he old mechanistic paradigm.

Every thing, organism, or animal is a blend of physical and informational patterns. Planetary intelligence is our awareness of the subtle information that every being adds to the whole system, beyond its obvious “usefulness.”

Entraining to Natural Rhythms

Our lives transcend economic functionality and, to be whole, we must pay attention to all of ourselves. In order to connect with all the beings in the system, we need to adopt a flexible rhythm that is universal to the other organisms and the planet as a whole. The rhythms of the machines and electronic devices that we are normally attuned to won’t do this for us because they are designed for efficiency, not for maximum interconnectivity with other components outside their limited boundaries. They are just too controlled. In fact, these devices entrain us to artificial rhythms that are alien to the temporal patterns that we have grown accustomed to for the last few hundred-thousand years. To feel a deep, inner-connectedness, we need to slow down to a speed that is common to the whole planetary system.

When we work with the energy of the planet, it allows us to open up our ourselves to a wider range of frequencies that in turn boost our “planetary potential.” Once we increase our personal energy, we enhance our connection to planetary information.

We tend to think of the Earth solely as a physical or biochemical entity. But another way to perceive the Earth is as an enormous, energetic generator that has its own rhythms and cycles. By feeling connected with the Earth, humans can access information as we have been doing for millions of years. Through the process of synchronized oscillations—that is, feeling entrained to these vibratory patterns—we can share info

Ever since we were very little, we have been put into a box made of ideas, attitudes, belief systems that often make us feel small, limit our personal identity, and distort our sense of well-being. Fitting into these systems, bureaucracies, and other mechanistic processes, entrains us to unnatural rhythms and patterns. Our attention is taken away from ourselves and is instead placed on social constructions and belief systems that do not serve us. We become fearful of life outside of this box and this fear drains our energy.

However, as we become aware of those limitations, we can also learn to listen to the quiet voices inside and around us, voices that we often ignore. By paying attention, we can rediscover the wisdom and magic of nature, and the intelligence of the planet. When we were children we could hear these voices. But as we grew older, we stopped listening and replaced our subtle, internal intelligence with the endless chatter of social judgments and cultural conditioning. Our minds became the home of a mental program written by someone else. As a result, we became isolated and alienated from ourselves and nature’s intelligence.

I'd like to show you how to use simple, natural activities to remedy these distortions in your sense of well-being. Many of these activities involve slowing down and paying attention to life around or inside you. As the interactions in our daily lives speed up, the quality of the information in those interactions goes down. We feel a hunger for a completeness that only arises from integration and coherency: two qualities that are not supported by high speed of modern life. Speeding things up creates a lack of connection to ourselves and the larger universe.

No matter how many years we spent in school, we may still be undereducated in terms of our “planetary intelligence.” Our schooling and education have led us to be aware of our economic and “useful” qualities, but not those aspects of awareness that simply exist unconditionally. We have been conditioned to look outside of ourselves for happiness. Thus, we have become entrained to the rhythms of organizations, machines, and beliefs rather than our natural environment and its resonance.

Very subtle bio-energetic signals are responsible for coordinating our connections to other living things. In order to feel this connection with the natural world around us, we need to slow down and increase our self-awareness of our internal energy processes.

What is Planetary Intelligence? The past few hundred years have seen an unprecedented evolution of technology. While technology has labor-saving benefits, it also creates an accompanying loss of awareness of our connection to the rhythms of nature. Though our great, great grandparents could farm, navigate, or hunt without relying on complex technologies, we have become dependent on sophisticated, external technologies to do these things for us. As a result, we have lost our sense of inner connection with the planet and the temporal cycles that are the basis for millions of years of human evolution. We now live in an “age of missing information.” We have lost the awareness and information that contributes to the feeling of being part of a larger, living system.

Planetary intelligence is a physical and energetic awareness of our body and its connection to the world and universe around us. It is an innate understanding of our relationship to all other living things and our sense of place on the Earth. Rather than focusing our energy on all the social agendas and ideas of what we think we are supposed to be, it is our ability to be sensitive to the moment and all the different forms of energy that life contains. Nature contains lots of information which comes to us through our bodies, not our intellect. Using our planetary intelligence, we become aware of the multitude of relationships that support life on our planet.

Our world of technology and material objects are increasingly driven by efficiency criteria. Despite all the material abundance around us, we often feel an inner hunger and desire for contact with something that is hard to define. This inner craving can often take the form of addictions, to food or entertainment, or an undefinable thirst for satisfaction or contentment. And the more we try to fill this thirst, the emptier we feel.

