Ecovillage Findhorn: Laboratory and Beacon
It is not simply a community we live in; it is a living system where experiments unfold and light is sent outward. We are both testing grounds and signal fires.
It is not simply a community we live in; it is a living system where experiments unfold and light is sent outward. We are both testing grounds and signal fires.
Be still and know all is very, very well unfolds into Inner listening Co-creation with nature Work is love in action unfolds into Sanctuary Original garden and caravan The Park unfolds into Group meditations Living
When I came across it in my own 'early days' here in the mid 1970's it inspired me to realise the greater significance of what was (is?) happening here, effectively modelling the transformation process. It also evoked a planetary vision for us.
In essence the vision for the Community, birthed on the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park in 1962, is for it to be ‘a place where God’s work is done’. This is certainly what the four founders
This draft Whole Community Purpose was prepared by the Enquiry Circle and presented to the Community in 2018. It was never formally adopted but is frequently referred to, at times read out at the beginning
On January 7th, 2025, I turn 80 years old. There’s no particular merit in this by itself. All one has to do is ride the Earth around the sun, and each time it does this, we can add another number to our chronology...
This article was first published in GENESIS XVII, September 26, 1997 under Future Scenarios. Whilst they are still only words, how encouraging and inspiring it has been to see all the future scenarios begin to articulate
This article by David Hoyle was first published in GENESIS - A Magazine of Arts, Culture & Ideas, Findhorn Bay, Scotland Issue XXXIII, October 1998 Sustain: to keep from falling; enable to last out; that
Christian Sarti, a Resource Person in Luxembourg since 1984, interviews Terry Gilbey about the future of the Findhorn Foundation and the local and global Community, following the fires that destroyed the Community Centre and the
Lisa Haney writes: In 2023 I took part in Experience Week at the Findhorn Foundation in Cluny Hill college. I used that experience as part of a study for CLIE Summer Community Praxis: The Soul