Author: morganosmith

Morgan O. Smith is a certified meditation instructor and spiritual teacher who has dedicated his life to guiding others in their quest for inner peace. He is the founder of "mind@ease" in the Toronto District School Board and has worked as a provincial youth outreach worker. In 2010, he launched Yinnergy Meditation, a project that fosters emotional, mental, and spiritual growth using audio-induced deep meditation techniques. In 2011, Morgan established the Yinnergy Appreciation Awards to honor young individuals who have made a positive impact on their communities. Yinnergy Meditation has been employed in various settings, such as non-profit events, schools, detention centers, healthcare facilities, and by clients worldwide. Morgan's unwavering commitment to his work and community has earned him numerous awards, including the 2023 R.I.S.E Community Initiatives Award. As a philanthropist, Morgan supports various projects by donating his time and resources to non-profit organizations, grassroots community initiatives, and radio and documentary projects. He has collaborated with institutions like the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and has presented his findings at the Institute for Consciousness Research (ICR) 37th Annual Conference. Morgan's insights have been featured in podcast interviews, including "Guru Viking" with Steve James and "Waking the Wild." Morgan's insights inspired Arian Herbert's thought-provoking book "The God Behind The God" and he is the author of the book "Bodhi in the Brain."

When Maya Has Nothing Left to Wear

Maya survives by costume.
Names, stories, identities, and roles, each layer persuades awareness that something solid is happening. The spell works because the layers are convincing, not because they are true.

Removing them is not an act of destruction.
Nothing is torn away. Nothing is violated. What falls off was never stitched to reality in the first place.

Belief drops first.
Then interpretation.
Then the quiet assumption that experience belongs to someone.

What remains cannot be described without borrowing from the very illusion that has just dissolved. Language reaches for shape, but shape no longer holds. Meaning loosens its grip. Time forgets how to move forward. Causation loses its authority.

No hidden essence appears.
No final revelation arrives.
No sacred object waits beneath the last veil.

Maya does not conceal truth.
She is the activity of concealment.

When nothing is left to remove, there is no witness standing apart, no awareness peering at emptiness. Seeing collapses into what is seen. Knowing continues without a knower. Function carries on without ownership.

This is not transcendence.
This is intimacy without distance.

The world resumes exactly as before; faces, traffic, obligations, joy, grief, but the spell has lost its teeth. Appearances no longer demand belief. Forms no longer claim authority. Experience is free to arise without needing to justify itself.

Maya, stripped of every disguise, reveals no secret.
Her final gesture is silence.

And silence does not explain itself.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

The Only Time Is Now

Something subtle hides behind every assumption about life.
We speak of beginnings, endings, origins, destinies, memories, plans. Language slices reality into segments and calls the slices time. Past. Present. Future.

Direct experience never confirms this division.

Look carefully.

No one has ever stepped into yesterday.
No one has ever arrived at tomorrow.
Everything that has ever appeared shows up only as this immediate presence.

Not a moving present.
Not a fleeting instant.

A boundless, indivisible now.

Mind imagines a line stretching backward and forward, yet perception offers no such line. Thought tells stories about what was and what will be, but those stories arise as present thoughts. Memory occurs now. Anticipation occurs now. Even the idea of history unfolds now.

Remove thought for a moment and see what remains.

Only this.

A beginningless display with no edge to trace.
An endless unfolding with nowhere to land.

Nothing truly starts. Nothing truly stops.

Birth and death appear as transitions inside perception, not events happening to existence itself. Waves rise and fall, yet water never begins or ends with any single wave. Every form behaves the same way. Appearance comes and goes. Being does not.

Cause and effect seem separate only because mind arranges events into sequence. First this, then that. Push, then response. Action, then consequence.

Observe more closely.

Cause and effect share the same instant.
The spark and the flame are one movement.
Seed and tree are different names for one process.

Nothing travels through time to produce something else. Everything co-arises. Each moment contains the totality.

That means creation and destruction are not opposite forces.

They are the same gesture.

Every perception is simultaneously appearing and disappearing. Each sight is born as it fades. Each sound vanishes as it arrives. Reality recreates itself continuously without carrying anything forward.

World dissolves and reforms faster than thought can measure.

Continuity is a useful illusion.

Life becomes lighter when this is recognized. Regret loses its grip because there is no past to fix. Anxiety softens because there is no future to secure. Control relaxes because nothing stands outside the present to manage.

Responsibility remains, yet it feels different. Actions arise from clarity rather than fear. Choices flow from immediacy rather than projection. Compassion deepens because everything shares the same timeless ground.

