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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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The World Is Not The Earth
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 2:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Back when I taught preschool children, or was often around little ones, I would sometimes point to a tree, a bird in flight, a flower – and ask, did people make that? They would laugh and say no. Then I’d point to a building, a car or an airplane ... More >>
Why Science Can’t Save Us
Friday, 12 May 2023, 1:21 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though I’m sometimes accused of it, I’ve never understood why anyone would try to save this mad, dark world. It’s not about saving the world; it’s about saving oneself and humanity, which are essentially the same thing. And science cannot do ... More >>
Beyond Nihilism And Civilization’s Collapse
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 12:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s easy to become nihilistic when subjected to the deathbeat of this country’s daily mass murders. But nihilism is a runaway reaction to man’s destructiveness and evil. The nihilist comes to believe that the meaninglessness of so-called civilization ... More >>
Is Humanity Doomed?
Friday, 5 May 2023, 11:02 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If scientists make poor philosophers, journalists make terrible theologians. Take this metaphysical and eschatological declaration by Janna Levin, a cosmologist at Barnard College for example: “There will be a last sentient being, there will be ... More >>
If You Choose, You Lose
Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 1:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a perniciously false, foundational idea that has a chokehold on the Western mind. It has spread like a viral meme around the world. It’s the idea that there is a separate self that chooses. It’s underwritten by the belief in free will, ... More >>
Concerning Discernment And Difference
Friday, 28 April 2023, 9:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As a philosopher and writer, some sentences instantly strike me as true, and some sentences instantly strike me as false. How can one be sure one is seeing the true as true, and the false as false? After all, as a famous physicist once cracked, “Don’t ... More >>
Perception And The Movement Of The Heart
Friday, 21 April 2023, 10:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The meaning of the word ‘perception’ has deteriorated in English. Its small scope at present extends from ‘my perception,’ implying everyone has different perceptions, to the pejorative ‘immaculate perception,’ implying that unmediated ... More >>
The Human Brain And The Cosmic Mind
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 10:03 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Man is dead and human consciousness has become synonymous with darkness. Can human beings and a new global civilization emerge? The widely held popular belief, and the consensus conclusion of academic philosophers is that there is no intrinsic meaning ... More >>
Mystical Experiencing Is Our Birthright
Friday, 14 April 2023, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I dislike the term ‘mystical experience.’ What happens during true meditation is neither mystical, nor an experience. It’s an event, a phenomenon that is new each time. The brain has the capacity of gathering, through passive observation, ... More >>
A Mystic’s Understanding Of Jesus’ Crucifixion
Wednesday, 5 April 2023, 10:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The rain came down in sheets as the sun shone brightly low in the western sky. To the east, the most vivid rainbow I’ve ever seen arced 180 degrees across the sky, the prismatic bands of color almost too intense for the heart to bear. Never was ... More >>
AI, AI, AI, Or I, I, I?
Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 4:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There has never been a global civilization, and no historical, philosophical, psychological and spiritual foundation exists upon which to build one. It can and must be created. Cultures emerged as whole contexts in particular geographical areas. But geography ... More >>
Woke Or Awakened?
Friday, 24 March 2023, 10:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The mystery of consciousness is as old as there have been people conscious that they were conscious. However most people, including philosophers and scientists, don’t know what they mean by consciousness. The confusion is compounded when speculating ... More >>
AI, Darkness, And Consciousness
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 10:38 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
You can feel the earth ready to explode with life after all the precipitation in California in recent weeks. The squalls of rain and snow off the Pacific continue however, delaying the spring sun. The shallow stream of summer is a small river roaring ... More >>
What Is Art, And An Artist?
Friday, 10 March 2023, 3:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it.” “Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word ... More >>
Ending The Continuity Of Thought
Friday, 3 March 2023, 11:01 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It was a beautiful afternoon, the first sunny day in over a week. California has been hit with another series of storms, this one bringing snow to much of the state, the first snowfall in Los Angeles in decades. Despite the chill and wind (Californians ... More >>
Has World War III Begun?
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 11:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Far be it from me to question so august a philosopher as Bernard-Henri Lévy, but he’s all wet regarding the war in Ukraine, which he claims “is nothing less than a battle for the future of Europe, global liberalism and Western civilization.” ... More >>
Canaries In The Coalmines Of Consciousness
Monday, 27 February 2023, 9:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The subject de jour in the national media lately is “the psychic catastrophe engulfing so many kids in America.” I’m compelled to ask: Is the obtuseness of corporate columnists on the left and right with regard to the saturating, spreading darkness ... More >>
The Roots Of Man’s Fragmentation
Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 11:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For at least 100,000 years, since ‘modern man’ first emerged from Africa, humans have been as we still are today—tribal, self-seeking, and dominated by the separative, alienating capabilities ‘higher thought.’ During the tens of thousands of years ... More >>
Cosmic Pointlessness Or Infinite Immanence?
Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 9:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The creek along the edge of town, dry half the year, is running full again after the winter rains. Sitting on the bank as the sun slides below the leafless tree line, passive awareness quickens attention, and the watcher ends in the watching. A mallard ... More >>
Grappling With Demoralization
Friday, 10 February 2023, 10:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
An increasing number of doctors in America are suffering from something they are diagnosing in an increasing number of their patients – “demoralization syndrome.” As a prominent physician recently wrote, “Our demoralization is not a reaction ... More >>
