Bruce Charlton's Notions

This can be brief: Dunkirk is one of the best movies I have seen. I was rather dragged-along to the cinema by my wife, who is currently re...

Modern people have an impatient addictive compulsion towards understanding, predicting and intervening in the world to change it in more gra...

In this passage, from A Pluralistic Universe , of 1909, a set of lectures by the most eminent of US philosophers William James, expresses ve...

Romanticism is the future, even after more than 200 years of its incompleteness, its failure; because Romanticism is the only movement of ho...

William Wildblood is on fine form at Albion Awakening - here is an excerpt: Present day conditions are well nigh ideal for spiritual dest...

The above is a live issue for me - because several of the thinkers on religion whom I most respect believe in (some version of) reincarnatio...

Giving somebody the Gospels to read can provide a confusing experience. Assuming that Jesus was - through his life and ministry, trying to t...

In early 1943, CS Lewis and his brother came to Newcastle upon Tyne to give the Riddell Lectures; later published as The Abolition of Man ...

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Towards the end of his magnum opus Saving the Appearances (1957), Owen Barfield makes a vital, but chilling, point about the future of huma...

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Reincarnation and the ultimate destiny of Man .

One reason why secular, supposedly 'Right Wing' politicians and commentators are unable to awaken Western society to its existential...

It is obvious once explained - but your first guess may be wrong .

For mainstream Christianity the ultimate reality is described in abstract, physics-like terms (especially in the assumed/ attributed nature ...

Most recorded visionary experiences are expansions of perception – seeing or hearing things that other people cannot. For example William ...

When the change came there were signs. The sun was different, the moon also - the airs and winds and waters...because all are sentient and k...

In his masterful book What Coleridge Thought (1971), Owen Barfield identified Polarity - or Polar Logic - as ST Coleridge's core philos...

  Vesuvius by Joseph Wright of Derby Blake is complementary to Shakespeare; because if Shakespeare represented every kind of man except...

I often find it easier to understand philosophy the opposite way around from the direction it is usually presented; that is, by knowing wher...

In a nutshell: Barfield contains the necessary essence of Steiner . Most people will therefore want to approach Steiner via Barfield; turnin...