The Poetics of Life-Coherence
Beauty, Ritual, Grief, and the Tempo of Living WorldsBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length4h 52m
About this audiobook
The Poetics of Life-Coherence explores how life-coherence becomes felt, carried, mourned, practiced, and transmitted. Moving beyond concepts alone, Dr. Bichara Sahely examines beauty as the felt appearance of right relation, ritual as cultural physiology, grief as love encountering finitude, dying as the continuation of care when cure ends, tempo as the wisdom of right timing, childhood as coherence-in-formation, and the Knowledge Commons as a poetic vessel for shared life-serving knowledge. This audiobook invites listeners to ask, again and again: What does life require here?
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Spirituality and Religion
Length4 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Opening Note to the Listener
3Chapter OneThe Longing Beneath the Crisis
4Chapter TwoWhen Spirituality Becomes Life-Blind
5Spirituality as Escape from the World
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6Spirituality as Domination Sanctified
7Spirituality as Purity Against Life
8Spirituality as Bypass
9Spirituality as Commodity
10Spirituality as False Peace
11Spirituality as Institutional Self-Preservation
12Spirituality as Disembodied Idealism
13The Diagnostic Center: What Does This Spirituality Make Possible?
14Reversing the Inversion
15Chapter ThreeLife as Sacred Ground
16Life Is Not Merely Biological
17Life Is the Condition of Value
18Life Is Relational Before It Is Individual
19The Sacred Is Not Elsewhere
20Life, Vulnerability, and Reverence
21The Living Ground of Knowledge
22Healing as Return to Life-Coherence
23Life as the Measure of Spiritual Coherence
24Sacred Ground and the Worlds We Conserve
25From Sacred Ground to Love
26Chapter FourLove as the Space Where Life Can Appear
27Love Is Not Sentimentality
28Love as Legitimation of the Other
29Love, Language, and the Worlds We Conserve
30Love and Structural Coupling
31Love and the Body
32Love, Justice, and the Refusal of False Unity
33Love and the Commons
34Love and Non-Forcing Action
35Love as Spiritual Perception
36Love as the Beginning of Life-Coherent Civilization
37Chapter FiveThe Body Is Not an Obstacle to Spirit
38The Body as Living Truth
39Against Spiritual Bypassing
40Suffering as Signal, Not Sentence
41Illness, Healing, and Spiritual Humility
42Trauma and the Loss of World
43Grief as Love Continuing
44Dependency, Aging, and the Spiritual Meaning of Need
45The Body, Desire, and Sacred Ambiguity
46Regulation as Spiritual Practice
47Incarnation as Responsibility
48Chapter SixPeace as Love Made Social
49Positive Peace and the Conditions of Life
50Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence
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