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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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President Trump And The Problem Of Evil
Monday, 1 December 2025, 1:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Old or new stories fall far short in this unprecedented age, when the cumulative darkness of man has been fully exposed. More >>
An Adequate Explanation For The Sixth Extinction
Friday, 28 November 2025, 2:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We need a better explanation than “human exceptionalism” More >>
The Metaphysical Mechanism Of Darkness
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 11:50 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Nature is a mirror, if we’re willing to look More >>
Why Is The Vatican Coveting Celebrity?
Monday, 24 November 2025, 11:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The global media is desperate to sell hope and moral leadership in a world gone to hell. Even the Guardian is cheering on the papal schlock. More >>
Man Has No Bottom
Friday, 21 November 2025, 9:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The hard truth is that rather than an upward spiral to an imagined “Omega Point,” the arc of the human species is a downward spiral to either a slow extinction or an explosion of insight. More >>
Initiating A Radical Change In Consciousness
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 10:14 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With persistence, and without goal or idea, something tremendous happens–a radical change in consciousness. That benefits not only the brain and body of the individual, but to some small degree the whole of humanity as well. More >>
Beyond Knowledge, Propaganda And Conditioning
Saturday, 15 November 2025, 2:17 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Conventional thinkers and writers on the left rightly declare there is “a deadly conjunction, with the climate crisis running headlong into the epistemic crisis.” However they digress from talking about the crisis of humankind’s relationship ... More >>
Only Human Beings Can Heal Man’s Fragmentation
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 1:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If we don’t destroy the brain through merging with AI, or keep allowing Big Pharma to hook us on emotion-destroying anti-depressants, that appears to be the direction of revolutionary evolution. More >>
Education Involves Two Kinds Of Learning
Monday, 10 November 2025, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Yes, “children “crave a knowledge of the real world,” and need “to be given a knowledge of money, law and legal rights, politics and voting, and skill at finding a job.” More >>
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 >>
