This work proposes a unified generative grammar for life, mind, culture, and complex systems: a triadic structure of absence, affordance, and the adjacent possible. Drawing on teleodynamics, semiotics, bioelectricity, developmental biology, and symbolic theory, this grammar offers a meta-framework for understanding how novelty, coherence, and meaning arise in living and symbolic systems. It challenges reductionist paradigms of linear causality and entailing laws, showing instead that constraint, interpretation, and recursive re-alignment form the basis of open-ended evolution — from cells to civilizations. Through the developmental sequence Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate (TATi), the book scaffolds a coherent model of transformation applicable to biology, cognition, education, governance, and artificial intelligence. The work culminates in the formulation of an integral onto-axiology, evaluating systems based on their capacity to generate, sustain, and integrate life-value coherence across nested holarchies. In closing, it offers the TATi Fold as a symbolic architecture of living transformation and participatory evolution.
