The Findhorn Foundation’s New Age community

Record summary

The Findhorn community developed from a small Scottish settlement into an internationally known New Age center during the 1970s and 1980s. Its literature emphasized ecological cooperation, meditation, subtle communication with nature, and guidance attributed to devas or nature intelligences, alongside practical community development. The lead matters for comparing modern environmental spirituality with folklore, theosophy, and intentional communal living. Findhorn’s institutional history and publications are verifiable, while claims about supernatural guidance are best treated as participants’ beliefs and experiences rather than independently established phenomena.