by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Apr 21, 2022 | Book Reviews, Spirituality
Iain McGilchrist and The Matter with Things Written by Professor Lance Butler. After ten years of intense work Iain McGilchrist has now finished his second magnum opus. His first was The Master and his Emissary of 2010 and here, just published, is The Matter with... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Apr 13, 2022 | Tuesday Talks, Spirituality
Is Progress Possible? Written by Professor Lance Butler. What would ‘progress’ be in our spiritual thinking? We turn quite readily to the past, for instance to Plato, to English, German and Spanish mystics who lived as far back as the Middle Ages. We appeal to the... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Feb 18, 2022 | Spirituality
Detachment or Compassion? Written by Professor Lance Butler. We have learnt of these heavenly twins from Buddhism. We know we should be detached and we know that we should be compassionate, but for most of us, there can be something of a question hanging over this... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Jan 28, 2022 | Tuesday Talks
How difficult can it be? Written by Professor Lance Butler. Our culture makes things easy for us, except when it doesn’t. It’s easier to look things up online than it was in a library; it’s easier to buy things on credit than it was to save up for them; modern... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Jan 12, 2022 | Spirituality, Tuesday Talks
Buddhism, Detachment and Love Written by Professor Lance Butler. If you are interested in the work of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre it’s almost certain that you have thought about Buddhism. In fact words like mysticism and meditation may conjure up images of the... by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Jan 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year Written by Professor Lance Butler. What’s this before and after midnight? You normally ask that question once a year – and you’ve probably just asked it. And I wonder how it went for you? Was there a slight shift in the atmosphere, a change of... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Dec 19, 2021 | Tuesday Talks
Christmas for All Written by Professor Lance Butler. It’s Christmas again. So it’s a time when we think rather automatically about religion. I suppose we do the same at Easter and no doubt people from other religious backgrounds have similar moments in the... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Dec 15, 2021 | Tuesday Talks
Exploring the Works of Bernardo Kastrup Written by Professor Lance Butler. I promised you more Bernardo Kastrup in my last blog, and here he is: His books are many – and they are mostly wonderfully slim as well as pithy. They all beat the same drum one way or... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Dec 1, 2021 | Tuesday Talks
Consciousness, Cause and Bernardo Kastrup Written by Professor Lance Butler. In my last blog (which was also my first blog, but there) I ended by praising the work of Bernardo Kastrup and now I’m going to say some more about him. By way of introducing his basic ideas... 
by Arthur Conan Doyle Centre | Nov 22, 2021 | Tuesday Talks
Open Minds Written by Professor Lance Butler Where Are We now? And… a Philosopher for Our Times. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre has done fairly well during lockdown. We are, for a start, still in operation and we still have all our staff. We are financially stable...