Coherence, and the Current Beneath the Currency

It is worth pausing, briefly, to say what all of this has to do with coherence — for presencing genius is not a practice apart from it but the very means by which coherence is made between people. Every act of presencing draws two beings into accord and brings a third thing into being that neither held alone; and accord, multiplied across a community, is precisely what coherence is. This is why we will come, in time, to speak of coherence as a currency — a medium of exchange a civilization might be built upon. But coherence is better understood as the current beneath any currency: the live charge of trust and attunement that lends every exchange its real value, and without which money is only paper and agreements only ink. Presencing genius is how that current is generated, person by person — and a people who can generate it at will hold, in their hands, the most fundamental coordinating power there is.