Bruce Charlton's Notions

Blogging is suspended for the time being. I have blogged daily here for nearly seven years, at an average rate of about 1.5 posts per day - ...

The concept of repentance is a difficult one for even Christians to grasp, I think; and non-Christians seem to be baffled by it altogether. ...

"Every word in Elidor is freighted with gold. "Published in 1965, Alan Garner's third novel does for Manchester (and all cit...

It seems that many Christians are and have been focused on the problem of achieving salvation by faith and right choices during mortal life:...

http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/how-to-inspire-people.html

In modern life, there are many asymmetries; one is that 'the personal is political' is applied to monitor and control the smallest a...

The primary great and simple insight of William Arkle, in which respect he excels - beyond any other source I have discovered (ancient or mo...

In his essay The Doors of Perception , Aldous Huxley compared the human mind to a valve which operates to keep-out the total knowledge of ev...

We have now had two solid months of propaganda about 'fake news' the real lie being that some news is not fake. By creating a disc...

Continued from: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/modernity-is-do-not-try-to-join-dots-in.html Final Participation is simple...

More than 200 years ago - in Britain first - a new consciousness emerged at about the time the Industrial Revolution got going. Its philosop...

For whatever combination of reasons; The West has become a society of consumers - and this is most damaging when it comes to our of ideas ab...

Awakening is a good term; because it is clear that we cannot sleep through the necessary spiritual awakening - else Life will continue t...

http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/what-are-forces-at-work-in-zeitgeist.html

http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/review-of-return-of-king-cartoon-movie.html I do not find much good to say in its favour - ...

Edited from: http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/christianity-not-means-to-end-of-saving.html Although Christianity is necessa...

...Began in the late 1990s, when I became fascinated by hunter gatherer spirituality ('animism') and then actively interested by New...

Trump's first couple of weeks have shown that he meant what he said in his campaign, and he has implemented his expressed intentions wit...

Solipsism is the belief, usually quite brief, that the thinker is the source of everything that is - my  feeling that everything is just a p...

This is, or should be, a very big surprise - because just eight months ago at the time of the EU Referendum the mass of British MPs and all ...