Bruce Charlton's Notions

In this world of materialism, opposed to all matter of the spirit and religion; it is significant that so many Christians define their faith...

There is an answer, and the correct answer is Communists . But the chances are you may think that you disagree, or regard them as equally ...

At Albion Awakening... . ..How did Brexit ever get off the ground?  Although everyone who is remotely honest and informed knows that the...

When I try to imagine the most perfect form of society, I come up with the family: a conscious and creative return to family. We begin as...

...Then look at the backs of the hands ... Cosmetic plastic surgery and careful makeup can make the face superficially appear 15, maybe...

As infants in school; we sometimes used to make a gang by the simple expedient of going around the playground and asking other boys if th...

Reading Kevin Bazzana's biography of Glenn Gould ; it was clear that, despite being a musician of genius, Glenn Gould was prone to the s...

" That is simplistic. It's more complicated than that - the situation is extremely complex..." Such terms mean: I understand...

From The Salutation by Thomas Traherne These little limbs, These eyes and hands which here I find, These rosy cheeks wherewith my life...

There can be no neutrality about anything that matters at all - certainly not about anything as important as sex. Every-thing - Every Pos...

In theory I certainly do believe in spiritual power (and want to exercise it); but I find it impossible consistently to believe it in practi...

I find that hardly anybody has any conception of what is going-on, the times we are living in. There is a blindness to reality that is so ne...

That the medium is the message is true so far as it goes. The message is direct-knowing; so it is not the content that provides for that pos...

Glenn Gould famously announced in 1964 that he was retiring from live performances to focus on recorded and broadcast music-making - and kep...

What finally cured me of any notion of progress in philosophy as a thought-tradition was reading a history of philosophy from a philosopher ...

I'm about 100 pages into this re-read, and it so far confirms my original impression that this is the best of the biographies of, and b...

There is, of course, no strict numerical and chronological division of life - but if we are talking about an approximately threescore and te...

In general, we stay alive for as long as there is something we need to (or ought to) accomplish - spiritually . (So many modern people liv...

In a stylish and insightful essay ; Francis Berger introduces and explores this English translation of a characteristic Hungarian expression...

 Our latest Northumbrian exploration is online at the new Ancient Archaeology blog ...

Something that used to puzzle me as an atheist was why Christians seemed to reject the goal of maximum happiness in this mortal life while a...