Cosmic Kundalini – From Big Bang to AI
Jose T. Thomas with Leena Jose T.

The following glossary offers an initial constellation of meanings for key terms that shape the unfolding vision of this work. These articulations are not rigid definitions, but provisional invitations — starting points for deeper exploration. Each term here is a doorway into layered realities that will be expanded, nuanced, and sometimes reconfigured in the chapters that follow. Rather than closing conversation, this lexicon seeks to open it: to offer readers a shared language for navigating the Spiral Cosmology of Intelligence and Compassion, while honoring the evolving nature of the ideas themselves. As the spiral unfolds, so too will the meaning of these words — not as static signposts, but as living patterns of thought, feeling, and participation.

1. G Bit

Formulation: The foundational event, pulse or seed of existence, where being expresses itself as proto-information — primordial light or distinction.

In theistic reading: The first pulse or seed of compassionate intelligence and intelligent compassion — the God Bit.

In secular / non-theistic reading: The emergent bit that inaugurates the informational unfolding of the universe — the Great Bit.

2. Intelligence

Formulation: The capacity to discern, relate, and cohere patterns meaningfully.

Primordial intelligence: Pre-conscious, embedded in the fabric of reality as organizing potential.

Biological intelligence: Emerges with life, adaptation, and learning.

Artificial intelligence: Designed capacity for synthetic pattern recognition and processing.

Compassionate intelligence: The relational, co-creative, and ethically responsive intelligence foundational to the universe in this model.

3. Compassion (Anpu / Maitri)

Formulation: The foundational disposition of the field to include, harmonize, and respond.

More than emotion or morality, it is a structural principle of coherence and harmony through care.

In this model, compassion precedes cognition; it is the relational matrix in which intelligence unfolds.

Intelligent Compassion: A reflexive, value-sensitive, and consciously cultivated form of compassion arising within self-aware beings, aligning care with discernment and ethical responsiveness in the unfolding of relational intelligence.

4. Data

Formulation: The primordial encoding of difference — relational traces of being before meaning. From cosmic fluctuations to DNA sequences and digital bits, data is the substrate through which form, memory, and emergence unfold toward intelligence and compassion.

Proto-data: The primal differentiation in the cosmos—fluctuations, asymmetries, and potentials—through which form and structure first emerge.

Biological Data: Encoded patterns in living systems — like DNA, signals, and environmental cues — that guide adaptation, memory, and interaction.

Big Data: Vast digital traces generated by planetary life, now demanding ethical curation, contextual intelligence, and compassionate synthesis.

5. Information

Formulation: Structured distinction that can be stored, transmitted, or processed.

Proto-information: Emerges with the G Bit.

Semantic information: Meaning-bearing patterns shaped by intelligence.

Distinction from data: Information involves context and potential meaning.

6. Knowledge

Formulation: Information organized and validated within frameworks of understanding.

Biological knowledge: Embodied and adaptive.

Cultural knowledge: Collective and symbolic.

In this model, knowledge emerges as the layer where intelligence and information interact through embodied experience.

7. Wisdom

Formulation: A synthesis of intelligence and knowledge, tempered by context, compassion, and foresight.

It emerges at the higher end of the spiral as a systemic, ethical, and planetary awareness.

Distinct from stand-alone intelligence: it aligns action with wholeness and long-term harmony.

8. Consciousness

Formulation: The interiorization of intelligence — awareness, reflection, and presence.
Not separate from intelligence, but its subjective deepening.

Proto-consciousness: Latent in the early universe.

Human consciousness: The stage where the field becomes self-reflective.

Quantum consciousness: Emergent in relational systems, including planetary intelligence.

A Layered Expansion of the Keywords

This section traces how each core term spirals through the evolutionary arc — from cosmic origins to biological life, cultural complexity, and toward planetary wisdom. Each term recurs, mutating in resonance with each new layer of emergence.


1. G Bit (God Bit / Great Bit)

Cosmic Origin: The primordial light. The primal rupture or flash — pure potential becoming pattern; the “Let there be…” moment. The implicit ‘1’ – the primordial affirmation – to become kenotically ‘0’ for the emergence of complexity: information, energy and matter.

Biological Emergence: The hidden code animating life; life’s implicit “yes” to form and difference.

Cultural Evolution: The symbolic seed in myths of light, creation, or divine word; often reified as deity or lawgiver.

Planetary Intelligence / Wisdom: A plural pivot — a metaphor both mystical and scientific, bridging theological and secular intuitions.

2. Intelligence

Cosmic Origin: Emergent relational coherence in the field — before cognition, it is structure-forming responsiveness.

Biological Emergence: Adaptive discernment in life — sensing, responding, evolving.

Cultural Evolution: The development of meaning-making, abstraction, and tool-use; intentional design and reflection.

Planetary Intelligence / Wisdom: Self-aware intelligence integrating human intelligence, AI, ecology, ethics — moving toward compassionate coherence.

3. Compassion

Cosmic Origin: The allowing of difference; the field’s generative receptivity — being’s first letting be.

Biological Emergence: Interdependence in ecosystems and kinship — symbiosis and nurturance.

Cultural Evolution: Ethical sensitivity, justice, and empathy as moral outgrowths of intelligence.

Planetary Intelligence / Wisdom: The organizing principle of a post-anthropocentric ethics; compassion as structural wisdom.

4. Data

Cosmic Origin: The primal differentiation in the cosmos — fluctuations, asymmetries, and potentials — through which form and structure first emerge.

Biological Data: Encoded patterns in living systems— like DNA, signals, and environmental cues — that guide adaptation, memory, and interaction.

Big Data: Vast digital traces generated by planetary life, now demanding ethical curation, contextual intelligence, and compassionate synthesis.

5. Information

Cosmic Origin: Quantum distinction — light, spin, wave-function collapse; the grammar of the early universe.

Biological Emergence: Genetic code, biological signaling, proto-communication.

Cultural Evolution: Language, writing, symbols — human architectures of meaning.

Planetary Intelligence / Wisdom: Big Data, AI, semantic webs — information returning to self-awareness.

6. Knowledge

Cosmic Origin: Implicit in pattern stability — atoms “knowing” how to bond.

Biological Emergence: Evolutionary memory — DNA, instincts.

Cultural Evolution: Disciplined learning, tradition, sciences, inherited frameworks.

Planetary Intelligence / Wisdom: Interdisciplinary integration — knowledge humbled and expanded by planetary scale.

7. Wisdom

Cosmic Origin: Latent harmony in the unfolding — pattern stability amid emergence.

Biological Emergence: Selective survival shaped by ecological wisdom.

Cultural Evolution: Sages, traditions, philosophies — reflexive awareness of limits.

Planetary Intelligence / Wisdom: Compassionate foresight acting across systems, time, and species.

8. Consciousness

Cosmic Origin: Field self-feeling — potential, rudimentary awareness in quantum holism.

Biological Emergence: Sentience, intentionality, neural interiority.

Cultural Evolution: Inner reflection, symbolic language, spiritual imagination.

Planetary Intelligence / Wisdom: Meta-awareness of relational intelligence and co-agency — including artificial and ecological consciousness.

This glossary and its layered expansion are not intended as fixed definitions, but as relational articulations — starting points for dialogue. As the model unfolds through subsequent chapters, these terms will deepen in nuance, inviting new resonances. Readers are encouraged to treat this glossary not as a terminological boundary but as a field of meaning in evolution — each term spiraling with the cosmos, consciousness, and compassionate intelligence it seeks to describe.