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Includes the name: Eileen Caddy

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Other names
Jessop, Eileen Marion (birth name)
Birthdate
1917-08-26
Date of death
2006-12-13
Burial location
Findhorn Ecovillage
Gender
female
Nationality
UK
Birthplace
Alexandria, Egypt
Place of death
Findhorn, Scotland, UK
Places of residence
Findhorn, Scotland, UK
England
Ireland
Egypt
Occupations
spiritual teacher
author
commune developer and director
Organizations
Findhorn Foundation (co-founder)
Findhorn Ecovillage
Awards and honors
MBE (2004)
Short biography
Eileen Caddy MBE (August 26, 1917 – December 13, 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, near the village of Findhorn, Moray Firth, in northeast Scotland. The commune which she started with her then husband, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean in 1962 was an early New Age intentional community, has today been home to over 400 residents and thousands of visitors from over 40 countries. Today it is one of the UK's largest alternative spiritual communities and also known as the 'Vatican of the New Age'.

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This book offers a brief history of how Eileen Caddy gave up everything to follow her inner voice as well as sharing much of the guidance and wisdom which supported Eileen through the birth of the Findhorn Community.

The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community, now known as the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest of the communes in Britain. Since its inception it has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries. The Foundation runs various educational programmes for the Findhorn community; it also houses about 40 community businesses like the Findhorn Press, and an alternative medicine centre.

Starting as commune in 1962, from a caravan park, and founded by Eileen Caddy, her husband Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, the Findhorn Foundation and surrounding Findhorn Ecovillage community at The Park, Findhorn, a village in Moray, Scotland, and at Cluny Hill College in Forres, is a home to more than 400 people. The community has no formal doctrine or creed. It also offers a range of workshops, programmes and events in the environment of a working ecovillage. The programmes are intended to give participants practical experience of how to apply spiritual values in daily life. There are approximately 3000 residential participants from around the world taking part in programmes each year.

Findhorn Ecovillage, has been awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT), and regularly hold seminars of 'CIFAL Findhorn', a United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), affiliated training centre for Northern Europe
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This book offers a brief history of how Eileen Caddy gave up everything to follow her inner voice as well as sharing much of the guidance and wisdom which supported Eileen through the birth of the Findhorn Community.

The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community, now known as the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest of the communes in Britain. Since its inception it has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries. The Foundation runs various educational programmes for the Findhorn community; it also houses about 40 community businesses like the Findhorn Press, and an alternative medicine centre.

Starting as commune in 1962, from a caravan park, and founded by Eileen Caddy, her husband Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, the Findhorn Foundation and surrounding Findhorn Ecovillage community at The Park, Findhorn, a village in Moray, Scotland, and at Cluny Hill College in Forres, is a home to more than 400 people. The community has no formal doctrine or creed. It also offers a range of workshops, programmes and events in the environment of a working ecovillage. The programmes are intended to give participants practical experience of how to apply spiritual values in daily life. There are approximately 3000 residential participants from around the world taking part in programmes each year.

Findhorn Ecovillage, has been awarded UN Habitat Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (HABITAT), and regularly hold seminars of 'CIFAL Findhorn', a United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), affiliated training centre for Northern Europe
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