Bruce Charlton's Notions

What! Seriously?... Cats are fussy eaters - prone to turn-up their furry noses at even sachet-treats of expensive, exotically flavoured food...

We have a tumble drier with a "buzzer" alarm (five ascending notes with a needly kind of electronic tone) that tells you when the ...

Note: All text consists of quotations from Joseph Beuys , made in an interview with Louwrien Wijers, November 22nd 1979; published in Writin...

If this mortal life is a time in which we need to learn from our experiences; much of this is likely to be retrospective.  We may fail to le...

What made these three books so very disappointing is that in all cases the authors were people who I first encountered in my teens, at an ag...

The internet, like the mass media generally, is highly dominated by the USA; and most of the comment and analysis comes from the US.  But - ...

It was gradually accepted during the 20th century that the Americas were discovered by the Vikings; but it seems likely that before this dat...

A few months ago I published a post about Tolkien's creative process , and why it has such a powerful appeal for these times. The post r...

There is a brief yet marvelous conversation in The Lord of the Rings , when Legolas and Gimli walk together through Minas Tirith and talk of...

This famous and stunning picture -  The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah , by John Martin - is in the collection of my local art gallery - ...

I often read secular, non-spiritual, analyses of what is going-on in the world - in particular the motivations of the global, national and l...

Today we were eating a packed lunch in Northumberland while listening to Test Match Special on BBC Radio Four Medium Wave - as England close...

If Easter is about the end , or goal, of everlasting life; then Pentecost is about the primary means to that end - in that sense, today is p...

To recap: I believe that Rudolf Steiner was correct a century ago when he said that the characteristic spiritual phenomenon of this age was...

You may have noticed (if you have noticed anything since 2020!) that evil nearly-always wants to take a round-about and deniable route to it...

Yesterday there was (apparently) a 'platinum' Jubilee which was intended to celebrate 70 years since Queen Elizabeth was crowned. T...

Ingrained habits of thinking, conceptualizing, interpreting... these are the proximate, immediate, front-line agents of materialism.  It is ...

When I wrote recently about the relationship between evil and incompetence , how evil is necessarily incompetent in proportion to evil-ness ...

All my major spiritual mentors communicate with me via books, and most of them are dead . Many of them are included in the lineage of Romant...

As of 2022; the major Christian Churches are large bureaucracies, which - to survive - must sin ( really sin) again and again, strategicall...

That Jesus died was necessary - he was a mortal Man. Like you and me; Jesus could only become immortal via the portals of biological death: ...