Böcker av John O'Loughlin

A collection of fairly random thoughts transformed into a hundred aphoristic units that continue from where the author's previous eBook, D(r)ead Ends, left off, thereby rounding-off many aspects of his mature philosophical thinking, an example of which is: 'Thoughts are what you cause to happen in your mind; notes are the effect of those thoughts transcribed to a receptive medium, like paper or a computer screen, which can then be read, whether narcissistically by yourself or curiously by someone else for purposes best known to themselves.' Need one say more? - A Centretruths Editorial

In Volume 2 of John O'Loughlin's collected supernotational philosophy project, he has combined material deriving from the pre-published the titles Critique of Post-Dialectical Idealism, Philosophical Truth, Veritas Philosophicus, and Last Judgements, which span the period 1989-93, allowing him to bring some kind of strict chronology to bear on a series of writings dubbed 'supernotational', to distinguish them from essays on the one hand and strictly aphoristic or maximistic material on the other, thereby establishing a kind of intermediate position between essays and aphorisms in the interests of what became a gradual progression towards an enhanced sense of philosophical logic commensurate, so we believe, with 'Supertruth' and, ultimately, a kind of plateau of aphoristic purism which took shape in the ensuing years. - A Centretruths editorial

In Volume 1 of a projected two-volume philosophy project, author John O'Loughlin has combined material deriving from the pre-published titles Devil and God, From Materialism to Idealism, Towards the Supernoumenon, and Elemental Spectra, all of which, now revised and restructured, date from the mid-late 1980s, with a view to bringing some kind of strict chronology to bear on a series of writings that he dubs 'supernotational', to distinguish them from essays on the one hand and strictly aphoristic material on the other, thereby treading a kind of transitional route between essays and aphorisms in the interests of what became a gradual progression towards an enhanced sense of philosophical logic commensurate, so he believes, with 'Supertruth' and, ultimately, with a kind of plateau of aphoristic purism. - A Centretruths editorial

This is the latest and, so the author believes, last of his mainly philosophical projects, being the 158th title in his list of original works, and, as such, it stands at the pinnacle of his literary oeuvre in what he holds to be a logically definitive presentation of philosophical and even religious truth such that no previous writer/thinker has got anywhere near, never mind bettered! So be careful how you judge yourself in approaching this work, for it is not for everyman, but only for those who can recognize and respect Truth. - A Centretruths editorial

This is without doubt the crowning glory of John O'Loughlin's philosophical quest to nail things as comprehensively and logically as possible, and in that respect it even surpasses his loose trilogy of 'Thoughts', from Notable Thoughts and Quotable Thoughts to Final Thoughts that preceded it, thereby concluding his thinking on the most comprehensively exacting of logical and structural terms, compared to which he has no peers, least of all in the English-speaking world into which he fits rather uncomfortably as an intellectual and spiritual outsider who has never compromised his way of thinking or sought the approval of the intellectual establishment, or so-called intelligentsia, for whom, in any case, he has nothing but contempt. - A Centretruths editorial

The final aphoristic project in John O'Loughlin's sequence of 'Thought' books, from Notable Thoughts to Quotable Thoughts and even Thoughts (as a combination of the previous two titles), Final Thoughts is indeed the ultimate such book, in that it wraps-up the author's philosophy on the most logically and structurally definitive terms, bringing it to a resounding conclusion which consummately vindicates his decades-long commitment to the pursuit of logical certainty or, in general parlance, philosophical truth. In sum, this is a book for the philosophical purist. - A Centretruths Editorial

