This white paper proposes that internal medicine — grounded in the art of diagnosis, coherence restoration, and life-value discernment — offers a powerful prototype for the regeneration of human systems at every scale. Drawing from the legacy of Hippocrates, Avicenna, and John McMurtry, and integrating the multi-dimensional frameworks of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory and emerging sciences of coherence, we present a model of Integral Regeneration that connects clinical practice to planetary design.
Through the lens of life-value onto-axiology, mitophagic renewal, and the recurring patterns of 1, 3, and 7, we frame health not merely as the absence of disease, but as the presence of systemic coherence across bodies, cultures, ecologies, and institutions.
We introduce a diagnostic and design grammar capable of scaling from the mitochondrion to the polis — offering clinicians, educators, policymakers, and system architects a new epistemology of care. The paper culminates in the articulation of a New Hippocratic Oath, expanded for an era of planetary breakdown and reconstitution. This is both a call and a blueprint for those who would steward the next phase of civilizational healing — rooted in life, aligned with grace, and committed to coherence.
