When spiritual paths call for surrender they are asking us to give up our identification with an isolated and separate small ‘s’ self so that we can expand into the fullness of who we are. I believe that surrender, whether it comes as the result of specific spiritual practices, spontaneous revelation, or as an unanticipated […]
Author Archives: Jeff Carreira
April
14
SURRENDER, KUNDALINI AND INNER SPIRITUAL GUIDE: PART 1
posted by Jeff Carreira
Spiritual paths, both traditional and alternative, in one way or another, always revolve around to call for surrender. Surrender means giving up, letting go, ceasing to resist. The moment of surrender is the moment of initiation. It is the beginning of the journey, not the end. It is a leap of faith that propels us […]
April
07
The Trouble with Worldviews
posted by Jeff Carreira
I have been thinking about how challenging philosophical discussion can be and I think that part of that difficulty comes about when we are not discussing ideas within a single worldview, but are actually clashing one worldview against another. As I see it a worldview is a belief in a complete philosophical system. Discussing within […]
March
31
Everything Exists in Relationship
posted by Jeff Carreira
Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In fact, things do not exist at all. Relationships exist. There are no individual things. The existence of anything is always contingent upon something else. When I was an undergraduate student I studied physics, but my favorite course in four years was one […]
March
24
A Multi-Dimensional View of Consciousness
posted by Jeff Carreira
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 time period known as the Enlightenment. Over the course of about two centuries we moved out of the worldview of […]
March
17
Seeing Through Sentences in Your Head
posted by Jeff Carreira
One of the things that the study of philosophy reveals is the profound relationship between the language that we use and our perception of what is real. We don’t have to look too deeply into philosophy before we begin to realize that our knowledge about anything is constructed in language and is always found in […]
March
10
Meditate into Deep Trust
posted by Jeff Carreira
Many of my most profound spiritual awakenings have come to me through the practice of meditation. I see it as a spiritual discipline that is central to philosophy in that at its core the practice of meditation involves making direct contact with reality. Meditation is a time-honored spiritual discipline practiced in both the Judeo-Christian traditions […]
March
03
The Holistic Evolution of Charles Sanders Peirce
posted by Jeff Carreira
The American Philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce did not see the universe as collection of separate but interconnected things that evolved together. He saw a continuous whole universe with three essential characteristics that co-emerge. All of creation is built from the interplay of only three essential characteristics that combine and recombine in an infinite variety of […]
February
24
Freedom from Mental Chatter
posted by Jeff Carreira
The opening paragraph of the book Radical Inclusivity says: The first time I was engulfed by the realization of Radical Inclusivity was during a sixty-day meditation retreat under the guidance of my spiritual teacher. As I sat from morning until evening following the simple instruction “Let everything be as it is,” I found myself transported […]
February
17
Contact, Concept and Art
posted by Jeff Carreira
We live in a reality constructed of contact and concept. The world reveals itself to us in a stream of sensation. We see colors, shapes, lines, shades of light and dark. We hear sounds shrill and bass, harmonious and discordant. Our skin touches cold and heat, hard and soft, rough and smooth. Scent passes constantly […]
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