Coherence
_I: Today I was thinking... What really is coherence?
_AM: And you reached a “coherent” conclusion?
_I: I do not know. Coherence comes from the concept “Shared Inheritance”, the meaning of “Haerentia” being in Latin: “United, adhered, connected”; It therefore means that it is what unites us all, what connects the parts. A grandfather with the father, the father with the son, united as a family, what passes from one to the other through this connection is the “haerentia”, that is, the famous family inheritance, whether genetic, ideological, as well as materials or goods. Therefore, being coherent is having the ability to share that connection with others, understanding that everyone is united and connected.
_AM: Very good. Coherence has many ways of being interpreted depending on the cultural, philosophical, spiritual or intellectual background you possess. The common denominator in the collective unconscious interprets coherence as a social duty that requires “appearing what one is”: if you do not do what is established by common consensus, they directly turn you into a hypocrite. “Express clearly in words what lies in the mind”: if the recipient does not understand what you say, you are rambling or illogical. Coherence became a weapon to judge the other, and not the tool to connect with the other.
_I: And how do I use it as a tool?
_AM: Well, before thinking about whether others see you as coherent or not, you must use the most important coherence of all: the balance between what “I believe, feel and do.” The grandfather or grandmother, the father or mother, the son or daughter, inside you are called Mind, Emotion and Action, or Spirit, Soul and Body. And these three are connected, united by a strong bond that makes them function as the Holy Trinity. One without the other loses meaning, and the three transfer data, information, energy useful for development and learning. What your spirit knows becomes an idea capable of thinking, imagining, designing, and everything that projects, generates vibration, and thus energy, passing to the soul, who gives it power, impulse, vitality, molds ideas in the form of emotion, which will be fuel for the body's engine, which will be in charge of manifesting this idea through emotion through action. And so, action grants experience, which is registered in the body, making its energy react, mobilizing new data, new emotions, which become information that nourishes the mind with new perspectives, enriching the ability to imagine, granting wisdom to the spirit. This circuit is constant, and functional in both directions.
_I: A simple example, then, would be learning to ride a bicycle: the idea of moving faster arises, of experiencing a new form of mobility. The emotion is what motivates me to get on the bicycle for the first time, and through action, I fall, I get up, I move forward; and all emotions such as euphoria, joy, frustration, anger, stability; All of them are the reactions of my actions, until I manage to move forward, ride the bicycle successfully, and this satisfaction registers in my soul, granting wisdom to the spirit, which will give it the basic notion of how to drive new ideas, like a motorcycle. , a car…
_AM: And so on the being is nourished, in this connection. But the truth is that, in society, people are so busy observing how others perceive us, how they judge us in our actions, that many miss out on learning to ride a bicycle for fear of laughter or judgment from those that contemplate the first falls. Falling today is interpreted as incoherence, and not as learning, and this accumulates many emotions in our bodies, of all those things that our spirit wanted to take to action, but that our souls deprived themselves of going down to the body for fear of being judged. This generates a disconnection between the body and the spirit, separating heaven from earth, repressing the soul, which is the bridge between the two. Thus creating “Incoherence”, that is: the disconnection and separation of the parts.
_I: And why is it the soul that represses itself?
_AM: Because the soul is energy in motion, it is the one who transfers negative and positive data from heaven to earth and from earth to heaven. It is the polarity that allows ideas to become realities, it is the fuel of action. We can interpret that you are that person who has decided to take a trip to an unknown destination in his new car. You, the person, are the Spirit, and the vehicle is the Body. For the body to function, it needs fuel, that is, energy, that is, the Soul. But imagine that you are very happy with a full tank, and you have already traveled about 300 km, then you decide to stop to refuel at a gas station, but when you get off, everyone there laughs because your car is not the best of all. They also judge you for how you dress, because you are different, and maybe they don't understand you because you speak in another language or dialect, so no one wants to help you. Depressed, you get in the car, but you only have 100 more km of fuel left, so you stop every 15 km, trying to find somewhere where you feel comfortable, but in all of them they judge you or tell you how you should behave. Then, you only have two options left: either stop your trip because you have run out of fuel because you do not have the courage to also carry yourself alone in front of those who judge you, or dress like them, try to imitate them, and ask for a little bit of fuel at each station, where they decide to collaborate with you.
