Infillence is a term that incorporates ancient and contemporary wisdom, and Infillent is a good name for an already expansive base of people from every religion and country, every creed and commitment, every skepticism and every search, who hear the voice of the cosmos in what they study, seek, and do. Don’t we all perhaps sense that Someone is out there, or Something, if you prefer? Even immersed in life’s paradoxes, don’t we sense some pattern generative between order and chaos?

The three word-roots in Infillence are:

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     “In” for “Infinite” (Eternal)

     “fil” for “filial” (Love)

     “lence” from the French “license” (Freedom)

Infinitude, Love, and Freedom are the three branches of a tree of life growing out of the irreducible Mystery we call “God” (or “Creator,” “Spirit,” “Center,” “Core,” “Intimate Universe,” “Consciousness,” “Essence,” etc.). In an ontology of Infillence, Time, Love, and Freedom are the mysterious and eternal experiment flourishing through Being and Becoming—which means, through you and me and everyone and everything we know. Paradox: The Universe, including us, is simultaneously solid as Being and yet also constantly Becoming. Infillence records the most lyrical beauty and the most abstract thought-experiment while always remaining loyal to the mysteries of science. 

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Because God is a mystery (“The Lord works in mysterious ways”), endless definitions with immense variety are possible, hence the plethora of religions and philosophies in the world, including Infillent definitions here that might provide some direction, both mathematically and poetically.

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1. God = Energy/Matter, Being/Becoming, Universe/Multiverse as mysterious essence so that when we dive into the study of infinitude, we find an always-moving center. Thus, we might choose to study the mirror every day to glimpse how light and darkness, outer and inner, are aligned as Infinite Love and Freedom on that particular day.

2. God = You/I/We/They. There is no separation of us from Energy/Matter, Being/Becoming, Universe/Multiverse, thus, no separation from God. Human beings do not need to separate from Mystery to become whole, as all the quotes above have hinted or said directly.

3. God = sin, wrongdoing, immorality, penitence, atonement, forgiveness. God comprises these primal, evolutionary drives in sentience as our mind acts resiliently and imperfectly, not just to flee suffering but to move toward love and freedom via suffering, in motions and changes that are often cyclical, which makes suffering natural and inevitable.

4. God = cleaning the misty mirror of obstructions that we ourselves have put there, breathing under and above water, both, God as the face of the dove and the dove itself, feeling essence even in the clothes we put on daily, in our busy existence, in each of our lives—and not just as power, light, and beauty, but also as strategy.

These first definitions hope to provide an ontological way to begin our journey toward, into, and through the human experiment. At some point in time, the single name “God” or “Universe” or another will not matter except that it helps inspire us to keep seeking. Whatever name you give, the center you strive to return home to every day is the experiment defining who you are by the actions you took during that same day and the consciousness you breathed in and out via thought and feeling. Eternal Love and Freedom (Infillence) is an illumination of peace surpassing understanding every person can discover, not just after death but while still alive.

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—Michael Gurian, 2026