Bruce Charlton's Notions

Some nine years ago I wrote a post at the Notion Club Papers blog , in which I speculated on what might be the truth behind the greatest mys...

In brief, I will describe how there are two elements to free will.  1. The creative power of the primordial Divine Self   We are all Beings ...

For most people 'religion' is about ethics - indeed it is about nothing-but ethics... Ethical principles and rules, ethical behavio...

The age of the Great Apostasy - a rapid, wholesale and self-imposed abandonment of Church Christianity worldwide - has-happened ; and the re...

Christmas is the great 'romantic' season of the year - at least potentially. It is the season when enchantment is nearest the surfac...

Sweep, chimney sweep, is the common cry I keep  If you can but rightly understand me  With my brush, broom and my rake, with my brush, broom...

When I encounter a special author, I will initially hurl myself into trying to understand him - read many books, think a lot, take notes (in...

According to most definitions, the mystical vision and experience is about the mystic attaining first a vision of the oneness of everything ...

Some commentators on 'the right' seem to think it is a clever insight and useful analysis to describe Wokeness/ Political Correctnes...

As soon as Man emerged from his original state of immersive participation; as soon as he became became capable of conscious independent thin...

   Doctor Who is undoubtedly, and by a large margin, the number one British SciFi TV programme - but number two is probably Blake's 7 ....

WmJas Tychonievich recently published some interesting discussion of the business of thanking God . In particular the question of what exact...

There has for the past century, been an intellectual onslaught on the idea of the world being made of Goodies and Baddies. For instance; to ...

Hero of our times?   Francis Berger has written recently of the stunningly 'bland' mass acceptance of... whatever latest lying evil...

The episode when Aragorn carelessly burns the lembas while sheltering in Lothlorien, and is scolded by an elf maiden   Is Aragorn more like ...

I have discussed this before , but in retrospect it is ever more clear to me that the years around the year AD 2000 really were the crossing...

There is a deep structural similarity between the psychology of CG Jung on the one hand and mainstream New Leftism (post-sixties Leftism) on...