Meditations: The true peril and possibility of AI
A recent analysis addresses the limitations of artificial intelligence in resolving spiritual and existential questions. The piece contends that while AI demonstrates... Read more.
Meditations: Meditation without Methods or Traditions
Martin LeFevre explores the concept of transcending conditioned thought, asserting that a state of serene awareness can be achieved through undirected attention... Read more.
Meditations: Restoring Actuality and Discovering Truth
The analysis suggests that Homo sapiens faces a potential evolutionary dead-end, a trajectory previously observed with Neanderthals, necessitating a fundamental... Read more.
Meditations: There’s No Adapting to Deadness without Losing One’s Aliveness
Journalist Martin LeFevre documented the environmental degradation of a local ecosystem, observing the decline of a sycamore tree and the proliferation of refuse... Read more.
Meditations: The contradictory premises of inter-cultural philosophy
Author Martin LeFevre contends that inter-cultural philosophy, through its foundational premise of relativism, inadvertently erodes cultural diversity, arguing that... Read more.
Meditations: ‘On the Beach’ — A Metaphysical Metaphor
Writer Martin LeFevre employs the 1959 film "On the Beach" as a metaphorical framework to articulate concerns regarding contemporary psychological and spiritual... Read more.
Meditations: Ending the Continuity of Time
A University of Essex researcher is conducting studies aimed at understanding how various species assemble perceptual content and experience temporality. However,... Read more.
Meditations: A Provisional Philosophy of Evil Is Foundational
A Melbourne therapist has initiated an "Eight-week Bad Trip Integration training for therapists," designed to address client encounters with "entities" during psychedelic... Read more.
Meditations: Be Your Own Meditation Teacher
Meditation is characterized not as a positive action demanding concentration and effort, but as an unforced act of negation achieved through choiceless awareness... Read more.
Meditations: Can Down Under Rise Up Over?
Despite assertions regarding an ongoing global transformation in consciousness, observations indicate persistent societal challenges including violence, avarice,... Read more.