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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: Feeling the Breath of God
Friday, 9 June 2006, 11:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The cycles of birth and death in nature collapse into the timeless present as I sit on the bank overlooking the stream. As meditation deepens, there is the insight that the birth and death of the universe are but the exhalation and inhalation of the ... More >>
The Logical End of "Support Our Troops" Idiocy
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 4:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“You have done well, that men must lay their murders on your neck.” The troops who committed the slaughter at Haditha should seize that line from Shakespeare’s Othello and affix it to George Bush, in connection with the murders they committed in Haditha ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Observing the Observer
Friday, 2 June 2006, 2:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Instead of scaring up a couple of ducks as I ride down the dirt path to the creek, I surprise a man standing in the middle of the stream. He is foraging in the hip deep water, but I don’t ask why. We say hello and I sit a little way upstream to ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Goliath vs. Global Governance
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A book currently being touted in the major media in the United States is “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century.” In it Michael Mandelbaum says, “The American performance [at world government] is better ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Being Human Is No Longer an Option
Friday, 19 May 2006, 11:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Spring is on the downslide in the Central Valley, and literally on the upside in the mountains. After the record-breaking rains of March and April, the land is extraordinarily verdant, especially around the creeks. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Genesis of Genocide
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 11:44 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s fashionable these days to blur the line between animal and human consciousness. As a Kiwi living in Oregon said in a recent letter with regard to my claim that animals don’t have psychological memory, “there is really no sharp demarcation between animal ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Does God Give a Damn?
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 1:17 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Being a philosopher of no faith, in the sense of a belief system, and of shaky faith, in the sense of trust without evidence, I have the perennial question about whether there are ultimately three or just two movements in human consciousness. More >>
Martin LeFevre: An Excess of Memory
Friday, 21 April 2006, 11:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Suddenly the light and the water changed dramatically. The rain had just stopped, and an intensely blue-gray cast filled the eastern sky over the Saginaw Bay. The tide had also gone out, and the wind was blowing offshore, so that the bay appeared ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Jesus’ Mission Failed
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 4:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Christianity turns on the question of whether Jesus succeeded or failed in his mission. The great falsehood is that he succeeded, that he was sent and meant to die on the cross “for our sins.” More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Last Trumpet
Monday, 3 April 2006, 12:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A reader in the Middle East wrote giving voice to a central concern of this column. “There is indeed a spiritual evolutionary process taking place, but that process takes millions of years and our little bit of consciousness just can’t comprehend ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor...”
Friday, 31 March 2006, 4:52 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a titanic debate raging in America right now over immigration. As the only issue emitting some energy in this moribund land, it pits national security “protect our border” xenophobia against the corporate and middle class need for cheap labor. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Mystical Experience & God
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 12:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The creek is a frothing gray force nearly overtopping its banks. Masses of magnificent white and gray clouds fill half of the huge sky, but it’s completely clear to the west, where a brilliant sun slides slowly towards the horizon. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Contemplating “Grizzly Man”
Friday, 24 March 2006, 2:01 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The film “Grizzly Man,” narrated by the acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog, is a riveting and disturbing documentary account of Timothy Treadwell’s 13 summers living unprotected amongst one of the most ferocious animals on earth. (Stop and save this review if ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The New Human Rights Council
Monday, 20 March 2006, 1:06 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One hopes that the creation of the new Human Rights Council by the United Nations will reverse the global backsliding on human rights in recent years. But for many reasons, that’s not likely. The Human Rights Council is a band-aid that doesn’t even ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Scientific & Religious Mind
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 11:39 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Often I walk over a few words painted in the center of the park road by some cynical philosopher. “Nature is wrong,” the stencil reads. The words are fading away, which brings a smile. Nature will have the last word, whether we heed her or not. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Averting Spiritual Extinction
Friday, 10 March 2006, 1:10 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s chilly, partly cloudy, and thought-stoppingly beautiful in the parkland. The creek rages by like a wild green animal. Though the mind falls silent without too much difficulty on such a day, one wonders, is thought-consciousness just too deeply ... More >>
Meditations: Requiem for the Post-Cold War Order
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 3:16 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
You couldn’t make this stuff up. George Bush, who invokes 9/11 ad nauseam to stoke primal fears of Arab “lurkers” whenever his policies come under attack, has been hoisted on his own petard by a mishandled port leasing deal with the United Arab ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The ‘Riddle of Man’
Friday, 24 February 2006, 11:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As I see it, human consciousness is an unexplained contradiction in the infinitely dynamic order of the universe. Consciousness is not ‘evolving,’ and things are going from bad to worse. Is there an understanding of the relationship between humankind ... More >>
Meditations: Cartoons and Human Consciousness (II)
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 1:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Western and Asian governments, and now even the government of Iran, are calling for an end to weeks of violent protests over cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. Can they contain the chaos, or is the 'clash of civilizations' gone beyond the old ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Death and the Big Bang
Friday, 17 February 2006, 11:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The hillsides and banks of the streams are at their greenest now, just before spring in the valley. A few trees are already in bloom, and the first smells of spring are in the air. More >>
