Equinotes are published periodically drawing on the Archives of Integral City’s Reflective Organ Newsletter, Blogs, Books and Website. The perspectives of Equinotes weave across: Planet, People, Place and Power.

The theme of this issue is Regenerating Our Planet’s Soul.

March 2025 Equinotes are drawn from these publications:

Integral City – Enemy or Ally of Evolution? June 3rd, 2018|C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Placecaring, Placemaking, Storytelling – Cultures

Is Regenerativity an Act or Capacity? December 17th, 2020|Capacity Building, Complex Challenges, Emergence, Inquiry, Lifecycle

Being in the World in 2023. January 2nd, 2023| Caring, Caring, COP26, Emergence, Storytelling – Cultures, Voices

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Civil Society is becoming aware that financial asset accumulation is not the sole measure of our success. Quality of life, the development of community, and the recognition of social capital are all gaining in importance to Civil Society. Increasingly sensitive to the gaps that separate the haves and have-nots, we are creating new agendas for social change. We seek ways and means to integrate both heart and mind to create a Healthy City.

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Integral City – Enemy or Ally of Evolution?

Allies of Evolution was the theme of Integral Europe Conference 2018. We started with a meditation to ground our audience in the present time, location and land of Siofok, Hungary to the eco-region, Europe, hemisphere and planet, reminding ourselves of the alignment of our planetary life and cosmic consciousness – and the moment-to-moment choice we have to connect and reconnect with this massively nested set of relationships. Serendipitously this mediation bookended an experiential process designed by Steve Banks, composer of the Integral Symphony, who offered our audience a musical journey from the Big Bang to an emerging evolutionary future.

Integral City introduced, James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Hypothesis who suggests that humans are Gaia’s “Reflective Organs”. If that proposition emerges from the science of living systems, then we are evolutionarily early on our path to serve the greater good of Gaia. Nevertheless, the IEC2018 conference provided ample evidence that we are waking up to our cosmic calling. Speakers inspired perspectives of a cosmic consciousness and an evolutionary impulse to wake up, grow up and clean up. We heard from Ken Wilber (who suggested that our religions need upgrading to reflect worldviews and soul centres that can embrace the complexity of science that is impacting our daily lives). We applauded the whole Teal Track of Organizational Presentations (who revealed the progress organizations are making as they reinvent themselves to reflect Frederic Laloux’s research beyond organizational vision and living systems into evolutionary purpose and courage). We felt strongly aligned with Roger Walsh (who outlined 10 steps to offer service to a higher calling).

To weave the spiritual with the scientific we offered evidence from the contrasting examples of Integral City work in the USA and Russia. In the USA Imagine Durant have created a vision for their city with the core value of Care and the strategies to implement it through embracing Citizen, Community and Economic objectives. In Russia, Living Cities has set out to change 1000 cities by 2030 using the principles of Integral City and the Living Cities’ Charter – and we met last November 311 mayors of Monocities who have initiated those changes.

We concluded our message of positive city emergence by sharing the Master Code – recognizing that we are in evolutionary potent times. For the first time in history we can make decisions that align and enable Care for Self, Others, Place and Planet.

And when we realize that more than 50% of humanity now live in cities, they are the logical place to leverage the differences humans can make as Allies of Evolution. When we consider that the majority of the 50+ countries represented at the conference hold populations where 75% to 90% of people live in cities, we must mature our cities’ evolutionary contribution as Allies of Evolution or betray our commitment as individuals to wake up, grow up and clean up.

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This blog series celebrates presence of Integral City at Integral Europe Conference 2018.

The series includes:

Integral City – Enemy or Ally of Evolution?

Foo-Ling – the Face in the Fire?

The Shoes at the Door of Evolution

TCOP’s of Teal Organizations for Integral City Emergence

Convening Integral City Communities of Practise

Is Regenerativity an Act or Capacity?

The act of generativity is centred in the act of creation. Creation arises when any two or more elements are brought together to reveal something new – something that distinguishes it from the source resources.

The act of regenerativity indicates that generation happens more than once. It is an act that repeats itself to produce dependably the same results.

At Findhorn Ecovillage, where I live in Scotland, our community has generated a symbol of the myth of Regeneration. We have created a mosaic of a grand Phoenix. The act of creating the art, regenerated a community spirit. The completion of the project regenerated our belief that we could work together to complete a worthy goal. And the contemplation of this mythical bird arising from the ashes of despair in the pandemic year, reminds us that regeneration is an act that involves all of us – body, mind, heart and soul. Only through the act of regeneration do we gain the capacity of regenerativity.

In the wider world of Nature, regenerativity may happen on a cycle or season – like the dandelion that regenerates as soon as its bloom turns into a seedpod.

