Bruce Charlton's Notions

Christians are often confused about how they can love God, as they are instructed to do - because they feel that they cannot get to know God...

From The Exegesis by Philip K Dick - written May 1981; section 79:1-81 (page 737) - The Exegesis was a private journal written in the las...

People suppose - in the incoherent and irrational way that modern people suppose - that the post sixties identity politics which took-over L...

The actuality of Leftist morality - and that it is  inversion of the true, beautiful and virtuous -  is revealed by describing the double-ne...

I regard love as the primary fact of God's creation - it is love that makes creation possible. Love is the opposite of chaos; and it is ...

I would describe myself as 'a mystic'; despite that I probably strike other people as mundane in the sense that I don't do anyth...

There is a fluctuating awareness that the global governments (or its spokesmen) often express-a-desire/ state-a-need for the world populatio...

Mozart is widely known as one of the greatest of composers, yet there is a sense in which his genius is the most elusive and delicate. His g...

There is a really tremendous amount of rubbish talked about masculinity these days. Its basis is the fact that modern men are much more effe...

This whole epoch... has, according to Rudolf Steiner, the task of recognizing and understanding evil. Before we seek to confront evil, we ha...

One of the habits I strive to discard is to stop my lazy and ingrained habit of (not) explaining things as a result of luck, chance or rando...

Thinking back on my years as an atheist; I recall strongly wanting to be a Christian in the middle 1980s; but floundering around and around ...

From an essay by Esther O'Reilly, published in  The Spectator 5 April 2021. This lucidly spells-out what was very obvious to me, in man...

It seems to me that many Christians are confused by the injunction to Hope.  Surely it is a vital truth that Christians must Hope - yet I o...

I continue to be incredulous at the way people are immune to the experiences of 2020-21; even when discussing phenomena directly affected by...

My premise is that poetry stands clear of the other art forms in that it is nearly always embarrassing.  A thought experiment: Which would y...

The reason why the socio-political goal of Equality is and always was intrinsically wrong, evil, anti-Christian; has been described clearly...

I was an atheist for most of my life - especially in terms of believing that I would be annihilated at death - that nothing of me would rema...

I have recently blogged about the theme of Sorathic evil; which I adapted from some remarks of Rudolf Steiner - and which I first came acro...

We live in a materialist world, in which only the material (that which is 'perceived' i.e. detected by the senses or the instruments...

Why did the Global Establishment wait until 2020 to launch its coup and implement a global totalitarian government? The answer lies in the t...