In Advance of the Landing: The Findhorn Community

Andy Roberts
Magonia 89, August 2005

Mention Scotland’s Findhorn Community to anyone with an interest in the New Age movement and you’ll receive a smile and an automatic nod of recognition. Ask just what they know about it and you’ll be told a half- remarkable story of cosmic serendipity, giant vegetables, meetings with Pan, and a spiritual centre where people live in harmony, communicating with the spirits, or Devas, of nature. That’s the popular view of Findhorn, but it barely scratches the surface of this fascinating place.

Curtis Peebles, the X-15 and Angela’s Ashes

Frank John Reid

Magonia 89, August 2005

I’d just dragged myself through Frank McCourt’s depressing Angela’s Ashes when I read Curtis Peebles’s 'The Case of the Vanishing X-15 Pilot'. I grew up Catholic in the 1940s and 50s, in an American Church that rather envied the holiness of Ireland, and so was able to understand, McCourt’s reminiscence of rushing around Limerick, tearing one page out of an issue of John O’London’s Weekly which his employer had earlier distributed, because that page discussed birth control. And so I was able to understand Peebles’s article.

Aztec, That Terribly Romantic Yet Horribly Aromatic Desert Bloom is in Flower Again!

Michael McClellan and Matt Graeber

Magonia 89, August 2005

The 1948 Aztec, NM downed UFO retrieval story is one of saucerdom’s legends that seems to have defied all the attempts to explain it away as a clumsy and very obvious hoax. However, the many “resurrections” of this story, in various forms, is just about as remarkable and interesting as the original tale itself. In fact, one fellow on the Internet describes it as the “Dracula” of saucerdom which simply will not die no matter how may stakes are driven through its heart.