Flight into Freedom and Beyond
The Autobiography of the Co-Founder of the Findhorn Community
By (Author) Eileen Caddy
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- Edition: Updated
- Pages: 262
- Book Size: 6 x 9.13
- ISBN-13: 9781899171644
- Imprint: Findhorn Press
- On Sale Date: October 1, 2002
- Format: Paperback Book
- Illustrations: 19 b&w halftones
In this autobiography, Eileen Caddy (1917-2006), one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation, shares her extraordinary story of jealousy, doubt, and forgiveness on the path to becoming a powerful elderwoman who frees herself from the aura of her charismatic ex-husband Peter whom she still loves.
An extraordinary story told by an ordinary woman.
Eileen Caddy (1917-2006) is known worldwide as one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland. The books that have flowed from her inspiration have drawn multitudes to the Findhorn Community. In the recent, expanded edition of her autobiography, Eileen updated her story to record the events--and emotions--of some fifteen years. She emerges as a powerful elderwoman who frees herself from the aura of her charismatic ex-husband Peter whom she still loves. In doing so, she learns the true nature of forgiveness, overcoming the issues of jealousy, hatred and doubt involved in the break-up of a marriage for which she had, under God's guidance, sacrificed everything. Readers will be struck by the analogy with the biblical Job, how someone who has lost everything, wealth, position, family, can yet have them restored by God. In her own person, Eileen Caddy, divinely ordinary as she describes herself, has pushed the limits of the ordinary person's experience to the very borders of the Kingdom of God.
Eileen Caddy (1917-2006) is known worldwide as one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland. The books that have flowed from her inspiration have drawn multitudes to the Findhorn Community. In the recent, expanded edition of her autobiography, Eileen updated her story to record the events--and emotions--of some fifteen years. She emerges as a powerful elderwoman who frees herself from the aura of her charismatic ex-husband Peter whom she still loves. In doing so, she learns the true nature of forgiveness, overcoming the issues of jealousy, hatred and doubt involved in the break-up of a marriage for which she had, under God's guidance, sacrificed everything. Readers will be struck by the analogy with the biblical Job, how someone who has lost everything, wealth, position, family, can yet have them restored by God. In her own person, Eileen Caddy, divinely ordinary as she describes herself, has pushed the limits of the ordinary person's experience to the very borders of the Kingdom of God.
Eileen Caddy was instrumental in creating the international spiritual community centered around the Findhorn Foundation in the North of Scotland, and in 2005 she was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) from the Queen for her lifelong service to spiritual inquiry. She is the author of The Dawn of Change, Footprints on the Path, God Spoke to Me, The Living Word, and The Spirit of Findhorn. Mike Scott is the founding member, lead singer, and chief songwriter of the rock band the Waterboys.