PET’s Finance Director Fasil Bogale, ACMA, CGMA is leaving Scotland to explore the wider world with his wife, Sally, and daughter Willow. After ten years of unstinting service to our organisation – a position for which he never accepted remuneration – PET releases Fasil with our warmest wishes that he experience the marvels and joys […]
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Hope of humankind
Which hope? “Community” or Hegel’s “self as the will-to-power” in conflict with another’s “will-to-power?” Individualism or communalism? A poignant discussion point in today’s world: on the stages of the Ukraine & N.Korea, of ecovillages, family homes — wherever individuals, desiring to gather together, choose to continue/slow down or even stop growing in what it means […]
SOSoil
Firstly, Happy Easter season to you! In a rare conjunction, three major holidays of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are occurring at the same time this year. So why don’t we emphasise the positive blessings of UNITY in a way which precludes just evangelism and one-way dialogue, but makes the most of both by way of […]
Happy Birthday Peter🎉
Peter Caddy would be celebrating his 105th birthday on the 20th of March🎉🎆🌞! And in 2022 that’s also the date of the Equinox! It’s therefore a right good time to renew our acquaintance with the masculine energy foundation of the Findhorn Community. Here’s an interview with him from September 1983 with The Sun. SUN: In […]
Norms Values Ethics
Here’s an overview of the values that inspire PET and which its associates — volunteers and paid staff –, members and supporters subscribe to. This Code of Conduct informs the “how and what” that we do internally, externally, individually and together. Some background information: If you’re inspired by this to join in our work, here […]
Love Fear&Decide
Asked around New Year to think about the following: “If an “Enlightened One” came back today s/he’d be surprised about what?” I started a list and to date I’ve got the following: * how scared people are of ‘pain’ on all levels (and so trying to believe in the illusion of control – time) * […]
Elephant/ballet dancer?
Of course we already know who/what produces the world’s Greenhouse Gasses today… Here are the up-to-date Findhorn Ecovillage carbon (equivalent) offsetting figures since PETs carbon offsetting service started in December 2017. Nota Bene: during the last five “pandemic waves” (a) we have not been travelling so much, (b) Cluny has been closed, (c) being cloistered […]