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YANG AND ANTI-YIN sets about the task of exploring the dialectics of metaphysics and antimetachemistry as germane to what John O'Loughlin calls the northeast point of the intercardinal axial compass, and does so with a systematic consistency worthy of the challenge.

The Quest for Truth

John O'Loughlin

An aphoristic philosophy project by John O'Loughlin deriving from a collection of weblogs originally hosted by Helium.com which have since been extensively revised and reformatted for both eScroll and, as here, eBook publication in the interests of enhanced understanding through a more uniformly stylistic and chronological presentation.

Future Transformations: The Undiluted Truth

John O'Loughlin

FUTURE TRANSFORMATIONS – The Undiluted Truth ... combines essays with dialogues, both of which are transcended by aphorisms in the lengthy appendix of what, for a work of 1982, remains one of John O'Loughlin's most revolutionary projects, in that it addresses future transformations of humanity in relation to the post-human and, hence, on a basis transcending Western humanist conventions which can therefore be regarded as effectively global or universal in ideological scope. In that respect, this project signifies a transcendentalist rejection of humanism, even in relation to comparatively radical humanist authors like Aldous Huxley, whose concept of religious progress remained rooted in human parameters and thus in the delusion of human perfectibility in relation to God. – A Centretruths editorial

Social Transcendentalism -: Socialistic Means to a Transcendental End

John O'Loughlin

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, dialogues, aphorisms and maxims - with a view to examining and propounding the ideology in question from as many different philosophical angles as possible. As suggested by the title, the end is transcendental, but the means are socialistic (which is not the same as socialism, since transcendentalism remains the fulcrum and therefore determines the form of what is less than transcendent), and aimed at taking the masses of a specific type of society to an entirely new ideological destination by dint of the fact that the impetus for this stems not from below (as in socialism) but from above, in relation to a kind of messianic resolve affiliated with all things transcendental. – A Centretruths editorial

Total Truth: or Truthful Totalitarianism

John O'Loughlin

Dating from 2002, TOTAL TRUTH is comprised of four evenly developed parts concerned with what has been loosely termed 'notes' on subjects as diverse as society, liberty, mind, and peace, together with their opposites, all of which are treated by the author from a Social Transcendentalist standpoint, and therefore within a comprehensively exacting framework that never loses track of its principal objectives and ideals.

Alpha and Omega -: Diabolic Beginning and Divine End

John O'Loughlin

ALPHA AND OMEGA - Diabolic Beginning and Divine End ... 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 advancing this ideological philosophy through several spiralling cycles towards enhanced metaphysical knowledge, which is truth.

The Myth of Equality

John O'Loughlin

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 further extends the basic gender-conditioned distinction between nature and nurture (or artifice) to include the effects of nature upon psyche and of psyche, conversely, upon nature or, as I would now say, soma. All in all, this book debunks simple equalitarian reductionism, whether of the humanistic or non-humanistic varieties, and shows that there is a whole lot more at stake than might at first meet the eye, especially when that eye has been blinkered, as it were, by social conditioning.

From Superfluous Man to Superman

John O'Loughlin

The sequel to 'Musings of a Superfluous Man', this collection of aphorisms continues from where the previous title left off, with more optimism and even confidence.

Christmas in the Doghouse

John O'Loughlin

Aphoristic philosophy with a poetic and autobiographical twist that both corrects and extends the philosophy of Social Transcendentalism (also known as Social Theocracy), and concludes the year 2013 on a high. Revised 2020.

From Materialism to Idealism

John O'Loughlin

In this book of aphoristic philosophy, diagrams are sometimes used to delineate and elucidate complex philosophical propositions which would otherwise lack linear perspective or schematic definition, but the text remains by and large self-explanatory as it grapples with a variety of quadruplicities having some connection with a presumption of antitheses between materialism and idealism on the one hand, and naturalism and realism on the other. Hence the title From Materialism to Idealism. – A Centretruths editorial

Deistic Deliverance: Via the Ideological Philosophy of Social Transcendentalism

John O'Loughlin

DEISTIC DELIVERANCE (Via The Ideological Philosophy of Social Transcendentalism) is yet another of John O'Loughlin's volumes of cyclically aphoristic philosophy (theosophy?) in which, with the aid of spiraling cycles, he has striven to grant a certain political definition to the philosophy in question, making it more than just a theory of life, but a vehicle whereby life can be changed for the better and people become liberated from their mortal chains and, no less importantly, from those who would avail of them for ungodly purposes.

