Villa Unspunnen, Interlaken, Switzerland · August 25–29, 2025 A Living Field for the Integral City There are moments when a gathering becomes more than a retreat. More than a program. More even than a shared intention. The Spirit of Oneness Retreat, held at Villa Unspunnen in the heart of Europe, was one such moment [...]
By the time we reached the June Solstice of 2025, something had unmistakably shifted. The call of the Planetary Soul, heard earlier in the year, had begun to work its way through human systems — communities, cities, institutions, and relationships. What had been sensed in March was now inhabited. June revealed the Human Hive [...]
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 [...]
From the Personal to the Planetary Ecovillage Findhorn may be a small community, yet the frameworks it draws upon — Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics, and systems thinking — are designed to scale consciousness from the personal to the planetary. Fractal Patterns of Development Over the course of my career, nurturing human systems, I [...]
Findhorn stands as both a **laboratory** and a **beacon**: a small-scale, spiritually rooted, regenerative ecology that mirrors the dynamics of whole cities and contributes to the healing of meta-crises at planetary scale. This series of blogs will explore key themes that emerged from Marilyn Hamilton’s interview with Ruby Livingston in early September 2025. [...]
Just as Christiane Seuhs-Schoeller had been invited to open Integral European Conference 2025, she was also invited to close it. And she did so with this beautiful poem. The Matriarch's Call.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]