Occasionally I share insights into what it is like to live in Park Ecovillage Findhorn (PEF) in Scotland. This short article originally published in the community's weekly magazine, Rainbow Bridge, inquires about the kind of legacy PEF is creating as we consider our future through decision making, voting and relating to one another. How [...]
As 2025 has unfolded the terrible assault on democracy that the world is witnessing in the United States, I have been troubled by the "deafening silence" of the usually powerful American voice. Finally Stephen Dinan speaks truths I have been hoping to be named - but he also tells the world how we can [...]
I am super excited for Earth Day - Join me and all the Co-Founders of Living Cities Earth on 22nd April at the Global Earth Day Summit 2025 (GEDS) where changemakers, leaders, and citizens from across the world unite for the planet. Be part of the first wave of 10,000 attendees! Register here: http://geds.earth/ [...]
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 [...]
In prior blogs, Integral City has explored how the city is broken and how it can be healed. In the Guardian (Feb. 19, 2025) Bernie Sanders is setting out to walk the land as he proposes critical dimensions of healing for the brokenness in America. Because most Americans live in cities, Sanders is essentially offering [...]
This an infographic framing the dialogue for Edinburgh International Centre for Sustainability & Peace (EICSP), exploring Prof-essencing (as opposed to Professing) our Spiritual Selves to our Teaching and Facilitiating. A Dialogical Inquiry: Spirituality and Our Quiet Resolve - Essencing and Presencing Our Professing (January 15, 2025)
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 [...]