What Is Omni-Integration?

Omni-Integration is an approach to Awakening that embraces its full spectrum, with all of its multiple dimensions, while recognizing that transformative development unfolds across numerous interdependent trajectories.

Many people find themselves choosing between two seemingly opposite orientations: exploring the relative world of duality or resting in the absolute of non-duality. One orientation investigates the landscape of experience, personal growth and self-improvement, professional advancement, and, for some, the development of expanded subtle abilities, and social engagement. The other involves the recognition that there is fundamentally no separation between subject and object, no difference to find, only reality as it is, or no need to reify any view.

Omni-Integration recognizes that these paths are valid and interdependent. They are not contradictory but complementary, two sides of the same coin. And still, even the idea of a coin or sides is just another idea.

This framework embraces the apparent paradox, honoring the journey of exploration and the destination of recognition, the process of integration and the realization that reality was never separate in the first place. Yet, it goes further. It does not deny human experience while, at the same time, it helps reduce fixations on either side.

While many approaches focus on integrating aspects of either the dual or non-dual orientation, Omni-Integration is a system that involves the integration of all of the other integrations, a comprehensive synthesis of everything that makes you uniquely you, including all your dual and non-dual facets. This, not coincidentally, aligns with the nature of reality itself, where no fundamental separation exists between you and reality itself.

Ultimately, the goal is a life of genuine fulfillment and continuous growth that naturally contributes to the flourishing of all.

More narrowly, Awakening is a non-dual process involving a series of permanent shifts in how one perceives and understands oneself and reality.

While Awakening includes many passing phenomena and states of consciousness, it is not a single peak experience that fades away. Rather, each shift brings a new way of perceiving the self, identity, relationships, the world, and reality itself, a transformation that persists until the next permanent shift occurs.

Dimensions of Awakening

Omni-Awakening is a multifaceted process with many dimensions that can be accessed, explored, and integrated along the way.

Different traditions and frameworks use different names for these dimensions, but they point to the same element or category of phenomena.

Core Dimensions

  • Awareness — The Witness / The Observer

  • Existence — Form / Fullness / Unity / Oneness

  • Non-Existence — Formlessness / Emptiness / Nothingness / Voidness

  • Energy — Chi / Prana / Kundalini / Chakras / The Energetic Body / Meridians / Nadis / Energosoma

  • Foundational Reality and Its Potential — Pure or Primary Consciousness / Nibbana / The Tao / Rigpa / The Source / Ground of Being / The Dharmakaya)

  • The Mind — Thoughts and Emotions / Conditioning / The Subconscious and the Unconscious / The Mental and Emotional Bodies / Mentalsoma and Psychosoma

Associated Dimensions

  • Physical Life — The Physical body / Soma / The Physical World, the Cosmos, and the Universe

  • Expanded Subtle Abilities — Psychic abilities / Parapsychism

  • Crises — Dark Nights of the Soul / Spiritual Emergencies / Shadow / Trauma Processing

These dimensions unfold differently for different people. Some of them become axes of development, following a long deepening process. Others are related to fundamental pivotal shifts, but do not necessarily develop into something more or even come back. And others are present sometimes, but function as secondary phenomena.

More importantly, in the first portion of the progression of awakening (see more about portions in the model below), there is no specific order for them to occur, even though there is a higher probability for some of them to occur earlier and others later. The personalized nature of the process is most visible at the individual level. At a broader level, it is possible to recognize a common developmental pattern among different people.

That means your Awakening process is personalized to you.

The idea is recognizing these different dimensions as they emerge, exploring them and integrating them as a coherent whole. The key is to learn how to hold them lightly, neither fixating on nor dismissing them completely.

Progression of the Awakening Process

Omni-akening can be seen and understood from multiple angles and perspectives. It has a processual nature and can also be divided into phases.

For some, the process is gradual and distinctions are less prominent. For others, there are shifts that radically change everything, with a feeling of before and after. And within that distribution, others feel that sometimes there are important watershed moments, and there are other periods where change is more incremental.

Regardless of the way the process unfolds for you, it is possible to draw a progression at a broad level.

  • First Portion of the Progression — Deconstruction
    The deconstructive portion of the process starts with the first glimpses of Awakening leading to the initial Awakening, or the first permanent shift. It is also when core dimensions are accessed and explored sequentially. People can oscillate between dimensions, experience them one at a time for varying durations, or engage with anywhere from one to several core dimensions. In this portion of the process, when someone is experiencing one core dimension, they typically are not fully experiencing others simultaneously. There can be many shifts, and there is a progressive deconstruction of the sense of self, identity, fixations, perceptual filters, and so on.

