Towards the end of my brief spell at our IT department, I became more and more intrigued by the world of cyberspace and the Internet. Up to that point, I didn't really have the faintest clue about websites. And, I was told, 'It will take years before you can feel confident about your skills.'


Well, this holds true for any profession, and to become a professional webmaster one certainly has a lot to learn. A rather daunting prospect, but I was determined. And so, off I set, crawling up a rather steep learning curve. I saw an endless road in front of me, which only seemed to get longer with every tiny step I took. However, enthusiasm and excitement, as well as a deep inner certainty and sense of purpose, kept me going.


It was during the early days of my newfound hobby that someone - synchronistically! - came up with the idea of a magazine, called theFool. Initially it was to be a Cluny magazine, and this inspired me with the idea of a Cluny website. It felt like a new spirit had descended on Cluny: anything now seemed possible. The idea kept growing, like a fire inside me, so I started it...


As my enthusiasm gathered momentum it also reconnected me with my passion for the book, Faces of Findhorn. Sadly, most people here seem never to have heard of it, let alone read it. I find this disappointing, since this most wonderful book was my doorway into Findhorn, though when it was presented to me by a friend some twenty years ago, I could not believe that such a place existed.


Faces of Findhorn is a truly outstanding book: in my opinion the best, the most beautiful, most inspiring publication the Findhorn Community has ever produced. It became a beacon of light through all my years of struggle and coming to grips with our materialistic world and, eventually it brought me here, now more than ten years ago.


Published in 1980, the book captures something of the life in the Findhorn Community during the 1970s. It went out of print many years ago and, sadly, now seems to have sunk into the forgotten annals of history. Cluny Voices is a kind of twenty-first century version of Faces of Findhorn: a modest attempt to recreate something of the spirit of.


I dedicate Cluny Voices to the Community that created this marvellous book all those years ago, and to Cluny Hill College, in gratitude for all that it has given me during the years I have had the pleasure (and challenge) of living in this grand and magnificent place.


Wolf

Amazing and inspiring work by Italian artist-poet Verdirosi