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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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Dr. Timothy MortonRene DescartesSamuel Taylor Coleridge

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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Charles Sanders Peirce

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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William James

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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Art and the Evolution of Consciousness

Jeff Carreira November 12, 2012 Blog Posts, Creative Expression 6 Comments

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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Alfred North WhiteheadJohn DeweyLeo Tolstoy

From the Enlightenment to the Romantic Revolution

Jeff Carreira March 7, 2010 Blog Posts, Creative Expression 5 Comments

For a time the rationality of the Enlightenment seemed to hail the final triumph of human reason. Soon the laws that operated behind the universe would all be known and humakind would be able to …

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