Where this started
Five essays.
The pages on this site began as five essays written in 2025 and revised a year later. They set the topics. The Learn, Do and Practice pages were then built from the sources, and where an essay’s figure has aged or turned out to be wrong, the essay’s own page says so in a box above the text. The essays themselves are left as published.
Child hunger
Ending child starvation
The deaths are a policy outcome, not a shortage.
Trafficking
Ending sex and human trafficking
Demand, trauma and weak institutions hold the trade in place together.
Cybercrime
Averting the unspoken threat of cybercrime
The threat is structural, and fear is the wrong response.
Inequality
Equal dignity, unequal outcomes
Concentrated wealth becomes concentrated power.
AI and us
Towards a more loving, hopeful and faithful humanity
What we build reflects who we are.
A note from the author
These reflections were originally written in 2025, inspired by Ken Wilber’s framing of the wicked problems humanity faces in Finding Radical Wholeness. I used AI as a dialogue partner — first OpenAI, and in these revised versions, Claude by Anthropic — not to replace human care or effort, but to clarify and call myself (and anyone reading) toward deeper engagement with solutions.
This second pass is intentional. One year later, the problems have evolved and so has my thinking. I’ve tried to bring a more integral lens to each piece — looking at these challenges not just as policy problems but as failures operating across every dimension of human experience: what’s happening inside individuals, between people culturally, in our bodies, and in the systems we’ve built. The framework is Ken Wilber’s AQAL (All Quadrants, All Levels), though the language here is meant for anyone, not just those familiar with integral theory.
Returning to these pieces reminds me of what is possible and what still needs doing.
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