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Humans Haven’t Changed In 45,000 Years. We Can Now.
Monday, 14 July 2025, 9:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Without giving too much away, others are snatched, or killed, like the arrogant leader, who says, “I am light,” and promises to lead them to safety and dominion over the new land. More >>
Can Meditative States Help Prevent Strokes?
Friday, 11 July 2025, 9:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
During the meditative state, words are no longer able to instantaneously cluster and crystallize around a center. That is, the whole brain becomes attentive enough to thought as a single movement that words, images, memories and associations cannot attach themselves around an illusory self. More >>
Negate Thought Consciousness For Cosmic Consciousness To Be
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 8:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Consciousness as we know it is based on the evolutionary capacity to consciously separate things from the environment and recombine them mentally to make objects for use. To do so with maximum effect and efficiency apparently required the illusion ... More >>
Where Human Relationship Is Concerned, AI Has No Place
Friday, 4 July 2025, 7:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The real and present danger is the complete deadening of the human heart, the replacement of human relationship with AI intermediation and intrusion, and the destruction of the human brain’s spiritual potential by merging the brain with the machine. More >>
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 11:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What’s at stake is not the socio-political future of a precipitously declining former superpower, or any other nation-state in an utterly dysfunctional and defunct international order, but the viability of the Earth and the future of humanity. More >>
Bill Moyers And The Death Of American Decency
Monday, 30 June 2025, 10:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Democrats are clutching at straws. It’s absurd to believe that the death of this nation’s soul can be restored by a change in party leadership, or barnstorming rallies by Bernie Sanders, or a charismatic mayor of New York. More >>
To Time Travel, One Must First End Time
Friday, 27 June 2025, 12:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In recent decades, there are no more than 100 salmon of a single species that make a successful journey to spawn each winter. The local environmental group is working to remove man-made impediments and increase their numbers. More >>
Neuroscience Cannot Encompass And Explain Mystical Experiencing
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 12:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Amplification of prior experiences in any way contrasts sharply with the art of methodless meditation. A complete, temporary cessation of memory, words and images occurs when sufficient unwilled and undirected attention gathers in the brain through passive ... More >>
The Arc Of Evil’s Inevitability
Monday, 23 June 2025, 11:44 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Netanyahu and Trump are total puppets of man’s darkest subconscious impulses. They only believe they have choices, when in truth they cannot help but act out of their demented evil. More >>
Is There Freedom From Man’s Dark Current, If Only Temporarily?
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 11:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I realize that the dogs have shown me something about freedom. But it raises more questions than answers. Why are we humans not free? Clearly, peace, joy and freedom go together. Why are they increasingly rare in this world? More >>
Homo Symbolicus Is Dead; When Will Homo Sapiens Emerge?
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 12:33 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Science is unable to address man’s incongruity in nature, because the question does not belong to the realm of science, but to philosophy. Science is about accumulating knowledge, but understanding ourselves and our place in the universe is not a matter ... More >>
Psychedelics, Mystical Experiencing, And Organized Religion
Thursday, 5 June 2025, 11:16 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The project of leading desperately thirsty religious leaders to the holy waters of mystical experience through psychedelics will not satisfy the thirst of the dwindling flocks they’re trying to lead. More >>
Animal Encounters During Meditative States
Monday, 2 June 2025, 12:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To grow into human beings, we have to be able to effortlessly quiet the movement of thought within ourselves. Then we are whole, and can communicate with animals. More >>
The War On Gaza Is A War On Our Humanity
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 11:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Whether Hamas is using the Gazan people as human shields or not, Israel has no right to mass murder. And just because Hamas has distributed food and medicine, Israel has no right to use starvation as a weapon or bomb hospitals. More >>
The Only Good Catholic Is A catholic With A Small ‘c’
Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To idealists, imagination is the greatest gift and highest capacity we have as human beings. It isn’t, insight is. But imagination is what leading lights of the left believe is the fount of spirituality and a just world. More >>
Imagination And Stories Are Impediments To Revolution
Monday, 19 May 2025, 7:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A revolution in consciousness is not a revolution of the imagination. Half-measures such as telling better stories about the relationship between humans and nature, or imagining a different world than this one, are escapes from the tremendous challenge ... More >>
Unprecedented Times
Friday, 16 May 2025, 12:25 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The survival of the individual and humanity requires the emergence of human beings of insight. The psychological, spiritual and ecological crisis of humankind is unprecedented, demanding an unparalleled response. More >>
For The Love Of Sycamores
Monday, 12 May 2025, 8:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For a year there was no sign that the fire did any lasting damage, but then saplings sprang up around the base of the tree, and the next year its limbs began to fall off. First small branches, and then bigger and bigger limbs dropped off. Like a leper ... More >>
The Cosmic Contradiction Of Man
Friday, 9 May 2025, 9:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Nearly all explanations for what used to be called “the riddle of man” suffer from enslavement to the idea of progress, especially Teilhard de Chardin’s “Omega Point.” The insight that separative mechanism of “higher thought” carries with ... More >>
Regarding Popes, Dopes And Hopes
Monday, 5 May 2025, 1:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Taking the word catholic literally, Pope Francis attempted to universalize all religions under the banner of inclusiveness. But he was jesuitical by ignoring the inherent contradiction of simultaneously trying to evangelize Catholicism. More >>