Nothing stands apart.

Every face, every event, every challenge expresses the same indivisible happening.

No separate moment waits elsewhere.
No hidden realm holds another version of reality.

This is it.

Not a fragment.
The whole.

Eternity does not stretch forever.
Eternity reveals itself as what never moves.

Right here.
Right now.
Always.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

The Shadow of the Light

Spiritual maturity does not erase limitation.
It reveals it.

Many imagine awakening as a flawless state; permanent clarity, endless compassion, immunity to human contradiction. A polished saint who never stumbles. A mind without friction. A heart without ache.

Life has never worked that way.

Every illumination throws contrast. Every realization exposes what still sleeps. Awareness grows, and so does sensitivity to the places where conditioning remains. What once went unnoticed now becomes obvious.

Light does not cancel shadow.
Light makes shadow visible.

A person may taste boundless consciousness and still forget their keys.
May speak wisdom and still feel grief.
May rest as pure Being and still get irritated in traffic.

None of this contradicts awakening.

It confirms embodiment.

Human form carries edges. Biology, memory, culture, temperament, nervous system patterns—these do not dissolve simply because truth is recognized. Realization clarifies the sky; weather still moves through it.

Expecting perfection from enlightenment is another form of ego fantasy. A subtler one, dressed in spiritual language.

“Once I awaken, I will finally be beyond everything.”

Beyond what?

Beyond hunger?
Beyond fatigue?
Beyond old emotional reflexes surfacing now and then?

Even sages live inside gravity.

Consider the paradox: greater clarity often deepens humility. Seeing through the illusion of separateness does not produce superiority; it softens certainty. One recognizes how much of this life unfolds through forces far larger than personal will.

Brilliance and blind spots coexist.

The brighter the lamp, the sharper the outline behind it.

Shadow is not failure. Shadow is information.

Each reaction, each contraction, each moment of confusion points to another place where life invites integration. Nothing needs to be rejected. Everything becomes material for understanding.

Spiritual growth, then, is not a climb toward flawlessness.

It is a widening embrace.

Light without shadow would mean no depth, no dimension, no humanity. A perfectly even brightness reveals nothing. Contrast gives form to experience. Contrast allows learning. Contrast allows compassion.

Seeing your own limits makes you gentle with others.

When you know how easily fear arises in your own body, you stop judging someone else’s. When you recognize your own unfinished places, forgiveness becomes natural rather than moral.

This is maturity: not pretending to be spotless, but standing fully where you are.

Awareness shining. Conditioning still moving. Both allowed.

Nothing to fix. Nothing to hide.

Just this living interplay.

Radiance casting shape.

Human nature doing exactly what it has always done; expressing the infinite through a finite frame.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

Knowing the Absolute from Every Angle

The Absolute cannot be grasped by standing in a single place.

Any attempt to reduce it to one perspective—personal, relational, objective, mystical, or philosophical, inevitably distorts it. What gets mistaken for ultimate truth is often just a partial orientation mistaken for the whole.

To know the Absolute at full capacity requires more than a peak realization. It requires total perspectival inclusion.

From the first person, the Absolute is immediate presence; being as oneself. From the second person, it appears as intimacy, devotion, and encounter. From the third person, it becomes structure, law, and observable order. Each of these reveals something true, yet none is sufficient on its own.

A deeper shift occurs when perspective itself is examined.

The fourth perspective dissolves the centre. Experience continues, but ownership drops away. Awareness no longer belongs to anyone. Reality is no longer happening to a self or for a self. Knowing remains, yet no knower can be found.

Then even this gives way.

The fifth perspective removes the need for a field, a witness, or an explanatory ground altogether. The question of where experience occurs loses relevance. Nothing collapses. Nothing transcends. The demand for a final position simply falls apart.

At this point, God is no longer approached as an object of belief, a presence to merge with, or an awareness to stabilize in. God is known as that which remains valid across every mode of knowing without requiring allegiance to any of them.

This knowing must also scale developmentally.

Ego-centric concern gives way to ethnocentric identity, which yields to world-centric ethics, which eventually opens into kosmocentric inclusion. Each stage expands care, responsibility, and comprehension. None invalidates the others. Each must be seen through without being erased.

The same applies to the I, We, It, and Its dimensions of reality. Subjective experience, shared meaning, objective systems, and interobjective networks all reveal aspects of the Absolute. Excluding any one of them creates imbalance. Absolutizing any one of them creates delusion.

