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From Findhorn to Catholicism: On Leaving the New Age for the Church

By roger | Published: 6 March 2013

    Introduction: What follows is a very personal, autobiographical piece regarding my own conversion journey from New Age mysteries to the Catholic Mystery. It is taken from my upcoming book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum. Now, ripping extracts like this from a book’s totality is no easy thing. For the book supplies a great deal of context [...]

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Catholic-New Age Dialogue (Long Years after Leaving Findhorn)

By roger | Published: 21 July 2012

Twenty five years ago, I was an enthusiastic young member of the Findhorn Community in Northern Scotland. Findhorn: it remains today one of the major world centres of the New Age movement, or as a Vatican document puts it: ‘The two centres which were the initial power-houses of the New Age, and to a certain [...]

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Catholicism: Living Mystery or Human Label?

By roger | Published: 28 June 2012

  In dialoguing with non-Catholics in secular society, the greatest problem will frequently be complete lack of understanding. This can easily arise because – often without realising it – non-Catholics and Catholics have completely different understandings of what the Church is. For within the secular world, the idea has become prevalent that Catholicism amounts to [...]

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What Findhorn Could Never Give Me

By roger | Published: 16 April 2012

Once long ago, I lived at the New Age community of Findhorn in northern Scotland. What to say of this Findhorn community? Well, according to a Vatican document on the New Age, Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life: ‘The two centres which were the initial power-houses of the New Age, and to a [...]

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Findhorn and the New Age: Looking Back (Part II)

By roger | Published: 28 April 2010

A former member of the Findhorn Foundation looks back at the failure of New Age spirituality.

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Findhorn and the New Age: Looking Back

By roger | Published: 25 April 2010

For readers new to this space, perhaps it is good if I say again that I am a Catholic convert who once passionately identified with the New Age movement. For many years, I was associated in one way or another with the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland, which numerous people would identify as [...]

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Who I am – Some Notes (Part I)

By roger | Published: 13 December 2009

There are many blogs where the blogger reveals a great deal of his or her personal life and day-to-day affairs. And such, I am sure is appropriate and meaningful for many forums. I have wanted to do something a bit different here: to try to address more universal themes, and use the personal mainly for [...]

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No Concepts, Please!

By roger | Published: 27 July 2009

Some years ago, I met a young woman, who compelled respect. I stress that – she struck me as someone with rare capacities for psychological acuity and sensitivity. She had recently returned from the Findhorn community in the north of Scotland – which many regard as the world’s leading or most influential New Age community. [...]

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