Six Practices for Coherence in the Face of Global Terror, Chaos & Systemic Collapse

How coherence becomes a revolutionary act in an age of war, terror, and mass psychological overwhelm.

By Luana DeAngelis

Coherence as an art form. We are going to need all the practice we can get.

According to Joanna Macy we are currently witnessing "the Great Unraveling". The World Feels Like It’s Imploding!

There are moments in history when fear becomes loud.

Not the private kind—the quiet fear you feel before a hard conversation—but the public, weaponized kind. Terror broadcast at scale. Chaos optimized for clicks.

Violence repeated until it becomes atmosphere.

Individuals terrorize when they abandon empathy. Politicians terrorize when power eclipses humanity. Systems terrorize when efficiency replaces care. Media terrorizes when horror is looped until the nervous system forgets how to rest.

And here we are—inside a convergence of war, genocide, political injustice, social fragmentation, ecological collapse, and psychological exhaustion. The specifics change by the hour. The frequency does not.

This is not a spiritual bypass moment. This is not a “just think positive” era.

This is the most advanced training ground spiritual practice has ever known.

When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” Illya Prigogine

This is not metaphor. This is instruction.

Why This Moment Matters (Quantum Truth, Not Platitude)

Quantum physics has been telling us for decades what mystics have always known: attention is creative. Observation alters outcome. What we repeatedly focus on gains coherence, momentum, probability.

This does not mean ignoring suffering. It means refusing to let terror be the only frequency shaping reality.

Right now, fear is being engineered, amplified, and repeated at industrial scale. When violence and injustice are streamed without integration, something dangerous happens: the nervous system normalizes despair.

Spiritual alchemy is not denial. It is transmutation.

And this exact global moment—unstable, horrifying, and unpredictable—is the most challenging and therefore the most potent terrain for that work.

Terror as the Initiation Gate

Every initiation in every wisdom tradition contains the same element: descent.

The dark night. The wilderness. The exile. The underworld.

What we are witnessing globally is a collective initiation—one that asks:

• Can you stay human when dehumanization is rewarded?

• Can you hold love without collapsing into naivety?

• Can you grieve without becoming bitter?

• Can you resist becoming what you are fighting?

This is where spiritual warriors are made. Not in monasteries. Not on retreats. But in the middle of lunacy.

The Call: Rebuking Lower Frequencies

Fear, hatred, vengeance, and despair are frequencies—not identities.

They enter through repetition. They lodge through unprocessed emotion. They spread through nervous-system contagion.

Your job is not to fight them. Your job is to outgrow them.

When you drop into true meditative states—not performative calm, but embodied regulation—you interrupt the signal. You become one of Barbara Marx Hubbard’s “small islands of coherence.”

This is not poetic language. It is nervous-system physics.

One regulated human can calm thousands. One coherent heart can disrupt entire feedback loops of fear. One small candle can dispel a huge swath of darkness, but all the darkness in the world cannot dispel one beam of light.

Six Practices for Healing Regardless of the Climate

These are not escapist. They are confrontational. They work because they engage reality at its deepest layer.

1. Radical Attention: Energetic Hygiene

You do not need to consume every breaking headline to be informed.

Choose intentional witnessing over compulsive scrolling. Set time limits. Digest before ingesting more.

Attention is currency. Spend it like the future depends on it—because it does.

Tip: Use sage, sweetgrass, copal, paolo santo wood to clear the energy around you

2. Daily Descent into Stillness

Meditation is no longer optional.

Even ten minutes of true silence retrains the brain away from threat dominance. Lower frequencies cannot survive without stimulation.

Stillness is resistance.

Tip: Silence or therapeutic nature sounds, play overtone or harminic instruments

3. Alchemize Emotion, Don’t Suppress It

Rage, grief, terror, despair—these are intelligent energies.

Move them. Breathe them. Sound them.

Unexpressed emotion becomes ideology. Expressed emotion becomes wisdom.

Tip: Scream into a pillow, process the anger by allowing it to flow over you, cry it out, tears have power

4. Choose Love Without Collapsing Boundaries

Love is not passivity.

It says:

• I will not dehumanize.

• I will not abandon truth.

• I will not outsource my ethics to fear.

This is fierce love. Clean love. Warrior love.

Tip: Luana says, "Love or above is the way to create matter mindfully." after releasing through emotions-- always return to the frequency of love, joy, bliss, gratitude, glee, ecstasy for these are powerful emotions that alchemize negative fields

5. Practice Frequency Leadership

Before you speak, post, or react, ask:

Does this amplify coherence—or chaos?

Leadership now is energetic before it is verbal.

Tip: self-care practices help you hone your frequency and when made habitual they alter the field.

6. Hold Space for Peace in Real Time

Hold it in rooms full of fear. Hold it in conversations that feel combustible. Hold it when your own system wants to spiral.

Holding peace does not mean agreeing. It means refusing to leak violence into the field.

This is advanced, necessary work.

Tip: holding space means non-reaction taking a pause for reaction to allow other possibilities to open up, to allow the charge to dissipate before reacting is wisdom.

Why This Crisis Is a Hidden Opportunity

Never before has humanity been so visibly confronted with the consequences of unconsciousness.

Never before has the contrast been so sharp.

Never before has spiritual maturity been so necessary.

You are alive now because your nervous system, soul, and intelligence are capable of something rare: staying awake without becoming numb.

That is the work. That is the offering. That is the healing.

A Personal Moment (Because This Is Lived, Not Theoretical)

I was sitting at my desk, genuinely happy—immersed in creative work, helping others, feeling coherent and clear.

But, I knew I had to eventually turn on the news.

I braced myself and decided: ten minutes only.

In those ten minutes my nervous system lit up like a fire alarm. Doom scenarios. Collapse narratives. A visceral sense that the world is tilting toward something catastrophic.

I turned it off.

I breathed deeply. I grabbed musical instruments. I let sound smooth the panic back into my body.

It wasn’t instant. It wasn’t easy.

But it was possible.

And that matters—because if things continue in this direction unchecked, we are staring down the real possibility of global war.

Coherence is not a luxury. It is a survival skill.

A Final Invitation

If terror is the training, then coherence is the mastery.

Not denial. Not dissociation.

But the choice to become a stabilizing force in an unstable world.

Small islands of coherence. That is how systems shift. Quietly. Collectively. In the middle of the fire.

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