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30 06, 2025

How the Soul of the City is Revealed through 12 Intelligences

By Marilyn Hamilton|2025-06-30T13:01:31+00:00June 30th, 2025|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, D. Strategic Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Lifecycle, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Outer, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: beauty, goodness, integral city intelligences, Soul of the City, truth, whole systems thinking|0 Comments

This is an invitation, to explore this page: https://integralcity.com/voices-intelligences/, which outlines the 12 Intelligences of the Integral City across four quadrants: (Upper Left: Individual-Interior, Upper Right: Individual-Exterior, Lower Left: Collective-Interior, Lower Right: Collective-Exterior). Notice how deeply these Intelligences align with Beauty, Truth, and Goodness. Let’s explore how these Intelligences connect cities to their Souls [...]

30 06, 2025

A Golden Thread: For the Keepers of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

By Marilyn Hamilton|2025-06-30T12:52:39+00:00June 30th, 2025|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, Caring, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inner, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: 4 voices of the city, beauty, Golden Thread, goodness, Julie Krull, Keepers, soul, Soul of the City, truth|0 Comments

This beautiful poem was composed by Dr. Julie Krull in service to World Unity Week. It so powerfully aligns with Integral City's intention to reconnect the Soul of the City through Beauty, Truth and Goodness that I asked permission to publish it here. Many thanks to Julie's Mainstreet Mystic Spirit for her golden agreement. [...]

21 12, 2024

Reflective Organ Newsletter December Solstice 2024: Soul Power as Beauty Truth Goodness

By Marilyn Hamilton|2025-01-03T21:27:09+00:00December 21st, 2024|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Caring, City of Year, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Newsletter, Spiritual intelligence, Spirituality|Tags: 2024, Alastair McIntosh, beauty, Children's Parliaments, elisabet sahtouris, Elza Maalouf, Emerge, goodness, Jude Currivan, Julie Krull, Master Code, McGilcrhist, Meshworker of the Year Award, Neighbourocracy, Nish Dubashia, Soil and Soul, SONEC, Soul Filaments, Sue Cooper, The Master and His Emissary, The Matter with Things, truth|2 Comments

This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Power. Beauty Truth Goodness Map 5 conveys the qualities of spirituality in the city. Its zones of Grace, Space and Place reveal where the core spiritual [...]

8 12, 2023

Gaia Learns – Start With a Breath

By Marilyn Hamilton|2023-12-23T13:15:57+00:00December 8th, 2023|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Ecosphere, Emergence, H. Research, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Meshworking, Navigating - IVSM, Reframing|Tags: air, beauty, Big Breath, Earth, Elements, evolution, Fire, Gaia, Gaia's Reflective Organs, goodness, Jude Currivan, truth, water|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 [...]

16 03, 2022

Reflective Organ Newsletter March Equinox 2022: Fact, Fake, Fantasy

By Marilyn Hamilton|2022-04-18T12:46:41+00:00March 16th, 2022|Categories: COP26, Designing Impact, F. Training, Novella, Reframing, Spiritual intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures, Ubiquity University|Tags: 4 voices of the city, CROFT, fact, fake, fantasy, freedom, lanuage, Love Money Money Loves You, novellas, ONEness, Paul Van Schaik, regeneration, Russia, Sarah McCrum, truth, Ukraine, Urban Hub 26|0 Comments

This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Planet. When we take the perspective of Caring for Planet, we gain the Overview of a Living System Cosmology that embraces all of the Cares into [...]

14 03, 2022

Centre for Regeneration ONEness Freedom Truth

By Marilyn Hamilton|2022-04-18T12:43:46+00:00March 14th, 2022|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Integral Maps, Master Intelligence, Short Story|Tags: 4 voices of the city, CANs, CROFT, Donut Economics, freedom, human hive, Map 2, Map 4, Master Code, ONEness, Prosocial, regeneration, Schooling for Planet of Integral Cities, Social Change 2.0, truth|0 Comments

Introducing the Novella Series: Tales of the CROFT Regenerators

2 03, 2022

Beauty, Truth, Goodness: Food for Regenerative City-Bioregion Life

By Marilyn Hamilton|2022-08-15T10:44:43+00:00March 2nd, 2022|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, Caring, Caring, Emergence, Lifecycle, Master Intelligence|Tags: air, beauty, cities as regeneration hubs, Gaia's Regeneration Hubs, goodness, Karma Yoga, Master Code, money, regeneration, regenerative farms, Sarah McCrum, Soil, truth, values, water|0 Comments

As I write the Russians are invading Ukraine. With friends and colleagues on both sides of this war, my heart feels constricted. So, the Integral City karma yoga practice of Caring for Self, Others, Place, Planet is challenging – but vital for city and planetary wellbeing. Vital also for our aspirations that cities can [...]

13 11, 2019

Professing a Spiritual AQtivation

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-11-13T13:40:41+00:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Inner, Journeys to Wellness, Master Intelligence, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: beauty, Gaia's Reflective Organ, goodness, Master Code, truth, wellbeing|0 Comments

This is a summary of a Plenary/Workshop offered by by Marilyn Hamilton, PhD, Founder Integral City Meshworks to the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, Day Conference, Spiritualities, True Professionalism and Aligned Action: Discerning the True, Good and Beautiful. It was presented on October 26, 2019 I “professed” the story of my Spiritual AQtivation through the [...]

26 01, 2019

New Perspectives on Beauty, Goodness and Truth from ccc19 cChallenge

By Marilyn Hamilton|2019-02-19T13:20:06+00:00January 26th, 2019|Categories: Action, B. Individual Intelligences, Book 2, Building - Structures, C. Collective Intelligences, Caring, Designing Impact, Inquiry, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: 1st person perspective, 2nd person perspective, 3rd person perspective, beauty, cChallenge, cChange, change, Climate change, goodness, truth|1 Comment

As I experience the postings from the participants in the cChallenge I am struck that they reveal all three perspectives from which we can view our intended changes. Perspectives are so embedded in our language we usually don’t notice them. But they impart different experiences of the very realities of Beauty, Goodness and Truth [...]

18 09, 2017

Beyond Sustainable Development to Living Fully Alive

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-09-18T18:01:52+00:00September 18th, 2017|Categories: Action, Book 2, Book 3, D. Strategic Intelligences, Designing Impact, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, H. Research, Inquiry, Integral Maps, Placecaring, Placemaking, Spirituality|Tags: aliveness, beauty, Christopher Alexander, Fully Alive, goodness, integral city intelligences, Map 1, Map 2, Map 3, Map 4, Map 5, Master Code, Pattern Dynamics, Sahtouris, SDG, truth|4 Comments

As a radical optimist called to consider the purpose and value of the city, I have usually found the whole approach to sustainable development somewhat limiting (see previous article). The assumption which most inspires me about the city is one I learned from James Lovelock, author of the Gaia hypothesis. Despite all the shortcomings [...]