From Survival to Soul: The Rise of Integral Politics in the Human Hive Dynamic Salience, Second Sapiens, and the Emergence of Gaia's Reflective Organ As we arrive at the Solstice, we stand at a threshold. Around the world, many people are asking what has gone wrong with politics at all levels. Public discourse [...]
Perhaps the challenge of our time is not that we lack intelligence. Perhaps it is that we have forgotten how many ways intelligence can manifest. Throughout this series we have explored a remarkable journey. We began with Survival and Soul. We explored how Life organizes herself through Functional Intelligences. How Life cares for herself through [...]
The hive may learn together, but eventually a bee must fly. In the previous article, we explored Collective Intelligence and discovered that Gaia may learn through us. Through dialogue, relationship, reflection, intuition and shared purpose, the Human Hive develops capacities far greater than any individual alone. Yet learning is not enough. At some point, [...]
Perhaps as the bees gather nectar, they are listening to the field? Attuning Intelligences: How Gaia Listens Through Us In the previous article, we explored the Stewarding Intelligences of the Human Hive and discovered that stewardship is not merely a human activity. It is Nature activating Gaia’s Code of Care through us. This [...]
A healthy hive does not depend on heroes. It depends on stewards — and stewardship is Nature remembering how to care through us. Stewarding Intelligences of the Human Hive In the previous article, we explored the Functional Intelligences of the Human Hive. We noticed that every thriving community, organization, and city depends upon [...]
"The city is not merely a collection of people. It is a living system learning how to become conscious of itself." In the first article of this series, I suggested that the journey of our time is a movement from Survival to Soul. Yet soul does not emerge through aspiration alone. It emerges [...]
This article joins the UN SDG Goals to celebrate World Bee Day, May 20, 2026. It is co-authored by: Dr. May East, UNITAR Fellow, UNITAR Advisory Board for People and Social Inclusion, UN House Scotland Director of Cities Programme, Findhorn Fellow Author, What if Women Designed the City? Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, Founder Integral City [...]
This is a one of a little series of Findhorn Dharma Talks, sharing the unfolding of an experiment in exploring via Action Research how a Findhorn Foundation SCIO can serve the community of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn in new ways - especially through being a vehicle for the educational impulse alive in the community. [...]
Here is the Integral City 2025 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2025. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2024 Integral City Meta Blog 2023 Integral City Meta Blog 2022 Integral City Meta Blog 2021 [...]
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. “The first stage of the cycle, called involution, originates at the non-dual ‘source’ that lies at the center of existence where it descends from the [...]