We start this stream by clarifying the idea of nonduality and answering some common criticisms of it. We go to explore the nature of life and spiritual surrender
How Luminous Absorption Can Change the World
As I see it, the experience of luminous absorption reveals our True Self and the True Nature of existence at the same time. We’ve been taught that we live in a reality of three-dimensional space …
Waking Up: The Path to Realization and Embodiment with Barrett Self (47mins)
A conversation with Barrett Self about the path to realization and embodiment.
Infinite Reality Beyond the Known (45mins)
Learn to rest your awareness between all thoughts and discover who you really are.
Being Content with Being Human (46mins)
Explore the fullness of our human self, our soul, and the oneness of life.
Nothing changes but everything is different (48mins)
This meditation and spiritual contemplation begins by simply asking us to relax and to not do anything at all. What we find when we do nothing, is that everything continues. All of the activity that …
Unleashing our Potential for Spiritual Creativity
As a spiritual teacher, what I teach is constantly evolving. As I continue to explore, learn, and grow, what I teach reflects my current interests and discoveries. For the past few years I’ve been fascinated …
Practicing The Art of Creative Illumination
How do you meditate? Close your eyes and surrender. ~ Rumi For a long time I have talked and written about how the practice of meditation occurs in two distinct stages, but until now I …
Spiritual Attunement and Collective Awakening
In the enlightenment tradition of Hinduism, the notion of transmission or shakti pat often plays a prominent role. Within that tradition, a teacher or guru is often seen as possessing access to awakening energy that …
Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Freedom, and Spiritual Illumination
Part 1: The Art of Conscious Contentment I teach a form of meditation that I call The Art of Conscious Contentment and that practice offers a powerful path to spiritual awakening. In this essay, you’ll …
The Art of Meditating without Meditating: Breaking the Habit of Isolation
I feel that the meditation I teach is perfect for beginners even though it’s often seen as an advanced practice. The reason I believe it’s perfect for beginners is because it takes us straight to …
We are Cosmic Beings
Today I want to share something with you. It’s the kind of thing that is true of so many of us, and yet so few of us feel free to say it. I came into …
Clearing a Path for Divinity (7mins)
In this short teaching Jeff speaks about the goal of spiritual life as clearing an inner passage way so that the intelligent and sensitive life-force energy of creation can pass though us into the world.
Living in Deep Trust
I think of myself as a teacher of meditation and mystical philosophy, but of course at least half of the things people ask of me are about how to live a better, more spiritual, more …
Living in Flow
Excerpted from: The Miracle of Self Realization: Reflections on the teachings of Ramana Maharshi by Jeff Carreira. ~ Ramana tells a story, in The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, about a boy who is fast …
Experiencing Transcendent Freedom in Meditation
As a meditation practitioner and teacher, I have experienced myself, and witnessed others experience, the miracle of radical liberation countless times. There are many forms of meditation designed for a variety of purposes. The form …
The Paradox of Power and Surrender
In my last essay, I explained that a powerful and positive sense of self is crucial on the path to awakening and it is equally important for the continued journey of conscious evolution after awakening. …
Personal Development, Spiritual Awakening and Conscious Evolution
The path of awakening is often talked about as a path of self transcendence, so what roll could work on the self play in that process? What is a self?
We Are Cosmic Beings
This video asks you to question why you are seeking for spiritual fulfillment in the first place? Do you really know why you feel so compelled to seek. I describe my own discovery of the …
The Hazy Sunshine of an Illuminated Mind
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious …