Controversy
There have been a number of critics of and controversies surrounding the work of the Findhorn Foundation since 1962. For example:
- A. Roberts, writing in the Fortean Times, alleged that in the 1960s, Caddy and other 'channelers' believed that they were in contact with extraterrestrials through telepathy, and prepared a 'landing strip' for flying saucers at nearby Cluny Hill.
- In 1993 the Scottish Charities Office commissioned a report into holotropic breathwork, developed by Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, having received complaints about workshops on it at the Findhorn Foundation. According to The Scotsman, Dr Linda Watt, a medical manager at Leverndale Psychiatric Hospital in Glasgow, said that the hyperventilation technique might cause seizures or lead to psychosis in vulnerable people.
- In 1999 one of the foundation's long-term members, Verity Linn, died of exposure on a Scottish mountain while following the teachings of the self-styled guru Jasmuheen from Brisbane, Australia, that human beings can "live on light" alone.
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