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How do we prepare for a shift in consciousness?

Jeff Carreira March 19, 2014 Philosophy 4 Comments

The idea that we need to shift human consciousness has become cliché. We’ve all heard Einstein’s declaration that problems cannot be solved by the same consciousness that created them. But just because something has become …

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Radical Inclusivity

What counts as a being?

Jeff Carreira March 4, 2014 Philosophy 1 Comment

I believe that the most important philosophical question of our time is, what counts as a being? A thing is an object. It doesn’t count as a being. We can use things, manipulate them and …

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Freewill

Beyond Human Perspectives

Jeff Carreira February 9, 2014 Philosophy 2 Comments

This short book can be seen as, and in fact in many ways is, my personal introduction to the philosophy called speculative realism. This new philosophy has only been defined and developed during the course …

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Beyond the Brain’s Picture of Reality

Jeff Carreira January 23, 2014 Philosophy 8 Comments

It is much more exciting to question the whole of reality than it is to question any number of its parts. That might be why there has been such a surge in popularity in the …

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The Expansion of Mind

Jeff Carreira January 8, 2014 Philosophy 1 Comment

In the 18th century Immanuel Kant articulated a magnificent vision of how the human mind keeps us contained within a single worldview. Kant realized that we don’t see the world as it is. Instead we …

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Immanuel KantSpeculative RealismThomas Metzinger

Even More About Radical Inclusivity

Jeff Carreira January 2, 2014 Philosophy 2 Comments

The realization of Radical Inclusivity is the recognition that you are already inside (although what inside means can shift with context and circumstance) and there is no way out. It is the ultimate endgame that …

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Radical Inclusivity

The Experience of Radical Inclusivity

Jeff Carreira December 29, 2013 Philosophy 4 Comments

The first time I was engulfed by the realization of Radical Inclusivity was during a 60-day meditation retreat. Under the guidance of my spiritual teacher I sat from morning until evening following the simple instruction, …

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Meditation

The Emancipation of Imagination

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2013 Philosophy 1 Comment

In 1817 the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described “the willing suspension of disbelief” as an act of “poetic faith” through which a reader’s accepts fanciful aspects of a fictional work. Without this willingness the …

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Dr. Timothy MortonRene DescartesSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Are you a Romantic? You are if…

Jeff Carreira December 9, 2013 Philosophy 1 Comment

In the late eighteenth century a literary and philosophical movement called Romanticism began. This movement was the emergence of a new consciousness in part spurred by the failings of the European Enlightenment. It lived in …

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Romanticism

The Holistic Evolution of Charles Sanders Peirce

Jeff Carreira December 1, 2013 Philosophy 2 Comments

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 …

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The Source of Creativity in the Universe

Jeff Carreira November 15, 2013 Philosophy Leave a Comment

The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce believed that the universe was evolving – the whole universe, not just the things in it. He believed that the universe itself, including the seemingly immutable laws of time, …

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Thinking About Thinking: Thinking is NOT something you do!

Jeff Carreira November 13, 2013 Thinking About Thinking 6 Comments

In the decade of the 1880’s two daringly original thinkers, working on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, both recognized that reality was built upon a foundation of pure experience. One was William James who …

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Romanticism and the Human Soul

Jeff Carreira October 29, 2013 Philosophy Leave a Comment

Most of us know Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the English Romantic poet and author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. We may not be aware that he was also an important English theologian who …

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Human SoulRalph Waldo EmersonRomanticismSamuel Taylor ColeridgeTranscendentalism

Intuition and Understanding: two ways of knowing

Jeff Carreira October 19, 2013 Philosophy Leave a Comment

In 1825 Samuel Taylor Coleridge published “Aids to Reflection” and put forth his answer to the question.  of whether we are stuff that got smart, or smarts that grew stuff, by proposing that there are actually two …

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Seeing through Sentences in your Head

Jeff Carreira October 17, 2013 Philosophy 4 Comments

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 …

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Are we stuff that got smart? Or smarts that grew stuff?

Jeff Carreira October 10, 2013 Philosophy 2 Comments

One of the most confounding philosophical questions is the one about who we are, and how we got here. Are we intelligent matter – stuff that got smart – or are we incarnate spirit – …

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Ralph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor Coleridge

How do we know what we think we know?

Jeff Carreira October 6, 2013 Philosophy 2 Comments

How do we know what we think we know? We think we know things, but do we really? What do we know, and more importantly how do we know that we know it? Think of …

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To thing or not to thing? That is the question.

Jeff Carreira October 3, 2013 Philosophy 1 Comment

One of the greatest human skills is the ability to thing. We are thinging beings. We thing all the time. We thing the natural world into pieces. We saw a tall plant and we defined …

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Goethe’s Method of Doing Science

Jeff Carreira June 14, 2013 Philosophy 10 Comments

Although Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is best know as a towering literary figure he was also a scientific genius. His method of doing science was in some ways diametrically opposed to the methods of many of …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

William James, The Stream of Consciousness and Freewill

Jeff Carreira March 21, 2013 Popular Posts 22 Comments

William James was trained as a medical doctor at Harvard University and became generally recognized as the first psychologist in America and his first and arguably most significant written work was “The Principles of Psychology” published …

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Reflections on the spiritual vision of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American Awakening

Evolutionary Spirituality, Non-Duality, and Free Thinking in the Tradition of American Philosophy

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The Miracle of an Open Mind

Reflections on the Philosophy of William James

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The Spiritual Implications of Quantum Physics

Reflections on the Nature of Science, Reality and Paradigm Shifts

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Paradigm Shifting

Guiding Evolution From The Inside Out

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The Soul of A New Self

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Radical Inclusivity

Expanding Our Minds Beyond Dualistic Thinking

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