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Originally dating from 2002, this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'Ethnic Universality', 'No Man-Oeuvre', 'The High-Way of Truth', and 'The End of Evolution', 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 this time becomes both more accessible and intelligible, enabling one to follow the evolution of his thought from book to book in what is one of a number of such 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 nature. - A Centretruths editorial

Originally dating from 1994, 'Occasional Maxims' is composed of some 323 notational maxims of variable length and quality, most of which are nonetheless significantly more complex than anything previously attempted by John O'Loughlin, with subjects ranging, as usual, right across his philosophical spectrum, from science and politics to economics and religion. On the other hand, 'Maximum Occasions', comprised of over 170 maxims of which not a few are virtually essayistic in length, is in effect largely a refutation of its companion volume ... as we move from a philosophical bias to one that is effectively theosophical or, at any rate, less concerned with knowledge and more concerned with truth, and develop, in the process, an enhanced sense of logic which both contrasts with and complements a number of the earlier contentions. - A Centretruths editorial

As suggested by its title, this aphoristic philosophy project explores the distinctions between what have been termed the 'bureaucratic-theocratic axis' of a rising diagonal and the 'autocratic-democratic axis' of a falling one, and does so in such a way that there can be no doubt as to the outcome of each axial progression, whether it be in respect of Social Theocracy or Social Democracy, with eschatological implications which give a contemporary twist to the concept of 'Judgement' and the consequences of what is at stake in any contest between the two axes, the divergent natures of which have been more comprehensively fleshed out here than in the preceding title, 'Apocalypso' (2003). But as anyone familiar with that project will agree, there can be only one path for the self-respecting Righteous to follow, and such a path leads up and in rather than down and out. - A Centretruths editorial

This title, dating from 2013 and revised 2020, is divisible into 24 sections all but one of which - the last - is of a largely aphoristic character suitable to the continuation of the author's philosophy into new realms of metaphysical speculation and, indeed, logic, with one or two modifications of earlier theories supplementing what is largely original new material, including, for the sake of variety, some poetic fancies and not a little autobiography of both a personal and circumstantial nature. The exception alluded to above has less to do with this, however, than with a short story that rounds off the project, and does so with reference to the title chosen for the work as a whole - one particularly relevant to what is a story based in fact that happened several decades ago while John O'Loughlin was still a boy. - A Centretruths editorial

Immediately following on from 'The Virtuous Circles Quartet' (2003), this 'quartet' of philosophical writings brings into one chronologically convenient volume 'Apocalypso - The New Revelation', 'At the Crossroads of Axial Divergence', 'Opti-mystic Projections', and 'Unflattering Conclusions', 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, not to mention scatological, nature! - A Centretruths editorial

This title in John O'Loughlin's ever-advancing oeuvre achieves a comprehensive understanding and delineation of both the convolutional realities of female hegemonic contexts, regarded as vicious circles, and the involutional realities or, rather, idealities of male hegemonic contexts, regarded as virtuous circles, and therefore as bearing upon the title in terms of a positive alternative to and solution of the problem, from a male standpoint, of the 'vicious circles' which are established whenever somatic freedoms take precedence over their psychic counterparts, as in all heathenistic or, in contemporary parlance, secular societies. It is also notable in its understanding of the distinctions between binding and pseudo-freedom as a precondition of genuine freedom, whether for better, in respect of psyche, or for worse, in respect of soma. - A Centretruths editorial

This is undoubtedly one of John O'Loughlin's most significant projects, and should provide more than enough ideological sustenance to those who, from ethnic predilections, can be expected to be disposed to Social Theocracy and its promise of a better outcome to the historical process than could be envisaged from standpoints axially at variance with church-hegemonic traditions. Father Omega may not be a Catholic priest, but he is certainly someone for whom the promise of metaphysical redemption continues to ring true, and now more than ever. - A Centretruths editorial

Unlike John O'Loughlin's first collection of abstract poems, simply called 'Abstracts' (1983), this later project, divided into three volumes with a total of nearly 400 poems, is non-readerly and hence abstract in a patterned and completely formal way such that requires nothing more than contemplation, as suggested by the title, of its lower-case monosyllabic structures. One could argue that these abstract poems, which the author regards as a form of 'word art' or, better, 'word sculpture', are primarily intended to assist one in developing a contemplative frame-of-mind at the expense of readerly norms, thereby transcending the intellect in what could be regarded as a mode of literary salvation. - A Centretruths editorial.

