One Earth – Health and Wholeness Issue 1981
Many aspects of Health and Wholeness are gathered in this issue of One Earth Magazine (Volume 1, Issue 5, April/May 1981), including a reflection of the role of healing in the Community's culture.
My Journey, Neils Paulsen
Craig Phizacklea interviews Niels Paulsen about his journey with the Findhorn Foundation. In this interview, Niels talks about his first calling to this place, the many Experience Weeks he has held and what it was
Beginnings of Community
I arrived in Findhorn in 1981. The community as an entity differentiated from the Foundation didn’t exist at that point. My wife and I bought Bay Cottage and we were among the forerunners of people
A historical review – late 1980s
The origins and expansion of the Findhorn Foundation from its beginnings in 1962 to a thriving community in the 1980s. The video emphasises Findhorn's ongoing role as a spiritual centre focussed on the transformation of
Cluny’s Sewer Blockage
An aspect of group consciousness, a rather ‘magical’ one, occurred towards the end of my time as a guest in 1984. Piles of earth appeared around the steps leading down to the garden at Cluny.
Sacred Dance – What is it?
Anna Barton has produced this gem of a booklet in 1985. It demonstrates beautifully the many creative gifts Anna brought to her work and her life in the community. To browse through the book please
From social activist to inner work
In the mid-eighties I spent some time at Greenham Common, the women's Peace-camp in the UK. I had been studying medicine, then I became a full time social activist in Amsterdam.
An Incredible ‘New’ Family
Part 1 I first read Paul Hawken's (1976) "The Magic of Findhorn" in the late 1970s and was duly inspired. A few years later, in about 1980, I was running a stand at the Mind-Body-Spirit
Coming to Findhorn
When I was young I had had mythical experiences, but had put them aside as I moved into my teens and got deeply involved in sports and the other usual pursuits young men. This continued
Buying the Caravan Park
In the early 80s the finance department boffins recognised that the Findhorn Foundations’ economy was so drastically in the red that we were at a sink-or-swim moment. Then the owner of the FBCP (Findhorn Bay
