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Freedom of Imagination

Jeff Carreira June 1, 2016 Creative Expression 3 Comments

In 1817 the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described “the willing suspension of disbelief” as an act of “poetic faith” through which a reader accepts fanciful aspects of a fictional work. Without this willingness the …

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Dr. Timothy MortonRene DescartesSamuel Taylor Coleridge
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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Evelyn UnderhillRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam James

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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Ralph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor Coleridge

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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Ralph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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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Ralph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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 …

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Charles Sanders PeirceRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor ColeridgeWilliam James

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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Ralph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor Coleridge

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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Immanuel KantRalph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor Coleridge

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