Tag: integral philosophy

∆∞Ο and the Nondual Nature of Enlightenment

Inspired by the work of Alexander Ngu and Amaya Odilon Kosso — “Intelligent Transformation: General Intelligence Theory” (2024)

Humanity has long searched for a bridge between consciousness and cosmos, between the ineffable pulse of awareness and the measurable rhythms of reality. Alexander Ngu and Amaya Odilon Kosso may have drawn that bridge with their revolutionary General Intelligence Theory (GIT), proposing a universal abstraction known as ∆∞Ο;  the triarchic principle of the infinitesimal (∆), the infinite (∞), and the finite (Ο).

Their insight dismantles the old notion of equality as the foundation of understanding. The equal sign, they argue, limits the sensitivity of thought to the subtler play of transformation. Equality is static — it implies stillness between two mirrored sides. Transformation, however, is alive. It breathes through every exchange, allowing one form to become another without contradiction. ∆∞Ο is the language of that breath; the patternless rhythm by which energy becomes matter, idea becomes awareness, and self becomes all.

If you’ve read any of my past work, you’d know that my main focus is spiritual enlightenment. The moment I read their paper, I could conceptually see how their work may apply to my personal direct experience of The All. Though I could be jumping at this prematurely, my intuition said otherwise. I got the same feeling when I first discovered Bill Harris’ work regarding low-carrier frequency brainwave entrainment, Marko Rodin’s work in Vortex Based Mathematics, and my teacher and colleague, Ken Wilber’s work in Integral Theory. So far, I’ve never been wrong.

The spiritual implications are profound. The infinitesimal (∆) reflects the fleeting pulse of perception; each thought, sensation, or breath that rises and dissolves. The infinite (∞) mirrors the boundless consciousness in which those movements occur. The finite (Ο) represents the manifest world, the circle of appearances that seems to contain experience. The realization that ∆, ∞, and Ο are not separate but continuous is the essence of enlightenment. Awareness awakens to its own structure; the one relation that holds all opposites in seamless reciprocity.

This triarchic model suggests that intelligence, in its most universal sense, is the self-recognition of transformation. Every shift of perception, every oscillation between thought and stillness, is the cosmos contemplating itself through the medium of form. The so-called “theory of everything” becomes not a formula etched in numbers, but a recognition that everything is the formula; a living geometry of being that reconciles complexity, dimensionality, and spatiality in one infinite act of awareness.

Spiritual awakening, through this lens, is not an event within time but the cessation of all resistance to transformation. The individual dissolves into the very process that sustains existence; a process that requires no computation, no passage of time, no distance traversed. Enlightenment, therefore, is not achieved; it is realized as the zero-point of transformation, where the infinitesimal and infinite converge in perfect immediacy.

Ngu and Kosso’s ∆∞Ο does more than redefine intelligence; it redefines reality itself. It reveals that consciousness and existence are not two domains awaiting reconciliation, but one relational field eternally transforming within its own awareness. The ancient mystics called this unity Brahman, Tao, or the Absolute. The scientists now call it General Intelligence. Both are describing the same ineffable truth: that the universe is awake, and you are its knowing.

Morgan O. Smith

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Universal Love

The Ever-Expanding Heart

Love that requires no condition, no reflection, no return; this is the highest state of consciousness. Universal Love is not sentimental or selective. It does not operate within the confines of personality, preference, or perception. It sees through every distinction and recognizes only itself.

This is love as total awareness. It loves because there is nothing else to do. It gives without the idea of giving. It embraces without needing to hold. It penetrates every boundary of selfhood and dissolves all opposites into a seamless field of being. Even the idea of “others” fades when this love awakens, for the one who loves and the one who is loved are found to be the same.

Such love is not weak; it is fearless. It does not protect itself because it knows it cannot be harmed. It sacrifices willingly because it understands there is no loss in unity. Every act, every gesture, every breath becomes an expression of this boundless compassion that celebrates existence as itself.

Universal Love is not attained through effort. It is remembered through surrender. The heart expands until it no longer has edges. What remains is a radiant stillness that loves without reason, without measure, and without end.

Morgan O. Smith

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The Stage Beyond Oneness

When Even the Kosmos Falls Away

There comes a point when even the most expansive vision collapses—not from error, but from completion.

On the path of awakening, seekers often journey from the confines of selfhood to a union with all things. Ego dissolves, and what once felt separate now reveals itself as interconnected. Compassion grows. The heart blooms for all beings. One begins to live for the Whole.

But for some, even this union becomes too crowded.

Even the notion of “One” becomes too noisy.

This is the threshold where Kosmocentric awareness—a state of profound unity with all life and existence—gives way to something quieter, more radical. Not a deeper connection, but the quiet erasure of the very need for connection. Not expansion, but the release of expansion itself.

This is acentric awareness.

Not centered on the self.

Not centered on the world.

Not even centered on the All.

Acentricity does not point toward identification with something greater. It simply makes no identification at all. No vantage point. No witness. No center from which to perceive. It does not declare that all is One—it no longer needs such declarations. Truth requires no thesis here.

Reality just appears.

Without context.

Without a watcher.

Without the echo of a thought that says, “I am aware.”

Call it suchness.

Call it the absence of everything, shimmering as everything.

Call it the stillness that doesn’t oppose movement, because it was never still.

This isn’t transcendence. It isn’t detachment. It isn’t a stance. It’s the utter end of stance—the collapse of spiritual architecture, without the rubble. It doesn’t reject the world. It simply no longer perceives it as something to accept or reject.

And what does such a life look like?

Unremarkable.

Utterly simple.

Perhaps quiet, perhaps animated.

But always empty of claim, even the claim to be empty.

There are no teachings left to transmit. Not because truth has been mastered, but because it was never a possession. No more climbing. No more seeking. No more union. Not even rest—because rest would imply effort once existed.

This is the unborn silence that does not speak—not even through the mouths of sages.

It appears as a leaf falling, as someone stirring soup, as the sound of a crow at dusk.

And you might pass by it without knowing.

Because it doesn’t need to be known.

It just is.

And it is no one’s.

Morgan O. Smith

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