ABSTRACT
Between the 1940s and 1960s a series of slender networks of individuals and groups became preoccupied with the millennialistic associations of the ‘New Age’ emblem. One small group in particular explored methods of meditation, guidance and group attunement before settling in a caravan park near the small coastal village of Findhorn in northeast Scotland. By the 1970s this colony of alternative spirituality, known as the Findhorn community or simply Findhorn, was recognised as ‘the most important New Age centre on the planet’ (Bloom 1991: 2). Since Findhorn has readily proven historical associations with ‘New Age’ and because other experimenters in the field sooner or later found
themselves in contact with the Findhorn pioneers, this chapter presents the formative years of Findhorn’s founders as a historical case study in the growth and development of early ‘New Age’ culture.2
