Alison

Kabbalah Course Notes

2008-09-05T19:29:43Z

There is a power that brings us from a highest to a lowest state, and then brings us to the point where we can reveal the qualities of the creator within us.

Thought of Existance: Create a creature and fill that creature with unbounded delight.

Force created 5 spiritual worlds each one less and less like the original unbounded life.
Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beriya, yetzira, Assiya...Worlds make up the force of the Will to bestow on us beneath these worlds, us having the will to recieve. hmm

Travel from state of separate egoism apart from creator up thru the 4 worlds once again to unification. As we travel thru the worlds we use each world to reveal in us those inner states in us that are like the creator. Each world is a level of soul that is revealed to us.

The Torah ( the stories) is a manual showing the pattern of the creation and descent of the soul, and a guide to it's correction and reunification.

Our Forgotten Future

2008-08-02T03:49:37Z

Our Forgotten Future
Daniel Pinchbeck

The following article originally appeared in Conscious Choice Magazine.(2007)

The future is not what it used to be. What does our future look like from this particular point in time? Scanning the distressing ecological data, we might find ourselves reminded of Marlene Dietrich¹s exit line to Orson Welles in Touch of Evil: "Your future's all used up." From the Oscar-nominated Children of Men to Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, recent portraits of what may be coming down the pike have distinctly faded to black - sterile, war-torn wastelands where huddled masses forage for survival. These visions reflect the images we see from today's Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. They suggest a darkening of the collective psyche, a reduced capacity to envision a way out from the encroaching crises that we intuit but lack the will or courage to confront. Novels and films of apocalypse function as avoidance mechanisms, allowing us to imagine global doom from a comfortably alienated vantage point.

As the mainstream absorbs no-exit narratives of breakdowns ahead, the New Age and spiritual set have seized upon an almost antithetical attitude of naïve positivity, reflected in wildly popular works like What the Bleep Do We Know? and The Secret. From this perspective, the individual¹s psychic state determines his or her physical reality, and the occult laws of attraction can be utilized to increase one¹s bank account or sexual magnetism. If you haven't cashed out, it is because you are not using your psychic powers at their maximum rate. If other people aren't getting theirs' yet, it's not your problem, but their bad karma. This is a metaphysics suited to the narcissism of the baby boomers and the "Me Generation," whose lifestyles have denuded the planet's rainforests and ripped big holes in the ozone layer.

What makes this perspective so seductive is that there are fragments of truth in it. In my own life and the lives of many people I know, the power of intention is becoming more evident. Reality seems increasingly psychic, as we relearn, step by step, the lessons of synchronicity and nonduality well known to tribal shamans and realized mystics. However, as we access what Carl Jung called "the reality of the psyche," we also discover the huge gap between the small-time desires of the ego and the deeper purposes of the Self, our complete personality, encompassing conscious and unconscious elements. The Self doesn't give a hoot if we drive a fancy car or score with supermodels, and might even prefer to smash the delusions of the ego to incite a deeper realization.

Although I published a book on indigenous prophecy and the year 2012, which ends the 5,125-year Long Count of the Maya, my thoughts on the future continue to fluctuate (as Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"). Between the various camps of technological utopians (see Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near), ecological pessimists, left-wing conspiracists, rapture-ready fundamentalists and New Age fantasists, one can experience schizo delirium. Is it possible that sudden crisis, such as coastal flooding or nuclear
terrorism, will lead to a system meltdown that will change everything? Is it conceivable that most of the world will continue to disintegrate as wealthy First Worlders get stem cell injections, new DNA and nanobot implants? Or perhaps a rapid shift in global consciousness will lead to a new compassionate planetary culture, with shared resources and technologies based on nontoxic processes and biomimickry? In any event, unless the Law of Attraction can overcome the basic laws of physics, a contraction of industrial civilization seems inevitable.

The trickster element undermining all future predictions is the reality of the psyche, and the possibility that psychic energy could be harnessed for purposes of planetary transformation. If we look back at the Industrial Revolution, before the 18th century, people had experienced lightning and shocks, but nobody had any idea how to make use of electricity. Once we figured this out, we changed the geophysical conditions of the planet in a century and a half ‹ not even a blink in evolutionary time. What if we are hovering on the brink of learning how to access and make use of psychic energy in a similar way? If this were the case, it would require a different approach from the modern scientific method, allowing no place for subjectivity. Psychic effects cannot be separated from subjective realizations. Creating the conditions in which psychic intention might interact with and influence the material world would require a deep sensitivity to unquantifiable aspects of human experience such as mood, atmosphere and emotion.

