6 · Coherent Resonance

"I am that, I am."

Coherent Resonance is the quality of being that emanates from remaining clear in one's purpose and providence through every relation with self and other. When we change something within, we observe a change without. Repeat this often enough and the inner and outer come into accord. We become coherent, more able to hold the inner state that produces the optimal subjective experience regardless of circumstance. It is how we maintain our most irradiated state, the steady note we sound that others, without quite knowing why, begin to tune toward. Coherence, practiced, becomes contagious. A coherent person changes a room simply by entering it.

The image is musical, and the qualification is in the image. A steady note can invite response without requiring every instrument to match it. Resonance is relation among differences, not the conversion of a room into one voice. No person controls the room or stands wholly independent of circumstance. In this volume the term names an inner quality. It does not name a wallet or a technical record.