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The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation Paperback – October, 1976

by The Findhorn Community (Author), William Irwin Thompson (Foreword)

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"A beautiful book, including about 100 wondrous photographs." -- --Library Journal

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An amazing journey into the beliefs of the Findhorn Community. "A beautiful book, including about 100 wondrous photographs."--Library Journal

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Perennial (HarperCollins); 1St Edition edition (October 1976)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060905204
ISBN-13: 978-0060905200
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1135 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Occult & Paranormal > Parapsychology
- #2064 in Books > Self-Help > Spiritual
- #2912 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Gardening & Landscape Design

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116 of 117 people found the following review helpful

Deep

By jumpy1 on February 15, 2002

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This is a book of conversations and pictures with each of the founders of the Findhorn garden and community. The most remarkable thing about Findhorn is that it is a flourishing garden with plants from every climate (even tropical), growing many times normal size, in sand in Scotland, of all places! Throughout the years horticulturists have tested the soil and declared the results incomprehensible, even impossible. Findhorn also does not use pesticide, but instead talks to the insects and makes agreements about what the insects eat and what they don't (after all, we wouldn't have anything without them and they should get their share of Earth's bounty!). The candid thoughts in the book, simply expressed, gave me the shivers, they felt so true. I can only read it in spurts because after only a page or 2, there is so much to digest and think about. The pictures are only in black & white, but I find myself constantly looking at them in awe of the Joy and Life coming through in the people and the plants. This would be a great book for environmental scientists to read, as we move into a unique time where serious decisions will have to be made about natural resources and how to use our waste. The Findhorn community presents an idea that things would be so much easier for us if we allowed the veil to come down that exists between man, beast, and the spirit world. According to them, the Universe is full of helpful entities who genuinely WANT life to continue and for us to create heaven on Earth.

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64 of 67 people found the following review helpful

The Magical Garden that Talks Back

By Nancy Wisser on January 5, 2000

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This is one of those extraordinary books, like those of Carlos Castaneda, that, whether you believe them or not, are valuable for the way they open your mind to new possibilities. There really was a wonderful, unexplainable (in normal terms) garden at Findhorn, and people came from far and wide to see it. This book tells the story of how that garden came to be. Personally, I squirm at some of the assertions about the channeling of nature spirits. However, over the years I have recommended this book to a number of people, because it unsentimentally makes a human-nature connection that is real but rarely mentioned. The second half of the book is dull and unnecessary to its main point, but I and others I know have reread the first half many times. If you are interested in human-nature connections, or if you like to have books that remind you that life and the world are larger than our views of them, you want The Findhorn Garden in your library.

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful

I've been there.

By Laura C. Opie on April 28, 2005

Format: Paperback

I became attached to The Findhorn Foundation before reading any of the publications that have made it famous. It is an amazing place, and although I did not personally connect with Nature Spirits during any of my visits, I did have what I can only call spiritual experiences that prevent me from doubting any one else's connections to energy we don't understand. To those who have placed reviews that judge the place without going there, you should open your minds. It is not a hoax, but a place where many people are able to access a different perception of life. Findhorn really isn't about gardening, but about people and their relationship to the earth and each other. That's what makes this book so beautiful. It gives us an insider's look at some of the Founding members of a place that has nutured a diverse collection of caring, open minded, peole. Findhorn Foundation members have been advisors to the UN and are on the leading edge of the Ecovillage movement, reforestation, herbal remedies, spiritual and personal development, and alternative medicices that have all come closer to the mainstream since the 1960's. For me, The Findhorn Garden is both a history of a place I love, and an inspiration in keeping my mind open to the infinite possibilities of the universe -- even though I'm quite happy just having an ordinary life with an ordinary garden!

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful

Food for thought

By Carin Johnson on July 7, 2004

Format: Paperback

This book is lovely and fun! Sure its concepts are also outrageous to the logical mind, but remember so was microbiology 100 years ago. The controversy of this book doesn't reach the underlying meaning: Through a lot of love, humility, faith and hard work you can lead a gentle and honerable life that creates beauty and gives life and hope where it appears hopeless. Even if you think you can't hear nature spirits and they are someone else's imagination, you can still find strength and peace while working with the natural world. Plus the more people learn to appreciate and love the natural world as part of us, the more we will collectively be able to hold for the future. The people who founded Findhorn are inspiring on many levels. It is wonderful.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

A Spiritual Classic for our Times

By bookworm on October 14, 2010

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This little gem could have been written by the great mystic St. Francis of Assisi himself. He was the saint who spoke to the birds, animals and plants, and whose statue people like to put in their gardens. It is the story of some folks in a sandy strip of wasteland in a trailer park in northern Scotland who produced a garden that to this day astounds farm and soil experts. How they did it is the story. Though it was written decades ago, it is very timely in that it shows us how we can reconnect with the life that surrounds us in the world of nature instead of mindlessly destroying it. Because it points the way to a conscious appreciation for the earth and its gifts, I think it ranks with the greatest wisdom/spiritual classics of literature.

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Five Stars

Great book

Published 14 days ago by Amazon Customer

A treasure!

Read this years ago and absolutely loved it. It's the story of how the Findhorn Garden came to be by the founders of the garden - each with different backgrounds and belief... Read more

Published 1 month ago by M Sloan

Five Stars

Excellent....excellent...excellent

Published 9 months ago by George Jacobs

Unique and revealing

A must read for garden and spirituality lovers.
If you are into gardening this book can help you a lot to get the most out of your garden. Read more

Published on May 16, 2013 by sanpol

fast service

I enjoyed getting into the subjects outlined in this book. I may change my gardening and life forever!. thank you.

Published on April 25, 2013 by Joyce Laine

Just like I remembered...

This is the book that first got me fascinated with Findhorn. Now that I've visited Findhorn in Scotland, I wanted to see it again. Read more

Published on October 17, 2012 by Susan G. Rumsey

Fascinating!

I have been fascinated by the story of Findhorn since I'd heard about in the 70's. I finally decided to learn more. Read more

Published on August 1, 2011 by Bargainfairy

A FASCINATING WORK OF ONE OF THE "NEW AGE" FOUNDATIONAL SITES

Findhorn has now become an ecovillage; Dorothy MacLean left it in 1973 to return to her native Canada, and only occasionally returns; David Spangler also left in 1973; Peter Caddy... Read more

Published on June 30, 2011 by Steven H Propp

Findhorn Garden; a model for optimizing our relation with the natural...

What were the odds three to five people of advanced spirituality would meet at this time and place to participate in the miracle of Findhorn Garden? Read more

Published on March 7, 2011 by magnetic center

Digging deeper in the garden

Found this book amazing...have been a gardener for years and realize I was aware of alot of this but never really "got" into it. Shows you can always grow more aware .

Published on March 2, 2010 by Joyce M. A.