This title, whose 'end' is meant to signify 'goal', brings John O'Loughlin's theorizing to a very absolutist head that refines upon the pluralistic consistency of what had preceded it, in earlier titles, in relation to what he calls 'the administrative aside to and triadic Beyond of Kingdom Come'. For the trend of globalization towards what could be called a unitive peak in a more genuine universality at the expense of both Western and Eastern traditions alike presages a transcendentalist resolution which cannot but be equally, if not more, absolutist, and thus beyond both humanist/nonconformist relativity and fundamentalist absolutism. Such, then, is the import of this work of aphoristic philosophy as it develops its revolutionary message for the proletariat and appears to enter into a more complete solidarity with proletarian internationalism, albeit of a non-Marxist character, than might formerly have been expected from this author, even as recently as a few years ago. In this respect, too, it signifies a worthy component in the long struggle for Truth which has characterized his oeuvre, both here and elsewhere over several decades of consistent philosophizing, with the end of a revolutionary transformation of society always in mind. - A Centretruths editorial

The four books of aphoristic philosophy that constitute 'The Free Testament Quartet' date from 2003-4 and signify a further advance of John O'Loughlin's metaphysical philosophy beyond 'The Radical Progress Quartet' (2003), albeit with similar structural and thematic material. - A Centretruths editorial

Following on from 'The Apocalypso Quartet' (2003), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume the titles 'Radical Progress', 'Stairway to Judgement', 'A Perfect Resolution', and 'The Last Judgement', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both eBook and paperback formats. Brought together, however, the continuity in John O'Loughlin's philosophical development at around this time becomes once again both more accessible and intelligible, enabling one to follow the evolution of his thought processes from book to book in what is one of a number of such literary 'quartets', in which a loosely aphoristic structure serves as the appropriate methodology underlining his mainly metaphysical approach to philosophy, which is not, however, without discursive interest of a political or social or even ideological nature. - A Centretruths editorial

Having already published short stories or, as author John O'Loughlin (with his philosophical bias) prefer to call them, 'short prose' in two volumes of 'Collected Short Prose', viz. Two Sides of the Same Coin & Tales Side Up, the former of which included, as per custom back then, an aphoristic appendix, he has latterly decided to republish them in one volume (minus the aphorisms) for convenience's sake, in the interests, one might say, of structural and thematic continuity, together with a certain prosy purism that sets definite bounds to the scope and style of the contents, dovetailed, as they are, into a somewhat voluminous but nonetheless highly accessible project whose material spans the period 1976-84, during which virtually all of this author's fictional writings, including several novels, or works of 'long prose', were written. - A Centretruths editorial

These abstract poems, which John O'Loughlin prefers to call 'superpoems' and tends to regard as a species of poetic word art if not sculpture with a quasi-biomorphic twist, aren't intended to be read but simply ... contemplated. They are not concerned with the expression of a literary sentiment, ideal, or opinion, but solely with the creation of a poetic impression. Thus they are purely abstract and intimate, no matter how simply or humbly, of a divine prospect, a truly transcendent order. For ordered they assuredly are, and this is what elevates them above the merely anarchic status of expressionistic abstraction. - A Centretruths editorial

Following on from 'No Man-oeuvre' (2003), this project, with its punned title, takes a closer look at people's civilization as it bears upon the development of globalization, and distinguishes between national and international forms of 'people's ideology' in a way that seeks to demonstrate that even here a 'gender war' is in operation which pits not only Fascism against Communism and Socialism against Capitalism, but the female forms of Fascism and Socialism against their male counterparts and, conversely, the male forms of Capitalism and Communism against their female counterparts, with interesting implications for the future development of ideology, as bearing upon the most logically desirable outcome of such dialectical struggles in relation to the most universally credible form of globalization. As a corollary of this, one is left in no doubt that the people who count for most within the framework of globalization are more likely to be atheistically opposed to traditional or conventional religion than staunch believers in their deities and even in such flawed notions as the Second Coming, their own entitlement to godliness - and hence religion - being a matter of future judgement when they are able to come into their religious own in consequence of their willingness to take their global destiny to its universal conclusion. - A Centretruths editorial

If there's such a thing as a literary resurrection, then this must surely be it, since it combines the two novels originally written by John O'Loughlin in 1982, viz. False Pretences and Post-Atomic Integrities, in a way that transcends their independent publications and fairly creates a new project closer in spirit to how he thinks and writes in 2022, with a revised structure and a number of textural modifications of the kind likely to constitute a more credible technical outcome, some forty years later, than was formerly the case. - A Centretruths editorial

