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AI Will Liberate Us From Thought Or Completely Enslave Us To It
Monday, 26 August 2024, 10:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Why are humans petty creatures of thought when we can be noble human beings of awareness? More >>
Before The Bubble Bursts And The Wave Breaks
Friday, 23 August 2024, 11:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When a democracy begins to slide into fascism, only a reckoning with the darkness and deadness at its core that’s giving rise to despotism can arrest the degeneration. More >>
Now, Or Not Now: That Is The Question
Monday, 19 August 2024, 2:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The human heart will catch fire at some point, and change the disastrous course of man. Even so, there is tremendous urgency. For there are a finite number of chances to change course, and we won’t know until we’ve made the turn, or blown by the ... More >>
Content-Consciousness Is The Impediment To Cosmic Consciousness
Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The first thing we have to admit is that consciousness is not “evolving.” Consciousness as we know it cannot evolve; it can only accumulate. More >>
Will Israel Use Its Nukes On Iran?
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The so-called international rules-based order is collapsing around us and on us. More >>
This Is The Foreseeable Future
Monday, 12 August 2024, 11:50 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Man may end with a bang or a whimper, but we cannot know the future beyond its present undeniable arc. More >>
Die While You’re Alive
Friday, 9 August 2024, 2:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Indeed, dying every day while fully alive not only makes life much more vibrant; it opens the door to the sacredness that suffuses the earth and the universe. But self and man must psychologically die for that to be. More >>
Negation Is The Essence Of Meditation
Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 10:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Other than two wild turkeys calling to each other nearby, and a few swallows skimming over the surface of the water, I saw or heard no animals until the end of the sitting. But after thought fell still and a meditative state had begun, there was a rustling ... More >>
Journalists, Please Stop Writing “Paradox” When You Mean Contradiction
Wednesday, 31 July 2024, 11:23 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The knotty contradiction of Norway encompasses both the evolutionary contradiction between man and nature, and the Gordian knot of the climate crisis in the present world. More >>
It’s Being Called An “Angry Fire”
Monday, 29 July 2024, 11:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For the earth, that man’s blight will not be halted, that even the wilderness burning north toward the Oregon border provides no sanctuary for animals or human beings, and this is the future. More >>
The Pervasiveness Of Inward Deadness Is Not The Result Of “The Deadening Effect Of The Super-Rich”
Friday, 26 July 2024, 1:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We, those who still care about the viability of the earth and the future of humanity, have to look deeper than boilerplate thinking on the left. More >>
Patriotism Vs. Nationalism Is A Distinction Without A Difference
Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 12:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is there a difference between patriotism and nationalism? Can you love your country without identifying with it? When does love of one’s country become hatred of humanity? More >>
The Sovereignty Of The Earth And Humanity
Friday, 19 July 2024, 11:09 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When even a small minority of human beings ignites insight through self-knowing, there will be a revolution in human consciousness as a whole that changes the disastrous course of man. More >>
Is Cognitive Decline Inevitable?
Friday, 12 July 2024, 12:14 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Cognitive decline is a deeply personal issue, and the only person who can convince Joe Biden to bow out gracefully for the sake of the nation and world is Jill Biden. More >>
Struggling Toward Consciousness
Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 11:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Intelligence is not a function of thought and knowledge at all, human or artificial. Its wellspring is the direct perception of beauty, which flows from undirected attention and effortless stillness. More >>
A Day Of Contrasts Between Darkness And Light
Friday, 5 July 2024, 12:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We have to look a lot deeper than “the battle between those who want to fix what is broken and those who want to keep breaking.” More >>
Can A New Foundation Be Poured Before The Complete Collapse Of The International Order?
Monday, 1 July 2024, 11:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In short, the spiritual, philosophical and political foundation has to be poured before a collapse occurs to change course when it does. More >>
Man Is Dead; What Is The Way Ahead?
Friday, 28 June 2024, 10:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is Buddhism as far removed from what Siddhartha lived and taught as Christianity has become from what Jesus lived and taught? Buddhism is a godless religion with which I have much sympathy, but little simpatico. I’m not using the word godless ... More >>
Explorations Beyond Time
Monday, 24 June 2024, 11:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So is time what keeps us from experiencing the beauty and sublimity of life, including the truth of death while fully alive, much to our detriment and decay? More >>
Attention Is Enough
Friday, 21 June 2024, 11:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Mystical experiencing cannot be contextualized within any given religion, tradition or culture. Its essence is ending the domination of conditioning and belief systems within, and the opening of the mind and heart to inviolability beyond any and all ... More >>
