Bruce Charlton's Notions

I was watching the most recent 'Terminator' movie and I wondered - not for the first time - why 'Hollywood' has been so keen...

The key to the meaning of Life is purpose - to know what Life is For .  Most discussions of the meaning of life (including most Christian ...

Not many people believe (as I do) in the evolutionary-development of human consciousness. If this is true, our current situation is unique a...

Not only do Leftists Not engage in Holiness Spirals - HSs don't exist as a phenomenon; assuming (as Christians do) there is a such a re...

From Berger Ferenc ( aka Francis Berger) - an acute insight: The West has become biggest and most effective reality-denying system the wo...

There is an alluring phenomenon, whereby some person who seems clearly decent and sensible gets regarded as a wise counsellor; yet thei...

We live in an evil civilisation. On the one hand, it is destroying itself strategically and ever more rapidly; led by a global Establishm...

Various dilemmas of modern life are described and discussed at Junior Ganymede - but also with relevance to Christians outwith the CJCLDS. ...

One aspect of the bureaucratic takeover of British universities I experienced, was the annual demand to revise the course descriptions; and ...

There is a lot of misleading stuff which tries to say that Leftism is 'a religion' (usually, implicitly meaning that religion is A B...

When beauty, truth and virtue become separated, they pretty soon die. Indeed (as I have implied before, in my books on the corruption of s...

Rudolf Steiner's The Philosophy of Freedom (PoF; 1894) played a very important role in my personal development - indeed, it was perhap...

This is very sweet and charming, in its way; and seems absolutely sincere. It is also so funny that I cried with laughter. Yet I wasn't ...

While some humans seek Nirvana - in most Eastern religions this entails a discarding of the self, the ego; a reduction of self-awareness to ...

One error I see among those who interpret Rudolf Steiner - and perhaps it is in Steiner himself, although I am not sure - is that we need to...

When it comes to matters such a sex education in particular, and ethical education in general (eg attitudes to alcohol, drugs, violence...);...

William Wildblood has a new book published - the second this year! Bought my copy, sight unseen, because WW is always worth reading. I...

This is the version I own - part of a boxed LP set of all six solo violin sonatas and partitas by JS Bach played by Sigiswald Kuijken, th...

I believe that symbolism has all-but broken down as a way of attaining the transcendental, especially the divine. I would see symbolism as i...

I don't see why full creating members of the resurrected Heavenly Family would not be able to take 'Nirvana holidays' - much as ...

It is my impression that there are plenty of Christians through the entire history of the faith who do not want to follow Jesus to the resu...