Being a hippi in Santa Cruz , CA in the early 70s, taking courses in metaphysics and Native American history…barefoot…vegetarian…meditating, …herbs & healing…
(or as my Dad called me…a vegetating meditarian, He was New England staunch republican)
I read an article in the East West journal about when the Wizard met the Elf King (ROC & PAN) and knew I had to GO there!

Then in Summer of ‘74 , I was working in Yosemite when Dorothy Mc just happened to visit (In between trying to convince the hippis not to steal picnic baskets in the Ahwaynee meadow and the Law Enforcement rangers not to bust the loco-weed trippers,)
I asked Dorothy what she thought of the TREES and she was exclaiming the glory of the rock … sheer cliff faces 3000 feet up from the Valley. She told me about Findhorn…I knew I had to GO there!

I took an artist friend’s van to Juneau Alaska (another incredible story of manifestation…more later) on the four day & night ferry from Seattle to Juneau just as the oil pipeline came online…the workers came down into Juneau to cash their checks. I worked the Baranoff Hotel as a waitress, councelled at the local jail on “Alternative Highs”, worked the late shift (back when they closed down at midnight) at the local radio station (KTOO) reading stories and burning cassettes off their TEAC reel-to-reel as fast as I could.

I worked the darkest coldest winter of my life to earn the $ to go to Findhorn…about eight grand…which was a lot in the 70s! At one pint I called my folks who had said they would match me dollar for dollar if I went back to college (both my parents were professors back East) and so….I called (probably collect) to say I was going to UNIVERSITY!…in Scotland..”Oh, which one?” says my dad…
“It’s called the University of Light, Dad.”
“OH, I see…and what kind of DEGREE will you get there?” he said
“Well it’s metaphysical…sort of like the Stairway to Heaven.”
At which point he handed the phone over to my mum… She’s the religious one in this family, he harumphed.
(Next saga…the trip to & arrival at Findhorn Park… Fall’75)

blessings * buffy