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This Is It: Staying on the Inside of Life

Jeff CarreiraOctober 12, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts4 Comments

How much time do we spend preparing for a moment other than the one we are in? How many hours are passed in critique of what we are doing rather than doing it? These are … Read More

The Dark Night of the Soul – An Evolutionary Reinterpretation

Jeff CarreiraSeptember 6, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts12 Comments

Saint John of the Cross was a sixteenth century Spanish monk who famously conceived of ‘the dark night of the soul.’ The phrase has come into common usage generally to mean any time of deep … Read More

Empirical Truth and Revealed Truth

Jeff CarreiraAugust 3, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts16 Comments

I propose that philosophy in its most general sense can be understood as “The human endeavor to understand the nature and functioning of reality.” Human beings are thinking animals that use ideas to guide action. … Read More

Nature Mystics and Scientific Progressives

Jeff CarreiraJuly 27, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts3 Comments

The European Enlightenment produced two responses; Scientific Rationalism and Romanticism. The Scientific Rationalism represented in the science of Sir Isaac Newton and the philosophy of John Locke. Romanticism produced the writing of Goethe in Germany … Read More

The Language of We-Mysticism

Jeff CarreiraJuly 19, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts4 Comments

As we move from the mysticism of the individual to a We-Mysticism that is shared between us our use of language becomes critical. Language is the medium of exchange through which we attune human behavior … Read More

From Mysticism to We-Mysticism

Jeff CarreiraJuly 12, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts7 Comments

Mysticism is most often associated with the lone spiritual adventurer who separates from the world in order to turn his or her gaze inward and unite with the divine.  Yet there is also another form … Read More

The Doorway to Mystical Experience

Jeff CarreiraJuly 5, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts8 Comments

The Mystic knows that the key to entering into mystical realms of experience is the ability to let go of the familiar. Our ordinary and familiar perception of reality is exactly what we must learn … Read More

The Heart of the Mystic

Jeff CarreiraJune 29, 2012Awakening, Blog Posts8 Comments

A mystic is one who sees the deeper reality that lies hidden beneath our ordinary experience of reality. The mystic looks deeply into the nature of things by letting go of conventional wisdom and allowing … Read More

Nothingness and Firstness

Jeff CarreiraAugust 20, 2011Awakening, Blog Posts3 Comments

I am currently on retreat inItaly with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and he spoke about something yesterday that immediately made me think of the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. On this retreat we are all … Read More

The Essence of Being First

Jeff CarreiraJuly 7, 2011Awakening, Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry6 Comments

What is the quality of being first? This was a question that Charles Sanders Peirce thought deeply about because he felt that the quality of being first, or ‘firstness’ as he called it, was an … Read More

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