Maximum Truth & Truthful Maxims

John O'Loughlin

This significant aphoristic project is comprised of two substantial volumes of maxims entitled Maximum Truth and Truthful Maxims, both of which, originally dating from 1993 but extensively revised since then, extend the philosophy of Social Transcendentalism into new realms of metaphysical insight, including a more comprehensive subatomic theory that owes much to the structural quadruplicities. or fourfold Element-derived structures, of previous works, including Elemental Spectra, by the author. But it is in its departure from anything to do with 'The Clear Light of the Void', to which authors like Aldous Huxley succumbed, that this project stands out as a beacon of evolutionary enlightenment in relation to what its author calls 'The 'Holy Spirit of Heaven'.

Informal Maxims & Maximum Informality

John O'Loughlin

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 the path of Truth, conceived philosophically, than did its predecessor in the genre, Maximum Truth & Truthful Maxims (1993), adding to Social Transcendentalism the concept of Social Theocracy, and thus broadening out the messianic ideology of transcendentalism to include what was destined, in subsequent books, to become the ideological counterpart of Social Democracy and, in that sense, the political as opposed to religious face of the ideology in question. - A Centretruths editorial

So There: Civilization - Its Betrayers and Enemies in Perspective

John O'Loughlin

As with John O'Loughlin's previous title, Keys to the Kingdom of Truth, this new work tends to utilize both aphorisms discursively and maxims sequentially in a kind of compromise between contrasting approaches to his writing, the one more literary and the other more technical, with some material of an autobiographical nature included for good measure, as also in an attempt to clarify his situation as a self-styled intellectual whose 'journey' to a well-nigh definitive realization of his thinking did not happen overnight or without considerable effort both personally and vis-a-vis whatever obstacles domestic and/or environmental circumstances may have thrown in his way. Nevertheless, the intellectual adventure somehow continued, and one is relieved to say it has eventually attained to something of a culmination beyond which further progress in this regard would be virtually impossible, given the conclusive nature of, in particular, so many of the maxims, whose sequentially comprehensive structures matured only gradually but nonetheless cumulatively to a point from which it should be possible for their author to leave off journeying, having reached his adventure's end in what must surely be the most logically definitive philosophy imaginable, if not – dare one say it? - ever, the form of which – if there is such a thing – follows from the content and not vice versa, which makes, so Mr O'Loughlin would contend, for a certain contentment with the overall results.

Instru-mental

John O'Loughlin

Following on from John O'Loughlin's previous title So There, this work also 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 systematically-structured conclusions about salient aspects of the overall philosophy which, in this book, succeed those parts (one and three) specifically given to the aphoristic material, as though to sum-up or clarify, on a more philosophically intensive basis, what had been more discursively observed. Of course, there is more to it than that, and the author would be lying if he didn't also add that this title both refines upon and extends beyond some of the observations and conclusions of the previous one, thereby in a sense bringing this phase of his philosophy to what he holds to be an ideological peak, beyond which he has no intention of going, since little or no progress could, so far as he is concerned, be made short of one's adopting the philosophical equivalent of wings and flying off into space. Therefore Mr O'Loughlin believes he has reached if not the end then almost certainly the highest summit so far of his intellectual journey, summing up, in a nutshell, what it has taken him the best part of four decades to arrive at, experience coupled to observation leading to truly conclusive results, the credibility of which it would be difficult if not impossible to logically deny.

The Black Notebooks

John O'Loughlin

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. That said, the material overall is carefully interwoven and taken well beyond the notebook stage of its inception, so that one can feel confident this is no mere off-the-cuff project but the fruit of meticulous composition which should stand O'Loughlin's philosophy in good stead, as well as add a crucial dimension to it which would not have been possible in the past but which here comes to light in terms of how a basic antithesis, namely that between energy and gravity, plays-out in a number of different or seemingly unrelated contexts in relation to what the author holds to be its gender-conditioned genesis. Some of the material, one should add, has already been published in two previous titles, viz. Stations of the Supercross and Supercrossed, but much of it has been reworked and revised here with the incorporation of some previously omitted content, while much additional original material has also been included to give this project its unique character and justify its publication as, in overall terms, a less formal if not looser version of what might seem to some readers the too formal nature of, in particular, Supercrossed, with its plethora of hyphenated phrases. Therefore this should prove an easier though still far from uncomplicated book to read. - A Centretruths editorial.

