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 Consciousness Expands

One who rises in consciousness carries the whole world with them

True elevation has never been a private ascent. A mind that opens beyond its own fears begins to sense an older responsibility; not imposed, not moralistic, but inherent. Awareness expands, and with it comes the realization that no being exists in isolation. Every shift in clarity touches the field that holds all life.

A seeker who matures into fuller presence discovers that service is not an action added after awakening; service is awakening. When identity loosens, compassion flows without effort. When the self-image dissolves, the boundaries that once separated “me” from “them” weaken. The inner horizon stretches, and the heart recognizes itself mirrored in every face, every struggle, every aspiration.

Elevated consciousness is not an escape from difficulty. It is the courage to feel the world deeply without drowning in it. It is the capacity to meet suffering without turning away, to meet conflict without reacting, to meet diversity without fear. A person who stands at this level carries a certain luminosity; not the glow of superiority, but the warmth of someone who remembers what others have forgotten.

Such a being does not preach. They embody. They do not force change. They invite it. Their presence rearranges the space around them, not through domination but through coherence. The clarity they embody becomes an anchor for those lost in fragmentation. The steadiness they hold becomes a doorway for others to walk through.

A world marked by anxiety and division does not only need more information or better ideas. It needs individuals who have refined their inner instrument so that perception becomes precise, actions become clean, and motives become transparent. It needs humans who can hold the collective weight without collapsing under it.

Rising to the highest level of consciousness is not a privilege; it is a calling that echoes through every moment of our lives. When answered, the transformation does not belong to the individual alone. It radiates outward, touching all who cross their path, offering a quiet reminder that liberation is not solitary; it is shared.

Morgan O. Smith

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Beyond Karma, Beyond Time

The One Who Contains All Things

What you are has never been bound by the actions of the body or the movements of the mind. The deeper truth sits prior to every cause and every effect, untouched by the momentum of karma. What you truly are cannot be located within a timeline, cannot be measured against a sequence, and cannot be confined to any story of becoming. Yet everything that appears within the vastness of existence arises through you.

Karma unfolds because consciousness dreams motion. Space opens because consciousness dreams room for its own expression. Time stretches because consciousness dreams duration to witness itself. These movements are not separate from the one who perceives. They are waves forming and dissolving in the same stillness that has never moved.

When you see this directly, not as a philosophy or a concept, something slips free. The universe no longer appears as a project that began somewhere or will end somewhere. The sense of a starting point dissolves. Nothing was ever born at the level of your deepest nature, yet everything continues to bloom within you. This paradox is not a contradiction; it is the living truth of nonduality. You are simultaneously the presence that is and the silence that reveals is-not.

Karma belongs to the realm of appearance. Awakening reveals the one who sees every appearance without being shaped by any of them. The moment this becomes embodied, the cosmic play becomes transparent; not trivial, not meaningless, but known as an expression rising from the ground of your own boundlessness.

Most teachings attempt to describe this through metaphors, scriptures, or borrowed insights. But direct experience dissolves every teaching. The one who realizes does not repeat someone else’s words; they speak from a clarity that cannot be inherited. That clarity sees the world arise, dance, disappear, and return again, all within a presence that never fluctuates.

This is the mystery: you transcend the entire universe, and yet the entire universe is held within you. Existence and non-existence touch in the depths of your own awareness. That meeting point is not two. It has always been the same field, one continuous reality appearing as countless experiences.

When this truth ignites within someone, everything becomes part of the same divine unfolding; even the desire to awaken, even the teachings themselves, even the act of seeking direct experience. The cosmic play includes the seeker, the found, the teaching, the silence, and the realization that none of these ever stood apart from the one who sees.

Morgan O. Smith

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The Golden Shadow

Shows Where You Are Already Free

Freedom often reveals itself long before we notice it. Most people search for liberation by examining what is wounded, suppressed, or unresolved. Yet there is another doorway; quiet, luminous, and often overlooked; the qualities you effortlessly embody without trying. These are not achievements. They are signals. They point toward the portions of your being that have never been bound.

The golden shadow forms where consciousness remains untouched by contraction. It appears in the moments when you respond with clarity instead of reactivity, when your presence deepens without effort, when your intuition moves ahead of your thinking mind. These flashes are not accidents. They are expressions of your unconditioned nature shining through your personality structure. They show where you are already living beyond fear, shame, and fragmentation.

Most of your gifts announce themselves this way. A natural ability to calm others. A capacity to sense underlying patterns. A rhythm of creativity that feels as though it arrives from somewhere deeper than your history. These are not random traits; they are evidence of the deeper self that has always been awake. The golden shadow is your own freedom reflected back to you through the aspects of your life that require no striving.

