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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: Barack Provides Insight
Monday, 6 April 2009, 12:34 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For those who could didn’t fall asleep during Barack Obama’s often somnolescent news conference after the 20 Richest Nations (aka G-20) summit in London, he provided insight into his views on capitalism, on American leadership, and on his de facto ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: A War By Any Other Name
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 12:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Afghanistan has replaced Iraq as America’s main war. That means the mantra of progressives that we ‘took our eye off the ball by invading Iraq’ has come back to haunt us. More >>
Spring, Consciousness, and Transformation
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 2:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Big splashes of poppies, lupines, and a half dozen other wildflowers carpet the green slopes in the semi-protected canyon just outside of the city. More >>
AIG: America Is Godforsaken
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 3:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“Bankrupts, hold fast; rather than render back, out with your knives, and cut your trusters’ throats.” - Shakespeare, Timon of Athens More >>
The Religiosity of “Religulous”
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Bill Maher’s excoriation of organized religion, “Religulous” (first part of the word religion, second part of ridiculous) does not fit easily into any comedic or cinematic category. It is at once scathingly funny, spot on, and disturbingly ... More >>
Pakistani Students, Meet Middle America
Friday, 13 March 2009, 2:45 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Eleven university students from the tribal areas of Pakistan, the furthest reaches of George Bush’s ‘global war on terror,’ were guests of the local college for seven weeks. I had the chance to listen to and talk with them, within limits, about ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Jesus in the Garden
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 11:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Even as a child, the story of Jesus sweating blood in the Garden of Gethsemane captured my imagination. And even as a teenager, I doubted the Catholic/Christian version of that event. More >>
Rush Limbaugh In 2012?
Friday, 6 March 2009, 12:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The porcine blowhard Rush Limbaugh, dressed and acting like a deranged gangster, gave the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (C-PAC) on February 28. Rush looked like a latter-day Mussolini, and talked like a man preparing ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Babies and Old Men
Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 10:01 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After two weeks of inclement weather bringing much-needed rain to California, magnificent masses of cumulus clouds grace every quadrant of the sky. The snow-capped Coastal Range is as clear and spectacular as I’ve ever seen it. More >>
Martin LeFevre: “Day of Reckoning”
Friday, 27 February 2009, 10:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Living in America, I have long wondered when life would place limits on a way of life so removed from reality, so dedicated to superficiality, so devoid of meaning. Now I have my answer. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Roots of Racism
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 1:18 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Looking over the books on a friend’s bookshelf, I spotted a thick tome on evolution, replete with pictures of various fauna and flora. “You can have that one, I don’t believe in evolution anymore.” Dumbfounded, I replied, “Oh, and did you stop ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Reincarnation Revisited
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 11:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For one intensely brilliant minute, a golden sun, more pure and riveting in its hue than I’ve ever seen it, hangs on the horizon. More >>
Pentagon Puppetmasters in Africa
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 9:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Barack Obama hasn’t used the phrase “war on terror” once since he took office about three weeks ago. Yet Obama’s use of drones to bomb the tribal regions in Pakistan a few days after taking office (thereby demonstrating his toughness) indicates ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: History Catches Up To America
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 10:23 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In 1989, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, I started a company with a leading Russian businessman under perestroika. It was clear that the Cold War would soon be over, and that the USSR and US needed each other. The Soviet Union fell two years later, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Aristotle’s Gridlock
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 10:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Aristotle laid out the grid for the Western mind. And with the ending of a distinctly different Eastern mind in the last two decades, it has become, for better but mostly worse, the world mind. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Obama In Lincoln’s League?
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We’re being fed a lot of pabulum here in the States about Barack Obama and his wunderbar Administration. Media mouthpieces are even starting to use the phrase ‘radical change.’ More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Sovereignty of Humanity
Friday, 23 January 2009, 3:33 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the most telling moments during the Obama inauguration inanity came when George Bush was about to board the helicopter to leave DC in disgrace. Barack and Michelle Obama gave him a friendly, even warm parting, when a perfunctory goodbye would have ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Dogs, Geese, and Miracles
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 9:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I am of the view that if one has no relationship to nature, one has no relationship to anyone or anything. And by relationship to nature I don’t mean having a dog. More >>
The Last Bubble—Barack Obama
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The picture of Barack Obama standing between Bush Senior and Bush Junior in the Oval Office, along with Clinton and Carter in a hands-across-the-presidencies motif that Obama requested, gave me the creeps. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Neuroscientific Nightmares
Friday, 9 January 2009, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Snow covers most of the ground on the north side of the mountain lake. The reservoir is so low that large swaths of barren, stump-strewn land lay between the water’s edge and the conifers. It is at once a picture of Sierra splendor, and moonscape. More >>
