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July 8, 2025
A Declaration of Coherence
By Meryl Ann Butler
A Declaration of Coherence: Why Your Frequency Is the Revolution for the Unitive Age.
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I read an uplifting and enlightening article on the Fourth of July, Declaration of Coherence: Why Your Frequency Is the Revolution for the Unitive Age by Dr. Julie Krull, a best-selling, award-winning author, Evolutionary Leader, and host of The Dr. Julie Show: All Things Connected.
As citizens are grappling with finding balance amidst the chaos, and realizing that the old ways are not working and the new ways haven't been invented yet, Dr. Krull offers a loftier, out-of-the-box view. A glimpse of evolution. Some hope and some magic. She says "This is not a rebellion of resistance. It's a revolution of resonance," and gave me permission to share this encouraging article in full:
Dr Julie mentors high-impact change agents and stewards unitive solutions through her nonprofit, Good of the Whole, the Connection Field, and the Imaginal Souls community.Declaration of Coherence: Why Your Frequency Is the Revolution for the Unitive Age
The First Whisper of Revolution
Some revolutions roar. Others rise in coherence.
We often speak of the Declaration of Independence as a turning point in the American Revolution -- a bold and necessary step toward self-governance. It was a cry for freedom from tyranny, a turn toward dignity and self-determination. More than political, it marked the awakening of a people -- and the deeper spiritual memory of freedom.
But true revolution -- evolutionary revolution -- is rarely secured in a single stroke of ink or clash of arms.
It unfolds in waves of remembrance" through consciousness, coherence, and collective becoming.What if that moment in history was not the end, but only the first whisper?
What if the real revolution -- the one that transcends nations and echoes through galaxies -- is still unfolding?
What if the next Declaration of Independence isn't about separation at all" but about wholeness?
On this day, we don't reject the original cry for liberty. We honor its evolutionary arc.
The Revolution of Remembrance
The Enlightenment ideals -- life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- were not wrong. They were incomplete.
They were the first ripple of remembrance" that something in us knew we were more than subjects, more than systems, more than cogs in the machinery of control.
But now we remember again.
Not just our rights -- but our nature.
Not just our autonomy -- but our belonging.
Not just our sovereignty -- but our source.The Tyranny Within: A New Declaration is Rising
Not from palaces or parliaments, but from within.
The tyranny we resist now isn't just external. It's internal. The false narratives. The inherited fear. The silent agreements with scarcity, separation, and supremacy.
And yes, some will try to resuscitate the past.
They will rally around flags of fear, revive myths of control, and attempt to breathe life into the dying forms of domination.
But this is not revival. It is CPR on a dinosaur.
The world is not regressing -- it is molting. Shedding skins that no longer fit.
And those clinging to old power structures are not the future's architects.
They are the echoes of a dream dissolving.Resonance over Rebellion
We no longer need to shout in defiance when we can resonate in coherence.
Because the future isn't forged by force. It's emanated by frequency.
Your frequency.
To be free is not to escape. It's to remember.
To remember that you are a unique, radiant expression of the Whole.
To remember that sovereignty isn't isolation -- it's inner alignment.
To remember that true independence flows not from rebellion, but from resonance with the One Reality -- unitive, alive, intelligent, and whole -- calling us into the Unitive Age.
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 NewWe'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.
The Invitation of the Unitive Age
So take your place, Imaginal Soul.
Keeper of the Unitive.
Wrap yourself in the ancient courage of those who love without conquest.
Breathe coherence into chaos.
Let your presence be the peace.
Let your aliveness be the new governance of the Unitive Age.Declare not what you stand against -- but what you stand for; what you stand as.
Because your frequency is the revolution.
And this, beloved, is the true independence we came here to remember.
If this resonated, you're not alone. A quiet revolution is underway. We call it the Imaginal Souls Chrysalis inside the Connection Field. It's not a movement to join, but a field to remember. Come take your place in the frequency of the future.
Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, 2013. In June, 2015, the combined views on her articles, diaries and quick link contributions topped one million. She was particularly happy that her article about Bree Newsome removing the Confederate flag was the one that put her past the million mark.
Her art in a wide variety of media can be seen on her YouTube video, "Visionary Artist Meryl Ann Butler on Creativity and Joy" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGs2r_66QE
A NYC native, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006), which is a bestseller in the craft field. The sequel, MORE 90-Minute Quilts: 20+ Quick and Easy Projects With Triangles and Squares was released in April, 2011. Her popular video, How to Stitch a Quilt in 90 Minutes with Meryl Ann Butler can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrShGOQaJQ8
She has been active in a number of international, arts-related projects as a citizen diplomat, and was arts advisor to Baltimore's CIUSSR (Center for Improving US-Soviet Relations), 1987-89. She made two trips to the former USSR in 1987 and 1988 to speak to artists, craftpeople and fashion designers on the topic of utilizing the arts as a tool for global wellbeing. She created the historical "First US-Soviet Children's Peace Quilt Exchange Project" in 1987-88, which was the first time a reciprocal quilt was given to the US from the former USSR.
Her artwork is in collections across the globe.
Meryl Ann is a founding member of The Labyrinth Society and has been building labyrinths since 1992. She publishes an annual article about the topic on OpEdNews on World Labyrinth Day, the first Saturday in May.
OpEdNews Senior Editor Joan Brunwasser interviewed Meryl Ann in "Beyond Surviving: How to Thrive in Challenging Times" at https://www.opednews.com/articles/Beyond-Surviving--How-to-by-Joan-Brunwasser-Anxiety_Appreciation_Coronavirus_Creativity-200318-988.html
Find out more about Meryl Ann's artistic life in "OEN Managing Ed, Meryl Ann Butler, Featured on the Other Side of the Byline" at https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/OEN-Managing-Ed-Meryl-Ann-in-Life_Arts-Artistic_Artists_Quilt-170917-615.html
On Feb 11, 2017, Senior Editor Joan Brunwasser interviewed Meryl Ann in Pink Power: Sister March, Norfolk, VA at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pink-Power-Sister-March--by-Joan-Brunwasser-Pussy-Hats-170212-681.html
"Creativity and Healing: The Work of Meryl Ann Butler" by Burl Hall is at
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Creativity-and-Healing--T-by-Burl-Hall-130414-18.html
Burl and Merry Hall interviewed Meryl Ann on their BlogTalk radio show, "Envision This," at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this/2013/04/11/meryl-ann-butler-art-as-a-medicine-for-the-soul
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