Findhorn founder Dorothy Maclean used to work for “Intrepid” the British spy who inspired James Bond

Aren’t life’s synchronicities amazing? As you know, I’ve been reading about Dorothy Maclean one of the founders of Findhorn, the spiritual nature-cooperating community in northern Scotland. Much to my surprise, when she was younger, she worked for the British secret service (at the time Canada was still a part of England) and her boss was William Stephenson. I had read about Stephenson many years ago in the biography “A Man Called Intrepid” and really enjoyed the story. He is also somewhat indirectly famous in that he is the spy that inspired the James Bond 007 character. Although he worked as a British spy, he was born and raised in Canada.

Dorothy Maclean reveals an extraordinary life

The Beauty of Nature

I’ve been reading this great book about Dorothy Maclean, one of the founding members of Findhorn – the community in Scotland known for it’s close connection with nature spirits. Thought I’d mention it just in case some of you would like to check it out. The book is called, Memoirs of an Ordinary Mystic, but Dorothy was far from being ordinary. She’s the one who heard messages from the nature spirits, which she called devas. I’m enjoying the book immensely, because it describes her ordinary beginnings in the Canadian town of Guelph, and how chance circumstances brought her to a life of spiritual dedication and eventually to begin the marvelous gardens in Findhorn.

Carol Chapman speaking events in Virginia Beach, Charlottesville, and The Villages

Carol Chapman

All the details are not in yet, but I will be speaking:

November 16th, 2013, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Charlottesville, Virginia – Atlantis and Its Colonies in Egypt and Yucatan

December 29th, 2013, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., Virginia Beach, Virginia, the New Year’s Eve program – Have Your Heart’s Desire 

January 23rd, 2014, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., The Villages, Florida – Secrets of a Psychic

40 day prayer book awesome review

I recently received this lovely email from Susan Lendvay, Publications Editor at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. about my book, Have Your Heart’s Desire, which contains two life-changing versions of the 40 day prayer. You can get the book in paperback and as a Kindle ebook from Amazon. A copy of Susan’s email is below:

Dear Carol,

I’ve read almost all your book, and I think it’s wonderful. Anybody who reads it, would probably be inspired to try some of those techniques. And I recognized all the same things Everett used to tell me too, and I’m sure all the other folks who asked him about anything, for example: Say “thank you” for everything, etc. Your personal examples of results, wanted and unwanted, are so helpful and encouraging. And your not telling people who their God or higher self should be—that makes it so universal. I don’t mean to sound like a book review, but just telling you how much I like and respect this book.

It would be a super Christmas gift and it would also be a super e-book for those electronically inclined people.

Love and blessings,

Susan

Susan A. Lendvay

Venture Inward Magazine and Newsletter

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End of the World 2012 Movie contains Yucatan travel scenes

I notice that people are still buying the End of the World 2012 movie on Amazon. Actually, it does contain many good travel scenes of Yucatan, including the Chichen Itza Feathered Serpent Equinox event, Mayan ruins in Coba, Uxmal, and Palenque, and Chicxulub, the site where the comet hit 65 million years ago, which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. In any case, if you’re wondering why the world didn’t end on December 21, 2012, this movie has the answers.

Here’s the official trailer:

Atlantis found (again), this time, off the coast of Brazil

How exciting! Atlantis found…again! This time, 900 miles off the coast of Brazil.

I’m delighted that the lost city of Atlantis has at least been found in a part of the world where you would expect it to have been–in the middle Atlantic.

* NOT in  Indonesia, which is in the Indian and Pacific Oceans–NOTE: Does Atlantis sound like Indian or Pacific or like Atlantic? Since Atlantis sounds like Atlantic, could this be a clue!

* NOT in the sea between Denmark and Scotland and between France and England. Yes, the sea separating these northern countries are close to the Atlantic Ocean, but this would be the north Atlantic. Plato said Atlantis was outside the Pillars of Hercules, the passageway where the Mediterranean Sea opens up to the Atlantic Ocean in the middle Atlantic, not the north. Close but no prize.

* NOT off the coast of Ireland, a spoof put together by Weekly World News saying that Atlantis was actually a thriving island off the coast of Ireland. The spoof appeared after reports said that Google maps had found Atlantis, but it only turned out to a grid-like pattern made in the Atlantic Ocean floor by the Google maps boat.

* NOT the ice-bound continent of Antarctica at the South Pole, where it has been conjectured that Atlantis could have drifted on tectonic plates.

* NOT in the many other diverse places too numerous to mention where Atlantis has been found

I find it so very refreshing that this time, that Atlantis may have been found in a part of the world where the lost continent of Atlantis may have been, filling the space in the Atlantic Ocean between the Mediterranean Sea and the coast of Brazil.

Another refreshing detail of this recent Atlantis find: Unlike one of the researchers who prematurely announced that Atlantis had been found in a swamp in Spain, Roberto Ventura Santos, the Brazilian geology director, and Japanese university professor Shinichi Kawakami, whose teams are working on the Brazilian find, wonder if they have found a lost piece of the huge, ancient, unified continent of Pangea. They’re keeping their conjectures conservative and are not jumping to any conclusions.

That’s not only refreshing, it’s also delightful! Check it out at The Christian Post.

Nature quote from the “Message from Pan” Chapter in When We Were Gods

Another nature quote excerpt from the “Message from Pan” chapter in When We Were Gods:

“We need you to preserve our homes…don’t clear-cut. Leave trees, brush—homes for birds, rabbits, and raccoons. Make small changes in what you do.”

Nature quote from Mohandas Gandhi

It’s that time of year when our thoughts turn to gardening, which invites an intimate relationship with nature spirits. Here’s an inspirational nature quote from Gandhi on gardening.

Inspirational nature quote and photo

Continuing on the theme of how nature can clean the earth, here’s an encouraging inspirational quote. It not only says that nature changes dirt into beauty, but also gives encouragement to slog through our own dirt to produce beauty in our lives.

Celebrate nature! Apple blossoms

Inspirational photo: Celebrate nature! Apple blossoms. 

In When We Were Gods, the nature god Pan said that if we appreciated nature, the natural world would gladly clean up our mess. This apple tree is not only blooming with beautiful and fragrant flowers to delight us, but is also producing food for us to eat and converting our carbon dioxide into oxygen. And, it’s roots, which are close to the drain field of our septic tank, is converting sewage into antioxidants. Wow! Talk about cleaning up the mess!