Bruce Charlton's Notions

I've often written positively about the category of explanations known by the PSYOP-manipulated slur-term of Conspiracy Theories (CTs)....

I have for some years been fascinated by The Fourth Gospel (called The Gospel of John ) - and re-reading it again I was struck by the sense...

Even as a kid I heard about the Heat Death of the Universe, and I later learned more during my studies of physics up to A-Level.  The cap wa...

Relatively tall, thin, pointed "lancet" windows are characteristic of the Early English style of gothic church architecture, built...

Hugh Fraser as the loyal and intrepid Hastings, David Suchet as Poirot in the TV adaptations I was almost completely uninterested in "...

One of the theses I have harped-upon here is that metaphysics is primary, and all "evidence" and reasoning happens within metaphy...

In my late teens and twenties, I was an advocate and practitioner of what could be termed Voluntary Simplicity (VS) - with "simplicity...

Based on an understanding of the benefits of incarnation (embodiment) in this mortal life; it is possible to discern what happens during th...

For those of us to who regard spirit as primary, as having existed first, with material incarnation as secondary and later and derivative - ...

Some things in life take tremendous effort: resources, planning and organizing - assembling many people with many skills in a particular pla...

It is not really possible for later generations to understand the central and dominating place that The Beatles had in British cultural life...

Why is the current Left (i.e. the post mid-1960s New Left) so dominant and powerful?  Since the mid-1960s the mainstream Left has transforme...

Traditional religions and spiritual philosophies have "all" saddled themselves with underlying metaphysical assumptions that rende...

Henry David Thoreau 's The Maine Woods is a posthumously-collected set of three essays about travels in that region in the middle 1800s...

In our organization we have a little Spanish chap who attends to all our training needs.  We call him "Instruction Manuel". 

Following-up on my post of a couple of days ago , where I described authors who did me some harm by being the wrong books at the worst time ...

Considering that I spent my working life deeply engaged with science (especially evolutionary biology and human intelligence and creativity)...

To live towards a future life, an after- life: to orientate our mortal lives in the expectation of immortality in Heaven - is this good, or ...

I haven't heard anyone talk about elevenses for quite a while, some decades; but the expression was at one time used almost daily.  As f...

I deplore the nonsensical trope that "books" are A Good Thing: only some books are Good - and a small minority.  Others books are ...

Discussed over at my Notion Club Papers blog .