Life-Coherent Civilization
From World-Bringing to Participatory RepairBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length15h 48m
About this audiobook
Life-Coherent Civilization offers a powerful framework for rethinking civilization from the standpoint of life. Drawing on Humberto Maturana’s biology of the observer, John McMurtry’s life-value philosophy, and Johan Galtung’s theory of violence and peace, Dr. Bichara Sahely develops a practical grammar for asking: What world are we bringing forth? What life is being enabled or disabled? What harm is being hidden, normalized, or repaired?
This audiobook diagnoses the “Great Inversion,” in which economy, law, technology, education, health, governance, and knowledge cease to serve life and begin requiring life to serve them. It then offers the life-coherent vessel, the civil commons, the Life-Coherence Test, and the Field Cycle of Repair as tools for restoring institutions to their proper purpose: protecting, enabling, and regenerating life across persons, communities, ecosystems, and future generations.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Politics and Government
Length15 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Acknowledgement
3Epigraphs
4A Note to the Listener
5Listener’s Overview
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6Preface
7How to Listen to This Book
8Opening Orientation Before the Prologue
9Prologue — The Vessel We Are Already In
10Part I — The Foundational Grammar
11Chapter 1 — The World-Bringing Animal
12Chapter 2 — Maturana: The Biology of the Observer
13Chapter 3 — McMurtry: Life-Value and the Civil Commons
14Chapter 4 — Galtung: Violence, Peace, and Life-Disablement
15Chapter 5 — The Triadic Grammar: World-Bringing, Life-Value, and Anti-Violence
16Part II — The Great Inversion
17Chapter 6 — How the Dominant Paradigm Misorders Life
18Chapter 7 — Category Errors of Civilization
19Part III — The Life-Coherent Vessel
20Chapter 8 — Deriving the Vessel from First Principles
21Chapter 9 — The Architecture of the Vessel
22Chapter 10 — The Life-Coherence Test
23Part IV — The Atlas of Correctives
24Chapter 11 — Earth as Life-Ground
25Chapter 12 — Economy Re-Embedded in Life
26Chapter 13 — Power, Domination, and Liberation
27Chapter 14 — Knowledge, Systems, and Feedback
28Chapter 15 — Law, Rights, Repair, and Future Generations
29Part V — Civil Commons in Practice
30Chapter 16 — Water as Civil Commons
31Chapter 17 — Health as Civil Commons
32Chapter 18 — Education as Civil Commons
33Chapter 19 — Economy as Civil Commons
34Chapter 20 — Governance as Civil Commons
35Part VI — Praxis
36Chapter 21 — The Field Cycle of Life-Coherent Repair
37Praxis begins with attention
38Chapter 22 — The Life-Coherence Dashboard
39Conclusion: measure only to repair
40Chapter 23 — Transition Pathways: From Inversion to Life-Coherent Practice
41Chapter 24 — Life-Coherent Civilization: Returning the Vessel to Life
42Epilogue — The Vessel We Are Already In
43Listener’s Toolkit
44About the Author
45Closing Note to the Listener
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