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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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The Observer Is an Infinite Regress
Friday, 25 June 2010, 2:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is the brain capable of observing without an observer? What is the observer? What part does it play in the division, conflict, and fragmentation of the world? These are crucial questions, not only for awakening the meditative state, or even for psychological ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Mandela, Obama, and Greatness
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 2:34 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“Invictus” is the latest in Clint Eastwood’s streak of good to excellent directorial forays in the autumn of his career. Though a bit lumbering, predictable, and sentimental, it’s worth two hours of your life, if only to ponder the arc of Nelson Mandela’s ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Case of Peter Erlinder
Friday, 18 June 2010, 10:17 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A small item in the news about the arrest in Rwanda of the leading defense lawyer for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Peter Erlinder, has big implications for the international rule of law. Why is it that international lawyers ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Catholic Church On Its Knees
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 1:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Before fifteen thousand priests from around the world, the Pope apologized for the child abuse “filth” that was uncovered this year in the Catholic Church. “We, too, insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, while promising ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Hole In America’s Soul
Thursday, 10 June 2010, 2:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The black goo spewing from the abyss is a complete metaphor for the hole in America’s soul. Indeed, the dark crude erupting in the Gulf of Mexico is so rich in metaphysical symbolism, that one can’t help but heed the call to “drill, baby drill.” More >>
Martin LeFevre: Beyond the Matrix
Monday, 7 June 2010, 4:07 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Set to the lyrics from Willy Wonka’s “A world of pure imagination,” the business ad invites participants into a brave new world of technology, where the only reality is what the mind and self invent at whim. More >>
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 >>
