Symbolostasis refers to the process by which symbolic systems — comprising language, narratives, rituals, mythologies, and signifying practices — maintain, update, or restore coherence across threshold transitions. Analogous to allostasis in biology, which sustains physiological viability through adaptive regulation, symbolostasis describes how meaning systems regenerate semiotic stability under changing psychological, cultural, technological, or ecological conditions. This paper develops a formal framework for understanding and applying symbolostasis across multiple domains — from trauma healing and regenerative medicine to narrative reweaving in cultures and coherence-based design in artificial intelligence. Grounded in the Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate (TATi) grammar and a coherence-first metaphysics, symbolostasis emerges as a teleodynamic function essential for symbolic life to flourish in an increasingly fragmented world. In a time of civilizational disintegration and meta-crisis, this capacity to metabolize, reorganize, and regenerate meaning becomes not only therapeutic but existential.
