Celebrating One Incredible Family

19/11/2025

Our Midweek Muse -from Community Member Katherine Collis:
“It can be overwhelming when considering the needs of our own changing world. We stand face to face with our own dark age – ignorant of interconnectedness, illiterate of soul, hungry at so many levels, as a result of self-serving, short-sighted interests.” Full article:

Editor's Note: Katherine Collis wrote a three-part feature about Iona and the retreat house Traigh Bhan. These three articles were split across various editions of the Community magazine Network News. This third part, re-created below, is taken from Network News No 18, which was published in Spring....

18/11/2025

An Angel of Findhorn Play by Community Member Michael Hawkins--so timely, as we celebrate Our Community's 63rd Birthday This Week:

Author's Note: Arriving at the Foundation/Community in 1990 I was fascinated by how the Community had evolved through co-creation with other realms and the angelic realms especially. I had encountered Angels through my Catholic upbringing, also in literature, and knew of the inspiration of muses, ha...

15/11/2025

Saturday Snippet from Offerings to Inspire Series: Resident Community Member & Ecologist Sean Reed: “I did Experience Week in 2002, purely by chance, when my car broke down on the way to Orkney for a vision quest. Experiencing the widely-shared feeling of ‘belonging’ and ‘coming home’, and after a series of weeks at Cluny, I came to live here in 2004.” It's a useful history of the development of East, West and North Whins (housing complexes) & how the area has been and hopefully stays protected. Full article:

12/11/2025

Our Midweek Muse, from Alex Walker's Key Work The Kingdom Within: "The community is at its best when expressing its love and caring – and at its worst when the challenges of the day become excuses for apathy and factionalism. Be honest with yourself, for authenticity is valued highly in any spiritual tradition worthy of the name, but remember that whatever the question, love is always the answer.”

Click to view e-book Thoughts on the Future Never be afraid of changes, Never be afraid of expansion Simply let go And allow it all to happen quite naturally. Open your eyes and see the changes that take place in

11/11/2025

CULLERNE HOUSE INITIATIVE: Longterm Resident Community Member 'JT" (John Talbott) Updates Us On Its Present Role and Reaches Out for Support from Our Worldwide Community (PS: Cullerne Gardens are a separate initiative):

Cullerne House - two words that evoke infinite memories for the hundreds of people who passed through its doors in the 1980s and 1990s, whilst it was owned by the Findhorn Foundation (FF). The FF sold Cullerne House to long-term community member

08/11/2025

Our Saturday Snippet from Offerings to Inspire Series: “Who is a Firekeeper? The role of the fire-keeper is for those who maintain a steady and respectful relationship with the element of Fire, and are able to hold space for the people so that their true voices and colours would shine through. As firekeepers we learn how to make a good roaring fire. We also learn about holding space for stories, for different voices to speak. Ultimately we learn about listening to the Fire, to the elements, to the voices of the ancestors and the children, to earth and to the stars, so that we could take our next steps in harmony with the will of the universe.” By Longterm Resident Community Member Pupak Haghighi-full article here:

We are known as Fire-Keepers. Our group goes by the name of the Findhorn Fire Circle. Our intention is to hold space with the element of Fire so that a field of healing and unity emerges. People often experience a process of purification and transformation while sitting with the fire and other peopl...

06/11/2025

Remembering WILD10 (The 10th World Wilderness Congress) in Salamanca, Spain...thanks to Community Member Geoff Dalglish:
https://celebratingoneincrediblefamily.org/making-the-world-a-wilder-place-2013
PS: I was there too, behind the scenes, organizing with WILD's President, Community Member Vance Martin & Team Including Community Members like Yvonne Overton and Tim Hass!

Author's Note: In 2013 I wrote about the following story in my blog. *** We have no other world but this one. If we damage it irreparably we damage and destroy ourselves and what it means to be truly human. His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales I was honoured to serve as Master

05/11/2025

Good France24 Coverage of Our Ecovillage...

Today, more and more people are rethinking their way of life: what they eat, what they buy and how they move around, all in the name of environmental concerns. Some have turned to so-called eco-villages…

05/11/2025

Midweek Muse: Early Community Member Jim Bronson:
“The greatness of action, say the Yogis, is measured by the depth of inaction from which it springs. Let us now therefore release ourselves from the level of action and become aware of the vast realm of inaction, of peace and stillness, that stands behind it and is forever at our disposal.” Full article:

This article was first published in Findhorn News September 1972. *** At 8:30 in the morning, before the community begins its various activities, we gather together in the Sanctuary for a time of sharing in silence. This ten minutes or so of inner blending in meditation is opened and closed by vario...

03/11/2025

Belatedly, A Saturday Snippet from Community Member & Trees for Life Founder Alan Watson Featherstone:
"It is now more than 45 years since the inception of the Findhorn Community, and the initial pioneering work of co-creation with Nature. The community has grown significantly in size and diversity since then, and now consists of 300-400 people and numerous projects, initiatives and organisations. The essential principles, however, remain the same, and are the glue that holds the diverse community together. Those principles, of being guided by the inner presence of spirit, and that work is love in action, are applied not only in the gardens, but in all the myriad different activities that have developed here. In doing so, community members today are each part of this ongoing experiment in creating a model for a new human culture that is based on spiritual values and a renewed respect for the Earth and all life.”
Full article:

This article was previously written for a chapter in The Findhorn Garden Story, published by Findhorn Press in 2008. I have chosen some of my own photographs for this post. *** A Personal and Planetary Perspective It is now more than 45 years since the inception of the Findhorn Community, and the in...