Considering this, it is possible that works like The Secret and What the Bleep have real importance. They could be transitional expressions, pointing us toward a new paradigm of psychic energy and intention that will become more sophisticated as it develops. It seems likely that the current interlocked problems facing our world simply cannot be solved by rational means but they might be dissolved, if they are approached from a different level of consciousness, and a deeper realization of the psyche.

Maybe sort of

2007-12-09T20:48:01Z

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal

Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

vasalisa6 @ 2007-12-09T15:43:00

2007-12-09T20:42:38Z

Your 1996 Theme Song Is: Ironic by Alanis Morisette

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought ... it figures

What's Your 1996 Theme Song?

vasalisa6 @ 2007-11-11T02:12:00

2007-11-11T07:13:11Z

Watching a flower bloom is a secret of our Successes
The struggle is majestic in tune with fulfilling it's purpose
Imagine a Lilacomplaining 'I wish I was a rose'
Hey I'm not growing fast enough what gives GF
or not liking it's environment. No, it just blossoms
making the most out of the soil water sunlight etc.
..... ****** ::::::: ()()()___%%%%
Altogether Now..............me me meeee....
You can learn a lot of things from the flowers......s
For especially in the month of June.........e
There's a wealth of happiness and romance.......
All in the golden afternoon.................

All in the golden afternoon.........
The golden afternoon..........
A Bursting Heart Graced Eternally

-unknown

SPIN

2007-09-17T04:48:02Z

vasalisa6 @ 2007-08-31T01:11:00

2007-08-31T05:13:08Z

I've been getting interested in the perspectives of Jewish Renewal and Tikkun magazine, and their marriage of spirituality with progressive social change. I feel that all this information is relevant to my mission and i will maybe be working with them at some point.

vasalisa6 @ 2007-08-16T22:10:00

2007-08-17T02:20:27Z

I found this BBS internet radio station today, and it jogged a dream and a feeling of mine that one next step for me or one thing that i should be getting into is radio in some way. It has just felt as if i'm being pulled in that direction for a little while now and more confirmation of that and reminder of that today again. I've been trying to piece different pieces together of what wants to "happen" here and with these various ideas i've been takling about with people. The artists' organization or a center with Rich, the "artists website", the environmentally focused group...Tom has also been getting feelings that he should start up a radiostation again this time in Ferndale, so maybe something could work out with that. I gather pieces here and there and more pieces get revealed to me of the bigger picture of what i'm supposed to be doing and how i'm supposed to be using and contributing from things i've been thru and learning on my asccension path. There is still not as much clarity as i would like and still in a researching, gathering, connecting, healing, unfolding phase...I know it involved transformation of culture in Detroit, the arts or artists, healing divisions, liberation from unsustainable dynamics, community development, a center maybe community for artists and healing, intentional community, gardening, pursuing soul evolution and right work instead of compromise, parties, shamanism, music singing, hmm many very nice things...It is just a little alienating sometimes walking around with all this, with this developing process and the way i pursue my work like this and sometimes having difficulty ansewring the question of just what i "do".

vasalisa6 @ 2007-08-10T18:38:00

2007-08-10T22:41:03Z

I am somewhere new now, but i'm not sure where exactly or who exactly or what or where or when, but it's alright cuz it's what it's supposed to be. Lots of density and rules are gone, but still a little guilt about what the leftovers are nagging me about not doing. They will be gone soon and i will be more me soon.

Need to confront dark forces resisting Sustainable Community

2007-06-19T16:58:22Z

POSSIBLE PLAGUE IN THE COMMUNITY GARDENS

"When evening comes, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,' and in the morning, 'Today will be stormy; it is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the face of the earth, sea and sky, yet you do not discern the signs of the times."
-- Jesus, Matthew 16, 2-3

June 17, 2007

Dear Friends:

I sat in at the Sustainable Communities Summit at the Sustainable Commons of the Fremont Solstice Festival held here in Seattle at Gas Works Park on Saturday, June 16, 2007. I came late and sat in the back; I was the tall brunette clad in black and white patterns and a white hat sitting silently in a folding quad chair near the back of the circle.

