The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.