Bruce Charlton's Notions

Nearly all of Christian discourse seems to be focused on morality - indeed, before I was a Christian that was all I could perceive of it. Ye...

I am currently re-reading various Owen Barfield works, including What Coleridge Thought (1971); which had a massive impact when I last read...

It was always an element of Leftism, but from about the middle 1960s, anti-Christian, anti-traditional, anti-functional and anti-biological ...

The stage that Modern Man has reached in his evolutionary development is one where, sometime in adolescence, his consciousness becomes cut-o...

That Jesus Christ was incarnated, embodied, ought to be a decisive clue from Christians that the world of (unembodied) spirit is inferior i...

Bluebells are the last of the wild forest flowers in a Beech wood, before the leaf canopy blocks the light. English people are very fond of ...

Something I used to speculate about as a young child, was what it would be like to be on The Wrong Side in a war - and to know that you were...

If we understand the demonically-led nature of the global totalitarian System; we will not fall into delusions about specific policies that ...

It is a pervasive and influential - albeit unacknowledged - assumption of most Modern people; that everything, and everybody, has always bee...

  The above illustrations by Frank Frazetta (1975) depict Eowyn battling the Nazgul Witch King and his flying steed.  Eowyn was, of course,...

When I think rigorously about what is required for 'true creativity' by a Man, then it seems that a pretty extensive set of pre-requ...

One consequence of living in a totalitarian world administered by evil leaders (evil being defined as in-opposition-to God and divine creati...

This thought-provoking comment was made by "ben" in the course of a discussion over at Francis Berger's blog .  It immediately...

One way of understanding the evil that dominates this world, now; is in terms of various unconscious instincts - or 'gut feelings' -...

The classic May-day song, by one of my favourite bands of the 1970s.  For several years in the 70s, I would rise at about five in the mornin...

William Wildblood had a recent post that provoked me into some thinking about The Antichrist, and what we might expect such a Being to be l...

A question that recurs to me, is how top conceptualize (visualize, imagine) the 'location' of inner world concepts. The ancient Egyp...

Since it has penetrated, and dominates, almost everywhere in the realm of finance, the media, economics, politics, the military and police, ...

Without going into details (and making clear that it was in-no-way life-threatening); my recent illness was an existential challenge, and un...

I have not been blogging for while because of a spell of debilitating illness/ illnesses; from which I seem gradually to be recovering now. ...

It is a very difficult time for traditionalist Christians, whose churches have already aligned with the evil global agenda and who are becom...