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Technology Has Not Advanced Human Civilization
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 11:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
At times like these, one returns to first principles, or reverts to absurd worldviews. Our views of human nature, nature, and the universe form the core premises of how we see the world. With few exceptions they are unexamined. False humility is worse ... More >>
Fluidity Of Thought Is A Far Cry From Flowering Of Insight
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 12:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Why is it that even as Artificial Intelligence (which should be called Artificial Thought) is overtaking human thought in speed, knowledge and efficiency, many thinkers are still upholding the notion that we are creatures of thought? There’s an obvious ... More >>
Time Is Elastic, But Timelessness Is Fantastic
Friday, 20 October 2023, 11:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As Einstein proved, time is elastic, slowing down as the speed of light is approached. Given that’s true of physical time, how much more elastic and illusory is psychological time? With sufficient unpremeditated attention, the observer ends. Then, in observing ... More >>
Slaughter And War Spew From Time And Memory
Friday, 13 October 2023, 11:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Overhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock—solid and sharp-edged protrusions from some long-ago eruption of Lassen or some other volcano in the area. In many places, the sheer sides of the gorge have huge slabs balanced ... More >>
The Universe Is In A State Of Meditation. Why Aren’t Human Beings?
Friday, 6 October 2023, 12:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The potential in the human brain for higher states of awareness is awakened with the realization that consciousness is not extrinsic but intrinsic to nature and the cosmos. Given that’s true however, what is the relationship between the consciousness ... More >>
The Same Old Human Rights Council?
Thursday, 5 October 2023, 12:34 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In light of Russia’s bid to rejoin the Human Rights Council on October 10th, Scoop is republishing “The New Human Rights Council,” by Martin LeFevre, from March 20th, 2006. It is even more relevant today. As absurd as Russia’s all-out diplomatic ... More >>
Two Kinds Of Metaphysical Movement?
Monday, 2 October 2023, 11:33 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There was only 20% of rain predicted, but after the mind quieted in passive watchfulness in the backyard, you could feel the imminence of a storm. An hour later it hit, one of the most intense thunderstorms I’ve ever experienced. The lightning didn’t ... More >>
What Are We Undertaking To Do?
Friday, 29 September 2023, 11:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Three perfectly stacked symmetrical domes -- a pyramid of cumulus clouds -- form in the saddle upcanyon. They dissipate and disappear in a few timeless minutes. I am almost certainly the only one to see them, and in that fact, plus the realization ... More >>
Resolve Contradictions, Revere Paradoxes
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We drove up the hill from sea level in the valley to a loud, fast-flowing stream at about 1500 meters at the end of a mountain road. Parking at the last campsite in an empty campground, we had a splendid view upstream of the surging water cascading ... More >>
Freeing The Sisyphus Within Us
Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 10:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There are different versions of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, and then there is Camus’ essay by the same name, in which he introduces his philosophy of the absurd. The Greek myth that speaks to me the most tells of how Sisyphus enchained the spirit ... More >>
Conspiracy Theories Fill The Vacuum Of An Effective Philosophy Of Evil
Friday, 15 September 2023, 11:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In 1999 I helped get a leading anti-corruption figure from Kenya to a conference in Washington with then Vice-President Al Gore. Afterward I met Edward in Chicago, where we had a meeting with the principals of the Parliament of World’s Religions. ... More >>
The Human Brain Is Exapted For Insight
Wednesday, 13 September 2023, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It used to be said of people in the West, “we are all Greeks.” It meant that the creative explosion of the ancient Greek philosophers so stamped the Western mind that all subsequent peoples in Europe, the Americas and Aotearoa were of the same ... More >>
Narratives Or Insight?
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 10:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Philosophical claims urgently need to give way to essential questions. Is direct perception possible, and is it the wellspring of the psychological revolution vital to change the increasingly disastrous course of man? The commonplace idea that all ... More >>
Oppenheimer, And “I Am Become Death”
Friday, 1 September 2023, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I waited to see “Oppenheimer” until after the “Barbenheimer” foolishness flamed out, the theaters were nearly empty again, and the tickets were a fifth of the original price. Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” runs together and runs ... More >>
Doing Philosophy In America
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 11:07 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Words that were the currency of philosophy when I attended grad school a few decades ago are now in everyday use. Words like ‘problematic,’ ‘unpack,’ and ‘deconstruct.’ Does that mean philosophy has become respected in America? Hardly. The parlous condition ... More >>
Regarding Nihilism And Negation
Friday, 25 August 2023, 5:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In the South Korean movie “Parasite,” which in 2020 was the first foreign language film to win the Oscar for best picture, there is a scene and speech that captures a nihilistic philosophy that’s widespread in the world today. After a torrential More >>
Providence, The End Of Man, And The Emergence Of Human Beings
Thursday, 17 August 2023, 10:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
God, in the belief system of Christians, is conceived as a separate “Supreme Being” that created the universe, and occasionally intervenes in human life. Providence is the belief in the notion of the protective care and direction of this monotheistic ... More >>
Awakening Intelligence Within
Friday, 11 August 2023, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The day was mild, relative to the scorching temperatures of late, and the park was nearly empty. And for the entire hour and half I sat beside the stream, a single swallowtail butterfly fed on the nectar of the fading white balls overhanging the ... More >>
Indict The Bastard
Friday, 4 August 2023, 11:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Given today’s momentous events in Washington, Scoop is republishing a piece by its columnist in California, Martin LeFevre, from over a year ago, “Indict the Bastard.” As the author writes today, “Prescience is secondary, since it flows ... More >>
Would Jesus Do An Exegesis?
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 11:07 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Often, when I ask someone if they meditate, I hear things like, “distance running is a meditation for me.” Though such responses miss the mark, I usually let it go at that. However turning hunting into a meditation is a mockery of the art that ... More >>
