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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Both The Right And The Left Are Making Mutually Assured Destruction A Reality

Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Clearly it isn’t just right-wing extremists that threaten the world. The left has lost its mind as well. There is no such fucking thing as national security, and the more political, media and academic leaders adhere to it, the more insecure they help ... More >>

Blown Away In My Backyard

Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 1:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

A meditation on a beautiful, sunny afternoon is salubrious, but a meditation amidst the elemental forces of nature is shattering. Everything you know or think you know, everything you’ve experienced and carefully built up, is stripped away. You can ... More >>

Is This A 1989 Moment?

Monday, 24 February 2025, 10:19 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The year 1989 signifies not just the end of the Cold War, but the opportunity for humankind to move in a new direction. That window of opportunity only lasted a few months, before the hellish days in Russia and the halcyon days in America ushered ... More >>

What Is A Human Being?

Thursday, 20 February 2025, 10:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The idea of “my country” being primary is anathema to the human being. Though the vast majority of humans have identified with particular groups for thousands of years, a small minority of human beings has always emotionally realized that they ... More >>

Does Cosmic Intelligence Care About Humanity?

Friday, 14 February 2025, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

No amount of activism or number of mass movements can meet the crisis of man. The undivided individual contains the whole of humanity. More >>

Relations Between Canada And America Are At Their Lowest Point Since The American Revolutionary War

Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

This Nationalistic Race to the Bottom Is Compelling a Global Summit More >>

History Is Not A Game

Friday, 31 January 2025, 9:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

That conclusion manages to be both redundant and wrongheaded at the same time. A game indicates an eventual outcome, and there is no final outcome to human history, unless we drive our species into extinction, as Homo sapiens is driving half the ... More >>

The Transcendent Brain

Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 12:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

After having been immersed in the childish rituals of the Catholic Church growing up, I became averse to rituals & belief systems by my middle teens. Therefore I had no interest in methods, systems & traditions of meditation, which are fabrications ... More >>

Localism Is A Dead End; It’s All Glocal Now

Friday, 24 January 2025, 3:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The cliché “local solutions for local problems” becomes nonsensical without awareness of the planetary crises facing all of human beings. By refusing to see and deal with things as a whole, localism exacerbates of the very problems it purports ... More >>

The Wasted Interregnums Of Obama And Biden

Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Since neither Obama nor Biden was capable of speaking from the clarity, insight and passion required for meeting the psycho-spiritual crisis in the USA, both interregnums were wasted. More >>

Good Does Not Fight Evil, But Stands Firm And Dispels It

Monday, 20 January 2025, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The die is cast where Trump, the United States and the post-World War II order are concerned. The failure of insight and imagination by academic, media and political elites, exemplified in the moronic “good Trump, bad Trump” fantasy, feeds the ... More >>

Waiting For Trump: How Bad Will It Be?

Friday, 17 January 2025, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

There aren’t two America’s anymore than there are two political parties. There’s just one, and it’s Trump’s America. He will do his worst. More >>

The Darkest Hour Before Dawn Or The Sum Of All Dark Ages?

Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 10:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Given the global ecological, psycho-spiritual, economic and political crisis of humankind, is there a latent exaptation that can be released which will enable us to meet the present climacteric? Yes, the universal capacity for flashes and states of insight. More >>

From Symbolic Consciousness To Insight Consciousness

Thursday, 9 January 2025, 2:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

No computer, however complex it may become in a simulacrum of sentience, will ever be able to approach the state of silence and insight, and communion with death and love that is the birthright of the human being. More >>

Neuroscience’s Misleading Half-Truths

Friday, 3 January 2025, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Diversity arises from wholeness, not from particularity. The notion that life can be reduced to its “basic building blocks” is a fundamental philosophical mistake of many scientists, who project the basic premise of thought—separation—onto ... More >>