Welcome to the COLLECTED PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES (1977-84) of
LOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS
&
FLOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS
by John O'Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the files of which
follow the brief introduction below:-
This collection of dialogues is taken
from a variety of projects, including (besides dialogues) ones involving
essays, aphorisms and/or maxims which I wrote between 1977 and 1984, and is
therefore representative of a comparatively early phase in my philosophical
development. The subject-matter ranges
widely between mostly cultural, social and political concerns, but gradually
narrows down towards a specific ideological stance which I have equated with
Social Transcendentalism, and thus with a kind of ultimate politico-religious
orientation which is less concerned with man than with his hypothetical future
transmutation towards what has been termed the post-Human Millennium, a period
in time or, rather, eternity when man is superseded or transcended by that
which stands closer to the godly if not, in a profounder sense, to and as God
conceived in ultimate transcendental terms.
Such, in a nutshell, is the drift of this chronological collection of
dialogues, which set me on the road towards my post-dialoguistic,
not to mention post-essayistic, purely aphoristic writings and to the eventual
apotheosis of my development as a writer of philosophical-cum-theosophical
works. – John O’Loughlin.

CONTENTS
A DUALISTIC INTEGRITY
A 'WORK OF ART'
WAR AND PEACE
A QUESTION OF BELIEF
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
SPIRITUAL TRUTH FOR THIRD-STAGE MAN
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS
THE TRANSCENDENTAL FUTURE
FROM THE EGO TO THE SUPERCONSCIOUS
THE RISE OF TRANSCENDENTAL ART
THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY
TWO KINDS OF WRITER
PHILOSOPHICAL TRUTH
TOWARDS ULTIMATE ONENESS
THREE TYPES OF DECADENCE
APOLOGIA PORNOGRAPHICA
LITERARY EQUIVALENTS
A CHANGING WORLD
PROLETARIAN WRITING
THE EVOLUTION OF ART
FROM THE ALPHA ABSOLUTE TO THE OMEGA ABSOLUTE
FROM THE APPARENT TO THE ESSENTIAL
TRANSFORMATION POINTS
A FUNDAMENTAL DICHOTOMY
THE NEW SUBJECTIVITY
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE
BECOMING AND BECOME
EVOLUTIONARY STAGES
THE FREEING OF ART
OF JEWS AND ISRAELIS
FEELING AND AWARENESS
RELATIVE PERVERSION
FROM GRAVITY TO CURVED SPACE
FROM THE PERSONAL TO THE UNIVERSAL
PETTY-BOURGEOIS ART
RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION
AN ULTIMATE UNIVERSALITY
LITERARY DISTINCTIONS
FROM OLD BRAIN TO SUPERCONSCIOUS
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ARTS
CORRELATIONS IN SEX AND ART
RELIGIOUS INTEGRITIES
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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 dedicated himself exclusively 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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