The Pull of Possible Futures….

Jeff CarreiraPhilosophy

We are all aware – sometimes painfully so – that the past influences the present. If we have not studied we will not do well on our exam. If we don’t practice our instrument we …

The Experience of Suspended Limitation

Jeff CarreiraPhilosophy

The experience of spiritual freedom is a condition of suspended limitation. I remember a very profound moment in my life when I realized that I didn’t really know what was possible. Stop and think about …

The Three Stage Process of Evolving Selfhood

Jeff CarreiraPhilosophy

I believe that the evolution of the self occurs through successive transformative leaps and that this is the whole purpose of spiritual life. The spiritual experiences that we have, the breakthroughs, openings and energetic surges …

The Secret of Perpetual Awakening

Jeff CarreiraPhilosophy

For the past few years I have been exploring and teaching about a distinction that I speak about as the first and second surrender of spiritual awakening. The first surrender is the utterly passive acceptance …

The Non-Locality of Self

Jeff CarreiraPhilosophy

The literary movement known as Romanticism actively embraced the idea of multiple perspectives. The Romantics were in part reacting against what they saw as the limitations of the Enlightenment. One of those limitations was that …

A Multi-Dimensional View of Consciousness

Jeff CarreiraPhilosophy

Most of us have been taught to understand mind, thought, and self through a dualistic model of reality. I call that model of reality things-in-space consciousness, and it was born in the West during the …