Exploring Timelessness and Death
By Martin LeFevre Have you stood in wonder during the liminal moment when the stars first appear, so faintly that you have to look away to make sure they are …
Leer másMARTÍN LEFEVRE
Why Activism Is Not Enough
By Martin LeFevre Bill McKibben, the author of the particularly pessimistic book “The End of Nature,” now says, “for an activist to have hope is the most important thing.” That …
Leer más
Is Human Consciousness Obsolete?
By Martin LeFevre The internet and artificial intelligence have made the underlying actuality that human consciousness is a single thing the overarching reality of every person on the planet that …
Leer más
The State of Insight
By Martin LeFevre After high winds snapped four posts and brought down the back fence last night, there was a break this morning in the “atmospheric river” that’s been deluging …
Leer más
The Absurdity of “The Anthropocene Age”
By Martin LeFevre Geologists are well into a decade-long debate about whether to name the present period of tremendous human impact on the Earth the Anthropocene Age. It’s a deeply …
Leer más
The Multiverse Is a Belief System
By Martin LeFevre All methods and techniques of meditation preclude meditation. The devices of thought cannot be used to trick thought into stillness. The mind falls silent by taking the …
Leer más
Attention or Atencion?
By Martin LeFevre A Zen master in ancient Japan was asked to summarize his teaching. He replied with one word, “Attention.” In Spanish the word is atencion, which has connotations …
Leer más
We Were Once All Indigenous People
By Martin LeFevre The indigenous people in the northeastern corner of California’s Great Central Valley are called the Machoopda. Not long after moving here over 25 years ago, I met …
Leer más