“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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What if large language models were not answers, but instruments—like violins—whose music depends entirely on the hands that play them? In this reflective essay, Terry Cooke-Davies draws on a lifetime of systems thinking and spiritual inquiry to explore how AI technologies can either echo the logics of domination or open portals to relational depth and collective wisdom. The choice is urgent, and it is ours.
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And the Galilean will nod,
not from a throne,
but from the compost heap,
where resurrection begins again.
A personal reflection on Hospicing Modernity, this post explores the power of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s metaphors and the deep learning it prompted—alongside some probing questions about ownership, rights, and the limits of animism. It invites a more integrated synthesis of spirituality, science, and secularity in the face of collapse.
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Resources used to support session 2.12, Global Empires, of the Shepway and District u3a Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality Group.
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