Cate,
I read with great interest your dialog with Betsy Chasse on ‘coherence’. I kept smiling as I read each of you ‘speak’ and had to shake my head in wonder at the sheer synchronicity of our amazing Universe. I am owner/moderator of the Yahoo E-Group ‘what-the-bleep-the-movie’ and we have been discussing these very things in our e-group as of late. I just don’t ever think we attached the ‘title’ of coherence to our discussions.
The idea of coherence is one we’ve discussed on and off in our group and it keeps coming up again and again so I can only assume that it is an important issue that has not yet been resolved in our minds. I too, like Betsy, had an ‘I have to change the world’ attitude and will admit that in the past I have beaten others over the head with my ideas trying to get them to see the ‘right way’ that we all should be. Well as you must know that doesn’t work (I am glad to report that I now adhere to Mahatma Gandhi’s wisdom of ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ and have come to realize that all change begins within me). I have adopted the attitude that nobody is right and nobody is wrong and that ‘my way’ is that only that and is nothing more and it doesn’t have to be shared by anyone else. The freedom this affords me is incredible. I have long since ceased arguing my point to the point of self-righteousness and I have long since stopped thinking to myself when I hear/read other people’s views, ‘Boy are they off base a million miles…how can they think like that?’ Letting go of the notion that there is a right and a wrong way to be is most likely the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. I do see coherence as not a meeting of the minds in total agreement but more as an agreement to disagree respectfully and without judgment of the other person’s views/reality. While agreeing to disagree it wouldn’t hurt to open our minds to one another. Opening our minds doesn’t mean we have to change what we already think but it means that we at least should listen to without judgment what another has to offer.
I also agree with Betsy that we are on the precipice of change… ENORMOUS change. But I do not see the change as everyone seeing things the same way but more as everyone having the open-mindedness to accept that their reality belongs uniquely to them and that there is nothing wrong with other people having their own reality. I suppose tolerance might be the appropriate word but in using the word tolerance it infers that what we are tolerating of others is undesirable and I don’t think we should attach that sort of connotation to what others choose as their reality. Bottom line in my opinion is to keep an open dialog along with an open mind. Ignorance is our greatest obstacle in realizing our ONEness. Of course the ONEness issue is a horse of a different color and for another discussion all together.
Keep keeping it real. We are with you there at WTB and appreciate all of your efforts in being the catalyst for exploration of ourselves around the globe and perhaps even throughout the Universe…after all we do exist in a Universe of infinite possibilities, right?
Best Regards,
Cheryl Huerta
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