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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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What Nurtures Spiritual Development In Children?
Friday, 13 February 2026, 12:17 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Children can no longer be socialized by moral systems not to be greedy. Besides, greed, like egoism, takes innumerable forms and cannot be suppressed. More >>
Is The Human Crisis External Or Internal? Ending The Need For Enemies
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Meditating in nature doesn’t lead to worshipping nature, but to experiencing the undeniable actuality of beauty and essence. More >>
Illuminating The Nature And Operation Of Evil
Monday, 9 February 2026, 1:33 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By undividedly observing, questioning and remaining with the darkness within oneself, one is constantly learning, and that turns the tables on evil. More >>
Macro And Cosmic Insights Have Become Urgent And Practical
Saturday, 7 February 2026, 3:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Without a psychological revolution, the momentum of egotism and fragmentation will continue to multiply and overwhelm the policies and plans of governments. More >>
Hard-Hitting Criticism Of The Left Is Not Contributing To Fascism
Thursday, 5 February 2026, 9:16 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Continuing to think and act in terms of the old paradigm, as progressives are ideologically committed to doing, impedes the radical changes that they accuse reactionary centrists of hindering. More >>
AI And Dying To Thought And Self
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 10:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI, and especially AGI if it becomes a real thing, is an “accelerated” version of the intellect. Which means that human pride and arrogance based on cognitive dominance is being replaced by enhanced replications of higher thought. More >>
Nihilism Is Death. Leave The Stream
Saturday, 31 January 2026, 3:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Can the human brain, caught for untold millennia in fragmenting consciousness that's destroying the earth and humanity, leave the stream of man's dead consciousness and free itself at last? More >>
From Chimps Committing Genocide In Gombe To Humans Committing Genocide In Gaza
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 11:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Many scientists and science writers are bent on blurring the line between humans and nature in a misbegotten attempt to prove that we aren’t actually separate from nature. More >>
Through The Fog Of Chaos And War, Is A New World Waiting To Be Born?
Monday, 26 January 2026, 12:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To mix a metaphor, China is fishing for countries in the dead zone of the international order for middle and little countries. And European nations (acting separately from the EU), are taking the bait. More >>
Let’s Stop Grasping At Straws
Friday, 23 January 2026, 2:14 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By all means EU leaders should think on Carney’s speech, but meditate on it? That’s a category error. And who cares about EU leaders except Europeans, and from what I gather, not even them? More >>
Let Your Awareness Be As Quick As A Hummingbird’s Wings
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As it grew dark, a hummingbird took its last long drink at the feeder. There was non-personal affection for it, for the last light upon the land, and for all the things of the earth, even man. More >>
What Is The Opportunity Within This Chaos?
Monday, 19 January 2026, 12:06 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Three concepts urgently need to be differentiated, disentangled and clarified: sovereignty, self-determination and security. More >>
The Polycrisis Is Unprecedented, Because We’re At The Terminus Of Man
Saturday, 17 January 2026, 3:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s important to have things to look forward to, but it’s crucial to allow time and space in our daily lives to attend to what is, and be still. More >>
The Benediction Of Life And The Darkness Of Man
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 11:33 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By facing and taking complete responsibility for the darkness within us, and standing firm and non-reactively when faced with evil, we learn and grow as human beings, and turn the tables on man’s evil. More >>
Can Geo-Engineering Work?
Monday, 12 January 2026, 11:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Homo sapiens ability to consciously remove and recombine ‘things’ to build worlds is not the problem. The problem is psychological separation. More >>
The Local Is Global, And The Global Is Local
Saturday, 10 January 2026, 3:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The earth is dying, as anyone with eyes that can still see feels. Nihilistic liberals say the earth will recover after man is gone. That may be true, but the experiment in consciousness made possible by the evolution of the brain will be over. More >>
Humanism Is The Mistaken Assertion Of The Primacy Of Human Reason
Thursday, 8 January 2026, 12:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Do we live, as a British pundit put it, in a “highly globalised world is disaggregating into regional and continental blocs?” Or is that a rational overlay on the reality of rapid degeneration into global chaos? More >>
The Choice Before Us
Tuesday, 6 January 2026, 9:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The task of human beings is to question and ignite insight together wherever we are to meet all facets of the polycrisis facing humanity. More >>
Racism Has Its Roots In Identifying With Particular Groups. End It Within.
Friday, 2 January 2026, 12:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The need to belong is a deep feature of human nature. Belonging and racial (and national) identification must now be disconnected, or the racism of 2025 will seem like a walk in the park in 2026. More >>
Hope And Wishful Thinking Aren’t A Response
Wednesday, 31 December 2025, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What would a rebirth of the people look like? It will require the birth of a new culture, in which lies and cruelty aren’t opposite sides of the same coin as truth and kindness. More >>
