John O'Loughlin
was born in Salthill, Galway City,
the Republic of Ireland
in 1952 of mixed Irish- and British-born parents of
Irish descent. Following a parental split due to ethnic and other
incompatibilities, he was taken back to England by his mother and maternal
grandmother (who upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband had initially returned to Ireland with her daughter after a lengthy absence with
intent to stay) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in Aldershot (Hampshire),
Oakham (Rutland), and, following the death and repatriation of his Galway-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 in Sutton. Upon leaving in 1970 with an
assortment of CSEs (Certificate of Secondary
Education) and GCEs (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
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, where, after
a period as a general clerk, he eventually became responsible as a clerical officer Gd.1 for booking
ABRSM examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland. After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he had enrolled to do English and History A Levels, he returned to his former job in the West End
but left the Associated Board 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 and office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency within the local YMCA in the late 1980s and
early '90s, he has effectively continued with ever since. His novels include Changing Worlds (1976), Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Sublimated
Relations (1981), and Deceptive
Motives (1982). Since the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin
has increasingly dedicated himself to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and
has penned more than seventy titles of a philosophical nature, including The Will to Truth (1983), Devil and
God (1985-6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2), Maximum Truth (1993), Eternal Life (1995), The Soul of Being (1998), Point Omega Point (2002), Total Truth (2002), and, more recently, The Centre of Truth
(2009).
