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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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AI And Dying To Thought And Self
Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 10:00 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI, and especially AGI if it becomes a real thing, is an “accelerated” version of the intellect. Which means that human pride and arrogance based on cognitive dominance is being replaced by enhanced replications of higher thought. More >>
Nihilism Is Death. Leave The Stream
Saturday, 31 January 2026, 3:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Can the human brain, caught for untold millennia in fragmenting consciousness that's destroying the earth and humanity, leave the stream of man's dead consciousness and free itself at last? More >>
From Chimps Committing Genocide In Gombe To Humans Committing Genocide In Gaza
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 11:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Many scientists and science writers are bent on blurring the line between humans and nature in a misbegotten attempt to prove that we aren’t actually separate from nature. More >>
Through The Fog Of Chaos And War, Is A New World Waiting To Be Born?
Monday, 26 January 2026, 12:26 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To mix a metaphor, China is fishing for countries in the dead zone of the international order for middle and little countries. And European nations (acting separately from the EU), are taking the bait. More >>
Let’s Stop Grasping At Straws
Friday, 23 January 2026, 2:14 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By all means EU leaders should think on Carney’s speech, but meditate on it? That’s a category error. And who cares about EU leaders except Europeans, and from what I gather, not even them? More >>
Let Your Awareness Be As Quick As A Hummingbird’s Wings
Thursday, 22 January 2026, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As it grew dark, a hummingbird took its last long drink at the feeder. There was non-personal affection for it, for the last light upon the land, and for all the things of the earth, even man. More >>
What Is The Opportunity Within This Chaos?
Monday, 19 January 2026, 12:06 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Three concepts urgently need to be differentiated, disentangled and clarified: sovereignty, self-determination and security. More >>
The Polycrisis Is Unprecedented, Because We’re At The Terminus Of Man
Saturday, 17 January 2026, 3:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s important to have things to look forward to, but it’s crucial to allow time and space in our daily lives to attend to what is, and be still. More >>
The Benediction Of Life And The Darkness Of Man
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 11:33 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
By facing and taking complete responsibility for the darkness within us, and standing firm and non-reactively when faced with evil, we learn and grow as human beings, and turn the tables on man’s evil. More >>
Can Geo-Engineering Work?
Monday, 12 January 2026, 11:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Homo sapiens ability to consciously remove and recombine ‘things’ to build worlds is not the problem. The problem is psychological separation. More >>
The Local Is Global, And The Global Is Local
Saturday, 10 January 2026, 3:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The earth is dying, as anyone with eyes that can still see feels. Nihilistic liberals say the earth will recover after man is gone. That may be true, but the experiment in consciousness made possible by the evolution of the brain will be over. More >>
Humanism Is The Mistaken Assertion Of The Primacy Of Human Reason
Thursday, 8 January 2026, 12:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Do we live, as a British pundit put it, in a “highly globalised world is disaggregating into regional and continental blocs?” Or is that a rational overlay on the reality of rapid degeneration into global chaos? More >>
The Choice Before Us
Tuesday, 6 January 2026, 9:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The task of human beings is to question and ignite insight together wherever we are to meet all facets of the polycrisis facing humanity. More >>
Racism Has Its Roots In Identifying With Particular Groups. End It Within.
Friday, 2 January 2026, 12:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The need to belong is a deep feature of human nature. Belonging and racial (and national) identification must now be disconnected, or the racism of 2025 will seem like a walk in the park in 2026. More >>
Hope And Wishful Thinking Aren’t A Response
Wednesday, 31 December 2025, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What would a rebirth of the people look like? It will require the birth of a new culture, in which lies and cruelty aren’t opposite sides of the same coin as truth and kindness. More >>
AI Can Never Be Intelligent In The True Sense Of The Word
Monday, 29 December 2025, 10:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For the foreseeable future at least, as long as humans value reason over insight, AGI, which will reason much better than people do, will preserve and increase the stupidity and chaos of the world. More >>
Jimmy Kimmel’s English Tea And Biscuits Address
Saturday, 27 December 2025, 3:47 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So no Jimmy, we don’t have three years in America to fiddle as Washington burns down the old order it largely created. And neither does the rest of humanity. More >>
“Where Did All This Hate Come From?”
Monday, 22 December 2025, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The young father was standing at the corner of his patio facing my bedroom window. The moment I opened the blinds, he gave me the finger. More >>
Unity Is Not Built On Diversity, But Flows From Wholeness
Saturday, 20 December 2025, 1:58 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We cannot both be a “citizen of the world,” as Erasmus famously said, and have our identities rooted in a nation, ethnic group or religion. More >>
Christianity Went Wrong From The Start
Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 12:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We need new insight into Jesus, insight that makes him understandable and accessible as an exemplary human being, not “God becoming human.” Not to revitalise Christianity, but to help in revitalising the spirit within us. More >>
