Meet Jim Garrison, Integral City Meshworker 2021 Jim Garrison is the Founder and President of Ubiquity University and producer of Humanity Rising. His passion and the purpose of Humanity Rising is to create a historical gathering of great minds and hearts responding to the pandemic "as a crisis not to be wasted". As [...]
What was the appropriate response to our dilemma – of the Findhorn destruction by arson of our sacred buildings? Under the circumstances it would not be surprising for anger, blame, despair and retribution to be on the minds and lips and bodies of our residents. Instead, as I interacted with people throughout the [...]
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 Planet. When we take the perspective of Caring for Planet, we gain the Overview of a Living System Cosmology that embraces all of the Cares into [...]
“If you can find the calm centre of yourself, you may be able to impact 1000 other people.” That was a proposition I heard David Spangler offer in mid-summer this year and became the inspiration for our Findhorn Islands of Calm meditation. It seemed perfect timing to answer a question we had asked in [...]
As I have dialled into the multitude of digital nomad media, I have gradually discovered those who have clustered together edgy inquiries amidst the interstitial zones of the flow of change. I now notice many partial truths are lighting up the city. This morning I wondered if there is a meta-pattern to the intelligences? [...]
By Marilyn Hamilton for Enlivening Edge Magazine This article was adapted for Enlivening Edge Magazine with a focus Organizations from an examination of Power in Cities as the editorial in Integral City’s December 2019 Newsletter: Gaia’s Reflective Organ: Power: Over, With and As. Power Over In today’s world too often, Power is associated [...]
My husband, Peter Dobson, was Scottish and proud of the clan motto of his army division “Sans Peur”. Without fear. It is a motto that we could do well to follow as the pandemic covid19 flows around the world with an eerie inevitability marked with obsessive reporting by every extant media channel. But [...]
This is a guest blog by, Govert Van Ginkel, Graduate of Integral City Beyond Smart and Beyond Resilient Courses I was asked in the Integral City online community, “What Energizes You About a City You Have Visited?” I think what I appreciate most about a city is when it has a heart. A city [...]
This is a summary of a Plenary/Workshop offered by by Marilyn Hamilton, PhD, Founder Integral City Meshworks to the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, Day Conference, Spiritualities, True Professionalism and Aligned Action: Discerning the True, Good and Beautiful. It was presented on October 26, 2019 I “professed” the story of my Spiritual AQtivation through the [...]
What happens when we turn up in our organizations and discover the presence of a “pebble”? Our human systems are living through a time when a small act can cause an enormous result—like the power of a pebble to precipitate a land slide or an avalanche. When I look at a city and [...]