Bruce Charlton's Notions

It is very strange that nearly all modern Christians believe that God created an almost -completely sterile, lifeless universe.  If true; th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdA_fLC7WIQ The forty second, 2011 TV advert " cats with thumbs " is an example of the kind of per...

Satan, from Dante's Inferno [Gareth Knight] steadfastly remained true to his contacts, which took him down a long line of different magi...

Spiritual contact in the past - for example the forms of monasticism, or the various formal magical systems - desired to re-establish contac...

In reading Gareth Knight ; I came across the concept of "signs-following" (S-F); which he used to describe the confirming effect o...

If creativity is understood as I described recently ; then we can see why it is that in practice creativity is so rare, and also why the us...

One of the themes that goes back to the start of this blog is that demotivation is a profound problem in modern Western civilization; and th...

Creativity is a positive personal contribution to divine creation - an addition to divine creation.   Creativity is possible because each Be...

A core purpose is that we should learn from life; that is, should  spiritually learn from our actually-existing life.  Learning is validly ...

Saint Aidan's church in Bamburgh is an exceptionally beautiful and interesting building; dedicated to one of the most significant of Br...

I don't like to write much of a personal nature on this blog, and I don't intend to start; so don't ask!  But it strikes me that...

For a very long time, in most of the world, Obedience has been prized as a Christian virtue.  Indeed, in practice, obedience is often the pr...

I keep seeing people online making invalid but would-be reassuring demographic predictions concerning the future of human populations on th...

I have mentioned before my personal aversion to the RIP "Rest in Peace" trope; or, more exactly, that I think the wished desire f...

Real relationships are between Beings; and Beings are eternally existent.  Beings are described in terms of attributes such as life, consci...

I have written before of my practice of "journaling", which goes back more than forty years. For a long time now, this has consist...

Ideal light entertainment - but excellence is always rare It is a pleasant thing to spend an hour or two in consuming TV mass media with rel...

Another huge Herriot success, indeed his best-selling book; which led to scores of copycat volumes of  Fill in the celebrity name 's som...

This is something that puzzles me: By my best understanding, I regard almost-everybody as literally insane, delusional, psychotic; with resp...

From the overwhelmingly-dominant atheist-materialism of our time and place; it is perhaps natural that people who feel the alienation of liv...

Like many boys of my generation, I came across Sea Monkeys in the classified ads section of American comics - in my case, superhero comics -...