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 [...]
The year 2025 unfolded as a living journey — not in straight lines, but through awakenings, dissolutions, and thresholds. Across the Solstices and Equinox, a deeper pattern revealed itself: a movement from remembering the Planetary Soul, through human metamorphosis and systemic cracks, toward the emergence of new coherence. This four-part blog series traces that [...]
The Alchemy of Collapse: World work through networks of light, and on making the impossible possible Guest Author: Daniel Mihai, Editorial Steward: Tamara Mathew This is a guest blog - in the category of "Householder Dharma" from Ecovillage Findhorn - by author, "Regenerativist", Daniel Mihai. Daniel came to visit Marilyn Hamilton in Ecovillage Findhorn [...]
Sometimes life delivers a tiny sign that hums with meaning. Recently, my housemate Judy found a new £1 coin — freshly minted for 2023 — celebrating the humble honey bee. On one side, the portrait of King Charles III; on the other, the intricate design of bees gathering around a honeycomb. What caught [...]
At IEC 2025, the theme of Finding Wholeness for an Integral Age rang through many contributions. Among them, Dr. Elke Fein’s keynote on Wholeness in Politics and my own workshop on AQtivating Soul Power for Cities in Metacrisis revealed strikingly parallel paths. One spoke the language of politics, the other the language of cities. [...]
At IEC 2025 we heard many voices exploring how transformation unfolds in the face of our global metacrises. Two perspectives seemed to mirror and amplify each other: Karen O’Brien’s invitation to see ourselves as fractals of change and my own exploration of AQtivating Soul Power for cities in crisis. Though spoken in different idioms, [...]
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 [...]
At the Heart of Great Shift At the heart of every great shift lies a whisper — a still, small voice that invites us to imagine life differently. For one who arrived at Ecovillage Findhorn, that whisper became a call: What if you lived here? Hearing the Whisper For me, the call first [...]
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 People. The unusual and captivating hero of this book is the city. Not an inert mass of buildings, but a collective, a hive, a holarchy that [...]
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 [...]