God Spoke to Me
By (Author) Eileen Caddy
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Findhorn Press
1st January 1992
3rd Edition, Revised
United States
General
Non Fiction
Mysticism, magic and occult interests
291.42
Paperback
144
Width 136mm, Height 216mm, Spine 13mm
161g
This work was Eileen Caddy's first book and contains some of the earliest guidance she received from her "inner voice" after she, her husband Peter, their three sons and a friend, Dorothy Maclean, came to live on a caravan site on the edge of the northern Scottish village of Findhorn in 1962. During the following years, others joined them in what rapidly became recognised as a spiritually pioneering way of life. Now, at the beginning of the 1990s, the Findhorn Foundation and its associated community, comprising some several hundred people and a variety of lifestyles and businesses, is a focus of attraction for several thousand visitors each year from around the world. Eileen's life over the past thirty years or so has been a process of coming to realise that God is the divine essence within each person. Her guidance has stated this fact over and over again, but it has taken some years for Eileen to accept it as a reality. In the beginning her inner voice addressed her as "My child" and spoke to her as does a loving father. Over the years, as this relationship changed, her voice began to call her "My beloved". Now she feels she can truly say that there is no separation and that this is so for everyone. The messages in this book are about learning to trust totally the process of living, to trust God, the universe, the divine source or whatever you prefer to call it. They affirm that there is an inherent wisdom and intelligence present in everything, including ourselves, and that it can be contacted by turning within. There is also advice about moving into a new age, which should be regarded not so much as a period of time as a new kind of consciousness. It is a process of connecting with the divine, seeing with new eyes, recognising God within everything. It is also about creating something new by means of vision, bringing into form from within that which is for the highest good of all. Although Eileen's voice relates to her in these early messages like a father who knows what is best for his child, there is throughout an emphasis on the free will and choice of the individual. This isn't a God of fire and brimstone issuing orders from on high, but an all-seeing source of compassion and love whose only wish is for all beings to realise their highest potential.
Eileen Caddy was instrumental in creating the international spiritual community centered around the Findhorn Foundation in the North of Scotland, and in 2005 she was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) from the Queen for her lifelong service to spiritual inquiry. She is the author of The Dawn of Change, Footprints on the Path, God Spoke to Me, The Living Word, and The Spirit of Findhorn. Mike Scott is the founding member, lead singer, and chief songwriter of the rock band the Waterboys.