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Contact, Concept and Art

Jeff Carreira December 21, 2012Philosophy

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 …

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Creative FlowWilliam James

Art, Culture and Alfred North Whitehead

Jeff Carreira November 23, 2012Philosophy

The art scene in New York in the fifties was a living hotbed for a new way of thinking and new conceptions about reality. Avant-garde painters, writers, musicians and more, were infused with a new …

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Art and the Evolution of Consciousness

Jeff Carreira November 12, 2012Philosophy

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 …

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The Experience Train of William James: Part 2

Jeff Carreira April 5, 2010Philosophy

As James developed his philosophy of Radical Empiricism that philosophy rested on the idea that reality is made up of “pure experience.” It was a philosophy of subjectivity and with it he was able to …

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Creative FlowWilliam James

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