16 01, 2025

Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and The Future of Humanity

By |2025-01-17T15:37:27+00:00January 16th, 2025|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, Level 9 Coral, Navigating - IVSM|1 Comment

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 [...]

16 12, 2024

Integral City Ecosystem of the Year 2024: Neighbourocracy, Children’s Parliaments, SONEC

By |2024-12-21T21:44:07+00:00December 16th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, City of Year, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

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 [...]

8 12, 2023

Gaia Learns – Mycelial Morphic Fields

By |2023-12-26T14:39:01+00:00December 8th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, Change, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM|0 Comments

Have cities been created by humans or have they been evolved by Gaia as organs to enable consciousness at a scale that upshifts Gaia’s intelligence? Humans as a relatively young species have imagined that we control the world. If we are in service to Gaia, it must be we who create capacities that have [...]

8 12, 2023

Gaia Learns – Start With a Breath

By |2023-12-23T13:15:57+00:00December 8th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, H. Research, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Reframing|0 Comments

Our universe started with a Big Breath (not a Big Bang) – so affirms cosmologist, Jude Currivan, author of The Story of Gaia. And from that breath released over 14 billion years ago, in-formation has guided matter and energy to manifest all life – including this planet and all she has created. Gaia [...]

21 10, 2023

Collaborating With the World: Thoughts on Collaboration as Evolutionary Act, 2

By |2023-10-21T14:15:47+00:00October 21st, 2023|E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Global/Worldcentric|0 Comments

Collaborating With the World For the majority of human history human evolution has been intertwined with the evolution of the world in which we have found ourselves. Emergent from the star systems that formed our solar system and our planet we embody all the elements that have created the conditions that evolved us. [...]

6 09, 2023

Artificial Intelligence or Amplified Intelligences in the Integral City?

By |2023-09-06T09:15:27+00:00September 6th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, Level 9 Coral, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|2 Comments

Several days ago George Por appeared in my email. George is an expert in many things but he has long impressed me as a world expert on collective consciousness and a true shaman of human development (and an original action researcher into Integral City 2.0). George asked, “Did you give some thought to how [...]

17 08, 2023

Cool Blocks & Carbon Neutral Ecovillage Findhorn

By |2023-08-19T16:59:10+00:00August 17th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, climate, Contexting, Ecosphere, Householder Dharma, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Placecaring, Placemaking, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

Welcome to our Infographic on Cool Blocks* as it has unfolded in Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. We followed simple steps in 8 Topics that helped us translate our Carbon Neutral 2030 plan into positive actions to improve our resilience and improve our quality of life. (Cool Blocks* is an initiative of Empowerment Institute coolblock.org) CLICK [...]

21 12, 2022

Recalibrating

By |2022-12-22T10:25:25+00:00December 21st, 2022|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Outer, Reframing|0 Comments

I have been observing 2022 as the Year of Transition and the Year of (Re)Connection. I commented to a colleague that it was also the Year of Recalibrating – or at least the Year of the Eve of Recalibrating. “What does recalibrating mean?” she asks. I suggest that recalibration is the experience that [...]

4 11, 2022

Book Review: The Story of Gaia

By |2022-11-04T17:17:40+00:00November 4th, 2022|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Reframing|0 Comments

If we want a new story to regenerate and thrive our cities we need a new story of Gaia. Jude Currivan cosmologist, planetary healer and futurist tells that story with flare, focus and finesse in her new book: The Story of Gaia: The Big Breath and the Evolutionary Journey of Our Conscious Planet . [...]

20 09, 2022

Reflective Organ Newsletter September Equinox 2022: Gaia Placecaring System

By |2022-09-24T13:05:30+00:00September 20th, 2022|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Outer, Placecaring, Placemaking, Spirituality, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

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 Place When the 4 Voices come together, we create conditions to wake them up and grow them up, as a city that is able both to “placecare” [...]

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