States of consciousness contribute their own disclosures. Waking reveals form and function. Dreaming reveals imagination and symbolic depth. Dreamless sleep reveals the absence of content. The witness reveals continuity without identity. Nonduality reveals the inseparability of all of it. None of these states owns the truth. Each exposes a different facet of what cannot be reduced.

Lines of development add further resolution. Cognitive clarity without emotional maturity distorts insight. Moral development without metaphysical depth flattens reality. Spiritual realization without psychological integration fragments embodiment. The Absolute is not known through excellence in one line alone.

Enlightenment, then, is not a single realization frozen in time.

It is the capacity to recognize the Absolute through every perspective without mistaking any perspective for the Absolute itself.

Such knowing does not claim finality. It does not announce arrival. It does not need to defend itself. It functions fluidly; able to speak personally, relationally, objectively, impersonally, and without position; depending on what the moment requires.

God is not found by climbing higher.
God is known by nothing being excluded.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

What Never Changes

A quiet assumption hides beneath most human searching: something out there must last. Something must remain untouched by erosion, loss, time, or collapse. That assumption fuels religion, philosophy, science, self-help, and even despair. Yet careful observation reveals a startling reversal; everything we try to secure as permanent is precisely what cannot stay.

Bodies age. Identities shift. Beliefs mutate. Civilizations rise and fall. Even universes, according to modern cosmology, are not exempt from birth and dissolution. Permanence refuses to appear where attention habitually looks.

What does remain cannot be grasped as an object.

Change never pauses. This is not a poetic statement but a structural fact. No phenomenon has ever been observed to freeze itself into finality. Even stability is a form of slow motion. Even stillness contains motion beneath its surface. Change does not fluctuate. It does not improve. It does not degrade. It simply is.

Impermanence, often misunderstood as a gloomy conclusion, turns out to be absolute. Nothing violates it. Not matter. Not energy. Not thought. Not consciousness as an experience. Impermanence itself never wavers.

Awareness appears constant, yet experiences within it rotate endlessly. Sensations replace sensations. Thoughts override thoughts. Emotions dissolve into others. What remains is not a personal witness but the bare fact that experiencing is happening at all. That fact has no texture, no color, no personality, and no history. It does not evolve because evolution belongs to what appears within it.

Absence plays an unexpected role here. No thing possesses an independent core. Every form depends on conditions that are themselves dependent. This lack of inherent selfhood does not come and go. It is always already the case. What seems solid holds together through relationship alone.

Separation feels real, yet it never completes itself. Subject and object arise together. Observer and observed cannot be pried apart without collapsing the experience entirely. Duality functions, but it does not fracture reality. Division appears without dividing.

Nothingness, often feared or romanticized, is better understood as openness. Forms emerge, interact, and vanish without ever crystallizing into fixed essence. Emptiness does not negate existence; it allows it.

What never changes does not announce itself. It cannot be defended or achieved. Seeking it as an attainment guarantees frustration. It is not hidden. It is overlooked because it lacks features.

Everything changes.
That does not.

Recognition of this does not erase life’s texture. It sharpens it. When permanence is no longer demanded of form, form is finally allowed to be what it is; temporary, intimate, vivid, and sufficient.

Nothing needs to be saved from change.
Nothing needs to be added to what already remains.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

The Fourth and Fifth Perspectives

Human understanding evolves by taking positions.
At first, reality is personal. Experience belongs to me. Then it becomes relational. There is you. Then objective. There is the world. These perspectives organize life, language, and survival. They also quietly assume something deeper: a vantage point from which all of this is known.

The fourth perspective emerges when that assumption is examined.

At this level, identity no longer anchors experience. Thoughts, sensations, and events appear without belonging to a self. Awareness is no longer located behind the eyes or inside the body. Experience is revealed as happening within an impersonal field. Nothing is owned. Nothing is central. Knowing continues, yet no knower can be found.

This recognition often carries clarity, peace, and coherence. Reality appears seamless. Distinctions soften without disappearing. Functioning remains intact, but the sense of authorship dissolves. Many traditions stop here and mistake this discovery for the final truth.

That pause matters.

The fifth perspective does not deepen the fourth.
It removes the need for it.

The idea of an underlying field, awareness, or witnessing presence is seen as another explanatory structure. Useful, elegant, even beautiful, but unnecessary. The question of what everything appears within loses relevance. No ground is required. No container is implied. No reference point is privileged.

Reality no longer needs to be described as nondual.
It no longer needs to be described at all.

This is not an experience. It does not arrive. Nothing stabilizes. Nothing collapses. The framework that seeks a final position simply fails to apply. Language continues to function, but without metaphysical commitment. Perspectives still appear, but none are taken as true in themselves.

