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Although the book format is not totally successful - there are slight smudgings on most of the paintings - it goes some way towards presenting a fair selection of Mr O'Loughlin's abstract work in a chronologically progressive and cumulative manner, passing through several phases, or spirals, en route to its unequivocally metaphysical end.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/838000\/838376\/2\/preview\/promo_838376.jpg","date":"Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:04:13"},{"title":"THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds\/4977064","description":"John O'Loughlin's latest volume of aphoristic philosophy 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 comprhensively exacting in his outlining of the different kinds of morality, is not impartial.  On the contrary, he makes a case for one type of morality (and its corresponding unmorality) only - a case that, in his view, would result, if politically and religiously implemented, in the best of all possible worlds.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/4977000\/4977064\/1\/preview\/promo_4977064.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:21:21"},{"title":"YANG AND ANTI-YIN","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/yang-and-anti-yin\/997856","description":"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.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/997000\/997856\/2\/preview\/promo_997856.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:18:40"},{"title":"VERITAS PHILOSOPHICUS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/veritas-philosophicus\/794579","description":"Subtitled 'Philosophical Verity', this long and difficult text should reward patient reading, since it is of a deeply metaphysical character that takes the quadruplicities of texts like 'Philosophical Truth', its immediate precursor, to a whole new level of elemental meaning, and largely through the utilization of V-like structures - hence the title 'Veritas Philosophicus' - which both complement and supplement the T-like structures already established in this and previous books, thereby taking the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism a stage further on its evolutionary journey.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/794000\/794579\/2\/preview\/promo_794579.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:56:48"},{"title":"VALUATIONS OF A SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALIST","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/valuations-of-a-social-transcendentalist\/816774","description":"VALUATIONS OF A SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALIST is the sequel to 'Alpha and Omega - Diabolic Beginning and Divine End' and, like that worthy ebook, it has been divided into several parts, viz. 'Revaluations', 'Valuations', and 'Transvaluations', which further advance the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism in relation to the respective parts and their numerical spiralling through several cycles, as before. As regards the various modes of 'valuating', the only omission on my part is in regard to devaluating, which I preferred not to categorically embrace.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/816000\/816774\/2\/preview\/promo_816774.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:44:43"},{"title":"UNFLATTERING CONCLUSIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/unflattering-conclusions\/973868","description":"This volume of aphoristic philosophy, like its precursor 'Opti-mystic Projections', continues with an analysis of Anglo-American relations vis-a-vis Europe and, with conclusions that are less than flattering to either side, addresses the problem from a Social Theocratic standpoint as that which is more likely to unblock any division rooted in Catholic\/Protestant antipathy and suspicion, no matter how disguised or unspoken.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/973000\/973868\/2\/preview\/promo_973868.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:16:06"},{"title":"ULTRANOTES FROM BEYOND","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/ultranotes-from-beyond\/805173","description":"ULTRANOTES FROM BEYOND ... THE UNITED KINGDOM\/REPUBLIC OF IRELAND contains some 600 aphorisms largely dedicated to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism and the means whereby it could be politically developed and even implemented. For nothing is more certain than that this ideology regards itself as existing beyond the bounds of both Britain and Ireland in terms of its endorsement of a new kind of sovereignty incompatible with worldly criteria.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/805000\/805173\/2\/preview\/promo_805173.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:54:00"},{"title":"ULTRACONTEMPLATIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/ultracontemplations\/799457","description":"Like 'Contemplations' and 'Supercontemplations', this  volume of poetic word art, which bears the title ULTRACONTEMPLATIONS, requires only to be contemplated, since it is composed of patterned entities which, when they are not in mirror reverse perspective, are all different and all equally suggestive of a variety of insights which arguably owe more to art than to poetry.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/799000\/799457\/2\/preview\/promo_799457.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:33:22"},{"title":"TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/two-sides-of-the-same-coin\/852694","description":"TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN derives its seemingly banal but actually very pertinent title from the combination of short prose (the bulk of the text) with an aphoristic appendix which briefly recapitulates, on succinct terms, many of the theories explored in the text, the text itself deriving from the combination of four prior volumes of short prose which make this project volume one of a two-volume 'collected short prose'.