Dorothy Maclean – short extracts from the archive
Receiving my first inner messages This recording is from the start of a talk Dorothy Maclean gave at the Restore the Earth Conference, held at the Findhorn Foundation in 2002. It describes one of the
A Conversation with the Founders of the Findhorn Community: Eileen, Peter & Dorothy – Our History
Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, founders of the Findhorn Foundation Community, talk about the early days and spiritual principles underpinning of the community. The interview was recorded by Kurt Mann in 1992 and
A Findhorn story for the 60th birthday
It was 1983; we were on vacation in Hawai‘i. My husband handed me a book, The Findhorn Garden. “Here,” he said. “I think you’d like this.” I started to leaf through the book: photographs of
Hearing about Findhorn for the first time
Blackpool pals before Findhorn, summer 1968, Carly, Matthew, Mik. Early Spring 1970 my friends and I in Blackpool, Lancashire were wondering where our pal Ian was. We knew he’d gone to Scotland to
A personal message in the Central Garden
I did my Experience Week at the end of January 1977. One day I was walking from the Park building through the Central Garden and as I came abreast of the large pine tree by
Peter Caddy in the Garden
I knew Peter Caddy, the co-founder of Findhorn, as a tall, restless figure often seen walking at speed along the warren of pathways in the caravan park. I usually avoided him. I never knew what
A Job to Do
DOROTHY MACLEAN: A Job to Do Many are the pages filled with the messages Dorothy received from the devic and angelic realms. However, it is important to remember that Dorothy had spent nearly 10 years
The Original Garden
The Original Garden My involvement with the Original Garden began one freezing winter morning in 2009, at a meeting to discuss the deer fence. Posts and gates had already gone up, to some dismay and
Attunement to Nature
THE GARDENS THEN AND NOW Attunement to Nature When I arrived in 1979 I had almost no training in gardening at all. My professional background was in forestry and I knew little about carrots
Dancing in the Garden
DANCING IN THE GARDEN In 1971 the original garden was still very much used for our vegetables. They were grown in plain rows; John Hilton was the main gardener at the time. In those days
