Recent Syndics: Dr. Mary Smith

(observed 1979)

Dr. Mary Smith was a guest living with the Findhorn Community, Forres, Scotland during the year 1979. She had been either a psychologist or psychotherapist while living for a long time in Hawaii. The only record about her that is known to exist, is as follows:

“I was in Scotland on a train going from Inverness to Forres. At Elgin, the stop just before Forres, a bakery van raced across the tracks to beat the train. The back half of the van was sheared off. Bread and metal were flying everywhere. The driver was thrown out of the van and clear of the train. The driver only needed a rib brace of some kind and the rest of us including the engineer were shaken up, but basically fine....They opened the bar car...and we all had some beer. We had survived a real train wreck...quite well, in fact.

I finally got to Forres and thus Findhorn, where at that time a small group of mystics lived. They had just bought an old Hotel (through the good graces of one of the "members" - Sir George Trevelyan).

I got myself tucked in, and was told that this remarkable lady, a Dr. Mary Smith, a psycholglogist from Hawaii was giving a lecture and not to miss it....So off I went.

Mary was a beautiful woman, probably about 45-50 and she introduced herself and started talking...and on and on she went...talking first about the best ways to do laundry...various soaps, the temperature of water and so on....this just primed me for..."wait till we get to the real stuff!."...After this, she went on and on about vacuuming, she favored the electrolux tank vacuum... nitches that couldn't be used for anything else...they were great for storing the disposable bags..so that you could buy them in job lots for less...and the local store in Forres where they would even discount job lots.....and I was absolutely fascinated...I didn't even notice then, that she had been talking for 3 solid hours...or why I was fascinated by what I would normally think was the dullest cr*p in the world.

A person next to me, nudged me and he said...."Do you think something strange is going on here...?"

I looked around the room...and then I literally saw myself and heard myself saying...."Well the whole room is filled with Orange Light..It looks solid to me...and I keep seeing rays of cold flame shooting out of her very beautiful body..."

The guy literally ran out of the room...Later, I was told he left on the next morning's train..

Anyway, after the lecture...I went up to Mary and told her how much I enjoyed her lecture on Home Cleaning.

She asked me: "What interested you the most?"

I replied: "Well, when the whole room filled up with Orange Light..It looked solid to me...and I kept seeing rays of cold flame shooting out of your very beautiful body..."
Mary replied: "Would you like to attend my dance class for beginners?"

Honestly, Mary, I will attended any class or lecture you do...just tell me and I'll be there!"

"Well, I have two classes tomorrow. In the morning, I will be giving instruction on cleaning sink drains and toilets...and then the dance class starts around 1 pm until 5 pm for the next 2 days..."

So I learned how to unclog a toilet (it really needed to be uncolgged and it was smelly and messy...and that afternoon, I learned how to dance on a local castle's huge stone floor, while wearing a blindfold, and could observe myself turning into a comet, a planet, a cloud of dust, and move into the outer layer of Our Sun.

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