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/852000\/852694\/3\/preview\/promo_852694.jpg","date":"Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:01:27"},{"title":"TRUTHFUL ILLUSIONS & ILLUSORY TRUTHS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/truthful-illusions-illusory-truths\/850760","description":"TRUTHFUL ILLUSIONS & ILLUSORY TRUTHS is effectively a combination of the more essayistic material from two prior publications, viz. 'Between Truth and Illusion' and 'The Illusory Truth', and therefore signifies a kind of truncated or concise version of those books which has the merit of excluding alternative approaches to philosophy as it concentrates, with single-minded stylistic purpose, upon the essential concerns of John O'Loughlin's early philosophy, viz. the exploration of dualism, around the mid-70s, at the very beginning of his vocational adventure.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/850000\/850760\/2\/preview\/promo_850760.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:14:02"},{"title":"TREES","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/trees\/777635","description":"Despite the seeming simplicity of its title, TREES is anything but simple, since arguably the deepest and most politically radical of all John O'Loughlin's volumes of poetry, extending beyond as well as  summing up earlier themes with an ideological conviction that points towards a whole new approach to culture.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/777000\/777635\/2\/preview\/promo_777635.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:47:36"},{"title":"TOWARDS THE SUPERNOUMENON","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/towards-the-supernoumenon\/792161","description":"TOWARDS THE SUPERNOUMENON is a substantial compilation of spiralling 'supernotes', or aphoristic essays and essayistic aphorisms, that takes an artificially antithetical position to Schopenhauer, the great German philosopher, by positing a progression, on the plane of artificial modernity, from phenomenon to noumenon, as though in contrast to anything naturalistic and effectively traditional.  But it does this in relation to a variety of elemental planes, and thus on as comprehensive a basis as was possible to the author at the time.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/792000\/792161\/2\/preview\/promo_792161.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:20:27"},{"title":"TOTAL TRUTH","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/total-truth\/817118","description":"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.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/817000\/817118\/2\/preview\/promo_817118.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:52:43"},{"title":"THWARTED AMBITIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/thwarted-ambitions\/753200","description":"More of a novel about art and artists than writers, even though a writer figures prominently in thwarting a certain influential art critic in his designs upon an unsuspecting artist whose girlfriend's suspicions were not without foundation.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/753000\/753200\/2\/preview\/promo_753200.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:28:47"},{"title":"THE YANG AND ANTI-YIN QUARTET","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-yang-and-anti-yin-quartet\/824112","description":"This quartet of books of aphoristic philosophy with a Social Theocratic dimension is comprised of 'Yang and Anti-Yin', 'Lamb and Anti-Lion', 'Celestial City and Anti-Vanity Fair' and, last but by no means least, 'Jesus - A Summing Up!', the title of which is a kind of oblique tribute to Arthur Koestler's estimable 'Janus - A Summing Up', which, however, would not have much bearing on the aforementioned works in terms of thematic structure, as germane, by and large, to the noumenal distinction between metaphysics and antimetachemistry, as explained in the texts.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/824000\/824112\/2\/preview\/promo_824112.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:48:24"},{"title":"THE WILL TO TRUTH","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-will-to-truth\/785965","description":"THE WILL TO TRUTH combines dialogues with essays and aphorisms with maxims in a substantial multigenre project of original philosophy with strongly transcendentalist overtones, such that embrace a concept of the Millennium which is both a necessary corrective to Marxist delusions and an ideologically meaningful alternative to thousand-year dating.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/785000\/785965\/2\/preview\/promo_785965.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:37:43"},{"title":"THE WAY OF EVOLUTION","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-way-of-evolution\/783938","description":"THE WAY OF EVOLUTION combines nine substantial essays with an aphoristic appendix as it strives to delineate evolutionary trends and to uphold the desirability of transcendental artificiality in the face of naturalistic traditions.  Subjects range from gender and class to literature and music, as well as an interesting variant on the 'philosophy of history' as propounded by the estimable likes of Oswald Spengler, Simone Weil, and Malcolm Muggeridge.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/783000\/783938\/2\/preview\/promo_783938.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:07:07"},{"title":"THE VIRTUOUS CIRCLES QUARTET","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-virtuous-circles-quartet\/819391","description":"This quartet of aphoristic philosophy continues the author's quest for Social Transcendentalist perfection through texts as diverse as the aforementioned 'The Virtuous Circles', which opens the volume, 'The Struggle for Ultimate Freedom', 'Apotheosis of the Gnosis' and 'Eschatology or Scatology', the latter of which would suggest a choice between Heaven and, in effect, Hell.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/819000\/819391\/2\/preview\/promo_819391.jpg","date":"Tue, 18 Nov 2008 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contents are largely of an omega-oriented order of transcendentalism with ideological overtones, is comprised of four books of poetry written during the early '80s, viz. 