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Mystical Experiencing Is Our Birthright
Friday, 14 April 2023, 11:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
I dislike the term ‘mystical experience.’ What happens during true meditation is neither mystical, nor an experience. It’s an event, a phenomenon that is new each time. The brain has the capacity of gathering, through passive observation, ... More >>
A Mystic’s Understanding Of Jesus’ Crucifixion
Wednesday, 5 April 2023, 10:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The rain came down in sheets as the sun shone brightly low in the western sky. To the east, the most vivid rainbow I’ve ever seen arced 180 degrees across the sky, the prismatic bands of color almost too intense for the heart to bear. Never was ... More >>
AI, AI, AI, Or I, I, I?
Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 4:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There has never been a global civilization, and no historical, philosophical, psychological and spiritual foundation exists upon which to build one. It can and must be created. Cultures emerged as whole contexts in particular geographical areas. But geography ... More >>
Woke Or Awakened?
Friday, 24 March 2023, 10:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The mystery of consciousness is as old as there have been people conscious that they were conscious. However most people, including philosophers and scientists, don’t know what they mean by consciousness. The confusion is compounded when speculating ... More >>
AI, Darkness, And Consciousness
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 10:38 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
You can feel the earth ready to explode with life after all the precipitation in California in recent weeks. The squalls of rain and snow off the Pacific continue however, delaying the spring sun. The shallow stream of summer is a small river roaring ... More >>
What Is Art, And An Artist?
Friday, 10 March 2023, 3:54 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
“Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it.” “Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word ... More >>
Ending The Continuity Of Thought
Friday, 3 March 2023, 11:01 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It was a beautiful afternoon, the first sunny day in over a week. California has been hit with another series of storms, this one bringing snow to much of the state, the first snowfall in Los Angeles in decades. Despite the chill and wind (Californians ... More >>
Has World War III Begun?
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 11:45 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Far be it from me to question so august a philosopher as Bernard-Henri Lévy, but he’s all wet regarding the war in Ukraine, which he claims “is nothing less than a battle for the future of Europe, global liberalism and Western civilization.” ... More >>
Canaries In The Coalmines Of Consciousness
Monday, 27 February 2023, 9:35 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The subject de jour in the national media lately is “the psychic catastrophe engulfing so many kids in America.” I’m compelled to ask: Is the obtuseness of corporate columnists on the left and right with regard to the saturating, spreading darkness ... More >>
The Roots Of Man’s Fragmentation
Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 11:57 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For at least 100,000 years, since ‘modern man’ first emerged from Africa, humans have been as we still are today—tribal, self-seeking, and dominated by the separative, alienating capabilities ‘higher thought.’ During the tens of thousands of years ... More >>
Cosmic Pointlessness Or Infinite Immanence?
Wednesday, 15 February 2023, 9:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The creek along the edge of town, dry half the year, is running full again after the winter rains. Sitting on the bank as the sun slides below the leafless tree line, passive awareness quickens attention, and the watcher ends in the watching. A mallard ... More >>
Grappling With Demoralization
Friday, 10 February 2023, 10:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
An increasing number of doctors in America are suffering from something they are diagnosing in an increasing number of their patients – “demoralization syndrome.” As a prominent physician recently wrote, “Our demoralization is not a reaction ... More >>
Cardinal Errors
Friday, 3 February 2023, 11:28 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Having been raised as a six-days-of-Latin-Mass per week Catholic well into high school, an altar boy and favorite of the decent if dipsomaniac priests (much preferable to the strain of pedophiliacs that have long hidden under the cloak of the Church), ... More >>
Exploring Timelessness And Death
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 1:35 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Have you stood in wonder during the liminal moment when the stars first appear, so faintly that you have to look away to make sure they are really there? You feel the boundary not only between day and night, but also between life and death, timelessly ... More >>
OK Boomers, We Failed
Friday, 27 January 2023, 12:02 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After weeks of rain, the skies in California are cloudless and achingly blue. The seasonally dry stream that marked the periphery of town when I moved here 25 years ago is running full. But the first meditation of the year there brings sorrow that ... More >>
Concerning Stagnancy, Demography And Vitality
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 10:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To make demographics the issue when Americans awoke to another mass murder in this disintegrated country land seems absurd. This time it’s in Los Angeles, with ten dead as of this writing in a Chinese community celebrating the Lunar New Year. Here’s ... More >>
Why Activism Is Not Enough
Friday, 20 January 2023, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Bill McKibben, the author of the particularly pessimistic book, “The End of Nature,” now says, “for an activist to have hope is the most important thing.” That contradictory worldview sums up much of what’s misguided about activism. As recently reported, ... More >>
Is Human Consciousness Obsolete?
Wednesday, 18 January 2023, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Internet and artificial intelligence have made the underlying actuality that human consciousness is a single thing the overarching reality of every person on the planet that is connected to it. Prior to the Net, cultural and linguistic backgrounds ... More >>
Mind, Brain And Consciousness
Friday, 13 January 2023, 11:31 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It was a day of intense, opaque light during a break between storms that have been pounding California. Though there wasn’t a smidgen of blue sky, sunlight reflecting off the creek-turned-river was so brilliant that you couldn’t look at it without ... More >>
The State Of Insight
Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 2:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After high winds snapped four posts and brought down the back fence last night, there was a break this morning in the “atmospheric river” that’s been deluging California with one heavy storm after another. The true meaning of carpe diem becomes ... More >>
