e-Ternity: The Story of My Life

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The novel e-Ternity is about a mysterious app that appears suddenly on the main character’s phone. His quest to figure out what the app is and what it does begins an adventure that leads him into a bizarre new world and ultimately back to his old spiritual teacher.

e-Ternity is the first novel of what I plan to become an e-Ternity Series of novels. And I’m writing that series for a very specific reason. For twenty years, I lived in a spiritual practice community led by an American spiritual teacher. I became a prominent member of the community and eventually my teacher’s personal assistant for twelve of those years.

Those twenty years were awesome and awful in equal measure. So much intense spiritual exploration was done, often under bizarre circumstances. Sometimes the results were miraculous and enlightening, and sometimes harmful and devastating.

In the novel e-Ternity, I begin to share some of my experiences during those twenty years and I envision the continuing series of novels to be an opportunity to share more of what I experienced. I can’t imagine any other way to share my story except by embedding it in fantastical fiction.

On the one hand the use of fiction as a medium, leaves it ambiguous which parts are drawn from true stories and which are entirely made up. This affords some anonymity for me and others who were involved. In addition, the bizarre fictitious background of the story actually creates an otherworldly quality that manages to capture my experience better than would be possible in a straightforward memoir.

Writing a series of novels gives me the chance to slowly unfold the complexity of inspiration and insanity that I experienced. It is an important story because it reveals a great deal about the human condition, and too often I feel that stories like this are told in ways that cannot capture the true complexity of being part of, what by every appearance was a spiritual cult.

Writing the first novel was both fun and cathartic for me.

Jeff Carreira
Jeff Carreira is an author, mystical philosopher, artist and meditation teacher. Thirty years ago he dedicated himself entirely to the focused pursuit of spiritual awakening. He began teaching meditation and awakening fifteen years ago, and today supports people from around the world to share the fruits and blessings of their own spiritual path. He is aware that many people today have established their own deep connection to the spiritual source of life and the unlimited creative potential it holds. He calls these people Artists of Possibility because they have so much to share with the world. He remains completely committed to teaching meditation and awakening, and in addition has dedicated himself to helping others gather their own tribe and share their own deepest realization. He wants to support you to create a platform to share from. That means deepening your awakening, learning to articulate it effectively, and setting up the means to reach people all over the world.
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