Welcome to the REVISED/REFORMATTED
PHILOSOPHICAL WEBLOGS of
LITERATURE AND
THE INTERCARDINAL AXIAL COMPASS
by John O'Loughlin of Centretruths Digital
Media
Links to the files of which follow the remarks below:–
This is yet a further collection of
revised and reformatted weblogs taken from a variety of sites, though
particularly my work at SearchWarp.com, where I had written material of a
philosophical nature that actually post-dates, by several months, the previous
collection listed as Beyond
Truth and Illusion (2007-8). Therefore one would have to
regard this as containing material which in most instances either goes beyond
what was achieved before or adds new subjects or, at any rate, a fresh approach
to a variety of subjects that may not have been dealt with in quiet such a
systematic or well-nigh definitive manner previously. Another thing that
most definitely distinguishes this project from the above-mentioned one is that
I was far more methodically aphoristic in my approach to the reformatting of
material that, in weblog form, was virtually essayistic and therefore unworthy,
as far as I am concerned, of a properly metaphysical connotation – something,
incidentally, that also applies to the italic-writerly presentation of ‘the
word’ in the main text and, indeed, my e-scrolls generally, which leaves the
printerly norms of weblogging far behind and thus stands as a further
justification for my having reformatted previously published material in a way
that would be commensurate with the best of my writings and with all that I, as
a self-taught metaphysical philosopher, morally and intellectually stand for. –
John O’Loughlin.
John
O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway City, 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 had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband 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 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, he 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 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 several titles of a philosophical nature,
including Devil and God
(1985–6), Towards the
Supernoumenon(1987), Elemental
Spectra (1988–9), Philosophical
Truth (1991–2) 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).
