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The Heart of the Mystic

The Heart of the Mystic

Jeff Carreira March 18, 2014 Awakening 7 Comments

A mystic is one who sees the deeper reality that lies hidden beneath our ordinary experience of reality. The mystic looks deeply into the nature of things by letting go of conventional wisdom and allowing …

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Thinking is NOT something you do!

Jeff Carreira November 13, 2013 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 4 Comments

In the decade of the 1880’s two daringly original thinkers, working on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, both recognized that reality was built upon a foundation of pure experience. One was William James who …

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Romanticism and the Human Soul

Jeff Carreira October 29, 2013 Awakening, Blog Posts Leave a Comment

Most of us know Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the English Romantic poet and author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. We may not be aware that he was also an important English theologian who …

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Are we stuff that got smart? Or smarts that grew stuff?

Jeff Carreira October 10, 2013 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 2 Comments

One of the most confounding philosophical questions is the one about who we are, and how we got here. Are we intelligent matter – stuff that got smart – or are we incarnate spirit – …

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The Non-Dual Awakening of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jeff Carreira February 21, 2013 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 10 Comments

One of the themes that I intend to develop in this blog is the understanding of non-duality. Non-duality is a term that means literally – “not two.”  It is used in philosophy, but even more …

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The Philosophical Roots of Socialism and the Free Market Economy

Jeff Carreira September 21, 2012 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 4 Comments

It is common knowledge that among developed western countries the two leading socioeconomic systems are socialism and capitalism. The former is often associated more closely with European systems of governance and the latter with the …

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From Mysticism to We-Mysticism

Jeff Carreira July 12, 2012 Awakening, Blog Posts 7 Comments

Mysticism is most often associated with the lone spiritual adventurer who separates from the world in order to turn his or her gaze inward and unite with the divine.  Yet there is also another form …

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The Heart of the Mystic

Jeff Carreira June 29, 2012 Awakening, Blog Posts 8 Comments

A mystic is one who sees the deeper reality that lies hidden beneath our ordinary experience of reality. The mystic looks deeply into the nature of things by letting go of conventional wisdom and allowing …

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Evelyn UnderhillRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam 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 …

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The Soul Evolves

Jeff Carreira June 10, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 20 Comments

The human soul is not the procession of any single individual; it is the ground of awareness that is the essence of the entire human experience. It is a field of pure knowing. At least …

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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 …

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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 …

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Are We Intelligent Matter or Incarnate Spirit?

Jeff Carreira May 5, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 11 Comments

One of the most confounding philosophical questions involves our understanding of who we really are. Are we intelligent matter – stuff that got smart – or are we incarnate spirit – smarts that grew stuff …

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Evolutioanry Nonduality and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jeff Carreira September 23, 2010 Blog Posts 15 Comments

Evolutionary Nonduality, at least as it is taught by Andrew Cohen, is ultimately about recognizing that we are not separate from the entire process of cosmic evolution. We tend to relate to the idea of …

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evolution, Enlightenment and Reincarnation (Part 3)

Jeff Carreira July 8, 2010 Blog Posts 2 Comments

In Emerson’s new account of evolutionary spirituality the human soul is on a journey of its own creation – a journey from its original source through the process of manifestation to a perfected state of …

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evolution, Enlightenment and Reincarnation (Part 2)

Jeff Carreira July 5, 2010 Blog Posts 6 Comments

Emerson wondered how would it be possible to evolve to the perfected state in the span of only one lifetime given the weight and drag that Fate places on human development? How could a man …

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Evolution, Enlightenment and Reincarnation (Part 1)

Jeff Carreira June 29, 2010 Blog Posts 11 Comments

In 1860 Ralph Waldo Emerson published an essay called Fate in a collection called The Conduct of Life. This essay is written by a mature Emerson, a man who has worked and taught for nearly …

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Kant, Coleridge and the Power of Intuition

Jeff Carreira June 24, 2010 Blog Posts 11 Comments

My current presentation of the evolutionary ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a good place for a discussion about epistemology to fall in. How do we know what we know? is the question that epistemology …

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The Holistic Vision of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jeff Carreira June 2, 2010 Blog Posts 6 Comments

I  am sorry that I missed a post this week due to travel, but I am excited to share more from Ralph Waldo Emerson. As we understand more how Emerson’s thought developed we see the …

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The Conscious Evolution of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Part 3)

Jeff Carreira May 24, 2010 Blog Posts 9 Comments

Why is the universe evolving? That is a question that must necessarily arise if we are to even entertain the possibility that there might be any form of consciousness directing the process of evolution. If …

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