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 [...]
On October 30, 2020 - on the eve of the 2020 American elections, Integral City published this prayer from Sue Cooper - who, along with Integral City's Marilyn Hamilton is a Co-Founder of Living Cities. Earth. It seems more appropriate than ever to re-publish this prayer today - just on the eve of the [...]
In the Pandemic City we all have the opportunity to multiply the antibodies that can strengthen our immune systems against the Covid19 virus. The secret is to practise the Karma Yoga of the Master Code of Care. At the beginning of each day we can ask ourselves: "How do I/we intend to Care for [...]
The greater Findhorn community lost a dearly beloved Master Community Carer February 24, 2020, when Fay Blackburn died. Fay, born in Yorkshire and a sometime resident in Canada had lived in Findhorn since the 1990’s. Since her passing, Fay has been recognized, mourned, remembered and celebrated in Findhorn meditations, Taizé singing, at the [...]
Gaia in her wisdom has created us as a fractal of her patterns. Like her we have organs made from the substances of her creation: we are bone of her bone, flesh of her flesh, heart of her heart and mind of her mind. So, in contemplating a City of Peace we must [...]
Aliveness requires three processes: surviving, connecting to my environment and regenerating. Grief has a way of interfering in the practice of all three activities that make aliveness feel no longer attainable and seemingly not winnable. But grief also calls forth a recovery process that uses the relationship between these three practices like a scaffold that [...]
The Integral City 2.0 Online Conference gathered 60 visionary thought leaders, designers and practitioners, with 600 participants from 6 continents, to inquire into how to design a new operating system for the city. The 12-day Conference allowed exploration of each of the 12 intelligences from the book, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, [...]