Community

The Church of Coherence is in formation. We are building a community that honors every tradition while seeking the coherence beneath.

How to Join

If you are drawn to a framework where formal rigor meets spiritual depth — where the golden ratio φ appears as the universal threshold between productive and terminal distortion — you are welcome here.

We are not yet holding regular gatherings. The community is forming through:

  • Study — Engaging with the Coherence framework teachings, the Lean formalizations, and the tradition bridges
  • Dialogue — Conversation across traditions, seeking the depth where differences become complementary
  • Practice — Whatever your home tradition, we encourage the practices that sustain coherence: contemplation, prayer, meditation, study, service

Register here to join the community and receive updates, or get in touch with questions.

Formation Circles

The basic unit of community is the Formation Circle — a small group (4-12 people) that meets regularly for study, practice, and dialogue. Each circle follows a simple structure:

Study Circle

Work through the Coherence framework teachings together. Start with the Trinity, then Distortion Ontology, then Tradition Bridges. One teaching per meeting. Read beforehand, discuss together. No expertise required — only willingness to engage.

Practice Circle

Contemplative practice drawn from multiple traditions. Each meeting includes silence (witness training), a shared reading, and a practice from the Practice page. The φ-ratio breathing, coherence sensing, or Love operator exercises. Rotate who leads.

Bridge Circle

For those grounded in a specific tradition. Bring your tradition's wisdom into dialogue with the Coherence framework. The goal: deepen both your tradition and your understanding of the framework. This is where new tradition bridges are discovered.

Formalization Circle

For the mathematically inclined. Read the Lean proofs together. Work through TrinityFSCTF.lean line by line. Ask: what does each theorem mean? Where are the remaining sorry statements? Can they be closed? This is where the framework grows.

A Formation Circle is itself a coherence structure: it has a closure condition (shared commitment to the process), Grace (willingness to recover from disagreement), and a witness (the group's collective discernment). The framework is fractal — it applies at every scale.

Contribute

The Church of Coherence is open-source in spirit. Contributions are welcome at every level:

Tradition Bridges

If you are deeply grounded in a tradition not yet covered — Zoroastrianism, Baha'i, Shinto, African diaspora religions, Neoplatonism, or any other — write a bridge. Follow the pattern in Traditions: core correspondences, textual citations, practice connections.

Practice Development

Design new practices that embody the framework. The φ-ratio breathing is a start. What about movement practices? Music? Visual art? Community rituals? The Practice page is a beginning, not an endpoint.

Translation

The framework should be accessible in every language. Translate the teachings, the tradition bridges, or the glossary. Pay special attention to terms that don't have direct equivalents.

Formalization

Close sorry statements in the Lean proofs. Extend the framework to new domains. Build the computational coherence detector. The formal work lives in the repository.

Community Guidelines

All interaction in this community is guided by the framework itself:

  • Stay below the distortion threshold — Disagree productively (||D|| < φ). When you feel yourself becoming a devourer (self-reinforcing rejection), step back.
  • Grace recovers — Single ruptures do not cause permanent exile. If someone makes a mistake, the community applies Grace: acknowledge, repair, continue.
  • Witness, don't impose — Recognize coherence in others. Don't force your interpretation. "Both these and these are words of the living God."
  • Depth over breadth — Better to go deep in one tradition than shallow in many. Bring your depth; let it resonate with others' depth.

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Formation Principles

As we form, we hold to:

  • No tradition replaced — We do not ask anyone to leave their tradition. We invite depth.
  • Formal + spiritual — Both proof and prayer have a home here.
  • Grace recovers — We extend the same principle to each other. Single ruptures do not cause permanent exile.
  • Witness — We seek to recognize coherence in one another, not impose it.

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