ABSTRACT
Findhorn1 has grown into a substantial settlement that since 1962 has hosted three generations of spiritual seekers exploring alternative spiritualities, therapies, expressive arts and crafts, and gardening. In the 1960s and early 1970s, as we have seen, Findhorn was known as a ‘New Age centre’ or a ‘centre of light’. More recently ‘spiritual community’, ‘eco-village’ and ‘mystery school’ (Walker 1994) are terms that have peppered its discourse and it now also describes itself as a ‘NGO [non-governmental organisation] associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations’.2