Regenerativity may happen in a vessel of regeneration – like an egg, a womb, a hive. In all these cases regenerativity is supported by the life conditions that secure the energy necessary to regenerate.

Regeneration is the act – while regenerativity is the capacity to regenerate. While life conditions are stable regenerativity can result in sustainability. The act of regeneration is the third quality – the feedback capacity – of all living systems – which by definition must be able to survive, connect with their environment and regenerate.

Our Earth system provides a meta-environment to contain all the other environments wherein living systems survive and regenerate. As such it has natural limits to its matter, energy and information cycles where regenerativity must realize its natural constraints. Any living system that surpasses the capacity for its environment to sustain itself, will find a natural response that contracts the capacity to regenerate.

The regenerativity of humans in our Human Hives is fast reaching a series of tipping points where our disrespect of planetary boundaries will render our connections to our environment (aka life conditions) mis-matched to our species’ capacity to sustain itself. The fears of climate experts are that when more than a cluster of critical tipping points are passed, life as we know it on Earth will not be sustainable and runaway, intersecting, interacting tipping points will disable healthy regeneration.

Many believe that the pandemic of 2020 has been gifted to humans as a particularly visible, virulent transgression of the relationship between humans and other species, thus releasing the covid virus as an unforeseen consequence. This viral consequence has impacted every Human Hive and forces us to re-value and respect the life conditions that make regeneration possible and regenerativity a capacity we must deeply respect in order to restore and recalibrate.

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This blog series explores Regenerativity as:

Being in the World

David Robinson, initiator of the Findhorn Zoom Taize Community, invited me to share a few thoughts about Being in the World in 2023.

This is what I shared with the Findhorn Zoom Taize Community on January 1, 2023.

… Through our reminders from Eileen’s Guidance at each Taizé session we attune to our local and planetary sacred realities as well as visible and invisible worlds.

Of course, David has encouraged interconnections, drawing out passions, performances and participation from all – and in so doing he has amplified a special form of musical globality.

So perhaps a generative way of Being in the World in 2023 is to become conscious of Being in 4 Worlds – that we live through every day of our lives – the Worlds of Self, Others, Place and Planet. And one way of doing this is to appreciate how our Taizé sacred songs support us in our practices.

Being in the world of self means I love and accept myself exactly as I am. I care to learn how to live wisely and well in all I do-be-relate and cocreate.

Our Taizé is Celebrating Self Today with the songs of: “I am one with the Heart of the Mother” and “I am Alive” .

Being in the world of others means expanding my circle of compassion to care for others – family, friends, neighbours, co-workers. I love and accept all beings exactly as they are. In caring for others, I appreciate their gifts, talents and differences that make a difference.

Our Taizé is Celebrating Others Today with the songs of: “Kindle a Flame” and “E Malama”.

Being in the world of place expands my circle of compassion to embrace my community, or town, village or city and appreciate the life conditions of geography, ecology, bioregion and built environment that supports 4 or more generations of humanity that co-exist in our places today.

Our Taizé is Celebrating Place Today with the songs of: “Between Darkness & Light I Will Always Walk” and “Let Go Let Go, Surrender & Flow”.

Being in the world of planet awakens us to the beautiful living Earth that is our Mother and how all life has been evolved by her. When we honour our relationship to her life, it honours our ancestors and brings us deeply present to the science and spirituality of our Oneness.

Our Taizé is Celebrating Planet Today with the songs of: “Let the Beauty We Love” and “If people lived their Lives as if it Were a Song”.

So Being in the World in 2023 has the promise from the start – January 1st today – of our Zoom Taizé generating Care-Ma Yoga – for the 4 voices of harmony from all the human habitats around the world.

Being in the World in 2023 can start and finish with a Care-Ma Yoga Taizé practice which is simply this:

Begin each day with Gaia’s Code of Care –

As you sound OMMM to yourself, ask: “how shall I care for myself, others, place, planet?

And at the end of each day with a closing OMMM of gratitude, Reflect on how you have cared for yourself, others, place and planet.”

May this CARE-MA Yoga become part of your Taizé practice –

of Being Well in the World in 2023.

Click here to link to the original Blog and links to Interviews.

Explore Integral City Archive of Newsletters, Blogs, MetaBlogs:

Bonus Foreword: Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and the Future of Humanity, book by Said Dawlabani, Foreword by Marilyn Hamilton, Founder Integral City Meshworks; Co-Founder Living Cities:Earth

Bonus Podcast: You Matter More Than You Think, Audio Book by Karen O’Brien, Social Scientist of IPBES and IPCC

Bonus Video: Radical Guide to Reality from Cosmologist Jude Currivan