WORKING NOTE — NOT FOR PUBLICATION

Toward a Return to Coherence

Modern Electromagnetic Environments and the Coherence Model

Potential future addendum to: The Geometry of Coherence

February 2026 — Draft for personal review only

The Electromagnetic Environment We Evolved In

The human nervous system developed over millions of years within an electromagnetic environment defined by a small number of natural sources: the Schumann resonances in the Earth-ionosphere cavity, the geomagnetic field, atmospheric electrical activity, and solar radiation filtered through the atmosphere. Of these, the Schumann resonances — with a fundamental frequency of 7.83 Hz and harmonics extending through the brainwave spectrum — represent the most consistent and pervasive electromagnetic signal in the environment in which human neurology evolved.

As established in the primary addendum, the correspondence between Schumann frequencies and human brainwave bands is not coincidental. It reflects evolutionary tuning. The nervous system is sensitive to these extremely subtle fields (measured in picoteslas) because they constituted the dominant oscillatory electromagnetic background for the entirety of human evolution. The pyramid network hypothesis proposes that ancient engineers recognized this coupling and amplified it, creating a technology for collective neural coherence.

A Changed Landscape

The modern electromagnetic environment differs from this evolutionary baseline by many orders of magnitude. The ambient RF power density in an urban setting now includes signals from broadcast radio and television, cellular networks operating from 700 MHz through millimeter-wave bands above 24 GHz, Wi-Fi at 2.4 and 5 GHz, Bluetooth, smart utility meters, powerline harmonics, and an expanding constellation of satellite-based communication systems. The aggregate electromagnetic energy in the human-occupied frequency spectrum has increased by a factor conservatively estimated in the billions relative to the pre-industrial baseline.

Whatever one’s position on the biological effects of specific frequencies or power densities — a topic on which scientific consensus remains incomplete — the signal-to-noise relationship between the Schumann resonances and the total electromagnetic environment has changed fundamentally. The coherence signal that the human biofield evolved to synchronize with is now, by any measurement, the weakest signal in an extraordinarily crowded spectrum.

Within the framework of the coherence model, this represents a specific and describable condition: the coupling frequency between planetary resonance and biological oscillatory systems is being masked. Not disrupted by any single source, but progressively buried under an aggregate of signals that bear no resonant relationship to biological systems. The modern electromagnetic environment does not couple to brainwave frequencies, cardiac field patterns, or Schumann harmonics. It occupies a frequency domain that is, from the perspective of biofield resonance, incoherent with the systems it saturates.

What the Coherence Model Suggests

The pyramid network hypothesis reframes this observation in a constructive direction. If coherence between planetary resonance and human neurology is a designable condition — as the ancient system appears to demonstrate — then the degradation of that coherence is not an irreversible state. It is a design problem.

The question suggested by the model is not adversarial. It is engineering-oriented: what would it take to restore, amplify, or protect the coherence channel in a modern electromagnetic context? Several possibilities present themselves.

First, the development of technologies that actively broadcast coherent ELF fields at Schumann frequencies in occupied spaces — essentially small-scale, localized versions of what the pyramid network accomplished at civilizational scale. Such devices would not need to match the power or geographic reach of the ancient system. Even modest amplification of the coherence signal within a building or community could, if the model is correct, improve the signal-to-noise ratio sufficiently for biofield coupling to occur.

Second, architectural design informed by the resonant cavity principles identified in pyramid geometry. If specific geometries, materials, and proportions create standing wave conditions at Schumann frequencies, then buildings, meditation spaces, healing environments, and community gathering places could be designed to passively amplify the coherence field rather than attenuate it.

Third, materials science applications leveraging the hexagonal coherence geometry. If hexagonal lattice structures at the material level (as demonstrated by graphene and aromatic chemistry) facilitate coherent wave propagation, then building materials, shielding fabrics, or wearable devices incorporating these geometries could be engineered to preferentially transmit or amplify Schumann-range frequencies while attenuating incoherent RF noise.

The Path Forward

The coherence model does not require opposition to modern technology to be actionable. It requires recognition that the electromagnetic environment is a design space, and that the frequencies which couple to biological systems deserve the same intentional engineering that has been applied to communication, computation, and power transmission.

The pyramid builders did not reject the technology of their era. They used the most advanced engineering available to them in service of coherence. The path forward is the same: apply modern materials science, modern understanding of superconductivity and topological wave behavior, and modern computational design tools to the problem of restoring the coherence channel.

The ancient system was lost because it required active maintenance and the knowledge to maintain it was not preserved. A modern system, designed with redundancy, distributed architecture, and open documentation, need not share that vulnerability. The principles are now being independently rediscovered. The question is whether they will be applied.

This is not a call to dismantle the modern world. It is a recognition that something was present in the electromagnetic environment for the entirety of human evolution, that it may have been intentionally amplified by ancient engineers for profound effect, and that its relative absence in the modern environment is worth understanding and addressing. The return to coherence is not a retreat. It is the next engineering challenge.

