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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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Collective Darkness, The Undivided Individual, And The Whole Of Humanity
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 11:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Quieting and emptying the content of consciousness is what we must do alone; questioning and igniting insight is what we must do together. More >>
The Continuity From Ancient Extinctions To Current Genocides
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 10:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The short steps from ancient human extinctions to modern genocides. More >>
The Question
Friday, 31 May 2024, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What is the foundation for our action in the world? More >>
Set Aside Knowledge, And Negate Experience
Wednesday, 22 May 2024, 12:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Relationship with nature only occurs in the newness of the present moment, when knowledge is set aside and the known falls away. More >>
Are There Two Or Three Movements In Human Life?
Monday, 20 May 2024, 1:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Since ancient times, it’s been said, “Man is the measure of all things.” In truth, the measurer of all things is man. Nevertheless, is there an immeasurable spiritual reality beyond the human mind? To a contemplative, a belief in God or a ... More >>
The True Challenge Of Artificial Thought
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 9:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI will escape human control unless an entirely new paradigm, flowing from deepening insight into the operation of symbolic thought within us, takes precedence. Humans simply will be no match for the artificial thought we have made in our own image. More >>
The Climate Crisis Is The Crisis Of Man’s Consciousness Within Us
Monday, 13 May 2024, 2:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The decimation of the viability and diversity of the earth is both a manifestation and mirror of the crisis of man’s consciousness. More >>
Man’s Original Psychological Separations
Friday, 10 May 2024, 1:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Human beings can end man’s destruction of the earth and humanity by awakening a true order of consciousness, flowing from direct perception, insight and wholeness. More >>
Living Up To The Name We Gave Ourselves
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 1:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a “New Cold War,” or “The Age of Unpeace.” Or it’s “a new Age of Revolutions,” in which we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. More >>
Painful Echoes For A Generation That Quit On Our Conscience
Monday, 6 May 2024, 1:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Many things are contributing to the downfall of the United States, at home and abroad. More >>
Biden Will Lose If He Can’t Stop Netanyahu From Attacking Rafah
Friday, 3 May 2024, 2:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If Biden cannot prevent Netanyahu from attacking Rafah, where the IDF has driven over a million Palestinian refugees, his weakness and complicity will bring down his presidency. More >>
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: We Need Not Be Black Boxes To Ourselves
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 11:14 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Self-knowing is a very different animal than self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the intellectual recognition of one’s patterns and tendencies from the past, whereas self-knowing is firmly grounded in the present. More >>
The False Diversity Of Identity, Part Two
Monday, 22 April 2024, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With respect to dialogue and cooperation between people of dissimilar or similar histories and ethnicities in a fractured world, perhaps it boils down to serious people resolving the following questions within. Can two or more people discover ... More >>
The False Diversity Of Identity
Friday, 19 April 2024, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Few people are willing to question their worldviews. But doing so is one of the most important things a true individual can do in this age of chaos. At bottom, the implicit attitude we hold about humankind’s relationship to nature is the most ... More >>
Attention Is The Highest Capacity Of The Brain
Friday, 12 April 2024, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There’s a well-known Japanese Zen story about a unique master called Ichu, also known as Ikkyu. A student came to Master Ichu and said, “Please write for me something of great wisdom.” Master Ichu picked up his brush and wrote one word: “Attention.” ... More >>
There Is No Such Thing As Collective Wisdom
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 10:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
On the same day the college basketball tournament called “March Madness” ends, the eclipse madness culminates in America. Only people with no relationship to nature flock in the millions to experience four minutes of a celestial event that scared ... More >>
The Brain Is Greater Than Thought
Friday, 5 April 2024, 12:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Man’s enslavement to time, by modernity’s clock or prehistoric people’s sun, denies the full awakening of insight in the brain. Thought is time, and time is thought. More >>
There Are No Bystanders When Evolution Is Demanding A Revolution In Consciousness
Friday, 29 March 2024, 5:47 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Given that nature unfolds in a dynamic & holistic order, & humans evolved along with all other creatures on earth, how & why did man become such a factor of fragmentation and disorder on this planet? More >>
Orcas Are Very Smart, But They Don’t Construct Separate Selves
Monday, 25 March 2024, 9:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas, projectively called Killer Whales, are the top predators of the sea. Different “cultures” of orcas use different strategies to hunt everything from manta rays to Great White sharks. There is no recorded instance of orcas killing a human in ... More >>
Orcas Are Very Smart, But They Don’t Construct Separate Selves
Friday, 22 March 2024, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas, projectively called Killer Whales, are the top predators of the sea. Different “cultures” of orcas use different strategies to hunt everything from manta rays to Great White sharks. There is no recorded instance of orcas killing a human in ... More >>