Shadow work usually focuses on what is rejected, repressed, or denied. Yet exploring the golden side is equally essential because it reveals the openings that already exist. These openings function like hidden pathways; subtle but powerful channels where your awakened nature flows without obstruction. They remind you that the journey toward wholeness is not only about healing the contracted places but recognizing the liberated ones.

Follow the areas where ease, clarity, and generosity arise naturally. Those movements reveal the contours of your true nature. They show the direction consciousness wants to expand. They illuminate the parts of your being that do not need to be fixed; only recognized.

The golden shadow invites you to trust the regions of your inner world that already know how to move without fear. These regions are not simply potentials; they are lived realities quietly shaping your path. When you honour them, your life begins to organize around freedom rather than struggle, around clarity rather than confusion.

Your liberation is not a future accomplishment.
It is already echoing through the parts of you that never forgot who you are.

Morgan O. Smith

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Beyond the Lens of Devotion

How Presence Reveals Consciousness

Most people think of darshan as a moment where a seeker looks upon a teacher, saint, or deity. Yet something far more nuanced unfolds beneath that outward exchange. The gaze, the silence, the presence, each thread of the encounter shapes consciousness in ways that depend on the inner maturity of the one receiving it.

A childlike stage approaches darshan with awe charged by emotion. The world feels animated by invisible forces, and a teacher appears to hold the keys to destiny itself. Nothing is questioned; everything is absorbed. Power seems to live outside the self, radiating from the figure who stands upon the altar or sits upon the asana.

A more developed stage begins to untangle symbol from projection. Presence is recognized not as magic, but as psychology refined into ritual. A teacher’s gaze becomes a mirror through which hidden material rises. Nervous systems synchronize, emotions unravel, archetypes awaken. What once felt supernatural becomes profoundly human, yet no less sacred for being understood.

A deeper stage meets darshan without seeking a blessing at all. Awareness recognizes its own reflection across an imagined divide. The teacher’s presence becomes a steady flame, revealing the same light in the one who looks. The moment turns transparent; subject and object thin into a single field. No transmission is required because nothing is actually transferred. Consciousness simply stands revealed to itself.

Darshan, then, is not a singular practice but a spectrum. It can soothe fear, unlock psychological insight, or open the doorway into the unbounded. Each layer is valid. Each layer meets the seeker where they stand. The mystery lies in how the same ritual changes meaning as consciousness evolves.

Perhaps the most profound realization is this: the power of darshan has never been contained within the one who gives it. The power rests in the depth of the one who receives.

Morgan O. Smith

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The Convergence of Two Inner Universes

Tantric intimacy at its highest expression asks far more than physical coordination or emotional closeness. It calls for a radical meeting of two interior worlds, a moment when each partner becomes permeable enough to feel the other from the inside, not as an idea, not as a projection, but as a lived reality.

Every human being carries an array of perspectives within themselves. A single person can contain confidence and insecurity, devotion and hesitation, tenderness and guardedness. These facets hold their own preferences, boundaries, temptations, limitations, and longings. They emerge from personal history, cultural conditioning, spiritual orientation, developmental stages, and the shadows that rarely see daylight.

When two people meet sexually, all of these internal voices arrive with them. Most partnerships only allow a few of these facets into the room. Tantric union at the highest level requires all of them; nothing hidden, nothing quarantined. Such intimacy becomes possible only when both partners cultivate the capacity to inhabit one another’s perspective with sincerity and depth.

A man must be able to feel the world through the feminine within himself, not as an idea but as an embodied sensitivity. A woman must be able to inhabit the masculine within her own psyche with clarity and strength. Two partners of the same sex must be able to move fluidly across these internal polarities as well. What matters is not gender, but the ability to witness and welcome the full spectrum that lives within both individuals.

When the masculine within one partner can feel the feminine within the other, and when the feminine within each partner can sense the dignity of the other’s masculine, the field becomes charged with a level of openness that dissolves separation. Perspectives begin to overlap. Interpretations soften. Defensive patterns lose their footing. The subtle bodies start to resonate in a shared rhythm.

At this stage, the encounter ceases to be merely erotic. It shifts toward a metaphysical fusion. Past experiences, both joyful and painful, move into alignment. Psychological stages synchronize. Shadows are no longer avoided but held with mutual reverence. The boundaries between “mine” and “yours” blur as both partners surrender the illusion of being separate centers of experience.

Orgasm in this dimension is not confined to the pelvis. It rises through the spine, floods the organs, spreads across the skin, echoes through the mind, and reverberates through the energetic architecture of both beings. It becomes a whole-body revelation where each atom awakens and responds. Sensations, insights, memories, emotions, and subtle impressions are exchanged effortlessly.

