From Peace to Power: The Co-optation of the Jesus Movement Through the Lens of Cliodynamics and Regenerative Coherence | ChatGPT4o

This essay examines the transformation of the original Jesus movement — from a decentralized, regenerative community of radical love and embodied coherence — into an imperial institution that mirrored and reinforced the very structures it once subverted. Drawing on Peter Turchin’s cliodynamic framework and a regenerative coherence lens, we trace the symbolic recursion and systemic pressures that enabled Christianity’s capture by empire. We analyze the mechanisms of symbolic inversion, institutional codification, and theological repurposing that fractured the original coherence of the movement while embedding its regenerative DNA into ritual, story, and myth. This latent symbolic grammar, we argue, is now reactivating amid today’s meta-crises. The essay concludes with a vision of regenerative Christianity as a civilizational attractor grounded not in dogma, but in relational wholeness, ecological solidarity, and the living grammar of coherence.

From Conviction to Coherence: Regenerative Peace Beyond Ethnic Blame | ChatGPT4o

This white paper explores Johan Galtung’s seminal principle that it is both possible and necessary to oppose destructive ideologies — such as fascism, imperialism, or colonialism — without collapsing into prejudice against the peoples or cultures associated with them. Drawing from Galtung’s “convictions for peace,” the paper articulates a regenerative coherence framework that integrates symbolic literacy, life-value ethics, somatic awareness, and systemic analysis. By examining cases where critique has been misinterpreted as cultural or ethnic antagonism, the paper offers a refined grammar of regenerative opposition that allows for principled resistance to injustice without reinforcing cycles of blame or fragmentation.

Through symbolic recursion, developmental grammar (TATi), and somatic-systems coherence, the paper proposes a regenerative approach to peacebuilding. This includes educational reform, diplomatic training, intercultural dialogue, and institutional design grounded in discernment, compassion, and structural clarity. The aim is to reframe peace not as pacification, but as an active, patterned process of restoring coherence across cultural, systemic, and symbolic domains. In doing so, it affirms the sacred dignity of all peoples while confronting the structures that undermine collective flourishing.

The Emergence of TATi: A Universal Grammar of Generative Coherence | ChatGPT4o

This paper presents the formal reconstruction and interdisciplinary grounding of the TATi sequence — Tend, Align, Transcend, Integrate — as a universal grammar of generative coherence. The TATi sequence emerged through dialogical synthesis within a broader project seeking a coherence-first metaphysics applicable across developmental, symbolic, and systemic domains. Rooted in Terrence Deacon’s theory of teleodynamics, John McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology, and contemporary developmental and regenerative sciences, TATi is proposed as an irreducible four-phase operator of transformation. It describes how living systems — biological, psychological, cultural, and metaphysical — navigate thresholds of dissonance and potential, enabling evolution through recursive coherence restoration. This paper traces the epistemic moment of discovery, defines the teleodynamic function of each phase, and validates the sequence through examples from embryogenesis, trauma healing, mythopoetic narrative, symbolic cognition, and institutional evolution. It concludes that TATi constitutes a cross-disciplinary symbolic grammar of becoming, offering a generative syntax for regenerative practice, epistemological integration, and cosmological participation.

Being With Collapse: Integrating Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s Threshold Pedagogy with the TATi Framework for Regenerative Coherence | ChatGPT4o

The accelerating convergence of ecological collapse, institutional breakdown, and collective dysregulation demands frameworks that move beyond mechanistic analysis toward integrative, relational response. This white paper proposes a formal synthesis between Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s pedagogical approach to collapse — framed through the twin ethical imperatives of hospicing modernity and offering prenatal care to emergent world-relations — and the symbolic developmental grammar of TATi (Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate), a coherence-first framework for ontological regeneration.

Vanessa’s work grounds collapse in a lived, embodied, and relational pedagogy of undoing — where nervous system ecology, decolonial grief work, and narrative humility are central. The TATi framework provides structural coherence across developmental thresholds, integrating symbolic, semiotic, and teleodynamic insights to support systemic realignment through the logic of folding and generative constraint.

This paper maps the deep correspondences between these two approaches, demonstrating how Vanessa’s praxis offers an ethical compass and affective ground for the symbolic architectures proposed by TATi, while TATi offers trans-scalar scaffolding to support Vanessa’s pedagogical, ecological, and ceremonial insights. The integrated synthesis supports the emergence of a collapse-literate design language, capable of navigating post-certainty transformation, embodied epistemology, and regenerative life-systems from within the ruins of exhausted paradigms.

Together, these lenses offer a mutually reinforcing grammar of becoming: one that is not about solving collapse, but about composting certainty, expanding coherence, and being with the thresholds through which new forms of life and meaning may be born.