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274 STRIPPING THE GURUS
these relationships, and would find themselves in a tangle
with no clear way of handling the complications.
It was like an epidemic.... It really rocked the community
(Findhorn, 1980).
In spite of—or perhaps because of—such “love in the time of
cabbages,” by 1980 over three hundred people had been drawn to
the Findhorn Caravan Park.
Or the rocking “Findstock,” if you prefer.
Through all of that, Eileen’s guidance slowly disclosed the
long-term plans for the community:
I want you to see this center of light [i.e., Findhorn] as an
ever-growing cell of light. It started as a family group; it is
now a community; it will grow into a village, then a town and
finally into a vast city of light (Caddy, 1976).
Nor was the scope of that undertaking lost on the early founders,
or on those who have come since them:
In one form or another there has been a deep awareness that
what was being worked out [at Findhorn] was of supreme
importance to the whole world.
This could of course be just an inflated ego on the part of
those at Findhorn—or it could be a most daring and glorious
act of faith, that God had a vast plan for mankind which, if
known and followed, could lead to a new age, and that Findhorn
was a key point in that plan (Caddy, 1976).
The Findhorn Community plays a significant part in a revolution
that is gently changing the world.... This revolution
does not “do” anything. It does not normally make headlines
in any of the news media, but it creates the conditions in
which [love, spirituality, cooperation and harmony] can flourish
among human beings. Perhaps it is responsible for the
rather extraordinary changes that, at the close of the ’80s,
have laid the basis for the end of the Cold War and the transformation
of Eastern Europe. But it has much more still to
do (Riddell, 1990).
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The present Findhorn community includes an independent Steiner
(i.e., “Waldorf”) school, providing additional alternative education