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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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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Success in complex systems—whether in organizations, ecology, or physics—depends not on control, but on relationships. This post explores how digitization, project management, and leadership must shift from mechanistic thinking to relational intelligence, fostering adaptability, collaboration, and resilience in a rapidly changing world.
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Revelation is not a prophecy of destruction but an unveiling—a call to move beyond empire’s illusions into a conscious, interconnected future. Beyond Babylon reinterprets apocalypse as transformation, offering a vision for governance, economy, and spirituality rooted in relational responsibility, planetary ethics, and the co-creation of meaning.
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The Enlightenment gave us the illusion of limitless human power, but reality is reminding us of our constraints. From the failure of second-order cybernetics in projects to the planetary crises reshaping our future, this post explores how ignoring limits leads to reckoning—and why wisdom begins with recognizing them.
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