Spiritual Illuminations with Jeff Carreira

In this episode I speak with Pamela Downes, founder of the Spirit Calling online community, which supports people as they move through spiritual awakening. Pamela is a creative intuitive and trance channeler who helps individuals navigate the awakening process and channels messages from what she calls the Great Council of Light. In this conversation, we explore the unfolding of the soul and the mo...

In this profound and wide-ranging conversation, Jeff Carreira speaks with Acharya Shunya, a revered teacher of Vedic wisdom and the first female lineage-holder in her 2,000-year-old spiritual tradition. Together, they explore the living transmission of Advaita Vedanta, the role of Bhakti and karma yoga in contemporary life, and the soul’s long arc toward divine union. Acharya Shunya shares the dep...

In this interview, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati shares the extraordinary story of her transformation from a Stanford-trained academic to a revered spiritual teacher living on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh. With disarming honesty and clarity, she recounts the moment of divine awakening that changed the course of her life, and reflects on the spiritual teachings and practices that continue to gu...

In this luminous dialogue, Jac O’Keeffe shares the powerful story of her spiritual awakening and the decades of inner work that followed. With candor, humor, and unflinching insight, she describes the moment divine love flooded her being, the guidance she received, and how that awakening transformed her life. But the heart of this conversation lies in what comes after awakening—how we integrate, e...

Jeffrey Kripal explores how extraordinary experiences—mystical, paranormal, or anomalous—require new interpretive frameworks beyond traditional science and religion. He proposes “thinking-with” experiencers to co-create meaningful narratives that make space for paradox and subjectivity. With Jeff Carreira, he discusses dual aspect monism, ontological shock, and the role of narrative in transformin...

Tarot reader Julia Eve reflects on her intuitive practice in light of the podcast The Telepathy Tapes, finding deep resonance between her symbolic work and the telepathic abilities of autistic children. She and Jeff Carreira explore the imaginal realm as a space where symbolic wisdom and mystical knowing arise. Julia emphasizes that tarot serves as both a map and a tool for spiritual development,...

Shelli Renée Joye shares her lifetime journey weaving mysticism, science, and consciousness into a coherent framework she calls “tantric psychophysics.” Drawing from electrical engineering, Eastern traditions, and modern quantum theory, she discusses collective consciousnesses or “psychospheres,” and the role of human beings as agents within a larger cosmic network. She adv...

When we decided this month’s issue of The Artist of Possibility Magazine would be focused on Ecology, Nature, and Spirituality , I immediately wanted to speak with Timothy Morton. Timothy is one of my favorite ecological thinkers, and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. When I read Timothy Morton’s book Ecology Without Nature , I gained a deeper understanding of how t...

When we decided this month’s issue of The Artist of Possibility Magazine would be focused on Ecology, Nature, and Spirituality , I immediately wanted to speak with Nora Bateson. Nora Bateson is one of my favorite ecological thinkers, is the president of the International Bateson Institute, and I knew she would have important things to say. In this interview Nora explains the current thinking...

It was a pleasure to speak with Christopher J. Miller about his understanding of what it means to be a spiritual artist. Chris is an artist, author, teacher, and produces The Spiritual Artist Podcast where he shares stories of enlightenment and growth in conversations with today’s spiritual artists and thought leaders. It became quickly clear to me that Chris and I hold very similar views about ar...

In this interview I spoke with Aterah Nusrat about her research aimed at deepening her understanding of the relationship between spirituality and health and well-being, with planetary health and well-being. Nusrat is clear that until we shift into a mindset that recognizes our true unity with the natural world we will not become the true stewards of life on Earth that we need to be. Subscribe to T...

In this interview I had the pleasure to speak with my dear friend Mary Adams about her involvement with The Extinction Rebellion and how she sees her current work as an activist as a natural extension of her dedicated spiritual life. Subscribe to The Artist of Possibility Magazine w: emergenceeducation.com/the-artist-of-possibility

In this workshop I focus on one of the key themes in my new book, Transdimensional Spirituality: Cultivating Mystical Vision and Illuminating the Soul. I explore the spiritual path of the Earthbound self, from its earliest spiritual yearnings to the attainment of luminous absorption with source consciousness. During this workshop you receive instructions for the practice of conscious contentment a...

