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The Findhorn New Age developed out of the hippy culture of
the early 70's ... but added into the mix some esotericism
and mysticism, plus 'channelings' - in particular, Eileen
Caddy was told what to do by an inner 'voice of God', and
David Spangler from an entity called 'Limitless Love and Truth'
It is interesting to try and list what was included in the
New Age and what was not (I include an approximate date of
when these movements occurred, I mean the New Age as it appeared
at Findhorn, and by 'excluded', I mean it never happened at
FH):-
| 'Allowed' in FH
New Age |
'Excluded' from
FH New Age |
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Hippy culture (1970-75)
Mystical and Esoteric stuff (from 1962)
Channeling (1964, stopped in 1974)
Personal Growth (began 1975)
Humanistic psychology etc (began 1975)
Green movement/ Ecovillage (since 1983)
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Drug taking (never allowed at Findhorn)
Any organised religion (on a large scale)
Conventional left-right politics
Postmodernism (no overlap ever)
Punk and Reggae (little overlap)
New Age Travellers (almost no contact)
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This is not a criticism, it is how things are, but Findhorn
is essentially clean, straight, white and wealthy. (those
are the people who are able to say "there must be something
better" and set out to find it, and meaning something
internal not external).
Since I discovered Foucault and Postmodernism, I am shocked
at the lack of interest in them in New Age Circles, to the
extent that it seems like a deliberate exclusion. Perhaps
this is an exclusion of questioning and intellectualising
...... but I want to repeat that this seems like an exclusion
(rather than an omission or not noticing).
Foucault's most popular work "The History of Sexuality"
was published 1978/85/86 and is available in Penguin books
The New Age and Postmodernism seem to have had almost no
overlap with each other - none of the major figures in either
movement are valued by the other, and they might even be ridiculed
(perhaps deservedly so)
Debatably, both movements are now complete and unlikely to
change much, though people may still be drawn into them and
learn a lot. Debatably, the same could be said about a 3rd
element, the green movement
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