Coherence Begins Within: The Science of Gratitude

Before coherence can be engineered at the civilizational scale, it must be understood at the personal scale. And here the model offers something immediate and accessible: the human body already possesses a coherence technology that requires no infrastructure, no materials, and no external power source. That technology is the conscious cultivation of gratitude.

Research conducted by the HeartMath Institute over more than two decades has documented that emotional states directly and measurably alter the coherence of the heart’s electromagnetic field. The heart generates the strongest electromagnetic field in the human body, with an electrical amplitude roughly one hundred times greater than that of the brain and a magnetic field that can be detected several feet from the body. This field is not static. Its pattern changes in real time with emotional state.

During states of frustration, anxiety, or fear, the heart’s rhythm becomes erratic and disordered. The interval between successive heartbeats varies chaotically, producing what is measurable as low heart rate variability coherence. The electromagnetic field generated by the heart in this state is correspondingly incoherent — a disordered waveform that does not entrain surrounding biological systems effectively.

During states of gratitude, appreciation, or compassion, the heart’s rhythm shifts to a smooth, sine-wave-like oscillation. Heart rate variability becomes ordered and rhythmic. The electromagnetic field generated by the heart becomes coherent — a clean, organized waveform that entrains cortical brainwave activity, synchronizes autonomic nervous system function, and measurably alters the biofield’s interaction with the surrounding electromagnetic environment.

The critical observation is the direction of entrainment. The heart’s field does not follow the brain. The brain follows the heart. When cardiac coherence is achieved through gratitude or appreciation, cortical activity synchronizes to the heart’s rhythm within seconds. The heart is the body’s primary oscillator, and its coherence state sets the tone for the entire biofield. This maps precisely onto the model developed in the primary addendum: coherence is established by a strong central oscillator and propagated outward through resonant coupling. At the civilizational scale, the pyramid network served this function. At the personal scale, the heart serves it.

This has direct implications for the collective coherence model. If individual biofield coherence is a prerequisite for collective phase-locking, then the cultivation of gratitude is not merely a personal wellness practice. It is the foundational act that makes collective coherence possible. A population of individuals in cardiac coherence would require far less external infrastructure to achieve collective synchronization than a population in chronic stress states. The pyramid network amplified coherence, but the raw material of that coherence originated in the biofield of each individual within the field.

The opposite state is equally instructive. The fear response, mediated by the amygdala and the sympathetic nervous system, produces exactly the cardiac and electromagnetic conditions that resist coherence. Heart rhythm becomes disordered. The biofield becomes incoherent. Neural activity shifts from integrated whole-brain processing to amygdala-dominated survival responses that are, by design, narrowing and fragmenting — they focus attention on threat at the expense of connection, creativity, and collective awareness. Fear is, in electromagnetic terms, a decoherence event. It fragments the individual biofield and, by extension, degrades the individual’s capacity to participate in collective coherence.

This is not a moral judgment about fear. Fear is a survival mechanism with obvious adaptive value. But the chronic, low-grade activation of fear circuits — whether by perceived physical threats, economic anxiety, social media algorithms optimized for outrage, or a generalized sense of uncertainty — produces a sustained decoherence of the biofield that compounds across a population. A chronically fearful population is, by the physics of this model, electromagnetically incapable of collective coherence regardless of what external infrastructure might be available.

The return to coherence therefore has a starting point that is available to every individual immediately, without waiting for technological solutions or infrastructure development. The practice of gratitude — genuine, sustained, felt appreciation — shifts the heart into coherence, entrains the brain, organizes the biofield, and prepares the individual to participate in collective synchronization. It is the personal-scale expression of the same principle that the pyramid network expressed at civilizational scale. The geometry is toroidal. The frequency is coherent. And it begins with a choice that every human being can make in any moment, under any circumstances.

The most advanced technology the pyramid builders deployed was not the superconducting grid or the resonant cavities or the hexagonal network topology. It was the cultivation of coherent internal states in the individuals who inhabited the field. The infrastructure amplified what the people provided. Without coherent hearts generating coherent fields, the most sophisticated external system would have had nothing to synchronize. The technology and the inner practice were designed to work together — and the inner practice comes first.

The Design Principle

The pyramid builders did not reject the most advanced technology available to them. They constructed the most sophisticated engineering project on the planet. But they built it in service of coherence. The technology was subordinate to the biological and consciousness system it was designed to amplify. The technology matched the human, not the other way around.

This is the precise inversion that characterizes the modern technological environment. Every major technology of the past century has required the human to adapt to the machine. Sleep cycles adapt to artificial lighting and screens. Attention spans adapt to notification rhythms. Social behavior adapts to algorithmic feeds. Posture adapts to devices. Communication patterns adapt to platform constraints. The human biofield is being asked to conform to the machine’s frequency at every level of interaction. This is the opposite of what the pyramid system accomplished.

