Bruce Charlton's Notions

As I have often said; I believe that since late 2020 "They" are fractured into two main factions of evil:  1. The totalitarians - ...

The Christmas season, leading up to the day itself; can be a wonder-full experience - it can (and usually does) induce a state of wonder - m...

There must be a generation or two of people who have never heard a Christmas carol or song, sing straight . Sung, that is, at the proper tem...

There are people, online especially but also IRL, whose response to the evil nature of the ruling classes is avoidance .  It's the purit...

Modern people are no longer (since their young childhoods) able to live spontaneously and naturally (and mostly unconsciously) in the realms...

[Aslan said] "Your father and mother and all of you are—as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands—dead. The term is over: the holidays...

I have often written here that the purpose of this mortal life must account for the extended nature of life - the fact that our life may con...

The poet Tony Harrison , who lived near me in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently died (1937-2025); and then we also met some of his relations...

Mainstream, normal, modern Western people are atheist materialists, who believe ( assume ) that there is neither purpose nor meaning in the ...

It has been noticed (even including by me!) that a hell of torment seems to have arisen after Jesus offered the possibility of Heaven.  Appa...

I am still reading Geoffrey Ashe's The Virgin - his dense, fascinating, and very stimulating book about the historical development and ...

It was in 2007 that I began to take an academic interest in the gross and worsening sub-fertility of native people in the entire developed w...

A very nice version of the Sussex Carol follows an excellent syncopated instrumental version of Christmas Day in the Morning; from a folk b...

In parts of Europe such as Germany and France; today is "celebrated" as St Nicholas Day in which children who do not conform to ad...

Nearly everybody nowadays (except young children, and maybe some residual tribal people) believes that the universe was originally unalive, ...

We need to be sufficiently sure of our bottom-line convictions that they will serve strongly to fuel our personal motivation - so that we ha...

I remember the answer to this question from personal experience, from remembering my earlier self. Modern people are indifferent to eternal ...

Peoples' understanding of the world around them is substantially a matter of their explanatory models - to the point that experience and...

Current attitudes to "AI" are an example of the way that hierarchical power elicits compliance, by psychological methods and the h...

Experience  > Knowledge Reality > Truth Thinking > Feeling The above are notations or summaries of what may be chosen as ways of un...

I recently reviewed Andy Thomas's book about the "paranormal" experiences reported by ordinary people.  It is a common respon...