Bruce Charlton's Notions

The book in which Garner decisively began to react-against Tolkien I discuss Alan Garner's work in term of his Anxiety of Influence wit...

One of the difficult lessons, particularly emphasized by Owen Barfield , is that in every way the spiritual is prior to, and encompasses, th...

Ever since, as a young child, I saw a Scottish Curling game on TV ( something like this ), I have strongly disliked it - for one simple reas...

Michael Green : self-deprecating comic fantasist - 1927-2018 People who are untruthful in a character-driven way, whose discourse (spoken or...

The Alt Media is abuzz about some "files" that have supposedly been released by the Establishment that "prove" the Estab...

Yesterday could be considered Candlemass (nowadays equated with the Celtic cross-quarter day of Imbolc - coming about halfway between the wi...

Dear oh dear; but people are so so gullible (and I include myself) when it comes to politics! Some politician (whether national or internati...

It is interesting to speculate how the incoherent and mass-apostasy-inducing  Omni-God concept arose and came to dominate Christian (and so...

From Exegesis by Philip K Dick, referring to his novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)  This is a strange ending [to the novel...

There seems to be a fundamental problem in life, that while passive, assimilative compliance leads (in our society and world) to disaster an...

Atheist materialism - the mainstream ideology of the West, that monopolizes the entirety of public discourse - is a system of reasoning that...

I have read and continue to read a lot of biographies; both formal biographies, and more journalistic accounts of people's character, ac...

In that seminal year of 2020 we saw example of the two extremes of coordinated global media manipulation.  At the start of 2020 was the Bird...

Much of the public space is taken up by people "reacting" - especially to news and current affairs; including a wide rage of stuff...

In the past few months, I have begun to limit my reading of blogs more and more - including those I have been reading a long time. This was ...

Gimli, afraid of the ghosts under the Dwimorberg: picture by DavidDeb Over at my Notion Club Papers blog ; I discuss the short passage, duri...

"You can't have your cake and eat it too" - is a very badly phrased proverb, for two reasons.  1. Having cake is intended to ...

Continuing on the theme of death and dying ; and exploring the idea that the greatly extended lifespan in The West nowadays may have a spiri...

If Romantic Christianity is an insistence that the individual (rather than a ny external authority, such as a church or a prescribed-inter...

In spiritual life here-and-now; it seems to be A Bad Idea to be too specific about what we want to achieve; because then there is a danger t...

William Wildblood has published an excellent post about a subject that almost nobody (in Western civilization) thinks about, except when co...