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 [...]
There comes a moment in every cycle of transformation when preparation gives way to presence. Not because the work is finished — but because the threshold has revealed itself. As we approach the December Solstice of 2025, it is increasingly clear that this year has not been a sequence of disconnected events, but a [...]
By the time we reached the September Equinox of 2025, the question was no longer whether our systems were breaking down — but whether we could see clearly what the breaking was making possible. The year 2025 had already carried us far. In March, we remembered the Planetary Soul — the deep intelligence [...]
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 [...]
There are moments in our collective journey when something ancient stirs beneath our feet — a tremor, a whisper, a pulse rising through the living body of the Earth. The beginning of 2025 felt like such a moment. Even as the world wrestled with fragmentation, volatility, and a rising chorus of collapse narratives, another [...]
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 [...]
This beautiful poem was composed by Dr. Julie Krull in service to World Unity Week. It so powerfully aligns with Integral City's intention to reconnect the Soul of the City through Beauty, Truth and Goodness that I asked permission to publish it here. Many thanks to Julie's Mainstreet Mystic Spirit for her golden agreement. [...]
As summer unfurls across the Northern Hemisphere, and winter expands across the Southern hemisphere, the natural world reminds us: transformation is not linear. It is a dance of unfolding — messy, mysterious, and necessary. In the same way that caterpillars surrender to the chrysalis, cities around the world are entering their own season of [...]
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.
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 [...]