At IEC 2025, Said Dawlabani stood once again at the crossroads of history and evolution. Known for his work with Spiral Dynamics integral and as author of Second Sapiens (for which I was honoured to write the foreword) and Memenomics, Dawlabani invited us to see today’s upheavals as part of a profound life cycle [...]
At the Integral European Conference 2025, Dr. Pier Luigi Lattuada invited us into a simple yet radical truth: wholeness is not something to seek — it is already here, always at home. In his keynote on the Triunity Process, he mapped the archetypal patterns of transformation that shape every moment of our lives. His [...]
Microcosm in Service to Gaia What distinguishes Ecovillage Findhorn is not just its longevity or its reputation as a pioneering eco-village. What makes it truly significant is its ongoing evolution into a regenerative learning community — a microcosm of what human settlements could become in service to Gaia. Miniature Whole Systems When I [...]
What if Cities are Gaia’s Organs? What if cities are more than just built environments? What if they are living organs within Gaia — expressing her consciousness through our human systems? At Ecovillage Findhorn, this idea is not metaphorical for me; it is a guiding principle for how I understand our place in the [...]
What makes a place truly hospitable to the soul? At Ecovillage Findhorn, this phrase has become a touchstone. It describes not only how people feel when they arrive, but also how the community organizes itself around deeper values: Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. Gift from Soil and Soul The phrase was gifted to the [...]
The Integral City GPS image is the central guiding metaphor to use for navigating the 5 Sets of Integral City Intelligences. This is more dynamic and systemic than the quadrant model alone, as it shows relational flow, directionality, and the evolutionary propulsion of the city as a living system. Let's explore the GPS structure in [...]
This is an invitation, to explore this page: https://integralcity.com/voices-intelligences/, which outlines the 12 Intelligences of the Integral City across four quadrants: (Upper Left: Individual-Interior, Upper Right: Individual-Exterior, Lower Left: Collective-Interior, Lower Right: Collective-Exterior). Notice how deeply these Intelligences align with Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. Let’s explore how these Intelligences connect cities to their Souls [...]
Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller opened the IEC 2025 with an inspiration to open the theme Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age. Christiane is a pioneering entrepreneur and a leading voice in transforming how humans relate to power and how they collaborate. With a career rooted in challenging the entrenched dominance hierarchies of society, she has dedicated [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]