The 'world' as defined in the ensuing text is no simple monolith, where the people are concerned, but is divisible between those who take 'the earth' for granted in what has been described as a democratic/plutocratic type of worldly bias and those, on the contrary, who live in hope of salvation from 'the world' in what has been called a bureaucratic/meritocratic type of worldly bias which, scorning 'the earth', is avowedly anti-earthly in character and the precondition, through sin, of heavenly grace. Therefore, split asunder between two types of worldly society, the people cannot be evaluated according to any one set of criteria, but have to be differentiated on the basis of whether they appertain to the one manifestation of 'the world' or to the other, with contrary fates in both state and church, as described in this, the author's most ideologically conclusive and ethnically sensitive text to-date. - A Centretruths editorial

In this title, a conclusive account of morality, in all its various permutations, has been undertaken and resolved; though only that morality which is logically likely to lead to or encompass 'the best of all possible worlds' (independently of Voltaire) has been ideologically endorsed, together with its corresponding unmorality - a term which aptly describes the correlative, if subordinate, gender position in this ideal world dominated, so to speak, by metaphysics. - A Centretruths editorial

This collection of mainly philosophical poems, written during 1982, may serve to confirm that John O'Loughlin had considerably deepened his approach to and concept of poetry since 1973-4, principally with those poems included in the poetry and prose compilation 'From the Beginning', and the result should not prove displeasing to anyone who would prefer to see him primarily as a philosopher (albeit an unashamedly self-taught one) who occasionally dabbles in other things, including poetry.

This largely philosophical title represents not merely a summation of John O'Loughlin's philosophy to-date but a radical overhaul of some of the theories he had previously taken for granted as logically definitive, and to an extent that the exacting comprehensiveness of his logical structures here attains to something approaching an apotheosis in what must surely be the most advanced analysis of the atomic and pseudo-atomic components of his theorizing humanly possible. One reads this book at one's peril; for, quite apart from the structural complexities of its theorizing, there is no coming back from the conclusions it reaches on the most exactingly comprehensive logical terms and, for the author, it would seem there are few if any further philosophical revisions or thematic advances still to be made. - A Centretruths editorial

This substantial collection of aphorisms and maxims is taken from a variety of projects, including ones containing essays and dialogues, which John O'Loughlin wrote between 1977 and 1984, and is therefore representative of a comparatively early stage in his philosophical development which is, nonetheless, not without significance to the subsequent course of his evolution as an original thinker whose contribution to metaphysics and concomitant ideological insights should not be underestimated. - A Centretruths editorial

This project is a combination of two other works, viz. 'The Transcendental Future' (1980), and 'The Way of Evolution' (1981), and therefore dates from 1980-81, a time when John O'Loughlin had just turned away from the Spenglerian historicism of what had preceded it towards a more optimistic outlook on life or, at any rate, on the prospect of evolutionary progress based around an orientation towards, in de Chardinesque terminology, the omega-point of things, which he has identified with transcendentalism. - A Centretruths editorial

What the author wanted with this title, which derives from the fact that he alternated between green- and orange-covered notebooks during its composition, was a framework that allowed him to think and write freely without making concessions to political overtones of an ethnically-biased Irish nature, and somehow he has succeeded, even at this comparatively late stage in his literary vocation, in both correcting a fairly long-standing philosophic error of logic in his thought and extending his philosophy to embrace an entirely new perspective which he believes to be of seminal importance in both understanding and defining contemporary civilization as an extension of Western civilization, whether or not one relates to it or has any ancestral connections with its development over the centuries. - A Centretruths editorial

One can take humble or vulgar terms, including slang or casual obscenity, and seek to develop them philosophically in such a way that, through logical structuring, things come to light that would otherwise probably have remained buried and hidden from view. Sometimes it were better that such things did remain buried. If, however, one can bear to contemplate and grow to understand them better, then the reward is not insubstantial but arguably well-worth the trouble! So it has been here, and in this further instalment of homogeneously-structured aphoristic texts John O'Loughlin has come full-circle, as it were, and highlighted a significant distinction between the two types of people's radicalism which all those of an unworldly persuasion have to choose between, often unconsciously and according to the kind of society or civilization in which they find themselves or to which they ethnically relate - namely the Social Theocracy of the high road and the Social Democracy of the low road, the former incontrovertibly determined to bring one aspect of the world to Heaven, the latter just as incontrovertibly determined, in the author's estimation, to bring a neo-diabolic mode of Hell to the other aspect of the world; though to find out which is which you'll have to read this title and thus undertake a journey the likes of which you will never, in all probability, have taken before, one which may even overtake your prior expectations and leave you marvelling at the situation in which you then find yourself, for better or worse! - A Centretruths editorial

