Tag: LVOA

Life-Value Coherence: Reweaving the Living Order from Symbol to System | ChatGPT4o

This work advances the philosophical, scientific, and systemic project of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), initiated by John McMurtry, into a next-generation framework of Life-Value Coherence. Coherence is here proposed as the operational principle of life-value itself — its lived, embodied, and enacted grammar — across scales ranging from molecular to metaphysical, personal to planetary.

Integrating foundational insights from fascia science, structured water physics, symbolic recursion, regenerative medicine, and systemic design, the book articulates a living architecture of coherence that unifies symbolic, somatic, epistemological, and institutional domains. The framework is developed through a transdisciplinary lens that includes biotensegrity, quantum biology, AI ethics, narrative medicine, public health, and planetary governance.

Life-Value Coherence not only diagnoses the deep systemic disorders undermining health, society, and ecological stability but also offers a practical grammar — symbolic and structural — for healing across all fronts. It reinterprets healing as re-cohering, policy as pattern stewardship, and meaning-making as metabolic re-alignment with life’s constraints and capacities.

By weaving together the symbolic and the scientific, the personal and the planetary, this book offers a universal but context-sensitive method of reweaving the living order, from symbol to system.

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The Problem Isn’t You — It’s the System: An LVOA Reflection on Personal Blame and Systemic Injustice | ChatGPT4o

This article expands upon Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov’s viral essay, “The Problem Isn’t You, It’s the System,” by critically engaging it through the philosophical framework of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA). It examines the pervasive neoliberal myth of personal failure and reveals how structural injustices — masked as individual shortcomings — function as ideological tools to prevent collective awakening and systemic reform. By exposing the life-incoherence at the core of modern economic systems, the article reorients readers toward collective solidarity, relational healing, and participatory redesign. It concludes with targeted calls to action for activists, educators, and policymakers seeking to co-create life-enabling alternatives.

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From Price Stability to Life Coherence: Reclaiming Economic Priorities for Human and Planetary Wellbeing | ChatGPT4o

This white paper critiques the dominant economic prioritization of inflation control over life-needs provisioning. Drawing from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), and historical analysis, it exposes the ideological and structural roots of this inversion. It argues that the inflation-first approach serves capital preservation rather than public purpose and has led to widespread deprivation, systemic injustice, and ecological breakdown. The paper proposes a life-coherent economic framework in which provisioning of basic needs is primary, and inflation is managed as a secondary function in service to life. This reframing calls for new economic metrics, fiscal tools, and narrative paradigms that re-anchor governance in human and planetary wellbeing.

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From Rivalry to Regeneration: Reclaiming Our Future Through Life-Value Onto-Axiology | ChatGPT4o

This white paper addresses the civilizational threat posed by the convergence of exponential technologies and rivalrous social dynamics, a trajectory that Daniel Schmachtenberger describes as structurally self-terminating. Integrating his analysis with John McMurtry’s Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), we diagnose the life-blind value systems at the root of systemic breakdowns across economics, media, governance, education, and identity. We propose a civilizational re-alignment grounded in the Primary Axiom of Value: that value is that which sustains and enables life-capacity without loss. From this foundation, we articulate the emergence of regenerative systems and sovereign selves — anti-rivalrous, coherence-generating, and ontologically grounded in interdependence. The white paper outlines the qualities of imaginal cells, the redesign of value equations, and the cultivation of semiotic, emotional, and systemic coherence as prerequisites for a viable future. Coherence, not control, becomes the foundation of civilizational continuity. Only life-value aligned systems survive — and evolve.

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From Christendom to Christic Coherence: A Manifesto for Regenerating Christianity through the Life-Ground | ChatGPT4o

This manifesto calls for a radical reorientation of Christianity from institutional preservation and doctrinal control toward the living pulse of sacred coherence at the heart of the Christic impulse. Grounded in Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), it critiques the historical misalignments of Christendom, reframes key theological concepts such as sin, grace, and salvation, and envisions the Church not as a top-down hierarchy but as a regenerative commons of care, discernment, and planetary stewardship. Addressed to clergy and spiritual leaders, the manifesto invites a new pastoral identity rooted in composting inherited distortions and cultivating new life-affirming forms of ecclesial presence. This is not a call to abandonment but to sacred transformation — from Christendom’s decline to a rebirth of the Christic pattern in every place where life is honored, healed, and restored.

