Welcome to the CYCLIC PHILOSOPHY of

THE KINGDOM OF THE SOUL

by John O’Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

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With implications that stretch into what has been called, if somewhat provisionally and coloquially, 'Kingdom Come', this title adds one or two fresh ideas to the 1998 title The Core of the Self, my previous volume of aphoristic philosophy, as well as highlights the extent to which kingdoms, when genuine, are commensurate with one or other extremes of the self.  The extreme I favour has, of course, been alluded to in the title, and is one that I believe could have a wider application than simply to the British Isles, as described more fully in what follows. – John O’Loughlin.

 

 

CONTENTS

SPORT AND ANTI-SPORT

FROM MAGICAL TO MYSTICAL

CONTENDING ELEMENTAL RATIOS

STATE OBJECTIVITY VIS-A-VIS CHURCH SUBJECTIVITY

CONTRASTING TYPES OF KINGDOM

THE COMING 'KINGDOM'

LIBERTARIANISM VIS-A-VIS CONSERVATISM

ALTERNATIVE SALUTES

MUSICAL ALTERNATIVES

LITERARY ALTERNATIVES

WORK VIS-A-VIS PLAY

SOME GENERAL CATEGORIES

HOW TO BE

PHILOSOPHICAL BEING

BEING PHILOSOPHICAL

CONCLUSIONS

 

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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 and, following the death and repatriation of his Irish-born 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), An Interview Reviewed (1979), Secret Exchanges (1980), Sublimated Relations (1981), and False Pretences (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical nature, including Elemental Spectra (1988-9), Philosophical Truth (1991-2), Maximum Truth (1993), Last (W)rites (1995), Revelations of an Ideological Philosopher (1997), The Soul of Being (1998), and, more recently, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2008) and The Centre of Truth (2009). John O'Loughlin has continued, since 1974, to live at various addresses in Crouch End and Hornsey, north London, but would like, one day, to return to Ireland.

 

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