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A Birthday Wish From America For Humanity On The 4th Of July
Tuesday, 4 July 2023, 11:24 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
On July 4th the United States celebrates its 247th Independence Day. Or I should say, millions of people celebrate by trying to get away, resulting in many Americans voluntarily locking themselves up in crammed airports for days because of flight ... More >>
Our View Of Nature Is The Cornerstone Of Our Worldview
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 11:12 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Our view of nature establishes our worldview, and our worldview determines our view of nature. They are not the same thing however. One’s worldview flows from one’s ideas or insights into human nature, while one’s view of nature reflects one’s ... More >>
Three Kinds Of Singularity
Friday, 23 June 2023, 12:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There are three meanings to the word “singularity” – cosmological, technological, and psychological. The first and last are real, while the second is the fever dream of technophiles. The cosmological singularity, which gave rise to the misnomer of ... More >>
It’s All In Our Heads?
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 11:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
In the old days it used to be said of the newspaper business: “Don’t pick a fight with an industry that buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.” With regard to psychiatry, one might say today, “Don’t pick a fight with an industry ... More >>
An Explanation, Though It Won’t Change The Explained
Friday, 16 June 2023, 11:24 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A friend writes asking to inquire together into an essential question: “I deeply question myself and with friends, what is the root cause of this disastrous course of humankind?” I understand her to mean, “when and why did man make the “wrong ... More >>
When Did Progressives Become Warmongers?
Friday, 9 June 2023, 11:19 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Under the guise of being guardians of democracy, Democrats and progressives are pushing the United States toward world war. Otherwise rational voices are saying truly stupid things like, “Some of those who oppose Western aid to Ukraine just ... More >>
What Does “Doing The Work” Really Mean?
Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 10:44 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For uncounted millennia, humans have been externally oriented. During indigenous times and in previous ages, being externally motivated was necessary for survival. Now our survival as a species depends on enough people doing the inner spadework. ... More >>
Children Don’t Need To Be Conditioned
Friday, 2 June 2023, 11:36 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Meditation can be defined as the process of freeing the brain from its enslavement to conditioning. I don’t practice any system of meditation for doing so, since systems, techniques and methods are themselves forms of conditioning. While still ... More >>
AI’s Quantum Leap Demands A Quantum Leap In Human Intelligence
Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 11:33 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The surreal hype, false hope and potential harm from AI are flooding the field with would-be philosophers. Even pundits are saying things like, “To make good on its promise, artificial intelligence needs to deepen human intelligence.” But how can ... More >>
The Ending Of Psychological Thought
Friday, 26 May 2023, 10:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The afternoon is hazy, probably from the huge wildfires in Canada, and Sentinel Rock in the canyon beyond town is partially obscured. The reasoning mind chooses not to drive to Upper Park, but when upon reaching the deciding point, I continue ... More >>
Preparing For The Aftermath When Putin Uses Nukes In Ukraine
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 10:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Like many others, I have a very bad feeling about the slow-motion proxy war between Russia and America in Ukraine. The recent meeting of the G-7 in Hiroshima, of all places, with its lovefest and weapons bazaar for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has added to ... More >>
Teleology Without Goals And Ends
Friday, 19 May 2023, 11:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Science, which is rightly and necessarily based on materialism, has discounted and dismissed teleology. It has been simplistically viewed as a doctrine explaining phenomena in terms of goals or ends, but philosophically, it’s much more subtle. Though it ... More >>
The World Is Not The Earth
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 2:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Back when I taught preschool children, or was often around little ones, I would sometimes point to a tree, a bird in flight, a flower – and ask, did people make that? They would laugh and say no. Then I’d point to a building, a car or an airplane ... More >>
Why Science Can’t Save Us
Friday, 12 May 2023, 1:21 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Though I’m sometimes accused of it, I’ve never understood why anyone would try to save this mad, dark world. It’s not about saving the world; it’s about saving oneself and humanity, which are essentially the same thing. And science cannot do ... More >>
Beyond Nihilism And Civilization’s Collapse
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 12:44 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s easy to become nihilistic when subjected to the deathbeat of this country’s daily mass murders. But nihilism is a runaway reaction to man’s destructiveness and evil. The nihilist comes to believe that the meaninglessness of so-called civilization ... More >>
Is Humanity Doomed?
Friday, 5 May 2023, 11:02 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If scientists make poor philosophers, journalists make terrible theologians. Take this metaphysical and eschatological declaration by Janna Levin, a cosmologist at Barnard College for example: “There will be a last sentient being, there will be ... More >>
If You Choose, You Lose
Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 1:08 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is a perniciously false, foundational idea that has a chokehold on the Western mind. It has spread like a viral meme around the world. It’s the idea that there is a separate self that chooses. It’s underwritten by the belief in free will, ... More >>
Concerning Discernment And Difference
Friday, 28 April 2023, 9:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As a philosopher and writer, some sentences instantly strike me as true, and some sentences instantly strike me as false. How can one be sure one is seeing the true as true, and the false as false? After all, as a famous physicist once cracked, “Don’t ... More >>
Perception And The Movement Of The Heart
Friday, 21 April 2023, 10:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The meaning of the word ‘perception’ has deteriorated in English. Its small scope at present extends from ‘my perception,’ implying everyone has different perceptions, to the pejorative ‘immaculate perception,’ implying that unmediated ... More >>
The Human Brain And The Cosmic Mind
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 10:03 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Man is dead and human consciousness has become synonymous with darkness. Can human beings and a new global civilization emerge? The widely held popular belief, and the consensus conclusion of academic philosophers is that there is no intrinsic meaning ... More >>
