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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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Readiness: Man’s Race To The Bottom
Sunday, 24 May 2026, 4:33 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Will the human being of insight and true intelligence be ready when Homo sap hits bottom? More >>
When Therapists Become Philosophers
Thursday, 21 May 2026, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With cultures breaking down all over the world, and especially in the west, more therapists are turning into philosophers, and more philosophers are turning into therapists. It’s called “existential therapy.” More >>
Beliefs Are Divisive, And Unnecessary
Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 8:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Belief systems ineluctably involve formal doctrines, moral codes and sacred texts. Giving primacy to teachings, no matter how profound, rather than to one’s own understanding, prevents direct perception and insight. More >>
Choosing Leads To Hell, Whereas Love Emerges With Choiceless Awareness
Sunday, 17 May 2026, 4:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It doesn’t really matter whether there’s hell after death anyway, since man, who made hell to begin with, has given rise to it on earth in the 21st century. More >>
Circling The Drain Or Turning Toward Truth?
Thursday, 14 May 2026, 7:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI will exceed human cognition, and can be programmed to replicate human emotions. But it can never have insight, which occurs in the spaces between and the silence of thought. More >>
The Problem Of Evil Is The Problem Of Thought
Tuesday, 12 May 2026, 11:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To become aware of the rising, darkening sea of consciousness as we know it, and effortlessly step out of it, is the art of undivided observation in meditation. More >>
Becoming Is Time. Being Is Timeless
Saturday, 9 May 2026, 2:39 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One cannot stop the world from going to hell. One can only stop adding to man’s division and fragmentation, ecocide and genocide by ending time and becoming within oneself every day. More >>
Allowing Space For True Consciousness To Emerge
Thursday, 7 May 2026, 12:33 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As the demise of Richard Dawkins attests, human beings don’t need to believe in a Creator, but we cannot inwardly survive and thrive without awakening wholeness and inviolability. More >>
Man Is The Measure Of All Things, But Beauty Is Not Man-Made, And Cannot Be Measured
Sunday, 3 May 2026, 2:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Can we create temporary spaces where small groups of people factually and non-judgmentally question our meanings together, listening beyond words, beliefs, opinions and interpretations, with the intent to see the same thing at the same time? More >>
The Question Of Universality
Friday, 1 May 2026, 2:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The problem is not globalization, but the dominance of the kind of globalization that the United States and Western Europe promoted, and that China has bought into economically by embracing capitalism. More >>
When Tradition Becomes Complicit With Tyranny
Tuesday, 28 April 2026, 7:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No mentalist’s tricks can camouflage the violence and chaos the United States is perpetrating on the world. It pains me to report what people outside the USA already know: the darkness of “Donald Trump’s America” is simply the darkness of America. More >>
Revisiting Where Man Went Wrong
Sunday, 26 April 2026, 3:05 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No amount of knowledge will save us, and certainly not AI. We have the capacity for another, true order of consciousness, flowing from the brain’s potential for insight. More >>
Why I’m Not A Buddhist
Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 1:48 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though science & technology have advanced exponentially because the west prized reason over inner life since Aristotle (with Locke codifying rationality as the cornerstone of the Enlightenment), inwardly and psychologically, we’ve reached a dead end More >>
In Quieting The Chatter Of Human Language, One Hears The Languages Of Animals
Monday, 20 April 2026, 10:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
My worldview was thrown into doubt. I had always believed that only humans committed murder, but here I had proof beyond reasonable doubt that a jay had intentionally killed another bird. More >>
Agency Is Bullshit, In Humans Or Chatbots
Saturday, 18 April 2026, 2:59 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We human beings have to gain deepening insight into the place of memory, knowledge and thought within ourselves if we are to put and keep thought machines in their place. More >>
What Does It Mean To Collaborate At The Core Of Consciousness?
Thursday, 16 April 2026, 1:14 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
‘How did nature, which unfolds in seamless wholeness, evolve a creature that is fragmenting the Earth all to hell?’ More >>
In Surrender Of Memory
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 12:52 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By attentively letting go of psychological memory, the mind has the space and energy to see and create anew. More importantly, beyond words there is direct awareness of the transcendent actualities of beauty and love. More >>
Confront Power Per Se, Not Just The Powers That Be
Sunday, 12 April 2026, 4:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To end violence, including the violence of oppression and war, power must be deconstructed and superseded by intelligence, not taken as an unchangeable aspect of human nature and socio-political organization. More >>
Humans Don't Matter To Cosmic Intelligence
Thursday, 9 April 2026, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
See the earth and people anew every day. But living in terms of the known totally impedes direct perception, stillness and insight. More >>
We Don’t Need To Leave The Planet To See And Feel The Earth
Tuesday, 7 April 2026, 11:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
From a scientific perspective, how could the earth and all the life on it emerge from “a whole lot of nothing” anyway? More >>
