Meditations by Martin LeFevre
When I was in junior high school, bored classmates and I would hold breath-holding contests. Since I could hold my breath for 4 minutes, I usually won. Natalia Molchanova, the greatest freediver in history who died last Sunday in a “fun” dive off the coast of Spain, could hold her breath for 9 minutes!
It is the lie that began the long decline to America’s loss of its soul. The people were fed, and still swallow, the propaganda that began 70 years ago, after…
Did indigenous people, living before the Agricultural Revolution, face the same existential alienation from the earth that we do in the scientific-computer age?
To contact the numinous, one has to forget experiences, not accumulate them. And peak religious experiences are the most important experiences to forget.
Do our conceptions of the mind determine emotional states, or even influence them to any significant degree? Or is the globalizing culture, manifesting through family, friends and oneself, much more…
Dangerous wildfires are igniting all over California and the Northwest. Yesterday, a fire that began in the steep ravines of the foothills threatened a friend’s home near Nevada City. Only…
In ancient times, and not so long ago in many parts of the world, cultures and traditions were completely distinct and whole. Tradition wasn’t something that a people had; it…
The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the city park. It was the size and shape of a dog, but moved like a cat.