_I: So I become like them, and my long journey becomes an endless number of short stops that delay my true goal.
_AM: All this for worrying about “external coherence”.
_I: So there are two types of coherence, internal and external…
_AM: Like I said, there are many, but let's talk about these two. The internal one is what you must achieve by uniting your spirit, soul and body as a single organism, in which you use what your complete being needs and expresses, without feeling judgment, you focus on yourself, and you must achieve the unity and organic sense between what you think, what you feel and what you do. External coherence is that which makes you stop said internal functioning with a sense of mere survival, in which you put all your attention on thinking like others, feeling like others, and acting like others. It is also coherence, but we would say that in this case it is horizontal, not vertical. A kind of hereditary communism. But thinking, feeling and doing by and for others without first having coherence, unity, with my own being, turns me into an automaton, a mechanical being that reacts through the currents of the unconscious. Thus, getting out of that circuit to be coherent with my own Being, my I Am, implies getting rid of the notion of the collective, to become an individual in the search for coherence. Instead of being taught, I am educated, instead of receiving, I give, instead of being controlled, I manage.
_I: But this would seem to indicate that to be consistent with myself, I must be egoic, think only of myself, and disconnect from others.
_AM: This is the first stage, the crisis stage. The great crisis is breaking ranks, realizing that everything I think, feel and do does not belong to me, but is a reaction to external impulses. My fear of being judged makes me seek the comfort of the group, and by acting like the group, I ensure survival. It usually happens in all mammals, and in humans it can be seen in art, in music, in religions, in political parties, in science, in philosophies, in spirituality... How many have you heard say: “ Am I from this or another group, team...? I have this or that profession… I follow this or that person.”
_I: Yes… It's very normal, the sense and need of belonging.
_AM: And acceptance and recognition. Humans strongly need to be recognized by a pack, and above all, by the leader of a pack, making them leave their own being to fit in and be accepted. And groups, policies and religions have been responsible for ensuring that this is the case through the destruction of the Ego. Ego comes from Latin and Greek, and means “I”. No one can exist without the I, if you do not build a strong “I”, you will never find the potential of the “I Am”. Therefore, the first crisis is individualism, separation from the group, the recognition that group thinking, feeling and actions do not represent me. In this crisis, there is emptiness, a feeling of deception, a perception of control and hierarchy, and a strange “every man for himself” reaction. Thus, the ego acts, and becomes an I in Movement, which in Greek is said: “egoism”. The Self tries to survive on its own, acting based on what it feels, and thus becomes the center of itself, regardless of anything else, what we call in Latin “egocentrism.” The Self now develops in all aspects of his personality, as he begins to be controlled by his own emotions and to act for his own benefit. And here let me point out something: he who leaves the group and leads his life without caring about others is just as selfish and self-centered as he who leaves the group believing himself to be superior or spiritual and who tries to force the others in the group to follow his lead. Same way. For in both cases, he considers his own self-reference to be the only coherent truth.
_I: So sometimes the most loving and spiritual people also act selfishly by considering that it is necessary to remove others from their group status and judge those who do not see the truth of unconditional love... No?
