Bruce Charlton's Notions

* The Father and Mother Explanation by William Arkle : Describing, in the most simple way, the profoundly attentive love that...

* The cult of celebrity is strange and gets stranger all the time- probably it is best to think of it as an addiction. 'Everyone know...

* Futile cynicism is everywhere, normal, accepted. Everybody is 'cynical' about politics and politicians; advertising; the mass m...

* I read a great deal of and about John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), especially, in the 2000s - although I came nowhere near reading all of hi...

* No - because they have already scraped the barrel, and are now scratching stained sawdust off the wood at the bottom. How do I know? ...

* Sometimes people suppose that prayer is meditation - but although there may be some overlap between prayer and meditation - and the two ...

* I believe that modern circumstances are such that meditation would benefit many, or most, Christians - but meditation is rather poorly un...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/a-common-misunderstanding-of-rk.html *

* Insights rapidly become trivialized - especially in the modern mass media world. The slang usage of 'Hashtag' (#) to mean a cat...

* This was always a puzzle to me. Of course, slow bowlers spin the ball, but that seemed like small compensation for bowling slower. After...

* A belief in the soul (or spirit) seems to be innate and universal - found in children, and in all societies throughout the world and hist...

* This may be the lesson taught by the relative success of Mormonism in the modern environment. In The Mormon Culture of Salvation - a soc...

* Some people say, and apparently believe, that eternal life is not something which interest or attracts them: that they can do very well w...

* The situation for many modern people is their soul, the real self, inhabits but does not control their personalities. The soul looks ou...

* The idea that ancient societies were Matriarchal and worshipped a Mother Goddess has been extremely popular in neo-pagan circles for abou...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/tolkien-describes-his-own-creative.html *

* I have mentioned before the Golden Thread that runs back through my life into the mythical mists of remembered childhood: a thread of mem...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/an-objective-and-biologically-valid.html *

* To be a real intellectual is to be highly intelligent; and to be highly intelligent entails having high 'general intelligence' (o...

* God loves children, as do all good Fathers - and so he loves as as we are. He is in no great  rush for us to grow-up to become a divin...

That he did go wrong seems obvious - in that his life was intensely sad, angry and pessimistic and he was more tormented by religion than he...