Welcome to the MULTIGENRE PHILOSOPHY of
FUTURE TRANSFORMATIONS –
The Undiluted Truth
By John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the files of
which follow the brief preface below:-
This volume of
philosophy, combining maxims with essays and dialogues, goes way beyond the
scope of my earlier philosophical works in outlining what I contend to be the
logical stages of evolution beyond man which will have to be passed through
before definitive salvation can be achieved in a transcendent goal of evolution
... analogous to Teilhard de Chardin's ‘Omega Point’ or even to Bunyan’s
‘Celestial City’. One could say that I
have attempted to concretize Nietzschean notions concerning man's ‘overcoming’
... in respect of specific post-human stages of ensuing life. Hitherto, when I wrote about more advanced
stages of life, it was generally within the scope and definition of man. Here, by contrast, the attainment to a more
artificial stage of evolution is, ipso facto,
chronologically beyond man and thus
implicitly post-human, if not supra-human.
Such was the revolutionary break with my earlier Huxley-inspired way of
thinking which occurred in the Spring of 1982, and it is, I believe, of
momentous significance! Henceforth my
philosophical task was largely to be a refinement upon and modification of
contentions outlined here. Obviously, in
the many years that have passed since then, several changes, some of which were
quite drastic, have occurred in my overall evolutionary perspective. But the beginnings of my mature philosophical
oeuvre are to be found here, in Future Transformations,
and it was from this time onwards that I began to grow in what I like to think
of as a sort of messianic self-awareness. – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS AND INTRODUCTION
MAXIMS
FUTURE TRANSFORMATIONS
IRISH AND ENGLISH
A TEASING PARADOX
MILLENNIAL THOUGHTS
POST-DUALISTIC SEXUALITY
TOWARDS A TRUE EQUALITY
CONCERNING TRANSCENDENTALISM
MUSICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
SAFEGUARDING FREEDOM
PROTONS AND ELECTRONS
TWO KINDS OF DEPENDENCE
MATERIALISTS AND SPIRITUALISTS
A CHANGING WORLD
PROLETARIAN WRITING
THE EVOLUTION OF ART
FROM THE ALPHA TO THE OMEGA
FROM THE APPARENT TO THE ESSENTIAL
TRANSFORMATION POINTS
A FUNDAMENTAL DICHOTOMY
THE NEW SUBJECTIVITY
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John James 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, Oakham, and, following the death and repatriation of his 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),
Cross-Purposes (1979), Thwarted Ambitions (1980), Sublimated Relations
(1981), and Deceptive Motives (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his
true literary vocation, and has penned more than sixty titles of a
philosophical nature, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards
the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9),
Philosophical Truth (1991-2), and, more recently, The Centre of Truth (2009). John O’Loughlin
is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.
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