I am Integral City.
Web of Conversations
I am a web of constant, connecting, mysteriously transformative conversations,
manifesting the 12 City Intelligences,
citizens, government, organizations, and businesses.
Some people align towards,
others resist,
co-creating a more beautiful and sustainable world.
Worldviews expand from self, to city, to world, then kosmocentric embrace,
honoring life-giving values,
redesigning ways for all my voices to relate
as they reshape systems
in the ecology of thoughts
as it evolves into greater intelligence and caring.
Some of my voices are Meshworkers,[iii]
asking in their connecting conversations:
“What dissolves or bypasses barriers and opens flow for life-giving change?”
They see specific potentials for more intelligence and evolution into a beautiful future.
They connect increasingly with one another and with Peer Spirits in and beyond Integral City
into the Planet of Cities.
They design new systems
through collective intelligence,
building new capacities in all my voices,
unblocking stuck systems,
and co-creating solutions
which embody within me,
Integral City,
Gaia’s desire for resilience.
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This essay is part of a collection of dialogic essays written to celebrate the New Story of the City. We publish them in the week of the first World Cities Day (October 31) having first been inspired by by Kosmos Journal‘s invitation to tell a new story. Our team of Integral City Constellation Voices, Peer Spirits and Essayists includes: Joan Arnott, Alia Aurami, Cherie Beck, Diana Claire Douglas, Marilyn Hamilton, Linda Shore
The Voices in this dialogue are: Spirit of Integral City, Gaia, Integral City, Peer Spirits, Communities of Practice.
Each voice is introduced by the Stage Directions:
Welcome, Connecting One(s), to this sapient circle. We gather here to constellate Indra’s Net for our Planet of Cities around this question “How does Integral City Connect for Change in Service to a Planet of Cities?” ( first asked by Kosmos Journal). Welcome to you, Peer Spirits, who long to connect to the City and her Communities of Practice, to Gaia, and to Spirit who energizes us all. Listen …Integral City speaks …
Endnotes:
[i] Integral City 12 Intelligences
[ii] 4 voices of Integral City
[iii] Meshworking Intelligence practiced by the Hague Center’s Anne-Marie Voorhoeve
Wow! The colors and spacing really convey a LOT beyond the already powerful words (if I do humbly say so myself, as one co-creator!) Thank you for catalyzing and shaping this beauty and inspiration, Marilyn, and the awesome Chilhuly glass image you took, so utterly perfect! This is a feast for the whole Being, aptly celebrating the very first World Cities Day. What an awesome concept; you were ahead of your time in creating the Integral City book and now movement!
Thank you Alia!! I feel like it is a beautiful celebration too!
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