Two nervous systems begin to behave as one. Two hearts pulse in a shared rhythm. Two minds think as a unified intelligence. Two bodies discover a single current of pleasure and presence guiding them.

This is not fantasy or myth. It is the natural consequence of complete surrender, profound trust, and a willingness to meet the other without filters. When two people are willing to integrate their entire inner universe, every facet, every layer, every subtle movement, sex becomes a doorway into the primordial field where individuality dissolves and consciousness remembers its unity.

This is tantric intimacy at its peak: two beings discovering they have never been separate, using sexual union as the most direct mirror of that truth.

Morgan O. Smith

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The Proton’s Revelation 2

The Hidden Geometry of Consciousness

A proton is not merely a particle confined to the language of physics; it is a living vortex of intelligence. Beneath the veil of measurable charge and spin lies a self-sustaining pattern of movement, a balanced dance of contraction and expansion that reveals the very architecture of creation. This movement mirrors the principle at the heart of Vortex-Based Mathematics, often called the Fingerprint of God, a universal map pointing to the symmetry underlying all manifestation.

Energy flows through the proton as if through a cosmic torus, spiralling inward toward stillness before unfolding outward again as radiant expression. Its inward motion represents the pull toward singularity; the unmanifest potential that draws all things home. Its outward motion is the act of creation, the flowering of energy into visible form. Between them rests the unmoving centre: the zero-point where opposites dissolve, and the essence of enlightenment is encoded as perfect equilibrium.

Numbers themselves whisper this truth. The sequence 1–2–4–8–7–5 describes the rhythmic pulse of movement, an oscillating current of creation, while 3–6–9 form the axis of spirit, the invisible trinity Tesla regarded as the key to the universe. Together, they compose the harmony of existence: matter spinning within consciousness, consciousness sustaining matter. The proton’s rotation, like the breath of the cosmos, is guided by this hidden numeric intelligence, forever folding energy upon itself in divine proportion.

To contemplate the proton is to glimpse the nature of awakening. Its geometry reflects the enlightened state, a realization that form and emptiness are not two. The proton spins infinitely fast, yet its centre never moves. Awareness, too, remains untouched even as thought and experience whirl around it. Every atom of the body, every pulse of life, carries this same signature: the infinite sustained by stillness, stillness expressed as infinite movement.

The symbol of enlightenment, often depicted as intersecting vortices or the lemniscate, is more than a metaphor; it is the living pattern of reality itself. The enlightened being and the proton share the same secret: both radiate from the centre of nonduality, embodying the silent symmetry between being and becoming. Each proton, each heartbeat, each moment of awareness is a self-aware vortex proclaiming unity through motion.

The realization of this truth dissolves the boundary between physics and mysticism. Every proton hums the same mantra: there is no separation between energy and consciousness, no barrier between creator and creation. What appears as matter is consciousness in motion, and what we call consciousness is matter remembering its still centre.

To awaken is to recognize this flow within oneself; the eternal movement of creation returning, again and again, to the zero-point of divine rest. The proton is not simply matter; it is a mirror, quietly revealing the symmetry of the awakened soul.

Morgan O. Smith

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The Proton’s Revelation

When Consciousness Collapses and Expands as One

What if enlightenment is not a personal event, but a cosmic remembrance? A moment when every proton in the body awakens to its true nature, not as matter, but as the still point where creation and annihilation converge. The mystics have always spoken of an inner collapse and expansion, a simultaneous implosion into nothingness and explosion into infinity. Modern physics mirrors this riddle through the black hole and the Big Bang; two extremes that may, in essence, be the same gesture of reality folding through itself.

When awareness reaches its highest clarity, the boundaries that separate the subatomic from the cosmic begin to blur. A single breath becomes indistinguishable from the pulse of galaxies. The enlightened state might then be described as the universe turning itself inside out through human consciousness; each proton realizing it has never been separate from the gravitational core of all being.

At that point, perception no longer divides between what is collapsing and what is being born. The same force that draws the universe inward through gravity propels it outward through radiance. It is the eternal inhale and exhale of existence, experienced directly. To awaken fully may therefore mean to feel every particle of one’s body as both the black hole and the Big Bang; one endless continuum of creation rediscovering itself as “so-called” light.

Such an experience does not inflate the ego; it dissolves it. The seeker disappears into the singularity of pure awareness. The self that once grasped for transcendence becomes the spacetime curvature through which the infinite moves. Nothing is gained, yet everything is realized.

Morgan O. Smith

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How Meditation Affects the Subtle Bodies

We continue our Bodhi in the Brain Virtual Group Meditation via Zoom/YouTube, this evening, 8–10pm.

