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A Declaration of Coherence

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Reimagining the Foundations

So on this day, let's reimagine:

  • Freedom: not as defiance, but as dignity.
  • Rights: not as entitlement, but as sacred responsibility.
  • Governance: not as control, but as co-creation.

Let's name the truth that pulses beneath every collapsing system:

That anything built on fear, dominance, or disconnection will fall.

And that everything seeded in coherence, compassion, and wholeness will rise.

The Signal of the New

We've mistaken revolution for rebellion, but what we need now is revelation. Not more fighting. More remembering. More radiance. This is not about defying authority -- it's about withdrawing our resonance from old patterns entirely. We're not overthrowing kings. We're dissolving illusions.

This is energetic independence -- a sovereign, unshakable alignment with the Whole. It's the revolution of no longer needing the external world to validate the truth you carry. You are the signal of the new. The declaration is already written -- on the walls of your soul.

The Architects of Emergence

We are not just remembering independence.
We are reclaiming our participation in the Great Turning.

We are the bridge between dissolution and design.
We are the ones composting the debris of the old and cultivating the soil of the new.

We are not rebels.
We are resonators.

We are not at war.
We are in emergence.

We are not merely American, or any other nationality.
We are planetary. Cosmic. Imaginal. Whole.

Let your presence be the peace.
Let your presence be the peace.
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I want to share something I learned about resonant frequencies in engineering school many years ago.

There was a scientist who had a theory that everything had a resonant frequency - even buildings. He built a small mechanical device to find the resonant frequency of his building. It had a hammer and was attached to a column and the hammer that would tap the column, like one would push someone on a swing.

If I remember correctly, the resonant frequency of a person in a swing has to do with the length of the rope or chain, not the person or how hard you push. As we know, it takes very little energy to keep someone going because the energy is stored and then recovered.

Similarly, the small amounts of energy added by the hammer each time it tapped the column was first stored and then restored by the column. More energy was stored (and restored) with each tap until the whole building was shaking! This threatened the structural integrity of the building, but for some reason, the scientist was unable to remove the device by himself. So he ran for help from the people next door.

My point is this: resonance is powerful. In the mechanical world, it is a very efficient, reciprocating energy store-and-return system. In the electro-magnetical world, a similar efficiency is why we can see stars from across the universe.

Whether we call it a "resonant frequency" or not, we all know what it is like to feel 'charged or happy' versus feeling 'drained or hopeless'. It is easy to say which is more efficient. So why do we hang onto negative ideas, or as David Whyte puts it, "a world that is too small for us?"

I think what I am suggesting is that, even if we are not sure what our resonant frequency is (or what it means), we can be like that little hammer, tap the column inside ourselves until we find ideas, people or situations that lift us up, and make us feel like a part of something good. That's what sympathetic is. Sympathetic vibrations means that energy is reciprocal. The old structures will not be able to withstand it. Just as we were never designed for them, they were never designed for us.

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Oh Jack, I love this, brilliant!!! Thank you so much for this insightful comment. (This would make a good article on its own...)

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I think our exchange of ideas is a good example of resonance. Your article drew me in and made me think. This idea about resonant frequencies and making decisions based on them has 'reverberated' (haha) and just helped me make several personal decisions that I had been struggling with. I think I was struggling because trying to use my rational mind seemed easier or more reliable than trusting my feelings. Sometimes what seems to be the easy way, turns out to be the hard way - and vice versa. I think that's because it's hard for the rational mind to know which is actually which.

The idea of resonance dovetails with the (great) book "The Path of Least Resistance" by Robert Fritz.

Thank you, Meryl Ann. It's all very interesting stuff!

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