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Don’t Just Look Up – Pay Attention

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog Post, Philosophy, Science, Spirituality |

Netflix’s new satirical science fiction film, Don’t Look Up, set viewing records when it started streaming on Christmas Eve in 2021. It lampoons government, political and media indifference to a catastrophic threat to the survival of homo sapiens, but unsurprisingly offers no diagnosis for how humanity got itself into such a dire state. Coincidentally, Iain McGilchrist’s magisterial new book The Matter with Things was published just six weeks before the movie, and it offers a vision based in well-researched neuroscience of how humanity could return to a better way of living.

Reflections on a Half-Century As A Manager

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Jan 9, 2022 | Blog Post, Management, Reflections |

Reflecting on a management career spanning fifty years, Dr Terry Cooke-Davies suggests that for would-be leaders, there is great value in cultivating a growth mindset, developing an attitude of humble inquiry, mastering the art of dialogue and conversation, and combining the tools of an anthropologist with the skillset of a facilitator.

Faith and Science: Why getting along with each other is so hard.

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | May 5, 2021 | Blog Post, Life together |

Two prominent leaders call for cooperation to confront the challenge of both the coronavirus pandemic and the climate emergency. But to work together in harmony, we have to face up to the brute facts of our need to belong, our tendency to create “them” over against “us”, and our habit of allowing disagreement to escalate into conflict.

Science Alone Won’t Save Us

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Apr 17, 2021 | Blog Post, Life together, Science |

Science is creating new vaccines and better ways of treating Covid-19. But vaccine nationalism, distrust of the vaccine, and maverick political leaders in pandemic hotspots aren’t helping.

These are barriers that cannot be overcome by science. They are social problems originating and promulgated in the minds of human beings. And that is where they must be resolved if we are to prevail in the current global struggle between homo sapiens and the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Pathways to Wisdom: the Risky Adventure of Expanding One’s Horizons

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Mar 1, 2021 | Reflections |

How six books on cosmology, human nature, consciousness, stories and thermodynamics challenge the faith of a progressive Christian.

Perspective: Reimagining Tomorrow

Don’t Just Look Up – Pay Attention

Reflections on a Half-Century As A Manager

Science Alone Won’t Save Us

Pathways to Wisdom: the Risky Adventure of Expanding One’s Horizons

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