The Best of All Possible Worlds

John O'Loughlin

John O'Loughlin's aphoristic philosophy eBook brings his element-based comprehensive exactitude to bear on morality, not just on one kind but on all the different kinds of morality, and shows that morality only exists because it is hegemonic over a correlative unmorality corresponding, in whatever class/element position, to the subordinate gender, but that such a hegemony dare not risk an immoral backlash from below on account of its own amoral failings - something which the author goes into in some detail with the help of analogous contexts and examples, whether sartorial, social, literary, or whatever. But John O'Loughlin, whilst he may be comprehensively exacting in his outlining of the different kinds of morality, is not impartial. On the contrary, he makes a case for only one type of morality (and its corresponding unmorality) - a case that, in his view, would result, if politically and religiously implemented, in the best of all possible worlds - the goal towards which his entire philosophy points.

B.O.R.T.: (Book of Replicated Thought)

John O'Loughlin

Unlike anything else every written, and not only one ventures to guess by John O'Loughlin, this title endeavours to 'burn the candle', as it were, at both ends, coming 'down to earth' in the first part and going 'up to heaven' in the second, replicating the text of the former while diverging from it in terms of an approach to structure which is less prosaic than philosophic, in the sense of combining, and not for the first time in his oeuvre, aphorisms with maxims in relation to a metaphysical mean and intent. The aphoristic material, with him, is more loosely structured than the maxims, which are not maxims in the accepted sense of pithy sayings or apophthegms in which wisdom or knowledge is condensed but, rather, are numbered items that follow, in each sequence, a uniform structure which is simply thematically modified to suit the needs of the occasion or, in this instance, particular maxim. That, of course, does not obtain in the 'down to earth' part which begins this book, in which the author took the aphoristic/maximistic material at a less developed stage of its structuring and simply endeavoured, with the help of '....', or omission marks used in a relatively unorthodox way, to separate one train of thought from another, to turn it into something approaching prose, in which a massive if not massed approach to text signifies that which is corporeal as opposed, like the aphoristic structure, to being comparatively ethereal, and thus intended (without irony) for mass consumption – something one could not associate with any text conceived with due philosophic regard to space and, especially, time.

Prophet Over Profit: A Philosophical Journal

John O'Loughlin

A Metaphysically-biased argument couched in the form of a journal that analyses the relationships between atoms and pseudo-atoms on a variety of levels, including the human, from their gender-dichotomous foundations right through to class interpretations of atomic and pseudo-atomic structures that underpin not only disciplinary but, so the author contends, ethnic differences within divergent approaches to civilization and its struggle against barbarism. Not only is this John O'Loughlin's most technically complex work to date, it is arguably also his most thematically compelling, since the arguments it propounds in favour of Metaphysics are so firmly grounded in philosophical logic ... that even the sceptical or otherwise cynical might well be convinced of their veracity.

Supercrossed

John O'Loughlin

A volume of aphoristic and essayistic philosophy with metaphysical overtones that examines the distinctions between concretion and abstraction across a number of categories, not least in relation to gender and class, with interesting not to say cogent conclusions.

Stations of the Supercross: Attraction and Reaction in Gender Perspective

John O'Loughlin

Those familiar with John O'Loughlin's work, particularly with his writings of the past few years, 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 title-shunning format that eschews paragraphs in keeping with its aphoristic bias – rather Nietzschean in a way – that he 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. In such a mainly metaphysical fashion John O'Loughlin has consistently advanced the theoretical breadth and depth of his work, derived, naturally, from habitual thought processes, and the results should speak confidently and credibly enough for themselves without our having to say very much about them, other, of course, than that they continue in the vein to which we have become accustomed the struggle for truth, or philosophical credibility and metaphysical insight, and have continued the process to a new and hopefully final level or stage of completion which it would be difficult if not impossible for him or, for that matter, anyone else to reasonably surpass, bearing in mind the complexities that so exactingly comprehensive an approach to logic as he has fathered both here and in the past inevitably entail. So maybe the job, or task, which this author humbly and somewhat naively set himself over four decades ago, is now completed, and with such a degree of structural credibility that he has even been able to bend the rules and invent one or two new words and new ways of thinking about old words or subjects or categories that, frankly, should stand up to scrutiny and any amount of analytical attention. But, of course, a book of his is an adventure, never quite knowing where it is going or where, eventually, it will get to, and this one is no exception, since the sheer eclecticism of John O'Loughlin's writings makes it difficult to nail it down to a specific title, even if the subtitle he has chosen, viz. 'Attraction and Reaction in Gender Perspective', is certainly quite well-represented in the text, albeit by degrees and not at all at the beginning. Evidently a number of other specific titles came to mind, but none of them would have adequately represented anything but a fraction of the overall text, and so, in the end, he wisely and, we think, correctly opted for a title that would be both sufficiently abstract and sufficiently ambiguous (for it actually is, if you ponder it for a moment) as to do general justice to a style of writing that refuses to follow the usual linear patterns of composition of the 'straight press', including essayists, but gives you so many strands of thought to follow or think about that no single strand, be it philosophical or autobiographical or anything else, could possibly do justice to the entirety of the text, which, as intimated above, is of an intensely eclectic character. That is how he writes, how he prefers to write, and we make no apologies. You can take it or leave it. But those who persevere with his work – and not only here but in previous books – will, if they are sufficiently intelligent and of the right turn-of-mind, be rewarded to a degree that few other books, we venture to assert, would reward them, since few other authors could possibly claim to have achieved as much or to have brought their philosophy to such a conclusively logical pass, and you would have to be a fool or scoundrel not to see that or profit from it!

