THE COHERENCE TRILOGY: Reweaving Life, Mind, Society, and Earth | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

The Coherence Trilogy presents an integrated framework for understanding life, consciousness, relationship, culture, and planetary systems as expressions of a single organizing principle: coherence. Coherence is not an abstract ideal, but a biologically grounded process through which living systems maintain identity, adapt to change, repair after disruption, and remain connected to the conditions that sustain life.

Volume I demonstrates how coherence emerges within the body through cycles of sensation, emotion, metabolism, autonomic regulation, interpersonal attunement, and repair.
Volume II extends this into the realm of mind, showing how identity, belonging, meaning, and purpose arise when emotional life flows without fragmentation.
Volume III examines coherence at the scale of society, culture, governance, economy, and ecology, illustrating how personal and collective healing are inseparable.

Together, the trilogy proposes a model of human and planetary flourishing rooted in biological safety, relational repair, cultural meaning, systemic reciprocity, and ecological regeneration. The coherence framework offers both a diagnostic lens for the crises of fragmentation shaping modern civilization, and a practical pathway for restoring wholeness across scales of life.

Attachment, Coherence, and the Conditions for Flourishing: A Cross-Scale Framework Linking Relational Neuroscience, Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, and Life-Value Governance | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Human development relies on the capacity for co-regulation within relational environments. Modern attachment theory demonstrates that emotional security does not arise solely from individual psychological traits but from the nervous system’s ability to achieve and maintain physiological coherence in the presence of others. Concurrently, research in fascia, interoception, autonomic regulation, and mitochondrial bioenergetics shows that safety and stress are fundamentally embodied states that shape metabolic mode, immune signaling, and affective meaning-making. Secure attachment corresponds to flexible vagal regulation, oxidative mitochondrial metabolism, and balanced inflammatory tone, supporting learning, repair, and relational openness. Insecure and disorganized attachment correlate with chronic activation of the Cell Danger Response, autonomic dysregulation, inflammatory reactivity, and disruptions in interoceptive clarity, resulting in psychological distress and somatic illness.

At the societal scale, John McMurtry’s Life-Value Onto-Axiology provides a criterion for evaluating institutions: systems are life-coherent when they sustain the universal conditions required for life to flourish, and life-incoherent when they undermine those conditions. Extractive economic models, punitive governance, and social fragmentation can be understood as macro-scale expressions of attachment dysregulation and chronic threat physiology. Conversely, regenerative societies cultivate the ecological and relational conditions for earned secure attachment across development and adulthood.

This manuscript synthesizes attachment science, bioregulatory physiology, and life-value governance into an integrated coherence framework. It outlines clinical, educational, economic, and policy strategies for restoring conditions that support safety and relational trust, arguing that the future of human flourishing depends on designing systems that reliably regenerate coherence across biological, interpersonal, institutional, and ecological scales.

Coherence Across Scales: From Embodied Self-Regulation to Regenerative Societies and Viable Planetary Futures | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Living systems sustain themselves through coherence — the dynamic alignment of structure, physiological state, interpretation, and meaning across time. This white paper outlines a unified framework for understanding how coherence is generated and lost across scales, beginning with the embodied nervous system (proprioception, interoception, and exteroception), extending through relationships and co-regulation, into communities and culture, and upward into institutional design, economic provisioning systems, and planetary ecological stability. Integrating neuroscience, developmental psychology, trauma research, complexity science, regenerative systems theory, and John McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology, the paper shows that coherence breakdown across these scales follows the same predictable patterns of hypervigilance, collapse, and fragmentation — each reflecting adaptive responses to conditions of constraint and instability. In place of fragmented interventions, we propose a cross-scale regenerative sequencing principle: Support Form → Regulate State → Restore Shared World → Rebuild Meaning. This framework provides a practical basis for redesigning healthcare, education, governance, economic systems, and ecological stewardship toward the sustained flourishing of life.

Coherence as the Organizing Principle of Embodied Self-Regulation: Tri-Field Dynamics, Triality Structure, and Teleodynamic Maintenance Across Timescales and Relationships | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Human self-regulation depends on the continuous coordination of three interdependent sensory–regulatory domains: the proprioceptive field (form), the interoceptive field (state), and the exteroceptive field (world). These fields jointly shape posture, autonomic tone, affective experience, environmental interpretation, and the maintenance of a coherent sense of self. This tri-field architecture reflects a structural–energetic–informational triality common to adaptive biological systems and is implemented through recurrent neural circuits linking the cerebellum, insula, anterior cingulate cortex, hypothalamus, and brainstem.

Coherence arises when these fields remain in dynamic alignment; dys-coherence occurs when field coupling is disrupted, producing patterns such as anxiety, collapse, chronic pain, dissociation, and hypervigilance. Regulation is inherently rhythmic and unfolds across multiple timescales, from rapid sensorimotor adjustments to developmental shaping across early relational experience. Co-regulation is central to this process, and trauma is understood not as dysfunction but as adaptive coherence fixation under constrained conditions.

The model clarifies why cognitive interventions often fail when attempted before somatic and autonomic stabilization, and provides a sequencing principle for repair: Form → State → World → Meaning. It offers a unified framework for integrating medicine, psychology, physiotherapy, trauma therapy, developmental science, and relational practice into a coherent approach to restoring human regulatory capacity.