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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: 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 >>
Meditations : Rushing Toward the Rubble of History
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Here in the United States, a strange phenomenon is taking place. On one hand, the blatant falsehoods and philosophical idiocy of the Bush Administration are beginning to unravel. On the other hand, support amongst the American people for the Bushites ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): I Am the Rwandan Child
Thursday, 15 April 2004, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I am the Rwandan child hacked to death with a machete ten years ago as the world turned its back. I was murdered not on the 'dark continent,' but in the darkest recesses of human consciousness. More >>
Meditations: Past and Future Diversity
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 12:21 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When I first came to California from Michigan, over 30 years ago as a 19-year-old leaving home, it felt like a different country, where people spoke the same language. Since then, and especially in the last decade, the world has felt like the same country, ... More >>
The Unlabeled World and the Embodied Brain
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 10:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One of the most renowned neuroscientists in the world, Gerald M. Edelman, calls the human brain "the most complicated material object in the known universe." Edelman has advanced a powerful theory about how consciousness develops, a theory ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): A Letter to Living People
Friday, 26 March 2004, 11:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Bill Moyers, press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson and one of the few journalists still respected in America, said a decade ago, ''a nation can die from too many lies.'' As the Bush Administration continues to indulge in an orgy of prevarication, Moyer's ... More >>
Intelligent Life, Terrestrial & Extra-Terrestrial
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 10:24 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The search for life on other planets is intensifying. A field that was dismissed as fringe science only a decade ago is now closing in from many angles on the question of extraterrestrial life. More >>
Meditations (Politics): Between Scylla & Charybdis
Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 11:16 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The marcher's in Madrid said it all: ''We were all on that train.'' On one side of the tracks were the purblind warmongers Bush, Blair, and Aznar, spreading terrorism with their policies. On the other side were the mass murderers who are so besotted ... More >>
Meditations: Literally Gone to the Dogs
Friday, 12 March 2004, 2:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Dogs have become to America what cows used to be to India - animals imbued with an importance beyond rational explanation. In our case however, "man's (and woman's) best friend" is not seen as a religious symbol, but a panacea for alienation. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Demystifying Mystical Experience
Monday, 8 March 2004, 4:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I dislike the term 'mystical experience.' What happens in the brain during states of meditation is neither mystical, nor an experience. To my mind it's an event, a phenomenon that is new each time. More >>
Martin LeFevre: The Passion and the Pity
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 12:50 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I haven't seen Mel Gibson's gory indulgence of Jesus' torture and crucifixion yet, but you can hardly pick up a newspaper or turn on the tube in the States without being inundated with Christian nostalgia. I think I'll wait until "The Passion of ... More >>