'Stressing the Essential', 'Spiritual Intimations', 'The Modern Death', and 'Trees', and provides an alternative approach to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism that has the virtue of bringing all of John O'Loughlin's poetic works of a philosophical nature together in one volume.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/873000\/873276\/2\/preview\/promo_873276.jpg","date":"Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:46:41"},{"title":"THE OMEGA POINT OF CULTURAL TRUTH","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-omega-point-of-cultural-truth\/814478","description":"THE OMEGA POINT OF CULTURAL TRUTH begins with an outline of the author's habitual fourfold, Element-conditioned approach to thinking and proceeds to ask, in subsequent cycles, a variety of questions concerning the Cosmos, Nature, Man, and the Cyborg, before concluding with an overview of life from a Social Transcendentalist standpoint which includes a number of answers and possible solutions to problems already raised.  Needless to say, this is another milestone on the road leading the author towards metaphysical perfection.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/814000\/814478\/2\/preview\/promo_814478.jpg","date":"Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:58:57"},{"title":"THE MYTH OF EQUALITY","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-myth-of-equality\/812538","description":"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.  All in all, this book debunks simple equalitarian reductionism, whether of the humanistic or non-humanistic varieties.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/812000\/812538\/2\/preview\/promo_812538.jpg","date":"Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:27:14"},{"title":"THE MODERN DEATH","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-modern-death\/777330","description":"THE MODERN DEATH offers both a critique of the materialistic superficiality of modern life and a spiritually-oriented ideological solution to it in the form of Social Transcendentalism, which was first introduced into the author's poetry with the volume 'Spiritual Intimations', but here achieves a metaphysical depth of insight that was one of the factors in his subsequently abandoning poetry for philosophy.  Be that as it may, this volume has a right to be regarded as metaphysical poetry, even though John O'Loughlin's concept of metaphysics was to undergo a radical overhaul in the years since the composition of these poems.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/777000\/777330\/2\/preview\/promo_777330.jpg","date":"Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:07:31"},{"title":"THE KINGDOM OF THE SOUL","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-kingdom-of-the-soul\/807087","description":"With fifteen headed cycles of aphoristic philosophy, THE KINGDOM OF THE SOUL is a further advance in John O'Loughlin's metaphysics, as a variety of dualities or antitheses are examined in relation to the overall elemental structures of the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism, examples of which include state and church, conservatism and libertarianism, work and play, &c.  There is also an insightful critique of Being, both in relation to ontology and to actually being philosophical.  All in all, THE KINGDOM OF THE SOUL is a work one would be glad to have read if one is a dedicated follower of Truth.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/807000\/807087\/2\/preview\/promo_807087.jpg","date":"Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:36:37"},{"title":"THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY ...","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-importance-of-technology\/782640","description":"This project derives its quite long title from the combination of two collections of dialogues, viz. 'The Transcendental Future' and 'The Importance of Technology', both of which were originally published in separate volumes.  Amalgamated into one volume here, however, they achieve a depth and consistency of purpose which not only lends more weight to the essayistic introduction, but grants additional substance to the aphoristic appendix which draws the project to what could arguably be regarded as a transcendental conclusion.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/782000\/782640\/4\/preview\/promo_782640.jpg","date":"Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:44:37"},{"title":"THE ILLUSORY TRUTH","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-illusory-truth\/780582","description":"As the sequel to 'Between Truth and Illusion', this volume of aphoristic essays and essayistic aphorisms and\/or maxims carries on the dualistic theories from where BTAI left off, but does so with greater intellectual freedom and stylistic abandon, creating a substantial essayistic platform from which the aphorisms and maxims were subsequently launched, to dualistic and sometimes more than dualistic effect.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/780000\/780582\/2\/preview\/promo_780582.jpg","date":"Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:33:49"},{"title":"THE IDEOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-ideological-philosophy\/804737","description":"THE IDEOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALISM, to give it its full title, is the next e-book after 'Revolutions & Revelations', and, like its precursor, it is an aphoristically cyclical text that spirals towards a summit of philosophical truth.  Most of John O'Loughlin's characteristic quadruplicities are reviewed here, but they invariably lead to new vistas of logical insight in frameworks that owe something, though not everything, to the basic Elements.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/804000\/804737\/2\/preview\/promo_804737.jpg","date":"Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:19:59"},{"title":"THE HIGH-WAY OF TRUTH","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-high-way-of-truth\/959121","description":"THE HIGH-WAY OF TRUTH, the title of which puns highway with high way, is an unequivocal affirmation of Social Transcendentalism and of the need for a rejection of traditional faith if truth is to emerge finally triumphant.