In 1962 Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean settle in a caravan beside the Findhorn sands in Scotland, where Eileen's inner guidance and Dorothy's communications with the devas of the garden produce famously oversized vegetables on barren soil. Findhorn grows into an intentional community and the British New Age's best-known address.
Tagged: New Age
The Event
- Date
- 1962 (exact)
- Era
- The Countercultural Bloom; Standard periodization of New Age history
- Location
- Findhorn; today Findhorn, Scotland
- Traditions
- New Age Spirituality
- Streams
- New Age
- Key figures
- Peter Caddy, Eileen Caddy, Dorothy Maclean
- Key texts
- God Spoke to Me
Primary Sources
- Caddy, Eileen. God Spoke to Me. Findhorn, 1971 (the guidance received from 1953 and at Findhorn from 1962).
Secondary Sources
- Hanegraaff, Wouter J. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
- Heelas, Paul. The New Age Movement. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
- York, Michael. The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-Pagan Movements. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.
Provenance: HIST-1473; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-30.
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