Seeds of Light How the Wind Helps Us Become Who We Already Are A Canada Day Reflection by Marilyn Hamilton for the Findhorn Foundation Seeds of Light Experience. Every July 1, Canadians celebrate the maple leaf. This year, on Canada Day, I found myself thinking not of the leaf, but of the maple seed. [...]
This is an article originally posted in Park Ecovillage Findhorn's Rainbow Bridge e-zine. It is a Dharma Talk Updating I, We, World on the progress of the Findhorn Foundation SCIO. As we cross the threshold of the Summer Solstice, the Trustees of the Findhorn Foundation SCIO are delighted to share some good news [...]
Perhaps the challenge of our time is not that we lack intelligence. Perhaps it is that we have forgotten how many ways intelligence can manifest. Throughout this series we have explored a remarkable journey. We began with Survival and Soul. We explored how Life organizes herself through Functional Intelligences. How Life cares for herself through [...]
No single bee understands the whole meadow. Yet somehow the hive knows where to go. In the previous article, we explored Attuning Intelligences and discovered that attunement may be one of the ways Gaia listens through us. Through care, resonance, intuition, and relationship, Life becomes aware of herself. But listening is only the [...]
A healthy hive does not depend on heroes. It depends on stewards — and stewardship is Nature remembering how to care through us. Stewarding Intelligences of the Human Hive In the previous article, we explored the Functional Intelligences of the Human Hive. We noticed that every thriving community, organization, and city depends upon [...]
"The city is not merely a collection of people. It is a living system learning how to become conscious of itself." In the first article of this series, I suggested that the journey of our time is a movement from Survival to Soul. Yet soul does not emerge through aspiration alone. It emerges [...]
At Park Ecovillage Findhorn, where I live in northern Scotland, I am fascinated by Rusti’s stone installations. Walkers might discover them all around Park Ecovillage Findhorn and Cullerne Gardens. I was particularly taken with Rusti’s “communities of stone figures.” So far, I have found 3 of them. The first clan emerged in 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 Power. “The first stage of the cycle, called involution, originates at the non-dual ‘source’ that lies at the center of existence where it descends from the [...]
Jonathan Caddy is awarded Integral City Meshworker of the Year 2025 in recognition of a lifetime of meshworking intelligence expressed through land stewardship, education, community governance, and ecological restoration. Born in the original Findhorn caravan to two of the Ecovillage’s founders, Jonathan has spent over six decades weaving together inner guidance, ecological science, [...]
Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWLs) - the collective that is geographically grounded communities of action that organise people, place, and projects to regenerate bioregions is Integral City Weaving Lab of 2025. Between 2025 and 2030, the BWL Collective positions its work as long‑arc, place‑based systems change: weaving ecological regeneration, social cohesion, cultural renewal, economic transformation, [...]