Weaving Meditation, Nature, and AI
A Reflective Journey Toward a New Theory of Awareness
I’m in awe of how much has unfolded in just a couple of months. Between owning two active businesses, completing a year-long land development deal, and maintaining a daily meditation practice, I’ve found myself unexpectedly piecing together what I now call the Unifying Theory of Awareness (UTA). Though I’m still digesting everything that’s happened, I’d like to share this unique blend of contemplation, technology, and the simple wonder I experience each morning at sunrise.
A Daily Rhythm Rooted in Meditation
For the past five years, I’ve practiced non-dual meditation with unwavering consistency. My introduction to meditation began in my twenties, sparked by a transformative psychedelic experience—one that opened the door to profound insight but also led to hospitalizations and mental health challenges. Despite building a successful career and running several thriving businesses, I often felt an aching void, a sense that I hadn’t yet discovered my true purpose. Later, a deeply traumatic divorce added to the weight of these struggles. I spent ten years in intensive therapy, which was largely focused on fixing the negative, but when I turned to meditation, I set a new intention: to cultivate more joy in my life. Five years ago, I made a deeper commitment to meditation, guided by this new focus on joy. This shift, alongside several meditative 'awakening' episodes and a growing inclination toward Buddhist thought, led me to notice intriguing patterns—how attention might fold back onto itself in a recursive way, giving rise to phenomena like space and time.
It wasn’t a formal theory yet, just an inner sense of “maybe dimension emerges from awareness.” These contemplations often lit up my mornings—sometimes as subtle shifts in perspective, and sometimes as surges of insight.
Nature as a Silent Ally
Each day I leave my home for a sunrise hike. Surrounded by nature, I find it easier to integrate what I’ve absorbed during meditation. There’s something profoundly grounding about stepping onto a trail, the sky transitioning from dark to light, the gentle crunch of gravel underfoot. It’s as if the natural world offers a gentle space for me to turn over ideas without forcing them. Problems, insights, and new angles on “recursive attention” and “emergent dimensions” just seem to merge more organically when I’m walking in that cool morning air.
These hikes have become a daily ritual of gratitude, a reminder of the vast tapestry woven beyond my to-do lists and deadlines. I treat them as moments to breathe, reflect, and let my mind wander—bridging what I’ve glimpsed in meditation with the rustle of wind or the shifting hues of dawn—often with a dog by my side.
Connecting the Dots with AI
Given my background as a software architect—nearly thirty years of designing systems and a deep familiarity with the underlying technology of AI—I was still surprised by how these tools helped crystallize my meditative insights into something more concrete. I’d pose questions like, 'Could this idea of emergent dimension be modeled with fractional PDEs?' or 'What if we allowed local dimensionality to shift across a manifold?'
AI as a Reflective Partner
I’ve been amazed at how AI can spark fresh directions. While the conceptual leaps came from my meditation and morning hikes, AI showed me the precise mathematical frameworks—mentioning, for instance, variable-order Sobolev spaces or how threads in a “fabric analogy” might act as operators driving dimensional transitions. With each new prompt, I found a deeper sense of wonder and a renewed conviction that something tangible could arise from these personal contemplations.Synergy With Real-Life Obligations
The strangest part is how naturally everything fits around my daily responsibilities. My friends often marvel at what appears to them as a whirlwind pace—an hour spent handling a pressing business matter, a short window to test an analogy with AI, then finalizing a land development contract—but for me it actually feels relaxed and liberating. Each step seems to serve a unifying purpose: meditation provides calm and clarity, AI offers structured insights, and my morning hikes give me the freedom to let ideas breathe and coalesce.
Emergence of the Unifying Theory of Awareness
Over the past couple of months, amidst balancing two active businesses, finalizing a land development deal, and maintaining a daily meditation practice, I’ve been astonished by how these routines, combined with AI, have catalyzed the development of what I now call the Unifying Theory of Awareness (UTA). Despite my background as a software architect and nearly three decades of experience designing systems, the process of exploring cutting-edge theoretical mathematics—like fractional PDEs and convolution operators—was something entirely new for me.
