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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: The Lessons of Mugabe
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 1:53 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The failure of the so-called international community, including African leaders, to stand up to Robert Mugabe, shows how inadequate the 20th century international framework is in a 21st century global society. More >>
Meditation Is Attention, Not Concentration
Friday, 20 June 2008, 2:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
An unhappy looking fellow exits his SUV as I approach on foot. Two dogs spill out, and he heads up the dirt path in front of me. Of course he turns off the trail at my favorite sitting spot by the stream, so I walk on to the alternate place. More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Kind of Revolution?
Saturday, 7 June 2008, 4:09 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In August, Barack Obama will be the first person of color nominated by a major party in the United States. It is looking like Obama is destined to be president. But something much larger than him, indeed, much larger than America, is going on. More >>
Regarding Sacrileges and Sacrifices
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 12:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I am about to commit the worst sacrilege a person can in America today. You can rob banks or start wars, but crossing this line will land you in social Siberia. Especially on Memorial Day, which purportedly commemorates the men and women who have died in ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Animal Encounters
Monday, 26 May 2008, 1:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The wind has burnished the air, and every cliff, hillside, slope, and rock stand out in sharp relief, accented by fine streams of white clouds that fill half the sky. The beauty is so overwhelming I can hardly string two thoughts together. More >>
Sub-Humans, Humans, and Human Beings
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 6:57 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
New findings and nuanced theories have been coming out recently regarding the clash in Europe between Neanderthals and the first fully modern humans, the Cro Magnons, tens of thousands of years ago. These findings speak of the last great breakthrough ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Is the Tide Turning?
Monday, 19 May 2008, 9:39 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Now that it’s all over but the shouting and crying for the Hillbillary campaign, America is faced with the stark contrast between Barack Obama and John McCain. Of course, Hillary will only bow out when the party bosses, led by the likes of Diane ... More >>
The Big Bang Is Not Creation
Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 10:34 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though the sky is clear overhead and sunshine bathes the land, clouds have banked up against the foothills, with the look of an impending thunderstorm. Alongside the creek at the upper end of the parkland, the wind suddenly roars in, whipping the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: In the Light of the Earth
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 9:39 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“In the Shadow of the Moon” is a documentary film that captures something of what it was like to go to the moon. In it, the astronauts recount their experiences and give their perspectives and insights. And the most interesting astronaut of the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Why Meditate?
Friday, 2 May 2008, 12:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Living in a cultural desert, as we all do in the West, and as every one increasingly does in this meaningless, consumeristic global society, meditation is the art of digging one’s own inner well daily. It’s become a matter of survival. More >>
The Democratic Primary is the Main Event
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 10:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Democratic presidential primaries in the United States will soon be in the hands of the fabled ‘superdelegates.’ For them it will come down to one simple question: Who is more electable in November? Who can beat John McCain, the Republican nominee—Hillary ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Enlightenment of Hillary
Saturday, 26 April 2008, 10:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The most interesting thing said so far during the torturous Democratic campaign came, improbably, from that sage, Hillary Clinton. Intoning in Pennsylvania on Obama’s remarks in San Francisco about people “clinging to guns and religion,” she said, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Action of Unknowing
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 11:38 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s amazingly quiet for a Saturday afternoon in the municipal park, even at the upper end, furthest from the city center. A nice place overlooking the stream is unoccupied, and I sit down with my back to the sun, surrounded by the new foliage ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Origin and Operation of Evil
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 11:34 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the greatest impediments to the inward and intellectual growth of Homo sapiens is the illusion that we humans are evolving positively. It simply isn’t so that we are progressing as a species, except scientifically and technologically. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Dimension Beyond Time
Friday, 11 April 2008, 1:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A high, thin layer of clouds fills the western sky, blunting the warmth of the sun and giving the land a subtly somber cast. The little stream on the edge of town is now full enough to create a cascade over a step of rocks, as it wends it way along ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Flowering of Humanity
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 9:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Spring is at its zenith in the canyon beyond town. Above the narrow gorge that cuts through the half- mile wide canyon, there is a rocky field covered with orange poppies and blue lupines. Walking through it, there is nothing but that color, and the heart ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Roots of War
Friday, 4 April 2008, 1:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A large band of male chimpanzees gathers in a clearing in a reserve in Uganda. They have a common goal, and groom each other with great intensity, communicating through touch the desire of their group mind. Suddenly, on some inscrutable cue, they silently ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Presidential Campaign Blues
Friday, 28 March 2008, 4:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Politics is much too serious a business not to have fun doing it. But how long ago three months seem, when the choices were fresh and the races exciting. Now, popping up alongside the flowers of spring, are the same old poisonous fungi of backbiting ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Went Wrong Jesus?
Sunday, 23 March 2008, 3:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Today is Good Friday, the most solemn day in the Christian calendar. On this day believers commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus, seeing it as the ultimate sacrifice and the fulfilment of his mission. Nothing could be further from the truth. More >>
Regarding Texts, Traditions, and Truth
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It was the strangest and most beautiful sky I’d ever seen. After witnessing three dramatic changes in weather within an hour, I stood transfixed looking back on the sycamore I sat under. Its white bark gleamed in the bright, setting sun, with an ... More >>
