Bruce Charlton's Notions

* Many people have an intuition of pre-mortal existence, a very vague memory or feeling or hunch that their life did not start at birth (o...

* Question : Why didn't God create us already perfect? Why do we have to go through this high-risk rigmarole of incarnate mortal life?...

* The Perennial Philosophy says that Man shares his fundamental nature with God; and that God is within us. Mormonism states that Man sh...

* For most people in the world and throughout history, mortal life was mostly a matter of 'sheer survival' - a struggle - of doin...

* A belief in reincarnation is probably spontaneous for human beings. It is a feature of most hunter-gatherer animistic religions, and als...

* The reality of theosis (assuming you are one of the types of Christian who believe that theosis/ sanctification/ spiritual progression i...

* UK is (or so I read in the media) actively engaged in process of legally implementing what is intended to be a permanent national delusi...

* Movies are an interesting artform. They are probably the most emotionally-engaging or intense form- they produce perhaps stronger emotio...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/what-is-potential-evidence-against-one.html *

* In England there is a (military-slang) phrase which purports to describe the alternatives for why-things-go-wrong -  Cock-up or Conspira...

* 1. Do you believe that Victorian simple reaction time (sRT) data are not comparable with modern data? If so, would you be convinced by e...

* In a city of a million people, about three cases per day - or in a large psychiatric hospitals acute admissions ward, a new case arrivin...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/seven-books-about-tolkien-i-do-not.html *

* Before I was a Christian I was deep into Jung and had a phase of intense reading of Joseph Campbell. It is interesting to revisit these ...

* Greg Cochran has been the most significant (intellectually substantial) critic and opponent of the idea (deriving from myself and Michae...

* From the Rev Dr Peter Mullen (recently retired Anglican Priest): Love Life: Live Lent The Archbishop of York is taking serious...

* I have been publicly a Christian for not much more than five years - although it feels much longer. It feels like time has slowed-up i...

* I came to the point of love at my inmost heart, and I was glad and at rest, like unto the end of things. But the point was not a point,...

* In a nutshell, I regard the matter of the evidential nature of the Book of Mormon (BoM) as a microcosm of the nature of Mormonism, whi...

* The regime introduced last week seems to be too restrictive - I will try another. I shall go back to the old requirements for comments...

* Thomas Traherne (c1637-1674) Centuries of Meditations - First Century What is more easy and sweet than meditation? Yet in this hath ...