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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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The Climate Crisis Is The Crisis Of Man’s Consciousness Within Us
Monday, 13 May 2024, 2:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The decimation of the viability and diversity of the earth is both a manifestation and mirror of the crisis of man’s consciousness. More >>
Man’s Original Psychological Separations
Friday, 10 May 2024, 1:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Human beings can end man’s destruction of the earth and humanity by awakening a true order of consciousness, flowing from direct perception, insight and wholeness. More >>
Living Up To The Name We Gave Ourselves
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 1:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a “New Cold War,” or “The Age of Unpeace.” Or it’s “a new Age of Revolutions,” in which we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. More >>
Painful Echoes For A Generation That Quit On Our Conscience
Monday, 6 May 2024, 1:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Many things are contributing to the downfall of the United States, at home and abroad. More >>
Biden Will Lose If He Can’t Stop Netanyahu From Attacking Rafah
Friday, 3 May 2024, 2:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If Biden cannot prevent Netanyahu from attacking Rafah, where the IDF has driven over a million Palestinian refugees, his weakness and complicity will bring down his presidency. More >>
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: We Need Not Be Black Boxes To Ourselves
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 11:14 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Self-knowing is a very different animal than self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the intellectual recognition of one’s patterns and tendencies from the past, whereas self-knowing is firmly grounded in the present. More >>
The False Diversity Of Identity, Part Two
Monday, 22 April 2024, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With respect to dialogue and cooperation between people of dissimilar or similar histories and ethnicities in a fractured world, perhaps it boils down to serious people resolving the following questions within. Can two or more people discover ... More >>
The False Diversity Of Identity
Friday, 19 April 2024, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Few people are willing to question their worldviews. But doing so is one of the most important things a true individual can do in this age of chaos. At bottom, the implicit attitude we hold about humankind’s relationship to nature is the most ... More >>
Attention Is The Highest Capacity Of The Brain
Friday, 12 April 2024, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There’s a well-known Japanese Zen story about a unique master called Ichu, also known as Ikkyu. A student came to Master Ichu and said, “Please write for me something of great wisdom.” Master Ichu picked up his brush and wrote one word: “Attention.” ... More >>
There Is No Such Thing As Collective Wisdom
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 10:59 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
On the same day the college basketball tournament called “March Madness” ends, the eclipse madness culminates in America. Only people with no relationship to nature flock in the millions to experience four minutes of a celestial event that scared ... More >>
The Brain Is Greater Than Thought
Friday, 5 April 2024, 12:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Man’s enslavement to time, by modernity’s clock or prehistoric people’s sun, denies the full awakening of insight in the brain. Thought is time, and time is thought. More >>
There Are No Bystanders When Evolution Is Demanding A Revolution In Consciousness
Friday, 29 March 2024, 5:47 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Given that nature unfolds in a dynamic & holistic order, & humans evolved along with all other creatures on earth, how & why did man become such a factor of fragmentation and disorder on this planet? More >>
Orcas Are Very Smart, But They Don’t Construct Separate Selves
Monday, 25 March 2024, 9:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas, projectively called Killer Whales, are the top predators of the sea. Different “cultures” of orcas use different strategies to hunt everything from manta rays to Great White sharks. There is no recorded instance of orcas killing a human in ... More >>
Orcas Are Very Smart, But They Don’t Construct Separate Selves
Friday, 22 March 2024, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Orcas, projectively called Killer Whales, are the top predators of the sea. Different “cultures” of orcas use different strategies to hunt everything from manta rays to Great White sharks. There is no recorded instance of orcas killing a human in ... More >>
A Meditation On Collective Consciousness
Monday, 18 March 2024, 12:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In a wide-ranging conversation about consciousness yesterday, my friend made a provocative comment that raises a compelling question. He said, “Consciousness is an inter-subjective field,” adding, “consciousness is not individual.” If consciousness is not ... More >>
When Thought Falls Silent There Is Harmony
Friday, 15 March 2024, 11:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The afternoon was gray and chilly, with only the saddle-shaped opening to the canyon visible in the hills beyond town. Suddenly the sun broke through near the horizon in the western sky. For some timeless minutes, sunlight flooded the land and illuminated ... More >>
Human Adaptiveness Has Become Maladaptive
Wednesday, 6 March 2024, 11:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The question of where and how man went wrong has plagued philosophers for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. In modern Western philosophy, the basic view of human nature has alternated between the fatalism of the 17th century English philosopher ... More >>
Krishnamurti And The Making Of A Religion?
Monday, 4 March 2024, 11:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
This is the sad story of how the teachings of an illumined teacher have been turned into groupthink by his followers, and threaten to become the basis for another religion. I’m referring to the worldwide “dialogue” network that formed after the death ... More >>
The Ecological Crisis Is Existential, Not Political
Friday, 1 March 2024, 11:09 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The exhausting political analysis of the ecological crisis finds its last gasp in a book by political theorist Ajay Singh Chaudhary, fittingly entitled, “The Exhausted of the Earth.” His core premise manages to be both undeniable and wrongheaded: ... More >>
Darkness Is Collective And Cumulative; Its Negation Begins In Meditation
Friday, 23 February 2024, 10:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A friend, sharing my feeling that man continues to plunge the planet and humanity toward the abyss, sent me a link he thought was helpful. It had the opposite effect. “Humanity is sloppily, awkwardly lumbering toward consciousness,” the author ... More >>
