Autor: Author John O. Loughlin

This title takes the form of a mixture of aphorisms and maxims, or brief discursive observations on a variety of subjects of interest or concern to the author, coupled to numbered sequences of system …

A roller-coaster ride through a poetico-philosophic landscape tinged by otherworldly yearnings and fancies which are more often grounded in some degree of logic and taken to new heights of ideologica …

An autobiographical and philosophical journal that is the sequel to ‘Limitless’ (2012) and, if we may be so bold as to say, one of the best books John O’Loughlin has ever written, full of wit, logica …

Transcribed from 3 orange and 2 green notebooks, this project is loosely journalistic and even autobiographical, but remains mostly philosophic in its use of both essays and aphorisms orientated towa …

An aphoristic philosophy project which becomes more intensely philosophic – and quasi-musical – as it progresses through some eight parts, gradually homing-in on the focus of the title, which is an i …

An intensely metaphysical work of aphoristic philosophy with a fresh take on atoms and what the author has called ‘pseudo-atoms’in relation to axial polarity coupled to gender and class differentiati …

‘Deistic Deliverance’ (effectively via the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism) is yet another of John O’Loughlin’s volumes of cyclically-aphoristic philosophy (theosophy and/or superp …

‘Omeganotes of an Ideological Philosopher’ takes the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism to an altogether new, higher level of politico-religious insight and resolve, since it’s not on …

‘Revolutions & Revelations’ (of an ideological Philosopher) combines two books of cyclical aphorisms in one volume as it develops the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism to a new and, …

John O’Loughlin’s so-called ‘Book of Beliefs – The Omegala’, is a record of where his head was at in 1996 or thereabouts, and is therefore anything but a definitive account of his intellectual progre …

Like ‘Contemplations’ (1985) and ‘Supercontemplations’ (1993), this volume of poetic word art, which bears the title ‘Ultracontemplations’, requires only to be contemplated, since it is composed of p …

‘Informal Maxims & Maximum Informality’ is another of those ‘mirror-image’ composite projects by John O’Loughlin which takes his wholly aphoristic approach to philosophy a stage or two further along …

‘Supercontemplations’ signifies a creative advance over the lower-case volume of abstract poetry entitled ‘Contemplations’ (1985), in that it combines upper- and lower-case monosyllabic words in the …

‘From Satan to Saturn’ has the distinction of being the first of John O’Loughlin’s cyclical works of aphoristic philosophy (superphilosophy and/or theosophy); that is, a volume in which numbered apho …

‘From Punishment to Grace’ is in many respects the sequel to ‘From Satan to Saturn’ (1994), since it follows a similarly cyclical approach to text, with numbered aphorisms that spiral, through severa …

As suggested by its title, ‘Last Judgements’ is the last of the so-called supernotational volumes of loosely aphoristic material stemming from ‘Devil and God – the Omega Book’ (1985-6), and is a kind …

This voluminous project is comprised of two substantial books of maxims respectively entitled ‘Maximum Truth’ and ‘Truthful Maxims’, both of which, dating from 1993, extend the philosophy of Social T …

This long and difficult text should reward patient reading, since it is of a deeply metaphysical character that takes the Element-based quadruplicities of texts like ‘Philosophical Truth’ (1991), its …

Without a doubt ‘Elemental Spectra’ signifies a significant milestone in the evolution of the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism, since it introduces a stylistic and thematic consiste …

In this project, largely composed of loosely aphoristic ‘supernotes’ dating from 1989-91, the Element-based quadruplicities, or fourfold structures, of earlier books, including ‘Elemental Spectra’, h …

As implied by the ‘T’ of the title, this book utilizes a number of T-shaped diagrammatic structures to illustrate a framework which derives from the basic Elements and continues to necessitate recour …

‘Towards the Supernoumenon’ is a substantial compilation of spiralling ‘supernotes’, or loosely aphoristic material, that takes an artificially antithetical position to Schopenhauer, the great early- …

In this book of loosely aphoristic philosophy, textural diagrams are sometimes used to delineate and elucidate complex philosophical propositions which would otherwise lack linear perspective or sche …

