Bruce Charlton's Notions

I spent most of my 'professional life' as a theoretical scientist within the field of biomedicine; and what I sought (the lack of wh...

Over at The Notion Club Papers ; I give my conclusions regarding the ultimate nature and meaning of that most lovely and inspiring of all ex...

Serhei's excellent and thought-stimulating guest-post yesterday brings into focus that there is an important sense in which Modern Men ...

The truth is that Christianity (properly understood!) says that this mortal life is of vital importance - and this importance derives-from t...

Author: Commenter Serhei; aka  Arakawa An optimistic (possibly) thought following to on my prior comment on 'How does the blanket mind-c...

Over at the Notion Club Papers ; I have written a post about the problem of having read, and re-read, some thing we liked so much that we w...

A thread over at Project Avalon made me return, yet again, to the question of how the blanket mind-control system works nowadays?  On the o...

I was reading a review about all the things that are wrong and bad about the Ridley Scott movie Blade Runner  and why, therefore it was Not ...

Colin Wilson said that Existentialism was an attempt to answer the question: "What am I doing here?" Clearly, there is no answer t...

Colin Wilson, and his wife Joy, in 2009 I am re-reading Colin Wilson 's last substantive book - Super Consciousness: the quest for the p...

The following, I have edited (and slightly adapted, to make explicit and clearer the meanings) from notes by JRR Tolkien written c1958 and p...

One of the transformative resources of my mid-teen years was the Bristol City Record Library (with its fierce guardian librarian whom we nic...

Romanticism began to arise in the minds of Men from about the middle of the 1700s, in Western Europe - and has spread from there. What roman...

 

Over at my Owen Barfield blog , I discuss why even an expert disciple and follower of Rudolf Steiner, can expect to find added-value in read...

We were told a few days ago that starting from 23rd April 2023 - which is, significantly, St George's Day: the English patron saint) the...

Over at the Notion Club Papers I review and recommend the BBC Radio Hobbit dramatization from 1968; with its ambitious electronic soundscap...

The tyrannical puppets who administer the UK under orders from Sorathic demons; continue to paint an ever-brighter target on the British Is...

From the wonderful documentary series  Edwardian Farm (BBC 2010), we get to meet Devon farmer Mister Francis Mudge - from 7:45 : I was born...

Modern Men are, like it or not, confronted by what is commonly called relativism; and emerges in the idea that every proposition is 'jus...

The above question was asked me the other day; and it is a good question.  After some consideration, I realized that the answer is that I u...