Diana Durham is one of those rare people who have succeeded in balancing an incisive curiosity with the deep feeling of an empathic poet. This enables her to bring her own unique powers of perception to the deep questions of our time. In ‘Coherent Self – Coherent World’ she uses her special talents to demonstrate that the interplay between our inner being and outer world can open a door to greater understanding of creative living and human purpose. The result is compelling! No source is seen as too unlikely to throw light on the great mystery of life, so ancient stories and designs, contemporary events, the findings of leading edge physics, and much more, all ‘hidden in plain sight’, yield up their secrets under Diana’s scrutiny. The decoding of each symbolic message brings new meaning, but also reveals others that beckon us on. Every avenue explored fuels our sense of adventure with twists in the tale that invoke awe and reverence for the beauty of Life’s design. The individual quest for meaningful identity and Self leads inexorably, even dauntingly, to my very own seat at the ‘Round Table’ of collective endeavour, and, if I choose to sit in it, the beginning of a whole new journey together. This is a voyage upon which the family of humanity has, as yet, barely embarked. The invitation to do so, however, which is implicit in this book, comes with tantalising glimpses of our capacity to transform wasteland into wonder-land, and to know, at the level of undeniable inner experience, the truth that we are indeed ‘More than the sum of the parts’. As always, though, the choice remains with us, and never has it been more important to R S V P ! ~ William Duffield, Amazon

This is an important book. I would warmly recommend anyone interested in consciousness, identity and the imagination to read it. Diana Durham draws upon a life-time of research and personal spiritual and psychological experience. The books concentration and concision also appeal. There is much to contemplate and consider here. This is a book I shall return to. ~ David Brazier, Principal St James Senior Boys School, Amazon

This is an important book. I would warmly recommend anyone interested in consciousness, identity and the imagination to read it. Diana Durham draws upon a life-time of research and personal spiritual and psychological experience. The books concentration and concision also appeal. There is much to contemplate and consider here. This is a book I shall return to. ~ D E Brazier, Amazon

Diana Durham's Coherent Self, Coherent World explains in a very simple, accessible way some profound ideas about the relationship between our outer self - the identity we construct for ourselves to inhabit the external world - and the inner self that we can become aware of through cultivating the art of consciousness. The crucial emphasis of this book is that this need not just be a solitary endeavour, through meditation and working with a teacher; it can also happen in a group context, if people are willing for that, with the result of a sense of conscious connection among the people in the group, a sense that at a deep level you are not alone. If that kind of connection is happening, then the group's actions and decisions in the world acquire a coherence, indeed a compassion, of a kind the world so obviously needs right now. A particular strength of Durham's approach is that she avoids spiritual language; she presents these ideas in a way that I think will seem reasonable to open-minded people with no particular spiritual commitment or belief. ~ Anthony Nanson, Amazon

Diana Durham’s new book, Coherent Self Coherent World is inspiring, evocative and challenging. Durham’s perspective about our interior world and our personality self, seen through the various windows of metaphysics, myth and Bohm’s implicate order, builds in a thought-provoking way and has opened new and creative possibilities for me in my life and work as a leadership development practitioner. Durham’s essential message is that when we align with our innermost self, we find ourselves integrated within a coherent whole. We achieve the condition of ‘intuitive mind’ and can trust that our intuition is valid. If we fail to do this, however, we can also function, conversely, in the condition of ‘defiled mind’, when our thinking becomes fragmented. At times, while reading, I felt as if I was travelling with her into a profound, reflective space that we generally don’t make enough time to consider. A real gift! I was relieved by her assurance that our flashes of insight lead to a deep knowing that we can trust. This approach is also a refreshing change to the increasingly common narrative that says ‘It’s all an interpretation”, in other words there is nothing coherent that we can rely on this apparently random world. Each of us is challenged to open and to let through us an already existing intelligence and creative flow that is the very core of our own being and the universe itself. I am convinced that this is the answer for our disjointed and incomprehensible world; an answer that we are called to pay attention to in this incisive and penetrating book. ~ Vicky Coates, Founder/Director of Transformer Leadership, Cape Town, South Africa

This wide ranging book is an important contribution to reorienting our culture towards the neglected inner dimension that gives rise to coherence and meaning and which constitutes our deeper being....It is a bold and inspiring vision. ~ David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer

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...Diana Durham looks to a restoration of much-needed metaphysical balance in our lives, and to realisation of the existential potential required for this to be achieved. To me, her book expresses the optimism of the ‘perennial philosophy’ which suggests that pure wisdom traditions re-emerge at relevant times in history...to revitalise the spiritual condition of humanity and tackle bias against awareness of an inner self. ~ Geoff Ward, Medium.com

Diana Durham’s explication of the search for the meaningful relationship between the inner self and the outer 'personality self' carves a path that includes Tibetan Buddhism, the Christian view of Adam’s fall, as well as physicist David Bohm’s musings on creativity, among other topics. This is an interesting and intricate read on the workings of wholeness. ~ Rosie Rosenzweig, Resident Scholar, Brandeis University, Women's Studies Research Center

Diana writes with a particular crystalline clarity suffusing both her poetry and prose: it is her essential expression. At the same time, her philosophical cast of mind reaches the highest level as a result of her many years of training and inner work. She is truly in touch with Sophia: and at a time when the Feminine has never been more important in its embodiment on the planet, we would do well to hear what she has to say. ~ Jay Ramsay