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/959000\/959121\/2\/preview\/promo_959121.jpg","date":"Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:32:39"},{"title":"THE FREE TESTAMENT QUARTET","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-free-testament-quartet\/821941","description":"The four e-books in this quartet are 'The Free Testament (Of a Bound Genius)', 'Revelationary Afterthoughts', 'Revolutionary Afterthoughts', and 'Judgemental Afterthoughts (Of a Free Genius)', all of which take the author's ideological philosophy closer to completion in what is a kind of ultimate testament to Social Theocratic truth.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/821000\/821941\/3\/preview\/promo_821941.jpg","date":"Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:06:07"},{"title":"THE FREE TESTAMENT","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-free-testament\/989023","description":"THE FREE TESTAMENT, subtitled Of A Bound Genius, is one of those volumes of aphoristic philosophy by John O'Loughlin which tend towards a categorical comprehensiveness that leaves little or nothing either out of the equation (frame) or to chance, including an examination of certain numerological norms which here undergo a radical transformation commensurate with the divisions of axial relativity into both psychic and somatic contexts for both genders.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/989000\/989023\/2\/preview\/promo_989023.jpg","date":"Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:53:08"},{"title":"THE FATHER OMEGA SEXTET","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-father-omega-sextet\/822608","description":"This is the author's only literary 'sextet', a six-book philosophy project entitled THE FATHER OMEGA SEXTET, the individual books of which include 'Father Omega's Last Testament', 'Revauations and Transvaluations', 'The Classless Solution', and 'The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction'.  In fact, this and the subsequent two books are principally about dialectics, albeit of a different and more complex order to anything Marxist and merely materialist.  All in all, this monumental project stands very close to, if not actually at, the apex of an oeuvre which has chronologically spiralled towards metaphysical perfection through Social Theocracy and the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/822000\/822608\/2\/preview\/promo_822608.jpg","date":"Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:27:48"},{"title":"THE FALL OF LOVE","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-fall-of-love\/782385","description":"These six philosophical essays, which vary in length and treatment of style, were written in the late 1970s and reflect a concern with the influence of environment upon culture, not least in respect of literature, music, religion, and knowledge generally.  Although the author is not anti-urban per se, he finds that certain types of urban civilization can be detrimental to spirituality, including the life of the soul, and THAT, believe it or not, was the basis of 'The Fall of Love'.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/782000\/782385\/2\/preview\/promo_782385.jpg","date":"Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:47:34"},{"title":"THE ETHNIC UNIVERSALITY QUARTET","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-ethnic-universality-quartet\/818969","description":"As suggested by the title, THE ETHNIC UNIVERSALITY QUARTET is comprised of four volumes of numbered aphorisms that loosely cycle in metaphysical spirals towards an ideological summit, the volumes being 'Ethnic Universality', 'No Man-oeuvre', 'The High-way of Truth', and 'The End of Evolution', all of which are germane to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism, with its eschatological promise.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/818000\/818969\/2\/preview\/promo_818969.jpg","date":"Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:18:50"},{"title":"THE END OF EVOLUTION","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-end-of-evolution\/959347","description":"THE END OF EVOLUTION points towards a future hypothetical - and morally desirable - culmination of evolution which will be both transcendentalist and antifundamentalist, idealist and antimaterialist, metaphysical and antimetachemical, and therefore provides a structured blueprint for a credible alternative to worldly norms. In that respect, it is beyond any utopian reductionism and\/or fudged eschatology.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/959000\/959347\/2\/preview\/promo_959347.jpg","date":"Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:41:09"},{"title":"THE DIALECTICS OF SYNTHETIC ATTRACTION","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-dialectics-of-synthetic-attraction\/994590","description":"THE DIALECTICS OF SYNTHETIC ATTRACTION picks up from where 'The Classless Solution' (2004) left off, and does so in considerably more detail and with greater confidence in the veracity of its contentions, with a consequence that we have, for the first time, a post-Marxian and even supra-Marxist dialectics which do more justice to the historical process than Marx, with his narrowly economic take on things, ever did. 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And no bluff!","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/994000\/994634\/2\/preview\/promo_994634.jpg","date":"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:46:51"},{"title":"THE DIALECTICS OF CIVILIZATION","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-dialectics-of-civilization\/994602","description":"THE DIALECTICS OF CIVILIZATION continues the dialectical analysis of civilization and of, in a broader sense, the evolutionary process from where it left off in 'The Dialectics of Synthetic Attraction', the author's previous book, and achieves not only enhanced certitude from a greater comprehensiveness of axial and other factors, but also embraces a well-nigh definitive insight into the distinctions between Space and Time which should leave the reader in no doubt as to the path that leads to Eternity and, hence, to the resolution of the historical process.