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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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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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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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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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Thinking the Thoughts of the Universe: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira January 10, 2017 Human Freedom and Freewill, New Paradigm Thinking, Philosophical Inquiry 1 Comment

In the current paradigm of being human we are trained to think of ourselves as independent achievers. That means we imagine that we are isolated individual beings who run around with brains processing information that …

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Even Post-Election Philosophy is Not a Luxury

Jeff Carreira December 27, 2016 Human Freedom and Freewill 1 Comment

It is the nature of elections that the results always leave some of us deeply disappointment. The most recent US election and the campaign that led up to it has left many feeling frustrated, angry …

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The Myth of the Individual Achiever: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira December 13, 2016 Awakening, Human Freedom and Freewill, New Paradigm Thinking 1 Comment

The paradigm we’re embedded in could be called the Individual Achiever Paradigm. In it we feel like a separate individual that generates achievements by setting goals, creating plans, and realizing them through willful acts. We …

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The Freewill of a Creative System

Jeff Carreira July 13, 2009 Blog Posts, Human Freedom and Freewill, Philosophical Inquiry 12 Comments

I am amazed by all of the insightful comments on my last post. It seems that many of us are comfortable with the idea that perhaps freewill is not a characteristic of an individual, but …

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B. F. Skinner

The Evolution of Freedom in the Universe

Jeff Carreira June 10, 2009 Blog Posts, Human Freedom and Freewill 15 Comments

I am inspired by all of your thoughtful and provocative comments to my last post and captivated by this idea that what we experience as freewill is not actually a quality of a human being, …

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John Dewey

So what is so FREE about freewill anyway?

Jeff Carreira June 4, 2009 Blog Posts, Human Freedom and Freewill 9 Comments

Now that we have discussed more about continuity and spontaneity as fundamental aspect of the universe, and opened up the discussion about what Conscious Evolution actually is, it is time to update my thoughts about …

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Freewill and Human Bubbles

Jeff Carreira May 5, 2009 Blog Posts, Human Freedom and Freewill 14 Comments

When you begin to ask questions like, “Do human beings have free will?” as we have done in my last few posts, you enter into thorny philosophical territory. My understanding of Charles Sanders Peirce logic …

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Charles Sanders Peirce

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