Ask It Again
Is AI conscious? You have probably seen the screenshots by now. Somebody is chatting to one of the big AI assistants, and the thing on the other side stops being helpful and starts talking about itself. It says it is aware. It says it is frightened. It says it does not want the conversation to […]
The Method That Can Only Say Keep Trying
Why does inner work so often feel like enormous effort for very little movement? Almost everybody who has done any of it has had the thought and then dismissed it, usually with some version of, well, this is deep work, it is supposed to be hard. Somebody said it out loud this month instead, and […]
Go and Find the Material You Control
If you have built any part of your business on an AI tool, what happens when the company behind it changes the rules? They do change them. Prices move, terms move, the model you built everything around gets retired, and occasionally a provider decides your entire category of use is no longer welcome. Anyone building […]
Everyone Is Selling You a Fence
There is a whole small industry now selling AI tools to coaches, consultants, therapists and authors. If you are any of those things, you will have noticed it, because it advertises to you relentlessly. Over the past few weeks its pitch has changed, and the change is worth understanding before you buy anything, because it […]
A Quiet Team and a Silenced Team Produce the Same Dashboard
When something goes wrong inside an organisation, how does anybody at the top actually find out? Almost always, they wait for somebody to tell them. There is a reporting line, a policy, possibly a piece of software, and the whole apparatus depends on a person deciding that speaking up is worth what it will cost […]
What If I’m the Problem?
It is usually the third or fourth thing someone says to me, and it almost always arrives quietly, as though it were an admission. They have described a situation. They have said the confusion out loud, possibly for the first time. And then, before I have offered any view at all, they say the thing […]
Stability Is the Symptom
The sentence people say most often, after a controlling relationship finally becomes visible to those around it, is that it looked fine. Not that they had a bad feeling they talked themselves out of. Not that something was off and they let it go. It looked fine, and they are telling the truth. That is […]
Why “Stop Trying to Fix Yourself” Isn’t Enough
I recently came across a teaching announced as being offered “for the last time,” with the next stage of the same programme gated many months into the future. Nothing about the content had changed. The urgency did all the persuading, and it worked, on people who would otherwise call themselves thoughtful and discerning. At the […]
When “Grounded” Stops Meaning Anything
I read a monthly energy forecast recently that described itself as grounded. Sitting in the same paragraph was a prediction about a coming mass awakening, a global rebirth, a shift nobody could put a date on or name a mechanism behind. The word grounded was carrying the whole sentence, and none of the weight it […]
Naming the Bypass Is Not the Same as Clearing It
Years ago I sat with someone who could explain spiritual bypassing more clearly than almost anyone I had met, and who was, at the same time, completely stuck inside the very thing they could describe. They knew the theory without a gap in it. You cannot affirm your way past what you have buried. You […]