9 February is Park Ecovillage Trust’s 12th birthday! And on the eve of this auspicious day I just read a short article (+-4 minutes’ read) by Thomas Hübl about re-affirming the need for real=authentic relationships with all our fellow planet-dwellers (of all ‘ kingdoms’). Trying to remain on the middle path: it is clear on […]
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Founder’s birthday 2020
The 7th of January is Dorothy Maclean’s birthday! One of the three Findhorn Foundation Ecovillage founders, Dorothy passed in early March last year having just celebrated her 100th birthday. We remember her fondly and I for one believe she’s interacting still with our Community, people and organisations. I read a jolly and poignant story about […]
Christmas pie
Heartfelt Season’s Greetings during this (perhaps first) virtual Christmas season! Christmas is about unconditional giving to others, however we’ll probably be digging a lot deeper into ourselves this year given the scarcity of superficial distractions and activities. At the start of December I was introduced to the musings of Ari Weinzweig, co-founder of Zingerman’s in […]
Hip hip…
Today is the Findhorn Ecovillage Community’s 58th birthday. Many happy returns! As you know the Community was unintentionally founded by Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean in 1962. All three had dedicated themselves to following a disciplined spiritual path for many years. Eileen received guidance in her meditations from an inner source she called […]
Lights, action!
The longest night of the year inspires, infuses and enthuses feeling-people to emphasise more LIGHT. Winter solstice 2020 in the Northern Hemisphere will be at 14:30CET on Monday, 21 December. However, in these dark & VUCA times we each need to max-out on light bringing activities and celebrations: Diwali, observed on the 15th day of […]
The eco-dollar
If you think influential entities are acting weird in a political sense, financial markets are starting to bet massively on ethical & sustainability values (!) according to PwC — the business audit, tax and consulting firm. “In 2019, PwC conducted a global survey on the investment priorities of 750 institutional investors and 10,000 retail investors, and […]
Foundations
Thank you lockdown! Strange but true, everyone I hear from or read these days is (again) thanking God/Spirit/&c. for the time that has now become available for quality investment in people and things usually found lower down our to-do-lists. “As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do […]