Originally dating from 1996 but republished 2020 in a revised version, 'Omega Maxims' is a further instalment of the aphoristic purism to which John O'Loughlin had last committed his pen with 'Occasional Maxims & Maximum Occasions' (1994-5), and constitutes, with over 1000 maxims, what he holds to be the best work of its kind prior to the companion volume 'Maximum Omega', which is probably his finest collection of maxims, doing more justice to Truth, or metaphysical knowledge, than virtually any of his previous works. In fact, here at last, with this collection of 575 maxims, is what could be called Mr O'Loughlin's 'magnum omega', bringing to completion, in this particular genre, his long quest for philosophical perfection through what is arguably the most ideologically advanced and logically rigorous philosophy ever constructed. - A Centretruths editorial

This aphoristic philosophy project carries on the task begun earlier (see 'Eschatology or Scatology') of highlighting the distinctions between Social Theocracy and Social Democracy, though always from a perspective favouring the former, and brings a fresh sense of exactitude to bear on a number of terms which have either been used interchangeably or in a more general way by the author in the past, while simultaneously developing a comprehensively exacting 'take' on what appertains to free psyche and bound soma on the one hand, and what, by contrast, appertains to free soma and bound psyche on the other, so that one need be in no doubt that criteria applicable to the former are largely, if not completely, irrelevant to the latter. - A Centretruths editorial

Drawn from several prior publications, this definitive collection of John O'Loughlin's rhymed and unrhymed poetry, to distinguish it from his abstract poetry and/or poetic word art, dates from the early 1970s and reveals the slow growth out of a conventionally youthful romanticism of a philosophical-cum-ideological approach to poetry which became characteristic of his literary works in the 1980s, as though transitional to an uninhibitedly philosophical phase of writings to come which would leave even philosophical literature, including short prose, severely in the intellectual lurch! - A Centretruths editorial

This book of aphoristic philosophy, divided into four evenly-structured cyclical parts, takes a closer look at such age-old questions as to whether mind precedes matter or matter mind and answers them in a way that does equal justice to both, as well as throwing new light upon the religious distinction between 'the Father' and 'the Son' which amounts to a complete rejection of the author's previous standpoint and a reappraisal of their respective standings on the basis of a logically incontrovertible insight such that he had been building towards all along, not least in relation to the dissimilar ratios and levels of significance attaching to soma and psyche according to gender. It is 'Alpha and Omega' above all other books to-date by John O'Loughlin that, when the contents of all four parts have been taken into account and their conclusions carefully analysed, will expose the humbug of conventional wisdom and morally challenge all who would stand in the way of evolutionary progress and seek to undermine that very sharp distinction, as the author understands it, between right and wrong, honesty and cowardice, sincerity and hypocrisy, truth and lies. - A Centretruths editorial

Although structurally and thematically similar to 'At the Crossroads of Axial Divergence' (2003), comprised, as ever, of aphoristic notes, this work represents a quantum leap forward in certain areas which are explored more accurately and rigorously by the author than before, progressing from a consideration of the distinctions between sacred and profane ego to the cultural and political differences between Europe and America, and of how Britain's attraction towards America undermines Europe and creates problems which even France cannot avoid being affected by, much as France differs from Britain in respect of its cultural and political traditions and should be judged, we believe, by criteria closer, in essence, to those obtaining in countries like Ireland, where the influence of the Catholic Church is traditionally more omnipresent. - A Centretruths editorial

This book would seem to confirm that intellectual progress happens by degrees and is a long and often tortuous process during the course of which new insights and logical configurations come to light which enable one to readdress an old contention or, in this case, bone of contention, to a more satisfactory resolution ... and it is to John O'Loughlin's cyclical credit that he has been able to recycle old material and, with due modifications, fashion something new, not least in respect of a more developed concept of religious freedom which will require the ideological subordination and even democratic superseding of certain political freedoms if globalization is ultimately to emerge in a more credibly universal guise - a contention which, although touched upon in his work before, here achieves something approaching a conclusive presentation. - A Centretruths editorial