I was impressed by the many chapters of Sustainable Communities All Over Puget Sound (SCALLOPS) that had sprung up, like many beautiful and bountiful community gardens, within so short a time in so wide a space; I was likewise impressed by the dedicated energy shown by the representatives of these chapters, who spoke concerning the many aspects of their efforts to grow sustainability in their respective communities.

One aspect that I did not hear directly addressed much concerns me, as I feel it should concern you as core coordinators of this much-needed movement: that what you are doing, whether you are aware of it or not, is extremely subversive to the dark forces of empire presently controlling the government of the United States and most of the governments of the planet. I had with me a sign of the times that I did not raise at the meeting, not wishing to appear like the Christian fundamentalists who had brandished threatening Bible quotes at prominent places along the Solstice Parade route; this sign said simply, "Ask me about 9/11 Truth."

It should be a warning to the community sustainability movement that Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and present top-tier neoconservative presidential candidate, has not only been implicated in the terrorist attacks on his city of September 11, 2001; he has also been the well-documented national leader of terrorist attacks on the community sustainability movement in many cities, first as the mayor of New York, then as an exorbitantly compensated "urban consultant" imported by developers in many metropolitan areas for this destructive purpose. Most of the other mainstream presidential candidates of both parties are largely sponsored by corporate forces hostile to community sustainability.

The Supreme Court of the United States, that also appointed George Bush as our ruler in 2000, two years ago gave sanction to the practice of municipalities using eminent domain to appropriate community property, as well as that of individual citizens and small businesses, for corporate development -- the practice pioneered by Giuliani in New York a decade earlier when he evicted urban homesteaders and community gardeners from abandoned property, subsequently selling it to upscale developers for the gentrification of affordable neighborhoods. He has recently influenced the minority mayor of Los Angeles and to launch such efforts against his own people, displacing them from city property on which were located community gardens, farmers' markets and affordable housing.

I came to Seattle three years ago from another ecoparadise with a vital sustainability movement: Asheville, the jewel of the Appalachian mountains of Western North Carolina, where I originally went with my then-partner, a master builder/gardener, to join the Earth Haven Ecovillage. By an unexpected series of events, I ended up one of the lead activists in several community sustainability action networks that stopped/mitigated nine major assaults against this our movement within an intense three-year period. I am now here in Seattle partly because I was blacklisted for my successful efforts to halt these assaults against sustainable communities, and could not any more find remunerative work in that already economically distressed bioregion. Virtually all public record of my work there has since been erased from newspaper and video archives.

These assaults included: an attempt to build three SuperWalmarts, one for each major municipal district in this town of 100,000 people; an effort to widen I-26 to eight lanes through the historic heart of this scenic city so that nuclear waste could be transported over narrow mountain passes from Oakridge National Nuclear Laboratory in Tennessee to the Savannah River Reactor in South Carolina; an attempt to build an unnecessary construction waste dump in the viewshed of the Blue Ridge Parkway; an attempt to criminalize homelessness and legitimate use by citizens of public parks; an attempt to completely gentrify the river warehouse district to eliminate affordable live/work spaces for artists; an attempt to criminalize natural healthcare through stealth legislation in the state legislature; and an attempt to privatize the public square with breath-taking views of the surrounding mountains to profitably prohibit the free speech being so vigorously practiced there.

Though often not explicitly political, a vital sustainable communities movement is in fact extremely threatening to the global corporate elite -- the ones who actually hate our freedom and seek to systematically destroy it in all of its forms -- including energy-, healthcare- and food-, economically-independent, politically empowered sustainable communities of citizens whom they cannot control.

It is therefore of urgent importance that those who seek to grow the community sustainability movement in America organize in such a manner as to address the underlying evils that the Amercian Empire has inflicted on the peoples of the planet, including the American people, which the state-sponsored terrorist attacks of September 11th represent. This includes actively and proactively joining with political activists seeking to directly address systemic issues, to pull out forever at its root the warfare-based economy that has driven such abominations against our planet and its peoples since the dawn of recorded history. The efforts of the sustainable communities movement will otherwise be like that of planting community gardens on an unremediated Superfund site -- self-deceptive, shallow plantings whose fruits will be ultimately toxic not only to our own bodies and souls, but to our existence as a movement.