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/994000\/994602\/2\/preview\/promo_994602.jpg","date":"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:24:16"},{"title":"THE CORE OF THE SELF","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-core-of-the-self\/806840","description":"THE CORE OF THE SELF logically follows 'The Soul of Being' as a major text in which the various aphoristic cycles spiral towards a new summit identified, in this case, with the core of the self conceived in intensely metaphysical terms.  The writing of this author of course goes on, as does his doggedly logical pursuit of Truth, way beyond this particular title, but here it achieves a degree of definitiveness, in connection with its main subjects, which it would be difficult if not impossible to refute.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/806000\/806840\/2\/preview\/promo_806840.jpg","date":"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:02:17"},{"title":"THE CLASSLESS SOLUTION","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-classless-solution\/994580","description":"THE CLASSLESS SOLUTION is not a re-run of Marxism even though it insists that classlessness is metaphysical and therefore only intelligible within the elemental context of metaphysics.  Neither is it a re-run of Marxism in terms of its understanding and explanation of how civilization advances, which is here investigated for the first time in a way that will be taken up again in subsequent books and clarified or consummated, as the case may be.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/994000\/994580\/2\/preview\/promo_994580.jpg","date":"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:29:37"},{"title":"THE APOCALYPSO QUARTET","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/the-apocalypso-quartet\/819665","description":"Besides the volume entitled 'Apocalypso - The New Revelation', this project also includes 'At the Crossroads of Axial Divergence', 'Opti-mystic Projections' and 'Unflattering Conclusions', all of which do further justice to the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism and its Social Theocratic antipathy to Social Democracy.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/819000\/819665\/2\/preview\/promo_819665.jpg","date":"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:03:38"},{"title":"TERMINOLOGICAL DICTIONARY","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/terminological-dictionary\/807215","description":"This is John O'Loughlin's first and, to-date, only attempt at writing a dictionary, in which the terms follow alphabetically in chronological spelling order, and, needless to say, it's in conjunction with the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism that such a project was initially launched, with, it would appear, an acceptable degree of structural and thematic credibility to warrant such a portentous title.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/807000\/807215\/2\/preview\/promo_807215.jpg","date":"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:16:11"},{"title":"TALES SIDE UP","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/tales-side-up\/852730","description":"TALES SIDE UP is volume two of John O'Loughlin's Collected Short Prose and is comprised of three prior books dating from 1982-4.  The title is a pun on tails, since the first volume was entitled 'Two Sides of the Same Coin' and that more or less metaphysical coin persists here with even greater ideological intensity, if on a basis excluding any heads-like commitment to an aphoristic appendix, and therefore concerned  with a kind of fictional presentation of the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/852000\/852730\/2\/preview\/promo_852730.jpg","date":"Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:33:52"},{"title":"SUPERCONTEMPLATIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/supercontemplations\/797208","description":"SUPERCONTEMPLATIONS signifies a creative advance on the earlier volume of abstract poetry entitled 'Contemplations', in that it combines upper- and lower-case monosyllabic words in the process of creating patterned entities which, whatever their subliminal message, require only to be contemplated and are thus akin to a mode of 'word art', the only difference being that these 'poems' were created with a word-processing program rather than with a paint program involving characters.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/797000\/797208\/2\/preview\/promo_797208.jpg","date":"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:59:13"},{"title":"SUBLIMATED RELATIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/sublimated-relations\/760176","description":"A young writer of radically religious tendency is invited to spend the first weekend of the New Year at a country house in the company of other creative or talented individuals who have been earmarked, unbeknown to themselves, for participation in a unique experiment in connection with a certain revolutionary museum,whose contents are even more sublimated than the relationships that artificially develop between guests and patrons both before and after their enlightenment.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/760000\/760176\/2\/preview\/promo_760176.jpg","date":"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:29:36"},{"title":"STRESSING THE ESSENTIAL","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/stressing-the-essential\/777105","description":"Mr O'Loughlin's second collection of poetry, written nearly ten years after 'Dosshouse Blues', is less formal overall and more orientated towards free verse, whilst being more consistently transcendentalist in relation to his by-then-fledgling theories of the post-human.  For all their stylistic similarity, however, these poems still vary enormously in length and subject-matter, the longest and arguably the best, viz. 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Certainly 'Spiritual Intimations' is poetically more assured than its precursor, as well as deeper and thematically more expansive.