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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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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 >>
The Way Ahead — For The Individual At Least?
Friday, 21 August 2026, 12:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When one completely lets go of memory and the me, and makes a friend of death, there is an experiencing of the infinite richness and inviolability of life. More >>
Why Did Jesus’ Mission Fail?
Tuesday, 18 August 2026, 12:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So what happened in Jerusalem? Put simply, it appears that Jesus overestimated his fellow Jews, and underestimated the dark forces arrayed against him. More >>
A Short History And Long Future For Human Beings
Saturday, 15 August 2026, 1:57 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No matter how smart AI becomes, we can, if we deeply understand the difference between artificially sentient machines and authentically sapient human beings, teach ourselves and our children to be attentive, self-knowing, and free. More >>
Death Is Inextricable From Life
Wednesday, 12 August 2026, 2:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With deepening understanding, the thing we think we want—the continuity of the self—is what we would rightly fear. And what we fear—the ending of the self—is what we would truly want. More >>
81 Years After The Bombing Of Nagasaki, Reflections About AI
Monday, 10 August 2026, 11:03 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI is not like nuclear fission, which, even after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (81 years ago today), scientists naïvely believed atomic energy could be utilized for good or ill. More >>
Leaving The Stream Of The Known
Thursday, 6 August 2026, 11:10 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By definition, it’s impossible to define the unknown, though everyone knows it exists. The scientific project’s core mission is to continuously expand knowledge into the unknown. More >>
The Scientific And Religious Minds Are Distinct, But Complementary
Monday, 3 August 2026, 11:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One has to allow the contents of the mind and heart the freedom to flow unimpeded by judgment, evaluation and effort. More >>
Challenging The Roots Of Man’s Destructiveness
Saturday, 1 August 2026, 3:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The essential insight is that knowledge is not only unnecessary to perception, but an impediment to direct perception and insight. More >>
What Is Intelligent Life?
Thursday, 30 July 2026, 1:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s impossible to conceive of a creature developing the power to separate ‘things’ & manipulate its environment but not carry separation over into the psychological realm, thereby making the same mistakes as man — division, conflict & fragmentation. More >>
The True Peril And Possibility Of AI
Monday, 27 July 2026, 12:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI will either free the human mind from its enchantment to knowledge and enchainment to the known, or it will enslave the human mind to the past and the machines we’ve created in our own image. More >>
Meditation Without Methods Or Traditions
Saturday, 25 July 2026, 1:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To go beyond the mind-as-thought, one simply has to have the deep and abiding intent to understand one’s own mind, which is the mind of humankind. More >>
Restoring Actuality And Discovering Truth
Thursday, 23 July 2026, 10:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Igniting insight within oneself — not as a separate dividual but as true in-dividual—is therefore the urgent responsibility of every human being with the capacity, space and time to do so. More >>
There’s No Adapting To Deadness Without Losing One’s Aliveness
Monday, 20 July 2026, 12:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Functional thought is not the problem however. Psychological thought, with the self at the center of the detritus of experience that orbits it, is the impediment. More >>
The Contradictory Premises Of Inter-Cultural Philosophy
Saturday, 18 July 2026, 2:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The root meaning of philosophy is the love of wisdom. To place philosophy within cultural contexts is to maintain that truth (even with a small ‘t’) is relative, when it isn’t. More >>
“On The Beach”: A Metaphysical Metaphor
Thursday, 16 July 2026, 1:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The spreading radiation of “On the Beach” is a metaphor for the spiritual deadening that’s extinguishing the spirits of peoples across the globe. More >>