Increasingly we live in a virtual reality, the collective product of many individual electronic systems communicating and interacting through massive, networked systems. While this machinery may satisfy an economic need for easily available short-term information, it does so at the expense of our physical and physiological well-being. While we used to be more physically active, we now spend many hours a day sitting in front of a television or computer screen. No amount of electronic interaction can substitute for being outdoors in the sunshine and experiencing the changing patterns of nature. The random, interpersonal violence that is present in our lives attests to this imbalance. We must find a way to better balance our virtual with our physiological and planetary needs.

Tapping into the Matrix of Intelligence

The matrix of intelligence is a collective, global phenomena that is the product of the network of animals, plants, and other types of awareness. We have been taught as a society to see intelligence as the product of our own individual minds. In this way, intelligence is defined as something reducible to the capacity of a brain in a single person. Some have suggested that intelligence is related to our emotions and thus have coined the term “emotional intelligence .” However, the idea here is that intelligence is the product of an entire system and is not something that we can possess “individually.” Rather, it is a relationship between oneself and all the information and energy in that system.

We are all intrinsically interconnected with all the other organisms on the planet, whether we realize it or not. We can only survive for a few minutes without oxygen that is produced by trees and plants, a couple days without water, and a couple of weeks without food. Every breath we take reconnects us to the matrix of planetary intelligence. And it isn’t only the material resources we need, it is the energetic properties of these materials too.

Without the awareness of our connection to the other living systems on the planet, we feel increasingly alienated, disconnected, out of place. We feel an inner emptiness that we try to fill with more stuff. We substitute speed and quantity for quality. Thus, being aware of planetary intelligence has many benefits one of which is to increase the amount of information available to us: not just to our brains, but also to our bodies.

Recent medical research shows that our brains and bodies are inseparably linked together to form a “body/mind.” Every thought we have creates chemicals in our bodies. Conversely, those chemicals communicate information to all of our cells. The cells communicate with each other in the form of a huge, biological internet. The idea of a separation between our bodies and our minds is a myth of the old mechanistic paradigm.

Every thing, organism, or animal is a blend of physical and informational patterns. Planetary intelligence is our awareness of the subtle information that every being adds to the whole system, beyond its obvious “usefulness.”

Entraining to Natural Rhythms

Our lives transcend economic functionality and, to be whole, we must pay attention to all of ourselves. In order to connect with all the beings in the system, we need to adopt a flexible rhythm that is universal to the other organisms and the planet as a whole. The rhythms of the machines and electronic devices that we are normally attuned to won’t do this for us because they are designed for efficiency, not for maximum interconnectivity with other components outside their limited boundaries. They are just too controlled. In fact, these devices entrain us to artificial rhythms that are alien to the temporal patterns that we have grown accustomed to for the last few hundred-thousand years. To feel a deep, inner-connectedness, we need to slow down to a speed that is common to the whole planetary system.

When we work with the energy of the planet, it allows us to open up our ourselves to a wider range of frequencies that in turn boost our “planetary potential.” Once we increase our personal energy, we enhance our connection to planetary information.

We tend to think of the Earth solely as a physical or biochemical entity. But another way to perceive the Earth is as an enormous, energetic generator that has its own rhythms and cycles. By feeling connected with the Earth, humans can access information as we have been doing for millions of years. Through the process of synchronized oscillations—that is, feeling entrained to these vibratory patterns—we can share infor

n terms of our “planetary intelligence.” Our schooling and education have led us to be aware of our economic and “useful” qualities, but not those aspects of awareness that simply exist unconditionally. We have been conditioned to look outside of ourselves for happiness. Thus, we have become entrained to the rhythms of organizations, machines, and beliefs rather than our natural environment and its resonance.

Very subtle bio-energetic signals are responsible for coordinating our connections to other living things. In order to feel this connection with the natural world around us, we need to slow down and increase our self-awareness of our internal energy processes.

What is Planetary Intelligence? The past few hundred years have seen an unprecedented evolution of technology. While technology has labor-saving benefits, it also creates an accompanying loss of awareness of our connection to the rhythms of nature. Though our great, great grandparents could farm, navigate, or hunt without relying on complex technologies, we have become dependent on sophisticated, external technologies to do these things for us. As a result, we have lost our sense of inner connection with the planet and the temporal cycles that are the basis for millions of years of human evolution. We now live in an “age of missing information.” We have lost the awareness and information that contributes to the feeling of being part of a larger, living system.

