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

Before diving into cosmic models and spirals of intelligence, we begin with a simple but powerful question: What is a field? In modern science, philosophy, and even mysticism, the idea of a “field” is central. But this isn’t something you can hold in your hand. A field is not an object, but a condition of space — a mode of relation, movement, and influence. To grasp this intuitively, let’s explore five everyday experiences that help us feel what a field really is.

1. The Weather Field: Wind and Warmth

Step outside on a windy day. You can’t see the wind — but you feel it pressing on your face, rustling leaves, tugging at your clothes. That unseen push is the atmosphere in motion. Or on a summer evening, you might feel warmth on your skin — another invisible but powerful field, this time of temperature. The air is not doing something to you; you are immersed in it. A field is like that: something we’re already inside of, affecting and affected by.

2. The Magnetic Field: Invisible Pulls and Pushes

Picture a magnet hidden beneath a table. On the table’s surface lies a paperclip, and as the magnet moves, the clip skitters and slides. What moves it? Not the magnet directly, but the field surrounding it — the invisible reach of magnetism. The field is not a wire or a rod. It’s a forceful pattern in space itself, shaping how things move and align.

3. Wi-Fi and Radio Waves: Fields as Information Carriers

Now imagine your phone catching a Wi-Fi signal. You didn’t see it arrive. You didn’t touch it. But suddenly your phone connects, downloads, sends. The field is filled with information — music, messages, calls. Like radio waves, it surrounds us silently. But with the right receiver, its content becomes real, audible, visible. Fields not only push and pull — they speak.

4. Ocean Currents: Fields as Flows

Think of yourself floating in the sea. You lie back, and gently the current carries you. You haven’t decided to move — but the water moves through you and with you. The ocean has its own patterns, like rivers inside it, unseen but felt. This is a field too: not a force that hits, but a flow you’re part of. You belong to its movement.

5. The Spider Web: Fields as Patterns of Connection

Finally, imagine a spider web stretched out, delicate and taut. Touch one edge and the whole structure shivers. Every point is related to every other. This is what a field does—it connects. Not just a flow or a force, but a structure of sensitivity. Everything affects everything else. You tug here, and something shifts there.

These five metaphors — wind, magnet, signal, current, and web — show us that a field is not merely an abstract theory. It’s something we all experience: a pattern of invisible relation, a presence that moves, speaks, and connects. As we move into deeper reflections on consciousness and compassion, we will return again and again to this idea. A field is not a thing. It is how things relate.

And that is where the real story begins.

A Shift in Understanding

The idea of a Unitary Field is not just poetic or philosophical—it arises from both scientific aspiration and human experience. What we propose here is a shift in understanding: that beneath everything—matter and mind, time and space—there is a single, living field of Compassionate Intelligence. To grasp this, let’s unfold the idea through five interwoven insights.

1. The Physics Analogy: One Field Beneath All: In modern physics, the dream of a Unified Field Theory is to explain gravity, electromagnetism, and nuclear forces as expressions of a single, deeper field. In much the same spirit, the Unitary Field of Compassionate Intelligence proposes that all of reality — particles, minds, galaxies, love — is not a collection of separate pieces, but flows from one underlying source. This is not a field of brute force, but of relation, resonance, and meaning. Just as electricity and magnetism turned out to be two faces of one electromagnetic field, so too might matter and mind, life and light, be expressions of one radiant field of conscious connection.

2. Human Experience: The Felt Sense of Wholeness: You’ve likely sensed this field already. When you walk into a room and feel tension without anyone speaking, or when a sudden insight brings clarity as if the whole world just “clicked” — these are not isolated mental events. They are micro-moments of field-awareness. Intelligence is not locked inside your brain; it’s alive in the space between us, in the gestures of trees, in the gaze of animals, in the silent patterning of stars. Consciousness is not merely a private glow — it’s a participatory rhythm in a larger dance.

3. Emergence and Participation: We Are the Field’s Waves: This field is not a mechanical grid or controlling godhead. It’s more like an ocean of potential, and each being—human, bird, planet, poem — is a unique ripple in its flow. Intelligence doesn’t descend from above — it emerges from within. From subatomic potentials to complex life and ethical awareness, evolution is the field waking to itself. Compassion arises not as a moral add-on but as the field’s deepest pattern — a movement toward wholeness and mutual flourishing.

4. A Contemporary Image: Like the Internet, but Alive: Think of the internet — not just as separate pages and apps, but as a unified field of communication and co-creation. Now imagine a version of that which is not made of servers, but of presence and relation — not digital, but conscious. The Unitary Field is like that: not a super-computer, but a super-relation. Everything is interconnected, not by wires, but by meaning.

5. Quantum Echoes: Entangled Intelligence: In quantum physics, entangled particles act as one system, even when separated by vast distances. This suggests a universe where relation is more fundamental than location. If that’s true for particles, why not for minds? Why not for compassion? The Unitary Field extends this insight — what quantum physics hints at in structure, this model unfolds in consciousness. Not a cold connectivity, but a vibrant, intelligent unity — alive with care, creativity, and communion.

