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Reflections On Time During End Times
Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 3:53 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s fitting, at the beginning of a new year, to reflect on the meaning of time, and timelessness. At the core level in consciousness, what is the relationship between thought and time, and between death and timelessness? Science cannot give insight ... More >>
The Absurdity Of “The Anthropocene Age”
Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 11:47 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Geologists are well into a decade-long debate about whether to name the present period of tremendous human impact on the Earth the Anthropocene Age. It’s a deeply flawed philosophical exercise masquerading as science. The movement to codify the More >>
“Social Media” Isn’t The Problem
Friday, 16 December 2022, 12:51 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A line of reasoning that sounds irrefutable is precisely the one that most needs to be examined, and probably the one that most needs to be refuted. Take this seemingly incontrovertible claim for example by an American pundit commenting on the erstwhile ... More >>
Attention Or Atencion?
Monday, 12 December 2022, 11:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A Zen Master in ancient Japan was asked to summarize his teaching. He replied with one word: “Attention.” In Spanish the word is atencion, which has connotations of care, courtesy, focus, diligence and vigilance. None of which are typically implied ... More >>
The Multiverse Is A Belief System
Friday, 9 December 2022, 11:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
All methods and techniques of meditation preclude meditation. The devices of thought cannot be used to trick thought into stillness. The mind falls silent by taking the time and giving the space to allowing attention without judgment or choice to gather, ... More >>
We Were Once All Indigenous People
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The indigenous people in the northeastern corner of California’s Great Central Valley are called the Machoopda. Not long after moving here over 25 years ago I met an indigenous man from Mexico who was well versed in local native folklore. He said ... More >>
What Is Intelligence?
Friday, 2 December 2022, 10:08 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Probably the smartest animal on Earth, other than humans, is the Orca, projectively known as "Killer Whales." Of course smarts, as seen with humans, is a very different thing than intelligence. Just what is intelligence, and would an extraterrestrial ... More >>
The Pinnacle Of Creation – The Human Brain
Monday, 21 November 2022, 11:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s nearing sunset on a mild autumn afternoon in northern California. My eyes are drawn to a maple between the houses draped in red that looks like it’s on fire in last rays of the sun. A huge hawk takes off from the red maple and arcs up to ... More >>
Without Respect To Movements, Power And Time
Friday, 18 November 2022, 11:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
With characteristic obtuseness about the undercurrents of American culture, the New York Times offered readers “a black hole” to write their feelings about Donald Trump’s return to the political stage. America’s newspaper of record led off ... More >>
Intelligent Life And The Great Filter
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 11:29 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Have you heard of something called “The Great Filter Theory?” It’s the idea that when intelligent life (actually potentially intelligent life) on a planet reaches the level of technology and complexity that human civilization has, most or all extinguish ... More >>
Woke Doesn’t Mean Awakened
Monday, 14 November 2022, 11:06 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Woke and awakened are very different things, as different as being political or spiritual. However, woke or awakened, and political or religious have been conflated to the point of making both meaningless. Initially, to be “woke” simply meant ... More >>
AI, HAL And The Death Of The Self
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 11:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The season has fully shifted in northern California, and the leaves in the parkland are nearing fall splendor. Meditations along the creek have grown intense again after a “dark night of the soul,” and the actuality of death inseparable fro life has ... More >>
What Comes After Obama, And America?
Monday, 7 November 2022, 11:18 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
[It gives me no satisfaction to re-publish this column in Scoop from nearly 13 years ago (February 2010), which disturbingly predicated where America is today and why. Things have gotten so bad in the USA that I find myself unable to write about the ... More >>
Meeting The Crisis Of Man’s Consciousness
Friday, 4 November 2022, 11:10 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 most philosophers and scientists, don't know what consciousness is. That confusion is compounded when speculating on ... More >>
Science And Religion Aren’t About The Same Thing
Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The beauty of a wood always surprises one on a rainy day. After months of smoke and haze from wildfires, the early rains are a godsend. A light drizzle falls as I walk along the fragrant paths. The parkland is devoid of people except for a couple ... More >>
Localism Increases The Fragmentation Of The Earth
Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 10:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The latest philosophical fad among comfortable progressives is that we each, all 8 billion-and-counting of us, belong to a particular place. The focus on “community” however, is a reaction to the planetary ecological and socio-political crisis. Localism ... More >>
Q Craziness And Unaddressed Evil
Friday, 14 October 2022, 11:15 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
You can tolerate a Trumper. You can pity a Trumper. You can even understand a Trumper. But you can never reason with a Trumper. As Ben Sasse, the junior senator from Nebraska, says in his anodyne way, “Something is really wrong here. Something deeper is going ... More >>
Fragmentation And Wholeness
Friday, 7 October 2022, 11:10 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For at least 100,000 years, since ‘modern man’ first emerged from Africa, humans have been as we are—tribal, self-centered and dominated by the separative, alienating capabilities of so-called higher thought. During indigenous times, people lived in ... More >>
The Silence Of Being
Friday, 30 September 2022, 1:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Having had so-called mystical experiences since I was 18, and also being of a philosophical bent (though that word has a double meaning), I've come to understand mystical experiencing as a universal phenomenon that transcends belief systems. Consider the following ... More >>
The Inter-National Order Is Dead And Gone
Saturday, 24 September 2022, 4:19 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
During the pandemic I initiated a series of dialogues at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. UPeace is the only UN-mandated University in the world, formed by the General Assembly in 1980. More >>
