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Hello everybody who enjoyed “Follow the rainbow to Findhorn”.
I’ve started editing the full pilgrimage now:
IT’S THE WHOLE STORY!
… so to say. If you are interested about it please visit: http://change-2012.info!
For people who are solely interested in the Findhorn community they should consider buying
“Follow the rainbow to Findhorn”
Markus
“Thanks for such a useful and delightfully educational achievement.”
“I congratulate your successful achievement documenting the Foundation’s placement here on the physical/spiritual realms.”
from Terry Weeteling – UNLV Las Vegas
Review by Geoff Dalglish
The 64-minute Follow the rainbow to Findhorn documentary has been more than two years in the making and is a deeply moving story of love, faith, commitment and belief in miracles.
The love that talented German film-maker Markus Werner feels for this celebrated international community in the north of Scotland shines through as he traces the history of the Findhorn Foundation from incredibly modest beginnings in 1962; honours the founders Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean; and talks to residents today of all ages and from all walks of life.
It is an invitation to examine another way of living that is embraced by more than 400 people who see their role as custodians of a belief system free from religious dogma that centres on taking time to be quiet and go deep within, while co-creating with nature and regarding even the most mundane work as ‘love in action.’
What is the Findhorn Foundation? We know it to be a pioneer within the Global Ecovillage Network and the community with the lowest recorded ecological footprint in the developed world. It is also a respected educational centre and spiritual community that runs more than 250 courses a year attracting thousands of visitors. But perhaps more than that, the documentary shows that Findhorn is also a state of consciousness.
Nearly half a century after the original founders parked their caravan alongside a rubbish dump in a bleak, windswept dunescape, the film interspersing early photographs with contemporary footage of the veritable Garden of Eden that has been manifested.
And all was achieved by extreme perseverance, hard work and faithfully following inner guidance and the promptings of nature, without ever knowing where the journey would lead, as sole surviving co-founder Dorothy Maclean, 90, can attest.
Findhornians interviewed contrast fulfilling lives of purpose today with those in their former worlds of materialism and consumerism that were ultimately found to be devoid of meaning and joy.
Michael Mitton, who grew up in Findhorn and was named Young Scottish Thinker of the Year in 2007, talks of the decade he spent in an American town with an astonishingly high living standard but abysmal quotient of happiness.
“We don’t have to live this capitalistic, materialistic give me more-more-more life. Instead it is possible to live a low-carbon, simpler, more joyful lifestyle.”
Gabrielle Hamm, a focaliser for the Ecovillage Training Programme (EVT), describes the joy and nurturing of growing up in a safe, loving environment where everybody knows you and is looking out for you.
Later, after getting involved in an EVT course, she remembers: “I was completely overwhelmed and inspired and amazed at how fantastic the ecovillage training is and what a fantastic resource this place is.”
Duerten Lau, the Cullerne Garden focaliser, says: “It is always about putting the sacred, whatever that means to you, in the centre and from there relating to life.”
She describes the immense joy and pride in planting a seed and watching it grow, with so much thanksgiving and appreciation for the abundance at harvest time. “Nobody will ever fully understand this miracle of life that I am surrounded by.”
She adds that what feeds us is not only the organic vegetable matter bought in a shop or supermarket, but the loving energy put into nurturing and harvesting the plant.
Mari Hollander, education manager of the Findhorn College, recalls arriving for Experience Week in 1976 for what she thought would be a quiet time in a relaxed garden environment. “I found this chaotic jamboree of people of all ages, costumes and languages constantly singing and dancing and moving quite fast. I was pretty distrustful of people and liked it to be natural and peaceful. It was really quite crowded and I had an Experience Week of about 35 people which is about twice as big as we’d have now. But it was early days and everybody was experimenting.”
For many it has been transformational, Geoffrey Colwill, a former finance director, describing his personal journey from being a gay man to discovering an attraction for women. Today he is a happy family man.
The youngest person interviewed, student Alexander Chapman-Campbell, says: “When the visitors come I can see the magic – I can see the way they change and open up. I’ve seen people just crying and crying and saying: ‘I’ve never experienced something like this. It’s just so beautiful.’
“To be part of that is so inspiring … so great!”
Neale Donald Walsch, author of the best-selling Conversations with God series, sums it up: “There is a unique energy here… it makes it easy for people to access a different level of knowing, understanding and experiencing of some of the higher truths of life and how it is.” He believes that special something is the cumulative energy of its founders combined with the energy of those others who have lived here for many years, along with the continuous stream of visitors who stay for days, weeks, or months, infusing Findhorn with their unique consciousness. Here people are encouraged to always question, knowing that it is at the edge of our comfort zone that life begins.
“Come to the edge,” Walsch invites. “What Findhorn brings to the human spirit is the possibility of flying!”
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We here at “Thyme With A Sage” are aspiring to live in community and expand our gardens & retreat center. With the celebrations of full moon bonfires and spiritual circles, we connect with Mother Earth and the nature spirits of these woods in Kentucky. We know there is such a need for simpler living and communal family, of which Findhorn is such an example and we open our hearts and open our doors to those like minded individuals who share this spiritual philosophy. As they come, we are building it!
I believe that communties like Findhorn will be created here in the Untied States as well as around the world…if they are not already created…We are coming back to our connection to Nature and our Mother…Working with one another as One Heart,One Mind, and One Spirit..This community works in balance with all of nature with each other and with the many contributions they share with one another..I would love to see a longer video and more of the landscape to experiance even more..In Graditude,Judi
It’s here … Markus Werner’s long-awaited documentary on our community and ecovillage, entitled Follow the Rainbow to Findhorn, has arrived! Some of the ‘stars’ as well as members of the Foundation’s Communications team who assisted Markus this week received the gift of their own copy. The film will be shown on August 1 during the Sunday Slot in the Upper CC.
Photograph: Geoff Dalglish
Pictured here are (standing) Ian Cook, Adele Napier, Carin Bolles, Michael Mitton, Yasko Takahashi, Eva Ward and (in the foreground) Ian Rippon, Duerten Lau and Mari Hollander.
Saw the movie yesterday and was amazed and inspired!
You really did well: the interviews tell a lot about the spirit, the idea and the feeling you must have living in Findhorn. Editing and quality are professional.
I thank you for this gift of opening a door to Findhorn without having to travel to Scotland.
Another thing that was quite impressiv: the movie transports clearly the connection between spirituality, ecology and community! Wonderful!
I saw the movie and said WOW!!! not only once …
Congratulations! In Spring 2011 I will be in Findhorn too. Maybe with a partner, not knowing how long I will stay. I will quit my job and move out of my flat …
Now I will order two more DVDs to simply pass them on … as a gift …
The first public outcome of the movie was on the esoteric exhibition in Frankfurt on the June 12th and 13th.
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