Topic – Our Community History Project
We endeavour to map the evolution of the beautifully complex ecosystem which is our community as it has unfolded over more than six decades.
We endeavour to map the evolution of the beautifully complex ecosystem which is our community as it has unfolded over more than six decades.
How I came to Findhorn, my involvement with conferences, Trustees, Fellow, The Quest and the Findhorn College.
Findhorn was such a foundational piece of my childhood. There were a lot of wonderful people at Findhorn. Two particularly memorable. Many, many years later I found out that one was famous. His name: Burt Lancaster.
Altogether I worked in Cullerne Gardens for 13 years, pretty much 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, 11 of those years with Fred.
The first Experience Week actually lasted for two weeks: Weeks A & B of Experiencing Findhorn, beginning 1 June 1974.
Cullerne Gardens is a much loved place for many Community members, past and present. This Topic covers the early years from the purchase of the property in 1978 to 1992 when Cullerne Gardens was fully integrated as a Findhorn Foundation work department.
The first time I remember Cullerne was during my Experience Week in 1979. A tour of Cullerne was included in that week, and I was deeply impressed. I joined the Cullerne Garden School and later co-focalised the garden.
During a work assignment to RAF Kinloss he was invited to the Foundation, as an exercise in local community relations. He retired in 1974 as a Flight Lieutenant and took up the post of General Secretary in the Foundation.
Of the many bridges that are being built between Findhorn and the world around us, perhaps the most immediate and concrete is our new theatre...it provides a stable and somewhat permanent vehicle for the direct transmission of energies between performing artists from within the community and our audience, which consists to a large extent, of people from outside the community.
The prevailing rhythm in all of the performing arts at this time was toward working together in small units, all of which could later be blended together into a united whole for performance.