• About
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • FREE Resources
  • Contact
Image Image
  • Programs
  • Books
  • Calendar
  • Membership
Join
Menu
  • About
  • Programs
  • Calendar
  • Books
  • Podcast
  • FREE Resources
  • Blog
  • Contact
Sites
  • Emergence Education Press
  • The Mystery School for a New Paradigm
  • Members Circle Portal

The Holistic Evolution of Charles Sanders Peirce

Jeff Carreira December 1, 2013 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 1 Comment

The American Philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce did not see the universe as collection of separate but interconnected things that evolved together. He saw a continuous whole universe with three essential characteristics that co-emerge. All of …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeircePierre Teilhard de Chardin

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, …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

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 …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

Everything Exists in Relationship

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2011 Blog Posts, 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 …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceGeorge Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

Experience and Understanding

Jeff Carreira November 17, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 3 Comments

There are two kinds of knowing – experience and understanding – and the confusion between them is the cause of all sorts of trouble for any thinking person. Experience is the knowing of things. It …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonWilliam James

To be or not to be: What is Ontology?

Jeff Carreira September 2, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 8 Comments

What does it mean ‘to be’? When I say “I am…” or “It is…” what am I saying? What does it mean to exist – or to not exist, to be or not to be? …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceMartin Heidegger

Alfred North Whitehead: And the Three Components of Knowledge

Jeff Carreira July 28, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 4 Comments

This week I wanted to share a quote from the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead is the originator of what is commonly known as Process Theology. And many of his ideas follow closely in …

Read More
Alfred North WhiteheadCharles Sanders PeirceWilliam James

The Essence of Being First

Jeff Carreira July 7, 2011 Awakening, Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 6 Comments

What is the quality of being first? This was a question that Charles Sanders Peirce thought deeply about because he felt that the quality of being first, or ‘firstness’ as he called it, was an …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

Scientific Evidence for Indeterminism

Jeff Carreira June 23, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 10 Comments

The advantage of being a materialist is that so much of our experience seems to point to a material basis for reality. Idealists usually have to appeal to some inner knowing as the justification of …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

A Field of Pure Knowing

Jeff Carreira June 2, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 6 Comments

What is the human soul? Is it some phantom-like part of us or is it a living dimension of the universe from which all life flows? The later is what Samuel Taylor Coleridge taught and …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam James

Breaking the Bonds of Language

Jeff Carreira May 26, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 11 Comments

Have you ever tried to have an original thought – or worse – had a truly original thought that you tried to put into language? That is when you realize that you are trapped in …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam James

Vicious Intellectualism and the Reality of the Unknown

Jeff Carreira April 21, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 21 Comments

There are things that we know. And there are things that we know that we don’t know. And there are things that we don’t know that we don’t know. These last are the “unknown unknowns” …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceWilfred SellersWilliam James

Interpreting the Signs of Reality

Jeff Carreira April 7, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 4 Comments

The concept of signs is so common to us that we hardly think about it. (Of course many of the most profound ideas are disguised as common ones that we don’t need to think about.) …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

The Many Layers of Reality or “Is a Fire Truck Really a Fire Truck?”

Jeff Carreira March 31, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 6 Comments

Is a fire truck really a fire truck? Is a truck really a truck? Is anything really what it is? We assume that things really are what they appear to us to be. This assumption …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

“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 …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceWilfred Sellers

The Reality of the Immediately Present – William James and Rudolf Steiner

Jeff Carreira February 10, 2011 Blog Posts 20 Comments

Some things in reality force themselves upon us immediately. They appear spontaneously without provocation and they impress themselves upon our senses in ways that we cannot withstand. These things surely must be real. Direct sense …

Read More
Charles Sanders PeirceRudolf SteinerWilliam James

Do we ever Know Anything for Sure? – The Fallibalism of Charles Sanders Peirce

Jeff Carreira February 3, 2011 Blog Posts 23 Comments

When we say something is true, what we usually mean is that the words that we are using or the idea that we are holding in our head corresponds to some actual event or thing …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

Integral Emergence vs. Co-evolution

Jeff Carreira January 13, 2011 Blog Posts 25 Comments

  Integral Emergence is a term you might hear used to describe how multiple aspects of reality arise simultaneously. This idea is important to any understanding of Pragmatism; and it is also central to Ken …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

Nothing Exists Independently

Jeff Carreira January 6, 2011 Blog Posts 21 Comments

One of the foundational insights of Pragmatism is that reality only exists in relationship. Nothing that is absolutely independent is real. Absolute Oneness is identical with absolute nothingness. Any concept of oneness that exists can …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce’s Nonduality

Jeff Carreira October 14, 2010 Blog Posts 20 Comments

Here are some final thougts about my topic for the science and nonduality conference next week. If anyone who reads this blog happens to come to that event please introduce yourself to me. Peirce’s inquiry …

Read More
Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • →

Join my mailing list for the latest in retreats, workshops, courses & essays.

Website by sophie.designed

© 2018 The Aligned Center
Website by sophie.designed

e: jeff@jeffcarreira.com | © 2021 JeffCarreira.com

e: jeff@jeffcarreira.com
© 2021 JeffCarreira.com

Website by sophie.designed

  • Awakening
  • Creative Expression
  • Evolving Self
  • Human Freedom and Freewill
  • Interviews and Dialogs
  • Meditation
  • New Paradigm Thinking
  • Philosophical Inquiry
  • Spiritual Teachings & Guided Meditations (Audio)