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title: "Coherence In Our Lifetime • Reality or Utopian Hopes? (BTW003)"
heading: "Coherence In Our Lifetime • Reality or Utopian Hopes? (BTW003)"
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updated: "2025-12-09T12:13:00+00:00"
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description: "Coherence sounds like a cool thing. What are we talking about? And is it something we can attain? We look into the meaning of coherence. Things holding together as a tidy whole. A well-rounded system of insight and engagement. Into coherence. Individual coherence. Is that a realistic quest? Coherence as a collective. What are the prospects for our civilization?"
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**Words:** 497 ⁘ **Length:** 03:00 min ⁘ **Created:** 2025-12-06 ⁘ **Updated:** 2025-12-09

 Coherence sounds like a cool thing. What are we talking about? And is it something we can attain? We look into the meaning of coherence. Things holding together as a tidy whole. A well-rounded system of insight and engagement. Into coherence.

Individual coherence. Is that a realistic quest? Coherence as a collective. What are the prospects for our civilization? Are we driving the society toward productive silos? Or working toward unbiased and truthful systems of shared coherence?

_#ByTheWay #Coherence #Individual #Collective #Incoherence #WellRounded #Truthful #Cohesion #Systems #Clarity_



**By the way**, do you think we'll **reach coherence** within our lifetimes? That's an interesting question. Let's dig in briefly into what is coherence, and then in collective and individual terms, as to whether it is attainable. In itself — simply things making sense as a whole. When things cohere, there is cohesion between the different aspects of your perception and insight. A well-rounded whole, a system of understanding and engagement is coherence.

Then this "things making sense as a whole", is it attainable in the collective sphere — as in, in the world, in our societies, within our lifetimes? Well, that, my friend, is a very open question. The best of prophets wouldn't know what to answer.  Judging by the indications, the symptoms of our times, the direction seems to be quite the opposite. For all of our knowledge, for all of our progress, everything is increasingly scattered and driven into obsessive little silos. Things do not cohere together.

Then into the individual domain. Can you, unto yourself, come to a state of coherence within this lifetime, or even within the years to come? Why not? If you simply look at yourself, all that you are, all that you carry, the full spectrum of your contents, with unclouded eyes, with dispassion, toward objectivity, to uncoat, to uncover the reality, the actuality of what is — there will be coherence. It will be a well-rounded system. When your cognitive distortions have dispelled — what remains but coherence?

This coherence at scale will be planted and rooted in the collective sphere by individuals with a vision of clarity, who have become coherent unto themselves to begin with. It is this clarity and coherence that we seek to advance. Each of us in our respective individual domains and tunings. In common benefit, to reduce and to remove all the unnecessary conflict and want. Born simply from incoherence. From slanted, biased views. People driving their illusions and projections into the world. Incoherent.

Let this coherence not be a mere intellectual construct. All of your modelings, the systems that you conceive of, they must compile into living actuality. Continuous iteration, feedback loops, revision and reintegration, until we land with a system that is well-rounded and true.

The true patterns of all things and all their contexts, woven together — this is coherence. Internally, for each individual, the pathway for your consummation and liberation. At scale, systemic enlightenment, toward a post-abundance world. Please be coherent.