Welcome to the
COLLECTED APHORISTIC PHILOSOPHY (1977–84) of
CONVERGENCE
by
John O'Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the
files of
which follow the brief introduction below:–
This substantial
collection of aphorisms
and maxims is taken from a variety of projects, including (besides the
aforementioned genres) volumes containing dialogues and essays which I
wrote
between 1977 and 1984, and is therefore representative of a
comparatively early
phase in my philosophical development.
The subject-matter ranges widely between mostly cultural,
social,
political and religious concerns, but gradually narrows down towards a
specific
ideological stance which I have equated with Social Transcendentalism
and thus
with a kind of ultimate politico-religious orientation which is less
concerned
with man than with his hypothetical future transmutation or
transfiguration
towards what has been called the post-human Millennium, a period in
time or,
rather, eternity when, hypothetically speaking, man is superseded
and/or
transcended by that which stands closer to the godly if not, in a
profounder
sense, to God per se. Such,
in
a nutshell, is the drift of this
chronological collection of aphorisms and maxims, which set me on the
road
towards my mature writings (1985-2006) and thus to the eventual
apotheosis of
my development as a writer of philosophical-cum-theosophical works, the
latter
part of this hyphenated term implying – contrary to standard practice -
a
greater concern with metaphysical truth than with physical knowledge
and,
hence, with God than with Man, and most especially, I would now
contend, within
a centripetally cyclical aphoristic format, the metaphysical approach
to
structure par excellence which, if
combined with the metaphysical approach to text par
excellence, namely an italic writerly
font, will deliver the most metaphysically truthful, and therefore
godly,
document of which it is possible to conceive. – John O'Loughlin.
CONTENTS
ON BOOKS
ON MORALITY
ON LIFE
ON CIVILIZATION
ON THE DEVIL
ON THE SUPREME BEING
ON MANKIND
ON ART REPRODUCTIONS
ON
SEXUALITY
ON
THE
SELF
ON RACISM AND ANTI-TRIBALISM
ON
RELIGION
ON
LITERATURE
ON
THE
ARTS
ON JAZZ
ON THE PSYCHE
ON GOD AND EVOLUTION
ON BEING AND DOING
ON
IDEOLOGY
ON SEX AND GENDER
ON NATURAL EVOLUTION
ON CIVILIZED EVOLUTION
ON
IDEOLOGICAL
SPECTRA
ON ANTITHETICAL EQUIVALENTS
ON ART
ON SEX
ON BRITAIN
ON CLOTHES
ON THE TRINITY
ON THE SUPRA-NATURAL
ON ALTERNATING REVOLTS
ON
REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
All files Copyright © 2012 John O’Loughlin
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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 with her daughter upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in
Aldershot, Hants and, with an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother, Carshalton, Surrey. Shortly after leaving high school in pre-GCSE era 1970 with an
assortment 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 for booking ABRSM examination venues throughout the British Isles.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, 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 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 to
philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and penned numerous 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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