With the support of AI, I’ve been able to draft a rigorous 90+ page academic treatise on UTA, exploring the mathematical frontiers of consciousness and dimensionality. Achieving this level of depth and clarity in less than two months has humbled me and deepened my appreciation for the emergent potential of combining contemplative practices with technology.
AI has proven to be a powerful reflective partner, bridging the gap between intuition and precision. While my conceptual insights emerged through meditation and sunrise hikes, AI provided the scaffolding for their formal expression—introducing frameworks like variable-order Sobolev spaces and guiding me toward viable mathematical structures. The result is not a finished theory, but a growing tapestry that I hope to share, test, and refine with mathematicians, neuroscientists, and others intrigued by the nature of awareness.
Why This Matters for My Clients—and Maybe You
In my coaching work, I’ve begun developing a replicable protocol that helps others harness this synergy of meditation, nature, and AI. The idea is to guide professionals—especially those juggling high-pressure leadership roles—to systematically tap into deeper insight, creativity, and clarity while amplifying their performance and results. The sequence goes something like this:
Meditative Insight
A short, consistent non-dual practice fosters the calm and self-reflection needed to surface original ideas and see where old patterns of thought might be blocking progress.Contemplative Walks in Nature
By stepping away from the desk into an immersive, natural environment (whether a sunrise hike or a walk in a local park), clients have space to let meditative insights settle. Free from the usual rush, they can intuitively “test” or refine ideas that arose during meditation.AI Amplification
At some point after the walk—whenever the schedule allows—the next step is to bring those fresh ideas to an AI-assisted environment. Maybe that means jotting down insights in a notebook first, then consulting AI later in the day to scout for relevant methods, clarify technical gaps, or explore potential applications. AI offers structured knowledge on-demand, guiding the user toward fruitful techniques or theories while enabling an iterative, low-friction approach to refining their ideas.Everyday Demands as a Testing Ground
Finally, clients cycle back to their real-world obligations—meetings, negotiations, strategic decisions. This ensures that insights born of meditation and nature walks are put to the test immediately, allowing for rapid prototyping and fine-tuning of innovative solutions in the actual flow of their business life.
In practice, this approach has repeatedly demonstrated that meditation and contemplative time don’t just reduce stress—they can become powerful incubators for breakthrough thinking, especially when combined with AI to ground those insights in actionable detail. And instead of viewing everyday business demands as obstacles, we use them as a practical filter to validate which ideas truly solve problems in real time.
By sharing my experiences—and this emerging protocol—I hope to encourage executives, entrepreneurs, and other curious minds to discover for themselves how meditation, nature, and AI can merge into a harmonious workflow. Ultimately, it’s about recognizing that human creativity and intuition, when consciously nurtured, can flourish even in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
A Sense of Gratitude and Possibility
Reflecting on this whirlwind of a journey, I feel a deep gratitude—for the quiet moments of sunrise, for tools that let me crystallize big ideas, and for the trust I’ve gained in that subtle voice emerging from meditation. Above all, I am profoundly thankful for my loving and supportive wife, who encourages my wild adventures and grounds me with her unwavering belief in what’s possible. While juggling so many roles might seem intense, it has felt more like being carried by a powerful current—effortless and natural—validating that a life full of varied commitments can still be fertile ground for deep insight.
If this resonates with you—if you’re curious about the Unifying Theory of Awareness or how contemplative practices and AI might catalyze your own breakthroughs—I’d love to hear from you. While I’m not currently taking on new coaching clients, I welcome meaningful conversations and connections with those who feel a similar pull toward wonder, gratitude, and freedom in their work and daily life. UTA is not a finished theory but a living exploration, and I’d be grateful to share this journey with anyone inspired by these ideas.