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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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Cardinal Errors
Friday, 3 February 2023, 11:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Having been raised as a six-days-of-Latin-Mass per week Catholic well into high school, an altar boy and favorite of the decent if dipsomaniac priests (much preferable to the strain of pedophiliacs that have long hidden under the cloak of the Church), ... More >>
Exploring Timelessness And Death
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 1:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Have you stood in wonder during the liminal moment when the stars first appear, so faintly that you have to look away to make sure they are really there? You feel the boundary not only between day and night, but also between life and death, timelessly ... More >>
OK Boomers, We Failed
Friday, 27 January 2023, 12:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After weeks of rain, the skies in California are cloudless and achingly blue. The seasonally dry stream that marked the periphery of town when I moved here 25 years ago is running full. But the first meditation of the year there brings sorrow that ... More >>
Concerning Stagnancy, Demography And Vitality
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 10:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To make demographics the issue when Americans awoke to another mass murder in this disintegrated country land seems absurd. This time it’s in Los Angeles, with ten dead as of this writing in a Chinese community celebrating the Lunar New Year. Here’s ... More >>
Why Activism Is Not Enough
Friday, 20 January 2023, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Bill McKibben, the author of the particularly pessimistic book, “The End of Nature,” now says, “for an activist to have hope is the most important thing.” That contradictory worldview sums up much of what’s misguided about activism. As recently reported, ... More >>
Is Human Consciousness Obsolete?
Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Internet and artificial intelligence have made the underlying actuality that human consciousness is a single thing the overarching reality of every person on the planet that is connected to it. Prior to the Net, cultural and linguistic backgrounds ... More >>
Mind, Brain And Consciousness
Friday, 13 January 2023, 11:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It was a day of intense, opaque light during a break between storms that have been pounding California. Though there wasn’t a smidgen of blue sky, sunlight reflecting off the creek-turned-river was so brilliant that you couldn’t look at it without ... More >>
The State Of Insight
Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 2:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After high winds snapped four posts and brought down the back fence last night, there was a break this morning in the “atmospheric river” that’s been deluging California with one heavy storm after another. The true meaning of carpe diem becomes ... More >>
Reflections On Time During End Times
Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 3:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s fitting, at the beginning of a new year, to reflect on the meaning of time, and timelessness. At the core level in consciousness, what is the relationship between thought and time, and between death and timelessness? Science cannot give insight ... More >>
The Absurdity Of “The Anthropocene Age”
Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 11:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Geologists are well into a decade-long debate about whether to name the present period of tremendous human impact on the Earth the Anthropocene Age. It’s a deeply flawed philosophical exercise masquerading as science. The movement to codify the More >>
“Social Media” Isn’t The Problem
Friday, 16 December 2022, 12:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A line of reasoning that sounds irrefutable is precisely the one that most needs to be examined, and probably the one that most needs to be refuted. Take this seemingly incontrovertible claim for example by an American pundit commenting on the erstwhile ... More >>
Attention Or Atencion?
Monday, 12 December 2022, 11:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A Zen Master in ancient Japan was asked to summarize his teaching. He replied with one word: “Attention.” In Spanish the word is atencion, which has connotations of care, courtesy, focus, diligence and vigilance. None of which are typically implied ... More >>
The Multiverse Is A Belief System
Friday, 9 December 2022, 11:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
All methods and techniques of meditation preclude meditation. The devices of thought cannot be used to trick thought into stillness. The mind falls silent by taking the time and giving the space to allowing attention without judgment or choice to gather, ... More >>
We Were Once All Indigenous People
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The indigenous people in the northeastern corner of California’s Great Central Valley are called the Machoopda. Not long after moving here over 25 years ago I met an indigenous man from Mexico who was well versed in local native folklore. He said ... More >>
What Is Intelligence?
Friday, 2 December 2022, 10:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Probably the smartest animal on Earth, other than humans, is the Orca, projectively known as "Killer Whales." Of course smarts, as seen with humans, is a very different thing than intelligence. Just what is intelligence, and would an extraterrestrial ... More >>
The Pinnacle Of Creation – The Human Brain
Monday, 21 November 2022, 11:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s nearing sunset on a mild autumn afternoon in northern California. My eyes are drawn to a maple between the houses draped in red that looks like it’s on fire in last rays of the sun. A huge hawk takes off from the red maple and arcs up to ... More >>
Without Respect To Movements, Power And Time
Friday, 18 November 2022, 11:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With characteristic obtuseness about the undercurrents of American culture, the New York Times offered readers “a black hole” to write their feelings about Donald Trump’s return to the political stage. America’s newspaper of record led off ... More >>
Intelligent Life And The Great Filter
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 11:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Have you heard of something called “The Great Filter Theory?” It’s the idea that when intelligent life (actually potentially intelligent life) on a planet reaches the level of technology and complexity that human civilization has, most or all extinguish ... More >>
Woke Doesn’t Mean Awakened
Monday, 14 November 2022, 11:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Woke and awakened are very different things, as different as being political or spiritual. However, woke or awakened, and political or religious have been conflated to the point of making both meaningless. Initially, to be “woke” simply meant ... More >>
AI, HAL And The Death Of The Self
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 11:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The season has fully shifted in northern California, and the leaves in the parkland are nearing fall splendor. Meditations along the creek have grown intense again after a “dark night of the soul,” and the actuality of death inseparable fro life has ... More >>
