Spiritual Illuminations with Jeff Carreira

In this teaching given during a recent retreat, Jeff Carreira shares his thoughts about the role of spiritual practice in these times, and how we might move beyond the challenges circumstances humanity currently finds itself ... Read More

In this dialog singer songwriter and kirtan musician, David Newman speaks with Jeff Carreira about his inner relationship with his guru, – the late Neem Karoli Baba and how he went from law school, to ... Read More

In this lecture you will explore what it means to experience beyond the human perspective and why it is crucial to the future that we do.

In this lecture you will learn about the nature of Romantic Revolutions and explore the similarities between the English poets of the 18th Century, the Transcendentalists of the 19th Century, the hippies of the 1960’s and Hipsters of today. You will see that the original romantic movement is still alive and well even if it periodically goes underground for a time.

In this teaching given during a recent virtual retreat titled 'From Practice to Attainment' , Jeff Carreira reveals the difference between teaching to the path and teaching to fruition. He provides a taste of the fruition path of meditating as the truth of who we are and resting in awareness beyond everything else.

Spiritual Teacher and Non-Dual Psychotherapist Jeffrey Eisen talks with Jeff Carreira about spiritual evolution as a process that begins with coming home to non-dual awareness. ​All life ‘knows by Being’ (aperceptual consciousness), while the human brain has evolved to ‘know about life’ as well (perceptual consciousness). This evolution has layered itself upon our foundational ‘knowing by Being’ u...

In this teaching given during a recent virtual retreat titled 'From Practice to Attainment' , Jeff Carreira reveals the difference between teaching to the path and teaching to fruition. He provides a taste of the fruition path of meditating as the truth of who we are and resting in awareness beyond everything else.

Bonnitta Roy, founder of Alderlore Insight Center, associate editor & Integral Review Journal and program coordinator for the Masters in Consciousness Studies The Graduate Institute, talks with Jeff Carreira about Jeff's book 'The Soul of a New Self: Embracing the Future of Being Human' .

Chela Rhea Harper, professional musician, creativity coach and meditation teacher, talks with Jeff Carreira about creative flow and how she discovered the secret to letting go into our inherent creative genius. Along the way they ... Read More

In this teaching given during a 4 part awakening course, Jeff Carreira reveals how spiritual liberation radically changes your relationship to life. He shares how the spiritual liberation you’ve won plays a crucial role in the larger evolution of human consciousness and the transformation of life on this planet.

Mary Adams talks with Jeff Carreira about the time she spent with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in Mumbai, India in 1973.

In this teaching given during a recent retreat, Jeff Carreira introduces Ramana Maharshi and what the great sage taught about sleep during meditation. Jeff goes on to describe his own struggles with sleep in mediation. ... Read More

Bruce Sanguin, author of The Emerging Church: a model for change and a map for renewal and a United Church minister and a pioneer of evolutionary spirituality, talks with Jeff Carreira about Jeff’s book ‘The ... Read More

In this dharma talk given during a recent retreat Jeff Carreira speaks about the necessity of question the identity of being the mediator performing the practice. We habitually see ourselves as the self that meditates. ... Read More

John Baker, one of the editors who worked closely with Chögyam Trungpa in the writing of Trungpa’s spiritual masterpiece Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism talks openly and honestly with Jeff Carreira about his deep devotion to the spiritual path and his teacher.

In this experiential seminar, originally given live, Jeff Carreira speaks about Radical Inclusivity. Radical Inclusivity can be thought of as the discovery of an inside that has no outside. It is also a way of accessing and understanding the spiritual experience more often called non-duality. Non-Duality means literally not-two. It is the experience of Oneness, or what the American philosopher Cha...

John Walker, independent scholar, occultist and poet talks with Jeff Carreira about the science of spirit that was developed by the late 19th century occultist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner. As a graduate student Steiner was ... Read More

In this experiential seminar, originally given live, Jeff Carreira speaks about William James, Jeffrey Kripal and the history of paranormal experience. William James was the first president of the American Psychical Society who spent a great deal of time studying supernatural abilities. Mainstream American culture today tends to assume that paranormal experiences are fringe events experienced by s...

Dorothy Walters, author of Unmasking the Rose: A Record of a Kundalini Initiation talks with Jeff Carreira about the awakening power of Kundalini.

In this mind-bending philosophy talk, Jeff Carreira flips our most fundamental ideas about ourselves upside down. We are taught to imagine that we were born a somebody who was given a name. In this talk you will see that it just might be the case that your name is just a word that has been wrapped itself around a set of beliefs about being someone. In this talk you will see how the practice of med...

Jeffrey Kripal, author and professor of philosophy and religious thought at Rice University talks with Jeff Carreira about his ground breaking work in Religious Studies. Following in the tradition of William James, Kripal is looking for spiritual illumination at the edges of the main stream. Kripal recognizes that the status quo resists new insights and unusual experiences and keeps them from bein...

In this talk given during a teaching event in New York City, Jeff Carreira speaks about how conditioned we are to see ourselves as separate entities wedded to physical bodies. He then guides a thought experiment that calls our fundamental sense of self into question and opens up a vision of our true cosmic being.

Nora Bateson, award-winning filmmaker, writer, facilitator and educator, and President of the International Bateson Institute, talks with Jeff Carreira about her profound work aimed at supporting people into a new conception of reality and a new consciousness. Expanding on the work of her father the brilliant 20th Century philosopher Gregory Bateson, Nora is seeking to discover how human beings ca...