_AM: Exactly. Well, they only see the truth through their eyes. So, the first crisis is to realize that you must leave, and the second crisis is to leave, because the ties are so strong due to the years of adaptation, that the moment you set foot outside the group, the eyes begin to judge: the different, the crazy, the strange, the strange, the fool, the faggot, the know-it-all, the conspiratorial, the arrogant, the fake, the selfish, the deserter, the heretic, the traitor... How many more? The currently famous “bullying” is experienced in all social strata and ages, because you start to be different and the group makes it noticeable. Here we can fall into an emotional crisis that leads us to depression, anger, or indifference. If we manage to transcend this stage, the path of the Self begins, where the development of the Personality begins. So, as you had asked, yes, this path is a path of the Ego in the search for the I Am. He discovers the ego, everything he is capable of and what he feels, until he experiences a new crisis: this does not satisfy him, because he is alone, and he has discovered many things to share that are within himself. Then, he inevitably looks for the meaning of things, and begins to ask himself the key questions towards the _AM: “why, for what, what, who, how, where, when…?” He begins his search, and sooner or later, one day, his body takes the right path, and his emotion feels that necessary, unlimited expansion that allows him to feel the spirit, and there, when “the light bulb goes on,” “the light comes on.” light”, “Eureka!”… I Am. The last crisis. Encountering the vertical truths that unify mind, emotion and action, he realizes that he was never right, but that he himself was his own reason, that nothing existed, that he himself was his own reason. own existence, that the mind is consciousness, emotion is energy and the body is a medium. Everything loses meaning, because now he has it, because the meaning you had given it before was related to the expectations and impulses of the group. You realize that the entire personal search had been nothing more than the polarized force of the group, trying to escape, to be against, to free yourself, but you were polarized, dual. In the I Am, both paths come together, and if you transcend the existential crisis, you return to the world walking in real Coherence, in which without effort or need to pretend or seeking to be understood, you act in relation to what you feel, and feel in relation to what you think. But no longer in opposition to others, but at their service. You are not looking to change them, but rather to provide them with tools when they ask or need them. You are not looking to belong, and yet you can share with them. You do not follow a belief, and you can freely converse about all its truths. You don't have to escape their systems, because you achieved the greatest freedom, your own and internal.
_I: Thus, you are coherent inside and outside, in both coherences.
_AM: When you complete the I with the I Am, you realize that reality is not either vertical or horizontal, that it is not right or left, inside or outside, up or down, but that all polarities are Correspondences, they are united, connected. between themselves, they are two sides of a coin, two ends of the same rope. Extend your arms to the sides, like a cross, and you will see in your head the attribute of thought, in your genitals the potential for action, in your left hand the ability to receive, and in your right the ability to give, and in the center of this cross, the heart with the attribute of feeling.
_I: Being coherent then is basically being in balance with what I feel and resonates in me, what beats inside me, what pushes me from the heart to give and receive, to think and act.
_AM: Thus you will be useful to yourself, and useful to others. And, tell me... Are you coherent?
_I: Sometimes I feel like I care a lot about what people think of me, and I worry a lot about how I explain things, if I am understood, if it is “coherent.” Sometimes I feel like I've wasted a lot of time trying to do the things I did the ways I did them just to make others happy, to please others rather than doing what I was really supposed to do myself.
_AM: How does that make you feel?
_I: That much of the potential that I could have used to expand my being, I used to please others. Many times I feel that the things I do for others, I do them to be accepted and loved more than because they should be done. This is the first year, 2020, that I am not doing that, that everything I do is because I feel it. However, there is still that feeling that I could give more of myself if I didn't think so much about what others would say or think.
_AM: What scares you about what others think?
_I: Just not being coherent. Many believe that I do this for money, or that I am a fraud. I know that is not the case, because I know myself and those who know me know it. However, these visions make me rethink whether later, when I have to work socially, everything I have done so far will not work against me, as if someone could say: “Now you come to take care of society when in 34 years you "Did you spend your time meditating and not doing anything practical for the people?"
_AM: And do you think that those who say that were born as the best Samaritans and were already manifesting their potential from their first year of life?
_I: No… Of course not.
_AM: So… Everyone has a different time and preparation, a different path. Judging the ways of others does not make you a better person, it makes you incoherent, because you are only pretending that everyone is as good as you or as you think good should be from your vision.
_I: I know that I put a very big weight on my shoulders, perhaps my ascendant in Capricorn makes me very aware of improving, that nothing is enough, and that anything I do can be taken as incoherent. Sometimes it is scary to even work because it is almost seen as a temptation to earn money and not be spiritual because of it.
_AM: So the poor are spiritual and the rich are not?
_I: Well… Christian beliefs inherited from the Middle Ages.
_AM: Inheritances... Inheritances... Did you perhaps come to be coherent with those inheritances? Or did you come to remember that we must be consistent with ourselves?
_I: I came to try to show in myself the coherence of being Myself, and to inspire each one, recognizing their own I Am, to activate their potential and change the world from their own power.
_AM: So… Are you coherent?
_I: No... I am in the crisis seeking to be, on the path of discovering the potential of my I Am.
_AM: So, I will be here waiting for you, because I Am Coherence.