Eileen DiFranco
Eileen DiFranco
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How to Keep Your Parish Alive
Eileen McCafferty DiFranco, M.A. Ed., M.Div. is an ordained Roman Catholic Womanpriest and the co-pastor of the Community of Saint Mary Magdalene, an intentional Eucharistic community located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a long time activist who has written about and lectured on women’s rights in the Catholic Church for twenty years.
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The Mystery School

An online community of inspired individuals dedicated to spiritual transformation and mutual evolution

Ongoing Membership

with Jeff Carreira

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The Battle of Science and Spirituality in the Western World

Discover the scientist and romantic within

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023

7:30pm to 9:00pm US Eastern time.

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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$350

Self Forgetting and Soul Development [2023]

A 4-Day Silent Virtual Meditation Retreat

Thursday, June 8th - Sunday, June 11th, 2023

10:00am - 6:00pm US Eastern Time

with Jeff Carreira

  • member discount
  • paid
  • registration open
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Navigating Spiritual Work

Part of Year of Transformation Workshops Series

Sunday, June 18th, 2023

11:00am - 12:30pm US Eastern time.

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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Year of Transformation Workshops

Actively transform throughout the year and live your full potential.

June 18th, Sept. 3rd, Nov. 5th

11:00am - 12:30pm US Eastern time.

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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$250

Meditation and Inner Freedom 30-Day

A Spiritual Attunement Intensive for Attaining Spiritual Liberation

Saturday, July 15th - Sunday, August 13th, 2023

11:30am - 12:30pm US Eastern time

with Jeff Carreira

  • member discount
  • paid
  • registration open
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$1800 - $4000 pp

Awaken from the Ordinary, Live in the Extraordinary

A 7-Day Paradigm Shifting Retreat

August 21st - 27th, 2023

4:00pm Monday 21st - 12:00pm Sunday 27th

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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$2000 - $3200 pp

The Passionate Pursuit of Inner Freedom (Portugal)

A 7-Day Silent Meditation and Awakening Retreat

October 2nd - 8th, 2023

4:00pm Monday 2nd - 12:00pm Sunday 8th, 2023

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$2000 - $3600 pp

Illuminating Higher Dimensions of Reality (Portugal)

A 7-Day Awakening Retreat

October 11th - 17th, 2023

4:00pm Wednesday 11th - 12:00pm Tuesday 17th

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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Elevating Your Consciousness

Part of Year of Transformation Workshops Series

Sunday, May 7th, 2023

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with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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Evolution, Intuition and Reincarnation in the Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awakening to Your True Self

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023

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with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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Embracing Spiritual Transformation

Part of Year of Transformation Workshops Series

Sunday, March 5th, 2023

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with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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Evelyn Underhill and Mystical Expression

Exploring the remarkable essay 'The Mystic as Creative Artist'

Tuesday, April 4th, 2023

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with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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$540

The Path of Cosmic Consciousness [2023]

A Six Week Journey into Higher Dimensions of Being

Saturday, April 1st - Saturday, May 13th, 2023

Six Weeks

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$30 - $50

The Art of Spiritual Transformation

An Experiential Workshop

March 12th, 2023

12:00pm - 3:00pm US Eastern time

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$225 - $900

Spiritual Mentoring

Create a life in awakened awareness

By Appointment

60min Sessions

with Jeff Carreira

  • sessions
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$150 pp

Inner Freedom and Universal Awareness (Virtual)

A 7-Day Virtual Meditation Retreat

Monday, February 6th - Sunday, February 12th, 2023

7 x 60min Teachings
5 x 30min Guided Visualisations

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$2000 - $3200 pp

Inner Freedom and Universal Awareness (Brazil)

A 7-Day Silent Meditation and Awakening Retreat

February 5th - 11th, 2023

4:00pm Sunday 5th - 1:00pm Saturday 11th, 2023

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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Free

The Three Stages of Spiritual Transformation

A Free Seminar

Sunday, January 8th, 2023

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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Spiritual Intentions for 2023

A Guided Practice

Sunday, January 1st, 2023

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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$150

Entering the Magic and Mystery of Now (Virtual)

A 7-Day Silent Virtual Meditation Retreat

Tuesday 13th - Monday 19th December, 2022

7 x 60min Teachings

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$2200

Entering the Magic and Mystery of Now

A 7-Day Silent Meditation and Awakening Retreat

December 12th - December 18th, 2022

4:00pm Monday 12th - 1:00pm Sunday 18th

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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Free

The Path of Cosmic Consciousness

Book Launch

Sunday, December 4th, 2022

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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$350

Resting in Cosmic Consciousness

A 4-Day Silent Virtual Meditation Retreat

Thursday, November 17th - Sunday, November 20th, 2022

10:00am - 6:00pm US Eastern Time

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$99

Discover the Magic of Meditation

A daylong retreat resting effortlessly in deep calm and abiding peace

Sunday, October 9th, 2022

10:00am - 4:00pm

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$300

Miracle of Meditation Private Oracle Readings

Navigate through life transitions confidently and smoothly.

