Findhorn Today – Papers prepared for New Synthesis Think Tank Conference October 1987 New York City

CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION – CARO HALL
2. EDUCATION IN THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION – CARO HALL
3. PSYCHOLOGY, HUMAN GROWTH & CHANGE AT FINDHORN – ROGER DOUDNA
4. WORK AND VOCATION – MARY INGLIS & ROGER DOUDNA
5. GOVERNANCE IN THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION – CARO HALL & ROGER BENSON
6. HOLISTIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES – MICHAEL DAWSON
7. THE PLAUSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE: THE ARTS AS COMMUNITY ORACLE – JEREMY SLOCOMBE
8. INTERGRATING CO-CREATION WITH NATURE INTO THE WHOLENESS OF OUR LIVES – ALAN WATSON
9. INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE AND COLLECTIVE VISION IN AN EMERGING SACRED CULTURE – ALEX WALKER

INTRODUCTION

The Findhorn Foundation is a international spiritual community of about 200 members living and working together in the North East of Scotland. Founded in 1962 by Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy MacLean, the community first became known for its work with plants and communication with nature. Since then it has developed into a thriving community offering year year round educational programmes.

This year the Foundation celebrates its 25th birthday and, with increasing maturity, many changes have occurred. Most noticeably, the community of spirit is now developing independently of the educational Foundation itself, as more and more people choose to live in the area around the Foundation and develop their own livelihoods in a number of small businesses and professional practices.

These papers came out of a process of reflection prompted by the request that the Foundation should contribute to papers being prepared for an Invitational Dialogue; a conference convened as a step in attempting to make models being developed in alternative communities available to those influential in mainstream society. They should be considered to be papers in progress rather than final statements of what the Findhorn Foundation believes. Some of them, particularly the one on health, are models used by one specific individual or group, rather than being a true reflection of the overall Foundation.

It is in fact difficult to obtain a sense of the Foundation’s view on any matter, since it is made up of a diverse group of individuals who all have their own spiritual and intellectual paths. This is at once the joy and the bane of our existence, but particular ways of doing things and particular attitudes have developed and we hope that these papers will offer positive leads to others working to bring spirit into every aspect of our culture.

Caro Hall

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