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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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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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The Art of Wormhole Inquiry (33mins)

Jeff Carreira June 14, 2017 New Paradigm Thinking, Philosophical Inquiry, Spiritual Teachings & Guided Meditations (Audio) Leave a Comment

A wormhole inquiry is a philosophical hack designed to liberate us from some of our most foundational assumptions about reality. There are beliefs that we hold so deeply in our unconscious mind that questioning them …

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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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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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Life Without Truth: A Wormhole Inquiry

Jeff Carreira February 21, 2017 New Paradigm Thinking, Philosophical Inquiry Leave a Comment

What I call wormhole inquiries are a sort of philosophical hack that free us from strict adherence to our current belief system and propel us into the open-ended possibility field of the unknown. I see this as …

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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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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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Living in a Storybook Universe

Jeff Carreira January 3, 2017 New Paradigm Thinking, Philosophical Inquiry 1 Comment

Most of us reading this essay will be reading it from inside the paradigm of the modern Western world. That paradigm has often been seen as rooted in scientific materialism and sometimes been called the …

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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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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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Creating Together Spontaneously From Source

Jeff Carreira November 22, 2016 New Paradigm Thinking 2 Comments

What makes paradigm shifting so challenging for us is that a new paradigm cannot be built from inside the existing paradigm – and we all live inside the existing paradigm. We have experiences beyond the …

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From Individual Achievement to Circumstantial Emergence

Jeff Carreira October 27, 2016 New Paradigm Thinking 1 Comment

We are all born into a preexisting paradigm. A paradigm that consists of all of the unconscious assumptions we hold that tell us what is real and how reality works. One of the most foundational of …

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