Planetary intelligence is a physical and energetic awareness of our body and its connection to the world and universe around us. It is an innate understanding of our relationship to all other living things and our sense of place on the Earth. Rather than focusing our energy on all the social agendas and ideas of what we think we are supposed to be, it is our ability to be sensitive to the moment and all the different forms of energy that life contains. Nature contains lots of information which comes to us through our bodies, not our intellect. Using our planetary intelligence, we become aware of the multitude of relationships that support life on our planet.

Our world of technology and material objects are increasingly driven by efficiency criteria. Despite all the material abundance around us, we often feel an inner hunger and desire for contact with something that is hard to define. This inner craving can often take the form of addictions, to food or entertainment, or an undefinable thirst for satisfaction or contentment. And the more we try to fill this thirst, the emptier we feel.

Increasingly we live in a virtual reality, the collective product of many individual electronic systems communicating and interacting through massive, networked systems. While this machinery may satisfy an economic need for easily available short-term information, it does so at the expense of our physical and physiological well-being. While we used to be more physically active, we now spend many hours a day sitting in front of a television or computer screen. No amount of electronic interaction can substitute for being outdoors in the sunshine and experiencing the changing patterns of nature. The random, interpersonal violence that is present in our lives attests to this imbalance. We must find a way to better balance our virtual with our physiological and planetary needs.

Tapping into the Matrix of Intelligence

The matrix of intelligence is a collective, global phenomena that is the product of the network of animals, plants, and other types of awareness. We have been taught as a society to see intelligence as the product of our own individual minds. In this way, intelligence is defined as something reducible to the capacity of a brain in a single person. Some have suggested that intelligence is related to our emotions and thus have coined the term “emotional intelligence .” However, the idea here is that intelligence is the product of an entire system and is not something that we can possess “individually.” Rather, it is a relationship between oneself and all the information and energy in that system.

We are all intrinsically interconnected with all the other organisms on the planet, whether we realize it or not. We can only survive for a few minutes without oxygen that is produced by trees and plants, a couple days without water, and a couple of weeks without food. Every breath we take reconnects us to the matrix of planetary intelligence. And it isn’t only the material resources we need, it is the energetic properties of these materials too.

Without the awareness of our connection to the other living systems on the planet, we feel increasingly alienated, disconnected, out of place. We feel an inner emptiness that we try to fill with more stuff. We substitute speed and quantity for quality. Thus, being aware of planetary intelligence has many benefits one of which is to increase the amount of information available to us: not just to our brains, but also to our bodies.

Recent medical research shows that our brains and bodies are inseparably linked together to form a “body/mind.” Every thought we have creates chemicals in our bodies. Conversely, those chemicals communicate information to all of our cells. The cells communicate with each other in the form of a huge, biological internet. The idea of a separation between our bodies and our minds is a myth of the old mechanistic paradigm.

Every thing, organism, or animal is a blend of physical and informational patterns. Planetary intelligence is our awareness of the subtle information that every being adds to the whole system, beyond its obvious “usefulness.”

Entraining to Natural Rhythms

Our lives transcend economic functionality and, to be whole, we must pay attention to all of ourselves. In order to connect with all the beings in the system, we need to adopt a flexible rhythm that is universal to the other organisms and the planet as a whole. The rhythms of the machines and electronic devices that we are normally attuned to won’t do this for us because they are designed for efficiency, not for maximum interconnectivity with other components outside their limited boundaries. They are just too controlled. In fact, these devices entrain us to artificial rhythms that are alien to the temporal patterns that we have grown accustomed to for the last few hundred-thousand years. To feel a deep, inner-connectedness, we need to slow down to a speed that is common to the whole planetary system.

When we work with the energy of the planet, it allows us to open up our ourselves to a wider range of frequencies that in turn boost our “planetary potential.” Once we increase our personal energy, we enhance our connection to planetary information.

We tend to think of the Earth solely as a physical or biochemical entity. But another way to perceive the Earth is as an enormous, energetic generator that has its own rhythms and cycles. By feeling connected with the Earth, humans can access information as we have been doing for millions of years. Through the process of synchronized oscillations—that is, feeling entrained to these vibratory patterns—we can share info

supposed to be, it is our ability to be sensitive to the moment and all the different forms of energy that life contains. Nature contains lots of information which comes to us through our bodies, not our intellect. Using our planetary intelligence, we become aware of the multitude of relationships that support life on our planet.