This substantial collection of loosely aphoristic philosophy, which the author is apt to term ‘supernotational’, embraces the Christian dichotomy of Devil and God in such fashion that one is left in …

‘A Magnanimous Offer’ is John O’Loughlin’s first collection of short prose, most of which are less strictly short stories than effectively one-act plays; but it is certainly literary and betrays a ce …

An autobiographical-cum-philosophical novel by John O’Loughlin (his first!), in which a bored and disillusioned young West End music clerk fantasizes about becoming and then actually determines to be …

‘Fixed Limits’ is an autobiographical novel of first-person tendency documenting several weeks in the life of a budding writer (Michael Savage, whom we first encounter in the novel ‘Changing Worlds’) …

John O’Loughlin’s first exercise in philosophy, originally dating from 1977, takes as its starting-point an analysis of the interrelativity of dualities and expands, via a series of aphoristic essays …

The six philosophical essays included here, which vary in length and treatment of style, were written in the late-1970s by John O’Loughlin and reflect a non-Marxist concern with the influence of envi …

‘Cross-Purposes’ is a philosophic-cum-romantic novel in which a young writer becomes amorously involved with the wife of an influential publisher and ends-up paying the price, as does a certain philo …

When an experienced magazine correspondent suddenly becomes ill before he can carry out his assignment, a young and comparatively inexperienced colleague is deputized to interview world-famous compos …

Eight substantial short stories from the author of ‘Cross-Purposes’ and ‘An Interview Reviewed’ (1979), which investigate dualism and transcendentalism from a variety of conflicting standpoints. The …

A volume of philosophical dialogues with an introductory essay originally dating from 1980 and having a transcendentalist dimension which embraces evolution from a religious standpoint, as well as fa …

This is more a novel about modern art and artists than writers, even though a writer figures prominently in thwarting a certain influential art critic in his designs upon an unsuspecting artist whose …

A young artist who has belatedly renewed relations with an old female acquaintance gradually finds himself becoming disillusioned with her and drawn towards one of her friends instead, though not wit …

Logan is a radical – I mean RADICAL – writer whose influence on an art critic who happens to be an acquaintance of his – one Martin Thurber – is more than one might expect for two such different char …

A substantial collection of short prose (stories) with a markedly philosophical bias that follows on from ‘A Visit to Hell’ (1979) and signifies a rejection of the kind of Spenglerian pessimism that …

A young writer of radically religious tendency is invited to spend the first weekend of the New Year at a country house in the company of other creative or talented individuals who have been earmarke …

‘The Way of Evolution’ combines nine substantial essays with an aphoristic appendix as it strives to delineate evolutionary trends and to uphold the desirability of transcendental artificiality in th …

A collection of short prose coupled to an aphoristic appendix which has some bearing on most of the contents, this project, originally dating from 1981 but since extensively revised, combines fiction …

When a drop-out and rejected writer of Irish descent happens by chance upon an ‘old flame’ in the basement of a London restaurant one day, a week or so before Christmas, he precipitates a series of e …

John O’Loughlin’s second collection of poetry, written nearly ten years after ‘Dosshouse Blues’, is less formal overall and more orientated towards free verse whilst being consistently transcendental …

Recovering in Norfolk from years of depression in London, an ex-writer turned painter by name of Jason Crilly becomes professionally involved with the depiction of a revolutionary sexual machine inve …

This project is quite unusual in that it combines, in separate parts, autobiographical sketches of the author with biographical sketches of some of the writers who have influenced him most, including …

‘Post-Atomic Perspectives’ combines essays, dialogues, aphorisms (conceived as lying somewhere in-between essays and maxims) with maxims in a ‘multi-genre’ format of original philosophy with a transc …

A substantial collection of short stores (prose) which begins with ‘Millennial Projections’, a three-chapter ‘novella’ of futuristic science fiction, in which we explore otherworldly possibilities fr …

The poetic sequel to ‘Stressing the Essential’, this 1983 collection of some thirty-four poems in free verse is even more ideologically homogeneous, as it strives to delineate and advance, within poe …

‘The Will to Truth’ combines dialogues with essays and aphorisms with maxims in a substantial ‘multi-genre’ project of original philosophy with strongly transcendental overtones, such that embrace a …

