Change the Story, Change the World
In this short video clip, Findhorn Foundation and Community Co-founder, Eileen Caddy, shares her timeless wisdom - as relevant going into 2017 as it was in the early days of the formation of this community of loving service. Watch video
"An abandoned military village in Germany could get a new lease of life as a hippy commune fit for the 21st Century. "Patrick Henry Village, near the German city of Heidelberg, was not born to hippy ideals. "In fact, it was opened by the US Army as a military base after World War Two, and was described by those who lived and worked there as a tiny slice of 1950s America transported to Europe. "The vision, says Prof Carlo Ratti - who runs the design company Carlo Ratti Associati and heads up … Continue reading
What if real life – the job, the traffic, the accelerating treadmill – isn’t the way it needs to be? South African journalist, Adelle Horler, visited the Findhorn Foundation and found a place of accelerated growth and understanding where "it’s possible to live in a way that mindfulness, gratitude and kindness can be part of the fabric of every day, not something you squeeze into free time or remember when you see a beautiful sunset." Read the full story in the accompanying pdf.... Continue reading
A little taste of the Findhorn Foundation and Community as seen through the lens of documentary film maker Serena Aurora. Findhorn is one of the oldest intentional spiritual communities and learning centres in the world and is a founding member of the Global Ecovillage Network. Watch video
Yvonne Cuneo, co-focaliser of Findhorn's New Story Summit, shares the new story of the Foundation and Community one year on.... The idea of a new story is not exactly new for the Findhorn Foundation and Community. For 53 years the community has been exploring, experimenting with, demonstrating, learning about a new way of being, living, working together – co-creating with spirit, with each other and with the rest of nature. As the Chair of Foundation Trustees recently wrote: Together, we’ve … Continue reading
David Spangler, spiritual teacher and long-time friend and mentor of Findhorn, addresses the need for a new story of the subtle worlds and also for story itself. David has been communicating with the subtle worlds for nearly 70 years and sees the collaborative partnership between humans and the denizens of the subtle worlds as an integral part of both the planetary story and the new story for which we search. He refers to the subtle worlds as Earth's Second Ecology and sees this realm as a … Watch video
Naresh Giangrande, co-founder of Transition Towns Totnes, tells the story of transitioning to a more responsible, inspiring way of living and being sustainably on the planet. We are at the knife edge of a historic moment of choice, facing global disaster on one hand and extraordinary and deep change on the other. Which of those stories is going to be our dominant narrative going forward? Naresh was filmed at the New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future, which took place at … Watch video
Jonathon Porritt reveals his optimistic vision of the new story from the point of view of his avatar, Alex McKay, who time travels back from the future to address Findhorn's New Story Summit. The year is 2050. Alex's story charts the key events, technology breakthroughs and lifestyle revolutions that make the world what it is in 2050. Things have improved as a direct result of the love, care and inspired activism of millions upon millions of people around the planet who galvanised themselves to … Watch video
Charles Eisenstein, genre-defying social philosopher and countercultural intellectual, sees the New Story as a call to act in service to the new, towards a deeper revolution, offering each other a different kind of logic where the logic of the mind and the logic of the heart no longer conflict. Charles was filmed at the New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future, which took place at the Findhorn Foundation and Community in Scotland in September 2014. To receive notification … Watch video