By Appointment

90min Sessions

with Jeff Carreira

  • sessions
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The Miracle of Meditation Oracle Session

Explore the intricacies of meditation and awakening through divination cards

Thursday, September 29th

Recordings Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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Shifting Identity to Transform Spiritual Practice

Explore how a new and more powerful identity can be authentically embraced

Sunday, September 18th, 2022

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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Exploring the Mystery of Collective Awakening

Experience our field of shared consciousness, and discover how to uplift the field for everyone

Saturday, August 27th, 2022

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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$250

The Miracle of Meditation 30-Day

A Spiritual Attunement Intensive for Liberating Awareness and Discovering Your True Self

Saturday, July 16th - Sunday, August 14th, 2022

11:30am - 12:30pm US Eastern time

with Jeff Carreira

  • member discount
  • registration closed
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Three Profound Shifts in Consciousness

Exploring the nature of shifts in consciousness and how they happen

Saturday, July 2nd, 2022

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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Awakening in Multiple Dimensions

Exploring the Mind Altering Power of Fiction

Saturday, June 4th, 2022

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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$300

No Place But Home

Four Day Silent Virtual Meditation Retreat

Thursday, May 19th - Sunday, May 22nd 2022

10:00am - 6:00pm US Eastern Time

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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Exploring a New Way of Thinking

The ideas and luminaries in the Reflections Series

Sunday, April 24th, 2022

Recording Available

with Jeff Carreira

  • recording available
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$1200

Mastermind Weekend

Share Your Wisdom through Online Programming

Saturday, October 22nd and Sunday, October 23rd, 2022

11:00am - 6:00pm US Eastern Time

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration closed
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$119

The Miracle of Meditation 60-Day Program

Take a powerful journey to the depths of meditative awareness

Self-Paced

60-Days

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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$119

The Art of Conscious Contentment

An Initiation in The Practice of No Problem

Self-Paced

Nine Sessions

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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Secrets of Profound Meditation

Six Spiritual Insights That Will Transform Your Life

Self-Paced

Six Sessions

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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Foundations of a New Paradigm

A six part program designed to shift the way you experience everything.

Self-Paced

Six Sessions

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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Life Without Fear

A free resource package that will help you find calm through the turbulence of life.

Self-Paced

Three Items

with Jeff Carreira

  • registration open
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Sudden Shifts on the Path with Tiasta Maaheqwur

Tiasta Maaheqwur (formally Tara Cuskley) speaks about her discovery of the Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) Philosophy and Spirituality preserved by the

Jeff Carreira

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Emotional Clarity: The Key to Conscious Communication

Have you ever wondered how it is possible to deceive yourself? Sometimes when we’re challenged and under pressure we find

Jeff Carreira

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I, Kosmos: A Novel. Chapter Two

Jeff Carreira writes transdimensional fiction. His novels use the powerful medium of story to illuminate the mysterious ways in which

Jeff Carreira

  • kosmos
  • transdimensional fiction
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I, Kosmos: A Novel. Chapter One

Jeff Carreira writes transdimensional fiction. His novels use the powerful medium of story to illuminate the mysterious ways in which

Jeff Carreira

  • kosmos
  • transdimensional fiction
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The Gift of Spiritual Abundance Part Two

The Gift of Spiritual Abundance: Five Principles for Being Happy and Fulfilled Right Now reveals five principles that can bring

Jeff Carreira

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The Gift of Spiritual Abundance Part One

The Gift of Spiritual Abundance: Five Principles for Being Happy and Fulfilled Right Now reveals five principles that can bring

Jeff Carreira

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H. P. Lovecraft: My Second Spiritual Teacher

In this audio I read my introduction to Seven Stories by H. P. Lovecraft; Real Dreaming and Cosmic Awareness. You

Jeff Carreira

  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • transdimensional fiction
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Exploring the Nature of Transdimensional Fiction: Stories and the Transition into a New Self

For the past twenty years, I’ve been teaching the practice of meditation and guiding people into the experience of spiritual

Jeff Carreira

  • Evelyn Underhill
  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • Jeffrey J. Kripal
  • Philip K. Dick
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Transdimensional Awakening – The Very First Page

This morning I started writing the second novel in the Transdimensional Series, called Transdimensional Awakening. I am very excited about

Jeff Carreira

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Dreamed Awake – Lucid Dreaming, Tulpas and Mystical Wisdom

The novel Dreamed Awake starts with two characters who are heroes of mine. One is the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa,

Jeff Carreira

  • Fernando Pessoa
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e-Ternity: The Story of My Life

The novel e-Ternity is about a mysterious app that appears suddenly on the main character’s phone. His quest to figure

Jeff Carreira

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Your Gift To Give

In this video Jeff Carreira describes spiritual abundance as the state in which we perpetually recognize the inherent fullness of

Jeff Carreira

  • spiritual abundance
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We Are Cosmic Beings

This video asks you to question why you are seeking for spiritual fulfillment in the first place? Do you really

Jeff Carreira

  • awakening
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Retrocausality and the Cover of Transdimensional Crossing

It seems that sometimes a cover initiates a novel. That was the case with my first novel Transdimensional Crossing. You

Jeff Carreira

  • retrocausality
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Science Fiction and Spiritual Awakening: Exploring the transformative power of speculative story telling

In this unusual audio recording you will explore one of the more curious edges of philosophy and learn that during

Jeff Carreira

  • Jeffrey J. Kripal
  • Richard Rorty
  • spontaneous writing
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Metaphorical Language and the Creation of Reality

In this video Jeff speaks about how reality is shaped by how we talk about it, and goes on to

Jeff Carreira

  • Gary Lachman
  • language
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Real Meditation Starts with Surrender

Spiritual liberation and awakening are very real and very attainable, but the truth is that sustaining our access to these

Jeff Carreira

  • meditation
  • spiritual liberation
  • surrender
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The Sociology of the Impossible

In this clip Jeff Carreira and Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal speak about the many different ways that new possibilities are

Jeff Carreira

  • Jeffrey J. Kripal
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Transdimensional Crossing – Afterward

I decided to write my first work of fiction because I’ve come to believe we are the authors of reality

Jeff Carreira

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Contexts of Mutual Learning

In this audio clip Nora Bateson discusses why living systems cannot be effectively understood by modeling them because living systems

Jeff Carreira

  • living systems
  • mutual learning
  • Nora Bateson
  • symmathesy
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What is an Artist of Possibility?

In this audio clip Jeff Carreira asks the question, “How can we see beyond the current paradigm?” and goes on

Jeff Carreira

  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • paradigm shifting
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Awareness Beyond the Surface of Mind

Spiritual liberation and awakening are very real and very attainable, but the truth is that sustaining our access to these

Jeff Carreira

  • freedom
  • spiritual liberation
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How to Tolerate the Weirdness of Reality with Timothy Morton

This audio clip features Dr. Timothy Morton of Rice University discussing the strange way in which humanity’s efforts to solve

Jeff Carreira

  • reality
  • Timothy Morton
  • weirdness
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Turiya – The Fourth State of Consciousness

This short clip was taken from a four session class with Jeff Carreira, called ‘The Miracle of Self-Realization: An Introduction

Jeff Carreira

  • Ramana Maharshi
  • self-realization
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Surrender, Kundalini and Inner Spiritual Guidance

Spiritual paths, both traditional and alternative, in one way or another, always revolve around the call for surrender. Surrender means

Jeff Carreira

  • awakening
  • kundalini
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Paradigm Shifting

Often people enter my work through my meditation classes and retreats. As their practice opens up into experiences of spiritual

Jeff Carreira

  • paradigm shifting
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Beyond the Current Paradigm

In this audio clip recorded during a public seminar, Jeff Carreira discusses the ideas and work of Dr. Jeffrey Kripal

Jeff Carreira

  • Jeffrey J. Kripal
  • paradigm shifting
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Dr. Tara Cuskley Speaks about Kundalini Awakening

This clip comes from a longer dialog Jeff Carreira had with Dr. Tara Cuskley about her profound Kundalini Awakening experience

Jeff Carreira

  • awakening
  • kundalini
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New Paradigm Circles of Emergence

The first New Paradigm Circle of Emergence that inspired me was the circle of American Transcendentalists that gathered in the

Jeff Carreira

  • paradigm shifting
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • transcendentalists
  • William James
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Movie Review: An Ecology of Mind

Some years ago I had the pleasure to attend a special pre-screening of a new film entitled An Ecology of

Jeff Carreira

  • Gregory Bateson
  • living systems
  • Nora Bateson
  • reality
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Yoga and the Five Elements: Interview with Erin Aquin

In this interview, Erin talks about the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine and how she combines this ancient wisdom with

Jeff Carreira