This white paper argues that contemporary global civilization, through its structural logic, symbolic architecture, and institutional priorities, is on a trajectory of collective assisted suicide. This condition is not chosen in full awareness, but emerges from entrenched patterns of ecological overshoot, systemic incoherence, epistemic fragmentation, and biomedical degradation. The paper traces how civilization’s dominant paradigms — rooted in control, separation, and commodification — undermine the biological, cultural, and symbolic substrates necessary for coherent life.
However, within this terminal trajectory lies the possibility for collective resurrection. Drawing from regenerative systems theory, life-value onto-axiology, symbolic recursion, and coherence-centered design, this paper identifies the emergence of a planetary attractor aligned with relational intelligence, biological integrity, and cultural resacralization. It introduces the TATi Spiral (Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate) as a generative grammar of coherence, and proposes policy, symbolic, and infrastructural reorientations to assist in reversing the death spiral and midwifing the birth of a regenerative planetary culture.
