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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 : 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 >>
Martin LeFevre: America Loves War
Monday, 23 February 2004, 12:33 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Way back in the '80's, during the frozen depths of the Cold War, there was a promising movement in America called ''Beyond War.'' It seems rather quaint now, since America has found an enemy that will never fail it, permitting us the luxury of permanent ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Cosmology and Consciousness
Friday, 20 February 2004, 3:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Every week now it seems, astronomers are making a new mind-blowing discovery or observation. Black holes tearing apart stars that come too close; galaxies flickering on just after the "Dark Age" of the universe following the Big Bang; unseen "dark energy" ... More >>
Meditations: Standing Outside All Religions
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 10:50 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Standing outside all religions, and yet being a very religious person, I find it difficult to communicate with people who hold strong belief systems. I once held organized religion in complete disdain, but as I grow older, I understand why many ... More >>
Meditations: Falling in Love - Whatever That Is
Friday, 13 February 2004, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As the worldwide marketing blitz for Valentine's Day kicks into high gear, I propose taking a look at the universal, if typically temporary and tempestuous condition termed ''falling in love.'' More >>
Meditations (Spirituality): The Problem of Evil
Friday, 6 February 2004, 4:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Speaking of evil, there is a nice quote that goes: "the greatest achievement of the devil in the modern world is convincing people that he doesn't exist." More >>
The International Order is History - What's Next?
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 10:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As the international world order, based on the nation-state, continues its slow-motion collapse, much more than another historical transition to another world order is at stake. The ancient organizing principle of coercive power, and even archaic human ... More >>
Martin LeFevre: Sacred Canyon and Native Peoples
Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 12:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a canyon near here where, if you go with a humble heart and silent mind, you can feel the presence of ancient peoples who experienced the sacredness of the earth and universe, and thereby consecrated the land. More >>
Meditations (Politics): Mirroring the Universe
Thursday, 22 January 2004, 11:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Back before video games, heck, even before there was much on TV, adolescent boys imbibed science fiction. I grew up reading such giants of the genre as Ray Bradbury, who gave a hopelessly optimistic view of humankind's place in the universe recently ... More >>
Meditations (Politics): Thinking Together
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 3:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In '' Terrorism Knows no Religion or Region ,'' Kuwait's former Minister of Information, Dr. Saad Al Ajmi, has provided a framework for understanding the extremism that shapes terrorists of all stripes, not just ''Islamic terrorists.'' More >>
Martin LeFevre: Dissolving the Roots of Division
Thursday, 15 January 2004, 2:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Descartes was wrong. He should have said: I think, and therefore I am divided. Then perhaps the world would not be so divided between East and West, North and South, Christianity and Islam. More >>