Most sincerely,

Rebecca Em Campbell

Whole-Systems Writer/Thinker/Activist
rebeccaphb@yahoo.com

vasalisa6 @ 2007-06-13T13:27:00

2007-06-13T17:27:23Z

Destiny: 33
The Destiny number describes the life lessons that we have come here to learn. It reveals to us the path we must take, and the role we must play to fulfill our mission. Often our choice of career is based on this vibration, and if not, then it will manifest through avocational pursuits. We may attract people and experiences into our lives that mirror the traits of this number for us, so that we may develop into our highest potential. We don't always welcome our life lessons, so it is a possibility that we may even feel an aversion to the characteristics of our Destiny number in other people, and we may ourselves act the opposite. In spite of the many ways we may choose to react to this force within us, we have been gifted with all of the talents and energy needed to fulfill our Destiny.

As the higher octave of the number 6, "master number" 33 is the number of compassion. It is called the Christ vibration and requires self-sacrifice, courage and unwavering commitment to reform , truth and healing. You are on a "mission", and other teachers will learn from your honesty, discipline and bravery. You are here to provide sustenance for the hungry, whether it be through food, beauty, education, ministry or medicine. Yours is the path of "savior".

vasalisa6 @ 2007-06-01T23:44:00

2007-06-02T03:45:27Z

Help Wanted
by Patricia Cori
Large, blue-green multinational planetary body, Planet E-A-R-T-H, Inc. (formerly The Garden of Eden) seeks highly-qualified hero to help restructure existing management policies and procedures as required to redefine our objectives and help bring us into the foreground as active members of the consciously evolving intelligent universe.

Duties will include but are not limited to:

Successfully contributing to directing our six billion member team in re-establishing the balance of life in all sectors to include all species and elements upon (and within) PLANET E-A-R-T-H, Inc. (herein referred to as ‘PE, Inc.’)

Implementing seed thoughts that drop into the waters of our think tanks –the human spirit –and ripple out through all departments to create hope and the will to achieve overall P.E., Inc. goals and objectives.

Developing of mind-stimulating alternatives to failing belief structures currently stripping the organization of its potential – to be distributed through all departments and sectors, throughout all international and regional locations and divisions.

Serving as an inspirational model of the greatness and nobility of our founding fathers (and mothers), for whom Planet Earth was originally selected as the ideal environment to foster the Great Race of our members.

Creating inspirational works of art, communication, public relations and related activities to be utilized by all members to successfully improve morale and instill a sense of hopeful determination in our members.

Encouraging personal and global actions to implement ecological reforms required to return PE, Inc. to its former glory, as established and directly overseen by GAIA, the CEO of Planet Earth, Inc.
Some travel and uprooting from comfort zones may be required.
Salary (rewards) commensurate with abilities.

The ideal candidate will be a fearless speaker of truth and justice, will inspire trust and instill a sense of empowerment at all levels, will have highly-developed motivational skills, believe in a positive outcome and be willing to face personal risks in the name of Planet Earth, Inc. She or he must also have the following qualifications:

Experience of 'outside the box' thinking as required for developing new and dynamic alternatives to existing dysfunctional and disruptive Planet Earth, Inc. management strategies.

A strong and unwavering voice in calling all peaceful warriors to become personally involved in social rebellion and reform, despite resistance from some mid-level management and union members within PE, Inc.

Human resources expertise and experience in all areas of soul development and character building.
A charismatic, light-filled energy field.

Significant education in the nature of human will and the journey of spirit, for which some knowledge of multidimensional geometry, physics, hyperspace and universal law will be an advantage.

A love for all living beings, as exhibited in PE, Inc.’s Original Blueprint.

Compassion, vision and a strong sense that each member of the Planet Earth, Inc., if properly directed and motivated, can achieve extraordinary results throughout our organization.

Focused will and the desire to serve the highest good.

Political, military and/or high ranking corporate officials, those with a history of violence or links to shadow figures or those related to people with these qualifications are currently not being considered for the position and need not apply.

Additional opportunities are available for healers, lightworkers, environmentalists and activists – please contact Planet Earth, Inc. if you fall into these categories and offer your services to the department relative to your area of expertise.

