Found in the back of an old sock drawer where the cat sleeps … two photos from the 1970s:

On the way to lunch in the CC 1970s photo Edwin Maynard

On the way to lunch in the CC 1970s photo Edwin Maynard

Stonemason Monocle chats with Eileen when one by one three more people show up outside the Community Centre in the snow.

Joanie from one direction, Janis McClick from another and here comes Dutch Pauline down from Station House all on our way to have a hot sumptuous Vegan lunch with Loren cooking.

Perhaps long ago and far away but you can still feel the joy and love looking at it … love never dies; it transforms but never dies. …

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Richard Velarino sp and Monocle

Two stone masons – Richard Velarino sp and Monocle

Beauty is one of the top values and principles within the Arcana of alchemical transformation. It’s a type of magic, as it is known to melt the hardest of hearts.

Beauty is always becoming

  • a brand new baby
  • a blushing bride
  • a garden in bloom

all beautiful all becoming.

We are drawn to beauty. It’s just so attractive, we want to be with it and a part of it … so it was at Findhorn in those days … We really were building the new, only it was hard to imagine that what we were really building was beyond the 3-D.

I think more people were touched by the Community at Findhorn than those who visited. I know of no health food store, farmers market, green government or alternative yoga or healing center that wasn’t touched by those building the new at Findhorn and its planetary attunement, in some way.

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From 1976

 

Early Hall Meditation 1976 photo Michael Davidson

Early Hall Meditation

 

1976 Hayden Stubbings hall muralist, Monocle, Cliff Bain out on an adventure at Black Hills photo Michael Davidson

Hayden Stubbings hall muralist, Monocle, Cliff Bain out on an adventure at Black Hills photo Michael Davidson

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Addendum 8th June 2026: I am here in northern California for a heart ambassador retreat at a 100 year old Jesuit monastery atop a mountain nature preserve. Becoming the future is the heart focus of our work this week; it’s a waste of energy during this planetary transition to blame or wait on others to becoming the source of change; each one of us are unique and have a lot to offer.

Healing like manifestation requires practice and in this period of challenge their is more opportunities than ever before to raise the bar within our communities.