Our spontaneously arising experience of the present moment is a miraculous event that we are constantly in the middle of. In some of my older posts I have described the depth and majesty of all that is contained in our experience of now. Commonly we think of our experience by imagining that we take in […]
Category Archives: Expanding Mind
June
09
Why Does the World Exist?
posted by Jeff Carreira
We are here. That much seems clear. We can’t deny our own existence. Well actually great philosophers have denied our existence. What we can’t deny I suppose is that something exists. There is an experience of existence, of being, that is undeniably the foundation of everything. If nothing existed there would be nothing to contemplate […]
May
19
The Experience of Suspended Limitation
posted by Jeff Carreira
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 that for a minute. What if you really didn’t know what was possible? The moment of this realization was a […]
May
12
HOW CAN OUR CURRENT CONSCIOUSNESS INDUCE A NEW ONE?
posted by Jeff Carreira
In the book Radical Inclusivity I point to a new level of consciousness. The idea that we are in the midst of a shift in consciousness is not original and in fact is gaining popularity. One particularly accessible description of this shift can be found in Fritjof Capra’s book, The Turning Point. The specific question […]
May
05
Art and the Evolution of Consciousness
posted by Jeff Carreira
Did you know that American Avant-Garde painters, writers and musicians in the 1950’s were inspired by evolutionary philosophy? I just completed a weekend program with a group that I co-teach called The Evolutionary Collective and the connection between Art and Consciousness was central to our inquiry over the weekend. In the decades following World War […]
April
28
SURRENDER, KUNDALINI AND INNER SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE: PART 3
posted by Jeff Carreira
Once we feel ourselves to be the-one-who-is-experiencing we know who we are and the process of self-forgetting ceases. If we resist the temptation to focus on some familiar way of being we will lose all sense of who we are. We will be swept up in the freedom of existence, without any sense of being […]
April
21
SURRENDER, KUNDALINI AND INNER SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE: PART 2
posted by Jeff Carreira
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 […]
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 […]