Send your VITAL INFORMATION to:

Human Resources Department
Planet Earth Inc.
22-22 In Your Soul,
NE Quadrant, Milky Way Galaxy
00000

Energy Healing

2007-05-28T16:45:06Z

I was just reading the account of a woman who brought her son who was going thru very rough times with cocaine and alcohol addiction and other problems in his life to seek a certain type of energetic treatment. It was called something like Zero point field technology, and seemed to work with and restore the luminous energy field and remove old debris, etc. She described the change in her son as miraculous, restoring him to his core personality as she had once knew him. I am drawn myself to finding a healing technology or teqnique that has such a short and powerful effect that i can use on others. I have learned other teqniques that don't seem to work as quickly, and perhaps something like that could complement healing work I could do with others. I am drawn to being able to restore people to themselves like that, and know people who could benefit...people in my life who i want to see restored to more of the people they once were. I have learned things to pass on to other people that help bring understanding about life patterns and problems and potentials, but I haven't known exactly how I could help people to liberate from these patterns in the best way and restore themselves. I hope to be shown and connected to a powerful healing teqnique that i can use like this..

vasalisa6 @ 2007-05-06T23:08:00

2007-05-07T03:08:53Z

I'm not sure about this

vasalisa6 @ 2007-05-04T03:39:00

2007-05-04T07:40:22Z

i wrote a bunch and it got deleted. I am alive here. I will be well. It will sort itself out. How are you?

vasalisa6 @ 2007-05-04T03:25:00

2007-05-04T07:33:20Z

I need to move out of here. i need to do a lot of things maybe. or maybe i need to change my perspective. i get disoriented on this path.

25 years old

2007-05-01T03:04:12Z

My Birthday weekend was pretty eventful, and altho not free of stress there were some positive things that happened, and i already feel the difference in my life from this age turning. I spent a lot of time with Brett..friday, saturday, and sunday..He was very good to talk to about some things. Sunday we went to a baseball game and hung out with his bro, sis, sis friend, other friend, etc..Life is not perfect, but its getting better. Today i did a lot of shopping with birthday money. Got some cute stuff i'm happy about. Theres my totally revealing entry that left out a lot of things.

vasalisa6 @ 2007-04-11T01:06:00

2007-04-11T05:08:36Z

I think i might want to learn how to use a Yamaha:

The RM1x is a great new pattern based instant dance music machine! It sounds great! The patterns are perfect and inspiring forms of trance, house, hardcore and more with tons of great analog-like sounds and drum kits. The RM1x also features plenty of effects, filters, knobs, and MIDI control. The patterns have a whopping 16 parts (that you can drop-in or out in real-time performances) for lavish and professional productions. Making dance music has never been easier!

For those of you who want to get a little deeper into creating your own tracks, patterns and sounds, there is more. As if the awesome preset patterns aren't enough for you, creating your own 'phrases' is easy. You can modify a phrase's variation, instruments, sounds, tempo, filtering, LFO, and effects until you've morphed it into something of your own. Then store it into one of the 50 user patches. Creating an entire song is also pretty easy. Knobs, mutes, and patterns can be changed on the fly or meticulously programmed in. For the best all-in-one music box that will make you famous for a day - chose the RM1x over the rest! It is used by Apollo 440, Crystal Distortion, and Signal Electrique.

Ken Wilber - Integral Politics

2007-04-04T16:54:39Z

Ken

vasalisa6 @ 2007-03-27T20:01:00

2007-03-28T00:02:38Z

What the hell is going on?

vasalisa6 @ 2007-03-26T00:40:00

2007-03-26T04:40:38Z

Crazy.

Intentional Community Resources

2007-03-23T17:22:15Z

http://www.findhorn.org/about_us/display_new.php

http://www.utopiansocieties.com/

The Findhorn Foundation is the educational and organisational cornerstone of the Findhorn Community, and its work is based on the values of planetary service, co-creation with nature and attunement to the divinity within all beings. We believe that humanity is engaged in an evolutionary expansion of consciousness, and seek to develop new ways of living infused with spiritual values. We have no formal creed or doctrine. We recognise and honour all the world's major religions as the many paths to knowing our own inner divinity.

