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Betsy - What is coherence? Why do we need it? Why do we crave it? We all have these ideas and concepts about what a perfect life is, and what our ideals are. And in my travels, it's interesting to see that, for the most part, all of our ideals - while they may be described using different terminologies - are all very much the same. So, are we already coherent as a society if our underlying ideals are basically the same? It's interesting, because if you look at the state of the world, it looks as if we're not. Cate - Well, we may just be coherent in a lower frequency vibration. Betsy -- Yes, but then if that’s so, how do we get beyond that as a civilization? And is it possible to do that? Because frankly, we all sometimes feel connected and sometimes feel disconnected at different moments in time. And often those feelings of connection come only when everyone is in some sort of agreement. I used to think that coherence meant that everyone agreed. But I’ve come to realize that what I truly meant by coherence was that coherence happened when everybody agreed with me. But based upon the experience that we were talking about earlier today and the experience that I have been having recently: that instead of being a converter I need to let go and allow my interactions with people to just be experiences and know that they will come to whatever conclusion they’re going to come to without manipulation … that that's what actually defines coherence in a larger sense. And that's when I actually have a shift. Does that make sense? Cate – Yes. It's a larger parameter of coherence, that doesn't start with agreement…. It's a definition of coherence that looks for underlying patterns of agreement that don't necessarily show up at a superficial level, like I agree with your religious dogma, and you agree with my religious dogma; but that underlying everyone's religious dogma there is this coherent pattern of truth, which doesn't look at all similar when looked at from a personal level. Betsy -- Exactly. And then the question is, is that the place you need to get to in order to feel truly connected? I was reading Vanity Fair on the plane the other day, and there was this interview with a woman called Ann Coulter who is a totally Republican pundit. And she gave the most shocking statement - at least shocking to me. It was sort of the extreme version of my own internal conversation about needing to be right and convince people to agree with me. And she basically said that what we need to do is conquer everybody and convert them to Christianity. That was the only solution to the world’s problems. Next > 1 2 3 4 5 |
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