  • Tipping Point — Foundational Reality
    This tipping point involves the discovery of foundational reality or what it feels like to be the source of all dimensions. The feeling of having finally found what is truly real is common. This discovery is a pivotal moment in the process that shifts the progression into a more reconstructive portion, or from deconstruction to reconstruction.

  • Second Portion of the Progression — Reconstruction
    The reconstructive portion of the process involves the return of everything previously thought to be gone, but in a less fixated way. One of the main characteristics of this portion is that the experience of multiple dimensions occurs concurrently. It may feel paradoxical and unsettling in the beginning, but it becomes a period of playful exploration, where every layer of reality is available at all times.

  • Third Portion of the Progression — Consolidation
    Over time, these dimensions coalesce into an undivided, seamless reality. The relationship between subject and object fully collapses. Since reality is singular, at the far end of this period, multidimensionality fades, along with the interest in personal Awakening, in any attainments, or in reifying any views.

  • Fourth Portion of the Progression — Omni-Integration
    The omni-integrative portion of the progression occurs when core and additional dimensions (see above) integrate more thoroughly and conditioning undergoes deeper reprocessing. The multidimensional nature of reality returns in its harmonized and natural way. This bring a sense or feeling of harmony and naturalness that is pervasive. The idea of truth is resignified, understood not merely intellectually but experientially, that many paths lead to the same point and are equally valid. Alignment to personal and collective growth increases. It doesn't mean that challenges will not occur or that development came to an end. The process of integration and evolution is limitless.

Integration or Omni-Integration?

Integration can and does happen throughout phases and portions. Any core dimension can be integrated or embodied more coherently while the process progresses. In the fourth portion, however, a more comprehensive kind of integration occurs. Omni-Integration is an integration of all of the other integrations, and a synthesis of everything that makes you, you — of all your dual and non-dual aspects. This, not by chance, matches reality because reality and you are fundamentally not separate and different from each other. In this sense, nothing is left out and everything that makes you unique is equally highlighted in a natural, wholesome way.

first and second portions of Awakening may focus more on the core dimensions depending on how practitioners approach embodiment and work with their own conditionings. The associated dimensions are intrinsic to Awakening and will eventually require attention and integration.


An important caveat about the model represents a generalized pattern. No framework could fit every single progression perfectly or completely represent reality as it is, and phases and portions may overlap without clear demarcation. Finally, this outline may evolve as more understanding and clarity emerges over time.

What Is Awakening?

The Role of Associated Dimensions

The associated dimensions may be more or less prevalent throughout the process. Some have access to subtle expanded abilities before awakening, whereas others may develop access at some point in the progression, and others none. The same occurs with crises. For a portion of people, crises are minimal. For others, there are moments when they emerge more strongly. And for others, they are a continuous presence along the way. Similarly, the physical body and world also may become more or less relevant depending on the stage or portion of the process. Your health, relationships, work, and daily life are intrinsic to this unfolding, not separate from it. All of these dimensions need to be integrated into a coherent whole.

Omni-Integration offers mentorship and guidance in integrating these dimensions, phases, and portions into embodied living, supporting you as you explore and navigate your unique journey.

I bring over 35 years of experience exploring consciousness in all its manifestations, from subtle perception and self-development to awakening and non-duality. My journey has spanned work in both Brazil and the United States as a practitioner, researcher, teacher, and mentor, helping others navigate their own transformative processes.

My early decades in Brazil focused on developing subtle perceptual abilities for self-improvement, ethical development, and service to others. As both a self-researcher and teacher, I led workshops, immersions, and theoretical classes while writing extensively about consciousness development within duality. This foundation prepared me for my later exploration of non-dual awakening and the integration of these complementary dimensions of practice.

I hold an MA in International Relations with a focus on ethics and human rights, and a PhD in Comparative Politics specializing in democratization processes. Currently, I'm a Visiting Scholar at Penn State University in Contemplative Studies and Co-Principal Investigator on innovative research examining the complete process of spiritual awakening across contemplative traditions. My work has contributed to multiple collaborative projects exploring consciousness, awakening, and transformative development.

As a practitioner who has personally navigated advanced contemplative states and the developmental process of awakening, I bring both an analytical mind and lived experience to my work. Drawing on my personal journey, systematic observations, work supporting individuals, and countless conversations with fellow practitioners, I developed the Omni-Integration methodology — a comprehensive approach to mentoring people through their unique awakening trajectories.

I'm endlessly fascinated by how this process unfolds differently for each person. One of the things I love most about this work is helping fellow travelers uderstand and navigate their journey. My approach offers grounded, integrated support for those interested in realizing their fullest potential.

Luciano Melo

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