Most Recent Stories
At times, we are adding new stories to this site at quite a rate, and the total number of stories that this site encompasses is expanding rapidly.
We’re highlighting the latest stories to be added here: come back regularly to keep abreast of the new stories we have to tell. On 28th July 2024 we have made our 1000th post!!! So much to explore ….
At times, we are adding new stories to this site at quite a rate, and the total number of stories that this site encompasses is expanding rapidly.
We’re highlighting the latest stories to be added here: come back regularly to keep abreast of the new stories we have to tell. On 28th July 2024 we have made our 1000th post!!! So much to explore ….
Findhorn, Fact or Fiction? A Sociological Study of a Scottish Intentional Community
This paper is a sociological analysis of the Findhorn Foundation Community, based on a three-week visit in 1977, and uses a participant observational method. It briefly sketches the history, philosophy and world view, along with a demographic and economic profile. Analysis focuses on such items as rules, roles, relationships, leadership styles, decision-making processes, their informal hierarchy, social control and their use of feedback procedures.
Sanctuary reflections
Findhorn was my home. It provided shelter, food, companionship and purpose. The Sanctuary was the heart of my home.
Our Sanctuaries
This post endeavours to facilitate our collective workspace to gather all the facts, stories, images, music etc over time, so that we can do justice to the history of each of our beloved sanctuaries.
Topic – Park Sanctuary
This Topic gives a brief summary of the history of the Park Sanctuary and brings together stories that make it come alive.
The story of manifesting the sanctuary
Eileen received a vision of the Sanctuary as a simple structure without any symbols or pictures on the wall, and with no altar: people coming from different spiritual paths or religions would thus all feel equally comfortable and at one when they gathered there.
Excerpts about meditation and the sanctuary
The following excerpts are from Eileen’s autobiography Flight into Freedom and Beyond where she talks about her meditation practice and the sanctuary. *** In my time of stillness with God, I was told: “Start the
Sanctuary Meditations (1972)
Many of the community take the opportunity of offering something that has inspired them, sometimes thoughts expressed in prose or poetry, or readings, dances, songs or a combination of these. The variety of these forms reflects the fact that here we have people of all ages, from many ways of life and many spiritual paths.
Sanctuary Group News (2007)
Sanctuary focaliser and long-term resident, Angus Marland, brings us news of ongoing meditations taking place within the community with a warm invitation for you to join us on the inner from wherever you are on the planet for the benefit of all beings.
The Open Community
The Open Community was the title of the organisation set up by the Findhorn Foundation in the second half of 1994. It was set up after the recognition that many people had moved into the area after having done workshops in the Foundation and decided to move in order to be nearer to the community.
Burnt Guidance
On 21st June 2021 we were invited to come together as community to clear up debris left behind after the devastating fire of the sanctuary in the early hours of 12th April. What unfolded was a simple ceremony of creating a memento, planting seeds of resilience and continuity.
The New Sanctuary Opening
Easter 2025, our community marked a powerful moment of renewal, blessing and celebration with the opening of the Light of Findhorn Sanctuary – a sacred space rising from the ashes of our beloved original Park
Reflections on the opening of the new sanctuary
Simply put, sanctuary is the heart, the heart of our collective. The first sanctuary held the heart of the family, group and community, and the Light of Findhorn Sanctuary now holds the heart of the village, town and city of light.
Part of a transmission by St Germain
This is the second page of a letter from Peter to Liebie Pugh dated 10th February 1966. It is the record of a transmission through ROC from St Germain regarding the visit to St Annes.
An appreciation of Saint Germain and the purple flame
Saint Germain is a historically important, but largely invisible presence in this community. He is well known to people who have studied in the esoteric traditions … as an ascended master, Hierach of the Aquarian
Mary Magdalena
I wrote this poem for the Taize service in the Universal Hall on Easter Sunday 2025.
Songs From The Hall
"Universal Hall" is regarded by fans and critics as a serene and sincere chapter in The Waterboys' diverse discography. It holds a special place for those drawn to music with a spiritual and ecological consciousness.
A fun fact you didn’t know about me
In my late twenties, I worked for Skyros, the holistic holiday company. One of my duties was to clean the toilets. I’m writing this as part of the volunteer Loo Team. And if you feel motivated to do ‘loo meditation’, in the place that in our history holds a lot of significance, then come join us, even if only occasionally.
Stepping out of the silo
Awareness takes time…..and as we journey forward it is in looking back that we can usually see how everything is exactly as it should be. We are learning how to hold fast to nothing, learning to let go of identity and realise our oneness with everything and all.
The Magic of the Nature Sanctuary
Ian Turnbull tells the story of how he came to create the gorgeous Nature Sanctuary at the Park Ecovillage over 30 years ago.
Man’s Relationship with the Nature Kingdoms
R. Ogilvie Crombie (ROC) (1899-1975) was a great influence on the Community in the 1970s, via original audio-visual presentations like this one, where ROC tells of his experiences with the Nature Spirits.
