Bruce Charlton's Notions

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 ...

Disinformation is deliberately-wrong information; and it is a far more significant problem (here-and-now) than either censorship or informa...

Find-out the two possibilities over at my Notion Club Papers blog ...

Since the emergence of Romanticism in the late 1700s, the "disenchantment" of our modern world has been a constant cultural theme...

It has become pretty obvious that the class of which I am a member - the "upper middle class", the people who work in professional...

The biggest frauds of recent decades have all involved Big Money overcoming common sense.  Enough Big Money and, it is clear, people will b...

In the old days, a King would grant a favoured vassal a legal monopoly on the provision of some sort of goods or services; but nowadays the ...

The Saruman Syndrome happens when the lust to be "a winner", or the horror of being "a loser" - causes people to switch...

By "instrumental" I mean "making use of" - so that having an instrumental attitude to somebody means "making use of...

One of the major difficulties that Christians now have* is in trying to explain clearly, simply, concisely: who Jesus was, what Jesus did - ...

The idea that what we think, believe, do; ought-to-be derived from some external authority - which is, in practice, always some institution...