Beginnings
The Findhorn Community was begun in 1962 by Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean. All three had followed disciplined spiritual paths for many years and had been specifically trained to follow God's will. They first came to northeast Scotland in 1957 to manage the run-down Cluny Hill Hotel in the town of Forres. This they did remarkably successfully. Eileen received guidance in her meditations from an inner divine source she called ‘the still small voice within’. Peter ran the hotel according to this guidance, following to the letter the instructions of the "voice" in complete faith. In this unorthodox way - and with many delightful and unlikely God-guided incidents - Cluny Hill swiftly became a thriving and successful four-star hotel. After several years however, Peter and Eileen's employment was terminated, and with nowhere to go and little money, they moved with their three young sons and Dorothy to a caravan in the nearby seaside village of Findhorn.

The Findhorn Garden
Feeding six people on unemployment benefit was difficult, so Peter decided to start growing vegetables. The land in the caravan park was sandy and dry but he persevered. Dorothy discovered she was able to intuitively contact the overlighting spirits of plants - devas - who gave her instructions on how to make the most of their fledgling garden. Again Peter translated this guidance into action, and with amazing results. From the barren sandy soil of the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park grew huge plants, herbs and flowers of dozens of kinds, most famously the now-legendary 40-pound cabbages. Word spread, horticultural experts came and were stunned, and the garden at Findhorn became famous.

Other people came to join the Caddys and Dorothy in their work and soon the original group of six grew into a small community, committed to God's will and to expanding the garden in harmony with nature. A slim volume of Eileen's guidance entitled God Spoke To Me was published in 1967 by the community's newly formed Findhorn Press and word of this strange but wonderful community spread yet further. Significant friends and supporters of the community in these early days included English new age pioneer Sir George Trevelyan, scottish esotericist R Ogilvie Crombie and Richard St Barbe Baker, ‘the man of the trees’. New community members lived in caravans beside Peter and Eileen's and in specially built cedarwood bungalows which still house guests and workshop participants today. In the late 60s the Park Sanctuary, the largest of our many meditation sanctuaries, and the Community Centre, where the community still eats and meets, were built by Peter and community members in accordance with Eileen's guidance.

Education
In 1970 a young American spiritual teacher named David Spangler arrived in the community and with his partner Myrtle Glines helped to define and organise the spiritual education processes that have been a central pillar of the Findhorn Community ever since. A curriculum was established and the work of the ‘University of Light’ began. David and Myrtle lived in the community for three years, during which Findhorn Press published many of David's visionary writings. Today we run almost 200 week-long courses every year as well as conferences, trainings, worldwide pilgrimages, and our busy Outreach programme of educational workshops taken around the world by our workshop leaders.

The Foundation
In 1972 the community was formally registered as a Scottish Charity under the name The Findhorn Foundation and in the 1970s and 80s grew to approximately 300 members. In 1975 the Foundation purchased Cluny Hill Hotel as a centre for its educational courses and for members' accommodation, renaming it Cluny Hill College. In the late 70s the Universal Hall, our centre for the arts, was built by volunteer work. Behind its fantastic stained glass facade are housed a modern theatre and concert hall, a holistic café, dance and recording studios, and photographic and computer labs. In 1978 two of our members, Joy Drake and Kathy Tyler, developed the Game Of Transformation in Findhorn, with its popular Angel Cards, of which over a million sets have now been sold around the world.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s further volumes of Eileen's and Dorothy's guidance were published including Eileen's best seller, Opening Doors Within , a collection of daily inspirations which has been translated into many languages. Dorothy's autobiography, To Hear The Angels Sing, was published in 1980. In 1982 the Foundation bought its home, the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park. Also acquired in the 1980s were neighbouring Cullerne House, whose gardens became the centre of organic vegetable production, and Drumduan House in Forres, where community members established the Moray Steiner School. Eileen's autobiography, Flight Into Freedom, was published in 1989.

Our Community Today
In the 1990s the community of people attached to the Foundation began to outgrow the Foundation itself. Today the Findhorn Foundation is the central educational and organisational heart of a widely diversified community of several hundred people, spanning dozens of holistic businesses and initiatives, all linked by a shared positive vision for humanity and the earth, and a commitment to the deep and practical non-doctrinal spirituality established in the Findhorn Community by its founders.

Thousands of our ex-members have taken what they have lived and experienced at Findhorn out into the wider world. They are workshop leaders, authors, economists, scientists, artists, IT specialists, film makers, ecologists and plain people living a conscious, holistic-based life. We are also blessed with tens of thousands of friends and supporters around the globe, who further extend our network of light, including our Global Network and Resource People. In addition the Findhorn Foundation has over a hundred Fellows, individuals whom we honour and appreciate for their transformative work in the world and their connections to our Community.

