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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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Regarding Popes, Dopes And Hopes
Monday, 5 May 2025, 1:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Taking the word catholic literally, Pope Francis attempted to universalize all religions under the banner of inclusiveness. But he was jesuitical by ignoring the inherent contradiction of simultaneously trying to evangelize Catholicism. More >>
The Enlightenment Is Dead; What Is True Enlightenment?
Friday, 2 May 2025, 10:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Enlightenment that began in 1715 was a temporary fix of the inherently separative nature of the human mind. It has run its course, and a vital redefinition of enlightenment is now urgently needed, or darkness will rule for the foreseeable future. More >>
Ending Irrational Objectification Of Space Means Ending Rapacious Exploitation On Earth
Monday, 28 April 2025, 8:09 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Driving the new capitalistic/militaristic space race is a persistent, pernicious way of thinking. Though the polycrisis is the culmination of man’s rapacious consciousness, even many progressives continue to believe it can be remedied externally, by more ... More >>
Choosing Mass Murder?
Friday, 25 April 2025, 8:18 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No matter how much planning and “premeditation”, the plague of mass murderers in the USA is the ultimate expression of pathological individualism. More >>
Easter Reflections
Monday, 21 April 2025, 8:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Stripping away the half-baked misinterpretations, obfuscations, Catholic misconducts and Protestant misconstructions, what was it? Can we gain insight into Jesus’ mission, and does it have any relevance for our endarkened world? More >>
Experience Confers Cynicism, Not Wisdom
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 10:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a shrunken mind and heart that speaks of walking past granite mountains such a state of dullness and habit that one is devoid of feeling beauty or wonder. More >>
True Abundance
Friday, 11 April 2025, 7:23 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
True abundance is wholly an inward phenomenon. And while one can physically live without it, as the vast majority of Americans have for decades, if not our entire history as a colonising and westward expanding nation, one cannot inwardly survive ... More >>
No Silver Lining, Just An Opening
Monday, 7 April 2025, 10:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The evils being perpetrated by the Trump Administration did not begin with Trump and won’t end with him. We have to understand just what this malevolence is, where it comes from, and what its goals are. More >>
Teach Children The Distinction Between The World And Nature
Friday, 4 April 2025, 11:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Perhaps the most important distinction we can teach children, which most adults lose sight of as they grow older, is the difference between nature and the world. The world is the man-made reality, the manifestation of the human mind, whereas obviously ... More >>
In A Global Society, There Is No Such Thing As “National Security”
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 10:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Global citizens are facing the imminent complete collapse of the international order. But people can be psychologically and philosophically prepared to change course and create a true global order during the short window of opportunity after the bombs ... More >>
Hope Is The Prison Of Time
Friday, 28 March 2025, 8:39 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
But that’s only true if hope is the last true thing to perish in a person before they quit on life. The end of hope is then synonymous with hopelessness, and identical with despair. However, ending hope is a completely different thing than hopelessness. More >>
Technology And Human Nature
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 10:20 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s self-evident that social media couldn’t maximize and manipulate “the worst passions” unless they were already present within us. Which is to say, unless they were a core aspect of human nature. More >>
Regarding Randomness And Significance
Monday, 17 March 2025, 11:07 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The Earth, if one sets aside one’s knowledge and experience and looks afresh at nature every day, is endlessly wondrous. Out of the approximately 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, nearly all with planets circling them, how many life-bearing planets ... More >>
Questions And Proposed Insights Into Evil
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Evil is not a right-left issue, as the legacy left at the Guardian believes. They insist the solutions are political, though political evil emanates from social darkness, deadness and apathy. More >>
The Polycrisis, Knowledge, And AI
Monday, 10 March 2025, 11:10 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The real and present danger of AI is that it will destroy the brain’s potential for insight if we continue to give primacy to the intellect and knowledge, much less merge with these thought machines we’ve created in our own image. More >>
A Diagnosis And Prescription For The Polycrisis
Friday, 7 March 2025, 11:34 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The action of spontaneous, undirected attention quiets and cleanses the brain of its useless, accumulated content, allowing the mind to fall silent and participate in the consciousness of the cosmos. More >>
California Psychologically Secedes From The Union
Monday, 3 March 2025, 9:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Without a genuinely global response, the fragmentation of the Earth and Humanity will continue and quicken. But paradoxically, in their race to the bottom, Trump, Putin and their ilk are making a true global response more necessary and possible every day. More >>
Both The Right And The Left Are Making Mutually Assured Destruction A Reality
Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:46 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Clearly it isn’t just right-wing extremists that threaten the world. The left has lost its mind as well. There is no such fucking thing as national security, and the more political, media and academic leaders adhere to it, the more insecure they help ... More >>
Blown Away In My Backyard
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 1:20 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A meditation on a beautiful, sunny afternoon is salubrious, but a meditation amidst the elemental forces of nature is shattering. Everything you know or think you know, everything you’ve experienced and carefully built up, is stripped away. You can ... More >>
Is This A 1989 Moment?
Monday, 24 February 2025, 10:19 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The year 1989 signifies not just the end of the Cold War, but the opportunity for humankind to move in a new direction. That window of opportunity only lasted a few months, before the hellish days in Russia and the halcyon days in America ushered ... More >>
