Welcome to the APHORISTIC PHILOSOPHY of

THE SOUL OF BEING

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

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Conceived in chronologically aphoristic terms, this 1998 project is nevertheless divided into twelve sections, each of which bears a headed title in quasi-essayistic vein.  Examples of such titles include 'Fair to Life', 'Collective and Individual', 'Self vis-à-vis Not-Self', 'Form and Content(ment)', and 'Metaphysical Salvation'.  There is also, at the end, a fairly long appendix which has the merit, not uncharacteristic of my appendices, of both summing up the text and, in this particular case, illustrating the reculer pour mieux sauter, or stepping back in order to leap further forward, attitude which underlines much of the foregoing philosophy.  Certainly this work goes deeper than any previous one by me ever did in terms of its understanding of the Self and the methodology of self-actualization, or self-realization, by which the bridge from ego to soul is crossed. – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

 

CONTENTS

FAIR TO LIFE

COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL

CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS

SELF VIS-A-VIS NOT-SELF

UNSELF VIS-A-VIS NOT-UNSELF

NEGATIVITY VIS-A-VIS POSITIVITY

FORM AND CONTENTMENT

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY

FREE AND BOUND

SENSUALITY AND SENSIBILITY

SENSIBLE SUPREMACY VIS-A-VIS SENSUAL PRIMACY

METAPHYSICAL SALVATION

SUMMATIONAL APPENDIX

 

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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 Best of All Possible Worlds (2008). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

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