Welcome to the APHORISTIC PHILOSOPHY of
THE SOUL OF BEING
by John
O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the files of
which follow the brief introductory note below:-
Conceived in chronologically
aphoristic terms, this 1998 project is nevertheless divided into twelve
sections, each of which bears a headed title in quasi-essayistic vein. Examples of such titles include 'Fair to Life', 'Collective and Individual', 'Self vis-a-vis Not-Self', 'Form and Content(ment)', and 'Metaphysical Salvation'.
There is also, at the end, a fairly long appendix which has the merit,
not uncharacteristic of my appendices, of both summing up the text and, in this
particular case, illustrating the reculer pour mieux sauter, or stepping
back in order to leap further forward, attitude which underlines much of the
foregoing philosophy. Certainly this
work goes deeper than any previous one by me ever did in terms of its
understanding of the Self and the methodology of self-actualization, or
self-realization, by which the bridge from ego to soul is crossed. – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
FAIR TO LIFE
COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL
CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS
SELF VIS-A-VIS NOT-SELF
UNSELF VIS-A-VIS NOT-UNSELF
NEGATIVITY VIS-A-VIS POSITIVITY
FORM AND CONTENTMENT
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY
FREE AND BOUND
SENSUALITY AND SENSIBILITY
SENSIBLE SUPREMACY VIS-A-VIS SENSUAL PRIMACY
METAPHYSICAL SALVATION
SUMMATIONAL APPENDIX
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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 due to ethnic and other incompatibilities (they called her 'Mary Aldershot'), he was
brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to
Ireland with intent to stay following the death of her British-based husband) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools
in Aldershot and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born grandmother,
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, where, despite an enforced change of denomination
from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into care by his mother, he attended a state school. Graduating in 1970 with an
assortment of CSE’s (Certificate of Secondary Education)
and GCE’s (General Certificate of Education),
including history and music, he moved the comparatively short distance up to London and went on, via two
short-lived jobs, to work at the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square,
where he eventually became responsible for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill
Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End
but retired from the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including
ill-health, and proceeded to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief
spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he
has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976),
An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and False Pretences (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his
true literary vocation, and penned more than sixty titles of a
philosophical nature, including Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9),
Philosophical Truth (1991-2), Maximum Truth (1993), Last (W)rites (1995), Omeganotes of an Ideological Philosopher (1996-7), and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O'Loughlin has continued, since 1974, to live at various addresses in Crouch End and Hornsey, north London, but would like, one day, to return to Ireland.
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