A Great Blue Heron flies up to a branch from the stream about 30 meters downstream. It’s only visible through the thick foliage for a few seconds, but the sight…
psychology
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A philosopher is a person who has a low threshold for contradictions and unexamined premises. Speaking of the latter, here’s an example of a ‘given’ that isn’t a given at…
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An old friend from philosophy grad school and I are asking a pressing, non-philosophical question: What the hell is going on? It isn’t just American politics that’s completely gone off…
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MeditationsUncategorized
Intents of the Heart, Not Resolutions of the Head
by Martin LeFevre 2018/01/01Einstein famously said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” A corollary of this truth is that we cannot look to the same…
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A friend and I, with others in town, are inquiring into the future of humankind. I take the view that “no teacher, however illumined, has changed the basic course of…
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Until recently I thought that activists working to bring about a sustainable, peaceful and just world were doing their bit. It was just a matter of finding a way to…
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MeditationsUncategorized
Not Political Revolution, Psychological Revolution!
by Martin LeFevre 2017/06/15I said in a recent column that if Bernie Sanders had spoken of the urgent necessity of psychological revolution rather than incessantly calling for a political revolution, he would be…
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Perhaps in part because I haven’t had children, I recoil when I hear a parent say something like, “kids questions reflect that time between innocence and experience.”