The fourth perspective reveals that there is no centre.
The fifth reveals that even that revelation was optional.

This does not result in indifference or withdrawal. Action continues. Care continues. Creativity continues. Meaning appears where it always did; within context, relationship, and response. What falls away is the assumption that reality needs a final explanation to be complete.

Ultimate reality is not hidden behind experience.
It is not accessed by climbing to a higher vantage.
It does not require awareness, unity, or silence to validate itself.

What remains is remarkably ordinary.
Life unfolds. Language speaks. Understanding happens.
Nothing needs to be added. Nothing needs to be removed.

The difference lies only here:
no perspective is mistaken for what is real.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

What Appears Is Never What It Is

Nothing arrives as itself. What shows up as form, event, thought, or identity is already a veil; yet not a veil hiding something else. Appearance is the way the unseen speaks. Expression is not a mask placed over truth; expression is the activity of truth.

Time does not obscure reality. Time is one of its gestures. Space does not distance anything from what is real. Space is a mode of presentation. Every person, object, moment, and movement stands as a precise articulation of what cannot be isolated, possessed, or fully perceived.

What remains unseen is not absent. It is unlocatable.

The true nature does not sit behind phenomena waiting to be uncovered. It never retreats from what appears. Every disguise is complete. Every expression is equal. No hierarchy of forms exists at the level where all forms arise.

Archaic consciousness does not miss truth; it reflects truth as survival and immediacy. Magical consciousness does not distort reality; it reveals participation and symbolic power. Mythic consciousness does not fabricate meaning; it expresses coherence through story and order. Modern consciousness does not reduce the world; it articulates precision, structure, and agency. Postmodern consciousness does not fragment truth; it exposes hidden assumptions and unspoken exclusions. Integral consciousness does not transcend the earlier forms by negation; it includes them as necessary articulations. Super-integral awareness does not stand above the whole; it recognizes the whole as already complete.

No stage corrects another. Each stage speaks a different dialect of the same unspeakable source.

Egocentric, ethnocentric, worldcentric, and Kosmocentric orientations do not compete for validity. Each reflects how the whole experiences itself through scale and concern. What feels limited at one level becomes coherence at another, without contradiction.

Subjective experience does not oppose objective reality. Intersubjective meaning does not negate interior depth. Interobjective systems do not erase lived presence. These are not separate territories. They are simultaneous dimensions of one unfolding.

Qualities appear; love, fear, intelligence, inertia, clarity, confusion. Attributes seem to form; shape, duration, movement, pattern. Absence also appears; emptiness, silence, negation. None of these define the source. None of these exclude it.

The true nature cannot be seen because it never stands apart from seeing. It cannot be grasped because it never stands opposite grasping. Every attempt to point to it becomes another appearance, and that appearance is already sufficient.

Nothing is hiding. Nothing is missing. Nothing needs to be revealed.

What is appearing is exactly what reality looks like when it expresses itself without needing to explain.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

When Simplicity Refuses to Stay Simple

Nonduality appears disarmingly straightforward. Nothing is separate. Reality is one. No division truly exists. The mind nods in agreement, almost bored by how obvious it sounds. That very ease, however, conceals a depth that resists containment. What seems immediately graspable slips away the moment it is examined.

Simplicity unsettles the intellect. Complexity gives the mind something to work with; layers, distinctions, problems to solve. Nonduality offers no such footholds. It removes the scaffolding the mind depends on while leaving awareness intact. The result feels paradoxical: clarity without structure, certainty without conclusion.

The mind instinctively tries to stabilize the insight by forming opposites. Simple versus complex. Absolute versus relative. Unity versus multiplicity. These contrasts feel necessary, even helpful. They provide orientation. Yet nonduality does not deny distinctions; it denies their independence. Distinctions function, but they do not stand alone.

Remove the boundary between simplicity and complexity, and both are revealed as conceptual movements rather than opposing truths. Simplicity contains complexity without effort. Complexity resolves into simplicity without loss. Nothing needs to be excluded for wholeness to be present.

This is where theory reaches its limit. Conceptual understanding can describe the inclusion of all distinctions, but description is not realization. Comprehension at this level is accurate yet incomplete. The mind can map the territory without stepping into it.

Nonduality understood as an idea remains elegant and coherent. Nonduality recognized as reality dissolves the need for coherence altogether. The question of complexity no longer arises, because nothing stands outside what is already complete.

