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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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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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Inner Freedom and Creative Illumination

Jeff Carreira February 3, 2022 Awakening, Creative Expression, Evolving Self Leave a Comment

When I teach I always emphasize that there are two equally essential aspects of spiritual work – the attainment of inner freedom, and the art of creative illumination. On the spiritual path we must first …

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Teaching and Meditation

We Are Cosmic Beings

Jeff Carreira May 27, 2020 Awakening, Creative Expression, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

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 …

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Your Gift To Give

Jeff Carreira March 27, 2020 Awakening, Creative Expression, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

In this video I describe spiritual abundance as the state in which we perpetually recognize the inherent fullness of life. When we cultivate spiritual abundance we develop an inner tendency to notice all that is …

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Deep Meditation and The Passion of an Artist of Possibility

Jeff Carreira February 29, 2020 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

When your meditation becomes deep and steady what you find is that you flicker in and out of remembering that you are meditating. You will be meditating for a while, deliberately following the instructions, and then you will remember that you are meditating and realize that you had forgotten what you were doing for a few minutes.

Not the Dancer but the Dance You Are: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira January 17, 2017 Creative Expression, Evolving Self, Human Freedom and Freewill Leave a Comment

In the current paradigm we are compelled by things. We look at things, work with things, accumulate things, and love things. Things are material, i.e. they matter. Things are the stuff of life. We have …

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Freedom of Imagination

Jeff Carreira June 1, 2016 Creative Expression 3 Comments

In 1817 the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described “the willing suspension of disbelief” as an act of “poetic faith” through which a reader accepts fanciful aspects of a fictional work. Without this willingness the …

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Are you a Romantic? You are if…

Jeff Carreira December 9, 2013 Blog Posts, Creative Expression Leave a Comment

In the late eighteenth century a literary and philosophical movement called Romanticism began. This movement was the emergence of a new consciousness in part spurred by the failings of the European Enlightenment. It lived in …

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The Source of Creativity in the Universe

Jeff Carreira November 15, 2013 Blog Posts, Creative Expression Leave a Comment

The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce believed that the universe was evolving – the whole universe, not just the things in it. He believed that the universe itself, including the seemingly immutable laws of time, …

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Contact, Concept and Art

Jeff Carreira December 21, 2012 Blog Posts, Creative Expression 4 Comments

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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Art, Culture and Alfred North Whitehead

Jeff Carreira November 23, 2012 Creative Expression, Philosophical Inquiry 3 Comments

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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