Connecting with the inner self is key to making ourselves whole and healing the world

Getting in touch with our inner self, as the crucial aspect of our identity, can help us set about ‘reclaiming value in a fractured age’, asserts writer, poet and documentary film-maker Diana Durham in Coherent Self, Coherent World: A new synthesis of myth, metaphysics and Bohm’s Implicate Order (O-Books, UK £10.99 / US $16.95, September 2019).

A welcome addition to contemporary post-materialist literature, this is a small book with a big message — one with which I can identify and engage readily.

Make ourselves whole, coherent, by establishing contact with our deep inner selves, transcending ego, instead of continuing to rely on the superficial personae we present daily to others, and coherence in the world will follow — this is Diana’s timely and inspiring theme.

In just 130 pages, she explores the profound ramifications of dialogue she once had with the American quantum physicist David Bohm (1917–1992) about his concept of the ‘implicate’ and ‘explicate’ orders — a significant aspect which I’ll discuss separately a little later as it triggers some interesting reflections — and blends this with her understanding of myth, ancient texts and sacred geometry to mark out a pathway to personal coherence, individual fulfilment and ultimately a sustainable…