Bruce Charlton's Notions

Jung in his shirmer phase - beside his mistress/ extra-wife Toni Regular readers will know that I regard Christianity to be, in essence, Je...

Let me explain what's really going-on... There has been, I notice, another and severe outbreak of 4-dimensional chess attribution among...

If once a person becomes convinced that a church (i.e. his church) is ultimately not an institution but also a divine entity; then there is ...

I am currently reading Charles Williams's 1931 novel, in which there is a very early discussion of the possibility of a " time loop...

Genius is much commoner in men than women .  Indeed, in Charles Murray's historical survey of Human Accomplishment; English literature w...

It suddenly seems obvious that God has always worked primarily with and by individual persons; and that the historical necessity by which Me...

We live in a world of systems - of interlinked formal institutions, organizations, corporations etc - so this is a fact of life... "ine...

What follows is either a deep archetypal insight, or more likely just my headcanon , concerning some subjects I have spent an inordinate amo...

Beginning with the Fire Nation conflict, and now in the Middle East, it has become An OK Thing for Western Forces deliberately to try and co...

There are always defaults in (what pretends to be) "reasoning" - and defaults are assumptions, not necessities. Currently, the def...

I keep circling back to the basic insight that negations do not suffice; so that the common strategy of trying to ignore something like geop...

I used to watch the Disney TV programme DuckTales when the kids were small.  I never thought much of it, except for enjoying the Stax-Atlant...

When magic occurs in stories it has various flavours: here are three of them.  One is the low magic of "sword and sorcery" stories...

Primary Institutional Wisdom is a belief which is part of our society, and has been for centuries - indeed probably for millennia. It is the...

The US President is - and leaders of all Western-orbit nations are and long-have-been an intrinsic lie - a lie in-and-of themselves - conse...

Since the triumph of any specific person in this-world is obviously Not inevitable, "the triumph of good" is asserted for groups, ...

Modern people, including most self-identified Christians, are usually scornful and often angry, on the subject of Heaven. This is because mo...

As I've long been expecting; the globalist totalitarians have belatedly noticed that their decades of escalating imposed institutional d...

 A flaw, a deficit, shared by all political commentators (else they would not be that) is a fundamental blind spot concerning the spiritual ...

The future cannot be foreseen - that is, we cannot know the future in the sense of perceiving the future as if it has already-happened, and ...

I have often thought about the Christian reason for continuing living - what it is that we live for  - given that Heaven is on the other sid...