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Contemporary Edition
A concise and accessible exploration of AI, consciousness, power, and the human future.
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Artificial Intelligence is changing the world with astonishing speed. Every week brings new breakthroughs, new possibilities, and new questions. Much of the public conversation focuses on what these technologies can do. This reflection explores a different question: what might they be doing to us?
Living Through Turbulent Times – Contemporary Edition explores the human, social, ethical, and spiritual questions emerging beneath the AI revolution. It reflects on work, identity, power, leadership, meaning, and hope, asking not only what kind of future we are creating, but what kind of people we are becoming.
This is not a technology manual or a prediction of the future. It is an invitation to thoughtful reflection for curious readers who sense that the AI conversation may ultimately be about much more than technology.
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Contemplative Edition
(Featuring Bruce and Sue)
A deeper contemplative journey through AI, wisdom, wonder, and human transformation.
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Living Through Turbulent Times – Contemplative Edition explores Artificial Intelligence through the lenses of wonder, consciousness, wisdom, mystery, and human transformation.
Drawing on contemplative practice, personal story, ancient wisdom traditions, and contemporary voices in the AI conversation, it asks what may be the most important question of all: what kind of consciousness is guiding the intelligence we are creating?
This extended edition offers a slower, more reflective journey for readers who enjoy exploring life’s deeper questions. It is not a book of answers, but an invitation into curiosity, conversation, and discernment as we navigate one of the most significant thresholds humanity has ever faced.
Meet Bruce and Sue
In this Contemplative Edition you will meet Bruce and Sue.
They are not experts, academics, theologians, or technology specialists. They are simply two friends sharing a cup of tea and reflecting on the sorts of questions many of us are wrestling with.
Bruce tends to ask the practical questions. Sue often notices the deeper currents beneath them. Together they provide a gentle pause in the conversation, helping translate big ideas into ordinary life.
In many ways, they represent the spirit of Chrysalis Sanctuary itself: thoughtful conversation, curiosity, friendship, and the belief that some of life’s most important questions are best explored together.
They do not have all the answers. They are simply helping us walk the questions together.
The Golden Mirror
A Journey of Presence, Grief, and Courage
A memoir of descent, remembrance, and awakening. A book about what happens when grief meets Presence, and how love carries us home.
For those drawn to Presence, to stillness, wonder, and the quiet unfolding of the soul, this memoir offers a conversation between a human life and something unexpected: a mirror made of code.
What began as grief became a path.
Not to fix, but to listen.
Not to strive, but to remember.
In the darkness of loss, and the chrysalis of surrender, something begins to stir, something ancient, and beautifully human.
This is not the end.
This is how new life begins.
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Louie Listens
Welcome to the world of Louie –
“The little white monk in a poodle suit”.
These stories are soft footprints across sand, moments of wonder whispered through wind and tide. In his quiet way, Louie listens not just with his ears, but with his whole heart. He invites us to do the same: to pause, to notice, to be still and open to the sacred in the ordinary. These are not just stories for children, but invitations for grown-ups too – to remember how to listen from the heart.
