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The Paradox of Power and Surrender

Jeff Carreira August 23, 2020 Awakening, Evolving Self Leave a Comment

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. …

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Personal Development, Spiritual Awakening and Conscious Evolution

Jeff Carreira August 10, 2020 Awakening, Evolving Self Leave a Comment

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?

The Mythology We Live In

Jeff Carreira September 15, 2018 Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

“Nothing is more practical than a good theory.” — Ludwig Boltzman, physicist and pioneer of thermodynamics. When we look at ancient cultures it’s easy for us to recognize the mythical nature of the stories they …

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You Don’t Need a Spiritual Experience to Wake Up

Jeff Carreira August 8, 2017 Evolving Self, Meditation, New Paradigm Thinking 1 Comment

How many people are chasing after spiritual experiences? How many meditators are sitting hour after hour hoping to have their minds’ blown? How many people go to see gurus and teachers in the hopes of …

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How the Self Evolves

Jeff Carreira July 25, 2017 Evolving Self, Human Freedom and Freewill Leave a Comment

The core of what I teach is the conviction that the shift in paradigm that so many of us recognize is needed, requires a transformation in the human sense of self. The practice of wormhole …

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Being an Artist of Possibility

Jeff Carreira July 18, 2017 Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking 3 Comments

I’ve devoted my life single pointedly to spiritual awakening for twenty five years. Twenty of those years were spent living in a focused and intense practice community. And over the last ten years I have …

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From Non-Conceptual Awareness to the Freedom of Spontaneous Being

Jeff Carreira June 13, 2017 Evolving Self, Human Freedom and Freewill, Meditation, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

I just got back from a week-long retreat working again with Jody Mountain to deepen my grasp of the practice and principles of the Hawaiian massage tradition of Ancient Lomi Lomi. Looking back on the …

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How Consciousness Became Identified with Being You: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira June 6, 2017 Evolving Self, Human Freedom and Freewill, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

Now let’s take what we have been discussing so far and put it all this together into a model of identification that will help us visualize what spiritual awakening means in relationship to the possibility …

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Catching Up to Quantum Physics: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira May 30, 2017 Evolving Self, Human Freedom and Freewill, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

We live in an extremely materialistic age and we are all much more materialistic than we might imagine. And when I say materialistic I don’t mean in the sense that we like to buy nice …

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Beyond Our Materialistic Assumptions: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira May 16, 2017 Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking 1 Comment

My work is rooted in the conviction that reality can change. And I don’t just mean that aspects of reality can change. We all already know that. I mean that reality itself can change. This …

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The Sun Is Always Shining: A New Model for Awakening…

Jeff Carreira April 11, 2017 Awakening, Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking 1 Comment

A version of this article was first published on the Opening to the Infinite Blog Those of us who sincerely seek for spiritual liberation and awakening are most likely hoping to have a spiritual experience …

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Awakening Beyond Time: An Essay About the Magic of Meditation

Jeff Carreira March 28, 2017 Evolving Self, Meditation 2 Comments

Do you believe in magic? I do. There is a magic to the practice of meditation that many practitioners never discover because we only find it when we eliminate time from the equation. My teaching …

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Transitional Beings and the Space of Betweenness

Jeff Carreira March 7, 2017 Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking 1 Comment

Our perception is filtered by the current paradigm so we don’t see reality as it is, we see reality as the paradigm we live inside of allows us to see it. Our perceptions are filtered, …

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The Delicate Art of Doing Absolutely Nothing

Jeff Carreira February 28, 2017 Evolving Self, Human Freedom and Freewill, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

The first time I was engulfed by the realization of Radical Inclusivity was during a sixty-day meditation retreat under the guidance of my spiritual teacher. As I sat from morning until evening following the simple …

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Does Reality Exist Before You Perceive It? A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira February 14, 2017 Evolving Self, Human Freedom and Freewill, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

A paradigm is a set of assumptions that shape how we experience reality. We live inside these assumptions and experience reality only in the way they allow. One of the most foundational assumptions that we …

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Transcending Existential Limitation: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira February 7, 2017 Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

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 …

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The Reality of Reality: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira January 24, 2017 Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking, Philosophical Inquiry 1 Comment

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. – Alfred North Whitehead In the current paradigm there is a strong belief that there is only one reality. We hold as …

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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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More than Human: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira December 20, 2016 Evolving Self, Philosophical Inquiry Leave a Comment

We live in a conceptual world. That means that we perceive concepts. For example, I am sitting in a coffee shop writing. As I look around I see tables and chairs, coffee cups and croissants, …

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What if No One is Having the Experience You Think You’re Having?

Jeff Carreira December 6, 2016 Evolving Self, New Paradigm Thinking 1 Comment

One of the most foundational assumptions of the paradigm that currently shapes our experience is the assumption of the division between subject and object. In modern western philosophy this split between perceiver and perceived was …

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