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New Paradigm Circles of Emergence

Jeff Carreira September 7, 2016 New Paradigm Thinking 9 Comments

The first New Paradigm Circle of Emergence that inspired me was the circle of American Transcendentalists that gathered in the 1840’s and 50’s in and around Concord, Massachusetts. I have long been inspired by the …

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Awakening in the Age of the Meta-Sangha

Jeff Carreira June 3, 2016 New Paradigm Thinking 25 Comments

In the late 1980’s when I started seeking in earnest you could work with a number of different spiritual teachers. The Indian sage J Krishnamurti and the Tibetan master Trungpa Rinpoche had already died, but …

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Goethe’s Method of Doing Science

Jeff Carreira May 14, 2016 New Paradigm Thinking 8 Comments

Although Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is best know as a towering literary figure he was also a scientific genius. His method of doing science was in some ways diametrically opposed to the methods of many of …

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Everything Exists in Relationship

Jeff Carreira January 26, 2013 Blog Posts, New Paradigm Thinking 5 Comments

Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In fact, things do not exist at all. Relationships exist. There are no individual things. The existence of anything is always contingent upon …

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Everything Exists in Relationship

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2011 New Paradigm Thinking 9 Comments

Things do not exist unless they exist in relationship with something else. In fact, things do not exist at all. Relationships exist. There are no individual things. The existence of anything is always contingent upon …

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Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

What comes first, mind or matter?

Jeff Carreira June 16, 2011 New Paradigm Thinking 10 Comments

First there was mind – absolute intelligence, pure consciousness. From this mind came the world and the universe and all forms of living beings. This would be the position of an idealist and Samuel Taylor …

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“To Thing”: A New Verb

Jeff Carreira March 2, 2011 Blog Posts, New Paradigm Thinking 22 Comments

Thing (v). to thing, thinging.   1. To create an object by defining a boundary around some portion of reality separating it from everything else and then labeling that portion of reality with a name. One …

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Embedding Consciousness Back Into The World

Jeff Carreira February 24, 2011 Blog Posts, New Paradigm Thinking 16 Comments

It seems to me that one of the great philosophical projects of our age is the effort to re-embed human consciousness into nature. This would be the antidote to some negative ramifications of another great …

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Are We On the Outside of the Universe Looking In?

Jeff Carreira February 17, 2011 Blog Posts, New Paradigm Thinking 12 Comments

It might be that the representational model of mind is the source of the existential feelings of separation, isolation and alienation that are so common in our world. Let me explain, most of us would …

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Riding the Currents on the Ocean of Mind

Jeff Carreira January 9, 2010 New Paradigm Thinking 9 Comments

I can describe the beautiful image that built in my mind as I read John Dewey’s book “Experience and Nature” by describing a vision of reality as currents in the ocean of mind. Think of …

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