These Equi-Notes are published periodically drawing on the Archives of Integral City's Reflective Organ Newsletter, Blogs, Books and Website. The perspectives of Equi-Notes weave across: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is the Roots of City Peace in Joy and Care. These Equinotes are drawn from these publications: Ingredients [...]
This is a series of blogs inspired by the Edinburgh International Centre for Sustainability and Peace, 2023 Forum: Connecting with Community in the 21st Centure: Spiritual, Social, Policy Perspectives. This was delivered by Marilyn Hamilton, March 1, 2023. Because we are so connected through Communities of Interest, Living, Culture , Practise and Nature [...]
This is a series of blogs inspired by the Edinburgh International Centre for Sustainability and Peace, 2023 Forum: Connecting with Community in the 21st Centure: Spiritual, Social, Policy Perspectives. This was delivered by Marilyn Hamilton, March 1, 2023. Findhorn is a community that embraces living within both Spiritual and Ecological values. Spiritually and [...]
Islands of Calm Meditations, on Saturday mornings started on Zoom and continue on Zoom so that we can ripple calm out from Findhorn across the world every week. From the original disturbance to our systems starting with Covid threats and lockdown isolations, we have become aware how life conditions in the world can [...]
David Robinson, initiator of the Findhorn Zoom Taize Community, invited me to share a few thoughts about Being in the World in 2023. This is what I shared with the Findhorn Zoom Taize Community on January 1, 2023. If David had asked me about Being in the World in 2020 I would have [...]
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. Celebrating Our Cities as Power Places of Recalibration in 2022-23 If you want to improve the health of a system, connect it to more of [...]
How do you react to the word "Master"? I have always associated "master" with mastery – the successful learning of some practice. It represents a maturing of skills and experience and adeptness. It is the top level of a series of stages from apprentice to journeyperson to master. It represents a superordinate category [...]
As we amplify the influence of the Integral City paradigm, we are co-midwifing a planet of Integral Cities through the emergence of Living Cities Earth. Our impulse is attracting co-creators (more than 25 at writing). Seeking ways to align our multiple, trans-generational, trans-cultural perspectives we have been inspired to weave our narrative into the [...]
During her lifetime Queen Elizabeth II was the queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations. Her affinities were clearly joined to Britain internally and externally. At the same time, her 70 years of power, authority and influence gave her a natural position of “overview”. She had a sense of not only her [...]
CAPI – Coalescing Authority Power and Influence – a term coined by Ichak Adizes – is usually applied to organizational relationships and impacts. But the death of Queen Elizabeth II may engender the grandest CAPI that has never been contemplated. For on a global scale, September 19, 2022 will see the greatest confluence of [...]