“It is impossible to say where we stand in relation to our own crisis. Perhaps the worst is yet to come; perhaps we’ve already sailed through.” That is simply wrong,…
illumination
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Homo sapiens is an experiment in consciousness that is failing. Why are we failing, and what would it mean to succeed as a species? Not only the diversity of life…
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MeditationsUncategorized
Meditation and Illumination Begin With the Senses
by Martin LeFevre 2019/04/02It’s a clear and mild spring afternoon. Sitting beside the stream and delighting in the smells, sights and sounds of early spring, the senses attune to the present, and become…
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Like most people, I’m finding hope hard to sustain. If you’re not grappling with hope and hopelessness, you’re either a dead conduit who has given up on humanity, or you’re…
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It was sprinkling when I left the house, and 20 minutes into the sitting downstream from Cedar Grove in Chico’s big city park it began to rain fairly hard. I…
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Replacing the Rotten Foundation of Reason With Insight
by Martin LeFevre 2017/12/03If the last year has demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the chaos of belief, irrationality and tribalism. But…
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Ignoring the culture that gave rise to Trump and Trumpism, and ignoring the fact that Americans just don’t like each other anymore, mavens of the media drop chestnuts like this:…
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Let’s tentatively accept the premise that there’s an intrinsic intent in evolution (without implying a deity) to develop brains with the capacity to consciously commune with cosmic mind that infuses…