23 04, 2025

Sing the Song of Democracy – Stephen Dinan Breaks Deafening Silence

By |2025-04-23T08:46:29+00:00April 23rd, 2025|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Complex Challenges, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM|0 Comments

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 [...]

16 01, 2025

Second Sapiens: The Rise of the Planetary Mind and The Future of Humanity

By |2025-01-17T15:37:27+00:00January 16th, 2025|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Capacity Building, Caring, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, Level 9 Coral, Navigating - IVSM|1 Comment

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 [...]

21 12, 2024

Metablog 2024

By |2024-12-21T13:19:59+00:00December 21st, 2024|D. Strategic Intelligences, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Meta Blog, Navigating - IVSM, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

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 [...]

16 12, 2024

Integral City Ecosystem of the Year 2024: Neighbourocracy, Children’s Parliaments, SONEC

By |2024-12-21T21:44:07+00:00December 16th, 2024|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, City of Year, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

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 [...]

14 06, 2024

Is it Easier to Live in a City than an Ecovillage? Appreciating the Fields of Ecovillages, Places/Urban Ecosystems, 4th Voices

By |2024-06-17T11:11:14+00:00June 14th, 2024|C. Collective Intelligences, Change, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Navigating - IVSM|0 Comments

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 [...]

18 12, 2023

Integral City Network of Year 2023: Global Ecovillage Network

By |2023-12-23T13:08:43+00:00December 18th, 2023|B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, City of Year, D. Strategic Intelligences, Inner, Inquiry, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

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 [...]

8 12, 2023

Gaia Learns – Mycelial Morphic Fields

By |2023-12-26T14:39:01+00:00December 8th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, Change, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Lifecycle, Navigating - IVSM|0 Comments

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 [...]

8 12, 2023

Gaia Learns – Start With a Breath

By |2023-12-23T13:15:57+00:00December 8th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, H. Research, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Reframing|0 Comments

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 [...]

12 09, 2023

Beyond Cracks, Breaks, Collapses: The Light of Divine Fire

By |2023-10-21T10:45:33+00:00September 12th, 2023|Householder Dharma, Navigating - IVSM, Spirituality, Storytelling - Cultures|0 Comments

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 [...]

6 09, 2023

Artificial Intelligence or Amplified Intelligences in the Integral City?

By |2023-09-06T09:15:27+00:00September 6th, 2023|A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Level 8 Turquoise, Level 9 Coral, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|2 Comments

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 [...]

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