Athena Laz is a spiritual mentor, lucid dream teacher and psychologist. I recently discovered her books The Alchemy of Your Dreams and The Deliberate Dreamers Journal. What she shares in them, and perhaps even more the way she shares, really caught my attention. Speaking with Athena it became even more clear that her orientation and spiritual history were a perfect fit for our discussion on the aw...

Dr. Lawrence Edwards has taught meditation for over 40 years and is the founder of the Anam Cara Meditation Foundation. I was very happy to have this conversation with him to discuss enlightenment and the path of kundalini awakening. He is a teacher that I have known about and admired for some years and his knowledge of multiple spiritual traditions as well as the clarity and simplicity of his art...

Jeff Carreira speaks with spiritual teacher EJ Gold about the nature of spiritual work and the function that spiritual schools play in facilitating individual and collective awakening. As the conversation unfolds Jeff shares about how his own spiritual has been influenced by EJ’s spiritual teachings and especially as contained in the books The Human Biological Machine , Life in the Labyrinth and T...

Jeff Carreira speaks with author, Phil Moore about The Future of Children Rewirement Training. By the end of the 3-day live virtual training you will have an expanded toolbox of ideas and initiatives that you can apply in your classroom, family or community immediately, which will provide the life skills and preparation for these children to confidently & skillfully navigate the world of the...

Spiritual growth is often thought of in terms of awakening to our true nature and divine source of our being, but spiritual growth is more than just awakening to the truth of who we are. Awakening reveals the inner source of our being and initiates our start of the path of spiritual growth. Our divine source is said to be whole and complete already, but that source flows into the world through us...

In this dialog Jeff Carreira speaks with award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator Nora Bateson about how we as human beings engage together in community and the underlying dynamics that make them healthy. You will see how a community is a mutual learning environment and discover why our overly-individualistic cultural tendencies make it difficult for us to find the sense of community that we c...

In this dialog I speak with Hans Höhener who devoted a great deal of his life to studying and translating works by and about the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The discussion begins with an account of the path through spiritual literature that brought Hans to encounter Sri Aurobindo through the writing of one of the great sage’s disciples Satprem. As the conversation continues we disc...

In this dialog Jeff Carreira speaks with Dr. Erin Prophet, the daughter of two famous spiritual leaders, Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Her father started the group as The Summit Lighthouse in 1958. After his death in 1973, Erin’s mother became the spiritual leader of the group, which has also been known as Church Universal and Triumphant (founded 1974). In the late 1980’s Elizabeth began predi...

Mary Adams talks further with Jeff Carreira about the time she spent with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Mumbai, India in 1973. In this conversation we hear about what drove her to leave Australia and head to India in search of enlightenment, why she traveled across the country to meet a little-known spiritual teacher, and how she came to spend nearly every day for weeks sitting and walking with one...

This conversation offers a fascinating exploration of the miraculous potential and dramatic dangers of the guru/disciple relationship and intensive spiritual practice. By examining the extraordinary life choices of Tim Dyson you will see what draws people to engage in extreme forms of spiritual practice, what can happen when it goes well, what happens when it goes wrong, and what we can learn from...

The Gift of Spiritual Abundance: Five Principles for Being Happy and Fulfilled Right Now by Jeff Carreira reveals five principles that can bring you immediate happiness and fulfillment. You will learn how to shift your fundamental relationship to life from one that assumes lack, to one that recognizes fullness. If you apply the simple yet profound principles in this book, they will radically trans...

The Gift of Spiritual Abundance: Five Principles for Being Happy and Fulfilled Right Now by Jeff Carreira reveals five principles that can bring you immediate happiness and fulfillment. You will learn how to shift your fundamental relationship to life from one that assumes lack, to one that recognizes fullness. If you apply the simple yet profound principles in this book, they will radically trans...