The Strangest Obituary Ever?
Published by James E on Thursday, January 11, 2007.
Eileen Caddy, who died on December 13 last year, aged 89, was a co-founder of the "New Age" Findhorn Foundation, in Scotland, which she established in 1962 with her then husband Peter Caddy, a retired RAF officer, and a friend, Dorothy Maclean.
Bonkers. But there's a postscript: Eileen received an MBE in 2004 for services to "spiritual enquiry".
Click here to read the full obituary in The Telegraph.
Hat tip: Roly
By the early 1970s ... Eileen had met the Virgin Mary at a healing centre outside Glastonbury: "Come and embody my spirit in joy, for this is the New Age," Mary had told her. Eileen soon came to believe that, in this New Age, children would no longer be conceived through sex but through the power of enlightened thought and spirit, a belief that led to her insisting that her relationship with her husband should move to a "higher spiritual level". In consequence, Peter Caddy [her husband] began to seek comfort elsewhere.
Bonkers. But there's a postscript: Eileen received an MBE in 2004 for services to "spiritual enquiry".
Click here to read the full obituary in The Telegraph.
Hat tip: Roly
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