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American Militarism and the McVeigh Tapes
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 1:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Timothy McVeigh had two primary defenses for committing the worst act of terrorism on American soil before 9.11, the Oklahoma City bombing 15 years ago this month. Both justifications are fully embedded the American tradition of militarism. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Problem of Evil
Friday, 16 April 2010, 1:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A recent conversation with a Buddhist teacher from India turned to the Buddha’s illumination. “The Buddha,” he said, “was attacked by Mara, but the Buddha came to see that the evil was within him.” That’s going hell too far. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Nuclear Half Measures
Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The stage is set for Israel to take military action against Iran. And Obama’s “new” nuclear policy opens the door to Israel’s use of nuclear weapons. How? A Nuclear Posture Review that carves out exceptions for “outliers like Iran and North Korea,” ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Intrinsic Intent of the Universe
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 12:05 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As I see it, human consciousness is an unexplained contradiction in the infinitely dynamic order of the universe. Consciousness is not ‘evolving,’ and things are going from bad to worse. Is there an understanding of the relationship between humankind ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Last Pope? Part Two
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 10:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The church that Jesus supposedly formed by telling his disciple Peter, “thou art Peter, and upon this rock I build my church,” is rife with pedophiliac priests, cover-up cardinals, and a pusillanimous pope. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Global Before Local
Monday, 22 March 2010, 12:05 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a curious juncture where conservatives and progressives agree. Both believe, to use George Bush Senior’s phrase, in the “thousand points of light” idea—that local solutions should take precedence over global approaches. More >>
Killer Whales and Killer Apes, Part Two
Friday, 19 March 2010, 3:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After my last column about the “Killer Whale” that drowned a female trainer in Florida, a reader pointed out that psychologically generated violence is not unheard of in nature. Even though exceptions do prove the rule, and the rule is the extreme ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Emergence of Intelligence
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 5:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Fog enshrouds the town as I enter the mountain community from the valley below. With a few hundred meters more of elevation, the fog clears, though the skies remain cloudy. Reaching the man-made lake, there is a brightening, and even a patch of blue. More >>
Killer Whales and Killer Apes
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas (“Killer Whales”) are probably the smartest animals on earth other than humans (“Killer Apes”). A caged and exploited member of their species, “Tilly,” allegedly aggravated by a trainer’s ponytail, snuffed out her life at SeaWorld ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Atheists and Mystical Experience
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 5:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After a couple of beers at the local brewery, my atheist friend made the oft-heard claim that Jesus never existed. When I retorted with the cliché that he was throwing the baby out with the bathwater, he became somewhat irate, and called me a “Jesus ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Shaking Up the Global Society
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 2:25 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The huge earthquake in Chile—8.8 on the Richter scale, one of the largest ever recorded—drives home the point that it isn’t nature that’s at war with humankind, but humankind that’s at war with itself. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Troll Under the Bridge
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 3:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Why does Dick Cheney keep setting up this straw man of “we are at war, not dealing with criminal acts,” when the Obama Administration’s handling of captured alleged terrorists is essentially the same as the Bush Administration’s? More >>
Martin LeFevre: Knowledge, Tradition, and Insight
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 10:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In ancient times, and not so long ago in many parts of the world, each tradition was completely distinct and whole. Tradition wasn’t something that a people had; it was the total way of life in which people were completely immersed. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Vanishing Man in America
Monday, 15 February 2010, 10:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is no better indicator of the zeitgeist in America than Super Bowl commercials. The trend in this year’s ads was summarized by such headlines as: “Appealing to the Downtrodden Man;” and “Super Bowl Commercials About Women Emasculating ... More >>
Arusha: A Light in the Genocidal Darkness?
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 1:19 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Arusha Tanzania is uniquely positioned to take the lead in forging an end to genocide. In 1994, neighboring Rwanda experienced the second worst genocide since the Holocaust, after Cambodia. For the last decade, Arusha has been host to the International Criminal ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Wellsprings of Insight
Monday, 8 February 2010, 2:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Indigenous people felt that the rocks and rivers, clouds and creeks were alive with spirit. In the few native cultures that are still relatively intact, people still do. Science has conditioned modern people to believe this way of seeing is superstition, ... More >>
What Comes After Obama, and America?
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 10:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The day before his annual State of the Union speech, President Obama telegraphed his disillusionment with the job: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” More >>
Martin LeFevre: Our Place In the Universe
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 1:39 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For at least 100,000 years, since ‘modern man’ first emerged from East Africa, we have been as we are—tribal, self-centered, and dominated by the adaptive strategy of ‘higher thought.’ Now, as the fragmentation of the earth and humanity by the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Meditation Isn't Navel Staring
Friday, 22 January 2010, 2:56 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A reader asks, “Can the people who have a natural talent to quiet their thoughts and clean their mind, not by effort and struggling, but only through insight, point the way for others?” More >>
Haiti and the ‘Global War on Terror’
Friday, 15 January 2010, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Over two weeks after a boyish looking Nigerian, trained in Yemen, attempted to blow up an airliner with his underwear, the failed terrorist attempt was only driven from the top of the news in the United States by the flattening of Haiti. More >>
