What will it take for us to preserve what remains of life on the planet? Is humanity itself at risk? These are the overarching questions that Said Dawlabani asks in his new book Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and the Future of Humanity. Second Sapiens answers the question: what would Mother [...]
Here is the Integral City 2024 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2024. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2023 Integral City Meta Blog 2022 Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Power. Beauty Truth Goodness Map 5 conveys the qualities of spirituality in the city. Its zones of Grace, Space and Place reveal where the core spiritual [...]
In October, 2024 I had the privilege to learn from Iain McGilchrist – the polymath author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things. Iain spoke at the Future of Humanity (a one-day discovery event, sponsored by the Science and Medical Network). McGilchrist proposed that humans were definitely in a polycrisis [...]
Here is the Integral City 2023 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2023. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2022 Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 Integral City Meta Blog 2019 [...]
Local Place Plan: Contexts for Consent This Infographic Trailer was prepared to update and inform the Ecovillage Findhorn Community prior to and during a community meeting, November 25, 2024. Click here to Download or view the Full LPP Trailer Infographic Nov 25 2024
This year’s Integral City Award is to an ecosystem with three sub-systems each of which and all together are demonstrating Integral City Intelligences. The first subsystem is Neighbourhood Parliaments – now often know as Neighbourhood Democracy or Neighborocracy. The second is Children’s Parliaments. The third sub-system is SONEC. Let’s consider the “organs” in [...]
Meet Sue Cooper, Integral City Meshworker 2024. “The goal of life is for your heartbeat to match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” Joseph Campbell . Sue Cooper: Nurse. Ayurvedic Lifestyle Educator. Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher. She is continually amazed at all that this beautiful life has to offer. [...]
On October 30, 2020 – on the eve of the 2020 American elections, Integral City published this prayer from Sue Cooper – who, along with Integral City’s Marilyn Hamilton is a Co-Founder of Living Cities. Earth. It seems more appropriate than ever to re-publish this prayer today – just on the eve of the [...]
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 Placecaring and Placemaking. September 2024 Equinotes are drawn from these publications: Placecaring & Placemaking: Hamilton, M. 2018. [...]