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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: The Sins of the Father, and Son
Monday, 29 December 2003, 3:23 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After raining all night, the creek was an unrecognizable torrent during a break between storms on Christmas Eve. As I sat at a picnic table overlooking the turbulence, a car drove up on the other side. I had a bad feeling. More >>
Martin LeFevre: Jesus, We Barely Knew Thee
Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 11:05 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Christians believe that Jesus "died for our sins." To my mind, that is nonsense. Jesus died because of people's sins, not for their sins, or ours. More >>
Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere
Tuesday, 23 December 2003, 11:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We humans have a problem with time. Existentially and philosophically, time is both a trap and a mystery. More >>
Meditations (Politics): Evil Trying Evil
Wednesday, 17 December 2003, 11:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It was a hoot to watch the American media salivate over Saddam's capture. Acting as though their militarism and chauvinism have suddenly been vindicated, CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC anchors could barely contain their macabre glee. More >>
Meditations: What Separates Us from Chimps?
Monday, 15 December 2003, 10:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The amusing declarative headline in a prominent California paper read: ''What separates us from chimps.'' Indulging in a tautology, I am tempted to say that what separates us from chimps is separating ourselves from chimps, and everything else. More >>
Meditations (Spiritual): Finding Balance
Friday, 12 December 2003, 12:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Perhaps all creative work is an attempt to balance different aspects of one's own nature. For me, that means balancing the contemplative, philosophical, and political dimensions. More >>
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 >>
