The Polycrisis Is Not Political And National; It’s Psychological And Spiritual

Friday, 18 July 2025, 8:11 am
Opinion: Martin LeFevre - Meditations

Conspiracy theories fill the metaphysical void generated by the projection or denial of evil in human consciousness.

Here’s a current case in point in the late United States of America. The eruption of MAGA madness over the Epstein files boils down to Trumpers feeling betrayed after their longstanding projection of evil onto “pedophile Democrats and liberals” ran into reality. Now that Trump is withholding the files, he has become part of the hated “deep state.”

To understand the madhouse that America has become it’s essential to realize how the darkness at the core of the national psyche is projected outwardly onto liberals and Democrats by the MAGA mob, while the left is still denying the internal reality.

The world’s most powerful fool and tool of evil just revealed what he really thinks of his mob base. He’s taken to calling his die-hard followers “stupid weaklings.” And he’s betting they’re stupid enough to believe that Obama, Biden, Comey and the Democrats have concocted what he’s now calling “the Epstein hoax.”

They may be that stupid, since Trump’s proverbial base totally bought into the lies that Russia didn’t interfere in the 2016 election, and the 2020 election was stolen from their clown-in-chief.

It may be tempting for those observing this madness from more rational lands to think that the demise of the hegemonic superpower clears the path for effective multilateralism. But that too is delusion. America is the engine of the global capitalistic train plunging over the edge of the burning Grand Canyon between the haves and the have-nots of human civilization.

The global train wreck cannot be stopped, and existing means and institutions cannot bridge the chasm. It’s not hopeless however. As man plunges into the abyss, the human being remains grounded to the Earth, however much humans decimate it.

The human crisis isn’t political and national, but psychological and spiritual. Its remedy will never be found at the superficial level of “resistance,” protest and marches, but in a revolution in consciousness, beginning within the individual.

One starts with negating the feeling, “my country.” It’s not difficult to never think or say “my country” again. Simply see and feel that nationalism is tribalism, the atavism at the root of conflict and war.

It’s no coincidence that the president of the most powerful nation on the planet is a reckless jingoist. His xenophobia is the expression of the chauvinism and self-centeredness in the American people.

Having fanned the flames of nationalism and the scapegoating of legal and undocumented brown and black immigrants, Trump rides the rabid tiger of his rabid base. They’re calling for even crueler and more extreme ICE’ing of people that the POTUS says are “poisoning the blood of the nation.”

The legacy liberals in the national media keep repeating the falsehood that Trump and Trumpism, along with complicit Republicans, are the problem. That too is propaganda, since the putrid source of Trumpism’s evil emanates not from partisanship but the rot at the core of the American body politic.

I don’t know how pervasive the darkness is in other lands, but it saturates human consciousness as a whole now. The malignant shadow only varies from a total eclipse of the heart and mind in America, to partial eclipses in other lands.

If you’ve ever witnessed a total eclipse and a 90% eclipse, there’s a tremendous difference in visibility, the difference between dusk and a moonless night. But that merely means, where this metaphor is concerned, that the light hasn’t been completely blocked and blotted out in other lands yet.

The paradox is that the more planetary the polycrisis has become, the more localism and particularism have become the rage. Psychologically, that stands to reason, since the more deeply homogenous people become, the greater the need to accentuate superficial differences.

Just 50 years ago, there were still isolated indigenous cultures that were objects of anthropological study. Now how many intact cultures are left on Earth that have no access to cell phones and the internet?

Irrespective of bygone cultures and superficial backgrounds, the human being awakens the latent potential for insight in the brain. AI will never have insight, no matter how much money and energy the tech-boys throw at producing “artificial general intelligence” that “outthinks humans.”

The source of insight is the same unknowable source as the ongoing creation of the universe, the same source as the drive and random directionality of life for increasing neuronal complexity. It’s the antithesis of mechanism, without denying mechanism in nature and man.

Like the perpetual ground of death, creation and love, insight has no time. There’s no choice now but to bring about a creative explosion of insight in human consciousness, beginning within ourselves.

If insight does not ignite the dark matter of collective consciousness at this juncture and change the disastrous course of man, the alternative for the dwindling number of inwardly alive individuals is to remain alive by growing in insight, and work for the future of humanity…if we have one.

Martin LeFevre

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Martin LeFevre - Meditations

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Martin LeFevre is a contemplative and philosopher.

His sui generis “Meditations” explore spiritual, philosophical and political questions relating to the polycrisis facing humanity.

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