Even by John O'Loughlin's unique structurally-exacting philosophical standards, as exemplified not least by the previous title 'Stations of the Supercross', this is an exceptionally-demanding work, the logical comprehensiveness of which actually surpasses, on a more radical basis, the best of what has already been achieved in the aforementioned title, largely with the benefit of a number of theoretical modifications which have been brought to bear on the overall fourfold frameworks which, as before, encompass both atoms and pseudo-atoms in any given pairing, or 'complementarity', to use the author's preferred term, which may be presumed to exist in axial polarity with either a noumenal or a phenomenal, an ethereal or a corporeal, counterpart within both what he calls church-hegemonic and state-hegemonic parameters. - A Centretruths editorial

Conceived on a similar aphoristic basis to 'Ethnic Universality' (2002), its immediate precursor, this title, with its pun on manoeuvre, lays down the case for godly rights in relation to the development of globalization towards its universal summation, and contends, with the aid of comprehensively logical structures which stretch through the Elements (in general terms) from cosmic and natural to human and divine (cyborgistic), that since godliness has still not attained to its per se manifestation, there is no reason to regard such godliness as has and does obtain as the end of the religious road but, rather, to understand how religion still has to develop beyond its traditional structures if God, or godkind, is to supersede and, in a sense, supplant man, or mankind, as the logical outcome of historical development and, indeed, of evolution in general. To that end, it has been the intent of 'No Man-oeuvre' to debunk conventional religion, both Western and especially Eastern, in order to demonstrate that all established religions leave something to be desired from the standpoint of true universality in relation to the final development of religion, of soulful totalitarianism, on genuinely global terms. - A Centretruths editorial

This project is comprised of four books of maxims and aphorisms in one volume, all of which (previously published separately) have a metaphysical bias which becomes progressively more pronounced. Originally dating from 1993, the year in which John O'Loughlin first began to systematically write in such a concise style, albeit one that is fairly loose and, at times, even discursively relaxed in its approach to philosophical truth, the individual titles of this volume underwent extensive revision in 2020 and are now effectively all-of-a-piece in what is, by any stretch of the imagination, a monumental achievement. - A Centretruths editorial

Combining maxims and aphorisms with essays and dialogues, this work goes beyond the scope of John O'Loughlin's previous philosophical projects, including 'Future Transformations' (1982), in both its form and content, opening out towards a post-atomic future in what amounts to an entirely new civilization. Subjects include the direction of literature in the civilization to come; the transitional nature of contemporary literature; revelations concerning future life-forms and their relationship to what is called the Ultimate Creation; the nature of divine love in relation to other types of love and its bearing on Messianic credibility; antithetical equivalents - such as birds and planes or horses and motorbikes - in the evolution of human and other life; how the State 'withers' and why; the paradoxical allegiance of Christian pagans, or so-called Christians whose loyalty is rather more to the Creator than to Christ; and transcendental transvaluations in a world that has largely turned its back on nature. - A Centretruths editorial

This title does not paint a particularly flattering picture of Anglo-American relations vis-à-vis Europe as a whole and the world in general, but strives to show not merely how but why the United Kingdom is a problem for Europe and the prospect of greater European integration. However, all problems tend to invite solutions, and the author's own solution to the problem of the UK vis-à-vis Europe in general but Ireland in particular draws on his ideological legacy as a self-proclaimed Social Theocrat who, like the French philosopher Michel Foucault, is not only ranged against an overly Social Democratic 'take' on progress, but has an alternative path to offer which owes a lot more to European tradition than ever it does to the long-standing opponents of that tradition, who would be amongst the last peoples, as things stand, to either understand or be able to tread this new path which, so the author contends, is the path to universal harmony and therefore of an end to national divisions, not least those fostered upon economic self-interest. - A Centretruths editorial

