There comes a moment in every cycle of transformation when preparation gives way to presence. Not because the work is finished — but because the threshold has revealed itself. As we approach the December Solstice of 2025, it is increasingly clear that this year has not been a sequence of disconnected events, but a [...]
By the time we reached the September Equinox of 2025, the question was no longer whether our systems were breaking down — but whether we could see clearly what the breaking was making possible. The year 2025 had already carried us far. In March, we remembered the Planetary Soul — the deep intelligence [...]
By the time we reached the June Solstice of 2025, something had unmistakably shifted. The call of the Planetary Soul, heard earlier in the year, had begun to work its way through human systems — communities, cities, institutions, and relationships. What had been sensed in March was now inhabited. June revealed the Human Hive [...]
There are moments in our collective journey when something ancient stirs beneath our feet — a tremor, a whisper, a pulse rising through the living body of the Earth. The beginning of 2025 felt like such a moment. Even as the world wrestled with fragmentation, volatility, and a rising chorus of collapse narratives, another [...]
The year 2025 unfolded as a living journey — not in straight lines, but through awakenings, dissolutions, and thresholds. Across the Solstices and Equinox, a deeper pattern revealed itself: a movement from remembering the Planetary Soul, through human metamorphosis and systemic cracks, toward the emergence of new coherence. This four-part blog series traces that [...]
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, [...]
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 Regenerating Our Planet's Soul. March 2025 Equinotes are drawn from these publications: Integral City – Enemy or Ally [...]
This clutch of blogs explores the thinking and background that goes into developing an Ecovillage as it matures from teenager to young adult: How to re-think the stewardship of Commons? How to transfer land holdings from a founding organization to the community? How to design Governance for a community of organizations? How to develop [...]
Where has the Blogger in Chief been for the last couple of months? True confessions - I have been contributing in various ways to the life of Park Ecovillage Findhorn (and assisting Learning Cities. Earth to expand into a Swiss Association (Verein) and Community Interest Company (CIC in Scotland - but those are another [...]
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 [...]