Like what preceded it in the form of ‘Millennial Projections’ (1982), this collection of short prose is also comprised of sixteen stories, and again it is an intensely philosophical and ideological p …

This project brings the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism more or less systematically into the open for the first time, and does so from a variety of genre perspectives – essays, dia …

A first-person autobiographical account of one man’s disillusionment with sex and concomitant transmutation of his sexuality, via sublimated erotica, into an approach to sex which is purely theoretic …

This collection of short prose and/or stories concludes John O’Loughlin’s quest for literary perfection in the genre, as it brings his fiction to an ideological pinnacle in Social Transcendentalism, …

This title is comprised of three books of so-called ‘abstract poems’ which might better be described as ‘word art’, since they are of a character that defies intellectual intelligibility and invites …

In this compilation of over thirty biographical sketches, including Hitler, Stalin, de Gaulle, Ben-Gurian, de Valera, Franco, Dali, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Carl Jung, a …

With fifteen headed cycles of aphoristic philosophy, ‘The Kingdom of the Soul’ is a further advance in John O’Loughlin’s metaphysics, as a variety of dualities or antitheses are examined in relation …

This is John O’Loughlin’s first and, to-date, only attempt at writing a dictionary, in which the terminology follows alphabetically in chronological spelling order, and, needless to say, it’s in conj …

‘The Triumph of Being’ is a critique of morality in relation not only to Being but also – and no less significantly – to Doing, Giving, and Taking, and proceeds to analyze these different approaches …

‘The Myth of Equality’ opens up the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism in relation to the connection between culture and race as they, in turn, are conditioned by environment, and fur …

‘The Omega Point of Cultural Truth’ begins with an outline of the author’s habitual fourfold, Element-conditioned approach to philosophy within a cyclical framework and proceeds to ask, in subsequent …

‘Ethnic Universality’ is about the promise of globalization and the universal oneness that it portends if taken to a sensible conclusion. In that respect, it is the antithesis of anything cosmic and, …

‘No Man-Oeuvre’ is a further example of John O’Loughlin’s aphoristic philosophy in full Social Transcendentalist flight towards an ideological and/or ontological summit, and the title aptly puns the …

‘The High-Way of Truth’, the title of which obviously puns ‘highway’ with ‘high way’, is an unequivocal affirmation of Social Transcendentalism and of the need for a rejection of traditional faith if …

‘The End of Evolution’ points towards a future hypothetical – and morally desirable – culmination of evolution which will be both transcendentalist and anti-fundamentalist, idealist and anti-material …

‘The Virtuous Circles’ is all about involutional sensibility as a male-led factor appertaining to both physics and, especially, metaphysics, where virtue, as shorthand for gender fidelity, or ‘sync’, …

‘The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom’ is all about the development of metaphysics, coupled to what has been called anti-metachemistry, toward its ultimate global and therefore properly universal goal, …

APOTHEOSIS OF THE GNOSIS fairly lives up to its name or, rather, title in terms of the extent to which it both draws the various strands of the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism toge …

‘Eschatology or Scatology – Judgement at the Crossroads’, has a developed sense of axial relativity, not least in respect of the distinctions between that which sensibly radicalizes the ethereal ‘hig …

‘A Perfect Resolution’ corrects certain of what the author regards as the ‘heathenistic’ (‘secular’ in contemporary parlance) aberrations of its aphoristic precursor, ‘Stairway to Judgement’, as it e …

‘The Last Judgement’, a title with evident eschatological implications, advances the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism by highlighting the extent to which gender conditions axial div …

REVELATIONARY AFTERTHOUGHTS continues in the exactingly comprehensive vein of ‘The Free Testament’ (2003), with a cogent presentation of its material that deserves to be regarded as revelationary [‘r …

This is the companion of and sequel to ‘Revelationary Afterthoughts’ (2003) and, like what precedes it, the subject-matter is particularly focused on axial relativity not only with regard to the dist …

‘Judgemental Afterthoughts’ concludes a loose trilogy of volumes of aphoristic philosophy beginning and continuing with ‘Revelationary Afterthoughts’ and ‘Revolutionary Afterthoughts’, and the ‘after …

