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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: Knowledge, Tradition, and Insight
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 10:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In ancient times, and not so long ago in many parts of the world, each tradition was completely distinct and whole. Tradition wasn’t something that a people had; it was the total way of life in which people were completely immersed. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Vanishing Man in America
Monday, 15 February 2010, 10:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is no better indicator of the zeitgeist in America than Super Bowl commercials. The trend in this year’s ads was summarized by such headlines as: “Appealing to the Downtrodden Man;” and “Super Bowl Commercials About Women Emasculating ... More >>
Arusha: A Light in the Genocidal Darkness?
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 1:19 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Arusha Tanzania is uniquely positioned to take the lead in forging an end to genocide. In 1994, neighboring Rwanda experienced the second worst genocide since the Holocaust, after Cambodia. For the last decade, Arusha has been host to the International Criminal ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Wellsprings of Insight
Monday, 8 February 2010, 2:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Indigenous people felt that the rocks and rivers, clouds and creeks were alive with spirit. In the few native cultures that are still relatively intact, people still do. Science has conditioned modern people to believe this way of seeing is superstition, ... More >>
What Comes After Obama, and America?
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 10:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The day before his annual State of the Union speech, President Obama telegraphed his disillusionment with the job: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” More >>
Martin LeFevre: Our Place In the Universe
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 1:39 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For at least 100,000 years, since ‘modern man’ first emerged from East Africa, we have been as we are—tribal, self-centered, and dominated by the adaptive strategy of ‘higher thought.’ Now, as the fragmentation of the earth and humanity by the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Meditation Isn't Navel Staring
Friday, 22 January 2010, 2:56 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A reader asks, “Can the people who have a natural talent to quiet their thoughts and clean their mind, not by effort and struggling, but only through insight, point the way for others?” More >>
Haiti and the ‘Global War on Terror’
Friday, 15 January 2010, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Over two weeks after a boyish looking Nigerian, trained in Yemen, attempted to blow up an airliner with his underwear, the failed terrorist attempt was only driven from the top of the news in the United States by the flattening of Haiti. More >>
When the Truth Is Called Defeatism
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 11:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When activists in America consider the unbelievable apathy of the American people, there are generally two reactions. The first is to invoke the hackneyed ideology of ‘the people as victims of an oppressive government;’ the second is to psychologize ... More >>
Bach - The Language of the Heart
Thursday, 31 December 2009, 2:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is no greater composer of the language of the emotions than J.S. Bach. To listen with all of one’s being to his works is to feel at once salved, saved, and stretched. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Bach—The Language of the Heart
Thursday, 31 December 2009, 11:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is no greater composer of the language of the emotions than J.S. Bach. To listen with all of one’s being to his works is to feel at once salved, saved, and stretched. More >>
Martin LeFevre:The Decade of Darkness
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As the Decade of Darkness draws to a close, thinking and feeling people find themselves asking: Is a breakthrough in human consciousness imminent? Or is the first decade of the 21st century the beginning of the first global Dark Age? More >>
Martin LeFevre: Jesus and Nature
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 11:02 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Two hundred meters downstream, on the bank of a creek that flows during winter and spring along the edge of town, sits a great sycamore. It’s home to a pair of kestrels, a small species of falcon that has one of the most beautiful flight patterns in nature. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Global Warming As Metaphor
Monday, 21 December 2009, 2:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The verdict is in. Copenhagen proved that national governments and international institutions, even led by the wunderkind Barack Obama, cannot and will not provide an adequate response to the man-made ecological crisis. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The First Question
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The greatest question that science and religion aren’t asking pertains to the relationship between humans and the cosmos. Specifically, how did Homo sapiens, which evolved along with all other life, evolve the power to become such a destructive force. More >>
The Nobel Speech Obama Should Have Given
Friday, 11 December 2009, 1:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Fellow citizens of the world, I stand before you in a time of undeclared war to accept the world’s greatest commendation for peace. It is in this contradiction we, the peoples of the world, find ourselves; and it is from this contradiction that we must ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Barack Loses His Base
Friday, 4 December 2009, 1:45 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In a weak address on Tuesday evening, falling far short of his best oratory, President Barack Obama made his case to the American people, the Afghan people, and the world for literally ‘doubling down’ in Afghanistan I was prepared to come down hard ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Barack Loses His Base
Friday, 4 December 2009, 8:23 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In a weak address on Tuesday evening, falling far short of his best oratory, President Barack Obama made his case to the American people, the Afghan people, and the world for literally ‘doubling down’ in Afghanistan I was prepared to come down hard ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Brain Need Not Grow Old
Monday, 30 November 2009, 12:06 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By the time I take my seat beside the little creek that runs along the perimeter of the town, there’s only ten minutes of direct, warm sunshine left in a bright autumn day in northern California. The earth’s rotation slowly turns down the burner, ... More >>
The Collapse of Communism and Capitalism, Part 2
Friday, 27 November 2009, 1:18 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Someone from a Baptist Church in Kansas sent me a nasty, Muslim-hating mass mailing in reaction to my last column. It goes to show that people can proclaim a belief in God and still be godless, which has nothing to do with belief (or deity for that ... More >>
