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Martin LeFevre: In the Light of the Earth
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 9:39 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“In the Shadow of the Moon” is a documentary film that captures something of what it was like to go to the moon. In it, the astronauts recount their experiences and give their perspectives and insights. And the most interesting astronaut of the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Why Meditate?
Friday, 2 May 2008, 12:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Living in a cultural desert, as we all do in the West, and as every one increasingly does in this meaningless, consumeristic global society, meditation is the art of digging one’s own inner well daily. It’s become a matter of survival. More >>
The Democratic Primary is the Main Event
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 10:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Democratic presidential primaries in the United States will soon be in the hands of the fabled ‘superdelegates.’ For them it will come down to one simple question: Who is more electable in November? Who can beat John McCain, the Republican nominee—Hillary ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Enlightenment of Hillary
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 10:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The most interesting thing said so far during the torturous Democratic campaign came, improbably, from that sage, Hillary Clinton. Intoning in Pennsylvania on Obama’s remarks in San Francisco about people “clinging to guns and religion,” she said, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Action of Unknowing
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 11:38 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s amazingly quiet for a Saturday afternoon in the municipal park, even at the upper end, furthest from the city center. A nice place overlooking the stream is unoccupied, and I sit down with my back to the sun, surrounded by the new foliage ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Origin and Operation of Evil
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 11:34 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the greatest impediments to the inward and intellectual growth of Homo sapiens is the illusion that we humans are evolving positively. It simply isn’t so that we are progressing as a species, except scientifically and technologically. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Dimension Beyond Time
Friday, 11 April 2008, 1:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A high, thin layer of clouds fills the western sky, blunting the warmth of the sun and giving the land a subtly somber cast. The little stream on the edge of town is now full enough to create a cascade over a step of rocks, as it wends it way along ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Flowering of Humanity
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 9:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Spring is at its zenith in the canyon beyond town. Above the narrow gorge that cuts through the half- mile wide canyon, there is a rocky field covered with orange poppies and blue lupines. Walking through it, there is nothing but that color, and the heart ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Roots of War
Friday, 4 April 2008, 1:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A large band of male chimpanzees gathers in a clearing in a reserve in Uganda. They have a common goal, and groom each other with great intensity, communicating through touch the desire of their group mind. Suddenly, on some inscrutable cue, they silently ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Presidential Campaign Blues
Friday, 28 March 2008, 4:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Politics is much too serious a business not to have fun doing it. But how long ago three months seem, when the choices were fresh and the races exciting. Now, popping up alongside the flowers of spring, are the same old poisonous fungi of backbiting ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Went Wrong Jesus?
Sunday, 23 March 2008, 3:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Today is Good Friday, the most solemn day in the Christian calendar. On this day believers commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus, seeing it as the ultimate sacrifice and the fulfilment of his mission. Nothing could be further from the truth. More >>
Regarding Texts, Traditions, and Truth
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It was the strangest and most beautiful sky I’d ever seen. After witnessing three dramatic changes in weather within an hour, I stood transfixed looking back on the sycamore I sat under. Its white bark gleamed in the bright, setting sun, with an ... More >>
The Dimension Beyond Time
Thursday, 13 March 2008, 1:39 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A high, thin layer of clouds fills the western sky, blunting the warmth of the sun and giving the land a subtly somber cast. The little stream on the edge of town is now full enough to create a cascade over a step of rocks, as it wends it way along ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Bleeding From Flag Pins
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 3:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To the cry, ‘we want our country back!’ thousands flock and dozens faint at Obama rallies, which resemble those huge gatherings of evangelical Christians in football stadiums. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Of Eclipses And Sacred Places
Monday, 25 February 2008, 10:07 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I sit in the backyard and watch as the terrestrial shadow engulfs our nearest celestial neighbor. In a few more minutes of timeless mystery, the colorless glow is gone. Two nearby stars stand like sentinels over the event, forming a flattened triangle. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Worst President’s Day
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 9:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Today is Presidents’ Day in the USA. George Bush is in Africa on his second trip to the continent. He’s not even making an appearance in neighboring strife-torn Kenya, and he’s ignoring the slaughter in Darfur that his administration labeled ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Campaign, Movement, Or Revolution?
Friday, 15 February 2008, 9:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The presidential race in America grows more exciting by the week, at least on the Democratic side. The question is: Does all this excitement spell real change, or does it confirm that hope springs infernal? More >>
Martin LeFevre: America's Spiritual War Zone
Friday, 8 February 2008, 10:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Barack Obama, bless his soul, is trying to inject hope into a people that have lost theirs. He will win the presidency if he gains the Democratic nomination, but he won't get the nomination unless Ungrateful Deadheads no longer rule the land. More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Is Illumination?
Monday, 4 February 2008, 2:56 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As I understand it, illumination occurs when attention remains relatively constant, so that the material of the past does not leach back into the spaces of the mind. Then one lives in a steady state of awareness and insight. More >>
Radical Change, Zeitgeist & Presidential Politics
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 12:33 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In the ‘90’s, I never understood why the Republicans hated the Clintons so much. Their vituperation and vitriol always struck me as slightly insane. But now, though I have no more sympathy for Republican philosophy or positions, I comprehend their ... More >>
