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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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Can A New Foundation Be Poured Before The Complete Collapse Of The International Order?
Monday, 1 July 2024, 11:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In short, the spiritual, philosophical and political foundation has to be poured before a collapse occurs to change course when it does. More >>
Man Is Dead; What Is The Way Ahead?
Friday, 28 June 2024, 10:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is Buddhism as far removed from what Siddhartha lived and taught as Christianity has become from what Jesus lived and taught? Buddhism is a godless religion with which I have much sympathy, but little simpatico. I’m not using the word godless ... More >>
Explorations Beyond Time
Monday, 24 June 2024, 11:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So is time what keeps us from experiencing the beauty and sublimity of life, including the truth of death while fully alive, much to our detriment and decay? More >>
Attention Is Enough
Friday, 21 June 2024, 11:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Mystical experiencing cannot be contextualized within any given religion, tradition or culture. Its essence is ending the domination of conditioning and belief systems within, and the opening of the mind and heart to inviolability beyond any and all ... More >>
Civil Disobedience Is Necessary But Not Sufficient
Monday, 17 June 2024, 11:11 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Let’s not waste our energy and time on the inwardly dead, much less on breaking windows, when we need to ignite a psychological revolution within ourselves. More >>
The Observer Is The Habit Of Separation
Friday, 14 June 2024, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With sufficient unguided attention, the infinite regression of the observer ends, and then time ends. More >>
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 >>
