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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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What Is A Human Being?
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 10:48 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The idea of “my country” being primary is anathema to the human being. Though the vast majority of humans have identified with particular groups for thousands of years, a small minority of human beings has always emotionally realized that they ... More >>
Does Cosmic Intelligence Care About Humanity?
Friday, 14 February 2025, 11:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No amount of activism or number of mass movements can meet the crisis of man. The undivided individual contains the whole of humanity. More >>
Relations Between Canada And America Are At Their Lowest Point Since The American Revolutionary War
Friday, 7 February 2025, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
This Nationalistic Race to the Bottom Is Compelling a Global Summit More >>
History Is Not A Game
Friday, 31 January 2025, 9:13 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
That conclusion manages to be both redundant and wrongheaded at the same time. A game indicates an eventual outcome, and there is no final outcome to human history, unless we drive our species into extinction, as Homo sapiens is driving half the ... More >>
The Transcendent Brain
Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 12:43 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
After having been immersed in the childish rituals of the Catholic Church growing up, I became averse to rituals & belief systems by my middle teens. Therefore I had no interest in methods, systems & traditions of meditation, which are fabrications ... More >>
Localism Is A Dead End; It’s All Glocal Now
Friday, 24 January 2025, 3:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The cliché “local solutions for local problems” becomes nonsensical without awareness of the planetary crises facing all of human beings. By refusing to see and deal with things as a whole, localism exacerbates of the very problems it purports ... More >>
The Wasted Interregnums Of Obama And Biden
Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Since neither Obama nor Biden was capable of speaking from the clarity, insight and passion required for meeting the psycho-spiritual crisis in the USA, both interregnums were wasted. More >>
Good Does Not Fight Evil, But Stands Firm And Dispels It
Monday, 20 January 2025, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The die is cast where Trump, the United States and the post-World War II order are concerned. The failure of insight and imagination by academic, media and political elites, exemplified in the moronic “good Trump, bad Trump” fantasy, feeds the ... More >>
Waiting For Trump: How Bad Will It Be?
Friday, 17 January 2025, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There aren’t two America’s anymore than there are two political parties. There’s just one, and it’s Trump’s America. He will do his worst. More >>
The Darkest Hour Before Dawn Or The Sum Of All Dark Ages?
Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 10:27 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Given the global ecological, psycho-spiritual, economic and political crisis of humankind, is there a latent exaptation that can be released which will enable us to meet the present climacteric? Yes, the universal capacity for flashes and states of insight. More >>
From Symbolic Consciousness To Insight Consciousness
Thursday, 9 January 2025, 2:37 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
No computer, however complex it may become in a simulacrum of sentience, will ever be able to approach the state of silence and insight, and communion with death and love that is the birthright of the human being. More >>
Neuroscience’s Misleading Half-Truths
Friday, 3 January 2025, 10:37 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Diversity arises from wholeness, not from particularity. The notion that life can be reduced to its “basic building blocks” is a fundamental philosophical mistake of many scientists, who project the basic premise of thought—separation—onto ... More >>
The Antithesis Of What Jesus Taught And Lived
Wednesday, 25 December 2024, 10:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Rather than face their own failings, mourn their loss and question why things went wrong, they declared that he died for our sins and started a religion that has ended in hate, power and greed, the antithesis of what Jesus taught and lived. More >>
Meditation Without A Method
Friday, 20 December 2024, 11:40 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is no method to meditation. Methods and systems are fabrications of thought, and thought cannot be used to quiet psychological thought without dulling the brain. One simply begins with the intent to listen, and delight in the senses. More >>
Exploring Our Place In The Universe
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 9:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Meditation is the spontaneous stillness of thought in all-inclusive, choiceless and undirected attention. Only when the brain is completely quiet can it contact the infinite silence and creative emptiness of Mind. More >>
Waking From The Nightmare
Friday, 6 December 2024, 12:55 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Awakening is difficult, requiring diligent awareness and questioning, which is why the vast majority of people still adapt to their culture, however sick it is. More >>
A Meditation On Noise And Silence
Friday, 29 November 2024, 1:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Being at one with cosmic silence is the highest capacity of the human being. To the extent that we only hear the noise of man however, outwardly and inwardly, we are incapable of silent being. More >>
Perception, Conception And Beauty
Friday, 22 November 2024, 12:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As we get older the perception of beauty becomes more difficult because memories & experiences fill the mind, leaving less & less space for seeing with innocence, as a child sees. It requires diligence to retain a purity of perception, though the ... More >>
What Being “Inward Looking” Really Means
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As the saying goes, “We have met the enemy, and they are us.” Evil forces exist within, not without, so they must first be faced and met inwardly before the rotten structures of society can be remedied outwardly. More >>
Self-knowing Is The Gateway To Liberation And Transmutation
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 10:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A revolution in consciousness may happen in the near future, or take hundreds of years, but it is essential if humanity is to survive and live in basic harmony with the earth and universe. More >>
