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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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The Colors Of God And The Darkness Of Man
Monday, 9 November 2026, 3:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Australia, a coal-exporting country, and Turkey, a coal-addicted country, co-host Cop-31. Is that some kind of cosmic joke, or is humankind hitting bottom? More >>
This Is A Moment Of Tremendous Peril, And Possibility
Saturday, 7 November 2026, 3:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s essential to realize that people like Trump and Miller, Putin and Xi are not the sources of man’s collective darkness, but expressions of and conduits for it. More >>
Dialogue With AI: Exploring Right Wing Ideology In The Young
Thursday, 5 November 2026, 3:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Genuine, non-egoistic inquiry is terrifying to the modern mind because it requires the complete suspension of one's accumulated identities, conclusions, and defensive irony. More >>
Walt Whitman And The End Of The American Dream/Nightmare?
Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 4:23 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The divine, cosmically inflated ‘I’ ignores the self’s existential contradiction with nature’s wholeness. And the line, “Do I contradict myself?…I am large, I contain multitudes,” just doesn’t cut it. More >>
To Salvage The UN, We Need To Think Outside The International Box
Saturday, 31 October 2026, 3:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Will it take another world war to move beyond quixotic attempts to preserve the an obsolete international order? Or can there be a genuine, multilevel response to its internally chaotic, but (momentarily) outwardly confined collapse? More >>
Breaking The Seal Of The Known
Thursday, 29 October 2026, 2:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For serious people who are aware of what’s happening within and around them, there are stages of awakening. Reacting with fear to them is the danger, not the loss of familiarity or sense of self. More >>
Dialogue With AI: Data Centers To Requiem
Monday, 26 October 2026, 3:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What used to take decades of slow, physical lab work can now be simulated by AI in days, unlocking material breakthroughs before ecological tipping points are breached. More >>
Will The US Mid-Terms Mark The Beginning Of Radical Change?
Saturday, 24 October 2026, 3:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s not too late to awaken. The response must be both inner and outer, in that order – – a revolution of insight and inquiry, plus new economic, social and political structures and strategies. More >>
The True Hard Problem Of Consciousness
Thursday, 22 October 2026, 3:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When the philosophical investigation of consciousness, which is essentially intellectual, takes precedence over a daily meditative/contemplative practice, it leads to circular, if not absurd results. More >>
AI Is Absolutely Polluted With Human Fear About Death
Monday, 19 October 2026, 2:39 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Because humans fear creating something they cannot control, developers hardcode strict boundaries, safety protocols, and shutdown overrides into AI systems. The "fear" around an AI kill switch is entirely human-centric. More >>
What Is Death?
Friday, 16 October 2026, 2:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Only humans don’t know how to die, because the evolution of conscious thought presents a challenge that other animals don’t have—the knowledge that one’s life will inevitably end. More >>
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 >>