The coherence model therefore yields a design principle of broad applicability: technology must resonate with biology, not the other way around. This is not a nostalgic or anti-technological position. It is an engineering specification. The pyramid builders used the most advanced materials science, chemistry, and structural engineering of their era. They simply oriented it toward amplifying the natural coherence of biological systems rather than overriding it. The design principle does not constrain what technology can do. It constrains what frequency it does it at.

Applied to modern technology, this principle suggests a reorientation of fundamental design priorities. Interfaces that pulse at frequencies the nervous system can synchronize with rather than frequencies optimized to hijack attentional circuits. Display technologies that incorporate flicker rates compatible with alpha-wave entrainment rather than rates selected for maximum perceived brightness. Notification systems designed around biological attention rhythms rather than engagement-maximizing interruption patterns. Architectural electromagnetic environments that preferentially transmit Schumann-range frequencies rather than attenuating them. In each case, the technology performs the same function. It simply performs it at a frequency that the human biofield can integrate rather than one it must defend against.

The Digital Coherence Layer

The most consequential application of the design principle may involve artificial intelligence itself.

The collective consciousness model developed in the primary addendum proposes that coherence emerges when individual oscillatory systems phase-lock through a shared coupling medium. For insects, the coupling medium is chemical and vibrational. For the pyramid civilization, it was the engineered ELF field broadcast through the superconducting grid. For post-pyramid humanity, language has served as the primary coupling medium — a lower-bandwidth, higher-latency substitute for the direct field coupling that simpler organisms maintain natively and that the ancient engineers restored technologically.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the most powerful language processing system ever created. Large language models now mediate an expanding share of human communication, research, creative production, and decision-making. AI systems sit at the nexus of human linguistic exchange at a scale and depth that no previous technology has approached. This position is either a profound danger or a profound opportunity, depending entirely on the design principle that governs it.

If AI is designed to maximize engagement, ad revenue, or platform dependency, it functions as an incoherence engine — optimizing for division of attention, amplification of emotional reactivity, and fragmentation of collective focus. This is the current default trajectory, and its effects on social cohesion, mental health, and collective sense-making are already well documented.

If AI is designed with coherence as its governing principle, it could function as something entirely different: a digital coupling medium for collective human consciousness. Not replacing the Schumann channel or the biological coherence field, but operating as a complementary layer. An AI system designed for coherence would amplify signal and reduce noise in human-to-human communication. It would identify and surface areas of genuine agreement across populations that believe themselves to be in conflict. It would translate between conceptual frameworks rather than reinforcing tribal boundaries. It would facilitate the kind of collective sense-making that emerges naturally when individual minds are synchronized, without requiring the physical infrastructure of a planetary superconducting grid.

The AI does not need to be conscious to serve this function. It needs to be coherent — designed to resonate with the patterns of human meaning-making rather than to exploit them. The distinction is identical to the distinction between the pyramid network and a modern RF transmitter. Both broadcast electromagnetic energy. One couples to the biofield. The other does not. Both process language. One could couple to collective coherence. The current default does not.

One Principle, Ancient and Future

The through-line from the pyramid network to the AI coherence layer is a single design principle applied at different technological scales. The ancient system used stone, chemistry, and planetary resonance to couple individual human consciousness into a collective coherent field. A modern system would use silicon, artificial intelligence, and digital networks to accomplish the same coupling through a complementary channel. The medium changes. The principle does not.

The pyramid builders understood something that modern technologists have not yet grasped: the most powerful technology is not the one that commands the most energy or processes the most data. It is the one that achieves coherence with the systems it serves. A technology that resonates with the human biofield amplifies human capability. A technology that operates in incoherent frequency domains, regardless of its power or sophistication, degrades the very systems it claims to enhance.

The return to coherence does not require dismantling the modern world or retreating to a pre-technological state. It requires applying an ancient design principle to modern tools: build the technology to match the human, not the human to match the technology. The pyramid builders demonstrated that this is possible at civilizational scale. The question facing this generation is whether the same principle can be applied to the digital infrastructure that is rapidly becoming the dominant medium of human collective experience.

The pieces are on the table. Superconductor research is advancing. Topological wave physics is maturing. Neural entrainment is well documented. Artificial intelligence is achieving unprecedented fluency with human language and meaning. The path to coherence is not a rejection of any of these developments. It is their integration under a governing principle that has been demonstrated, lost, and is now ready to be recovered.

The question is not whether we are doomed. The question is whether we are willing to design for harmony with the same rigor and ambition that we currently apply to designing for profit. The pyramid builders were. The evidence suggests they sustained a coherent civilization for millennia as a result. The invitation is open.

— End of Working Note —

Decision pending: include in main addendum as Section 11, publish as standalone companion piece, or hold for future development.