If the essayistic aphorisms and aphoristic essays of the eight volumes of so-called 'supernotes' which preceded this title are of indeterminate length, then what follows here, dating from 1993, is of an aphoristic purism which allows for little or no deviation from the basic form. One could say that their author had attained to something approximating the light(ness) of Truth at this point, and the result is a vindication not only of what had preceded it, but of his entire philosophical quest to-date. Comprised of 707 maxims which have been given 'a/b' subdivisions, 'Maximum Truth' succeeds in achieving, albeit on a still-far from definitive basis, the sort of metaphysical comprehensiveness towards which John O'Loughlin had been struggling all along. One could say that it signifies a refinement upon the aforementioned 'supernotational' writings; though the tendency to recycle ideas in modified guise, by now a veritable principle of his work, persists here to even greater effect, insofar as it was this technique which made the subsequent attainment of what, punning aside, is in some respects a maximum degree of metaphysical truth truly possible. Following on from the above, however, its companion volume, 'Truthful Maxims', which is also comprised of 707 numbered maxims, was written on a slightly more straightforward, though no less truth-intensive basis, and extends beyond much if not most of the material contained in its precursor. - A Centretruths editorial

Following on from 'The Ethnic Universality Quartet' (2002), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'The Virtuous Circles', 'The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom', 'Apotheosis of the Gnosis', and 'Eschatology or Scatology - Judgement at the Crossroads', all of which are also independently available as free-standing titles in both eBook and paperback formats. Brought together, however, the continuity in John O'Loughlin's philosophical development at around this time (2003) becomes once again both more accessible and intelligible, enabling one to follow the evolution of his thought processes from book to book in what is one of a number of such literary 'quartets' in which a loosely aphoristic structure serves as the appropriate methodology underlining his mainly metaphysical approach to philosophy that is not, however, without discursive interest of a political or social or even ideological, not to mention scatological, nature. - A Centretruths editorial

As suggested by the title, this aphoristic philosophy project has a concept of progress which is radical and far-reaching in its social implications, albeit in relation to the sphere of religion rather than economics, which is the only sphere, so far as John O'Loughlin is concerned, which can be genuinely progressive, provided, however, that the religion itself is genuine and therefore transcendentalist, stemming, as argued in the text, from an anti-humanist precondition. - A Centretruths editorial

Here at last, in this four-part work, is the actual omega point of John O'Loughlin's philosophical oeuvre so far as the achievement of a definitive insight into the relationship of freedom to binding, in both sensual and sensible contexts, is concerned, with an enhanced sense of the distinction between a variety of terms that may previously have been used interchangeably or even as equivalents by him. Here, too, he can safely claim to have done more justice to the conflicting relationships between the individual and society than in previous books, as well as developed a superior understanding as to the desirability of universal culture in the service of genuine religion for a world that needs to reject its factual and/or illusory shortcomings, if civilization is to attain to its omega point in the blessedness of sensible freedom and be truly at peace with itself. - A Centretruths editorial

With this aphoristic quartet, dating from 2004-5, a phase of John O'Loughlin's writing comes to an end as a kind of consummation of his philosophical endeavour to-date, and this is especially so of the final book, 'Jesus - A Summing Up!', the appendix to which paves the way for the weblogs that were to ensue from 2005 onwards through a succession of blog hosts and, following due revision and reformatting, a new approach to eBook and electronically-derived paperback creation that has continued to the present time, with further refinements of and modifications to the philosophy outlined both here and in previous titles. - A Centretruths editorial.

For those who prefer their poetry philosophical and effectively cyclical, divided into a number of books that retain their original numerical order, then this volume, dating from 1982-5, is probably the one for you, since it is stylistically and thematically consistent, and provides an omega-orientated ideological complement to the philosophical works written by John O'Loughlin during the early to mid-1980s. - A Centretruths editorial