Bruce Charlton's Notions

* T o set down such choice experiences that my own writings may inspire me–and at least I may make wholes of parts. Certainly it is a di...

* I don't usually link to other blogs, but this is good, and may be important to some readers of this: http://moosenorseman.wordpres...

* [ Satire alert ] * You may think that the plight of people who believe that they are really  cats is rare, and that such people ...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/learning-to-parrot-modern-intelligence.html *

* Pacifism is historically almost the primary and first type of recognizable Leftism - with the Quakers - but I think that psychologically...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/so-you-think-you-are-in-favour-of.html *

Transcribed and edited/expanded from the question time following a lecture by William Arkle given on March 16th 1992 to a group in Yeovil ...

When I first read Tolkien - which was sometime after I turned thirteen, it was a turning-point for me. Cause and effect, no doubt, run ...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/could-flynn-effect-be-non-valid-yes-if.html *

* I saw this advert in the late 1960s in "Look and Learn" - a weekly educational comic for children. Naturally, my favourite...

Almost exactly thirty-five years ago I listened to Wagner's opera sequence The Ring. It was a memorable event, scheduled to come imme...

* Edited from the beginning of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Demonology . The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, lu...

My first musical instrument, at age ten, was a ukelele - the one that looks like a little guitar - and it cost one pound and one shilling; ...

* We used fountain pens to write with - I suspect that ballpoint pens were illegal; and this led to what might be described as Adventures ...

Immediately before my Tolkien era there was a brief period - a few months, maybe half a year - when I began to be pulled-into the mainstr...

* I often hear it said, and I believe it is true - although how common it is, I don't know - that modern people lose their Christian f...

* The latest installment from: http://luckyphilosopher.blogspot.co.uk/ ** After Primary School came high school, or The Comprehensiv...

* Todays instalment of http://luckyphilosopher.blogspot.co.uk/ ** At playtimes in primary school, we would gather in large mixed gr...

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* Tocqueville predicted that in democratic countries the public would demand larger and larger doses of excitement and increasingly strong...

* For imagination generally, and spiritual or meditative experience in particular, to provide real, objective, valid knowledge and guidanc...