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There Are No Bystanders When Evolution Is Demanding A Revolution In Consciousness
Friday, 29 March 2024, 5:47 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Given that nature unfolds in a dynamic & holistic order, & humans evolved along with all other creatures on earth, how & why did man become such a factor of fragmentation and disorder on this planet? More >>
Orcas Are Very Smart, But They Don’t Construct Separate Selves
Monday, 25 March 2024, 9:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas, projectively called Killer Whales, are the top predators of the sea. Different “cultures” of orcas use different strategies to hunt everything from manta rays to Great White sharks. There is no recorded instance of orcas killing a human in ... More >>
Orcas Are Very Smart, But They Don’t Construct Separate Selves
Friday, 22 March 2024, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas, projectively called Killer Whales, are the top predators of the sea. Different “cultures” of orcas use different strategies to hunt everything from manta rays to Great White sharks. There is no recorded instance of orcas killing a human in ... More >>
A Meditation On Collective Consciousness
Monday, 18 March 2024, 12:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In a wide-ranging conversation about consciousness yesterday, my friend made a provocative comment that raises a compelling question. He said, “Consciousness is an inter-subjective field,” adding, “consciousness is not individual.” If consciousness is not ... More >>
When Thought Falls Silent There Is Harmony
Friday, 15 March 2024, 11:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The afternoon was gray and chilly, with only the saddle-shaped opening to the canyon visible in the hills beyond town. Suddenly the sun broke through near the horizon in the western sky. For some timeless minutes, sunlight flooded the land and illuminated ... More >>
Human Adaptiveness Has Become Maladaptive
Wednesday, 6 March 2024, 11:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The question of where and how man went wrong has plagued philosophers for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. In modern Western philosophy, the basic view of human nature has alternated between the fatalism of the 17th century English philosopher ... More >>
Krishnamurti And The Making Of A Religion?
Monday, 4 March 2024, 11:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
This is the sad story of how the teachings of an illumined teacher have been turned into groupthink by his followers, and threaten to become the basis for another religion. I’m referring to the worldwide “dialogue” network that formed after the death ... More >>
The Ecological Crisis Is Existential, Not Political
Friday, 1 March 2024, 11:09 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The exhausting political analysis of the ecological crisis finds its last gasp in a book by political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary, fittingly entitled, “The Exhausted of the Earth.” His core premise manages to be both undeniable and wrongheaded: ... More >>
Darkness Is Collective And Cumulative; Its Negation Begins In Meditation
Friday, 23 February 2024, 10:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A friend, sharing my feeling that man continues to plunge the planet and humanity toward the abyss, sent me a link he thought was helpful. It had the opposite effect. “Humanity is sloppily, awkwardly lumbering toward consciousness,” the author ... More >>
Dialogue And The Human Condition
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 10:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In my 30’s I had the good fortune to dialogue with David Bohm, considered the founder of the global dialogue movement and a man Einstein called his “spiritual son.” Bohm was a brilliant, sensitive physicist and philosopher, but his intellect ... More >>
Negative Learning From A Rattlesnake
Monday, 12 February 2024, 10:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Growing up in Michigan, I had both a fear and fascination for venomous snakes, though I’d never seen an eastern massasauga rattlesnake, Michigan’s only venomous snake. In California over the years I’ve had quite a few close encounters with two of ... More >>
The Mystery Of Consciousness
Friday, 9 February 2024, 11:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The mystery of consciousness is as old as there have been people conscious that they were conscious. However most people, including philosophers and scientists, don’t know what they mean by consciousness. That confusion is compounded when speculating ... More >>
Beyond The Hell Of Paradise
Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 9:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s been five years since a hellish wildfire burned down Paradise in less than a day. The conflagration killed 85 and incinerated more than 15,000 homes and businesses in the nearby mountain town. Though mostly rebuilt and only 20 minutes away, I hadn’t ... More >>
Mystical Insight And Petrified Religions
Tuesday, 30 January 2024, 9:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After days of rain and weeks of inclement weather, the morning brought clear skies, bright sun and warm temperatures. The creek is high and clear, and the grass green and thick in the unmanicured park. T-shirts were de rigueur for people walking or ... More >>
Will AI Catalyze A Revolution In Consciousness?
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 12:53 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s exceedingly ironic that the thought machines computer scientists are creating may be compelling what religious teachers and philosophers throughout history have not been able to do – induce ordinary folks to be self-knowing and thereby, ignite ... More >>
There’s No Muddling Through This Terrible Transition
Monday, 22 January 2024, 11:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Taking a meditation on the patio at sunset on a gray, wet and chilly day, there came, unexpectedly, the feeling of space and sacredness that is always new. Sunset was barely discernible, just a deepening dusk. The branches of the two tall pines ... More >>
Neuroscience And The Mind In Meditation
Friday, 19 January 2024, 10:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Neuroscientists are discovering more and more how the human brain works, even as they seem to understand less and less the mind in meditation. For example, they’ve discovered something called “aphantasia,” an apparently inherited neurological ... More >>
It’s The Zeitgeist Stupid
Friday, 12 January 2024, 11:03 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though I’ve been writing about the underlying conditions giving rise to fascism in America since George W. Bush’s presidency, well before the “hope and change” president was elected, this encounter bears retelling. About a year after 9.11, I ... More >>
Experiencing The Silent Ground Of Being
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 11:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The afternoon was gray and chilly, with only the saddle-shaped opening to the canyon visible beyond town. For a few precious minutes however, the sun poked through as it neared the horizon in the western sky. Brilliant orange light then flooded the ... More >>
Contemplating And Communing With Death
Friday, 5 January 2024, 11:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s the first day of the New Year, and the morning breaks clear, cloudless and bright, despite the predicted fog. Though chilly, the sun warms as it rises over the rooftops. An hour after sunrise, it’s windless and still, so calm that not ... More >>
