What would it mean to make our institutions genuinely answerable to life? This audiovisual series introduces “The Missing Bridge,” Bichara Sahely’s public-facing synthesis connecting John McMurtry’s Life-Value Onto-Axiology to a causal science of living coherence. The sequence begins with a short explanation of why apparently stable systems may suddenly collapse when protective margin disappears. It then develops the life-value compass and the five-step causal bridge through which rules and institutions alter real conditions, load, capacity, regulation, repair and future life-capacity. The cinematic explainer draws those elements together into a practical, revisable method. Together, the videos ask how societies can move beyond measuring money, output and institutional activity toward investigating what their arrangements actually do to the conditions that make human, social and ecological life possible. Watch in this order: 1. Why Stable Systems Suddenly Collapse 2. The Missing Bridge 3. Operationalizing Life-Value: The 5-Step Causal Bridge Read the companion article: bsahely.com/2026/09/06/the-missing-bridge-from-lif… Scholarly record: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22530235 Civilizational Healing project: bsahely.com/civilizational-healing/ Author: Dr. Bichara Sahely Toward Life-Knowledge — Knowledge in service of life. These AI-assisted audiovisual companions are accessible interpretations. The canonical published work remains authoritative for the complete argument, evidence, qualifications and references.