Eileen’s Birthday
Today is a special day. Eileen Caddy (26 August 1917 – 13 December 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known to the world as one of our Community's Founders. In Wikipedia's words: "the commune she started in 1962 with husband Peter Caddy and friend Dorothy Maclean
Nuts and fruitcakes?
Prince Charles is one of the champions of TruePricing[mfn]https://trueprice.org/consumer/[/mfn] (True Cost Accounting) and organic farming. In the past, he has made explicit statements about the need for True Cost Accounting tools. "We have to find a way of valuing in financial terms the increasing damage done to the earth’s life
HoWeCare
On 10th July, the CCC hosted the historic "Findhorn Tea Party" with homebaked cake, to highlight the material supporters of its work and achievements to date. After the fact, CCC-Coordinator Laura Shreenan mused digitally: "First and foremost I would like to extend my personal deeply heartfelt gratitude to the people
Greater fool
In You We Trust: hope you had a happy USIndependence Day! Change. We're being bombarded with opportunities to so do because global millennial environments are proving to be utterly VUCA. But what's happening with the much vaunted "new-normal?" OK sure, things aren't the same as yesterday (the passing river &c.),
VUCA food
Did you know 20 June was world refugee day? Major factors leading to refugee migrations are war, economic & climate conflict, government persecution or there being a significant risk of these. Topical, yes! But we have an even bigger problem: fast rising utilities&food prices at home, abroad and planet-wide. End
Following ur is rational
Happy World Environment Day! Encouraging, developing, protecting and improving it -- which PET officially does -- encompasses (1) choosing to change the way our community does things (2) deciding the better way, and (3)planning when -- in the main sooner rather than later! Of the above three action moments, the last two are easier to
Thanks Fasil
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
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
Manifestation
PET has been "in business" since 2009. It was originally setup with one distinct purpose, namely to serve as the charitable vehicle for the provision of the "Findhorn Eco-Kit Project," first throughout Morayshire and later overseas too. This was PET's first manifestation of it's Memorandum of Association. It has been
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
Manifesting
Hello valued reader! April sees PET's new Financial Year beginning. "April Fools" rang in the month, and today is the International Day of Creativity & Innovation. Linking these diverse bits of info to PET's vision, which is "to encourage social development, environmental protection and improvement, and wellbeing in the whole
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![mfn]write Lorian's Freya Secrest & Lucinda Herring, "the term ‘Equinox” is derived from aequus (equal) and nox (night). At the time of the Spring and Fall Equinox,
