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Welcome to the COLLECTED PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES (1977–84) of

LOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS

FLOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS

by John O'Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

Links to the files of which follow the brief introduction below:–

This collection of dialogues is taken from a variety of projects, including (besides dialogues) ones involving essays, aphorisms and/or maxims 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 and political 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transmutation towards what has been termed the post-Human Millennium, a period in time or, rather, eternity when man is superseded or transcended by that which stands closer to the godly if not, in a profounder sense, to and as God conceived in ultimate transcendental terms. Such, in a nutshell, is the drift of this chronological collection of dialogues, which set me on the road towards my post-dialoguistic, not to mention post-essayistic, purely aphoristic writings and to the eventual apotheosis of my development as a writer of philosophical-cum-theosophical works. – John O’Loughlin.

CONTENTS

A DUALISTIC INTEGRITY

A 'WORK OF ART'

WAR AND PEACE

A QUESTION OF BELIEF

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

SPIRITUAL TRUTH FOR THIRD-STAGE MAN

ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS

THE TRANSCENDENTAL FUTURE

FROM THE EGO TO THE SUPERCONSCIOUS

THE RISE OF TRANSCENDENTAL ART

THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY

TWO KINDS OF WRITER

PHILOSOPHICAL TRUTH

TOWARDS ULTIMATE ONENESS

THREE TYPES OF DECADENCE

APOLOGIA PORNOGRAPHICA

LITERARY EQUIVALENTS

A CHANGING WORLD

PROLETARIAN WRITING

THE EVOLUTION OF ART

FROM THE ALPHA ABSOLUTE TO THE OMEGA ABSOLUTE

FROM THE APPARENT TO THE ESSENTIAL

TRANSFORMATION POINTS

A FUNDAMENTAL DICHOTOMY

THE NEW SUBJECTIVITY

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE

BECOMING AND BECOME

EVOLUTIONARY STAGES

THE FREEING OF ART

OF JEWS AND ISRAELIS

FEELING AND AWARENESS

RELATIVE PERVERSION

FROM GRAVITY TO CURVED SPACE

FROM THE PERSONAL TO THE UNIVERSAL

PETTY-BOURGEOIS ART

RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION

AN ULTIMATE UNIVERSALITY

LITERARY DISTINCTIONS

FROM OLD BRAIN TO SUPERCONSCIOUS

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ARTS

CORRELATIONS IN SEX AND ART

RELIGIOUS INTEGRITIES

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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 and, upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother and an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, Carshalton, Surrey. Upon leaving secondary 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 Britain and ireland. 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 Associated Board 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), Deceptive Motives (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 (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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