Bruce Charlton's Notions

Modern people can't change because they spend all their time semi-conscious and externally driven; plugged-into and addicted-to the mass...

I continue to engage with the work of Rudolf Steiner, and continue to find him to be A Problem! In the first place, it is important to ack...

  Puzzle the donkey... Since quite a lot of people asked questions a week ago - I thought it might be worth providing a chance for so...

This symphony is a delight from the stormy beginning all through to the unique, lyrical end. If you don't know the story of how No....

1. We begin spontaneously in contact with the gods, with the spiritual realm - dwelling immersed-in it; passive to it. Such is early childho...

Colin Wilson published his first book, The Outsider , in 1956: it was an international sensation and best-seller, and it was about the alie...

Bureaucracy is at the very heart of the modern world - it is the common factor that unites all organisations and nations and super-national ...

Gnomic wisdom!... I probably mentioned before that a dream on the eve of my conversion to Christianity showed the globe being covered by e...

While I expect that Brexit will be sabotaged by the Establishment (unless it sparks a genuine spiritual awakening among ordinary people) - a...

These days I am working on playing my melodeon - which is identical with the one above. I use it almost entirely to play English morris d...

I find myself more and more convinced at the futility - and therefore net harmfulness - of schemes of social, political, economic and any ot...

It is a classic, and in my view powerful, critique of mainstream Christian theology to find it to hard-to-understand where evil come-from if...

This was probably my favourite painting age about 18-20 years - exceptionally evocative of that sense of aching yearning, Sehnsucht , tha...

Most people rejected Jesus during his mortal life - either because they did not believe who he was - but some because they did not want what...

There is a lot of discussion about the bad effects of continuous, intensive, immersive social media usage (i.e. what is now normal everyday ...

Isn't just a matter of not being alert; because the most alert people include those who are most asleep. In a spiritual sense, sleep r...

If readers want to ask me a question - this is an invitation for them to do so; in the comments below. I can't guarantee to print y...

The promise of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel is that those who believe in him will have the reward of life eternal/ life everlasting. As Jesu...

The mainstream Christian view is of God outside of everything to start with; and God, as it were, creating the Universe from nothing, inside...

Those who say that men are led by interest are knaves.  A knavish character will often say - 'Of what interest is it to me to do so-an...

When I venture into the mainstream mass media I expect strategic evil from the professionals - including systematically attacking Donald Tru...