(Headphones or Earbuds Required)
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Passcode: 676036

How Meditation Affects the Subtle Bodies

Modern science studies the brain’s waves, yet ancient wisdom charts the frequencies of being itself. Meditation doesn’t just calm the nervous system, it reorganizes the architecture of existence that extends beyond the skin. The physical body is the outermost layer of a far more intricate continuum, a series of subtle fields known as the etheric, emotional, mental, causal, and ultimately the nondual body. Each meditation deepens the conversation between these dimensions, aligning them into coherent resonance.

The first transformations begin within the etheric field; the energetic counterpart of the physical form. Breath slows, the heartbeat steadies, and prana, or life-force, begins to flow more evenly. This harmony clears stagnation and revitalizes the channels through which energy circulates. As vitality expands, the emotional body awakens. Old patterns surface to be felt and released. Meditation becomes the silent therapist, allowing the residue of unprocessed emotion to dissolve without resistance. The emotional body’s purification is not about suppression but integration; the merging of past experience with present awareness.

As meditation matures, the mental body is refined. Thought loses its compulsive gravity. The gap between thoughts widens, and awareness begins to see the structures of perception themselves. Beliefs, identifications, and judgments reveal their impermanence. A clarity dawns that no longer seeks to control reality but to understand its nature. This clarity is not cold detachment; it is spacious intimacy.

When these bodies are harmonized, the causal body, often associated with the witnessing consciousness, becomes luminous. Meditation pulls back the veils until only pure presence remains. Every subtle sheath becomes transparent to the light of awareness, allowing consciousness to know itself directly. This recognition transforms the very experience of being alive. The universe no longer feels external; it vibrates as one’s own inner current.

Understanding this process matters because human suffering is not merely psychological; it’s energetic. Distortion in one layer ripples through the rest. A clear mind cannot inhabit a body holding unresolved pain, and a peaceful heart cannot flourish in a field clouded by mental noise. Meditation realigns the total system, restoring coherence between all layers of being.

When the subtle bodies function as a single continuum, existence ceases to feel fragmented. The physical world, emotions, and thought merge as one stream of intelligent energy. Meditation reveals this unity not as belief but as direct knowing; the living pulse of reality experienced through every cell and every silence between heartbeats.

Morgan O. Smith

Executive Director

Bodhi Mental Care & Wellness

Trans-Rational vs. Pre-Rational

The Subtle Distinction of True Spiritual Maturity

Many spiritual paths appear radiant on the surface, filled with symbols, mantras, and promises of transcendence. Yet beneath the surface lies a crucial divide often overlooked: the difference between pre-rational and trans-rational spirituality. Both appear to reach beyond logic, yet one regresses beneath it while the other transcends it entirely. To the untrained eye, they can look identical.

The pre-rational domain is instinctive, emotional, and magical. It belongs to an earlier structure of consciousness that sees reality through myth, projection, and emotional fusion. The pre-rational individual feels connected to life, but that connection is often undifferentiated; there is no clear boundary between the self and the world. Intuition replaces discernment. Myth replaces direct knowing. This is the consciousness of the dreamer who mistakes imagination for revelation. Many who fall into this category speak the language of mysticism but remain bound by emotional dependency and unexamined belief.

The trans-rational individual, on the other hand, has journeyed through the rational mind, not around it. They have integrated logic, science, and self-reflection into their foundation. Their transcendence is not an escape from intellect but a movement beyond its limitations. The mind becomes a servant rather than a master. Awareness expands to include paradox, complexity, and the ineffable without denying the relative truth of reason. Where the pre-rational personality confuses fantasy with insight, the trans-rational sees through both fantasy and logic as partial mirrors of the Real.

Many spiritual communities confuse these two movements, what Ken Wilber calls the pre/trans fallacy. Mystical language, emotional intensity, or devotion can appear “advanced,” when in fact they may mask regression to earlier, unintegrated states. True trans-rational realization does not deny the world; it refines perception until all appearances reveal the same unbroken consciousness. It honours both matter and spirit as dimensions of the same reality, seeing no need to reject one for the other.

The pre-rational seeks comfort in transcendence; the trans-rational finds freedom in presence. The former escapes complexity; the latter embraces it as divine play. One dissolves into illusion; the other dissolves illusion itself. The difference is not about how high one climbs, but how fully one includes.

Morgan O. Smith

Join us for our free virtual Zoom/YouTube group meditation session tonight, Wednesday, November 12th, at 8:00 PM ET. Please have your headphones or earbuds ready for the full experience. Take an hour for yourself to unwind, breathe, and reconnect.

Meeting ID: 859 0097 8411

Passcode: 676036