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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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Adaptation Is Not An Option
Friday, 7 November 2025, 12:14 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The archaic sovereignty of nation-states, the cornerstone of the dead international order and 5000 years of stupid empires, belongs to humanity now. More >>
Selling And Scamming Meditation
Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 12:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The world’s leading progressive newspaper featured an article today, “The best meditation apps to quit doomscrolling and find peace instead.” It’s a tour de force of what meditation is not. You know we’re in deep doo-doo when a technology ... More >>
The Arrogance Of Knowledge And The Humility Of “I Don’t Know”
Monday, 3 November 2025, 11:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With respect to human beings, an emotionally held attitude of “I don’t know” is the first and most important attribute for freeing the human mind. More >>
Questions Only Insight Can Answer
Friday, 31 October 2025, 11:22 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The author explores another question that has been nagging at him. His intent here is not to revisit the question of immanent intent through random processes. More >>
A Stunning Display Of Circular Thinking
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 12:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By turning within while remaining engaged with the world, we can bring about a transmutation in ourselves. And must do so before turning scientists loose to mess with the DNA of the few wild animals left in the few intact habitats on Earth. More >>
Two Totally Different Default Modes Of The Brain
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 10:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The root of social division and conflict, and ecological fragmentation and destruction is psychological separateness. More >>
Good On No Kings Protests. Now What?
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 10:36 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In the past a political base consisted of 10-20% of a party or candidate’s total support. When the Trump cult took hold however, commentators started referring to the 40-45% of jingoistic haters that bow down before Dear Leader as his “base.” More >>
Contact With ETs Requires Our Awakening True Intelligence
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 11:03 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By way of context, scientists have been perplexed at the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy and the lack of evidence for them. More >>
Programming AI With “Sentience” Will Destroy Our Capacity For Sapience
Monday, 13 October 2025, 9:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Sentience is often ascribed to non-human animals as simply the ability of a creature to have sensations, and it’s the cornerstone of the movement for the legal personhood of animals. More >>
Finding Light In A Receding Tunnel Of Darkness
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 3:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Thought is a mechanism, and humans have built machines that replicate its functions. True perception and insight belong to the human being however, and can never be replicated. More >>
Human Reality And Nature’s Actuality
Friday, 3 October 2025, 12:01 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The relationship, indeed dialogue between humankind’s reality and comic actuality is the uncharted way ahead, holding the potential to redefine humanity’s relationship to this planet. More >>
The Multiverse, Human Insignificance, And The Brain
Monday, 22 September 2025, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As a worldview and belief system, the multiverse surpasses the necessity of refuting the belief in a separate “Creator” of the universe, or “Designer” in intelligent design. More >>
Losing And Gaining Proprioception
Friday, 19 September 2025, 12:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The way ahead for the human being is not through intellect and knowledge, but by fully awakening the brain’s latent capacity for insight. And insight arises from the spaces between thoughts, and ultimately from the silence beyond all thought and ... More >>
The Confederation Of Cascadia?
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 12:48 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The United States has led the so-called free world into darkness the last decade (President Biden’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza made him part of the abdication of American leadership). Can the west coast states of the US and Canada’s ... More >>
A B-52 Resolved My Question About Homo Sap
Monday, 15 September 2025, 12:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
When one wordlessly and emotionally sees that there is no “my consciousness,” just human consciousness expressed in myriad ways; when one deeply sees and feels that one’s brain is the brain of humankind; then life and the universe unlock their ... More >>
Radical Means Going To The Root
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 10:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Pre-agricultural people, living close to nature, were continuously reminded that that separation is an illusion, and found ways, through their myths and traditions, to mitigate man’s alienation. More >>
Ending The Infinite Regress Of The Observer
Friday, 5 September 2025, 1:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is great urgency for enough individuals to give sufficient attention to the movement of thought as a whole, and end the habit of psychological division at the core of consciousness within themselves. More >>
Three Experiences Of General Anesthesia
Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 12:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though I had no experience of floating above the body in the operating room, as some people report with detail, I’m sure that awareness precedes birth and persists after the body expires and the brain flickers out. More >>
The Pendulum Is Broken
Friday, 29 August 2025, 1:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Besides, the focus on a single nation, much less a single politician, is facile and futile. The primacy of nations, religions and ethnic groups is a thing of the past. Is there any choice but to think globally and act globally? More >>
Stop Conflating Man With Nature
Wednesday, 27 August 2025, 12:57 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Projecting the “ruthless and deadly force” of man onto nature, or externalising it into fossil fuel transnational corporations, however much they warrant condemnation, just won’t cut it. More than anything, we need to ignite a psychological revolution ... More >>
