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Continuing from where The Soul of Being left off, this further
text in my philosophical or, as I now prefer to think of it, superphilosophical
(theosophical?) journey – Opus 73 in an oeuvre of some 122 chronological texts
– brings us, via twenty-three headed sections numbered afresh in each case, to
'The Core of the Self', the 'Holy Grail' of self-fulfilment which lies at
journey's end as its heavenly reward.
Although principally concerned, like the previous text, with the self,
this work does more justice to the totality of the self, including, for
virtually the first time, the id, which it analyses both in relation to the
self as a whole and to modern society, with particular reference to the
West. The id, however, is not the 'Holy
Grail' of self-fulfilment for me but, rather, the antithesis to the soul which
needs to be guarded against and, if possible, transcended in favour of that
path which truly leads to the aforementioned 'Core of the Self'. Let the reader judge for himself as to the
success of my journey and the sincerity of my conclusions! – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
SEASONAL ARTS
PRINTING VIS-A-VIS WRITING
SELF VIS-A-VIS BRAIN
SUBDIVISIONS OF THE SELF
THE LIE OF EQUALITY
THE LIE OF THE HEART
A BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
THE BROTHERHOOD OF SUPERMEN
PROFANE AND SACRED
FROM APPEARANCE TO ESSENCE
LIFE AFTER DEATH
GIVING UP THE GHOST
PROFANITY AND SANCTITY REVISITED
VARIOUS TRINITIES
ATOMIC AND SUBATOMIC MEANS
EXTREMES OF THE SELF
OF IDIOTS AND EGOISTS
SELF AND ANTISELF
COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS IN CLASS AND GENDER
SEXUALITY AND THE ID
TOWARDS A GAELIC FEDERATION
VOICE OF THE SELF
THE CORE OF THE SELF
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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 upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband had initially returned to Ireland after a lengthy marital absence) 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 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. Upon leaving the latter 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 examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland for the Board's several examiners.
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 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 successive 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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