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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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Meditations: Both the UN and the US are Irrelevant
Monday, 19 September 2005, 2:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The devastation along the Gulf Coast foretells the collapse of the American empire, and verifies a vacuum of leadership in the global society. The US government was unable to manage an expected crisis within its own borders; how then can anyone expect ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Taking the Larger and Longer View
Friday, 16 September 2005, 11:11 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The antithesis (not the opposite) of beauty and truth is the reality of darkness and evil. Good and evil are not opposing forces, but completely unrelated. Goodness, which is not man-made, is an actuality, whereas evil, which is man-made, is a reality. More >>
Martin LeFevre: What Is Illumination?
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a lot of talk about illumination these days, most of it throwing little light on the subject. The interest no doubt reflects a hunger for spiritual substance, as religions and beliefs slide into the ash heap of history. But can a discussion ... More >>
Meditations: Reincarnation - Fact but not Truth?
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 3:42 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
An inventor--a man whose name I happily forget but who was called “Edison’s successor” by the interviewer—claimed recently that in 30 or 40 years science will be capable of making us immortal. The issue for 50-somethings like himself, he intoned, is to ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Jesus Died for Nothing
Monday, 22 August 2005, 2:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Just as the perversion of Mohammed’s teaching has produced bin Laden and the evil of Al Qeda, so too the perversion of Jesus’ teaching has produced George Bush and the evil of the US military machine. More >>
Revolution in Consciousness? Not Yet!
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 7:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Dusk is quickly descending. Moments after sitting down at streamside, I hear something in the water a short distance downstream. I turn to see a young, but full-grown deer standing in the shallow current. At the same moment, it spots me, and a split second ... More >>
LeFevre: The Atomic Bombings and America’s Soul
Monday, 1 August 2005, 1:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It is the lie that began the long decline to America’s loss of its soul. The people are still fed, and still swallow, the propaganda that began 60 years ago, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were leveled. As Time magazine echoed for the umpteenth time this week: ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Portal of Sound
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 1:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The meditative state began, I see now, the moment I saw the sharply etched hills against the blue and cirrus-clad sky. Feeling drawn to the hills rather than directing action toward them, I pedaled out into the country on the bike. More >>
Meditations: Breakthrough Beyond “Modern Humans”
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 4:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In the science fiction classic “2001, A Space Odyssey,” HAL, the all too human-like computer, malfunctions and becomes evil. It begs for the life of its higher functions as the sole surviving astronaut is erasing them. It’s a metaphor for the growing ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): War on the Human Spirit
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“The purpose of terrorism,” intoned Tony Blair without a scintilla of self-awareness the day after the bombings in London, is to put despair and anger and hatred in people’s hearts.” That’s also your metaphysical mission Mr. Blair, and surely there's a special ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Vultures at Gleneagles
Friday, 1 July 2005, 4:21 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What do war, poverty, and climate change have in common? Nothing, if Tony Blair has his way at Gleneagles. And because of that disconnect, failure by the Group of Eight (the richest countries in the world) to adequately address the most pressing concerns ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Making a Friend of Thought
Thursday, 30 June 2005, 3:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The mind, as the word is usually used, means the movement of thought in the brain. But there is another meaning to the word mind--a quality of awareness and attention that transcends and silences the mind-as-thought. Can the Mind in this sense be predominant, ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): Et tu, EU?
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 10:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Rather than becoming a ‘counterweight’ to American domination, Europe is reverting to form, and bickering along lines of national identity. Only the Bush Administration is pleased about the “deep crisis” of the European Union, as the outgoing head of ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Devil is Man-made
Friday, 17 June 2005, 1:01 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“The greatest triumph of the devil in the modern age is convincing people he doesn’t exist.” I don’t remember the author of that memorable quote, but it encapsulates my problem with New Agers, sophisticated secularists, and run-of-the-mill rationalists. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Awakening to the Sacred
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 3:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The human brain is the only brain on this planet that has the capacity to be consciously aware of the sacred. Not the self-projected sacredness of churches and texts, but something totally beyond thought. The fact is, however, we are heading in the opposite ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): Iraq Comes to My Backyard
Thursday, 9 June 2005, 4:48 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a sunny afternoon, and there isn’t a cloud in the sky. A golden light streams into my study as I make some notes. Suddenly I hear tires squealing on the street in back, followed immediately by the sound of metal scraping metal. An instant later ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Dig Your Own Well Daily
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 1:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To the pride and shame of Californians, “The Great Central Valley” is often described as the “most productive agricultural region in the world.” The pride is obvious, but the shame has to do with the fact that the Valley is being “developed” at an ... More >>
Meditations (Spirituality): The Retreat Industry
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 2:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A veritable retreat and spiritual guidance industry has sprung up in the last decade in the West. Apart from the ethical questions of turning spirituality into business (a practice as old as both), there is the question: To what degree are all these ... More >>
Meditations: Two Kinds of Learning
Friday, 20 May 2005, 3:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I’ve never been one for Zen koans. They’ve always seemed to me to be trick questions designed to produce insights that simple, undivided observation can engender. But here’s a kind of koan: What is learning when it is based on unlearning? More >>
Meditations: Is There Such a Thing as True Hope?
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 12:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I saw a bumper sticker that read, “I feel so much better now that I’ve given up hope.” Hope is usually considered a desirable quality, but it is often a harmful condition, setting up pain when its flip side, despair, inevitably ensues. More >>
