So There: Civilization - Its Betrayers and Enemies in Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781983900020)

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 with her daughter 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 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. Upon leaving in 1970 with an assortment of CSEs (Certificate of Secondary Education) and GCEs (General Certificate of Education), including history and music, he moved 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 for booking ABRSM examination venues throughout the British Isles. After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, he returned to his former job in the West End but left the Associated Board in 1976 due to a combination of factors, including ill-health, and began to dedicate himself to a literary career which, despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey YMCA in the late '80s and early '90s, he has continued with ever since. His novels include 'Changing Worlds' (1976), 'Cross-Purposes' (1979), 'Thwarted Ambitions' (1980), 'Sublimated Relations' (1981), and 'Deceptive Motives' (1982). From the mid-80s Mr O'Loughlin has dedicated himself exclusively to philosophy, his true literary vocation, and he 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.