Meditations by Martin LeFevre
Looking up-canyon on the lip of the gorge, a sharp shadowline creeps up the volcanic slabs on the other side. The light suddenly suffuses everything, and becomes ethereal, like nothing…
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Meditations
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There are two parts to Noam Chomsky’s book, “Hegemony or Survival.” There’s the bulk of the book, in which he gives a scathing analysis of American foreign policy. And then…
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Ian Tattersall is a paleo-anthropologist, author and curator of the American Museum of Natural History. In his book, “Monkey in the Mirror,” Tattersall defines “symbolic cognitive processes” as the defining…
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Einstein 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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All human beings short of illumination contain a spectrum of human consciousness, which varies from person to person. Many are false with some true, while a few are true with…
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It’s near sunset on Christmas as I head out on the bike. The shopping is over and all the stuff has been opened. There isn’t a soul in sight. One…
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What little warmth the sun afforded on this short winter day evaporates as it reaches the treetops. Sitting under the dying sycamore tree, sparrows and juncos come close as a…
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It’s winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The days are short and fly by. History hastens towards its unknowable goal in our age.