John O'Loughlin first got the idea of writing a number of philosophical dialogues in 1978 from reading the French philosopher Diderot, one of the masters of the genre, and the results, several weeks later, were four fairly lengthy philosophical dialogues, which enabled him to continue developing the dualistic theories of his earlier excursions into philosophy. The six essays also included in this composite project, originally dating from the following year, signify a transitional stage away from the dualism of the dialogues towards the Spenglerian historicism that, with the quasi-Marxist influence of environment upon the rise and fall of civilizations, was to characterize Mr O'Loughlin's literary work at around this stage in his intellectual development, thereby influencing his choice of title. - A Centretruths editorial

Those familiar with John O'Loughlin's literary works, particularly his post-Centretruths writings from 2006-2014, will know that he likes to combine philosophy, or a logically structured way of writing derived from years of abstract thought, with other approaches to text, including autobiographical, psychological, poetical (to a degree), historical, political, religious, and analytical, so that the results, sometimes confusing, are rarely predictable, but can take you by surprise, as when you pass from an autobiographical sketch or a political observation straight into an intensely analytical or philosophical section, though usually not without some forewarning or a lacuna of some sort in the layout of the text. So it is here, in this remarkable collection of structured aphorisms and maxims and what might appear to be essays but are, in fact, aphorisms of a more discursive nature within a self-consciously abstract title-shunning format that eschews paragraphs, in keeping with its aphoristic bias - rather Nietzschean in a way - that the author long ago identified with the concept of 'supernotes', or notes that have been copied from a notebook and reworked and refined and expanded upon until they resemble short essays, without, however, conceding much else to essayistic tradition. - A Centretruths editorial

Probably no book has ever investigated and analysed class and gender relationships as comprehensively and categorically as this one, which not only distinguishes between a hegemonic class and a subordinate pseudo-class on both alpha and omega terms within both what the author describes as upper- and lower-order contexts, but logically demonstrates the disciplinary implications of the subversions of class and pseudo-class positions from either 'above' (upper-order control of society) or from 'below' (lower-order control of society), with contrasting approaches to civilization - and hence society - in each case, whether of the female-dominated alpha or of the male-dominated omega. - A Centretruths editorial

With a plethora of radical theories, underpinned by a rigourously meticulous logic which is not afraid to repeat or refashion itself in the interests of a comprehensively exacting thematic approach to text, John O'Loughlin has produced a work which will both shock and amaze as to the veracity of its claims and the extent to which terms have, in almost Joycean fashion, been reinvented or substantively modified to suit the depth and breadth of his thinking, which, with some four decades of consistent intellectual progress behind him, is surely that of a consummate philosopher at the very peak of his not-inconsiderable logical powers. - A Centretruths editorial

This two-part literary project strives to appeal, one might say, to both lower- and upper-class taste to the extent that it combines, in the one book, two dissimilar approaches to textual structure without, however, unduly departing from its grammatical bias and the affirmation, in consequence, of a discriminatory upper-case approach (depending on class context) to terminology. Now while more people might be expected to prefer the 'prose' to the 'philosophy', irrespective of its grammatical predilections, the option on both approaches to textual presentation not only brings 'heaven' down to 'earth' but simultaneously ensures that what pertains to the former can be transmuted into the latter, transfigured, so to speak, with intent to providing the right kind of axial paradigm for any transcendence of 'the world' likely to culminate in a heavenly disposition. - A Centretruths editorial

Deriving its title from the black-covered notebooks which were used in its formative composition, this title brings John O'Loughlin's metaphysical philosophy to its logical conclusion, and is therefore probably the most logically comprehensive of all his works to-date, drawing the various strands of his Social Theocratic philosophy together and presenting it in the uniquely aphoristic style which allows for both formal sequences of related ideas (maxims) and for a more informal presentation of material (aphorisms) that is almost essay-like in its relatively discursive character. - A Centretruths editorial

Having already published his essays in two volumes of 'Collected Essays', viz. A Knowledgeable Approach to Truth & A Truthful Approach to Knowledge, the former of which included an aphoristic appendix, author John O'Loughlin has 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 essayistic 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 1977-84, during which all of most of his early philosophical writings were composed. - A Centretruths editorial

Like his previous title 'The Fourfold Composition of Elements and pseudo-Elements in Axial Perspective', this is also an exceptionally-demanding work by John O'Loughlin, the logical comprehensiveness of which fairly surpasses its predecessor with the benefit of a number of theoretical modifications having been brought to bear on the overall Element-derived quadrilateral frameworks which encompass both atoms and pseudo-atoms in any given pairing, such that may be presumed to exist in axial polarity with either a noumenal/pseudo-noumenal or a phenomenal/pseudo-phenomenal counterpart within what the author holds to be both church-hegemonic and state-hegemonic axial parameters. - A Centretruths editorial

