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Martin LeFevre: What Happened, Helen Clark?
Thursday, 6 November 2003, 7:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The charges brought against activist Bruce Hubbard in New Zealand, who was arrested for making "offensive" comments to the US Embassy in Auckland, have import well beyond North and South Islands. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Exapted for Awakening? (Pt. 2)
Tuesday, 4 November 2003, 11:33 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In this column, the second of two parts, I want to examine the question: how did the universe made such a mistake as man? Second, has evolution provided us a way out of this mess, for which it is partly responsible? More >>
Martin LeFevre: Exapted for Awakening? (Pt. 1)
Friday, 31 October 2003, 11:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads. Our species cannot continue dividing and fragmenting the natural world without inducing a collapse of natural systems. But we can still change course, though it will require a revolution in consciousness. ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Bastards by Any Other Name
Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 7:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
My father says I should not call Bush and his fellow travellers bastards. Not because they aren't bastards, but because it might make them mad. Though a life-long Republican, my father is as outraged as I am by the duplicity, hypocrisy, and bald-faced lying ... More >>
Meditations: Humanity's Darkest Hour
Friday, 24 October 2003, 7:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
At nearly 8000 feet in Lassen National Park, surrounded by volcanic cliffs on three sides, the small lake is a dark, mirror-like jewel, unspoiled by human hands. As a faint breeze comes up, brushing its grassy edges, little birds dart to and fro, ... More >>
Regarding Swans, Solitude, Science & Consciousness
Friday, 17 October 2003, 11:24 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Long cattails undulate in the breeze. A blue heron sits on a birdhouse along the edge of the marsh. In the distance, through the telescope, swans cavort along the edge of the wetland. In the foreground, a pair of woodland ducks, the male displaying ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: American Might and Blight
Monday, 13 October 2003, 10:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
''If Arnold Schwarzenegger can be elected governor of California, then Oprah Winfrey can be elected president of the United States.'' So reasons, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Michael Moore, author, filmmaker, and fellow former Michigander, (“Bowling ... More >>
Meditations: Child Abuse a Crime Against Humanity
Thursday, 9 October 2003, 10:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Jason, my six-year-old nephew, is an impish, mischievous, athletic, and sensitive boy. I haven’t seen him since he was a year old, so I am a new person to him, as he is to me. It is fascinating to see how he has developed, and to observe the influences ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): "As California Goes..."
Monday, 6 October 2003, 12:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Viewed from Michigan, my home state where I’m visiting family, the California recall election looks both silly and significant. ''Crazy Californians'' will indicate on Tuesday whether America has hit bottom, or the world will have to suffer through ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Plunderers, Barbarians, or Tyrants
Friday, 3 October 2003, 12:03 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Bush Administration and their media hacks are being hoisted on their own petard this week over a revenge leak. But the award for ballsy duplicity goes to Thomas L. Friedman, the influential columnist for the New York Times and chief apologist ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Devolving Toward a Breakthrough?
Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 12:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
How did humankind come to this pass? Not just evolutionarily, which is fairly straightforward in a random, herky-jerky kind of way. But rather psychologically, as the separating and separate, fragmenting and fragmented primate standing at a million year crossroads? More >>
Martin LeFevre: Take The Time To End Time
Friday, 26 September 2003, 1:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The parkland is sunny and quiet. I have an hour and a half, and take the first half hour or so to walk a loop on the dirt paths. After passing through an extraordinarily beautiful grove of oaks, the creek burbles beside me. More >>
Martin LeFevre: A Vacuum Of Leadership
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Driving at high speed, it is too late to make a turn once the crossroads are reached. In the same way, it will be too late for humankind to change course (at this point in history anyway) once the international world order collapses. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Religions Are Irreligious
Monday, 22 September 2003, 11:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
An American living much of the year in Mexico wrote asking me to "state my religious agenda." That's a difficult challenge. Presuming the term "religious agenda" doesn¹t reflect a built-in bias, it boils down to the large difference between religion and ... More >>
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Revolution!
Monday, 15 September 2003, 12:34 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Clearly, we need a revolution. But who is 'we', and what kind of revolution? More >>
Martin LeFevre: Crawling Back to the UN
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 11:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The self-appointed President of the World spoke to the mostly sleeping-walking citizens of America last night. More >>
Meditation (Spirituality): A Meditation On Death
Monday, 8 September 2003, 12:18 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Acrid smoke wafts in over the parkland from an unknown fire. Upstream, a dog standing in the water barks loudly for fifteen minutes, goaded by its owner. More >>
Meditations: Endless Whimper Or Creative Explosion
Wednesday, 3 September 2003, 8:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If, as the Prussian general von Clausewitz infamously said, "war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means," then America's 'global war on terrorism' is about to enter a new phase. More >>
Meditations: Viagra and the Art of Meditation
Wednesday, 27 August 2003, 12:02 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A recent front-page article about meditation in "Time" magazine offered up this straight line: "Meditation can sometimes be used to replace Viagra." More >>
They Work For The Devil And Call Him Jesus
Thursday, 21 August 2003, 5:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Pause and reflect for a moment on this astounding fact: a suicide bomber in a new cement mixer blew up the United Nations headquarters in Iraq and killed Kofi Annan¹s special representative, perhaps the most respected and loved man in the UN community. More >>
