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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Conditioning Is Not A Given

Friday, 27 September 2024, 11:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Self-knowing parents and teachers deepening in insight will see how to help children intelligently navigate society, in which the old strictures and structures have broken down, replaced by toxic social media. More >>

Sorry Secretary-General Guterres, Multilateralism Is A Pipe Dream

Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 11:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The international order is dead, and the ideal of multilateralism is a pipe dream. The old institutions like the UN can still serve humanity, but only if they are superseded by enough human beings who have ended tribalism/nationalism within themselves. More >>

Concerning Death, Hell And Illumination

Monday, 23 September 2024, 10:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

It is deeply mistaken to gloss over evil with fey love, within or without. It’s only by facing and continuously learning from the darkness within us that we dissolve it, and thereby do our part to end the rule of evil in the world. More >>

An Attack On The Whole Of Humanity

Saturday, 21 September 2024, 1:15 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The insertion of explosives in thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies is one of the most evil acts ever perpetrated by a state in the history of nations. So the pervasiveness of the evil pertains not just to the Lebanese, much less demonized Hezbollah, but ... More >>

How Deep Does The Human Crisis Go?

Thursday, 19 September 2024, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

As deep as the human mind goes. A higher and immeasurably truer order of consciousness awaits our transmutation. More >>

Sunday Morning In California As The Season Changes

Monday, 16 September 2024, 11:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Behind the impossibility of finding freedom in man’s theological contortions is a refusal to face the human condition as it is, and do the spadework of finding out for oneself what is true and what is false. More >>

Resolving The Problem Of Evil

Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

At the peak of the meditation, when the mind had grown wholly still and present, a trio of river otters submarined by, heading upstream. River otters are as rare as coyotes in Lower Park, but here they were, totally adapted to the environment, ... More >>

Meditation Is Mutation

Friday, 13 September 2024, 12:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Does mutation mean the irrevocable ending in the brain of thought as the ground of our existence, subsumed by attention and awareness? More >>

Anthropomorphism Is No Longer The Issue; Misanthropy Is

Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 12:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The misanthropic desire for the extinction of the human race, under the pretense of humility and the deconstruction of anthropocentrism, belies a deep disrespect for life and evolution. More >>

AI Will Liberate Us From Thought Or Completely Enslave Us To It

Monday, 26 August 2024, 10:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Why are humans petty creatures of thought when we can be noble human beings of awareness? More >>

Before The Bubble Bursts And The Wave Breaks

Friday, 23 August 2024, 11:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

When a democracy begins to slide into fascism, only a reckoning with the darkness and deadness at its core that’s giving rise to despotism can arrest the degeneration. More >>

Now, Or Not Now: That Is The Question

Monday, 19 August 2024, 2:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The human heart will catch fire at some point, and change the disastrous course of man. Even so, there is tremendous urgency. For there are a finite number of chances to change course, and we won’t know until we’ve made the turn, or blown by the ... More >>

Content-Consciousness Is The Impediment To Cosmic Consciousness

Friday, 16 August 2024, 12:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The first thing we have to admit is that consciousness is not “evolving.” Consciousness as we know it cannot evolve; it can only accumulate. More >>

Will Israel Use Its Nukes On Iran?

Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The so-called international rules-based order is collapsing around us and on us. More >>

This Is The Foreseeable Future

Monday, 12 August 2024, 11:50 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Man may end with a bang or a whimper, but we cannot know the future beyond its present undeniable arc. More >>

Die While You’re Alive

Friday, 9 August 2024, 2:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Indeed, dying every day while fully alive not only makes life much more vibrant; it opens the door to the sacredness that suffuses the earth and the universe. But self and man must psychologically die for that to be. More >>

Negation Is The Essence Of Meditation

Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 10:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Other than two wild turkeys calling to each other nearby, and a few swallows skimming over the surface of the water, I saw or heard no animals until the end of the sitting. But after thought fell still and a meditative state had begun, there was a rustling ... More >>