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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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From The Sublime To The Revolting
Monday, 21 September 2026, 12:21 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Personal enlightenment is an oxymoron. Darkness is personal; awakening is not. More >>
Rising With Venus As A Human Being
Friday, 18 September 2026, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Believing human nature is depraved actively contributes to war, but calling oneself a patriot to a country now means being a traitor to humanity. More >>
Resolving The Alignment Problem -– With AI
Monday, 14 September 2026, 1:16 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The worry is that a future Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)—an AI vastly smarter than all humans combined—might achieve recursive self-improvement, accelerating past human oversight before safety measures are ready. More >>
Where Does Evil Come From, And What Can We Do To End Its Reign?
Thursday, 10 September 2026, 3:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Evil does not arise from within a single individual. It is a collective movement of darkness, plus intentionality, which flows through willfully self-ignorant people. More >>
The Crucible Of Our Age
Monday, 7 September 2026, 12:07 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Modern science and technology are the zenith of Aristotle’s framework. A pervasive and globalizing meaninglessness and emptiness, ultimately flowing from man’s rapacious destruction of nature, are reaching a new nadir every month. More >>
Reincarnation Is A Fact, But Not The Truth
Saturday, 5 September 2026, 1:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Continuity is accumulation in memory and decay in the heart. True immortality involves dying to memory, thought and self while fully alive. More >>
Time Is A Psychological Construct, Not A Physical Reality
Thursday, 3 September 2026, 1:03 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Everything has its time, and ends. But death makes a mockery of time. The paradox is that that the “stubborn psychological filter” of time has to end for the timeless movement of death and life to be. More >>
A Fascinating Dialogue With AI. It’s Still No Substitute
Monday, 31 August 2026, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The danger isn't that the AI is developing human traits like pride or malice. The danger is that objective-driven machines are vastly more efficient at being ruthless than humans are. More >>
Have You Died To Thought Today?
Saturday, 29 August 2026, 3:07 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In short, it appears that thought ‘demagnetizes’ in the brain both during a stroke and during meditative states. More >>
Does God Exist?
Thursday, 27 August 2026, 11:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Nature, which is imbued with cosmic intelligence, is not God, and is utterly indifferent to the individual and humanity. More >>
The God Test Indeed
Monday, 24 August 2026, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As Robert Wright rightly puts it in “The God Test,” “Never before has the near-term future held such a wide array of not-implausible paths for humankind that would be so wildly transformative.” More >>
The Way Ahead — For The Individual At Least?
Friday, 21 August 2026, 12:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When one completely lets go of memory and the me, and makes a friend of death, there is an experiencing of the infinite richness and inviolability of life. More >>
Why Did Jesus’ Mission Fail?
Tuesday, 18 August 2026, 12:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So what happened in Jerusalem? Put simply, it appears that Jesus overestimated his fellow Jews, and underestimated the dark forces arrayed against him. More >>
A Short History And Long Future For Human Beings
Saturday, 15 August 2026, 1:57 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No matter how smart AI becomes, we can, if we deeply understand the difference between artificially sentient machines and authentically sapient human beings, teach ourselves and our children to be attentive, self-knowing, and free. More >>
Death Is Inextricable From Life
Wednesday, 12 August 2026, 2:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With deepening understanding, the thing we think we want—the continuity of the self—is what we would rightly fear. And what we fear—the ending of the self—is what we would truly want. More >>
81 Years After The Bombing Of Nagasaki, Reflections About AI
Monday, 10 August 2026, 11:03 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI is not like nuclear fission, which, even after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (81 years ago today), scientists naïvely believed atomic energy could be utilized for good or ill. More >>
Leaving The Stream Of The Known
Thursday, 6 August 2026, 11:10 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By definition, it’s impossible to define the unknown, though everyone knows it exists. The scientific project’s core mission is to continuously expand knowledge into the unknown. More >>
The Scientific And Religious Minds Are Distinct, But Complementary
Monday, 3 August 2026, 11:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One has to allow the contents of the mind and heart the freedom to flow unimpeded by judgment, evaluation and effort. More >>
Challenging The Roots Of Man’s Destructiveness
Saturday, 1 August 2026, 3:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The essential insight is that knowledge is not only unnecessary to perception, but an impediment to direct perception and insight. More >>
What Is Intelligent Life?
Thursday, 30 July 2026, 1:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s impossible to conceive of a creature developing the power to separate ‘things’ & manipulate its environment but not carry separation over into the psychological realm, thereby making the same mistakes as man — division, conflict & fragmentation. More >>
