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Cosmic Consciousness is not Just an Experience

Jeff Carreira January 27, 2023 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet says to Romeo as she implores him to renounce his family name so they can be together. After all, Romeo would still be himself …

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The Reality of Transformation

Jeff Carreira January 1, 2023 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

The inconvenient truth about transformation is that most often it involves hard, diligent work, over time, but if you are willing to do the work real, dramatic, and deep change is completely possible to achieve. …

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Meditation as a Spiritual Path

Jeff Carreira December 10, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

Meditation is always a spiritual practice, but for some of us it is our spiritual path. As a teacher of meditation, I find it useful to understand when meditation is someone’s path and when it …

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We Are Cosmic Beings

Jeff Carreira November 20, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ~ William James We have all heard about the importance of having a positive attitude when …

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Connecting with the Source of Existence

Jeff Carreira November 10, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin In mystical traditions around the world you find a common theme. They all …

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How to Experience Cosmic Consciousness

Jeff Carreira October 20, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

“Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.” The phrase above is often attributed to the spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti and what it implies is that spiritual enlightenment is not something you can …

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Spiritual Life Matters

Jeff Carreira October 7, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

An essay about spiritual life probably needs to start with at least a brief description of what the author means about this rather ambiguous phrase. When I speak about spiritual life, I’m speaking about whatever …

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Communication and the Reality of Relationship

Jeff Carreira September 6, 2022 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

There is a new world of possibility that we gain access to when we change how we understand relationships and communication. This shift in perspective illuminates the world differently so that we begin to see …

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J Brown Interviews Jeff Carreira for his podcast ‘J. Brown Yoga Talks’

Jeff Carreira August 30, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression Leave a Comment

Jeff Carreira talks with J about the process of awakening into deeper awareness of our spiritual existence.

I, Kosmos – Chapter One

Jeff Carreira July 23, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression Leave a Comment

The following is the first chapter from my latest novel, I, Kosmos, published by Emergence Education. ~ The best place to start explaining the next weird chapter of my wonderful and often bizarre spiritual life …

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What To Do When Your Mind Wanders in Meditation

Jeff Carreira July 16, 2022 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

QUESTION: What do we do when our minds wander during meditation? Should I keep bringing my attention back to the breath and reconnecting with what is happening now? ~ ANSWER: That can be a very …

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Towards Democracy Introduction

Jeff Carreira July 14, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression 1 Comment

The following introduction by Jeff Carreira is published in the recently released edition of Towards Democracy by Edward Carpenter, published by Emergence Education. ~ You have in your hand a spiritual gem, an extended cry …

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Are You Finished or Are You Still Trying?

Jeff Carreira July 8, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

When we meditate we often find ourselves working hard and doing our very best to follow the simple instruction of sitting and consciously choosing to be content with everything the way it is. It is …

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The Varieties of Spiritual Life

Jeff Carreira July 1, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

If you are reading this essay, I can only imagine that you feel drawn to live a spiritual life, and I would be willing to bet that you would agree with me when I say …

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Alignment without Conformity

Jeff Carreira June 21, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression Leave a Comment

One of the most essential things to understand about deep spiritual work is that it cannot be accomplished through conformity. There is a point earlier on during your spiritual journey when it is necessary to …

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How Do Spiritual Breakthroughs Happen?

Jeff Carreira June 14, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression Leave a Comment

Earlier this week I experienced a profound breakthrough into the reality of “involution and evolution” as it has been spoken about by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. I woke up on Tuesday morning in the …

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The Mystical Artist and the Soul’s Journey

Jeff Carreira April 1, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression Leave a Comment

The point I have been making in this series of essays is that the process of spiritual awakening is at least partially an artistic and creative process. We are both discovering new dimensions of reality …

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Initiating the Spiritual Magic of Betweenness

Jeff Carreira March 5, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Evolving Self Leave a Comment

You could say that creative illumination is a kind of spiritual magic, a word that still carries the blemish given to it during the Middle Ages when the Christian church in Europe discredited it as …

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The Gifts of a More Highly Developed Soul

Jeff Carreira February 17, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Evolving Self Leave a Comment

In order to practice creative illumination we must liberate ourselves from the limitations of our materialistic conditioning. We’ve been taught that we live in an infinite expanse of three dimensional space. This vast ocean of …

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Teaching and Meditation

The Individual and Collective Soul

Jeff Carreira February 11, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Evolving Self 1 Comment

In the first essay in this series I introduced the process of creative illumination and as I see it, this can best be understood as the soul’s journey to wholeness. I outlined the contours of …

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