The Spirit Of Findhorn
People often ask me about visiting Findhorn, an extraordinary community and ecovillage in the northeast of Scotland, and I also often have an intuition that people need to visit Findhorn, so I often find myself saying this:
“Even if the workshop is rubbish, even if the workshop facilitators are rubbish, you will nevertheless have an extraordinary experience. There is a spirit to the place that transcends and permeates even the worst events.”
This, I know, can sound like faint praise. But it also acknowledges one of the most important realities about the Findhorn foundation: It has an extraordinary and wonderful spirit.
The spirit of Findhorn. What do we mean by this? We mean that there is some kind of mythical and energetic being, some essence, which is at the very core of the place. This spirit of Findhorn can equally be called the ‘over-lighting angel’ of the place.
In tribal societies, in classical Rome and Athens, there was no problem about discussing the spirits, gods and goddesses, and angels. Every activity had a spirit. Every place had a spirit. Athens was over-lit by the great angel and goddess, Athena. There is a myth that this being went on to over-light Constantinople and then London.
If a flower can be over-lit and colored by a fairy, if a mountain can have its huge and sweeping mountain spirit, why can’t a wonderful human community also have its angel?
Anyone with the slightest sensitivity, if they choose to sit in silence and to open their psychic awareness, immediately feels and senses this presence that permeates and over-lights everything at Findhorn.
When I first came to Findhorn and sat in the sanctuary, I swooned at the magnificence and beauty and healing nature of this wonderful angelic presence that is companion to the whole community.
Sometimes people forget that a human community is also an eco-system, as fantastic and complex as anything in the Amazon rain forest. And like any eco-system, it has its nature spirits.
Human beings are, despite appearances in the industrialized world, not separate from nature and Gaia. We are part of nature and we too have our great nature spirits that work with us, as individuals and as communities.
I would dare to suggest that the angel of Findhorn has a magnificent history of being involved with human communities. Within her energy field she carries lovingly tolerant and understanding patterns of how humans can behave and inspiring blueprints of how fully perfect this community can be.
Even the most cynical of visitors may quickly become seduced by the quality of silence at Findhorn. What is this quality? It is the atmosphere of the angel’s energy field inspiring us to something new and more loving.
Every time I visit Findhorn, I am touched, moved and educated not only by the people, but by the ever present spirit of the place. I am grateful and I seek to encourage everyone and anyone to enjoy a similar relationship.
William Bloom is Britain’s leading author and educator in the mind-body-spirit field with over thirty years of practical experience, research and teaching in modern spirituality. He is founder and co-director of The Foundation for Holistic Spirituality and the Spiritual Companions project.
For information on the the Findhorn Co-Creative Spirituality Conference visit www.findhorn.org/programmes/co-creative-spirituality/. For information on William Bloom’s Diploma in Practical Spirituality & Wellness at Findhorn visit www.findhorncollege.org/programmes/applied-spirituality.php.
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See also:
Paris Is Building The Eco-Community Of The Future Right Now. Here’s How.
EarthTalk: Eco-Villages
