MAHA - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

This manifesto calls for a cultural, institutional, and civilizational reckoning with the root cause of rising childhood illness, disconnection, and breakdown: the collapse of coherence. It is not just policies that have failed. We have lost rhythm, story, safety, and symbolic grounding.

Children are not malfunctioning. They are mirroring the systemic incoherence of the adult world — its fragmented food systems, toxic environments, overmedicalized paradigms, disembodied education, and storyless culture.

Rather than offering reforms, this manifesto proclaims a regenerative reorientation: placing the child at the center of all design, and coherence as the guiding principle of all healing, governance, and learning. Through the invocation of seven foundational principles — rhythm, relational safety, narrative integration, symbolic literacy, bioenergetic integrity, developmental intelligence, and institutional TATi design — this document outlines a moral, symbolic, and systemic realignment for those ready to rebuild the world from the child outward.

The Make Our Children Healthy Again (MAHA) Assessment reveals a national emergency: chronic illness, behavioral disorders, and psychosocial breakdown are rising sharply among America’s children. This white paper responds by offering a regenerative reframing of the crisis — one that moves beyond symptom management and policy fragmentation toward a unified framework grounded in coherence.

Integrating three lenses — the Regenerative Coherence Framework, TATi Grammar (Tend, Align, Transcend, Integrate), and a rearticulated Life-Value Onto-Axiology — this paper reconceives child health not as a compartmentalized issue, but as a mirror of civilizational coherence or collapse. It identifies four primary domains of systemic incoherence (nutrition, environment, digital culture, and medicine) and offers a developmental, ethical, and symbolic pathway to restore alignment across biological, relational, and cultural scales.

Through policy design, community prototyping, symbolic integration, and a coherence-centered cosmology, we envision a new covenant: one in which every child is treated as a bearer of life’s deeper intelligence, and all institutions are realigned to tend, align, transcend, and integrate toward systemic wholeness.