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BEYOND IMAGINATION
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
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which follow the remarks below:–
This is
another high-point in a long and winding philosophical career which has
inexorably led this pilgrim towards the
'celestial city' of heavenly truth and thus closer to the omega point of his
oeuvre, wherein many subjects are explored afresh and one or two long-standing
assumptions or presumptions summarily abandoned. Certainly the title was based on conclusions
I had reached about the religiously undesirable nature of imagery, imagination,
images, and other such appearance-based variations on a common metachemical
theme, from the standpoint of philosophical essence, which has less to do with
a projection of will and/or spirit than with an injection, so to speak, of ego
and/or soul. – John O'Loughlin.
CONTENTS
RESPONSIBILITY
IMMORALITY VIS-A-VIS MORALITY
AMORALITY
ETERNAL LIFE
THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD
WILLPOWER
CULTURE AND RELIGION
ART-FORMS
STATE AND CHURCH
GOD AND HEAVEN
GENDER DIVISIONS
CONTRASTING THE ARTS
TRUE RELIGION
REDEMPTION
ATOMS
THE SOUL
THE SELF
THE UNDERSOUL
ETERNITY
DREAMS
THE FEW AND THE MANY
RELIGIOUS BOVARYIZATIONS VIS-A-VIS THE TRUTH
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
THEORY AND PRACTICE
THE FOUR KINDS OF LITERATURE
MUSICAL QUADRUPLICITIES
PASSING FROM SENSUALITY TO SENSIBILITY
SAVED FROM THE CURSE AND DAMNED FROM THE BLESSING
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split
he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland folowing the death of her Aldershot-based husband after a lengthy marital absence) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St. George's schools in
Aldershot, Hants, and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care with Hill House Children's Home by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother back to Ireland, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys. Upon leaving the latter in pre-GCSE era 1970 with anassortment of CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved to London and went on, via two short-lived
jobs, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford
Square, where he eventually became responsible, as a clerical officer Gd.1, for booking venues throughout Britain and Ireland for the Board's classical music exams.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he was then living, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, left the ABRSM in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer-cum-office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency within the local YMCA in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), An Interview
Reviewed (1979), Secret
Exchanges (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and Deceptive
Motives (1981). Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has dedicated himself almost exclusively to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned several titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and
God (1985–6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical Truth (1991–2) and,
more recently, The Best
of All Possible Worlds (2008), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Insane but not Mad (2011) and Philosophic Flights of Poetic Fancy (2012).
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