Back to nature

The Findhorn movement cannot be ignored in the short history of ecology. This community of northern Scotland has certainly played a pivotal role in raising awareness of the need to care for the environment, as in the dissemination of the concept of return to nature. However, it is difficult to deny it, that this group has a sectarian lineage, as evidenced especially by its excessively extravagant character28.

In this community vegetables of unusual sizes are obtained, although they are grown in a hostile environment. According to the members of the sect, this shows a positive interaction between people belonging to this group. It is allegedly a social superorganism, which affects cosmic and earth energy, which is critical to the growth of tomatoes and lettuce through plant deities and spirits.

If technology contributes to the destruction of our planet, it is the most logical attitude to return to the original state. It is true, that that, what's natural, has irreplaceable values. However, exaggeration in this regard can have dramatic consequences. Consider, for example, the fatal health consequences of applying such nutritional theories in practice, like mono-vegetarianism or instinctotherapy, which consist in eating only such foods, what you want at the moment. It is about trying to convince society to an instinctive diet, consisting in eating only raw products. It is a doctrine based on Mosseri's theory of hygienism, which led several followers of the Burger sect to the hospital, a i guru – before judicial tribunals.

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