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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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Technology And Human Nature
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 10:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s self-evident that social media couldn’t maximize and manipulate “the worst passions” unless they were already present within us. Which is to say, unless they were a core aspect of human nature. More >>
Regarding Randomness And Significance
Monday, 17 March 2025, 11:07 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Earth, if one sets aside one’s knowledge and experience and looks afresh at nature every day, is endlessly wondrous. Out of the approximately 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, nearly all with planets circling them, how many life-bearing planets ... More >>
Questions And Proposed Insights Into Evil
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Evil is not a right-left issue, as the legacy left at the Guardian believes. They insist the solutions are political, though political evil emanates from social darkness, deadness and apathy. More >>
The Polycrisis, Knowledge, And AI
Monday, 10 March 2025, 11:10 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The real and present danger of AI is that it will destroy the brain’s potential for insight if we continue to give primacy to the intellect and knowledge, much less merge with these thought machines we’ve created in our own image. More >>
A Diagnosis And Prescription For The Polycrisis
Friday, 7 March 2025, 11:34 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The action of spontaneous, undirected attention quiets and cleanses the brain of its useless, accumulated content, allowing the mind to fall silent and participate in the consciousness of the cosmos. More >>
California Psychologically Secedes From The Union
Monday, 3 March 2025, 9:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Without a genuinely global response, the fragmentation of the Earth and Humanity will continue and quicken. But paradoxically, in their race to the bottom, Trump, Putin and their ilk are making a true global response more necessary and possible every day. More >>
Both The Right And The Left Are Making Mutually Assured Destruction A Reality
Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Clearly it isn’t just right-wing extremists that threaten the world. The left has lost its mind as well. There is no such fucking thing as national security, and the more political, media and academic leaders adhere to it, the more insecure they help ... More >>
Blown Away In My Backyard
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 1:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A meditation on a beautiful, sunny afternoon is salubrious, but a meditation amidst the elemental forces of nature is shattering. Everything you know or think you know, everything you’ve experienced and carefully built up, is stripped away. You can ... More >>
Is This A 1989 Moment?
Monday, 24 February 2025, 10:19 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The year 1989 signifies not just the end of the Cold War, but the opportunity for humankind to move in a new direction. That window of opportunity only lasted a few months, before the hellish days in Russia and the halcyon days in America ushered ... More >>
What Is A Human Being?
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 10:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The idea of “my country” being primary is anathema to the human being. Though the vast majority of humans have identified with particular groups for thousands of years, a small minority of human beings has always emotionally realized that they ... More >>
Does Cosmic Intelligence Care About Humanity?
Friday, 14 February 2025, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No amount of activism or number of mass movements can meet the crisis of man. The undivided individual contains the whole of humanity. More >>
Relations Between Canada And America Are At Their Lowest Point Since The American Revolutionary War
Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
This Nationalistic Race to the Bottom Is Compelling a Global Summit More >>
History Is Not A Game
Friday, 31 January 2025, 9:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
That conclusion manages to be both redundant and wrongheaded at the same time. A game indicates an eventual outcome, and there is no final outcome to human history, unless we drive our species into extinction, as Homo sapiens is driving half the ... More >>
The Transcendent Brain
Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 12:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After having been immersed in the childish rituals of the Catholic Church growing up, I became averse to rituals & belief systems by my middle teens. Therefore I had no interest in methods, systems & traditions of meditation, which are fabrications ... More >>
Localism Is A Dead End; It’s All Glocal Now
Friday, 24 January 2025, 3:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The cliché “local solutions for local problems” becomes nonsensical without awareness of the planetary crises facing all of human beings. By refusing to see and deal with things as a whole, localism exacerbates of the very problems it purports ... More >>
The Wasted Interregnums Of Obama And Biden
Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Since neither Obama nor Biden was capable of speaking from the clarity, insight and passion required for meeting the psycho-spiritual crisis in the USA, both interregnums were wasted. More >>
Good Does Not Fight Evil, But Stands Firm And Dispels It
Monday, 20 January 2025, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The die is cast where Trump, the United States and the post-World War II order are concerned. The failure of insight and imagination by academic, media and political elites, exemplified in the moronic “good Trump, bad Trump” fantasy, feeds the ... More >>
Waiting For Trump: How Bad Will It Be?
Friday, 17 January 2025, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There aren’t two America’s anymore than there are two political parties. There’s just one, and it’s Trump’s America. He will do his worst. More >>
The Darkest Hour Before Dawn Or The Sum Of All Dark Ages?
Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 10:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Given the global ecological, psycho-spiritual, economic and political crisis of humankind, is there a latent exaptation that can be released which will enable us to meet the present climacteric? Yes, the universal capacity for flashes and states of insight. More >>
From Symbolic Consciousness To Insight Consciousness
Thursday, 9 January 2025, 2:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No computer, however complex it may become in a simulacrum of sentience, will ever be able to approach the state of silence and insight, and communion with death and love that is the birthright of the human being. More >>