Our world of technology and material objects are increasingly driven by efficiency criteria. Despite all the material abundance around us, we often feel an inner hunger and desire for contact with something that is hard to define. This inner craving can often take the form of addictions, to food or entertainment, or an undefinable thirst for satisfaction or contentment. And the more we try to fill this thirst, the emptier we feel.

Increasingly we live in a virtual reality, the collective product of many individual electronic systems communicating and interacting through massive, networked systems. While this machinery may satisfy an economic need for easily available short-term information, it does so at the expense of our physical and physiological well-being. While we used to be more physically active, we now spend many hours a day sitting in front of a television or computer screen. No amount of electronic interaction can substitute for being outdoors in the sunshine and experiencing the changing patterns of nature. The random, interpersonal violence that is present in our lives attests to this imbalance. We must find a way to better balance our virtual with our physiological and planetary needs.

Tapping into the Matrix of Intelligence

The matrix of intelligence is a collective, global phenomena that is the product of the network of animals, plants, and other types of awareness. We have been taught as a society to see intelligence as the product of our own individual minds. In this way, intelligence is defined as something reducible to the capacity of a brain in a single person. Some have suggested that intelligence is related to our emotions and thus have coined the term “emotional intelligence .” However, the idea here is that intelligence is the product of an entire system and is not something that we can possess “individually.” Rather, it is a relationship between oneself and all the information and energy in that system.

We are all intrinsically interconnected with all the other organisms on the planet, whether we realize it or not. We can only survive for a few minutes without oxygen that is produced by trees and plants, a couple days without water, and a couple of weeks without food. Every breath we take reconnects us to the matrix of planetary intelligence. And it isn’t only the material resources we need, it is the energetic properties of these materials too.

Without the awareness of our connection to the other living systems on the planet, we feel increasingly alienated, disconnected, out of place. We feel an inner emptiness that we try to fill with more stuff. We substitute speed and quantity for quality. Thus, being aware of planetary intelligence has many benefits one of which is to increase the amount of information available to us: not just to our brains, but also to our bodies.

Recent medical research shows that our brains and bodies are inseparably linked together to form a “body/mind.” Every thought we have creates chemicals in our bodies. Conversely, those chemicals communicate information to all of our cells. The cells communicate with each other in the form of a huge, biological internet. The idea of a separation between our bodies and our minds is a myth of the old mechanistic paradigm.

Every thing, organism, or animal is a blend of physical and informational patterns. Planetary intelligence is our awareness of the subtle information that every being adds to the whole system, beyond its obvious “usefulness.”

Entraining to Natural Rhythms

Our lives transcend economic functionality and, to be whole, we must pay attention to all of ourselves. In order to connect with all the beings in the system, we need to adopt a flexible rhythm that is universal to the other organisms and the planet as a whole. The rhythms of the machines and electronic devices that we are normally attuned to won’t do this for us because they are designed for efficiency, not for maximum interconnectivity with other components outside their limited boundaries. They are just too controlled. In fact, these devices entrain us to artificial rhythms that are alien to the temporal patterns that we have grown accustomed to for the last few hundred-thousand years. To feel a deep, inner-connectedness, we need to slow down to a speed that is common to the whole planetary system.

When we work with the energy of the planet, it allows us to open up our ourselves to a wider range of frequencies that in turn boost our “planetary potential.” Once we increase our personal energy, we enhance our connection to planetary information.

We tend to think of the Earth solely as a physical or biochemical entity. But another way to perceive the Earth is as an enormous, energetic generator that has its own rhythms and cycles. By feeling connected with the Earth, humans can access information as we have been doing for millions of years. Through the process of synchronized oscillations—that is, feeling entrained to these vibratory patterns—we can share info

intelligence as the product of our own individual minds. In this way, intelligence is defined as something reducible to the capacity of a brain in a single person. Some have suggested that intelligence is related to our emotions and thus have coined the term “emotional intelligence .” However, the idea here is that intelligence is the product of an entire system and is not something that we can possess “individually.” Rather, it is a relationship between oneself and all the information and energy in that system.

