Meditations
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A Neuroscientist's Nightmare
Martin LeFevre: "What happens in the brain during higher states of consciousness? Is consciousness no more than the product of the human brain, as neuroscientists believe?
Feb 3, 2012, 10:23am
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The Juncture of Science and Spirituality
Martin LeFevre: "Many Christians believe that "the false teaching of evolution is simply another of Satan's schemes to lead people away from the truth." Why do people believe such rubbish, and in the literal truth of Genesis? What motivates such intractable ignorance?
Jan 27, 2012, 10:58am
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Man's Place in the Universe
Martin LeFevre: "Fog enshrouds the town as I enter the mountain community from the valley below. With a few hundred meters more of elevation, the fog clears, though the skies remain cloudy. Reaching the man-made lake, there is a brightening, and even a small patch or two of blue.
Jan 24, 2012, 10:10am
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Ten Commandments Down to One
Martin LeFevre: "I'd been deathly ill for a fortnight with food poisoning. Having foolishly asked the universe, in a meditative state, 'should I become a vegetarian?' the cosmos answered, rudely.
Jan 21, 2012, 10:58am
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A Cast of Hawks
Martin LeFevre: "Arriving at the creek at the edge of town at the zenith of the day, I'm surprised by the warmth, clarity, and quietness of the afternoon. As I drop down off the paved bike path, a large woodland hawk alights a small tree across the creek, and then departs as I approach.
Jan 17, 2012, 2:30pm
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Heralding the Emergence of Human Beings
Martin LeFevre: "The domination of thought in the brain prevents perception and reception of essence completely beyond words. It's easy to throw around a word like 'love,' but experiencing the actuality requires arduous inner work, attentively awakening stillness of mind. Why is it arduous, if love is in fact in the very nature of the cosmos?
Jan 13, 2012, 1:48pm
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Hinges of History
Martin LeFevre: "Twenty years ago this month the Soviet Union broke up. Russians are restive again, though the entrenched oligarchy (having gone from communism to capitalism, from putsch to Putin) will be very hard to dislodge.
Jan 10, 2012, 9:38am
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Eating the Rich Won't End Starvation
Martin LeFevre: "The global Occupy movement focuses on the 99%, but what about the poor 1%? Eating the rich won't end starvation...They're getting the negative focus, and should for the most part. Even so, have pity on the rich, if for no other reason than pity bothers them more than anything.
Jan 2, 2012, 10:30am
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A Global Shift in Consciousness?
Martin LeFevre: "Are the protests around the world, which even hidebound Time Magazine in America is featuring as 'Person of the Year,' auguring and catalyzing a global shift in consciousness?
Dec 20, 2011, 2:05pm
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A Collapse of Character
Martin LeFevre: "The one and only thing that George W. Bush did right during his miserable eight years in power as the president of the most powerful nation on earth, was to implement a more effective AIDS, malaria, and TB policy on the African continent. Now he's back.
Dec 13, 2011, 10:25am
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Global Inspiration in Costa Rica: INBio
Martin LeFevre: "Costa Rica," said Dr. Rodrigo Gamez Lobo, longtime President of INBio (National Biodiversity Institute) "is complex enough to be interesting, and small enough to be manageable." Thanks to modern technology, I had a tremendously informative conversation with Dr. Gamez between his office in Costa Rica and my home in California.
Dec 2, 2011, 10:27am
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Man, Nature, and Costa Rica
Martin LeFevre: "If there's a more apt metaphor for the messy end of the Age of Oil, I haven't heard it. A tanker truck loaded with driveway sealant burst a valve and leaked the gooey gunge along a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike the day before Thanksgiving. A couple hundred cars "were disabled when the sticky goo covered their tires and wheels." That's rich.
Nov 29, 2011, 10:55am
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Mind In Meditation
Martin LeFevre: "A high, thin layer of clouds fills the western sky, blunting the warmth of the sun and giving the land a subtly somber cast. The little stream on the edge of town is now full enough to create a cascade over a step of rocks, as it wends it way along its gentle slope through the Central Valley.
Nov 25, 2011, 10:22am
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"Color Is God"
Martin LeFevre: "I stop a short distance from the house and sit on a utility box looking across a main thoroughfare toward at what first appears to be a non-descript sunset...The sky begins to catch fire, and the color slowly spreads and deepens until it fills the entire panorama. A phrase I recall hearing comes to mind-"color is God"-and I feel the truth of it.
Nov 22, 2011, 9:51am
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Inquiry and Revolution
Martin LeFevre: "We each have to grapple within ourselves with the million year habit of psychological division between 'us and them,' 'man and God.' Intimations of transcendence, in conversation or writing, are available to anyone, and can't be denied or dismissed by clever references to "how language inherently separates.
Nov 18, 2011, 9:54am
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