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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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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 >>
The Collapse of Communism and Capitalism
Monday, 23 November 2009, 12:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s worth reflecting, now that all the hollow reminiscing and disgusting triumphalism is over, on the collapse of communism 20 years ago. America is finally waking up to the fact that we have collapsed as well. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Falling Leaves, and Squirrels
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 12:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One is so accustomed to seeing the gray squirrels in the parkland leap from branch to branch with perfect dexterity that it came as quite a shock to see one miss his mark and fall into the creek. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Day of the Living Dead
Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The dead man living next door cut down the three finest trees on the block soon after moving in. It’s difficult to fathom, but the living have to fathom the dead, for they are destroying the earth and humanity. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Catholic or Universal?
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 11:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I had an aunt that was a nun in the Catholic Church. Even as a kid, I never saw her as religious person however. She was a career woman in a black habit, at a time when there were two choices for Catholic women: marry a man and have kids; or marry Jesus ... More >>
