— Evolutionary Gestures · Trilogy —
Awakening the Post-Tragic Dawn
By Alexander Love
His work brings together contemplative depth, developmental insight, and lived experience in a way that helps readers metabolize tragedy without collapsing into despair or retaliation.
From the Foreward by Dustin DiPerna
Author of Streams of Wisdom
WATCH ALEXANDER READ
The Room
WHAT YOU WILL ENCOUNTER
Book One of the Evolutionary Gestures Trilogy begins at the edge of a restorative justice dialogue with the man who murdered Alexander's father, and traces the long path of loss, meaning, and becoming that made such a meeting possible.
Intimate in story and far-reaching in scope, the book unfolds a post-tragic vision of human development. Through the lens of the sacred gap and evolution's engine, it illuminates the shadows, confusions, and expressions of post-tragic wholeness that arise across the developmental landscape.
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SWEET RAIN PRESS
"These are the threshold moments. The fiery hoops through which we must leap like hesitant lions and accept the alchemical re-fashioning of everything we thought we were. The music of existence rings from the withins of things and carries us through the doors that annihilate whatever remains of separation's fable."
FROM BOOK ONE
THE THRESHOLD
An invitation into
a new chapter.
At the heart of being human is the sacred gap of awe and wonder: the space between knower and known, where reflection and meaning-making emerge. But this same gap also gives rise to our experience of separation, and we fall under the spell of fracture, the belief that we are broken. In our times of divisiveness and chaos, many sense the current story is no longer working. This book is an invitation into the awakening of a post-tragic dawn, where tragedy becomes an invocation of possibility, beauty, and mystery.
WHAT YOU WILL ENCOUNTER
01
The sacred gap, the spell of fracture, and the journey from innocence, to tragic disillusionment, to the post-tragic possibility.
02
A leading edge vision for developmental literacy
03
A nuanced developmental guide into twelve waves of development.
04
Developmental soma, shadow, and the evolution of post-tragic wholeness.
05
A mythopoetic memoir into the labyrinth of tragedy, murder, and boundless love.
THE SYMPHONY OF BECOMING
Evolution's Engine & the Sacred Gap
Volume One bridges Eastern wisdom with the developmental research of Terri O'Fallon, Ph.D., introducing the five evolutionary gestures as the deep structure of the developmental process. Twelve waves of development are revealed like a symphony rather than a ladder. The essence of process philosophy and integral post-metaphysics is woven throughout, not as academic theory, but as an adventure through the human labyrinth.
"When maps are alive they do not constrain us nor narrowly define us, and their learning comes not with 'thinking about', but by becoming-with. As we continue our adventure together, I invite you to become the map that crawls, the contours of which have lumens and lineations, yet possess no abrupt finality. With each forwarding step, do not just look at the map.
Look at how you crawl."
FROM THE AUTHOR
Watch Alexander read from Book One.
Selected passages, read aloud by the author.
From the opening pages.
A passage on the threshold
A passage on the sacred gap
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FROM THE BOOK
“
This is the birthplace of art.
Where the sounds of death,
the sounds of fury,
the sounds of captured innocence
are the grand symphonic sung by light and melody.
Those who look past the nightmare find something glorious breaking through the mundane and awaken to a post-tragic world.
AWAKENING THE POST-TRAGIC DAWN, BOOK ONE
EARLY PRAISE
What readers are saying.
"We are living in a time when grief, polarization, and violence circulate quickly through our collective nervous system. What Alexander offers in these pages is a different possibility. His work brings together contemplative depth, developmental insight, and lived experience in a way that helps readers metabolize tragedy without collapsing into despair. The book contributes something urgently needed in our moment: a path of maturation that allows suffering to deepen wisdom."
DUSTIN DIPERNA
Author of Streams of Wisdom
"A rich meal of autobiography, practical healing, and leading-edge metatheory. This volume has the beautiful aesthetic of a medieval alchemist's notebook while also providing one of today's most nuanced introductions to developmental literacy. Alternatingly heartbreaking, hilarious, and scholarly."
LAYMAN PASCAL
Teacher, podcaster, author of Gurdjieff for a Time-Between-Worlds
"In Evolutionary Gestures, Alexander Love makes a significant contribution to the emergence of integral medicine. Synthesizing the iconography of the Chinese tradition with the developmental insights of Terri O’fallon’s “Stages” model, he embraces the recognition that medicine, in its deeper and higher dimensions, is a catalyst for human evolution."
LONNY JARRETT
Author of Nourishing Destiny and Deepening Perspectives on Chinese Medicine.