Writing

Knowing in an age of AI

• How to Build Cognitive Agency2026What it takes for people to keep directing their own thinking as AI does more of it.
• AI & Metacognitive Change2026How to think about change in the age of AI.
• The Role of Knowledge in Human Evolution2026How knowledge drives human evolution, from instinct and tradition to purposeful action, self-transformation and universal consciousness.
• Vedanta and Cognitive EmpowermentVedanta (Vedanta Centre, UK), 2018If human potential is real, helping people assimilate it is a cognitive task as much as a spiritual one.

When knowledge changes people

• Assimilating the Human Possibilities VisionVedanta Kesari, 2020How a vision of human possibility becomes chosen ideals, belief and capacity at scale.
• From Teaching to Enabling AssimilationPrabuddha Bharata, 2010Why education should measure what a person became, not what was taught.

Enabling, not serving

• Enablement in the Age of AI2022Why society needs enablement as a way of thinking now that AI can do so much for people.
• Precision Knowledge InterventionsPaper, SOL Global Forum, Oman, 2008The petrol-station study: why self-esteem, not training, turned out to be the root of good customer service.
• Defining Enablement2005Enablement as a three-sided event – the enabler, the enabled and the act of enablement – and why it invokes potential rather than relieving need.

Work as contribution

• Learning to Contribute: An Approach to Karma YogaVedanta Kesari, 2014Contribution as the achievable middle step between selfish work and Karma Yoga.

How institutions and societies change

• The Society that is Emerging2026Six emerging dimensions that point to a society far more universal, more human and less hierarchical than the present one.
• Rebuilding India – Alternative Perspectives of Change2026How to integrate institutional change and individual change: a new model of change called Human Systems Change.
• Awakening the Collective Mind2020A roadmap for organisations that must reinvent themselves faster than any plan can direct.
• Collective Aspiration2005Why the gap between an organisation’s words and its actions comes down to aspiration, and why a group’s shared aspiration is the real measure of its fulfilment.
• Rigorous Envisioning2005A five-stage method for envisioning, from mapping a community’s concerns and defining its measures to describing the world it wants to bring into being.
• The Collective Act of Individualised Seeing2004Why a vision can’t be handed down, only owned: seven short insights on how each person comes to see the same emerging whole for themselves.