Alan beside a banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) in Fertile forest.Alan Watson Featherstone is a long-term member of the Findhorn community as well as a former Trustee of that community. He is also the Founder of Trees for Life, which has restored 10,000 acres of the Caledonian Forest in the Highlands of Scotland. He visited Auroville in March and gave two well attended presentations on ‘Forests of the World’ and ‘Restoring the Caledonian Forest’, as well as a talk to the students on the ecological horticulture course at the Auroville Botanical Gardens.
Auroville Today: Tell us how you came to the Findhorn community.
Alan Watson Featherstone: I moved to Findhorn in 1978 drawn by their work of co-creation with nature, and the spirit, intelligence, consciousness and purpose in nature. It resonated in my heart. One of the things that Findhorn and Auroville have in common is that they conceive of us as spiritual beings in physical form. Our mission here on earth is to make higher spir...
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