Bruce Charlton's Notions

  Walk with me by Greg Olsen In trying to imagine what Jesus felt as he lived his life; it comes to me that he experienced it as a Man...

Is the Russian Revolution itself being subjected to the same airbrushing fate as Trotsky and co? Now you see them, then you don't.....

Marriage is not passive - however, being in love is a passive experience - it is spontaneous, overwhelms us, sweeps us along. And that is a ...

I suggest that there is a prevalent fantasy that anything valid is something that we will be compelled to believe; that we will be swept-al...

Christians, from the Apostle Paul onwards, have always had the problem of trying to explain Jesus - especially what he did and why. In ...

Clearly The News is one of the primary mediators of evil in the world; but what to do about it? Obviously we should not 'believe' ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 The Owen Barfield Blog continues to grow swiftly - two posts today; one of which is about a topic I ...

It is difficult - I would say impossible - satisfactorily to define The Spiritual, except as a 'diagnosis of exclusion'. In other ...

In 1986 I read a book by Don Cupitt called Life Line s - which purports to provide a complete typology, a map, of possible spiritual live...

A truly gorgeous aria from Tannhauser , which shows that (in his early years, when the mood took him) Wagner could be a great melodist. He...

The proper answer is: It All Depends On Motivation; or, to be clearer: it ALL depends on motivation. There is not 'safe way' to be...

All systems lead (whether fast and direct, or more slowly and via loops) to the same end-point. All systems treat individuals as component...

To read William Blake's work with sympathy, with empathy - as I am currently doing - is to discover an exposure of cultural error of ...

See Albion Awakening for details...

 Having had some interesting and enjoyable comments on this theme , over at The Notion Club Papers; I invite readers of this blog to contr...

William Wildblood writes :  The notion of Albion Awakening is tied up with the so called British myth as described by Geoffrey Ashe in his...

Considering the implications of the current fulfilment of Owen Barfield's 60 year old prophecy which I posted earlier today, this bring...

Barfield was a Christian; who understood the incarnation, death and resurrection of Christ as an event of cosmic significance - the inflexio...

The main reason is that they lack an underlying metaphysical system which would not merely notice things, but regard them as significant exe...

At its most fundamental level, our Will is divine and therefore harmonises with our divine destiny - our true Will is therefore something w...

My new Owen Barfield Blog is continuing to grow, daily. Today's post is about the great sweep of human destiny: In the beginning Men ...