Bruce Charlton's Notions

From Steeleye Span - electric folk music of the early 1970s at its wonderful best. The first part is a composite Luddite social histor...

One thing I have learned from asking people about their own experience of thinking is that most people have never thought about it - and qui...

Over a period of two half days, I mas moved to read the bulk of the middle of John's Gospel - that Book being my favourite part of the B...

Whoever seeks higher knowledge must create it for himself. He must instil it into his soul. It cannot be done by study; it can only be done...

If it is accepted that Rudolf Steiner was inspired in the remarkably exact and accurate prophecy of 1918 about which I posted recently htt...

http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/the-not-so-reactionary-political-views.html

Since I wrote Thought Prison back in 2011 http://thoughtprison-pc.blogspot.co.uk I keep on emphasizing that a mass Christian revival in ...

My recent exploration of Owen Barfield's work in relation to the evolution of consciousness, and the idea that Man went through three st...

http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/review-of-charles-williams-third.html

I am assuming, here, that modernity is indeed a hellhole - although mostly a tepid and padded hellhole. The extent to which moderns strive-c...

In few matters has the impossibility of a viable secular culture been shown so clearly as the current debate on what to do about the existen...

It is pretty much mandatory for Christians to believe in angels, since they are mentioned so frequently in the Bible. But the angels in whic...

Of Robert Conquest's three 'Laws'... Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right...

Let us assume that there is such a thing as 'esoteric knowledge' - in particular correct information that is accessible via... well...

Continuing from yesterday's post: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/just-exactly-how-are-we-supposed-to.html If Final P...

The scheme of the evolution of human consciousness, goes something like this: 1. A child-like state of immersion in the world, the world e...

Several of the big British bureaucracies - the National Health Service, and the State education department - have got hold of a notion they ...

The ideas of William Arkle are based upon his imaginative identification with, intuitive understanding of, and (I believe) direct m...

"Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home ” ...

From Edward Dutton & Bruce G Charlton. The Genius Famine - why we need geniuses, why they're dying out, and why we must rescue them ...

I used to be, pretty much, an adherent of the Perennial Philosophy; and even since I became a Christian I am not hostile to it. But I see no...