Bruce Charlton's Notions

The vast and endless stream of drivel on the subject of the supernatural superpowers of "AI" continues - and it will continue unti...

All over the media (mass and "alternative") are explanations of how the such-and-such Big Nation has made a Big Bistake, because b...

Last week my wife and I were the first to celebrate a new festival that we originated: " Aunt Grace Day "... JRR Tolkien's Aun...

Assuming that we acknowledge it as a real possibility, and have not pre-decided that it cannot be true; we can know that our soul is is not...

The spiritual is primary, and includes the material.  Therefore every material problem necessarily has a spiritual dimension.  But mainstrea...

Not so much preferring "the lesser of evils" - because how could we really know which was lesser? More like recognizing that one s...

I often have unpleasant dreams just before waking; and if I try to go back to sleep after one such, I simply return to the dream.  At one le...

The crew of a Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber - some Sergeant's stripes evident The extremely high casualties in RAF Bomber Command, t...

People are apparently unable to grasp the very simple fact that the "subfertility*" of all the populations of all the developed na...

Escapism is a good, and perhaps spiritually-necessary, basis for Life.  The desire to escape, the evaluation that escape from this actual-Li...

Tolkien depicted the nature of evil with a depth and power only possible to a good Man. But what is the extremity of evil as depicted in The...

To my eye, drawing lines between the five brightest stars; Auriga ( the charioteer ) is a great pentangle in the night sky; and one that in...

I have begun to think so.  It is impossible to be sure, because the whole world of communication is full of lies and fakes; as well as sheer...

 As a complement to William Wildblood's reflections on the potential value for Christians in what might be termed pagan- ism ; Laeth ma...

In a geopolitical world where treachery and gratuitous murder are openly and officially celebrated ; it's become pretty easy to appear ...

In my reading of Rudolf Steiner I came across a fourfold division of Beings into what he called "bodies" but which might better b...

William Wildblood's latest post analyses and expresses well something I have felt for as long as I have been a Christian.  Edited excer...

This is just so wrong I have written before about the scam that is dark chocolate - how everyone really wants milk (and/or white) chocolate...

It has been my contention since the second half of 2020 that the nature of dominant "establishment" evil has evolved and transform...

I was reflecting on the fate of the New Age spirituality, which began in the late seventies but hit public consciousness from the middling 1...

It is a Big problem - that has been ongoing and increasing for something like 250 years - that more and more people have stopped wanting ...