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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is the Integral City 2024 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2024. It follows the traditions of: Integral City Meta Blog 2023 Integral City Meta Blog 2022 Integral City Meta Blog 2021 Integral City Meta Blog 2020 [...]
This year’s Integral City Award is to an ecosystem with three sub-systems each of which and all together are demonstrating Integral City Intelligences. The first subsystem is Neighbourhood Parliaments – now often know as Neighbourhood Democracy or Neighborocracy. The second is Children’s Parliaments. The third sub-system is SONEC. Let’s consider the “organs” in [...]
What percentage of the community needs to turn up to inquire about community Purpose? Are cities discovering there is a peak size or a form of relationship that enables optimal wellbeing? (and/or climate change responsiveness?) When we notice the tensions between individual agency and collective consciousness is there an uber-voice that presences the whole [...]
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is Integral City Network of the Year 2023. The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) catalyzes communities for a regenerative world. GEN is a growing network of regenerative communities and initiatives that bridge cultures, countries, and continents. GEN builds bridges between the 4+1 Voices of the City - that GEN names [...]
Have cities been created by humans or have they been evolved by Gaia as organs to enable consciousness at a scale that upshifts Gaia’s intelligence? Humans as a relatively young species have imagined that we control the world. If we are in service to Gaia, it must be we who create capacities that have [...]
Our universe started with a Big Breath (not a Big Bang) – so affirms cosmologist, Jude Currivan, author of The Story of Gaia. And from that breath released over 14 billion years ago, in-formation has guided matter and energy to manifest all life – including this planet and all she has created. Gaia [...]
How is life unfolding this Monday morn? I encounter a conversation with 2 friends, where one has the symptoms of a tick bite that could signal Lyme disease. An opportunity to see a doctor cracks open because another mutual friend is driving to the health clinic. But they decline an offer for a [...]
Several days ago George Por appeared in my email. George is an expert in many things but he has long impressed me as a world expert on collective consciousness and a true shaman of human development (and an original action researcher into Integral City 2.0). George asked, “Did you give some thought to how [...]