Thought can approach this recognition, but it cannot cross the threshold. The final movement is not analytical but surrendering the need to resolve the paradox. What remains is neither simple nor complex, neither one nor many. What remains is what was never absent…Yet, it is.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

Ego Death Is Not a Metaphor

Ego death is often spoken about casually, yet nothing about it is casual. It is not a poetic phrase, nor a dramatic exaggeration. Something very specific occurs—precise, unmistakable, and irreversible at the level of insight.

This is not a biological event. The body remains alive. The brain continues to function. Memory does not disappear. Consciousness does not black out. What vanishes is the internal reference point that says, this is me. The structure that once organized experience around a personal center dissolves, and with it goes the assumption of separation.

No negotiation happens here. No partial surrender. No internal debate. Doubt does not survive the moment. The mind does not ask whether this is real. Verification becomes unnecessary because the one who would seek confirmation is no longer present.

Psychological death may sound abstract until it happens. When it does, the body reacts as though an actual death is occurring. Survival instincts flare. Meaning collapses. Familiar orientation fails. Yet awareness remains clear—perhaps clearer than it has ever been. This clarity is what distinguishes ego death from unconsciousness. Awareness does not dim. It expands beyond the need for identity.

Enlightenment does not occur after ego death. Enlightenment is what is revealed when the ego can no longer interfere. The ego cannot be refined into truth. It cannot be educated into realization. It must fall away entirely, because it is structurally incapable of holding what is uncovered.

At the causal level of realization, identity no longer rests in form, personality, history, or narrative. Cause and effect are no longer observed from the outside. They are known as oneself. Everything that arises is recognized as both originating from and resolving into the same source. Nothing stands apart. Nothing is accidental. Agency is no longer personal, yet responsibility is absolute.

Deeper still, even causality dissolves. Distinctions between origin and outcome lose meaning. What remains is not many things connected, but a single indivisible reality. This is what Advaita Vedanta names Absolute Monism; not a belief, not a concept, but a lived recognition.

Time no longer appears linear. Past, present, and future are not sequential events but simultaneous expressions. Every occurrence, across all scales and dimensions, is apprehended as one movement without edges. Beginning and ending collapse into the same point. Eternity ceases to be a duration and reveals itself as immediacy.

The ego cannot survive this recognition. It was never meant to. The ego exists to navigate relativity, not to comprehend totality. Asking it to grasp nonduality is like asking a shadow to contain light. The moment the ego loosens its grip, what remains is not annihilation, but the recognition that life and death were never opposites.

Ego death feels final because it ends the search forever. Nothing remains to achieve. Nothing remains to defend. What is discovered was never acquired. It was always present, waiting for the interference to stop.

This is why enlightenment is never uncertain. Anyone still asking whether it happened is still standing outside the threshold. When it occurs, the questioner disappears, and only knowing remains; silent, complete, and beyond reversal.

Morgan O. Smith

AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit

February 9 & 10, 2026

https://aiforwellnessandspirituality.com/mosm

Tools and Strategies to Support Wellness & Spiritual Growth: Insights from Leading Experts

Greetings, everyone,

I wanted you to be one of the first to know that a very powerful and valuable FREE resource will be available to you LIVE on February 9 & 10, 2026.

This live-streamed event is called the AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit. It is a thoughtfully curated video interview series featuring trusted experts in wellness, spirituality, mindfulness, and conscious technology, including myself.

As AI becomes more present in everyday life, many people are asking important questions: How do I use AI safely? How do I stay grounded and connected to my intuition? How can AI support healing, calm, clarity, and spiritual growth without replacing inner wisdom?

This summit was created to explore those questions with care, discernment, and humanity.

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There are 12 expert interviews featured in the AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit, and availability is limited, so be sure to register soon.

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This event will be streamed via Zoom on January 21 and 22 from 9am to 5pm Pacific Time. Replays will be available for those who are unable to attend live.

The experts featured in the AI for Wellness and Spirituality Summit include:

Ram Ramanathan

Varun Soni

Tiffany Joy Basse

Bill Boone

Brittany Long

Gina Dianne Harding

Dr. Shauna Shapiro

Mark Sidney

Anne Wintemute

Morgan O. Smith

Aaron Woffenden

Matthew James Bailey

Some of the topics these experts will be covering in the video interviews include:

– How to use AI safely, ethically, and intentionally in wellness and spiritual practice

– Prompt engineering made human: how to ask better questions aligned with your values

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– Using AI for reflection, journaling, self-inquiry, and emotional clarity

– Exploring dreams and symbolism with AI while honoring intuition

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– Creating practices that cultivate calm, peace, resilience, and inner authority

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