The filet of which can be accessed
via the remarks below:–
Taking its thematic structure from the
previous work, Yang and Anti-Yin
(2004–5), this volume of aphoristic philosophy entitled Lamb and Anti-Lion delves deeper into noumenal
sensibility and its full gender and ideological implications, taking the
biblical metaphors of ‘lamb’ and ‘lion’ to their ultimate conclusions in what
becomes an exact parallel to the ‘yang’ and ‘anti-yin’ of our metaphysical and
antimetachemical elemental positions. But these elements are also
investigated in greater detail, and provide ample scope for the enhancement or
clarification of certain terms, including those with other elemental affinities
than that with which we are chiefly concerned here. Thus a broadening-out
from the central and core position of my philosophy is once again to the fore,
and other positions are accordingly revaluated and modified in the light of my
principal contentions. Also modified, in this respect, are theories
concerning life-after-death, which are now shown in a new light, not least in
relation to my philosophy of history and the subdivisions which accrue to each
of the three principal stages of civilization. I think this is one of the
factors which, in this text, has made it possible for me to be tougher on the
Catholic Church than ever before and to demonstrate, logically and rationally,
that the destiny of globalization can only be independent of both Western and
Eastern traditions, since the full-flowering of noumenal sensibility is beyond
the scope of any tradition rooted in its noumenal antithesis, no matter how
obliquely. – John O’Loughlin.
John
O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split partly
due to his mother's Aldershot origins (her father, a Presbyterian from Donegal,
had served in the British Army), he was brought to England by his mother and
grandmother (who upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter after a lengthy marital
absence from Athenry) in the mid-50s and, having had the benefit of private
tuition from a Catholic priest, subsequently attended St. Joseph's and St.
George's RC 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, he went on to attend first Barrow Hedges Primary School in
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, and then Carshalton High School for Boys in Sutton, where he
ultimately became a sixth-form prefect. Upon 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 up
to London and went on, via two short-lived jobs, one of which was at Ivor
Mairants Music Centre on Rathbone Place, to work at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of
Music in Bedford Square, where, with some prior experience himself of having
sat and passed (with merit) an ABRSM Gd.4 piano exam, he eventually became
responsible as a clerical officer for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. 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 personal factors, not the least of which had to do with the
depressing consequences of an enforced return to north London, left the
Associated Board in 1976 and began to pursue a literary vocation which, despite
a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey Managemenht Agency (within the local YMCA) in the late '80s and early
'90s, during which time he added some computer-related NVQs to his other qualifications, he has
steadfastly continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Logan's Influence (1980), Sublimated
Relations(1981), and False
Pretences (1982). 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 numerous titles of a philosophical nature,
including Devil and God
(1985–6), Towards the
Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental
Spectra (19885–9), Philosophical
Truth (19915–2) Maximum Truth (1993), The Soul of Being (1998), Point Omega Point (2002), The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction (2004), The Centre of Truth
(2009), Musings of a Superfluous Man
(2011) and, more recently, Atoms and Pseudo-Atoms (2014) and The Black Notebooks (2015).
