Welcome to the PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES of

THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY TO

THE TRANSCENDENTAL FUTURE

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

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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 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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