Bruce Charlton's Notions

Self-identified Christians are among the worse offenders - trying to prove their compassionate non-judgmentalism etc.  But this is not about...

I continue to be amazed that so many people get drawn into trap-debates in which somebody pretends not to understand the obvious or to belie...

They tell us another Evil Big Lie, it gets discovered, then... amnesia dust...   And the global masses re-set  ready for the next one.   Nev...

A problem I have seen among US 'pro-life'/ anti-abortion Christians is a false assumption about the universality, the 'natural ...

Given that the world is dominated by demon-serving (mostly-) human beings; it is likely that - in the spiritual war - even apparently -good ...

World War III is not only here, it is the better option for humanity. Submission is not an option and will avail those who do literally noth...

It is stunning to observe the moral blindness of people, of Christians and (self-identified) Christian churches; when it comes to evil motiv...

It is an unprecedented characteristic of these times that we create our world. We cannot help it, since our self is cut off from spontaneous...

 I find it striking how utopian "spiritual people" were, right into the 1990s, and with a much diminished group struggling on unti...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, successful new "romantic" religious movements - such as Mormonism, theosophy, rit...

That much is clear - All strategies and schemes will come to evil, and most are evil by motivation (being worldly, hedonic = leftist)... Her...

If we desire revelation, divine knowledge and guidance; it seems best to recognise that we already have it. But inaccessible. Our problem is...

If people regard Christian understanding as a kind of knowledge - but think about it in the same way they think about everything else ( ends...

A valid understanding of "clairvoyance" would be clear-seeing; which could be translated into the concept of direct-knowing .  And...

There is, I feel, an artificiality about the common Christian idea that this - my mortal life - is bounded in one direction only; that is in...

From the Tyrannosaurus Rex album - Unicorn - 1969.    Read aloud by John Peel Lionel Lark was an alchemist by profession but he loved to qu...

It was an ancient insight (going back to the earliest recorded philosophy) that Men as we are in this earthly mortal life; cannot be truly h...

Dominant, top-down evil is changing from bureaucratic-media/ totalitarian enforcement of value-inversion; towards nihilistic and spiteful de...

There is a kind of bemused delirium evident among pro-lifers.  Suddenly! (they believe) Evil Santa has given them exactly what they have bee...

The great tales never end: Essays in memory of Christopher Tolkien . Edited by Richard Ovenden & Catherine McIlwaine. Bodleian Library P...

  From 1:23:20 Yesterday I listened to the first movement of Mozart's Paris Symphony 31 for the first time in a while; and was absolutel...