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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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Humanism Is The Mistaken Assertion Of The Primacy Of Human Reason
Thursday, 8 January 2026, 12:30 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Do we live, as a British pundit put it, in a “highly globalised world is disaggregating into regional and continental blocs?” Or is that a rational overlay on the reality of rapid degeneration into global chaos? More >>
The Choice Before Us
Tuesday, 6 January 2026, 9:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The task of human beings is to question and ignite insight together wherever we are to meet all facets of the polycrisis facing humanity. More >>
Racism Has Its Roots In Identifying With Particular Groups. End It Within.
Friday, 2 January 2026, 12:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The need to belong is a deep feature of human nature. Belonging and racial (and national) identification must now be disconnected, or the racism of 2025 will seem like a walk in the park in 2026. More >>
Hope And Wishful Thinking Aren’t A Response
Wednesday, 31 December 2025, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
What would a rebirth of the people look like? It will require the birth of a new culture, in which lies and cruelty aren’t opposite sides of the same coin as truth and kindness. More >>
AI Can Never Be Intelligent In The True Sense Of The Word
Monday, 29 December 2025, 10:17 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
For the foreseeable future at least, as long as humans value reason over insight, AGI, which will reason much better than people do, will preserve and increase the stupidity and chaos of the world. More >>
Jimmy Kimmel’s English Tea And Biscuits Address
Saturday, 27 December 2025, 3:47 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
So no Jimmy, we don’t have three years in America to fiddle as Washington burns down the old order it largely created. And neither does the rest of humanity. More >>
“Where Did All This Hate Come From?”
Monday, 22 December 2025, 11:55 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The young father was standing at the corner of his patio facing my bedroom window. The moment I opened the blinds, he gave me the finger. More >>
Unity Is Not Built On Diversity, But Flows From Wholeness
Saturday, 20 December 2025, 1:58 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We cannot both be a “citizen of the world,” as Erasmus famously said, and have our identities rooted in a nation, ethnic group or religion. More >>
Christianity Went Wrong From The Start
Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 12:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We need new insight into Jesus, insight that makes him understandable and accessible as an exemplary human being, not “God becoming human.” Not to revitalise Christianity, but to help in revitalising the spirit within us. More >>
Why A United States Of Europe Has Been A Non-Starter
Monday, 15 December 2025, 12:34 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The psychological, philosophical and political dilemma for the European Union, and the difference between the US at the end of the 18th century and the EU well into the 21st, is that the latter’s member states want to have it both ways More >>
Conduits Or Conductors?
Saturday, 13 December 2025, 4:04 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Conduits of collective darkness don’t know they are conduits. And the worst conduits firmly believe they embody truth and goodness. That’s what gives them the ability to lie without a twitch of conscience. More >>
Freedom Means Leaving The Stream Of History
Thursday, 11 December 2025, 1:10 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
To answer that question we must ask ourselves another: Is the challenge of the present age unprecedented? Clearly it is. History, the cumulative movement of the past, has become a crushing burden on present generations. More >>
Color Is God
Monday, 8 December 2025, 2:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We often interpret present experience through prior experience, and react to words rather than see the thing . But direct perception and insight is the difference between becoming a conditioned human, and being an unconditioned human being. More >>
Meditation As Negation
Saturday, 6 December 2025, 2:31 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
One realizes one can only truly be secure in silence and emptiness, since life is a passage without a destination except death. More >>
The Collapse Of The USSR And The US
Thursday, 4 December 2025, 11:51 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Staring at Lenin’s waxy face, I stumbled in the dim light, more from the weight of history than the physical scene. An armed soldier stepped toward me, but saw I had no bad intention. More >>
President Trump And The Problem Of Evil
Monday, 1 December 2025, 1:49 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Old or new stories fall far short in this unprecedented age, when the cumulative darkness of man has been fully exposed. More >>
An Adequate Explanation For The Sixth Extinction
Friday, 28 November 2025, 2:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
We need a better explanation than “human exceptionalism” More >>
The Metaphysical Mechanism Of Darkness
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 11:50 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Nature is a mirror, if we’re willing to look More >>
Why Is The Vatican Coveting Celebrity?
Monday, 24 November 2025, 11:43 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The global media is desperate to sell hope and moral leadership in a world gone to hell. Even the Guardian is cheering on the papal schlock. More >>
Man Has No Bottom
Friday, 21 November 2025, 9:32 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The hard truth is that rather than an upward spiral to an imagined “Omega Point,” the arc of the human species is a downward spiral to either a slow extinction or an explosion of insight. More >>
