For me the importance of the Findhorn Garden experiment cannot be over-stated.

Let me say first of all that I do not ask you to believe what you are reading. I ask you, as Sir George might say, to ‘entertain’ these ideas and see if they have value for you. If not then please disregard them. After all it is your experience of the world which is important, not for another to dictate the parameters of your thinking or experience.

Before I get to the meat of the discussion it is necessary to give some background information. We stand, as is commonly acknowledged, at the turn of the Age and are entering into a new expression in the life of humanity. Each change of age is accompanied by, or perhaps defined by might be a better phrase, the relationship between Neptune, the ruler of Pisces, the age that is passing, and Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, that we are just stepping into. When the ages changed from Aries into Pisces, from warring tribes, to ruling empires, Neptune – spirit, mystery, the unresolved – was opposed to Uranus – wider society, the common herd. This caused Jesus to stand alone as the figurehead of spirituality, with society at large (whether through the temple or the crowd it manipulated) opposed to the novelty he was suggesting. No longer a God of vengeance and destruction but a God of Love and Universal Brotherhood.

Today, as we enter Aquarius, the two outer planets are in conjunction, or were in 1993. A thing which does not happen again for another 150 years, while the opposition between them takes place about 70 or 80 years from 1993. This finds expression in the widespread idea that every man and woman is a Christ seed awakening, and that the Christ is now overlighting the etheric body of the Earth leading to the general awakening of humanity. I have written more fully on this elsewhere (see Changes of Age the Avatar of Aquarius).

That places events in a time frame. Now lets place them in a geographical, or more accurately an astronomical, setting. The Solar system belongs to a star cluster, called in this cosmology, a Cosmos. That Cosmos in turn revolves about its own axis, travelling around a greater centre, called here a Nebula, along with other similar Cosmoi. This Nebula and associated Cosmoi, are referred to as our ‘Sector of the Galaxy’. The whole unit floating in the Galactic Ocean.

Our place in the Galaxy

In 1976 I was told by the couple I was living with that ‘in every Sector of the Galaxy a planet takes on, for a cycle of time, the role of Sanitarium for those suffering from the Sickness of Selfishness. This is a Universal disease which must be contained, otherwise it would contaminate the whole of Life in the Sector. The role is accepted by that world with the agreement of all the sentient life-forms on that planet. When the cycle of Time is ended the role then passes to another planet. Once a world has served in this role it will never be asked to do so again.’

We are now at the end of that cycle and the Earth is being blessed for her service to the Sector. As this energy flows down upon her humanity, and all of Life on the planet, is invigorated by the flow of grace, and restored to its proper alignment within the whole. This idea is encapsulated in allegorical form in the Christian story of the Fall and the Biblical ‘expulsion from the Garden’.

CENTRE OF MENTAL VIRTUE: As the Cosmoi revolve around the Centre of Mental Virtue they rotate about their own axes. It is this which generated the Yugas of Hindu Astronomy, the Great Year of Western Esoteric Astronomy. Unlike the Western astronomical cycle which suggests the rotation brings no more change than the Sign itself, the Eastern system recognises that there is a condition of evolving consciousness, into greater awareness and then a recession into the depths of ignorance, as the solar systems move into the Light of the Centre of Mental Virtue and then further into the setting of that Centre as each system moves into darkness, away from the centre. In the depths the cycle access to wisdom is more difficult and the general human population moves into a more self-centred, ignorant perspective. The wisdom of the Centre is still accessible but requires greater discipline and effort to access.

The entire Ages of Kali, descending and ascending with their rising and setting are equivalent to a single Bronze Age. For 2400 years the world is lost in the depths of ignorance, the furthest point from the source of mental virtue. For the next 2400 years the energy, or awakening of Consciousness, is increasing. The world is becoming more aware. From that point onwards for 3600 years it enters a stage of further development and true progress. But the greatest point of awakening, the most conscious period, lasts for 4800 ascending and 4800 descending. A total of 9600 years the world is soaked in the highest sweetest Vibration of awareness. The Solar System moves towards and away from the Centre of Mental Virtue, in a single rotation of the Cosmos to which this Solar System belongs. This represents a single Day of the Gods.

