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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: Does Man Matter? Part Two
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:18 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Despite a much greater presence of people on a Sunday afternoon than when I’ve been here during the week, it’s still a supremely quiet place at the mountain reservoir. Over a quarter mile away, some kids at a picnic site across the lake can’t handle ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Does Man Matter?
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 12:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Being self-centered by nature (a nature we’re being compelled to radically change), people have always tended to put ‘man’ at the center of the universe. Galileo spent the last years of his life under house arrest because he found evidence that ... More >>
Cultures and Countries Are Things of the Past
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 2:01 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Perhaps the core question with respect to globalization has to do with identity. If this issue can be adequately addressed, then many, if not most of the crises confronting people everywhere (especially in impoverished and conflict-ridden countries) can ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: When Time Stops
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 11:01 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Overhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock--solid and sharp edged protrusions from the gently sloping grasslands behind them. Many have huge slabs balanced on top of them, some looking like they had been perfectly placed ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Global Polity Now
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 1:15 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Will things change in America if the Democrats win control of both Houses of Congress in November, and the White House in 2008? More importantly, will such a shift restore genuine US leadership as "the sole remaining superpower?" More >>
Martin LeFevre: Mind, Brain, and Meditation
Friday, 6 October 2006, 3:11 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The green waters of the reservoir are like glass. On the surrounding ridges, motionless pines tower over the man-made lake, and reflect off the surface of the water with mirror-like sharpness. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Will is Never Free
Thursday, 28 September 2006, 11:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A neuroscientist named Benjamin Libet made a remarkable discovery at the University of California, San Francisco in the mid-1980’s. Placing electrodes on volunteer’s skulls and forefingers, he asked them to move their finger whenever they had the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Is The Devil In The White House?
Monday, 25 September 2006, 2:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I’m no fan of Hugo Chavez. He has all the earmarks of a demagogue, and has repressed dissent in Venezuela. But his UN performance, mixing theater with truth, was astounding. Delivering a line with panache that will go down in the annals of history, he said, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Last Pope?
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 12:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So now we (the ‘we’ in this case is most problematic) have a new pope whose diffident exterior masks a doctrinaire interior. The Catholic Church could have embraced worldwide ecumenism. Instead it is, in Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting its medieval claim to ... More >>
Bush & Rumsfeld: They’ve Lost the 'War of Ideas'
Monday, 4 September 2006, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President Bush made an extraordinary statement at his unexpected news conference on August 21st. He said: “the consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done…[is that] we will have lost our soul as a nation.” The Nazis used that kind of rhetorical ... More >>
Meditations: Consciousness, Evolution & Revolution
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 11:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Because human history, which is enfolded in the consciousness of every living person, is so ancient, there is a deep assumption that the basic course of humankind cannot be altered. But human consciousness is in an escalating crisis, and the cycles of ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Return and Become Like Children
Thursday, 17 August 2006, 9:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A hundred meters upstream, a little girl jumps up and down and runs small circles in the shallows of the stream. In between these contented antics, she dashes back and forth to her parents sitting on the bank, touching them each time for reassurance. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Faith, Reason, & Insight
Monday, 14 August 2006, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If the events of recent weeks and years have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the realities of belief and irrationality. But that always was a Hobson’s choice, and there is ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Earth Is a Mirror
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 5:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a day that will reach nearly 45 degrees Celsius. There is a feeling, while walking in the late morning through the brown grass in the canyon beyond town, which is at once exhilarating and enervating. One cannot help but appreciate the essential ... More >>
Apocalypse Means "The Uncovering of Hell"
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The events of the past couple weeks in the Middle East are almost enough to make one quit writing political pieces, and stick to the contemplative dimension. But that would be too easy. Besides, as an Israeli field commander said, “nothing is ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Is Nuclear War Inevitable?
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 1:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Last week North Korea, defying even its only ally in the world, China, launched a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a failed multi-stage rocket that burned for less than a minute. Beyond the games that governments play, how serious ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Teach Your Children Well
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 11:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A hundred meters upstream a young African-American boy, thin as a reed, walks gingerly into the shallow stream. He is quickly followed by his older and chunkier sister, and by their massive (in height and girth) father. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Africa Is the Homeland of Humanity
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The interminable and unconscionable nightmare of Darfur exemplifies the utter inadequacy of the United Nations and the international/multilateral system. Sudan, a bottom-tier country that is responsible for years of “slow motion genocide,” is dictating whether ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Kind of Revolution?
Tuesday, 20 June 2006, 2:56 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After a workout on the track just before noon on the hottest day of the year so far, I stop at the park on the way home to cool off. Sitting on a log by the side of the stream, I put on water sandals and ease the body into the chilly water. More >>
Martin LeFevre: It’s All ‘Domestic Terror’ Now
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When Timothy McVeigh and cohorts blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the American media initially blamed Muslim extremists. Now, five years after 9/11, a score of Canadian “homegrown terrorists” have been arrested ... More >>
