Welcome to the PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS of

THE FALL OF LOVE

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

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The six essays included here, dating from 1979, signify a transitional stage away from the dualism of A Question of Belief (1978), my first collection of dialogues, and previous works of a mixed-genre character, including Between Truth and Illusion (1977), towards the Spenglerian historicism that, with the influence of environment upon the rise and fall of civilizations, was to characterize my literary work at around this period.  Subjects discussed in such a light include literature, music, meditation, art, urban development, and love. – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

CONTENTS

CLASSIC AND DECADENT LITERATURE

MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD

AN OUTLINE OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION

PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE

URBAN STERILITY AND THE MODERN SOUL

THE FALL OF LOVE

 

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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), 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), and Philosophical Truth (1991-2). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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