Omeganotes of an Ideological Philosopher

John O'Loughlin

OMEGANOTES OF AN IDEOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHER takes the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism to a new level of politico-religious insight and resolve, since it's not only a theory of life but a blueprint by means of which such a theory can be practically realized and socially brought to pass in the interests of evolutionary progress.

The Fourfold Composition of Elements and pseudo-Elements in Axial Perspective

John O'Loughlin

A deeply philosophical project that gradually moves from a loosely discursive opening to an intensely metaphysical and logical ending, during the course of which both elements and pseudo-elements are examined or, rather, re-examined by the author with effect to presenting his findings in the most comprehensively-exacting logical and philosophical light possible. A kind of masterpiece that would suggest a parallel of sorts with Arthur Koestler in its quest for logical perfection.

Occasional Maxims & Maximum Occasions

John O'Loughlin

OCCASIONAL MAXIMS & MAXIMUM OCCASIONS resembles other reverse-title books like 'Informal Maxims & Maximum Informality' (1993) in its basic two-fold design, but differs from them in respect of the kind of thematic shift, resembling a mini-revolution, that takes place in the second book of this metaphysically deep and ideologically radical project, continuing, as before, the quest for philosophical perfection through Social Transcendentalism.

Bringing the Judgement

John O'Loughlin

BRINGING THE JUDGEMENT is one of those 'abstract' volumes of cyclic philosophy which are all about cycles and numbers rather than title headings, and in this case we have some twenty-five cycles plus an appendix which deal with a variety of Social Transcendentalist concerns and postulates, including an examination of the dichotomy, relative to gender, between objectivity and subjectivity, and of how these operate within the basic elemental structures already outlined in previous books by the author.

Beyond the Pale: Growth of a Messiah

John O'Loughlin

This project came about as a result of disillusionment with the ephemeral or redundant nature of much autobiographical writing, which can be alarmingly quick to date, and consequently instead of one timescale for composition there are four different timescales, viz. 1983, '85, '93, and '96, corresponding to the divisions of the book into four headed parts, each of which was written quite independently of the others both in timescale and even, to a limited degree, in style. Thus the result is certainly 'beyond the pale' of both retrospectively inclusive and introspectively exclusive autobiographical writings and remains, to this day, open-ended. – A Centretruths editorial

Portraits -: Power and Glory Vis-a-vis Form and Contentment

John O'Loughlin

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, and W.B Yeats, Mr O'Loughlin has attempted to view his subjects through the ideological prism of Social Transcendentalism, in order to see how they are reflected. The results, at times, are quite surprising, if, understandably, also in some instances only too predictable!

From Satan to Saturn

Author John O'Loughlin

'From Satan to Saturn' has the distinction of being the first of John O'Loughlin's cyclical works of aphoristic philosophy; that is, a volume in which numbered aphorisms are recycled over and over as the text centripetally advances through several spirals in an ascending momentum that takes it to new heights of truthful or metaphysical insight and certitude, heights that will be overhauled, in due textural course, as the struggle for philosophical verity continues with what could be called a badge-orientated – as opposed to ring-orientated – vengeance! – A Centretruths editorial

Reservations in Orange and Green

John O'Loughlin

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 towards an analysis of the relationships between Western civilization and both ancient and contemporary forms of cyclic societies whose origins are perceived, more or less logically, as having different causes, both independently of (ancient) and in relation to (contemporary) Western civilization and the way it has been described from its Greco-Roman origins up to the America-dominated global present. But the theme of reservations remains key to the project as a whole, and this is tackled from a multiplicity of angles, both subjectively and in terms of types of reservations to be found in life generally. Finally, the author pulls no punches in his interpretation of Western decadence and what it stemmed from and was in polarity to, regarding it as the underlying catalyst for what subsequently transpired.

