The Wonders of Findhorn |
The next thing they knew, Dorothy had bumped into a plant spirit in her meditation, a pea deva eager to help Peter in his garden. "We knew the devas to be that part of the angelic hierarchy that holds the archetypal pattern for each plant species and direct energy toward bringing a plant into form on the physical plane," Peter said. "Now here was this Pea Deva offering to help us!" The deva told Peter everything, from how far apart various plants like to be to how they dislike getting transplanted. Soon the garden became incredibly productive. One huge vegetable weighed 42 lbs. A broccoli head was so big it fed the group of six for four months! Then Eileen received messages from "God within" reminding her that Findhorn was just not about gardening and growing giant vegetables! Findhorn was about providing the world a model of "cooperation" between the plant and human kingdoms. "True cooperation begins when we realize that man, the devas and nature spirits are part of the same life-force creating together," Peter said.
After the sweet pea deva broke the ice, everybody jumped in--Tibetan blue-poppy deva, rose deva, rain deva and more expansive landscape and ocean devas. With every message, whether about pruning or "attuning," there came the sweetest brother/sister love. Over the years, they grew into a healthy and harmonious spiritual community and published the world's single most powerful collection of nature-spirit messages in three books: Findhorn Garden, The Magic of Findhorn and The Spirit of Findhorn, published by Harper and Row. But this intimate inner relationship was not sustained. We learned years later, when Peter Caddy (now deceased) visited Hinduism Today's offices, that "hippies" had moved into Findhorn (now called Findhorn Foundation). Caddy lamented that the standards of living and harmony were not maintained. As a result, the devas moved out and asuras naturally moved in--the vegetables shrunk back to normal size. Caddy said he had been told he was no longer a part of the community.
Findhorn proves how we can work closely with the devas, and also how delicate and precious such a connection to their world is. Constant effort and sacrifice is needed to sustain it. It is no different from keeping a vibration of harmony and love within the home. If maintained consistently, devas can come home with you from the temple and stay at your home shrine to help, bless and gently guide your family. If disharmony and contention are allowed to prevail, they have no choice but to withdraw.
A Recent Visit to Findhorn |
University professor Puvaneswary lives in Aberdeen, not far from Findhorn Foundation. After reading the book to her children last August, she visited Findhorn. She recounts, "It was a hazy, warm day. People from all over the world were there, calm and peaceful. I learned that Roc, the mystic who met and talked to the God Pan, had died. So had Peter Caddy. Dorothy only visits occasionally. I learned that a child there still talks to the devas but is too shy to discuss it. When I got home, I set up a small section of my own garden for the devas to live and work in undisturbed and recently noticed a faint, facial expression on a plant called senecio grey. I was sure it was a deva taking the shape of the plant, as they can do so easily, being made out of light.
My friends and relatives too have had nature deva experiences. One friend, when she was a girl, used to play with fairies who lived in the cups of flowers. Another Hindu friend was pained one day when she saw a man chainsaw down a giant old oak tree that all the neighborhood children used to love to climb and play in. That night the tree deva came to her, so sad his "home" was destroyed, not knowing where to go. My Taoist cousin told me that one day, when she was staring out the window at a weeping willow tree, the Chinese Goddess Quan Yin appeared inside the tree--her silken tresses and the willow branches were one. Even my own daughter when she was little used to talk to me about her invisible friends."
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