THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS

John O'Loughlin

Oct 2018 · John O'Loughlin (of Centretruths Digital Media)

About this ebook

 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.

About the author

 John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of Irish- and British-born parents in 1952.  Following a parental split partly due to ethnic incompatibilities, he was brought to England by his mother and grandmother (who had initially returned to Ireland upon the death of her Aldershot-based husband with intent to stay) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in  Aldershot (Hants) and, following the death and repatriation of his Athenry 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 CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs (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 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, where he eventually became responsible as a clerical officer Gd.1 for booking examination venues throughout Britain and Ireland.  After a brief flirtation with Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he had enrolled to do English and History A Levels, he returned to his former job in the West End but quit the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including ill-health, and began to dedicate himself to a literary vocation which, despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency within the local YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, where he added several NVQs to his other qualifications, he has continued with ever since.  His novels include 'Changing Worlds' (1976), 'Cross-Purposes' (1979), 'Thwarted Ambition' (1980), 'Sublimated Relations' (1981), and 'Deceptive Motives' (1982).  Since the mid-80s John O'Loughlin has dedicated himself exclusively to philosophy, which he regards as his true literary vocation, and has penned more than seventy 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 lives alone in the north London borough of Haringey, to which he moved from Merstham, Surrey, in 1974.