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Welcome to the CYCLICAL APHORISTIC PHILOSOPHY of
THE PROMISE OF ‘KINGDOM
COME’
by John
O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
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which follow the remarks below:–
Similar to The Totality of Nature (2000) in structure, but more consciously tailored by me
to the space limitations of audio CD transcription, this work proceeds through
nine cycles of spiralling aphorisms with titles ranging from 'The Wisdom of Sensible Truth' to 'Saving and/or Damning from the World'. Not all of it, however, is profoundly
philosophic, and some lighter material is certainly provided by 'Bottles, Cans, and Beakers', arguably one of my most thought-provoking if not, with its
informal logic, mind-boggling cycles! – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
THE WISDOM OF SENSIBLE TRUTH
LITERARY PARALLELS TO SALVATION AND DAMNATION
SOME TIMELY REVALUATIONS
NATURAL SUBDIVISIONS OF SENSUALITY AND SENSIBILITY
THE NEED FOR REVOLUTIONARY TRANSVALUATIONS
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
THE PROMISE OF 'KINGDOM COME'
BOTTLES, CANS, AND BEAKERS
SAVING AND DAMNING FROM THE WORLD
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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 following the death of her Aldershot-based husband after a lengthy marital absence) in the mid-50s and 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 with Hill House Children's Home by his mother upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-conservative Athenry grandmother, he then 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.
After a brief flirtation with history-orientated further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he was then living (Merstham), 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 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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