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Martin LeFevre: Back in the USSR
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 1:01 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A professor of mathematics at the local college, who left the Soviet Union just before its dissolution, makes a most scathing indictment of the social and political atmosphere in present-day America. Old enough to remember Khrushchev, he says, “America today ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: A Realm Beyond Sorrow
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 2:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Hawks screech from all directions in the parkland, and birds play raucously and joyfully. Friendliness and joy are also reflected in the faces of many of the people who are using the park for every conceivable activity—walking, running, horseback riding, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Disturbing Juxtaposition
Friday, 18 November 2005, 11:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Autumn is at its peak here in northern California, and I have never seen the parkland more beautiful than it is today. Footpaths are lined with orange and red foliage, and the creek runs clear, strong, and full. More >>
Meditations: Positive Thinking is Negative Acting
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 12:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A local reader wrote to say that she felt my last column , and my writing generally, was quite “dark.” She stated that “our minds will be dark when we think darkly,” and went on to echo one of the most pernicious philosophies America has ever dished ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Transforming Darkness Within
Friday, 4 November 2005, 11:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There was a time, not so long ago, when there was space for the individual to be different, and to forge a new path in a new place. Now there is physically, and increasingly psychologically, no place left to get away from the madding crowd. More >>
Open Letter to Incoming President of Tanzania
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 11:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Dear Hon. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, When people in the North think of Tanzania, most imagine safaris to view big-game animals on the Serengeti plains, or Africa’s highest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro. Many have images of intractable poverty. Some recall Julius ... More >>
LeFevre: Ending Time is the True Fountain of Youth
Monday, 17 October 2005, 11:44 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As Einstein proved, time is elastic, slowing down as the speed of light is approached. But if that is true of physical time, how much more elastic, and illusory, is psychological time? More >>
Al Gore Explains "America’s Alternate Universe"
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 12:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Former Vice-President Al Gore gave a speech recently that ranged from cultural commentary to political philosophy to a prescription for saving American democracy . He covered everything except the real reason he lost to George W. Bush in 2000, and how it relates ... More >>
Terrestrial & Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Friday, 7 October 2005, 4:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Have species possessing thought on other planets gone through the same planetary crisis that humankind is now going through? If so, are they aware of our plight, and can they help? More >>
Martin LeFevre: Enquiry is Social Meditation
Monday, 3 October 2005, 1:19 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The word “dialogue” is so overused and misused that it is no longer useful. Too many people mean too many things by the term. I prefer the word ‘enquiry’ (‘inquiry’ being a formal legal investigation). More >>
Attachment and Meditation
Friday, 30 September 2005, 2:42 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Meditation cannot truly begin until the mind/brain lets go of everything. No trick or technique can cause it to do so. Only undivided observation loosens the bonds and ends the grooves of thought. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Omega Point? No, Pi Point!
Friday, 23 September 2005, 10:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As Wikipedia defines it, “the Omega point is a term used by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the aim towards which consciousness evolves…he held that evolution was a process converging toward a final unity.” But at least where humankind is concerned, ... More >>
Meditations: Both the UN and the US are Irrelevant
Monday, 19 September 2005, 2:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The devastation along the Gulf Coast foretells the collapse of the American empire, and verifies a vacuum of leadership in the global society. The US government was unable to manage an expected crisis within its own borders; how then can anyone expect ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Taking the Larger and Longer View
Friday, 16 September 2005, 11:11 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The antithesis (not the opposite) of beauty and truth is the reality of darkness and evil. Good and evil are not opposing forces, but completely unrelated. Goodness, which is not man-made, is an actuality, whereas evil, which is man-made, is a reality. More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Is Illumination?
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a lot of talk about illumination these days, most of it throwing little light on the subject. The interest no doubt reflects a hunger for spiritual substance, as religions and beliefs slide into the ash heap of history. But can a discussion ... More >>
Meditations: Reincarnation - Fact but not Truth?
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 3:42 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
An inventor--a man whose name I happily forget but who was called “Edison’s successor” by the interviewer—claimed recently that in 30 or 40 years science will be capable of making us immortal. The issue for 50-somethings like himself, he intoned, is to ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Jesus Died for Nothing
Monday, 22 August 2005, 2:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Just as the perversion of Mohammed’s teaching has produced bin Laden and the evil of Al Qeda, so too the perversion of Jesus’ teaching has produced George Bush and the evil of the US military machine. More >>
Revolution in Consciousness? Not Yet!
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 7:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Dusk is quickly descending. Moments after sitting down at streamside, I hear something in the water a short distance downstream. I turn to see a young, but full-grown deer standing in the shallow current. At the same moment, it spots me, and a split second ... More >>
LeFevre: The Atomic Bombings and America’s Soul
Monday, 1 August 2005, 1:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It is the lie that began the long decline to America’s loss of its soul. The people are still fed, and still swallow, the propaganda that began 60 years ago, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were leveled. As Time magazine echoed for the umpteenth time this week: ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Portal of Sound
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 1:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The meditative state began, I see now, the moment I saw the sharply etched hills against the blue and cirrus-clad sky. Feeling drawn to the hills rather than directing action toward them, I pedaled out into the country on the bike. More >>
