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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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The Sunny Edge of Winter
Monday, 17 November 2008, 10:14 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The little creek that runs along the expanding edge of this northern California college town is flowing again after recent rains. I rode the bike out into the country, past signs proudly announcing new business and home sites. But it’s a beautiful day, ... More >>
President of the World?
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 4:58 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President-de facto Obama hit the ground walking on his first news conference three days after his stunning victory. Surrounded by a dazzling array of economic advisors representing the business elite, he said, “I’m going to confront this crisis ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Insight and Imagination
Friday, 7 November 2008, 11:16 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The deluge of the last couple of days—the first storm of the season—has transformed the parkland. Autumn is in full leaf in the northeast corner of California’s Central Valley. More >>
When Hope Collides With Truth
Monday, 3 November 2008, 3:27 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When I returned from visiting family in the Midwest, I found the house surrounded by McCain-Palin signs. Riding the bike out to the edge of town to view the foothills and canyon, I found a big board announcing a sprawling office complex. Not good signs. More >>
Journeying Beyond Thought and Time
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 10:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With exquisite grace, a dozen Canadian geese glide silently to a soft landing on the calm Michigan bay. In the last seconds of their flight, during which their wings are held in curved motionlessness, time itself seems to stand still. More >>
How Obama Could Usher In A True World Order
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 1:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Representatives from nearly a dozen nations and international organizations met recently in a private meeting in the Rose Garden of the White House. They bobbed heads as George Bush said, with supreme irony, “We are in this [economic crisis] together.” More >>
Coming From Different Cultures
Monday, 13 October 2008, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Maidu People, who occupied the mountains and foothills in this area before they were nearly exterminated by whites flooding into California, called Lassen Peak Kohm Yah-mah-nee. Ishi, “the last wild Indian in America,” belonged to the Maidu. ... More >>
Economy of Consciousness
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 9:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a strange experience to be in a wilderness in the afternoon, where the bear scat is nearly as big as coke cans, and then be back in the land of McDonalds and McPeople by dark. But there’s nothing more illuminating of the society one lives ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Inner Alchemy
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 11:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
These are the last days of the long hot summer in California’s Great Central Valley. Usually, even here at the less populated northern end, the skies are smoggy. But to my surprise, the foothills are startlingly clear today in the brilliant, slanting ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Meltdown of America
Monday, 29 September 2008, 11:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is there any doubt left that genuine leadership in meeting the hydra-headed human crisis is absent in the American political system? If so, Friday night’s debate between McCain and Obama completely removed it. More >>
Positive Thinking is Negative Acting
Friday, 26 September 2008, 11:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A local reader wrote to say that she felt my last column , and my writing generally, was quite “dark.” She stated that “our minds will be dark when we think darkly,” and went on to echo one of the most pernicious philosophies America has ever dished ... More >>
Hitting the Wall on ‘The Street’
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 11:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As I try, like everyone else, to gain some understanding of the US financial meltdown, my thoughts turn to my nephew Brett. He’s about to leave college after interning on Wall Street, having well positioned himself to begin a career on ‘The Street.’ More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Origins of Love and Evil
Friday, 19 September 2008, 2:05 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The mountain reservoir is already low. Ten or fifteen meters of steep hillside lie exposed, and the light brown soil is pockmarked with stumps from trees cut over fifty years ago. More >>
Seven Years After 9.11: Lessons Unlearned
Friday, 12 September 2008, 5:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Some months before the Oklahoma City bombing, in the yet to be designated ‘homeland’ of America, I visited my native state of Michigan. It was late fall, the wind and rain had stripped the leaves from the trees, and the deer hunters/militia members ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: How Obama Can Win
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 11:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Since defeating the Clintons earlier this summer, Barack Obama has dropped Martin Luther King’s poetic and compelling phrase, “the fierce urgency of now.” Lately Obama often speaks prosaically of the imperative of “fundamental change.” That ... More >>
McCain or Obama: What the Stakes Really Are
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 10:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After the Russian invasion of Georgia, the media in America lathered praise all over John McCain about how right he had been regarding Russia. But before the arguably insane McCain has the laurel of sagacity placed on his cancerous head, let’s consider ... More >>
The Observer and Krishnamurti’s Teaching
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 10:18 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When I was 17 I had a shattering, life-altering insight into the illusion of the separate observer. A few years later, I came upon the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, for whom the nonexistent division between “the observer and the observed” was ... More >>
They Work For The Devil And Call Him Jesus
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 1:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Pause and reflect for a moment on this astounding fact: a suicide bomber in a flatbed truck blew up the United Nations headquarters in Iraq and killed Kofi Annan’s special representative, perhaps the most respected and loved man in the UN community. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Making a Friend of Death
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 4:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s early enough to avoid the enervating edge of the day’s heat. After a workout on the track, I stop at the park to cool off in the creek Lying on my back in the stream, the gentle current caresses and relaxes my muscles. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Epistemological and Logical?
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 1:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the most annoying things to philosophers is the habit well-educated people have of plugging everything they hear into the preexisting knowledge structure they’ve built. More >>
