John O\'loughlin

Dawn of the Life John O\'loughlin

Publisher Marketing: This project is a combination of two other works, viz. 'The Transcendental Future' (1980), and 'The Way of Evolution' (1981), and therefore dates from 1980-81, a time when John O'Loughlin had just turned away from the Spenglerian historicism of 'In the Shadow of Spengler' (1978-9) towards a more optimistic outlook on life or, at any rate, the prospect of evolutionary progress based around an orientation towards, in de Chardinesque terminology, the omega-point of things, which he has identified with transcendentalism. However, these writings are much less ambitious and certainly less evolved than many of those which were to follow, including the more complex dialogues dating from 1982 in the 'Importance of Technology to the Transcendental Future'. Unlike the overall dialogue bias of that project, however, this volume is evenly balanced between dialogues and essays, with a bias, if anything, towards the latter, and in that respect it bears some resemblance to the aforementioned 'In the Shadow of Spengler'. It is in most respects, however, a more positive and brighter text, with little if any of the urban disillusionment characteristic of the earlier work, since love is not here the be-all-and-end-all of things it apparently was for the above. Contributor Bio:  O'Loughlin, John John O'Loughlin was born in Galway City, County Galway, the Republic of Ireland, of Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split while still a child, 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 (Hampshire), and, following the death and repatriation of his grandmother, Carshalton Beeches (Surrey), where, despite an enforced change of denomination from Catholic to Protestant, 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 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Bedford Square, WC1, where he eventually became responsible, as a clerical officer, for booking examination venues. After a brief flirtation with Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he had enrolled to study history, he returned to his former job in the West End but left the ABRSM in 1976 due to a combination of factors and began to dedicate himself to writing, which, despite a brief spell as a computer tutor at Hornsey Management Agency 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). Since the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has almost exclusively dedicated himself to philosophy, which he regards as 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).