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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transmutation towards what has been termed the post-Human Millennium, a period in time or, rather, eternity when man is superseded or transcended by that which stands closer to the godly if not, in a profounder sense, to and as God conceived in ultimate transcendental terms.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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