Later Years
In the late 1960s, Eileen had reconciled with her first family and in 1997 all her eight children came together for the first time to celebrate her 80th birthday. In 2001, she was named one of the 50 most spiritually influential people in Britain on Channel 4's ‘The God List. For services to spiritual inquiry, Eileen Caddy was in 2004 awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The award was presented by the Lord Lieutenant of Moray, Air Vice-Marshal George Chesworth.
Eileen Caddy died on December 13, 2006 at Findhorn, after leaving instructions that her death "be a cause for thanksgiving, rather than mourning.". Today, the original Caddy caravan of the 1960s, stands preserved as a shrine, amidst trees and flowers within the Findhorn Ecovillage.
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