We are all intrinsically interconnected with all the other organisms on the planet, whether we realize it or not. We can only survive for a few minutes without oxygen that is produced by trees and plants, a couple days without water, and a couple of weeks without food. Every breath we take reconnects us to the matrix of planetary intelligence. And it isn’t only the material resources we need, it is the energetic properties of these materials too.

Without the awareness of our connection to the other living systems on the planet, we feel increasingly alienated, disconnected, out of place. We feel an inner emptiness that we try to fill with more stuff. We substitute speed and quantity for quality. Thus, being aware of planetary intelligence has many benefits one of which is to increase the amount of information available to us: not just to our brains, but also to our bodies.

Recent medical research shows that our brains and bodies are inseparably linked together to form a “body/mind.” Every thought we have creates chemicals in our bodies. Conversely, those chemicals communicate information to all of our cells. The cells communicate with each other in the form of a huge, biological internet. The idea of a separation between our bodies and our minds is a myth of the old mechanistic paradigm.

Every thing, organism, or animal is a blend of physical and informational patterns. Planetary intelligence is our awareness of the subtle information that every being adds to the whole system, beyond its obvious “usefulness.”

Entraining to Natural Rhythms

Our lives transcend economic functionality and, to be whole, we must pay attention to all of ourselves. In order to connect with all the beings in the system, we need to adopt a flexible rhythm that is universal to the other organisms and the planet as a whole. The rhythms of the machines and electronic devices that we are normally attuned to won’t do this for us because they are designed for efficiency, not for maximum interconnectivity with other components outside their limited boundaries. They are just too controlled. In fact, these devices entrain us to artificial rhythms that are alien to the temporal patterns that we have grown accustomed to for the last few hundred-thousand years. To feel a deep, inner-connectedness, we need to slow down to a speed that is common to the whole planetary system.

When we work with the energy of the planet, it allows us to open up our ourselves to a wider range of frequencies that in turn boost our “planetary potential.” Once we increase our personal energy, we enhance our connection to planetary information.

We tend to think of the Earth solely as a physical or biochemical entity. But another way to perceive the Earth is as an enormous, energetic generator that has its own rhythms and cycles. By feeling connected with the Earth, humans can access information as we have been doing for millions of years. Through the process of synchronized oscillations—that is, feeling entrained to these vibratory patterns—we can share info

he old mechanistic paradigm.

Every thing, organism, or animal is a blend of physical and informational patterns. Planetary intelligence is our awareness of the subtle information that every being adds to the whole system, beyond its obvious “usefulness.”

Entraining to Natural Rhythms

Our lives transcend economic functionality and, to be whole, we must pay attention to all of ourselves. In order to connect with all the beings in the system, we need to adopt a flexible rhythm that is universal to the other organisms and the planet as a whole. The rhythms of the machines and electronic devices that we are normally attuned to won’t do this for us because they are designed for efficiency, not for maximum interconnectivity with other components outside their limited boundaries. They are just too controlled. In fact, these devices entrain us to artificial rhythms that are alien to the temporal patterns that we have grown accustomed to for the last few hundred-thousand years. To feel a deep, inner-connectedness, we need to slow down to a speed that is common to the whole planetary system.

When we work with the energy of the planet, it allows us to open up our ourselves to a wider range of frequencies that in turn boost our “planetary potential.” Once we increase our personal energy, we enhance our connection to planetary information.

We tend to think of the Earth solely as a physical or biochemical entity. But another way to perceive the Earth is as an enormous, energetic generator that has its own rhythms and cycles. By feeling connected with the Earth, humans can access information as we have been doing for millions of years. Through the process of synchronized oscillations—that is, feeling entrained to these vibratory patterns—we can share information with everything else that is vibrating at the same frequency. This isn’t hard to do. We just need to act and live within the present with unconditional awareness.

The universe is filled with a background intelligence that our current way of living and technology obscures by decomposing its complexity. This book is about how to be receptive to that information, and entrain with it, through simple, pleasurable activities. We are all “bio-crystalline resonators,” and by using our awareness we can tap into the resonant intelligence of the earth itself. This intelligence works through our bodies and intuitive mind, not through our rational, calculating mind.

Planetary intelligence is automatic. Unlike logical intelligence, we don’t need to put tremendous effort into developing planetary intelligence—we merely need to focus our attention on the resonant, playful type of activities described below. When we get out of our own way, the feelings and sensations from these activities effortlessly create their own intelligence in our bodies. By restoring the connection to our own natural energy fields, our interactions with the Earth’s energy fields are automatically enhanced.