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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Revisiting Where Man Went Wrong

Sunday, 26 April 2026, 3:05 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

No amount of knowledge will save us, and certainly not AI. We have the capacity for another, true order of consciousness, flowing from the brain’s potential for insight. More >>

Why I’m Not A Buddhist

Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 1:48 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Though science & technology have advanced exponentially because the west prized reason over inner life since Aristotle (with Locke codifying rationality as the cornerstone of the Enlightenment), inwardly and psychologically, we’ve reached a dead end More >>

In Quieting The Chatter Of Human Language, One Hears The Languages Of Animals

Monday, 20 April 2026, 10:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

My worldview was thrown into doubt. I had always believed that only humans committed murder, but here I had proof beyond reasonable doubt that a jay had intentionally killed another bird. More >>

Agency Is Bullshit, In Humans Or Chatbots

Saturday, 18 April 2026, 2:59 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

We human beings have to gain deepening insight into the place of memory, knowledge and thought within ourselves if we are to put and keep thought machines in their place. More >>

What Does It Mean To Collaborate At The Core Of Consciousness?

Thursday, 16 April 2026, 1:14 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

‘How did nature, which unfolds in seamless wholeness, evolve a creature that is fragmenting the Earth all to hell?’ More >>

In Surrender Of Memory

Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 12:52 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

By attentively letting go of psychological memory, the mind has the space and energy to see and create anew. More importantly, beyond words there is direct awareness of the transcendent actualities of beauty and love. More >>

Confront Power Per Se, Not Just The Powers That Be

Sunday, 12 April 2026, 4:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

To end violence, including the violence of oppression and war, power must be deconstructed and superseded by intelligence, not taken as an unchangeable aspect of human nature and socio-political organization. More >>

Humans Don't Matter To Cosmic Intelligence

Thursday, 9 April 2026, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

See the earth and people anew every day. But living in terms of the known totally impedes direct perception, stillness and insight. More >>

We Don’t Need To Leave The Planet To See And Feel The Earth

Tuesday, 7 April 2026, 11:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

From a scientific perspective, how could the earth and all the life on it emerge from “a whole lot of nothing” anyway? More >>

A Contemplative Understanding Of Jesus

Sunday, 5 April 2026, 12:47 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The essence of the historical Jesus was forgiveness. More >>

The Exapted Human Brain

Friday, 3 April 2026, 10:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The human brain, which is generating more and more fragmentation by using thought unwisely, contains the capacity for insight beyond knowledge creation. Awakening that potential will enable us to use thought, including AI thought machines, wisely. More >>

Can We Change The Basic Course Of Man?

Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 1:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Meditation is a doorway into a deeper and immeasurably truer level of being, a portal beyond the stifling, cumulative human past into the infinite, regenerative present. More >>

The Collective Crisis Of The Present Is Not Just A “Weird Detour” From The Past

Saturday, 28 March 2026, 4:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

March on No Kings Day if you want, but see that the movements of the 1960’s can’t save us from the miasma of the 2020’s. More >>

True Dialogue Is A Symphony Of Shared Meaning And Insight

Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 5:16 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

True dialogue begins with humility, which flows from a foundation of “I don’t know.” As Socrates said, the difference between him and other philosophers of his time was that “I know that I don't know.” More >>

What Can We Do During This Global Collapse?

Monday, 23 March 2026, 1:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

When enough people see that the world is not separate from us and that radical change begins within us, a psychological revolution will ignite and change the disastrous course of man. More >>

Man's An Inverse In The Universe

Friday, 20 March 2026, 1:03 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Though I’m sometimes accused of it, I’ve never understood why anyone would try to save this mad, dark world. It’s not about saving the world; it’s about inwardly saving oneself and humanity, which are basically the same thing. More >>

Is Human History Coming To A Head?

Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 9:40 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The author asks if the ongoing war is the ultimate confrontation between good and evil in human consciousness. Perhaps, though no one can know if it's humankind's last chance to change course until after the matter is resolved one way or another. More >>

Martin LeFevre - Meditations