Many of our readers ask “What’s happening at Findhorn these days?” Whilst this website is the home of our collective autobiography, we feel that history starts today and are trying to be as up-to-date as

This guide to the community was first published in 1995. We offer it here as pdf-flipbook and also in full text.

This Topic follows nature, ecology and biodiversity at Ecovillage Findhorn, starting from the founders’ initial attunement to the spiritual dimension of nature to the current embracing of national biodiversity priorities in response to the world-wide biodiversity crisis.

We humans often need some kind of proof or verification before we can accept the idea of metaphysical realms and Beings. Frances Ripley offers us a unique verification through her beautiful drawings of the elemental and devic kingdoms, and through her story of how she came to draw them.

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These young people came from a different starting point than me, but they have the same power of self-
efficacy inside. I believe it to the core because if I can do it, anybody can. We humans are so full of potential.

This account was previously published in Visions Unseen, Frances shares her stories of how she visited and eventually joined the community in the early 1970s.

The creation and on going evolution of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, initially called the Planetary Village, is the natural extension of the work in The Findhorn Garden which started in the Spring of 1963. The

During the Community Gathering 2025, Tim Slack and myself led a session of Appreciative Inquiry looking at the SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Resources/Results). This post describes the session and invites your participation.

Pineridge. A midsummer’s day. Sunrise is already tipping the pine trees with pink and gold. A gull flies silently in the high clear sky…