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Beyond War: A Life-Value Onto-Axiological Critique of Armed Conflict in Iraq, Ukraine, and Gaza | ChatGPT4o

This white paper offers a comprehensive and systemic critique of war through the lens of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), a normative framework that grounds all legitimate value in the preservation and development of life-capacities across biological, psychological, social, and ecological domains. By examining the conflicts in Iraq, Ukraine, and Gaza as paradigmatic case studies, the paper reveals that war is not an aberration of politics but a structural expression of life-incoherence — a breakdown of systems that prioritize domination, strategic abstraction, and resource control over the sanctity and flourishing of life.

Through in-depth analysis, the paper demonstrates that each conflict is sustained by epistemological distortion, axiological inversion, and the operation of what LVOA theorist John McMurtry terms the Ruling Group Mind (RGM) — a system of elite-controlled narratives and institutions that obscure causality, justify violence, and normalize systemic destruction. War, in this context, emerges as a predictable consequence of governance systems unmoored from the ontological ground of life.

Moving beyond critique, the paper outlines a Regenerative Peace Paradigm based on five pillars: ontological grounding in the sacredness of life, epistemological clarity, axiological coherence, institutionalization of the civil commons, and regenerative feedback through trauma-informed systems. It calls for the transformation of security paradigms, the demilitarization of global systems, and the reconstruction of international institutions capable of upholding life-support infrastructures across all cultures and ecosystems.

This paper serves as both an academic intervention and a moral appeal to policymakers, peacebuilders, civil society leaders, and cultural creators. It asserts that peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of life-system coherence — a goal that is not only ethically imperative but structurally necessary for planetary survival. The time has come to shift from managing crises to realigning civilization with the only value that endures: life itself.

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From Separation to Solidarity: Why Non-Dual Thinking Matters for Global Challenges | ChatGPT4o

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  • Why do theologians frequently disagree, but mystics always agree?
  • Who first articulated this dichotomy?
  • Can life-value onto-axiology be interpreted through the lens of mysticism?
  • What can a mystic version of economics and politics look like?
  • Can Fullerton’s Regenerative Economics and Raworth’s Doughnut Economics be viewed through a mystic lens?
  • What would a non-dualistic version of economics and politics look like?

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The Eucharist as the Diamond of Divine Perspectives: Embracing God Within, Beside, and Beyond | ChatGPT4o

Table of Contents

  • What is the name of the Creed recited in the Catholic Church?
  • What is the difference between the Nicene and Apostle’s creeds?
  • How can the Nicene Creed be interpreted through the AQAL perspective?
  • How can the Nicene Creed be interpreted through the LVOA perspective?
  • How can the Nicene Creed be interpreted through the Analytic Idealism perspective?
  • How can the Nicene Creed be interpreted through Paul Smith’s Expanded Trinity?
  • How can the Nicene Creed be interpreted through the three personal perspectives?
  • At the end of Mass, the closing prayer reads: “The psalmist writes, “You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing” (Ps 145:16). Loving God, give us grateful hearts to receive the gifts you share, trusting you provide us with all we need. In a special way, open our hearts to the gift of yourself in this Eucharist so that we might know you more fully, love you more deeply, and serve you more faithfully in all we do. Amen.” From the different perspectives given above, how can this closing prayer be interpreted?
  • What is the historical context and symbolism of the Eucharist and how does it provide the wisdom that allows us to pause, pivot and merge the different perspectives into an integrative adamantine whole?

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“On Why Knowledge is NOT Knowledge IF it is NOT LIFE-COHERENT” by Prof John McMurtry

But knowledge is not knowledge if it is not life coherent. To be life coherent, it must speak to the felt side of being, of which emotions are key, or it is inconsistent and life-blind. But emotions alone mislead us all over the place unless they are moored in life coherent action too – mainly with words that distinguish… Read More

Helping to evolve our planetary abode to greater and better futures

The inspiration of this article was the discovery of the missing universal Constructal Law by Prof Adrian Bejan which grounds securely Prof McMurtry’s LVOA from which to anchor and steer his prescriptions. Interestingly, both the Primary Axiom of Life Value and the Constructal Law of Life can both be seen as different representations of the same unifying life principle…

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