‘Father Omega’s Last Testament’ is indeed an omega-orientated statement of moral guidance and intent which, despite the irony of its title, not only brings a more exacting comprehensiveness to bear o …

‘Revaluations and Transvaluations’ has something of a Nietzschean ring to it, but is really quite distinct from anything he wrote, as it revaluates certain prior contentions of John O’Loughlin’s phil …

‘The Classless Solution’ is not a classless re-run of Marxism even though it insists that classlessness – to use a rather negative term – is metaphysical and therefore only intelligible within the el …

‘The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction’ carries on from where ‘The Classless Solution’ (2004) leaves off, and does so in considerably more detail and with greater confidence in the veracity of its c …

‘The Dialectics of Civilization’ continues the dialectical analysis of civilization and, in a broader sense, of the evolutionary process from where it left off in ‘The Dialectics of Synthetic Attract …

‘The Dialectics of Gender and Class’ concludes a trilogy of aphoristic books by John O’Loughlin whose focus is primarily dialectical, and it does so on no uncertain axial terms, not least with regard …

‘Yang and Anti-Yin’, the first of a loose trilogy of similarly-titled aphoristic projects, sets about the task of exploring the dialectics of metaphysics and anti-metachemistry, as germane to what Jo …

‘Lamb and Anti-Lion’, the sequel to ‘Yang and Anti-Yin’, delves deeper into the noumenal sensibility of metaphysics, and this in turn permits of a clarification of other elemental positions which, un …

‘Celestial City and Anti-Vanity Fair’, with its John Bunyan-like connotations, brings what John O’Loughlin had been building towards in previous books, like ‘Yang and Anti-Yin’ and ‘Lamb and Anti-Lio …

‘Opus Postscriptum’ differs from John O’Loughlin’s official written oeuvre in that it is comprised of revised and reformatted weblogs by him and is therefore supplementary to the works which came to …

These two ‘posthumous’ publications to John O’Loughlin’s oeuvre-proper (culminating in ‘Jesus – A Summing Up’) were culled, like the material of ‘Opus Postscriptum’, from two of his then blogsites an …

‘Beyond Truth and Illusion’ markedly contrasts with John O’Loughlin’s first venture into philosophy, ‘Between Truth and Illusion’ (1977), and does so to the extent of being more akin to the ‘omega po …

A substantial collection of extensively revised and reformatted philosophical weblogs from different sites by John O’Loughlin, who has brought a variety of his articles together in one place and achi …

John O’Loughlin’s e Book brings his Element-based comprehensive exactitude to bear on morality, not just on one kind of morality, but on all the different kinds that exist, and shows that morality on …

An aphoristic philosophy project by John O’Loughlin deriving from a collection of weblogs which have since been extensively revised and reformatted for e Book publication in the interests of enhanced …

An extensively revised and reformatted philosophical weblog project from 2009 by John O’Loughlin which, with its more confident approach to metaphysics, represents a significant step beyond his last …

A combined autobiographical and philosophical project dating from 2009-10 by John O’Loughlin, whose autobiographical reminiscences are tinged by philosophical considerations and whose philosophy, cha …

‘A Trilogy Transcendent’ is a kind of loose trilogy of philosophical novels originally dating from 1980 (but now extensively revised) and sharing a common transcendental theme which has a particular, …

TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN derives its seemingly banal but actually quite appropriate title from a combination of short prose (the bulk of the text) with an aphoristic appendix which briefly recapitu …

TALES SIDE UP is volume two of John O’Loughlin’s ‘Collected Short Prose’ and is comprised of three prior books dating from 1982-4. The title is of course a pun on tails, since the first volume was en …

If John O’Loughlin is ‘In Disguise’ here it’s because these days he does not see himself primarily as a poet but, rather, as a philosopher, if a self-taught one, who once wrote poems, many of which w …

‘The Omega Quartet’, so-called because the contents are largely of an omega-orientated order of transcendentalism with ideological overtones, is comprised of four books of free-verse poetry written d …

