Integral City Meta Blog 2014

Here is the Integral City 2014 Meta Blog. It connects the 4 Voices of the Integral City to the Planet, People, Place and Power that energized us in 2014.

It follows the tradition of Integral City Meta Blog 2013

Integral City Logo History 1989-2014

 

1. Equinox/Solstice Newsletters – Integral City Reflective Organ
   1. Integral City March 2014: Working Together With the Planet in Mind
   2. Integral City June 2014: 4 Voices as Gateways to Goodness in the Human Hive
   3. Integral City Reflective Organ – September Equinox 2014: Celebrating the Power of Place
   4. Integral City Reflective Organ – December Solstice 2014: Celebrating the Mystery of Power
2.  Planet of Integral Cities Milestones 2014
   1. Which Comes First – City Trigger Points or Country Tipping Points?
   2. Cities Will Turn Symbolic Climate Change Handshake into Real Action
   3. ISO Fast Tracks Standard for City Quality of Life
   4. Space Golf – Rosetta Lands Hole-in-One on Par 6 bb Km Hole
   5. Meshworkers of the Year Award 2013 – Planning AS the City
3.  The New Story of the City    ….This collection of dialogic essays were written to celebrate the New Story of the City. We published them in the week of the first World Cities Day(October 31) having first been inspired by Kosmos Journal‘s invitation to tell a new story. Our team of Integral City Constellation Voices, Peer Spirits and Essayists included: Joan Arnott, Alia Aurami, Cherie Beck, Diana Claire Douglas, Marilyn Hamilton, Linda Shore.   The Voices in this dialogue are: Spirit of Integral City, Gaia, City, Peer, and Communities of Practice.    Each voice is introduced by the Stage Directions: Welcome, Connecting One(s), to this sapient circle. We gather here to constellate Indra’s Net for our Planet of Cities around this question “How does Integral City Connect for Change in Service to a Planet of Cities?”.  Welcome to you, Peer Spirits, who long to connect to the City and her Communities of Practice, to Gaia, and to Spirit who energizes us all. Listen … Spirit of Integral City peaks …
   1. Spirit of Integral City Celebrates Global Oneness Day
   2. Gaia Whispers to Change Seekers
   3. Integral City Dances With Peer Spirits
   4. Integral City Connects Communities of Practice
   5. Integral City Celebrates World Cities Day
4.  4 Voices of the City
   1. 4 Voices of Integral City: A Quadrivium of Case Studies
      1. Imagine Abbotsford: Citizen Voice Grows Sustainable City Vision
      2. Developing Durant: Business Voice Catalyses All 4 Voices of the City
      3. Ekurhuleni’s Future: Civic Managers Create Habitat for Wellbeing
      4. Encouraging the Heart of Leon: Civil Society Integrates 4 Voices
   2. Integral City Blog – On the Move with 4 Voices     Research on 4 Voices of the Human Hive from Learning Lhabitats at the Integral Theory Conference 2013,Federation of Canadian Municipalities Sustainability Conference 2014 and Integral Europe Conference  2014. 
      1. Voices of the Citizen Resound from 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities
      2. Voices of Business Open 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities
      3. Voices of Civic Managers Bridge 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities
      4. Voices of Civil Society Align in 3 Gateways to Planet of Cities
5.  Integral City Connects with 4 Voices in Russia
   1. Preamble Russian Book Launch in Moscow: Gateways to Wellbeing in Integral City
   2. The West and Russia: A Divergence of Values?
   3.  Russia Behind the Double Veil: Using Integral Eyes to See Russia’s Cities
6.  Reinventing Organizations to Reinvent the City
   1. How Might Reinventing Organizations Reinvent the City?
   2. On-Purpose Organizations Seed On-Purpose Cities
   3. Organic Strategies Meshwork Integral Cities
   4. Organic Strategies Reinvent Integral Cities
   5. City as Dojo for Reinventing Organizations
7.  How to Optimize Integral City Impact (as inspired by Dr. Roger Walsh at Integral Europe Conference 2014)
   1. How to Optimize the Impact of Integral City Work
   2. How Adult Development Creates Conditions to Optimize Integral City Impact
   3. How to Optimize the Impact of Integral City Work from Direct Experience and Deep Wisdom
   4.  How to Optimize Integral City Impact as Integral Practitioners
   5. How to Optimize Integral City Impact with Community of Practice
   6. How to Optimize Integral City Impact Through Transconventional Religion
   7. How to Optimize Integral City Impact By Getting Ideas Out to the World
   8. How to Optimize Integral City Impact as an Accomplice to the Divine
   9. How to Optimize Integral City Impact as Spiritual Practice
8.  On Remembering
   1. On Remembering: The Future of Peace
   2. Remembering the Harms
   3. Remembering Lives and ALL LIFE
9.  Poems for Integral Cities
   1. Could There Be a Council of Cities (Check-Out Wisdom-Poem from Learning Lhabitat, Working Together, Opening Gateways in the Human Hive, Integral Europe Conference, May 8, 2014)
   2. Canada Day: Dance With the Maple Leaf Memelights
   3. Perhaps the Earth Can Teach Us … to Be Alive

 

 

 

 

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Remembering Lives and ALL LIFE

Remembrance Day has traditionally commemorated human life lost in defense of our freedoms. We long for Peace.

