Blog - Diana Durham, Writer & Poet

Coherence Essay 15 on Medium.com

11/22/2020

The Most Powerful Technology of All:
The Ark of the Covenant

"I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat": to commune means to communicate without words, without sound. Communion is a direct experienced sense of connection or oneness. And this is what we are able to do by means of our consciousness. We commune with the invisible source of ourselves. Our consciousness is like a receiving station for the signals, intimations, and tonal qualities of the flow of being.

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Coherence Essay 14 on Medium.com

11/11/2020

The Forces That Are the Creator

The meaning and significance does not just move one way — all flowing out from the transcendent to make the outer worthy — but the flow is both ways, moving also from the outer or explicate into the implicate to expand its possibility as well. Like the figure eight of infinity, meaning, including the sense of who we are, unfolds and enfolds in an endless process of expansion. In this way, we live between what is, and what is becoming. The future is always casting its shadow before us, and we are constantly guiding our lives towards the unfoldment of their unending potential.

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Coherence Essay 13 on Medium.com

10/21/2020

The Measure of Oneself

The clearer we become about our inner self, the less easy it is to persuade or manipulate us. Equally, our own inner clarity ensures that the actions we take will be creative as opposed to destructive. This is because right action is inherent in the operation of consciousness itself and the deeper level or whole identity.

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Coherence Essay 12 on Medium.com

9/22/2020

What Judgement Does

Clearly the loss, the onset of troubles of all kinds are linked to the change in Adam and Eve. There are two important meanings here. First of all, the symbolism is telling us, in no uncertain terms, that the world reflects our consciousness. Secondly, it is suggesting, again in strong terms, that the malfunction or ‘fall’ of consciousness leads to an extremely problematic outcome. These are twin themes that we will find echoed throughout the wisdom tradition, and which of course, parallel the Buddhist view that our consciousness and the manifest world are interwoven...

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Coherence Essay 10 on Medium.com

9/22/2020

The Very Way We Use Our Consciousness Causes Our Problems

What is starting to happen is the emergence of a limited sense of self due to the malfunctioning of consciousness. The experience of the whole identity has been replaced with a fragmented sense of identity, because consciousness has become polarized in the manifest world. And this in turn is reflected back to us from the outer world. In other words, if we feel fragmented, we will see and experience and create a fragmented world around us.
The genius of the Buddhist understanding of this gives us a language to describe its subtleties...

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New Coherence Essay No. 11 on Medium.com:

9/8/2020

The Fall of Consciousness

The skewed identity and its over-involvement in the manifest world opens up the meaning of one of the most seminal texts in the western religious tradition, namely the account of the fall of man found in the opening chapters of Genesis...

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Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump

8/12/2020

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The Owl Summoned by Thought-- Essay 8 on Medium

7/1/2020

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PassionHarvest Podcast Interview...

6/29/2020

So enjoyed my conversation with Luisa of PassionHarvest Podcasts...

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Just published, my new non-fiction book, 'Coherent Self, Coherent World: a new synthesis of Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm's Implicate Order' from 'O'Books

10/2/2019

Price UK £10.99 Price USA $16.95 Now available from all online retail outlets,
e-book/kindle version also available