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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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Martin LeFevre: May Tibet Never Be Forgotten
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 5:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Dalai Lama has said that he may not reincarnate again, and if he does, it will not be in Tibet. He isn’t referring to illumination however. After all, bodhisattvas reincarnate; illumined beings incarnate. More >>
Toward an Effective Spiritual Progressivism
Friday, 28 May 2010, 2:15 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the main things I’m trying to do in this column is provide a new political philosophy and strategy that flows from spiritual insight and growth. But it’s like trying to build a gossamer bridge across the Grand Canyon. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Scientific and Religious Minds
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 12:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though the rain didn’t begin until mid-morning, by mid-afternoon the park that runs through town felt like a wild place. A light drizzle, almost imperceptible amongst the trees, fell as I walked along the redolent paths, devoid of people except for ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Dark Night of Man’s Soul
Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 3:55 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After some strong insights and strange events with a friend, I go to the parkland for a sitting and walk. The place is stupendous following another late-season storm this morning—redolent, lush, quiet, and mysterious. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Fifty Million Gallons and Counting
Monday, 17 May 2010, 1:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So far, fifty million gallons of oil have gushed forth from a mile down in the Gulf of Mexico. BP and its associates have opened a hole to hell, but the oil execs before Congress last week were only interested in media manipulation. Their testimony before ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Is Intelligent Life?
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 6:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the world’s premier celebrity brains, Stephen Hawking, says that humans should avoid contact with aliens at all costs. “I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Another Kind of Consciousness
Friday, 7 May 2010, 7:23 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s near dusk, and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks. At one point on the path, a large, brown, stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead of me with some small animal in its mouth. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Barack Lets Bashir Walk
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 1:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, has been reelected in a sham election. World citizens and civil society organizations urgently need to declare the election ... More >>
American Militarism and the McVeigh Tapes
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 1:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Timothy McVeigh had two primary defenses for committing the worst act of terrorism on American soil before 9.11, the Oklahoma City bombing 15 years ago this month. Both justifications are fully embedded the American tradition of militarism. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Problem of Evil
Friday, 16 April 2010, 1:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A recent conversation with a Buddhist teacher from India turned to the Buddha’s illumination. “The Buddha,” he said, “was attacked by Mara, but the Buddha came to see that the evil was within him.” That’s going hell too far. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Nuclear Half Measures
Monday, 12 April 2010, 11:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The stage is set for Israel to take military action against Iran. And Obama’s “new” nuclear policy opens the door to Israel’s use of nuclear weapons. How? A Nuclear Posture Review that carves out exceptions for “outliers like Iran and North Korea,” ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Intrinsic Intent of the Universe
Thursday, 8 April 2010, 12:05 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As I see it, human consciousness is an unexplained contradiction in the infinitely dynamic order of the universe. Consciousness is not ‘evolving,’ and things are going from bad to worse. Is there an understanding of the relationship between humankind ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Last Pope? Part Two
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 10:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The church that Jesus supposedly formed by telling his disciple Peter, “thou art Peter, and upon this rock I build my church,” is rife with pedophiliac priests, cover-up cardinals, and a pusillanimous pope. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Global Before Local
Monday, 22 March 2010, 12:05 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a curious juncture where conservatives and progressives agree. Both believe, to use George Bush Senior’s phrase, in the “thousand points of light” idea—that local solutions should take precedence over global approaches. More >>
Killer Whales and Killer Apes, Part Two
Friday, 19 March 2010, 3:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After my last column about the “Killer Whale” that drowned a female trainer in Florida, a reader pointed out that psychologically generated violence is not unheard of in nature. Even though exceptions do prove the rule, and the rule is the extreme ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Emergence of Intelligence
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 5:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Fog enshrouds the town as I enter the mountain community from the valley below. With a few hundred meters more of elevation, the fog clears, though the skies remain cloudy. Reaching the man-made lake, there is a brightening, and even a patch of blue. More >>
Killer Whales and Killer Apes
Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas (“Killer Whales”) are probably the smartest animals on earth other than humans (“Killer Apes”). A caged and exploited member of their species, “Tilly,” allegedly aggravated by a trainer’s ponytail, snuffed out her life at SeaWorld ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Atheists and Mystical Experience
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 5:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After a couple of beers at the local brewery, my atheist friend made the oft-heard claim that Jesus never existed. When I retorted with the cliché that he was throwing the baby out with the bathwater, he became somewhat irate, and called me a “Jesus ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Shaking Up the Global Society
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 2:25 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The huge earthquake in Chile—8.8 on the Richter scale, one of the largest ever recorded—drives home the point that it isn’t nature that’s at war with humankind, but humankind that’s at war with itself. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Troll Under the Bridge
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 3:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Why does Dick Cheney keep setting up this straw man of “we are at war, not dealing with criminal acts,” when the Obama Administration’s handling of captured alleged terrorists is essentially the same as the Bush Administration’s? More >>
