The 4th of July, previously the most celebrated day in the civic life of America, was the hottest day of the year in this part of California—111/44. In more ways…
Martin LeFevre
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It’s easy to make fun of the fools who are working day and night to invent a “technology that enables the transfer of human consciousness to a machine, extending life,…
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Meditations – As Einstein discovered, matter is actually a dense form of energy, which can be converted into pure energy–the basis of nuclear fission and fusion. Thought is perhaps the…
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A Red Robin fast food restaurant ad is ruffling a lot of vegetarians’ feathers. In it, a cutie pie intones with an ugly smirk and sly aside: “We even have…
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Psychological Revolution, Not Institutional Reform
by Martin LeFevre 2013/06/15As a practicing contemplative and ‘fallen away Catholic,’ I’m both chagrined and amused by the new pope’s recent statement: “In the Curia, there are also holy people, really, there are…
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After a light all-night rain, the clouds cleared and the sun made a welcome appearance in the early afternoon. People got outside and into the parkland in droves, including me.…
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Dialogue: Combining the Spiritual and Political
by Martin LeFevre 2013/06/08Tenzin Tethong is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Tibetan Studies Institute at Stanford, and President and one of the founding members of the Dalai Lama Foundation, as well as…
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It must be summer, because a new spate of apocalyptic movies has arrived. But though reviewers take comfort in their long and ludicrous history, there’s something different this year. The…