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William James and the Introduction of Buddhism into America (70mins)

Jeff Carreira December 12, 2017 Awakening, Philosophical Inquiry, Spiritual Teachings & Guided Meditations (Audio) Leave a Comment

This teaching introduces what I see as the two step process of the path to awakening. I sometimes refer to these two aspects of the path as first and second surrender, and sometimes as spiritual freedom and spiritual illumination.

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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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William James, The Stream of Consciousness and Freewill

Jeff Carreira March 21, 2013 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 12 Comments

William James was trained as a medical doctor at Harvard University and became generally recognized as the first psychologist in America and his first and arguably most significant written work was “The Principles of Psychology” published …

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William James

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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Contact, Concept and Art

Jeff Carreira December 21, 2012 Blog Posts, Creative Expression 4 Comments

We live in a reality constructed of contact and concept. The world reveals itself to us in a stream of sensation. We see colors, shapes, lines, shades of light and dark. We hear sounds shrill …

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William James

Meditate into Deep Trust

Jeff Carreira November 30, 2012 Blog Posts, Meditation 6 Comments

Many of my most profound spiritual awakenings have come to me through the practice of meditation. And although I haven’t written about that topic on this blog, I do see it as a spiritual discipline …

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William James

The Trouble with Worldviews

Jeff Carreira September 13, 2012 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 8 Comments

I have been thinking about how challenging philosophical discussion can be and I think that part of that difficulty comes about when we are not discussing ideas within a single worldview, but are actually clashing …

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William James

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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Ralph Waldo EmersonWilliam James

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

Pluralism and Relativism

Jeff Carreira June 14, 2012 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 5 Comments

There are two other terms that many of us have heard which are good to look at more closely, because they are often misused – or only used partially for what they are. The terms are pluralism and …

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William James

Are we just Thinking Things in a World?

Jeff Carreira April 12, 2012 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 6 Comments

What do we really know about the relationship between the world and our experience of it? That is an important question and there are at least three things that we can be sure of. We …

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William James

Cartesian Dualism and Brains In Vats

Jeff Carreira April 6, 2012 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 16 Comments

If you could put your brain in a nutrient bath so that it could keep on functioning outside of your body what would it (or would it still be you) experience? Would it still have …

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The Ego Tunnel and the Nature of Reality

Jeff Carreira March 29, 2012 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 6 Comments

Thomas Metzinger’s new book The Ego Tunnel weaves research in out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, phantom limbs and other extraordinary human occurrences with leading edge neuroscience to create a convincing picture of how neural activity constantly …

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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

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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Are Relationships Real Things?

Jeff Carreira November 10, 2011 Blog Posts, Philosophical Inquiry 6 Comments

Our sense of reality is dominated by things. Things feel real to us. We live in a universe that we experience as empty space filled with things. And some things have relationships between them. But …

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William James

Into The Human Flow

Jeff Carreira September 29, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 3 Comments

I am currently completely captivated by the image of a Human Flow. The American Pragmatist philosophers developed a view of humanity as a constant flow of activity and society was a flow of flows. There …

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Mead, Mind and World

Jeff Carreira September 16, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 5 Comments

George Herbert Mead is the fourth major figure in Classical American Pragmatism. Mead studied philosophy at Harvard while William James chaired the department. He taught with John Dewey at the University of Michigan before they …

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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 …

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