Welcome to the PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES of
THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY
TO
THE TRANSCENDENTAL FUTURE
by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media
Links to the files of
which follow the brief introduction below:-
This
collection of philosophical writings, dating from 1980, begins with an
introductory essay and progresses through several lengthy dialogues, including
some originally written in the winter of 1981-82 (available as a separate volume with eSnips) which are both stylistically
and thematically more evolved than their earlier counterparts (also available as a separate volume [see below]). Subjects
tackled include spiritual truth, environmental transformations, the concept of
a transcendental future, psychic evolution, the rise of transcendentalism in
art, the significance of spiritual development to the nature of philosophical
truth, the unitary goal of evolution, different types of decadence, and the
parallels between literary figures like Henry Miller and Malcolm
Muggeridge. Also featured, as per custom
for me at this period, is a sort of aphoristic appendix, which both subsumes
and expands on a variety of the subjects under discussion. In sum, The Importance of Technology to
the Transcendental Future is a far from definitive but, nonetheless,
highly-engaging and sometimes mind-boggling debate on a variety of
controversial issues! – John O’Loughlin.
CONTENTS
THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE
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
APHORISMS
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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, 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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