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We live in a time of layered crises — ecological, institutional, psychological, and civilizational — but beneath these lies a deeper dysfunction: the failure of discernment. Across scales, systems have lost the capacity to accurately filter signal from noise, truth from illusion, value from profit, and novelty from threat. This collapse of discernment is not just informational or ideological — it is somatic, symbolic, economic, and ecological.
This book proposes that the restoration of discernment is the generative lever for systemic healing. Like coherence in physiology, discernment is the capacity of a system to sense, interpret, and integrate information in alignment with its life-supporting truth. When discernment breaks down, systems enter states of subcoherence — functioning without integration, amplifying dysfunction, and resisting transformation. This is visible in everything from chronic illness and trauma loops to political polarization, climate denial, and economic incentives that reward destruction.
Drawing from the developmental grammar introduced in Regenerative Coherence — Tend → Align → Transcend → Integrate (TATi) — this book offers a regenerative epistemology that spans from mitochondrial redox signaling to collective sense-making. It maps how symbolic breakdowns at the level of fascia and narrative are mirrored by breakdowns in governance, finance, and planetary feedback loops.
Through case studies, systemic mappings, and practical frameworks, readers are invited to participate in a new project: the reconstitution of discernment as the keystone of individual agency, cultural resilience, and planetary evolution.
Regenerative Discernment is designed for thinkers, healers, policymakers, educators, designers, and seekers — anyone committed to bridging the fracture between knowledge and wisdom, between systems and selves, and between collapse and coherence.
