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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: Pray for Kerry, Prepare for Bush
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After listening to and talking with various Americans in recent weeks, I’m almost certain George Bush will remain (egad!) in power. Since the future of humanity hangs in the balance, can anything be done to prepare for four more years of international ... More >>
Meditations (Spirituality): Own Your Own Darkness
Monday, 23 August 2004, 9:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
This is the third in a series of columns on the deepest and most timeless questions facing the human being. In the first I examined God, nature, and religion; in the second I explored human consciousness in the cosmos. In this piece I will investigate ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Crisis of Consciousness
Wednesday, 18 August 2004, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In my last column, I inquired into the existence of a sacredness beyond thought, and proposed that if a person is self-knowing, and really does the work of passively observing thought into stillness, there is an awareness of energies which words like ... More >>
Meditations: An Inquiry Into God, Nature, Religion
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 12:38 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the most difficult questions for me as a contemplative is this: Can the gap between nature-loving religiosity and church-going faith be bridged? More >>
Meditations: Texts, Traditions, And Tyrants
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 9:52 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Democratic Convention in the U.S. was a hoot. Not since the ancient Egyptians imbued their pharaohs with the mythic power of bulls, has a would-be leader been cloaked in such symbols conveying strength. More >>
Meditations (Politics): Resign, Kofi Annan
Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 1:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A nation’s moral authority is inversely proportional to its dependence on military power. Nowhere is the erosion of America’s stature under the militaristic Bush Doctrine more clear than with US/UN ineffectuality in dealing with the genocide in Sudan. More >>
Meditations: Bringing Meditation Home
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 7:22 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Like most places, this town in northern California is growing too rapidly and chaotically. Though it’s still often quiet where I live, increasingly the din from nearby roads intrudes, bringing the continuous roar of the machine into the backyard. More >>
Meditations: The False Hope of Kerry-Edwards
Friday, 9 July 2004, 3:36 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
John Edwards beams before a press mob literally falling over themselves as he exits his Washington residence to enter the arena as John Kerry’s vice-presidential running mate. The ambitious, charismatic man from North Carolina, the embodiment of American ... More >>
Awakening Individual And Social Intelligence
Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 12:19 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s late morning, a typically hot summer morning inland in California. But a fine breeze blows through the brown hills, and it takes the edge off the heat, making the hike enjoyable. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Death Throes of Nationalism
Friday, 18 June 2004, 1:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The scene this week of Bill Clinton having a rollicking good time with George Bush at the White House during the unveiling of Clinton’s presidential portrait was hard to take. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Toddlers In The Stream
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 12:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Looking up from the rippling waters of the creek, in the deep emerald shade of oaks and sycamores, my eyes hold fast to a single streamside plant. More >>
Meditations: The Reaganite Myth & Mania in America
Friday, 11 June 2004, 2:01 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For days, CNN has been doing a riff on the Reagan legacy with an intended pun and unintended irony that reflects the pervasive deadness in these United States. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Architecture for Global Governance
Friday, 4 June 2004, 11:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A friend in East Africa, living in an area where he has difficulty receiving regular news reports (perhaps an advantage), writes asking an interesting question about the relationship between the UN and the US. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Unmediated Perception
Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 12:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of my sitting places is under a great sycamore on the banks of a small stream in the middle of expansive fields, with a view of the canyon and hills beyond town. More >>
Martin LeFevre: B-52 Breakthrough
Friday, 21 May 2004, 10:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In the early 1980’s, after 15 years of intensive philosophical inquiry into the question of how human disorder could evolve out of the natural order, I had a shattering experience which answered the question for me, at literally a gut level. More >>
Martin LeFevre: It Does Represent America
Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 12:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
President Bush, and many other politicians on the Right and Left, have all repeated the same line: ''This does not represent America.'' But deep down Americans know that the abuse and torture of prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere not only represent ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Whirling on the Axis of Twin Evils
Friday, 14 May 2004, 6:09 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Just when I thought I couldn’t feel more disgust in this race-to-the-bottom ''war against terrorism,'' both sides attain new depths of human depravity. More >>
Meditations: Microcosm of the Cosmos
Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When you are young, the ocean is a place of endless possibilities, great hopes, and distant goals. When you are older, the ocean is the place from which life arose, and the place to which life returns. More >>
Meditations (Politics): The Earth is Dying
Friday, 30 April 2004, 11:36 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A falcon hovers over the field. Green hillsides, rounded peaks, and the dark wall of the canyon beyond town stand out in breathtaking relief in the late afternoon sun. As the falcon masterfully employs the wind to remain stationary while scanning ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Beyond Bush and American Power
Tuesday, 27 April 2004, 3:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Does the slow-motion collapse of the international order, greatly accelerated by America’s opening up a black hole in Iraq, present an opportunity to prepare and build a true world order? More >>
