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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 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 >>
Is AI Increasing Man’s Darkness, Or Providing A Mirror To Us?
Monday, 25 August 2025, 10:24 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI stripped of knowledge, information and data is just hardware; a person that sets aside knowledge and experience, which are ineluctably of the past, and directly perceives what is within and around them in the present, is a self-knowing human being. More >>
When Thought Is Still, Peace Ensues
Friday, 22 August 2025, 11:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The paradox is that though things take time, thinking in terms of time inevitably invokes the illusion of gradual change and progress. Whatever positive social and political outcomes resulted from incremental change over time in the past, that mode ... More >>
The Right Questions For A Planet On Fire
Monday, 18 August 2025, 12:00 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
National frameworks have their place, but if “my country” continues to be psychologically, philosophically and politically primary, the fragmentation of the Earth, humanity and our diminishing nations will continue unabated. More >>
Jim Lovell To Donald Trump: From America’s Best To Its Worst
Wednesday, 13 August 2025, 1:36 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The contradiction between America’s technological prowess and political/military failure reverberates to this day. The man-made evil that flows through Trump and Putin means to destroy the human spirit as surely as the American spirit has been More >>
Is The Human Brain The Pinnacle Of Creation
Friday, 8 August 2025, 12:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The evil of developing and using atomic weapons fits nicely in a worldview that believes in a totally random, meaningless universe. But randomness defines the process of evolution, and cannot account for beauty, mystery and awe. More >>
The American People Are Inwardly Dead. Are All Western Peoples?
Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Irrespective of the nationalistic mindset, that’s an inherently false hope, since giving priority to material abundance ineluctably produces tremendous inequality. Why? Because it doesn’t address human motivations of greed, power, comparison, ... More >>
Denying Human Nature
Monday, 4 August 2025, 7:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Philosophical assumptions go unexamined, and superficial beliefs about human nature are stated as givens. The present and future are viewed through an outdated, conventional and irrelevant worldview. And the remedy proposed is progressive boilerplate, unworkable ... More >>
We Cannot Change The Structures Of Society Without Understanding Thought And Time
Friday, 1 August 2025, 7:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There’s a strange symbiosis between global warming deniers fronting for the fossil fuel industry, and those who believe we don’t have to radically change, but just have to switch to renewable energy. What they share is an unremitting outward orientation ... More >>
Think Deeper Than Politics And Renounce Ideology
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 7:39 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Politics is the outermost disorder arising from the human psyche and the globalized culture. Continuing to view the human crisis in terms of political lenses, whether the ruling capitalist, increasingly authoritarian lens, or the progressive lens, ... More >>
What Does It Mean To Have An Inner Life?
Friday, 25 July 2025, 12:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I believe without belief that it is our birthright not only for all people to be treated with respect and kindness, but for every person to have the freedom to sit beside a stream or small lake and feel the benediction of life. More >>
Resilience Or Revolution?
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 10:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI, which is driving hackneyed thinking and writing like nothing ever before, provides an example of how the idea of resilience is “nonsense on stilts”: “The ‘polycrisis’ concept highlights the need for spiritual and psychological resilience.” More >>