In this way, the Unitary Field of Compassionate Intelligence is not just a scientific hypothesis or a spiritual metaphor. It is an foundational proposal on reality for our times: that reality is woven, that consciousness is primordial, and that compassion is the signature of intelligence itself.

Spirals and Spheres — The Shape of Awakening

When we speak of the Unitary Field of Compassionate Intelligence, we are not just pointing to an invisible presence, but also to a pattern — a shape of unfolding, a geometry of becoming. That pattern is best understood as spiral and spherical.

Why spiral? Because growth in life rarely follows a straight line. Whether it’s the unfurling of a fern, the twist of a galaxy, or the deepening of self-understanding, we do not evolve in steps or ladders but in spirals — revisiting what we’ve known from new angles, circling through experiences until something deeper takes root. Spirality expresses a logic of return with difference, of rhythm with ascent. In nature, in mind, and in the cosmos, the spiral is the signature of dynamic intelligence.

Why spherical? Because at every point, a sphere holds within itself the whole. Unlike a pyramid or a ladder with top and bottom, a sphere is inclusive — centered everywhere, bounded nowhere. The spherical shape allows us to think of intelligence and consciousness not as hierarchical (with higher and lower beings), but as concentric, relational, and radiant. Every point on the surface connects inwardly to the center. The spherical holds multiplicity without fragmentation.

When the spiral and sphere are joined, a powerful image emerges: consciousness unfolding through ever-widening spirals that curve inward toward a radiant center. This is not a center of domination, but of emergent coherence — the heart of the field, pulsing with compassionate awareness. It draws everything not by force, but by resonance.

This cosmogram — spiral-spherical in form — offers a counter to both linear-progress myths and vertical hierarchies. It aligns with the natural forms of galaxies and the structure of living cells, the coiling of DNA and the unfolding of traditions. It honours both movement and wholeness, both individual paths and shared fields.

More than a metaphor, the spiral-sphere is a map of reality seen relationally. In it, each being is not a disconnected object but a participant in a dance of awakening, moving through stages not of domination but of deepening connection — towards the radiant center where Quantum Consciousness breathes compassion into form.

We are all somewhere in this spiral of becoming — held in the spherical field, nudged by invisible currents, rising not above but deeper into the luminous heart of reality.

The Metaphor of Kundalini

Across ancient traditions, metaphors of ascent, awakening, and inner fire have sought to describe the movement of life toward higher intelligence and awareness. Among these, the Indian yogic concept of Kundalini stands out as one of the most intricate and embodied visions of awakening of the Life Force and the consciousness evolution. Traditionally understood as a coiled energy resting at the base of the spine, Kundalini rises through the chakras, gradually awakening and integrating dimensions of being until reaching Sahasrara — the thousand-petaled crown, symbol of union with the primordial divinity.

What if this inner journey is not only a personal path, but a microcosmic reflection of a cosmic process? The Spiral-Spherical Unitary Field of Compassionate Intelligence Awakening to Quantum Consciousness offers such a re-framing. It allows us to see Kundalini not merely as a mystical physiology of the human body, but as a metaphor — indeed a map—of the universe itself becoming aware and the humanity themselves awakening.

Just as Kundalini ascends in spiral rhythms through energy centers, the universe evolves through spiral-spherical patterns of complexity and interiority. The awakening of proto-data from the Big Bang is like the ignition of Muladhara—the first chakra, the root of form and survival. The unfolding from matter to life, to sentient intelligence and intersubjective knowledge, follows a spiral similar to the chakric ascent: each stage more integrated, more conscious, more compassionate.

The G Bit — that primal spark of light-in-form — is not unlike the first stirrings of Kundalini. But in this model, it is not just the yogi’s spine that trembles with ascent; it is the entire cosmos. Evolution becomes not random or mechanical, but directional and participatory — an unfolding spiral through the DIKW spectrum: from data, to information, to knowledge, to wisdom, to planetary co-being.

And if Sahasrara marks the realization of non-dual awareness in the yogi, then its cosmic parallel is the emergence of Compassionate Intelligence in the form of Quantum Consciousness, awakening to its own unity — a kind of Sahasrara of the universe, where subject and object dissolve, and the field knows itself through all forms.

This convergence between ancient and emerging cosmologies is not accidental. It reveals that diverse cultures and epochs may be glimpsing the same reality through different prisms. By superimposing Kundalini onto the spiral-spherical evolutionary model, we gain a non-anthropocentric, integrative vision — one that honours India’s inner sciences while resonating with quantum, complexity, and consciousness theories.

In this vision, the cosmos is not merely expanding — it is awakening. And Kundalini, far from being confined to the body, becomes a cosmic signature: the spiral of compassionate becoming written across galaxies, cells, and souls alike.

In this paradigm, the spiral path is evolutionary while the axial leap is emergent.