Bruce Charlton's Notions

I've often said that Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is perhaps my favourite piece of music, and an opus I regard as one of the grea...

Once someone has absorbed the assumptions of mainstream modern materialism, he cannot believe in Heaven - and, much worse, he does not even ...

The work of some insightful people, even some geniuses, is lethally flawed by their compulsive need to justify themselves -- past, present,...

My insight against groups - i.e. the fundamental nature and potential of human groups* as of 2025 - is solidifying.  Until not many years ag...

Following on from my earlier Juniper meditations ; here is Juniper Suite from the first album of the 1970s medieval-folk band Gryphon .  It...

I continue to cycle back to consider that the New Age of human consciousness, so eagerly anticipated by "spiritual" people of the ...

Yes but what shall we do about it?  People are so eager to jump onto this question of what should we do, that we routinely demand action wit...

A personal peeve is that phrase " buckle up !" - as prefacing something metaphorical like "We're in for a wild ride!...

I have often written about our age's besetting-sin or "master sin" of resentment ; including how negative resentment is the ba...

This appeared in the Hexham Courant newspaper 1-4-2010:  A Hexhamshire hamlet is changing its name in order to cash in on the millions of a ...

If it can be assumed that the Fourth Gospel is correct, and that Jesus Christ's aim and (successful) work was to offer those who follow...

When someone is "extreme", in whatever direction; then appeals to be moderate, to take a "middle path", are futile.  Thi...

Occult means hidden , and often refers to hidden knowledge. Typically, this is knowledge that has been kept secret (e.g. by being sustained ...

There is one Heaven; the Second Creation  that we inhabit by following Jesus Christ through resurrection to eternal life.  But it is not a h...

If this is how it all began - then purpose, meaning and personal significance are merely trivial "optional extras" Evidence depend...

During WWII, the Third Reich invaded and occupied Denmark; and for the first few years (c. 1940 into 43) this was a classic example of what ...

For most of recorded history until recently; many human institutions (organizations, formal groupings) were magical  * - to some degree.  Th...

Bullocks with attitude   (Or maybe bulls? I can't tell.) Bullocks are what we Brits call castrated male cattle, bred for beef. They may ...

As readers may know, I feel a need to understand Christianity so simply and clearly that it can be grasped as a whole, by a single act of th...

In 2020 those with the ability to perceive and learn, realized that we inhabited a totalitarian world: which means an evil world.  In other...

People often talk about how recent "adaptations" of JRR Tolkien's works and his world, seem to be attempting to divert or subv...