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/777000\/777209\/2\/preview\/promo_777209.jpg","date":"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:56:24"},{"title":"SOCIAL TRANSCENDENTALISM - Socialistic Means to a Transcendent End","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/social-transcendentalism---socialistic-means-to-a-transcendent-end\/787746","description":"This project brings the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism more or less ssystematically 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 transcendentalist, but the means are socialistic (which is not the same as socialism).","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/787000\/787746\/2\/preview\/promo_787746.jpg","date":"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:57:53"},{"title":"SECRET EXCHANGES","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/secret-exchanges\/755022","description":"A young artist who has belatedly renewed relations with an old female acquaintance gradually finds himself becoming disillusioned with her and drawn towards one of her friends instead, though not without first having to deal with the mother of his original girlfriend whose amorous advances toward him are in consequence of marital incompatibilities which this novel takes a sympathetic interest in, despite the outcome.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/755000\/755022\/2\/preview\/promo_755022.jpg","date":"Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:27:31"},{"title":"REVOLUTIONS & REVELATIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/revolutions-revelations\/803614","description":"REVOLUTIONS & REVELATIONS (of an ideological philosopher) combines two volumes of cyclical aphorisms in one book and develops the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism to a new and more advanced level, which builds on what was already established in books like 'Omeganotes of an Ideological Philosopher'.  Things can become very complicated, but they tend to remain logically consistent on both noumenal (space\/time) and phenomenal (volume\/mass) planes.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/803000\/803614\/2\/preview\/promo_803614.jpg","date":"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:50:02"},{"title":"REVOLUTIONARY AFTERTHOUGHTS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/revolutionary-afterthoughts\/989075","description":"This is the companion of and sequel to 'Revelationary Afterthoughts' (2003) and, like what precedes it, the subject-matter is particularly focused on axial relativity not only with regard to the distinctions between what have been called 'the above' and 'the below', but also between those across the axial divide who, though commonly bound, remain symptomatic of independent and incompatible traditions which can only be transcended or modified on the basis outlined in the text of what is, by any standards, another compellingly cogent volume of aphoristic philosophy.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/989000\/989075\/2\/preview\/promo_989075.jpg","date":"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:55:16"},{"title":"REVELATIONARY AFTERTHOUGHTS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/revelationary-afterthoughts\/989053","description":"REVELATIONARY AFTERTHOUGHTS ... Of A Bound Genius continues in the exactingly comprehensive vein of 'The Free Testament' (2003), with a cogent presentation of its material that deserves to be regarded as revelationary ['revelatory', though grammatically more correct, would not suffice in this context], not least in respect of its understanding of the relationship between evil and good, which rather conflicts with common usage.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/989000\/989053\/2\/preview\/promo_989053.jpg","date":"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:39:05"},{"title":"RADICAL PROGRESS - The Only Way Forward","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/radical-progress---the-only-way-forward\/979760","description":"RADICAL PROGRESS - The Only Way Forward ... is confident of its direction and of the terms by which such progress can and should be effected, as it analyzes axial relativity from the standpoint of the transcendent.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/979000\/979760\/2\/preview\/promo_979760.jpg","date":"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:18:53"},{"title":"PRIVATE OBSERVATIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/private-observations\/812221","description":"PRIVATE OBSERVATIONS is not quite as private as it first appeared to be, since it is a fully-fledged example of John O'Loughlin's cyclic philosophy at its best, and therefore extends the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism into new realms of speculative and ontological endeavor that continue to do maximum justice to metaphysics, whatever personal observations to the contrary may suggest.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/812000\/812221\/3\/preview\/promo_812221.jpg","date":"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:57:02"},{"title":"POST-ATOMIC PERSPECTIVES","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/post-atomic-perspectives\/785510","description":"POST-ATOMIC PERSPECTIVES combines essays, dialogues, aphorisms and maxims in a multigenre format of original philosophy with a transcendentalist bias, and does so on a basis which affirms a certain post-atomic and post-human perspective on evolutionary progress which veers towards the messianic without being in the least bit religiously conventional.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/785000\/785510\/2\/preview\/promo_785510.jpg","date":"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:00:39"},{"title":"POST-ATOMIC INTEGRITIES","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/post-atomic-integrities\/765416","description":"A lonely writer of radically philosophical tendency is visited by an old acquaintance one evening and becomes, to his considerable surprise, amorously involved with her and, subsequently, willing to take on responsibility, outside of marriage, for her teenage daughter, whom he tutors, once she has come of age, in the ways of post-atomic integrities.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/765000\/765416\/2\/preview\/promo_765416.jpg","date":"Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:39:01"},{"title":"BEYOND THE PALE","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/beyond-the-pale\/775270","description":"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.