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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: An Enquiry Into Romantic Love
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 4:36 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The war between the sexes has left many corpses and few unwounded combatants on the battlefield. Women, being the stronger sex emotionally, have won a Pyrrhic victory, in America at least. But what about romantic love? More >>
Martin LeFevre: The End of Nationalism?
Monday, 23 July 2007, 3:14 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Is dividing the world between ‘them’ and ‘us’ an unchangeable feature of human nature? Is the world as it’s always been, and will always be? Is there any such thing as human progress, except technologically? More >>
My Conversation With President Bush
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 11:24 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President Bush has been quietly inviting philosophers and theologians to the White House lately to discuss the ultimate questions of life. Having just returned from my probing conversation with The Decider, as he likes to be called, what follows ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Following the Water
Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 10:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s about 45 degrees Celsius; I sit in deep shade with my feet in the creek. Some kids throw rocks at the iron footbridge a couple hundred meters upstream, but despite the heat and noise, meditation ignites. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Soul of the Universe
Monday, 9 July 2007, 8:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A group of guys are swimming in the creek at my sitting spot, so I walk a couple hundred meters upstream and put my pad down across the stream from a picnic site. There is a lone cyclist there, and the minute he leaves, a family descends on the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: A Workable Global Polity, P. Three
Monday, 9 July 2007, 8:17 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The insight of a Global Polity of world citizens in the evolutionary birthplace of humankind began with a correspondence with the late Kenyan philosopher Odera Oruka. In 1992, we agreed that the UN framework would prove increasingly inadequate, and ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Summer Solstice
Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 11:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s been very hot in California’s Great Central Valley the past week. The creek beyond town has dwindled from streamlet to trickle to stagnant ponds in the space of that time. Water won’t run again until the winter rains come, so it’s the ... More >>
Creative Writing: Summer Solstice
Monday, 25 June 2007, 10:42 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It¹s been very hot in California¹s Great Central Valley the past week. The creek beyond town has dwindled from streamlet to trickle to stagnant ponds in the space of that time. Water won¹t run again until the winter rains come, so it¹s the last ... More >>
LeFevre: Al Gore - ‘To the Ramparts of Reason!’
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 8:31 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
You have to hand it to Al Gore for chutzpah. He voted for Gulf War I, which paved the way for George W. Bush and Gulf War II, and nearly destroyed the United Nations. Now “the Goracle” lectures the American people for their “lack of outcry” ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Death Is Awareness
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 8:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Color as thick as the clouds themselves suffuses the massive, multi-layered cumulus. The color appears almost solid, so that the substance of the clouds seems to be color itself. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Insight Is Always New
Monday, 28 May 2007, 9:09 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Waves crash onto the rocks a couple hundred meters from the beach. Some shoot up like geysers, or spouting whales, in narrow plumes of white spray. Small shorebirds scamper in and out of the surf, ebbing and flowing like the tide itself. More >>
Martin LeFevre: A Workable Global Polity, Part Two
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 4:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The hard truth is that UN commitments, beginning with the Millennium Goals, aren't being met. The vast majority of efforts within the international framework amount to spinning wheels, going nowhere. Soon the machinery is going to grind to a halt, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Paradise Lost
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 4:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Paradise Lake supplies all the water to the mountain communities of Paradise and Magalia in northern California. It is usually so quiet there that you can speak to someone in a normal voice a quarter mile away across one of its inlets. Not anymore. ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: A New Foundation for the Left?
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:40 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Bush Administration was reported this past week to be positively “giddy” about the results of the election in France, what with Sarkozy indicating France would now be Washington's best friend in Europe. Bush and Sarkozy “had a very friendly ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Negation in Meditation
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 11:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s late spring in northern California. People cross the iron footbridge on bikes or foot on a hazy, lazy, warm Sunday afternoon. I sit about 75 meters upstream from the bridge, and though I’m in the open, few passersby see me either from the bridge, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: A Workable Global Polity
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 11:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Will an effective system of global governance emerge in the foreseeable future, or will it continue to be seen as utopian science fiction in an increasingly dystopic world? The answer does not depend on nation-states and the UN, but on the growing ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Isolated Incidents
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 8:03 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So now America has three anniversaries of unvarnished evil to commemorate in a single week: April 19, 1995--Oklahoma City; April 20, 1999-- Columbine; and April 16, 2007--Virginia Tech. Nonetheless, the need to believe they are “isolated incidents” will continue, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Beyond Misanthropy
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 12:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A reader in New Zealand wrote to protest a recent column, saying, “You seem to think we are important in some way when we are really stupid beyond belief.” Apart from the sad streak of misanthropy, the reader raises a question that’s worth examining. ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Celebrity Activism
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 4:07 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In a recent essay in “Time” magazine, Bono said, “Looking inward won’t cut it. We discover who we are in service to each other, not the self.” There is some truth, and a lot of falseness packed into that statement. Let’s unpack it. More >>
Martin LeFevre: “Chocolate Jesus”
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 2:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The planned Easter Week exhibition of a full-size, anatomically correct sculpture of Jesus on an invisible cross, made from 200 pounds of chocolate, was cancelled at the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. Called, with ostensible seriousness, “My ... More >>
