Finding and Founding Findhorn
It was a privilege to take part in the Founder’s Celebration as part of Findhorn’s 60th anniversary. Findhorn was so blessed and fortunate with the quality of people who gave it its start back in
Important Moments
First Contact The day after America’s Thanksgiving Day holiday in November 1955, my maternal grandfather developed an aortic aneurysm which he was not expected to survive longer than a few hours. My parents rushed us
My experience in the Caring Community Circle
My first experience of care in our Community was when I came to live here in the late 1990's and I was invited to help look after Joanie, Eileen's closest friend. Joanie was in the
Change taking place in the community 1974
Angus Marland wrote in September 1974:- A project has been started that is the physical manifestation of a great change taking place in the community. Together we realise that we are entering a new spiral
From Findhorn Village to Findhorn Foundation
[Any quotes are from my memory over forty-five years, and my not verbatim. They are not from any community literature] In 1974, living on-shore in Findhorn Village while working off-shore on a North Sea oil
The Treasure
When I look back over my many years in the Foundation and Community the experience I treasure most has been my contact with Eileen. Her words to me have truly turned my life around and
The Parable
When my time to leave my position of Staff Member at the Findhorn Foundation approached its end I felt the keen desire to look at my experience and see if I could distil somehow into
Glamour goes down in feathers
Or 'How glamour gasped its last breath' The innumerable community meetings held in the Hall in the early ‘80s trained us in patience, listening, practising decision-making by consensus and promulgating what sometimes was suspiciously like
Fred Barton
By Peter Please from his book Holine-A British Journey: Bulletins from the Wayside (1997) Fred was a father to me, the first person to call me 'gardener'. In appearance he was the grand gnome, stoutly
Eileen Caddy
The collage shows so many faces of this remarkable woman but of course it cannot possibly do justice to her extraordinary life. Her autobiography Flight Into Freedom and Beyond (written with Liza Hollingshead) captures a
