Journal of Psycho-Cosmocide Studies. 2026This paper argues that the deepest determinant of civilisational survival is neither military force nor economic wealth, but trust-based concentrated power rooted in ontological foundations. Drawing from the Psycho-Cosmocide framework and the cosmological vocabulary of the Lani people of West Papua, the paper develops a comprehensive theory of metaphysical power that distinguishes between coercive, symbolic, epistemic, and ontological dimensions of powe
