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Martin LeFevre: The Last Pope?
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 12:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So now we (the ‘we’ in this case is most problematic) have a new pope whose diffident exterior masks a doctrinaire interior. The Catholic Church could have embraced worldwide ecumenism. Instead it is, in Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting its medieval claim to ... More >>
Bush & Rumsfeld: They’ve Lost the 'War of Ideas'
Monday, 4 September 2006, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President Bush made an extraordinary statement at his unexpected news conference on August 21st. He said: “the consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done…[is that] we will have lost our soul as a nation.” The Nazis used that kind of rhetorical ... More >>
Meditations: Consciousness, Evolution & Revolution
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 11:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Because human history, which is enfolded in the consciousness of every living person, is so ancient, there is a deep assumption that the basic course of humankind cannot be altered. But human consciousness is in an escalating crisis, and the cycles of ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Return and Become Like Children
Thursday, 17 August 2006, 9:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A hundred meters upstream, a little girl jumps up and down and runs small circles in the shallows of the stream. In between these contented antics, she dashes back and forth to her parents sitting on the bank, touching them each time for reassurance. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Faith, Reason, & Insight
Monday, 14 August 2006, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If the events of recent weeks and years have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the realities of belief and irrationality. But that always was a Hobson’s choice, and there is ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Earth Is a Mirror
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 5:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a day that will reach nearly 45 degrees Celsius. There is a feeling, while walking in the late morning through the brown grass in the canyon beyond town, which is at once exhilarating and enervating. One cannot help but appreciate the essential ... More >>
Apocalypse Means "The Uncovering of Hell"
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The events of the past couple weeks in the Middle East are almost enough to make one quit writing political pieces, and stick to the contemplative dimension. But that would be too easy. Besides, as an Israeli field commander said, “nothing is ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Is Nuclear War Inevitable?
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 1:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Last week North Korea, defying even its only ally in the world, China, launched a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a failed multi-stage rocket that burned for less than a minute. Beyond the games that governments play, how serious ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Teach Your Children Well
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A hundred meters upstream a young African-American boy, thin as a reed, walks gingerly into the shallow stream. He is quickly followed by his older and chunkier sister, and by their massive (in height and girth) father. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Africa Is the Homeland of Humanity
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The interminable and unconscionable nightmare of Darfur exemplifies the utter inadequacy of the United Nations and the international/multilateral system. Sudan, a bottom-tier country that is responsible for years of “slow motion genocide,” is dictating whether ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Kind of Revolution?
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 2:56 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After a workout on the track just before noon on the hottest day of the year so far, I stop at the park on the way home to cool off. Sitting on a log by the side of the stream, I put on water sandals and ease the body into the chilly water. More >>
Martin LeFevre: It’s All ‘Domestic Terror’ Now
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When Timothy McVeigh and cohorts blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the American media initially blamed Muslim extremists. Now, five years after 9/11, a score of Canadian “homegrown terrorists” have been arrested ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Feeling the Breath of God
Friday, 9 June 2006, 11:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The cycles of birth and death in nature collapse into the timeless present as I sit on the bank overlooking the stream. As meditation deepens, there is the insight that the birth and death of the universe are but the exhalation and inhalation of the ... More >>
The Logical End of "Support Our Troops" Idiocy
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 4:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“You have done well, that men must lay their murders on your neck.” The troops who committed the slaughter at Haditha should seize that line from Shakespeare’s Othello and affix it to George Bush, in connection with the murders they committed in Haditha ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Observing the Observer
Friday, 2 June 2006, 2:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Instead of scaring up a couple of ducks as I ride down the dirt path to the creek, I surprise a man standing in the middle of the stream. He is foraging in the hip deep water, but I don’t ask why. We say hello and I sit a little way upstream to ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Goliath vs. Global Governance
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A book currently being touted in the major media in the United States is “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century.” In it Michael Mandelbaum says, “The American performance [at world government] is better ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Being Human Is No Longer an Option
Friday, 19 May 2006, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Spring is on the downslide in the Central Valley, and literally on the upside in the mountains. After the record-breaking rains of March and April, the land is extraordinarily verdant, especially around the creeks. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Genesis of Genocide
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 11:44 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s fashionable these days to blur the line between animal and human consciousness. As a Kiwi living in Oregon said in a recent letter with regard to my claim that animals don’t have psychological memory, “there is really no sharp demarcation between animal ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Does God Give a Damn?
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 1:17 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Being a philosopher of no faith, in the sense of a belief system, and of shaky faith, in the sense of trust without evidence, I have the perennial question about whether there are ultimately three or just two movements in human consciousness. More >>
Martin LeFevre: An Excess of Memory
Friday, 21 April 2006, 11:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Suddenly the light and the water changed dramatically. The rain had just stopped, and an intensely blue-gray cast filled the eastern sky over the Saginaw Bay. The tide had also gone out, and the wind was blowing offshore, so that the bay appeared ... More >>
