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.
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.
How I got here, my journey through the different programmes, and how I ended up becoming a Sacred Dance teacher, focaliser of the Transport Department and the driver for Eileen Caddy on her UK book tour.
I lived for three years in the community at Findhorn. This experience has shaped my work with communities, wholeness and wellbeing as well as my music.
March 6th is World Book Day and this set me thinking about ‘Findhorn’ and the incredible collection of related books and magazines that have come out of this Community since the 1960s...
In essence the vision for the Community, birthed on the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park in 1962, is for it to be ‘a place where God’s work is done’. This is certainly what the four founders
Mainly Magnus was a TV weekend chat show broadcast by the BBC in the 1970s. In it Magnus Magnusson interviewed people, mainly in the studio but for the programme about the spiritual community at Findhorn,
"What if [...] we don’t have much time or choice in the matter, we’d better make the most of everything by living each day to the full in the most loving caring passionate way we can.”
Having tasted utopia and survived I found the greatest gift was the revelations I witnessed when faced with the dynamics of all kinds of diverse people coming together in a spirit of openness and co-operation.
I began a new and painful cycle, learning to accept that when fullness has been reached, there comes a time of emptying, a death, a rebirth.
We were nearing the end of the halcyon years of the '70s and everything that was seen as nonessential, extraneous, frivolous, was being dismantled – as in any recession – the arts were the first to suffer.