Bruce Charlton's Notions

Resurrection is not just a matter of bodies! - because life everlasting is about more than bodies. The created world is made of Beings (a...

The slow movement of the Concerto for Double String Orchestra, by Michael Tippett; and the Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaug...

https://williamarkle.blogspot.com/2019/09/bruce-charltons-introduction-to.html The above link is for the once-checked first-draft of my In...

Magic is primarily perspectival - in that if you can't see it, you won't see it. Many people go through life and almost-never notice...

Edited from A Geography of Consciousness by William Arkle (1974) - the chapter 'Relating Levels of Consciousness', pp 134-7. This, ...

I have often heard it emphasised by Christians how remarkable, how shocking, it was that God was incarnated as a little baby, lived, suffere...

"The thing that defines us as Men is the fact that we die." A three minute video which nonetheless (and with the help of quot...

In the modern condition - aiming at Final Participation - most Men realise that truth is something chosen.  Truth is no longer compelled upo...

I've written often over the past decade about why it is a mistake for those in The West who oppose the Left to put their faith in nation...

I am currently writing an introduction for the first re-publication of William Arkle's A Geography of Consciousness since it was origin...

Field of Dreams is a movie I like - I rewatched it recently to check. At the time I first saw it, which was perhaps 1991, it coincided w...

From SK Orr's Steeple Tea blog Supping On Beauty Down the gravel road to home this evening, the dust hanging in the air from a hur...

Edited from Divine Purpose - from The Great Gift by William Arkle (1977):   There are a number of matters which I would like to define w...

I am not easily impressed by singers; but when I stumbled across this live recording of a young Canadian bass-baritone called Philippe Sl...

From 1922 - this was played every week on Children's Favourites throughout the nineteen sixties; never then or since have I been able...

I don't intend to answer this question (nor to publish comments that try to give answers) - but I ask the question to highlight a common...

Edited from the essay Divine Love in The Great Gift by William Arkle (1977) We can realise for ourselves that love can be passive or act...

Edited from The Resolution of Grief , an essay published in The Great Gift (1977) by William Arkle: From what I understand, the motivatio...

I saw a version of this road sign on top of the Pennine Hills overlooking Cumbria, beside the burn remains of a hilltop cafe. I can only ...

Edited from The Resolution of Grief , an essay published in The Great Gift (1977) by William Arkle: Behind the ordinary ego, or within t...

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidenc...