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Meditations
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In the Light of the Earth
Martin LeFevre: "In the Shadow of the Moon" is a documentary film that captures something of what it was like to go to the moon. In it, the astronauts recount their experiences and give their perspectives and insights...Some excellent descriptions of 'mystical experience' are also contained in the film
May 5, 2008, 11:19am
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Why Meditate?
Martin LeFevre: "Living in a cultural desert, as we all do in the West, and as every one increasingly does in this meaningless, consumeristic global society, meditation is the art of digging one's own inner well daily. It's become a matter of survival.
May 1, 2008, 1:59pm
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The Democratic Primary is the Main Event
Martin LeFevre: "It will come down to one simple question: Who is more electable in November? Who can beat John McCain, the Republican nominee-Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? That's a no-brainer; Obama would win, and Hillary cannot. Here's why.
Apr 29, 2008, 1:55pm
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The Enlightenment of Hillary
Martin LeFevre: "Hillbillary actually poses a very difficult philosophical question. If some members of the human species are truly transforming, and others are not, does that set up another, profoundly existential, division and conflict?
Apr 25, 2008, 1:31pm
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The Action of Unknowing
Martin LeFevre: "There is only one way out for humans now-to grow into human beings. Collective content-consciousness has accumulated so much useless material that it has formed a black hole, at least where western cultures used to be, sucking all but the strongest into it.
Apr 21, 2008, 2:21pm
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The Origin and Operation of Evil
Martin LeFevre: "Evil isn't supernatural. It neither preceded humans and human consciousness, nor does it exist in some immaterial realm.
Apr 16, 2008, 6:28pm
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The Flowering of Humanity
Martin LeFevre: "Feeling people are making the connection between the spiritual destruction of the individual and entire peoples, and the extermination of animals and the eradication of habitats.
Apr 8, 2008, 5:24pm
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The Roots of War
Martin LeFevre: "Life is a whole and unbroken movement. Man, misapplying and overusing the useful trick of separation (which is the cornerstone of 'higher thought'), is generating unsustainable levels of division and fragmentation, and ripping the earth, and himself, apart.
Apr 1, 2008, 12:57pm
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Presidential Campaign Blues
Martin LeFevre: "I don't know, but we're still way behind the spiritual/metaphysical curve. Indeed, we're sliding backward into the muck, to a time of religious and patriotic litmus tests for our political figures.
Mar 27, 2008, 1:37pm
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What Went Wrong Jesus?
Martin LeFevre: "Jesus was attacking the political order of his time and denying the particularity of holiness, proclaiming that the temple, and by implication his teachings, were universal.
Mar 22, 2008, 6:02pm
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Regarding Texts, Traditions, and Truth
Martin LeFevre: "Awareness and contact with the sacred-that which is completely beyond thought and knowledge-can only occur within the individual. A teacher can point the way, but the moment his or her teachings become more important than one's own solitary enquiry...
Mar 18, 2008, 5:26pm
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The Dimension Beyond Time
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.
Mar 12, 2008, 12:18pm
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Bleeding From Flag Pins
Martin LeFevre: "Following her political faux pas, Michelle (Obama) made an even more astounding statement: "Barack Obama is the only person in this race who understands that before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."
Mar 4, 2008, 10:36am
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Of Eclipses and Sacred Places
Martin LeFevre: When a human being repeatedly ignites a meditative state in a given place, it consecrates it. Though the earth is beautiful in its own right, this is the true meaning of "sacred places."
Feb 24, 2008, 4:27pm
Meditations
The Worst President's Day
Martin LeFevre: Today is Presidents' Day in the USA. George Bush is in Africa on his second trip to the continent. He's not even making an appearance in neighboring strife-torn Kenya, and he's ignoring the slaughter in Darfur that his administration labeled genocide.
Feb 19, 2008, 4:05pm
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