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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: What Will It Take To Defeat Bush?
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 1:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The thought of another four years of the devil's right hand man as "leader of the free world" is too horrible to contemplate. But can Bush, and what he represents, be defeated? More >>
Meditations: Reflections on Chomsky's Perspective
Friday, 5 December 2003, 3:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There are two parts to Noam Chomsky's latest book, " Hegemony or Survival ." There is the bulk of the book, in which he gives as scathing analysis of American foreign policy. And then there is the tantalizing opening and disappointing conclusion, in ... More >>
Meditations: Consciousness, Revolution & Politics
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 11:02 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What is the relationship between a revolution in human consciousness and world politics? That is, how would a worldwide psychological revolution manifest in political terms? More >>
Meditations: Dark Matter, Individual & Collective
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A thoughtful, if blunt reader from down under wrote, "We cannot have responsibility for any but our own shit." More >>
Meditations: Protests Flatter Bush's Vanity
Friday, 21 November 2003, 12:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So we've come full circle--the Queen of the old word order toasting the King of the New World Order. With polished insincerity, Queen Elizabeth droned: ''as your father [Bush the First] said, we know what is right; freedom is right.'' More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Pendulum is Broken
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 11:34 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Ironically, quite a few Americans, but no one outside the U.S., wrote voicing their strong agreement with my last column, regarding the urgent necessity for an overseas campaign to defeat Bush in November 2004 (and implicitly, to provide an alternative ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): Bail Caesar Bush!
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 11:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A year from now, on November 4, 2004, the world will hold its first global election. The problem is, only citizens of the United States will get to vote in it. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Continuity Leads to Deadness
Friday, 7 November 2003, 10:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It is a spectacular morning following the first rain of the season. The brown hills are clean and clear, and a bike-ride in the country gives the sense that the hills still enclose the town, whose development is beginning to overrun them. More >>
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 >>
