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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: Canine Consciousness
Friday, 9 March 2007, 2:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though the weather was dicey this morning—windy, chilly, and threatening another storm—there was a break in the early afternoon. So, before a new series of storms roll in off the Pacific, I made the most of the lull and drove to Upper Park. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Homage to “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There’s a lot of interest in human origins these days. A new, permanent exhibition, featuring more than 200 casts of prehuman and human fossils, just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The exhibition addresses three fundamental ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: President’s Day in the USA
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 10:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President’s Day in the USA brings Bush to Mt. Vernon, George Washington’s home, drawing surreal comparisons between his warmongering and the American War of Independence. At the same time, the presidential candidates are out on the interminably long stump, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Gods Were Once Human
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 10:34 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A high, thin layer of clouds fills the western sky, blunting the warmth of the sun and giving the land a subtly somber cast. The little stream on the edge of town is now full enough to create a cascade over a step of rocks, as it wends it way along ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Gorbachev’s Old World Order
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 11:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s fascinating how failed leaders are sometimes sainted after they leave office and ruin in their wake. Such is the case with Mikhail Gorbachev. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Questioning Atheism
Saturday, 27 January 2007, 10:52 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The pristinely clear and cold stream flows by at my feet, its brown and reddish stones burnished by the fresh current and glistening in the sunlight. A woodland hawk soars through the bare branches of the oaks and sycamores, and alights on a limb near the ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Burma, China, & the Global Polity
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Nearly unnoticed, a resolution against human rights abuses perpetrated by the Burmese government (ironically and hypocritically put forth by the United States) was vetoed by China in the Security Council last week. Politically, this signals the equivalent ... More >>
LeFevre: Why the Bush Administration Is Evil
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Most commentators agree President Bush gave a flat, insipid speech for his long-awaited (more like successfully baited) “new strategy” for Iraq. That despite, or because of the fact that it was 'the most important speech of his presidency.' The Bush Administration ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Sunset Illumination
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 11:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Overlooking the hills and fields beyond town, the display of color begins slowly, filling the eastern sky in a muted mauve counter-sunset. More >>
Martin Lefevre: The Art of Meditation
Friday, 29 December 2006, 11:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. The sun shines brightly, if briefly on this, the shortest day of the year. When one draws near to the earth, the world grows further away. How necessary that has become each day. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Jesus Was a Man
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 4:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The silly season is upon us. Silly not because of the celebrations of Jesus’ birth, as anachronistic as that seems in a world devoid of innocence and peace, but because ‘X-mas’ has become synonymous with the mindlessness of consumerism. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Best Spiritual Movie Ever Made
Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 4:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The best film I’ve ever seen with religious themes is “Black Narcissus.” Filmed in 1947, it deftly delves into the clash between Eastern and Western traditions; the conflict between the sensual and spiritual dimensions of human being; and ultimately, ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Deleting Memory Awakens Insight
Monday, 27 November 2006, 6:07 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After a light but all-night rain, the clouds cleared and the sun made a welcome appearance in the early afternoon. People got outside and into the parkland in droves, including me. Meditation was just igniting through undivided, undirected observation when a ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Darfur - The Limits of Diplomacy
Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:36 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The human spirit is deeply damaged when the so-called international community cannot summon the political will to stop genocide. After the Holocaust, the slogan was “never again.” After Rwanda, the reality seems to be, “again and again.” More >>
LeFevre:California’s Global Warming Contradictions
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 1:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The drive out of California’s Central Valley was through the thickest, most noxious and ominous-looking smoke I’ve ever seen. Huge swaths of rice fields had been set ablaze, as well as enormous piles of debris from the almond harvest. What would have ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: No Such Thing as ‘Just War’
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 11:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Two items in the news last week provide overwhelming evidence that the country that established the post World War II order has taken it hostage, and that things have gone off the rails. Both occurred where the ‘global war on terror’ began, in ... More >>
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 >>
