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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 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 >>
The True Peril And Possibility Of AI
Monday, 27 July 2026, 12:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI will either free the human mind from its enchantment to knowledge and enchainment to the known, or it will enslave the human mind to the past and the machines we’ve created in our own image. More >>
Meditation Without Methods Or Traditions
Saturday, 25 July 2026, 1:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To go beyond the mind-as-thought, one simply has to have the deep and abiding intent to understand one’s own mind, which is the mind of humankind. More >>
Restoring Actuality And Discovering Truth
Thursday, 23 July 2026, 10:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Igniting insight within oneself — not as a separate dividual but as true in-dividual—is therefore the urgent responsibility of every human being with the capacity, space and time to do so. More >>
There’s No Adapting To Deadness Without Losing One’s Aliveness
Monday, 20 July 2026, 12:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Functional thought is not the problem however. Psychological thought, with the self at the center of the detritus of experience that orbits it, is the impediment. More >>
The Contradictory Premises Of Inter-Cultural Philosophy
Saturday, 18 July 2026, 2:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The root meaning of philosophy is the love of wisdom. To place philosophy within cultural contexts is to maintain that truth (even with a small ‘t’) is relative, when it isn’t. More >>
“On The Beach”: A Metaphysical Metaphor
Thursday, 16 July 2026, 1:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The spreading radiation of “On the Beach” is a metaphor for the spiritual deadening that’s extinguishing the spirits of peoples across the globe. More >>
Ending The Continuity Of Time
Monday, 13 July 2026, 1:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Time is inextricable from thought, and thought is inextricable from the accumulation of psychological memory and the illusory permanence of the self. More >>
A Provisional Philosophy Of Evil Is Foundational
Saturday, 11 July 2026, 3:15 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Questioning and bringing insight into “the problem of evil” is a very different thing than "armchair theological speculation and metaphysical philosophizing." More >>
Be Your Own Meditation Teacher
Wednesday, 8 July 2026, 2:21 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As meditation deepens, it means not just the ending of the observer and effortlessly gathering non-directed attention to quiet the mind as thought. More >>
Can Down Under Rise Up Over?
Monday, 6 July 2026, 12:56 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Psychological revolution is not a comfort afforded to those who do not have to fight to physically survive, but the responsibility of those who don’t to bring it about. More >>
Is This The Darkest Night Of The Human Soul?
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 1:09 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is true intelligence simply absent, in the present age at least? Can Intelligence only operate through us? And is this the darkest hour of the darkest night of the human soul? More >>
