From Principle to Practice: Three Invitations for Relational Leadership
Why vitality, integrity, and responsibility must move together if we are to lead from Horizon 2....
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Issue: Science and understanding
About This Site: A Threshold of Reflection
The wisdom we seek here is living, relational, composted. It emerges in the spaces between.
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A New Guide for the Perplexed
A quiet companion for those sensing that the future must be rooted in deeper relationships—with the Earth, with each other, and with mystery. This guide offers five waypoints for those seeking orientation beyond modernity, drawing on reverence, complexity, and the sacredness of the spaces between.
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LLMs, Violins, and the Hands That Shape the Future
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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Hospicing Modernity, Holding Complexity: A Personal Reflection on Progress, Property, and the Path Beyond
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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