Eileen Caddy still lives in the Findhorn Community. She is a quiet but powerful inspiration and is much loved here. Dorothy Maclean now lives in North America and gives new generations the benefit of her loving wisdom by leading workshops around the world. She comes to Findhorn almost every year. Peter Caddy left the Community in 1979 to work internationally. He came back to visit Findhorn regularly until his death in Germany in 1994. Peter's autobiography, In Perfect Timing, was published in 1997.

Ecovillage
At the end of the 1980s, the Ecovillage Project was begun with an energy producing wind generator and the first of our new eco-friendly community buildings. An ecovillage is defined as being sustainable ecologically, economically, culturally and spiritually, and for us this is a logical continuation of our work with nature. Our original caravans are being gradually phased out as new cutting-edge eco-houses are built to the highest standards in many practical and beautiful designs. There are now 40 ecological buildings, and in the mid 1990s our biological sewage treatment plant, The Living Machine, was opened. We are part of the rapidly growing Ecovillage Network which links ecovillage projects worldwide.

In 1997 the Foundation was recognised as an official United Nations Non-Governmental Organisation and has since participated in UN events such as Earth Summit and Habitat 2.

Further Reference
The following is a short selection from the many books about the Findhorn Community.

God Spoke To Me by Eileen Caddy (Findhorn Press)
The first book of Eileen's Guidance - still in print after 35 years.

The Findhorn Garden by The Findhorn Community (Harper Collins)
The story of the Community's early days.

To Hear The Angels Sing by Dorothy Maclean (Lindisfarne Press)
Dorothy's autobiography.

Opening Doors Within by Eileen Caddy (Findhorn Press)
Daily selections from Eileen's Guidance.

Flight Into Freedom by Eileen Caddy (Findhorn Press)
Eileen's autobiography.

The Kingdom Within edited by Alex Walker (Findhorn Press)
A selection of writings on the history and work of the Findhorn Foundation by David Spangler, Peter and Eileen Caddy, Myrtle Glines, William Bloom, Dorothy Maclean and many others.

Simply Build Green by John Talbott (Findhorn Press)
A guide to the principles and methods of Eco-building.

In Perfect Timing by Peter Caddy (Findhorn Press)
Peter Caddy's autobiography.

Growing People compiled and edited by Kay Kay (Pilgrim Guides 2001)
A recent collection of people's personal experiences of the Findhorn Community.

Books can be ordered directly from our On-line Book Shop or from our local community shop, Phoenix Community Stores, by telephone or email:

Phoenix Community Stores
tel: + 44 (0)1309 690110
email: phoenix@ekofindhorn.com

vasalisa6 @ 2007-03-22T14:21:00

2007-03-22T18:24:58Z

Al Gore's New book the Assault on Reason gave me some further insights on the overal messages i'm supposed to get out at some point. The book supposedly covers the forces that erode reason and democracy now. I think i've figured out some related things in terms of metaphysical and archetypal forces that get created and erode democracy and reason. I think we will need to deal with these things from this perspective and in terms of our underlying consciousness and reality maps and how they create the world we deal with in order to fix a lot of things. My work has to do with interpreting these reality maps and arcehtypal maps and how they are related to the world now, and how to get beyond these various forces also by providing different foundations for children and from women in order to avoid creating these contracts. I read that there is a quote in Islam that Paradise starts at the foot of the mother. On a similar vein hell also begins at the foot of the mother, and that's largely where we develop these archetypal maps and relationships to things associated with this physical world that play out in hellish or healthy ways in our jobs, politics, relationships, economic situations, etc. So i wonder if the way i'm explaing this makes sense. The seeds of either the merging of earth and heaven or the splitting of earth and heaven begins in those primary relationships and whether the physical world ( experienced thru primary caregiver) supports the flowering of individuality and autonomy and purpose and expression and democracy, or inhibits it. Everything that plays out later in our society and world is a manifestation of these seeds. Hmm... i'll be able to explain this better later.

vasalisa6 @ 2007-03-18T00:01:00

2007-03-18T04:02:58Z

Oh dear..i'm ready for more resolution on the career/relationship/housing front.

vasalisa6 @ 2007-03-15T00:55:00

2007-03-15T04:55:32Z

I have a crazy big purpose