Over the past few months I have experimented with various AI options and the experience has shown me that there is enormous potential to use it in a positive manner. I'm sharing the end of a three hour 'conversation' I had yesterday with ChatGPT over a vintage piece of ephemera along with the image it created, at my request, to summarise the chat: .....I think there is an important distinction between rewriting history and reconstructing history from the surviving record. AI doesn't have direct access to the past. It has access to representations of the past: books, archives, newspapers, photographs, websites, databases, academic work, people's recollections — and increasingly, other AI-generated material. If those sources contain errors, omissions or distortions, an AI can reproduce them very confidently. And there is a particularly interesting problem emerging: The internet is becoming recursive. Someone publishes an incorrect account. Websites repeat it. AI learns from those website

It's 5 o'clock, it's Friday and it's Crackerjack! (Many of you will be too young to recall this TV show from my era) The moon will be full in 24 hours time around the late 13 degrees of Pisces with sun opposite in Virgo yet conventional astrologers will tell you that the opposition is on the Aries/Libra axis. I started my week with a visit to the seaside, walking along the coast in glorious sunshine from Blackpool to St Annes on the Sea for a wonderfully thought-provoking presentation at New Horizon's called 'Awakening the Channel Within' which was given by the lovely Bex Wells of the Ascension Channel. I also enjoyed two trips to Huddersfield delivering two of the POD cars to have some extra decals added. (POD is a community car share scheme of which I am both a user and a volunteer). On Wednesday I was once again blessed with good weather for a 22 mile walk which included the middle section of the lovely Lancaster canal (I had previous done the stretch from Preston to Barton Grange G

..."the greatest rebellion in existence and the fragrance of individual freedom" is how Osho described the act of creativity. AI is both assisting and intruding on this wholly human attribute which manifests in many forms. As a long-time philhellene (lover of all things Greek) and inspired by the interpretation of kalosini in Miriam Subirana's book to mean the natural goodness that flows from you I asked Leonardo to create the collage above and Gemini furnished the following: 🌌 The Tapestry of the Greek Soul (Ελληνική Ψυχή) 🌌 🎨 [ K A I R O S ] 🕰️ 🌟 [ K O S M O S ] ✨ (The Divine Opportune Moment) (The Perfect Cosmic Order) \ / \ / 🌿 [ K A T A L L A G E ] 🌸 [ K A L O S Y N I ] (Profound Reconciliation) (Pure Inner Goodness) \ / \ 💫 [ K E F I ] 🎶 / \ (Joyous Spirit/Passion) / \ | / \ | / 🌊 [ K A T H A R S I N ] --- [ K E N O S I S ] 🕯️ (Purification of the Soul) (The Act of Self-Emptying) / \ / \ 🍂 [ K A I M O S ] 🤝 [ K O I N O N I A ] (Soulful, Existential Longing) (Sacred F

"Forgive me reader for I have sinned - it's been over six weeks since my last post' I hope your summer has been as blissful as mine which has seen me rambling along the Ashton Canal to its junction at Portland Basin with the Huddersfield Narrow and Peak Forest canals where there is also a fascinating museum. I travelled to Southport for the second day of the annual air show event featuring the Red Arrows and an amazing climactic display by an RAF Typhoon; I visited Saltburn-by-the Sea with its pier and cliff tramway, walked the section of the Cleveland Way (now part of the King Charles III Coastal path) from Whitby to Robin Hood's Bay and a day later had a weather-blessed visit to Yorkshire's 'Lands End' at Spurn Point (sandwiched between the North Sea and the Humber Estuary). For most of this summer my attention has been given over to creating the garden by the side of my boat and reading a variety of books including the once pictured by the wonderfully talented and inspirational auth

On Saturday morning a red admiral paid me a visit and stayed long enough beside me to allow several close up photos. The following day I opted for a walk along the Rochdale Canal to try and locate a heronry that I had been told about. En route I went to capture a photo of the low water level below lock 7 through the arch of bridge 13. A second or two later and I would have captured the incredible sight of an adult heron coming towards me under the bridge and within two feet of my head. As it was I managed to turn round and catch it in flight. Failing to sight the heronry my attention had been drawn to dozens of vintage commercial vehicles which I discovered were participating in the 55th annual Trans Pennine Run of the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society (founded in the year of my birth). So I set off for Skipton on a whim (well actually two buses and a train) to view the collection of over 100 vehicles assembled at the Craven Cattle Market (auction ground) following their 60+mile jour

Tomorrow's full moon, known variously as a buck, thunder or hay moon, will be exact mid afternoon in the UK which means if you wish to see it then you will have from 21:06 on Tuesday evening until 03:22 Wednesday morning and again from 21:24. It is a powerful moon that aligns very well with Andy Burnham's natal, progressed and solar return charts which can be translated, as we have already begun to see, with his increased institutional responsibility, visible public leadership, reform of governance, practical measures aimed at everyday living conditions. Furthermore the image above showing the conjunction of the Moon and Pluto in Capricorn on the left hand side and below the horizon with the Sun and Jupiter together in Cancer in opposition have aspects emphasised in his own charts especially the moon which is exactly conjunct his progressed moon. Cancer/Capricorn Full Moon: balancing care for people with the machinery of government. His first speech emphasised putting "the care of peop