As the Cosmos rotates about its axis, so the stellar systems which make it up, are moved towards and away from the Nebulaic centre which the master of this science, Swami Yukteshwar, describes as a ‘centre of mental virtue’. In simple terms a system will move into the light and away from it, into wider separation and darkness. This, the author describes as the cycle of Yugas in Hindu Astronomy. He explains that these take 24000 years to complete a single rotation, or Day of Brahma, with four Yugas in descending order followed by the same four in reverse order ascending. He places the ‘midnight’ point at 499 BCE, the very date when the Roman church closed the academies and temples in the empire and imposed its religious expression on Europe to the exclusion of all others and opened the floodgates for the gross materialism we are suffering today.

Since the midnight point is directly between the descending Kali Yuga and the Ascending one this represents the height of ignorance and darkness. As the old age sets so the new age commences with a dawn period of 100 years, followed by the Yuga proper of 1000 years, which is then followed by a further 100 years as that Yuga sets. This gives us a total of 1200 years, taking us to the date 1699, the height of the slave trade by Europe from Africa to the Americas. This period is followed by 200 years of the Dwapara Yuga, the Bronze Age, dawning (to 1899) before entering the Bronze age proper. Currently in 2023 we stand approximately 125 years into that ascending Bronze age. We have somewhere in excess of 10 000 years of moving towards the light of the next Satya Yuga, or Golden Age.

When we consider the time before Jesus’ birth we look to 700 BCE to find the beginning of the descending Kali Yuga as the light was dwindling. This was the time of Pythagoras, Buddha, Mahavira, Confucius and Lao Tzu. At that time, the Greeks tell us, the gods visited mortals, consider the encounters recorded by Homer, some 200 years earlier. Nature, they declared, was filled with spirits of the trees, of the rivers, of the seas and the mountains. The Greeks left us the fullest description of these nature spirits, just before the light was lost. A similar belief appears to have been held by the Druids.

It is true that local nations, the Celts among them, have kept alive the memory of the ‘little people’. Little, not necessarily in stature, but in demanding presence, living without ego, though distinctly endowed with personalities which can be offended. (For more on my encounters in the Findhorn Garden and elsewhere see ‘Chance Encounters With Friends’ – to be published).

There is no doubt in my mind that the importance of the Findhorn experiment is in reclaiming what was lost so many hundreds of years ago. ROC was a scientist, a man with an engineering background in radio telegraphy. He was not an idle dreamer looking for an escape from an all too cruel world. Yet it was this man who was chosen to represent the Nature Spirits for the people working in the garden at that time. He was their champion, as indeed he is ours.

It is clear that with the help of the elemental kingdom we can produce bumper crops and solve the worlds food crisis through actively participating in, and sharing, the world with these other intelligent expressions of life. Should we choose to do so.

Dorothy with her connection to the Devas of the material expressions, dealt with the archetypes, those template holders of the Streams of Life. She was right not to call them angels for these are something other, more aligned to the human mental faculty, these intelligent streams carry the impression of the plants and animals into the world for the elementals to work upon. In the early writings from Findhorn we find some confusion as they are struggling to gain a sense of identity with these intelligences. We are told that the Devas are higher intelligences who hold dominion over the Elementals. In my understanding these are two complimentary streams of intelligence whose work is different from one another. When we look at an oak tree it is recognisably an oak tree, similar to every other oak tree we have seen. Yet uniquely different from them. Each has its own shape and form, its branches differ yet remain true to the pattern of Oak Tree. The Deva provides the Pattern while the elementals build the specific form.

For human beings it is through the emotions and a pure heart that the Elementals may be contacted and worked with. Many people and indeed many cultures do this without necessarily being conscious of doing so. They simply live with an open heart. It is through the emotions released by humans that the elementals bind energy into work projects. As Peter Caddy said ‘Work is Love in action.’ The Devas, and indeed, angels, belong more to the mental ‘vertical axis’. Not that they are judgemental at all. Simply that it is through the vertical axis that humans align with these energies. I shall write again elsewhere more fully about these different life streams.

For the moment it is only important to say that the extraordinary gift of these times we live in are due to the change of Age in an Ascending cycle of the Yugas, a growing of the Light, coupled with the release from that great burden of selfishness which has dogged humanity for many generations. It has to be said not equally by any means, as many indigenous cultures have managed to retain their connection with Nature despite the gross attack received from western culture.

The Findhorn Garden for me stands as a pure example of what can be achieved by ‘living close to God’, with an open heart, cooperating in gratitude with the other forces of Life that abound on this planet. Long may this jewel shine as its seeds are sown across the planet and health is restored to this poor sickened humanity. The only delay will be how swiftly you choose to align yourself with these forces of the growing light. Not whether. As mortal beings our lives are short and fame even more short lived.

image of the spirit of a mountain

image of the spirit of a mountain