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272 STRIPPING THE GURUS
guilt and remorse,” she began hearing voices, i.e., “guidance.” The
believed source of those voices is obvious in the title of Eileen’s
first book: God Spoke to Me. Later presumed channelings by her
included “transmissions from Saint-Germain [and] Sir Francis Bacon”
(Hawken, 1976).
Peter and Eileen later split from Sheena and, by 1957, were
managing a hotel in Forres, Scotland, which building was later to
become part of the Findhorn community.
They were then transferred from there to another ailing hotel
to resurrect it. And, having been suddenly terminated from that
position, made their new home in the Findhorn Bay Caravan (i.e.,
Trailer) Park, adjacent to a garbage dump.
In accord with Eileen’s inner guidance, the pioneers established
a small garden in the “sand and scrub” of the trailer park in
1965.
[T]o the astonishment of experts, their results were phenomenal,
producing plants whose variety and vigor could not be
conventionally explained (Findhorn, 1980).
That “unconventional” success was indeed soon revealed to be
ostensibly due to the ability of community members, and Dorothy
in particular, to “talk to the plants” and nature spirits/devas. Additional
gardening advice came from an Edinburgh man who “had
experiences of nature beings, which took the form of elves and
fauns, and ... Pan himself” (Riddell, 1990).
The outcome of all that was the forty-pound cabbages for
which the community first became famous.
By the mid-’70s, however, when Peter stopped working in the
garden, many of the phenomenal aspects of the vegetation disappeared.
The growth here was fantastic to demonstrate to Peter Caddy
and to others that it was possible. Now we know it is possible
to work with the Nature Kingdom, but we no longer
have the need to produce a plant where it won’t normally
grow (in Hawken, 1976).
The contemporary American laying-on-of-hands healer Barbara
Ann Brennan describes (1993) relevant aspects of her own later
extended stay in the Findhorn Community: