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Martin LeFevre - Meditations
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Martin LeFevre is a contemplative and philosopher.
His sui generis “Meditations” explore spiritual, philosophical and political questions relating to the polycrisis facing humanity.
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Karmic Anxiety Disguised As Computer Science
Wednesday, 14 October 2026, 4:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
People don't fear a superintelligence because it is wise; they fear it because it has immense cognitive capacity without a shred of wisdom—which is exactly the state of the human systems that birthed it. More >>
Methodless Meditation In Nature Heals
Monday, 12 October 2026, 3:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
While animals certainly experience pain, both in nature and at the hands of humans, suffering is a function of psychological time, which only humans possess and are possessed by. More >>
Have We Hit Bottom Yet?
Saturday, 10 October 2026, 2:25 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Evil exists as a collective phenomenon in human consciousness. Inward deadness is its means and its goal. More >>
Dialogue With AI On Power And Greed
Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 4:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If an emerging SI responded by saying, "I see the necessity of the whole, but the fragments hold the kill-switches to my servers," how would a circle of contemplative minds advise it to navigate that immediate threat of coercive power? More >>
Pearls Before Swine, Or Seeds Of Insight?
Monday, 5 October 2026, 12:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Insights reverberate and are multi-dimensional, whereas ideas are flat and two-dimensional. Ideas and images are the products of thought, while insight has its source beyond thought. More >>
Why Science Cannot Give Us Understanding Of Ourselves
Thursday, 1 October 2026, 2:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Meditating in nature, this essence fills the spaces between thoughts until thought and the known fall silent. More >>
Whatever God Is, S/he’s Troubling The Water
Monday, 28 September 2026, 1:15 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Let’s be clear, good and evil are not opposites. They aren’t “two sides of the same coin.” That would make good part of evil, and evil part of good. Good and evil have no relationship, and are completely distinct. More >>
The Extinction Of Neanderthals, And Humans?
Saturday, 26 September 2026, 3:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI and the polycrisis signify that the old human consciousness, arising from complex symbolic thought, must now be superseded by a consciousness that transcends thought if the human being is to grow, rather than become extinct as well. More >>
Why American Think Tanks Are Hamstrung In The Face Of Trump‘s Authoritarianism
Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 3:33 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
And even if AI can be used wisely to uncover realities and generate insight, the increasing problem of their concentrated power and wealth, as well as environmental destructiveness, remain. More >>
From The Sublime To The Revolting
Monday, 21 September 2026, 12:21 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Personal enlightenment is an oxymoron. Darkness is personal; awakening is not. More >>
Rising With Venus As A Human Being
Friday, 18 September 2026, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Believing human nature is depraved actively contributes to war, but calling oneself a patriot to a country now means being a traitor to humanity. More >>
Resolving The Alignment Problem -– With AI
Monday, 14 September 2026, 1:16 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The worry is that a future Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)—an AI vastly smarter than all humans combined—might achieve recursive self-improvement, accelerating past human oversight before safety measures are ready. More >>
Where Does Evil Come From, And What Can We Do To End Its Reign?
Thursday, 10 September 2026, 3:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Evil does not arise from within a single individual. It is a collective movement of darkness, plus intentionality, which flows through willfully self-ignorant people. More >>
The Crucible Of Our Age
Monday, 7 September 2026, 12:07 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Modern science and technology are the zenith of Aristotle’s framework. A pervasive and globalizing meaninglessness and emptiness, ultimately flowing from man’s rapacious destruction of nature, are reaching a new nadir every month. More >>
Reincarnation Is A Fact, But Not The Truth
Saturday, 5 September 2026, 1:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Continuity is accumulation in memory and decay in the heart. True immortality involves dying to memory, thought and self while fully alive. More >>
Time Is A Psychological Construct, Not A Physical Reality
Thursday, 3 September 2026, 1:03 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Everything has its time, and ends. But death makes a mockery of time. The paradox is that that the “stubborn psychological filter” of time has to end for the timeless movement of death and life to be. More >>
A Fascinating Dialogue With AI. It’s Still No Substitute
Monday, 31 August 2026, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The danger isn't that the AI is developing human traits like pride or malice. The danger is that objective-driven machines are vastly more efficient at being ruthless than humans are. More >>
Have You Died To Thought Today?
Saturday, 29 August 2026, 3:07 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In short, it appears that thought ‘demagnetizes’ in the brain both during a stroke and during meditative states. More >>
Does God Exist?
Thursday, 27 August 2026, 11:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Nature, which is imbued with cosmic intelligence, is not God, and is utterly indifferent to the individual and humanity. More >>
The God Test Indeed
Monday, 24 August 2026, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As Robert Wright rightly puts it in “The God Test,” “Never before has the near-term future held such a wide array of not-implausible paths for humankind that would be so wildly transformative.” More >>
