On the Folly of Trying to Build an Ecology
A post announcing my new Substack space—The Pond and the Pulse—and my motives for creating it.
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Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Apr 21, 2025 | Reflections |
A post announcing my new Substack space—The Pond and the Pulse—and my motives for creating it.
Read MorePosted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Apr 18, 2025 | General |
A Speed Awareness Course prompts reflection on how a mechanistic worldview subtly captures our thinking. This essay explores two loops—the inner CROWN practice and the outer Relational Krebs Cycle—and how their distortion leads to disconnection. A call to re-attune, compost assumptions, and re-enter the world with gentler, wiser presence.
Read MorePosted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Apr 17, 2025 | Philosophy, Reflections |
A rooftop revelation in Rye sparked this reflection on how our patterns of attention shape our relationships, decisions, and the world we co-create. Integrating insights from McGilchrist, Buber, Ostrom, and Bourgeault, this piece explores a “relational Krebs cycle” as a regenerative model for thinking, leading, and living.
Read MorePosted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Apr 11, 2025 | Life together |
A poetic fable tracing the moment the Empire of More trembled—sparked not by rebellion, but by tariffs and doubt. As markets shudder, quiet questions stir across gardens, glass towers, and forgotten myths. This is a story of unravelling certainty, felt coherence, and the first soft notes of a new rhythm.
Read MorePosted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Apr 10, 2025 | Reflections |
“The Book of the Overplayed Hand” is a prophetic satire from the compost heap of modernity. Through symbolic chapters like The Trump, The Deal, and The Fold, it invites creative mischief-makers to co-author a living oracle on collapse, complicity, and regeneration. #OverplayedHand is your invitation to shuffle in.
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