World Peace Flame, Palace of Peace, den Haag, NL

But as our worlds have expanded the dimensions of space, time and moral influence, so too have we expanded the “reach” of peace.

We have grown Traditional Peace – between tribes – into Pre-Modern Peace – between worldviews. From there we have grown Modern Peace – between economies into Post-Modern Peace – between nations. And now that we see ourselves from space, without national boundaries, we have grown into an era of Post-Post Modern Peace – aspiring to span across One Earth.

And as we view Peace through a transglobal lens, is it now time to consider an evolution of Peace that transcends our species? Are we being called to make peace with all other the species who co-exist with us on this planet?  A growing group are calling our attention to eradicate what they call ecocide – the loss of ecological systems because of human actions.

If we truly want to remember lives lost in the evolutionary battles of life, is it time to remember the loss of all species who have fallen from the Tree of Life? And beyond the leaves, twigs and branches of life that have been lost along evolution’s path, shall we remember the water and soil and all the elements that feed the roots of our Tree of Life? Today can we pause for a moment before the Flame of Peace, to remember, with gratitude, how all life has contributed to the miracle of our existence today? Let us wrap into the minute of Silence we celebrate today, not just lives remembered, but ALL LIFE remembered.

It is another way that we can practice the Master Code: Take care of yourself, take care of others, take care of this place, take care of this planet.

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Remembering the Harms

When I think about harm, I am generally trying to ward off the harm others or circumstances might do to me.

 

World Peace Flame

The human species has evolved through a continuous onslaught of external threats from the natural world that have taught us to avoid, remove, reduce or prevent harm in a thousand ways.

However, as we have evolved other sources of harm have also always been with us – namely the harms that we do to ourselves and that reside internally in our individual and collective lives.

The wisdom traditions all invoke some version of the golden rule – that we do no harm to others, and that no harm is done to us. This injunction has universal power.

I have written in depth about the stratification of threats that human actions have unwittingly released upon the world, and how they destroy human security. The exposure to these interdependent threats has become a fact of life for all life (not just human life) on this planet.

What’s more, the potential external impact of our internal creative capacity is now so huge, we may have the power to do more damage to life on this planet, than the whole stack of external natural threats combined.

I want to believe this is not my problem. My individual capacity for doing harm is so small as not to make much or any difference on the rest of life. But if I aspire to be the enlightened being who is the Shambhala warrior, I must carry the swords of insight and compassion … and at the same time do no harm. So perhaps noticing my potential for causing harm is a discipline and a responsibility that I must practice?

Where to start? Start anywhere and follow where it leads. Ok I will start with basic questions that I can ask myself every day to expand my awareness of the harm I might have caused in my everyday life. And I will listen for the still small voice that whispers the PRACTICE THAT OPENS THE DOOR TO MITIGATING THE HARM.

1. How did I protect the water I used to drink, cook, bathe, recycle? What do I know about how the basic foodstuffs I consumed are produced, processed, delivered, prepared? How did I reduce my eco-footprint? BE GRATEFUL
2. How do I belong to the place where I live? How did I connect my person to my place in Earth’s environment, eco-region, cycles, seasons and resources? How did I belong and offer support to my family, tribes, culture, neighbourhood? BE KIND
3. How did I express my natural voice, inspire others and find freedom without infringing on the voice, actions or freedoms of others? BREATHE, SING
4. How did I respect order and authority that provides structures that align mine and others’ purposes, values, beliefs and commitments? LISTEN
5. How did I obtain results in my work, play and life that were fair to all and sustainable in the long term? How did I share my good fortune? How did I leave the world better than I found it? BE GENEROUS
6. How did I tolerate those who were different than me – older, younger, richer, poorer, sicker, happier, sadder, angrier, more loving, different culture/gender/ethnicity? How was I happy despite the differences and how did I create conditions for others to be happy? ACCEPT
7. How flexible was I with the people, ideas, circumstances and the complexities of life? How did I negotiate the barriers I faced? How did I choose non-violence as an option? FLOW
8. How did I think like a planetary citizen? When did I zoom out to get a bigger picture? Where did I contract to protect my vulnerability? BLESS

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