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The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972 to act as a focal point for the work of the community that grew up around Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean near Findhorn, Scotland, from 1962 onwards. Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) (Scots: Wha daur meddle wi me) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK... A charitable trust is a trust organized to serve private or public charitable purposes. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Peter Caddy (1917-1994) was a British caterer, hotelier, and founder of the Findhorn Foundation community. ... Findhorn is a village in Moray, Scotland. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) (Scots: Wha daur meddle wi me) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...


The history of the community, briefly, is this.


In the late 1940s Sheena Govan emerged as an informal spiritual teacher to a small circle that included Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean. Eileen Caddy joined them in the early 1950s. Their principal practices were channeling and other forms of meditation, and the bringing of love and perfection to everyday tasks. // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... Sheena Govan (1912-1967) was the daughter of evangelist John George Govan, and an early influence on what would become the Findhorn Foundation. ... Peter Caddy (1917-1994) was a British caterer, hotelier, and founder of the Findhorn Foundation community. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the... Channeling can refer to Channeling (physics) Channeling (mediumistic), a term used in reference to the process of receiving messages or inspiration from invisible beings or spirits This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Jump to: navigation, search Meditation refers to any of a wide variety of spiritual practices (and their close secular analogues) which emphasize mental activity or quiescence. ...


In 1957 Peter Caddy, Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean were appointed to manage the Cluny Hill Hotel near Forres. Though now separated from Sheena Govan, they continued with the practices she taught. Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Caddy (1917-1994) was a British caterer, hotelier, and founder of the Findhorn Foundation community. ... Suenos Stone in Forres Forres, an ancient Royal Burgh Town, is situated in the North of Scotland on the Moray Coast. ... Sheena Govan (1912-1967) was the daughter of evangelist John George Govan, and an early influence on what would become the Findhorn Foundation. ...


In late 1962 they became unemployed and, for want of any other accommodation, settled in a travel trailer near the village of Findhorn. In early 1963 an annex was built so that Dorothy Maclean could live close to the Caddy family. They began organic gardening as a way of growing food. To this activity they brought their spiritual practices, and this led to communication with nature spirits under whose guidance the garden flourished. Peter Caddy also introduced the positive thinking practices he had learned in the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship. Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A travel trailer, or caravan, is a small trailer in which people can live and travel simultaneously. ... Findhorn is a village in Moray, Scotland. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Organic gardening is gardening that uses substantial diversity in pest control to reduce the use of the weapon of pesticides and tries to provide as much fertility with local sorces of nutrients rather than purchased fertilizers. ... Peter Caddy (1917-1994) was a British caterer, hotelier, and founder of the Findhorn Foundation community. ... The Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship was a supposedly-Rosicrucian group founded by George Alexander Sullivan in about 1924. ...


After Peter Caddy had met British New Age leaders, and after Eileen Caddy's guidance had been distributed to a New Age mailing list in the form of a booklet titled God Spoke to Me, a community began to form around them. In 1969 the community and its garden were featured in a BBC television documentary. Peter Caddy (1917-1994) was a British caterer, hotelier, and founder of the Findhorn Foundation community. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Jump to: navigation, search The term God is capitalized in the English language as a proper noun when used to refer to a specific monotheistic concept of a supernatural Supreme Being in accordance with Christian, Jewish (sometimes as G-d - cf. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ...


Dorothy Maclean left the community in 1973, and Peter Caddy in 1979. Eileen Caddy remained, and in 2004 was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Peter Caddy (1917-1994) was a British caterer, hotelier, and founder of the Findhorn Foundation community. ... Jump to: navigation, search This page refers to the year 1979. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda...


External links

  • Findhorn Foundation official website
  • Findhorn Roots detailed history

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Ξ In the Shadow of the New Age: Decoding the Findhorn Foundation - book review by Frank MacHovec, Ph.D. (1570 words)
In the Shadow of the New Age: Decoding the Findhorn Foundation
Greenaway comments that the Findhorn Foundation was “never any good at historical scholarship” (21) but followed the dictum “we create our own reality,” a “megalomaniac doctrine” of “New Age psychospirituality, excited hyper-theosophy” and a “wacky package” of “California occultism” (21-25).
Findhorn “achieved three U.N. affiliations.” This may be evidence of a “ramp, something between a paradigm and a conspiracy … a kind of group consciousness that is charged and selfish in nature” (240).
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