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THE CORE OF THE SELF

 

 

An aphoristic philosophy project by John O’Loughlin

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Continuing from where The Soul of Being left off, this further text in my philosophical or, as I now prefer to think of it, superphilosophical (theosophical?) journey – Opus 73 in an oeuvre of some 122 chronological texts - brings us, via twenty-three headed sections numbered afresh in each case, to the 'Core of the Self', the 'Holy Grail' of self-fulfilment which lies at journey's end as its heavenly reward.  Although principally concerned, like the previous text, with the self, this work does more justice to the totality of the self, including, for virtually the first time, the id, which it analyses both in relation to the self as a whole and to modern society, with particular reference to the West.  The id, however, is not the 'Holy Grail' of self-fulfilment for me but, rather, the antithesis to the soul which needs to be guarded against and, if possible, transcended in favour of that path which truly leads to the 'Core of the Self'.  Let the reader judge for himself as to the success of my journey and the sincerity of my conclusions! – John O’Loughlin.

 

CONTENTS

Seasonal Arts

Printing vis-a-vis Writing

Self vis-a-vis Brain

Subdivisons of the Self

The Lie of Equality

The Lie of the Heart

A Brotherhood of Man

The Brotherhood of Supermen

Profane and Sacred

From Appearance to Essence

Life After Death

Giving Up the Ghost

Profanity and Sanctity Revisited

Various Trinities

Atomic and Subatomic Means

Extremes of the Self

Of Idiots and Egoists

Self and Anti-Self

Comparisons and Contrasts in Class and Gender

Sexuality and the Id

Towards A Gaelic Federation

Voice of the Self

The Core of the Self

 

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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, he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland with intent to stay) 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 in 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 dedicated himself exclusively to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and has penned more than sixty titles of a philosophical order, including Devil and God – The Omega Book (1985-6), Towards the Supernoumenon (1987), Elemental Spectra (1988-9), and Philosophical Truth (1991-2). John O’Loughlin is a bachelor who lives alone in Hornsey, north London.

 

 

 

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