Anthological Morphologies: Collected Sequentially Structured Maxims

John O'Loughlin

With this anthology of his 'sequentially structured maxims', free thinker John O'Loughlin has finally arrived at the ne plus ultra of his philosophical oeuvre, which combines all the most logically consistent material from the last twelve original titles (2014 – 2019) in one definitive volume that, on account of the comprehensively exacting nature of his quadripartite structures and the way their theorizing evolves, must rank as the 'bible' of his philosophy, if not of all philosophy of a metaphysical persuasion, that yet allows for other categories, both atomic and pseudo-atomic, to be accounted for in such fashion that everything is, as it were, nailed into place the better to support the overall morphology of unrelenting logic.

Shut Down and Open Up: A Biconical Extravaganza

John O'Loughlin

It seems that John O'Loughlin has reserved his best work until last, for this largely philosophical title (with some autobiographical and other material included for good measure) represents not merely a summation of his philosophical development in the course of over four decades, but virtually a complete overhaul of what he had previously assumed to be logically definitive, and to an extent that the comprehensive nature of his logical structures here finds its apotheosis, so to speak, 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 its logical complexity) there is no coming back from the conclusions it reaches on the most exactingly comprehensive logical terms and, for him, no further thematic progress in the realm of his structured maxims to be made. - A Centretruths Editorial.

Keys to the Kingdom of Truth: That Unlock the Gates of Social Theocracy

John O'Loughlin

A deeply philosohical project which explores the varying relationships between atoms and pseudo-atoms from opposite class and gender standpoints and with a view to exposing the extents to which any given atomic and/or pseudo-atomic position can be subverted from contrary class and gender positions depending on which class or gender is 'calling the shots' in any given age. This is simply the 'apotheosis' of this author's quest for philosophical perfection beyond which it would be virtually impossible to go, which is why this is not only John O'Loughlin's best book, but his last one too.

Black Sabbaticals: Towards a Re-evaluation of All Terminological V

John O'Loughlin

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 significant work to-date, the overall significance of which is also due to the way in which certain antitheses, like life and death, have been interpreted from a standpoint owing more to philosophical logic than might at first seem to be the case, with highly credible conclusions.

Atoms and Pseudo-Atoms: In Subatomic Perspective

John O'Loughlin

A radical new approach not only to subatomic theory but to the nature of atoms and their relationship to what the author calls pseudo-atoms in what amount to gender-divisible partnerships in axial polarity with their noumenal and/or phenomenal counterparts, as defined in the text of what is, without a doubt, the author's most comprehensively-exacting and logically-compelling title to-date (2014, with revisionary enhancements 2020).

Dawn of the Life

John O'Loughlin

DAWN OF THE LIFE is a composite of two projects, viz. The Transcendental Future (1980) and The Way of Evolution (1981) and therefore combines dialogues with essays in a largely philosophical text which has the merit of both a lengthy introduction and a summational aphoristic appendix, as per custom for John O'Loughlin's works at this comparatively early stage of his development as a self-taught philosopher, or thinking literary writer. The 'dawn' in this instance is a new one, and the 'life' has more to do with eternity than with anything temporal, much less infinite or even finite.

Political Geographies of the Post-Soviet Union

John O'Loughlin

This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship between Russia, by far the dominant economic and military power in the region, and the other former republics. They also examine new developments towards economic blocs, such as membership in the European Union or the competing Eurasian Economic Union, as well as new security arrangements in the form of military cooperation and alliance structures.

This book reflects the broad range of changes across this important world region by engaging in insightful analysis of current developments in Central Asia, Ukraine, Russia, the Caucasus, and separatist regions. The authors explore new state alliances and the evolving cultural and geopolitical orientations of former Soviet citizens. Some chapters also examine the dynamics of wars that have occurred in the post-Soviet space, as well as how local political developments are reflected in electoral preferences and struggles over control of public spaces.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Eurasian Geography and Economics.