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The Soul of Being
Conceived in a chronologically continuous aphoristic terms, this 1998 project by John O'Loughlin is nevertheless divided into twelve sections, each of which bears a headed title in quasi-essayistic vein. Examples of such titles include 'Fair to Life', 'Collective and Individual', 'Self vis-a-vis Not-Self', 'Form and Content(ment)', and 'Metaphysical Salvation'. There is also, at the end, a fairly long appendix which has the merit, not uncharacteristic of the author's appendices, of both summing-up the text and, in this particular case, illustrating the 'reculer pour mieux sauter', or stepping back in order to leap further forward, attitude which underlines much of the foregoing philosophy. Certainly this book goes deeper than the previous one, 'Ultranotes from Beyond' (1997-8), in terms of its understanding of the Self and the methodology of self-actualization, or self-realization, by which the bridge from ego to soul is crossed.
Lost Trails of the Cimarron
Lost Trails of the Cimarron is Harry Chrisman's folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country - southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as the Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit. Chrisman details the history of the outlaws and ruffians of "No Man's Land" and trail drives to Dodge City and beyond. Numerous illustrations accompany the anecdotes and stories of various frontier personalities. A new foreword by Jim Hoy also appears in this edition.
The Families of County Clare, Ireland
Specifications: 6" x 9" size; 167 pages; 50 illustrations; well indexed by surname. Includes Castles in County Clare; family seats of power; locations; variant spellings of family names; full map of County Clare, coats of arms, and sources for research. From ancient times to the modern day. Second and most current edition. Author/Editor: Michael C. O'Laughlin. Please note that the first volume in the Irish Families Project, "The Book of Irish Families, great & small", has additional information on Families in County Clare.
The Curia is the Pope
The dogmas of Vatican I almost achieved the bureaucratic and papal ambitions. The conditions attached to papal infallibility, however, limited its use to one occasion in 150 years. But the title itself facilitated fake claims. Pseudo-infallibilities have a high maintenance cost. They now take priority over the commandment to love and over Christ's mandates "Do This" and "Make Disciples". They limit management options, causing ever-widening sacramental famine. Their defence has involved coercion, deception, and shoddy scholarship with consequent diminished credibility for church leaders. The second dogma, universal jurisdiction, turned the self-perpetuating bureaucracy that normally controls ...
End Station J J
This title is intended to be John O'Loughlin's ultimate non-fiction book, going beyond his previous such book Endstation H H (with its German title) in so many ways that one would hesitate to regard it as a continuation of the theories broached therein – although to some extent it is – so much as a revolutionary overhaul and break with them that should prove to be as logically definitive and thematically exacting as is humanly possible, and therefore even more philosophically comprehensive. Thus whilst this title may not appeal to everyone, on account of its sheer complexity, it should satisfy the curiosity of those who, already partly familiar with the author's mature, or late-period, writings, would like to see just how he has progressed and exactly why he considers this to be his ultimate, and therefore definitive, theoretical book, one that should surely place him right at the forefront of religiously-orientated philosophical endeavour. – A Centretruths Editorial
Hidden Mercy
The 1980s and 1990s, the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, was decades ago now, and many of the stories from this time remain hidden: A Catholic nun from a small Midwestern town packs up her life to move to New York City, where she throws herself into a community under assault from HIV and AIDS. A young priest sees himself in the many gay men dying from AIDS and grapples with how best to respond, eventually coming out as gay and putting his own career on the line. A gay Catholic with HIV loses his partner to AIDS and then flees the church, focusing his energy on his own health rather than fight an institution seemingly rejecting him. Set against the backdrop of the HIV and AIDS...
Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the International Geographic Union conference on geopolitics and globalisation in a post-modern world, held in Israel in 1998, and deals with aspects of change.
New Geopolitics
First Published in 1992. This volume focuses upon the synergy between geography and international politics. A new geopolitics is developed bringing together the insights of political geography and international relations. In each chapter, leading scholars focus on the spatial context through which contemporary world politics are conducted. War, conflict, cooperation, state building and power are examined in a geopolitical context.
Quotable Thoughts
An original aphoristic philosophy project divided into two substantive parts, the first of which, entitled 'Quotable Thoughts', is less technically sophisticated and altogether more concise than the second, entitled 'Unquotable Thoughts', which is quasi-essayistic in character, albeit still written within a loosely aphoristic framework the contents of which would, given their average length, be difficult if not impossible to memorize, or quote. Finally, this eBook is rounded off with an essayistic appendix and a fairly brief biographical sketch of the author. Following on from Notable Thoughts (2022), this is John O'Loughlin's most advanced and logically definitive text, which should reward those who are really keen to learn how things comprehensively 'stack up' on a variety of levels, both negatively and positively, on terms which considerably expose the misleading and possibly expedient nature of common usage in respect of what he holds to be crass generalizations. – A Centretruths Editorial
The Tragedy of Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine has deep domestic roots. A third of the population, primarily in the East and South, regards its own Russian cultural identity as entirely compatible with a Ukrainian civic identity. The state’s reluctance to recognize this ethnos as a legitimate part of the modern Ukrainian nation, has created a tragic cycle that entangles Ukrainian politics. The Tragedy of Ukraine argues that in order to untangle the conflict within the Ukraine, it must be addressed on an emotional, as well as institutional level. It draws on Richard Ned Lebow’s ‘tragic vision of politics’ and on classical Greek tragedy to assist in understanding the persistence of this conflict. Classical Greek tragedy once served as a mechanism in Athenian society to heal deep social trauma and create more just institutions. The Tragedy of Ukraine reflects on the ways in which ancient Greek tragedy can help us rethink civic conflict and polarization, as well as model ways of healing deep social divisions.
