Equinotes are published periodically drawing on the Archives of Integral City's Reflective Organ Newsletter, Blogs, Books and Website. The perspectives of Equinotes weave across: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is: Who Are We Becoming? Stories for Regenerating the Human Hive September 2026 Equinotes are drawn from these publications: At this [...]
Emergent Leadership: Applied Mysticism for Complex Times by Robin Alfred What I like about this book is that it explores leadership through multiple frameworks – including evolutionary, emergent ones – opening paths that make the mystical dimensions of leadership accessible and practical without overwhelming the reader. Robin shares the experience of leadership through [...]
"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 [...]
Villa Unspunnen, Interlaken, Switzerland · August 25–29, 2025 A Living Field for the Integral City There are moments when a gathering becomes more than a retreat. More than a program. More even than a shared intention. The Spirit of Oneness Retreat, held at Villa Unspunnen in the heart of Europe, was one such moment [...]
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, [...]
From the Personal to the Planetary Ecovillage Findhorn may be a small community, yet the frameworks it draws upon — Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics, and systems thinking — are designed to scale consciousness from the personal to the planetary. Fractal Patterns of Development Over the course of my career, nurturing human systems, I [...]
Findhorn stands as both a **laboratory** and a **beacon**: a small-scale, spiritually rooted, regenerative ecology that mirrors the dynamics of whole cities and contributes to the healing of meta-crises at planetary scale. This series of blogs will explore key themes that emerged from Marilyn Hamilton’s interview with Ruby Livingston in early September 2025. [...]
I am super excited for Earth Day - Join me and all the Co-Founders of Living Cities Earth on 22nd April at the Global Earth Day Summit 2025 (GEDS) where changemakers, leaders, and citizens from across the world unite for the planet. Be part of the first wave of 10,000 attendees! Register here: http://geds.earth/ [...]
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 [...]
In October, 2024 I had the privilege to learn from Iain McGilchrist – the polymath author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things. Iain spoke at the Future of Humanity (a one-day discovery event, sponsored by the Science and Medical Network). McGilchrist proposed that humans were definitely in a polycrisis [...]