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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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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 >>
The Polycrisis Is Not Political And National; It’s Psychological And Spiritual
Friday, 18 July 2025, 8:11 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The human crisis isn’t political and national, but psychological and spiritual. Its remedy will never be found at the superficial level of “resistance,” protest and marches, but in a revolution in consciousness, beginning within the individual. More >>
Humans Haven’t Changed In 45,000 Years. We Can Now.
Monday, 14 July 2025, 9:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Without giving too much away, others are snatched, or killed, like the arrogant leader, who says, “I am light,” and promises to lead them to safety and dominion over the new land. More >>
Can Meditative States Help Prevent Strokes?
Friday, 11 July 2025, 9:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
During the meditative state, words are no longer able to instantaneously cluster and crystallize around a center. That is, the whole brain becomes attentive enough to thought as a single movement that words, images, memories and associations cannot attach themselves around an illusory self. More >>
Negate Thought Consciousness For Cosmic Consciousness To Be
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 8:41 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Consciousness as we know it is based on the evolutionary capacity to consciously separate things from the environment and recombine them mentally to make objects for use. To do so with maximum effect and efficiency apparently required the illusion ... More >>
Where Human Relationship Is Concerned, AI Has No Place
Friday, 4 July 2025, 7:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The real and present danger is the complete deadening of the human heart, the replacement of human relationship with AI intermediation and intrusion, and the destruction of the human brain’s spiritual potential by merging the brain with the machine. More >>
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 11:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What’s at stake is not the socio-political future of a precipitously declining former superpower, or any other nation-state in an utterly dysfunctional and defunct international order, but the viability of the Earth and the future of humanity. More >>
Bill Moyers And The Death Of American Decency
Monday, 30 June 2025, 10:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Democrats are clutching at straws. It’s absurd to believe that the death of this nation’s soul can be restored by a change in party leadership, or barnstorming rallies by Bernie Sanders, or a charismatic mayor of New York. More >>
To Time Travel, One Must First End Time
Friday, 27 June 2025, 12:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In recent decades, there are no more than 100 salmon of a single species that make a successful journey to spawn each winter. The local environmental group is working to remove man-made impediments and increase their numbers. More >>
Neuroscience Cannot Encompass And Explain Mystical Experiencing
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 12:46 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Amplification of prior experiences in any way contrasts sharply with the art of methodless meditation. A complete, temporary cessation of memory, words and images occurs when sufficient unwilled and undirected attention gathers in the brain through passive ... More >>