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/775000\/775270\/2\/preview\/promo_775270.jpg","date":"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:01:07"},{"title":"PORTRAITS - Power and Glory vis-a-vis Form and Contentment","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/portraits---power-and-glory-vis-a-vis-form-and-contentment\/776803","description":"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!","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/776000\/776803\/2\/preview\/promo_776803.jpg","date":"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:28:07"},{"title":"POINT OMEGA POINT","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/point-omega-point\/814383","description":"POINT OMEGA POINT - The Omega Standpoint continues the quest for cyclical or metaphysical perfection from where 'Freedom and Determinism' leaves off and does so with even greater depth and confidence in its handling of the largely gender-conditioned distinction between Nature and Civilization on both sensual and sensible terms, thereby bringing the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism to a kind of omega point in its own right.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/814000\/814383\/2\/preview\/promo_814383.jpg","date":"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:05:06"},{"title":"PHILOSOPHICAL TRUTH","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/philosophical-truth\/794155","description":"As implied by the 'T' of the title, this book utilizes a number of T-shaped diagrammatic structures to illustrate a framework which derives from the basic Elements and continues to necessitate recourse to an approach to philosophy which is anything but trinitarian or tripartite in character but wholly committed, on the contrary, to understanding life in terms of quadruplicities.   This 'Philosophical Truth' is certainly more truthful than most philosophical systems have ever been and a whole lot more ideologically committed, to boot.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/794000\/794155\/2\/preview\/promo_794155.jpg","date":"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:40:49"},{"title":"PHILOSOPHICAL RUMINATIONS & THEOSOPHICAL ILLUMINATIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/philosophical-ruminations-theosophical-illuminations\/825864","description":"These two 'posthumous' publications to John O'Loughlin's oeuvre-proper were culled, like the material of 'Opus Postscriptum', from certain of his blogsites and contain material of an essayistic and aphoristic nature which has been extensively revised and reformatted to suit the parameters of eBook publication.  There is a sense, though only a loose one, in which the first book corresponds to physics and the second book, the so-called 'Theosophical Illuminations', to metaphysics, though that is more in the form than in the substance, since both books are equally radical and thoroughgoing in their approach to metaphysics and kindred subjects.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/825000\/825864\/2\/preview\/promo_825864.jpg","date":"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:46:36"},{"title":"PATHWAYS TO 'THE KINGDOM'","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/pathways-to-the-kingdom\/904030","description":"Dating from 2001, PATHWAYS TO 'THE KINGDOM' attempts to delineate the approaches to what has been loosely identified with 'Kingdom Come', though the term 'kingdom' would bear scant resemblance to anything autocratic but, rather, derives from common usage and\/or expectation in relation to Biblical eschatology.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/904000\/904030\/2\/preview\/promo_904030.jpg","date":"Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:27:30"},{"title":"OPUS POSTSCRIPTUM","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/opus-postscriptum\/824655","description":"OPUS POSTSCRIPTUM differs from John O'Loughlin's oeuvre in general in that it is comprised of revised and reformatted weblogs from the author's site at spweblog.com and is therefore supplementary to the works which came to a head with 'The Yang and Anti-Yin Quartet' (2005).  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But it is in its departure from anything to do with the 'Clear Light of the Void' that this project stands out as a beacon of evolutionary enlightenment in relation to the 'Holy Spirit of Heaven'.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/795000\/795965\/2\/preview\/promo_795965.jpg","date":"Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:40:03"},{"title":"MAGNUS DEI","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/magnus-dei\/810819","description":"With some twenty-eight cycles of numbered aphorisms, MAGNUS DEI is something of a magnus opus, even if still at quite some rung-like distance from the top rung of John O'Loughlin's ladder-like literary oeuvre.  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But it has a peculiar and ultimately salutary effect on his personal relations with a certain Greta Ryan, who also figures prominently in this most comic of John O'Loughlin's novels.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/756000\/756995\/2\/preview\/promo_756995.jpg","date":"Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:06"},{"title":"LOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/lopsided-conversations\/853697","description":"LOPSIDED CONVERSATIONS is volume one of a projected two-volume 'collected dialogues' by John O'Loughlin which moves from a relatively dramatic - even play-like - beginning towards a more systematically philosophical approach to the genre which, fittingly, culminates with an aphoristic appendix that both summarizes and crowns this immense literary project.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/853000\/853697\/2\/preview\/promo_853697.jpg","date":"Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:33:49"},{"title":"LITERATURE AND THE INTERCARDINAL AXIAL COMPASS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/literature-and-the-intercardinal-axial-compass\/4234062","description":"A substantial collection of extensively revised and reformatted weblogs from different sites by the author, John O'Loughlin, who has brought a variety of his most recent philosophically-related articles together in one place and achieved something of a consistent body of philosophical thought.