Bruce Charlton's Notions

Bottom-up meets top-down... A lot of Christians (as well as those secular people who are opposed to politically correct Leftism) regard...

Although most Christian apparently don't have this attitude; I find personally it hard to reject-outright the idea of reincarnation ....

I have blogged before on the strange revelation or prophecy from the early 1900s onward and standing at the heart of Rudolf Steiner's en...

Over at my Notion Club Papers blog, I have opened a survey inviting readers to give their favourite member of the Oxford Inklings group (by...

The Magician, from a Lord of the Rings Tarot pack I happen to possess   A very intriguing post from William James Tychonievich (long-s...

The most important metaphysical assumption is the loving creator . This is really The Key to understanding reality - and it is, indee...

Jesus in the forests of Somerset? No, of course not! - although he may have visited the South West before his ministry; as Blake descr...

TB expounds... At Albion Awakening , I discuss the contemporary English writer and lecturer Terry Boardman , and recommend exploring hi...

JRR Tolkien wrestles with a tricky compositional problem... I have a new essay posted at L Jagi Lamplighter's Superversive Inklings...

He may be gigantic (and green) - but he's not really jolly... Because nations are too big - way too big; just as cities, corporatio...

If I knew then what I know now , I would do as follows: Sit down with The Bible , in the (divinely-inspired) Authorised/ King James Versio...

I have come to believe that the evolutionary developmental-unfolding of human consciousness is working against ritual - such that ritual ...

This is one of my rare topical posts - triggered by something written by Rod Dreher - about literal witchcraft among the SJWs - this someth...

Since communism; we have lived in a weirdly inverted world in which the elite, while remaining the elite and retaining their wealth, status ...

Consciousness is indeed the key - and the problem can be approached from several directions to yield this same answer: that (here and now, i...

Published in the current issue of Oxford Magazine – by Bruce G Charlton Review of: Jeremy Naydler. In the shadow of the machine: the preh...

In The Matrix movie (1999) there is a character called Cypher who chooses to live a life of pleasant delusion plugged-into the Matrix, ra...

There is a common notion that there could, in principle, be a ruling Matrix that was entirely an Artificial Intelligence; consisting enti...

A convincing prophet meets The Saviour - offers cookies... (NOTE: Many spoilers below.)  I have just rewatched The Matrix movie (19...

...is discussed by William Wildblood at Albion Awakening .

I discovered this for myself by using Benzoyl Peroxide 10% as an antiseptic on a mosquito bite which looked as if it would get infected. A...