Bruce Charlton's Notions

I have just bought myself that gorgeous little thing depicted above - a Stagi M5 Anglo-Concertina. For scale; it is hexagonal and about 7 in...

Maybe the most difficult challenge of living as a Romantic Christian is to bridge the gap between theory and practice.  As Owen Barfield so ...

Bill Ryan (on left) in 1976 as an Outward Bound instructor  supervising a five day  expedition through  the The Cairngorms, Scotland   (I w...

What was the effect of Jesus Christ on subsequent reality - his 'cosmic' effect on the world? One way of thinking about this is that...

I have often said that motivation is what is decisively lacking in modern (post-Christian, post-religious, post-spiritual, materialistic) Me...

Straw bears in Whittlesey on Plough Monday - but not this year...   I have always been very keen on 'folklore' - even when I am not...

Steven Smith just after being hit in the neck by a fast bowler In cricket, the bowler should not be allowed to target the batsman's head...

The original Harry Potter series of seven books, completed by the superb " Deathly Hallows " volume, is probably the major Christ...

It is supposed to be an innately Good Thing to give money (or time and labour) To Charity - but no activity is intrinsically Good - and in...

At Adam Piggot's blog there is an interesting and important post about the question of first things first, and our motivations for doin...

There is a truly Romantic spirit which I value supremely when I find it; which is seldom, including very rare instances in myself.  We are, ...

I see a lot of complaints (from both sides of the issues) against divisive rhetoric from those in power: the kind of rhetoric that demonizes...

The Great Reset/ Agenda 2020 is the totalitarian Global Establishment strategy for a world of omni-surveillance and micro-control.  Almost c...

One of the most significant - and almost-never asked - questions about real science is: where do the new good ideas come from ?  Anyone can...

The phrase "Follow The Science" was hardly recorded and very seldom used until April of 2020; yet now there are more that 30 milli...

It is my impression that - 'precognition' - i.e. knowing the future - is not only normal, but absolutely essential to human function...

I have been pondering the nature of Time - mostly because I regard the ways that it is talked about (perhaps especially by religious writers...

Sometimes I have a queer feeling that, if one could go back, one would find not myth dissolving into history, but rather the reverse: real h...

Every person who - for a while - succeeds in thinking/ being outside of The System becomes (for that time) an instrument of divine providenc...

From Christopher Langan's Gab account :   Premise: Epimenides is a Cretan.  Statement by Epimenides: "All Cretans always lie....