TRUTHFUL ILLUSIONS & ILLUSORY TRUTHS is effectively a combination of the essayistic material from two prior publications, viz. ‘Between Truth and Illusion’ and ‘The Illusory Truth’ (1977), and theref …

This composite project by John O’Loughlin combines, within a revised structural framework, the dialogues of ‘A Question of Belief’ (1978) with the essays of ‘The Fall of Love’ (1979), to make a subst …

‘Dawn of the Life’ is a composite of two projects, viz. the dialogues of ‘The Transcendental Future’ (1980) and the essays of ‘The Way of Evolution’ (1981) and therefore combines dialogues with essay …

LOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS is volume one of a two-volume ‘collected dialogues’ by John O’Loughlin which moves from a relatively dramatic – even play-like – opening towards a more systematically philosoph …

‘Convergence’ is a substantial project in which a number of titled compilations of aphorisms and/or maxims deriving from prior publications and independent volumes have been combined into a quasi-cyc …

As suggested by the title, THE ETHNIC UNIVERSALITY QUARTET is comprised of four books of numbered aphorisms that loosely cycle in metaphysical spirals toward an ideological summit, the titles being ‘ …

This quartet of aphoristic philosophy continues the author’s quest for Social Transcendentalist perfection through texts as diverse as the aforementioned ‘The Virtuous Circles’, which opens the volum …

THE RADICAL PROGRESS QUARTET, dating from 2003, is comprised of ‘Radical Progress’, ‘Stairway to Judgement’, ‘A Perfect Resolution’, and ‘The Last Judgement’, all four books of which continue the aut …

This is the author’s only literary ‘sextet’, a six-book aphoristic philosophy project ironically entitled THE FATHER OMEGA SEXTET, the individual books of which are ‘Father Omega’s Last Testament’, ‘ …

This quartet of books of aphoristic philosophy with a Social Theocratic dimension is comprised of ‘Yang and Anti-Yin’, ‘Lamb and Anti-Lion’, ‘Celestial City and Anti-Vanity Fair’ and, last but by no …

A collection of revised and reformatted philosophical weblogs by John O’Loughlin, who has further extended his philosophy beyond material contained in ‘Insane but not Mad’, also dating from 2011. …

As the sequel to ‘Between Truth and Illusion’ (1977), this volume of aphoristic essays and essayistic aphorisms and/or maxims carries on the dualistic theories from where BTAI left off, but does so w …

John O’Loughlin’s third volume of philosophy, dating from 1978, is comprised of four lengthy philosophical dialogues which debate subjects as varied as books and book collecting, war and peace, astro …

ALPHA AND OMEGA is divided into four parts, each of which investigates a variety of subjects having either alpha or omega connotations from a Social Transcendentalist standpoint, with a view to advan …

POINT OMEGA POINT continues the quest for cyclical or metaphysical perfection from where ‘Freedom and Determinism’ leaves off, and does so with even greater depth and confidence in its handling of th …

As suggested by the pun-like title, LAST WRITES, originally written with the ‘W’ between brackets, is both a bringing to a conclusion of certain previous theories by John O’Loughlin and a ceremonial …

This revelatory project carries on from earlier ones of a similar aphoristic nature by John O’Loughlin the task of highlighting the axial distinctions between Social Theocracy and Social Democracy, b …

RADICAL PROGRESS is confident of its direction and of the terms by means of which such progress can and should be effected, as it analyzes axial relativity from the standpoint of the transcendent, dr …

This volume of aphoristic philosophy, like its precursor ‘Opti-mystic Projections’ (2003), continues with an analysis of Anglo-American relations vis-a-vis Europe and, with conclusions that are less …

STAIRWAY TO JUDGEMENT extends beyond ‘Radical Progress’ (2003) in its comprehensively exacting approach to axial relativity and the differences which characterize each approach to civilization, and s …

This project examines the cultural and political differences between Europe and America and contends that Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with America, although well-intentioned, continues to underm …

As suggested by the title, this aphoristic philosophy project continues to explore the axial differences between what, in general terms, has been called the bureaucratic/theocratic axis of a rising d …

A substantial collection of revised and reformatted mainly philosophical weblogs by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths, whose philosophy is largely metaphysical and biased towards ethereal subjectivity …