wood work over the decades.
Every moment is a celebration of the festival of living...
This is the story of Matthew Ingram’s visit to the Ecovillage Findhorn in 2023. He came to do research for his latest book The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture which chronicles how a generation influenced by psychedelics, Eastern philosophy, and reactions to Vietnam, the Oil Shocks, and DDT became interested in sustainable growing and farming. The book contains a chapter about what happened when the hippies came to Findhorn.
My name is Carolin, and I have been living in Findhorn for the past five years, taking on various roles - from managing the GEN office to organizing musical retreats with community musician Barbara Swetina
Take one very enthusiastic, community-minded person, add in a love and a talent for music, and a joy in helping to set up new things - and you end up with Ken Walker and the recently established Findhorn Ukulele Group.
I began a new and painful cycle, learning to accept that when fullness has been reached, there comes a time of emptying, a death, a rebirth.
We were nearing the end of the halcyon years of the '70s and everything that was seen as nonessential, extraneous, frivolous, was being dismantled – as in any recession – the arts were the first to suffer.
The three commandments to the Artist: Thou must start, Thou must not fear, Thou must be true to your own dreams.
We belong to one incredible family – unbelievable love.
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I live very simply in this land I love. On returning to the area with my daughter Jade, I found joy in volunteering in the life of the Community; until Covid, then everything changed.