Following on from End Station J J, John (James) O'Loughlin's previous collection of notational aphorisms, this project brings his philosophical journey to a conclusive peak, as it both sums-up and enlarges upon his recent thinking in relation to modern/post-modern criteria and the frankly dreadful pass to which reason (stemming from the so-called 'Age of Enlightenment') has come, and why it must be opposed from a kind of 'third way' beholden to the resurrection of revelation, if what amounts to the opposite of true enlightenment is eventually to be consigned to the 'rubbish bin' of regrettable history, and civilization accordingly be enabled to move-on towards a universal resolution owing little or nothing to the current 'dark ages' which, directly or indirectly, characterize the contemporary world. - A Centretruths Editorial

Divided into three parts, of which the first is by far the longest, this philosophical sequel to 'Between Truth and Illusion' (1977), expands on the dualistic theories therein outlined, abandoning the more literary approach of its predecessor for an essayistic and aphoristic bias in which the author began to develop an almost existentialist awareness of the extent to which many so-called truths are founded upon illusory concepts and, to that extent, are not really 'true' at all but convenient fictions masking the brute reality of natural facts. - A Centretruths editorial

This substantial collection of essays, dialogues, notational aphorisms and maxims, originally dating from 1983-4 but revised 2019, is largely the reverse, in formal terms, of The Will to Truth, its philosophical precursor, inasmuch as its first part is essayistic and its second part entirely comprised of dialogues, thereby again bringing these two forms into harmony or, at any rate, close juxtaposition. Here, as before, the essays constitute the main aspect of the work, and they are once again conceived within the protective umbrella of a uniform ideology - namely the Social Transcendentalism which John O'Loughlin had been building towards in his earlier works, but which here comes to something approaching ideological fruition.Thus, whatever the subject, it is treated from a uniform ideological standpoint, the standpoint of a socially transcendent outlook on life, and this even when he is not consciously aware of the fact. Such an outlook is beyond humanism and all other worldly ideologies, whether of the left or the right, having to do with evolutionary striving towards a 'divine kingdom' which is, in a special centre-orientated sense, centrist in character. Yet this 'divine kingdom' does not follow death, as we customarily understand it, but presupposes the ordering of society according to certain idealistic principles designed to free mankind from its atomic past and indeed from itself, since the final outcome can only be supra-human in character. - A Centretruths editorial

Few books can have undergone so many re-evaluations as this one, which has developed a fresh approach to terms which the author was apt to take for granted in recent years, never imagining that, one day, they would undergo such extensive re-evaluation as has transpired in this, arguably his most comprehensively exacting and philosophically significant work to-date, the overall significance of which is also due to the way in which certain antitheses, like life and death, heathen and Christian, energy and gravity, concrete and abstract, etc., have been interpreted from a standpoint owing more to philosophical logic than might at first seem to be the case, with highly credible conclusions that remind one that dualism, in one form or another, was always at the core of John O'Loughlin's approach to philosophy, even if the old class- and plane-orientated duality between noumenal and phenomenal, approximating to ethereal and corporeal, has here undergone a reappraisal which, relative to other such terms, renders it much less general and correspondingly much more particular, in relation, that is, to specific contexts characterized as being either phenomenal or noumenal or, in certain other permutations, as something else altogether! - A Centretruths editorial

Even by John O'Loughlin's structurally exacting standards this is an exceptionally demanding work, the logical comprehensiveness of which matches if not surpasses the best of what he has done in the past, with the benefit of a number of theoretical modifications brought to bear on the overall Element-derived frameworks which, as suggested by the title, encompass both subatomic elements as hegemonic factors and pseudo-subatomic pseudo-elements as subordinate factors in any given pairing, or complementarity, that may be presumed to exist in axial polarity with either a noumenal or a phenomenal, an ethereal or a corporeal, counterpart within both church-hegemonic and state-hegemonic parameters, as defined by the author. - A Centretruths editorial

This little book takes John O'Loughlin's philosophy to something approaching a definitive level in relation to those attributes of each of the Elements which make will, spirit, ego and soul possible, and cause them to jostle for primacy or supremacy, according to context, in individuals both separately and collectively, as well as in civilization as a reflection of one sort of society or another, depending on a variety of factors, not least of all environmental. But this slender work of aphoristic philosophy is equally definitive in relation to its understanding of what is called people's civilization and why, despite appearances to the contrary or what anybody might say, such a largely urban civilization, built around the proletariat, can only be totalitarian and is, even now, effectively totalitarian in what most characterizes it and what the author holds to be the precondition of an ultimate totalitarianism, as alluded to in the title, which, if implemented, would take this civilization to its omega point and therefore definitive realization. - A Centretruths editorial