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/4234000\/4234062\/2\/preview\/promo_4234062.jpg","date":"Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:49:00"},{"title":"LAST (W)RITES","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/last-%28w%29rites\/801104","description":"As suggested by the pun-like title, LAST (W)RITES is both a bringing to a conclusion of certain previous theories by John O'Loughlin which here attain to a well-nigh definitive presentation, and a ceremonial conclusion to certain lifestyles which this book is intended to assist kill off in the interests of what it calls a Superchristian dispensation commensurate with Social Transcendentalism and, hence, with an antithesis to all that, in contemporary terms, is effectively Superheathen.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/801000\/801104\/2\/preview\/promo_801104.jpg","date":"Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:57:27"},{"title":"LAST JUDGEMENTS","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/last-judgements\/795636","description":"As suggested by its title, LAST JUDGEMENTS is the last of the supernotational volumes of aphoristic essays and essayistic aphorisms stemming from 'Devil and God - the Omega Book', and is a kind of summing up of and in some sense elaboration upon various of the themes previously explored.  However, it would be wrong to underestimate the original aspects of this project which, though comparatively short, paved the way for a kind of aphoristic purism commensurate with metaphysical truth.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/795000\/795636\/3\/preview\/promo_795636.jpg","date":"Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:17:15"},{"title":"LAMB AND ANTI-LION","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/lamb-and-anti-lion\/997891","description":"LAMB AND ANTI-LION delves deeper than its forerunner, 'Yang and Anti-Yin', into the noumenal sensibility of metaphysics, and this in turn permits of a clarification of other elemental positions which, under the guiding light of new findings, are proportionately modified and\/or re-evaluated (revaluated).  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The 180 or so poems collected together here are all readerly, or capable of being read, as opposed, like the bulk of Mr O'Loughlin's abstract poetry, to being contemplated, and have accordingly been described as verse (whether 'rhymed' or 'free') to distinguish them from anything abstract, or non-readerly.  'Lyric' might suffice as a more conventional description, but, frankly, that would hardly apply to the majority of the poems here which, as stated, are  distinctly philosophical and the product, in consequence, of a disguised philosopher, a philosopher in disguise.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/857000\/857385\/2\/preview\/promo_857385.jpg","date":"Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:49:08"},{"title":"FUTURE TRANSFORMATIONS - The Undiluted Truth","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/future-transformations---the-undiluted-truth\/784191","description":"FUTURE TRANSFORMATIONS combines essays with dialogues, both of which are transcended by aphorisms in the lengthy appendix of what, on balance, 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 humanistic 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 humanistic authors like Aldous Huxley.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/784000\/784191\/2\/preview\/promo_784191.jpg","date":"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:47:59"},{"title":"FROM THE DEVIL TO GOD","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/from-the-devil-to-god\/770807","description":"A substantial collection of short prose with a markedly philosophical bias that follows on from 'A Visit to Hell' and signifies a rejection of the kind of Spenglerian pessimism - as Schopenhauer to Nietzsche - that figured prominently in the latter volume.  Here things open out towards a future in which God is the evolutionary outcome.  Hence the title 'From the Devil to God', with implications that contrast the alpha-most of things with the omega-most.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/770000\/770807\/2\/preview\/promo_770807.jpg","date":"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:23:53"},{"title":"FROM SATAN TO SATURN","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/from-satan-to-saturn\/797489","description":"FROM SATAN TO SATURN has the distinction of being the first of John O'Loughlin's cyclical works of aphoristic philosophy (theosophy), that is, a volume in which numbered aphorisms are recycled over and over as the text 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 (or theosophical perfection) continues with a vengeance.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/797000\/797489\/2\/preview\/promo_797489.jpg","date":"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:00:10"},{"title":"FROM PUNISHMENT TO GRACE","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/from-punishment-to-grace\/799303","description":"FROM PUNISHMENT TO GRACE is in many respects the sequel to 'From Satan to Saturn', since it follows a similarly cyclical approach to text with numbered aphorisms which spiral, through several cycles, towards a philosophical summit which is both an end and the portent of a fresh beginning.  Suffice it to say that the ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism is given a further boost with this project, whose subject-matter is wide-ranging but always related, in one way or another, to the ideology in question.","thumb":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/items\/volume_64\/799000\/799303\/2\/preview\/promo_799303.jpg","date":"Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:29:11"},{"title":"FROM MATERIALISM TO IDEALISM","url":"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/e-book\/from-materialism-to-idealism\/790246","description":"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.  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