Findhorn Foundation Reviews 6

See my Google review (firstdecanpisces) from 06/02/26. We inadvertently witnessed arrogance, entitlement, bullying, and hostility whilst in the Phoenix Cafe. I believe what we saw was some sort of community/committee meeting of Findhorn community residents, being held in an open area where every paying customer was free to sit. Some of these individuals were clearly angry at our presence, and made no attempt to hide this. You made a spectacle of yourselves - shame on you, shame on all bullies, and shame on your collective hypocrisy.

Best thing you can do is stop posing as wise spiritual gurus and admit you are running a racket. I did a course there and found the back stabbing among senior Findhorn members was toxic. And people like me who do a course are simply exploited and looked down on. In short, it's all a sham and should be shut down.

It's all a bit fake. It's a fancy residential park for wealthy lazy "spiritual" people who relied for years on volunteer labour to grow food and clean the site. They have big expensive detached houses and do not live co-creatively with nature. They keep building energy intensive individual homes which resemble a modern housing estate, which meet some eco-standards at least (so do most modern builds). Residents and visitors rely on air-travel extensively, and are neither energy efficient or eco-conscious. Most homes burn gas or wood which has to be delivered, drive everywhere in old polluting vehicles. They don't work the land towards any ecological goals as a community except to dance and meditate and did I mention the place is filled with 100s of vehicles. They buy expensive imported food in their own shop. It is merely parading as an eco-village.

Findhorn has a rotten heart. I spent several years living and working in and around the Findhorn Community. I worked as a carer and was shocked to find how uncaring a community it was. I left in 2019 disgusted by the place. I was treated very badly by people who purported to be awake and loving, they were nothing of the sort. Instead they were extremely cliquey, judgemental, hierarchical and damn right cruel. The landscape is beautiful, the people are not. I was damaged by the way I was treated at Findhorn and this was a contributing factor to a major breakdown.

Absolutely agree with Mr Nicholls review:

The Findhorn Foundation are masters of deception and the use of subtle manipulation through radionics. This is their secret engine used to propel the idea that they are all somehow spiritual adepts who directly manipluate energy fields. Through this hidden radionic manipulation of people they create both a honey trap for spiritual seekers to unload their wallets as well as a butterfly net for the more awakened to get tangled up in.

A Findhorn Foundation specialty is stealing other peoples ideas and rebranding them as their own, upstream of novices, for financial gain. The concept of intellectual property is of no concern whatsoever if there is money to be made from adopting and conflating oneself with another's ideas. These people are charlatans and thieves and as such have given the new age a vile odor which deters the vast majority of people today, at great public expense. That is the magic of Findhorn!

This organization ruins peoples lives. I too was absolutely disgusted by the suicides there and for me was the final straw in writing this review. I would seriously warn people away from this place. Its the opposite of what you think and very dangerous, their corrupt web is extensive and populated by an agency bereft of any genuine humanity. There have been numerous complaints against this mafia and their mobbing for years, involving legal prosecution and the need for police protection.

I was highly supportive of the Findhorn Foundation for 9 years, and enjoyed several courses and programs there. However, when I enrolled on their LEAP scheme as a maintenance worker, and expressed concern about health and safety, they breached my written contract and I left. A few months later, a friend who had worked there for many years committed suicide, and I learned that the house I lived when I was there had a past suicide. I saw others there treated badly too, and leave. I was advised by staff at the local MPs office about the book "Hypocrisy and Dissent within the Findhorn Foundation: Towards a Sociology of a New Age Community" available from Amazon books, and I found a free copy online. Had I known then what I know now, I would not have gone there. Please do your research before you commit yourself to getting involved with this organisation.