Spiritual Intimations

By John O'Loughlin

The poetic sequel to 'Stressing the Essential', this 1983 collection of some thirty-four poems in free verse is even more ideologically homogeneous, as it strives to delineate and advance, within poetic form, the concept of Social Transcendentalism as bearing on a variety of contexts, not least political, religious, cultural, and social. Certainly 'Spiritual Intimations' is poetically more assured than its precursor, as well as deeper and thematically more expansive, without being, in any sense, truly reflective of the author's mature philosophy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781446654286

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Spiritual Intimations

John O'Loughlin

This edition of Spiritual Intimations first published 2011 and republished 2021 in a revised format by

John O'Loughlin (of Centretruths) in association with Lulu

Copyright © 2011, 2021 John O'Loughlin

All rights reserved. No part of this eBook may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author/publisher

ISBN: 978-1-4466-5428-6

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

Illusion and Truth

A True Fight

The Divine Right

An Absolute Sovereignty

Centro-complexification

Independent Mind

Questions

Blessed Cold

Meritocratic Affairs

Self-Destructive

Moral Judgement

The Real Obstacle

Supersex

Alternative Supersex

Indirect Approach

Last-Ditch Conservatism

Supernatural Synthesizer

Antinatural Art

Supernatural Art

Supranatural Art

Realist Art

Antinatural Literature

Supernatural Literature

Atomic Dichotomy

Relative Atoms

A Relativistic Absolutism

Barter

Vouchers

Money

Above Money

Supernatural Pitch

Spiritual Intimations

Beyond Christianity

Last Judgement

BIOGRAPHICAL FOOTNOTE

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PREFACE

Comprised of 34 free-verse poems, this collection of verse is slightly freer, overall, than the previous one, Stressing the Essential (1982), and ranges across a wide variety of topics ... from politics and sex to literature and money ... in what I prefer to regard, being something of a philosopher, as a loosely poetic way, though not one devoid, I flatter myself to say, of stylistic methodology or thematic consistency!

John O’Loughlin, London 1983 (Revised 2021)

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ILLUSION AND TRUTH

There are two ways of looking at

The origins of the Universe according to

The Big Bang theory: either as

An extrapolation from Judaic monotheism or as

An extrapolation from the Superconscious in deference

To contemporary transcendental requirement,

So that its origins are conceived

As being of nobler provenance

Than perhaps they actually were.

In the first instance we have

A Judaic abstraction; in the second ...

An example of pseudo-scientific subjectivity.

A Big Bang, just imagine it!

A divine Oneness to begin with!

But we ought to know by now

That evil is never solitary,

Always acts in competition with others,

Against others, whether on the stellar level

Of absolute evil, or on the organic level

Of relative evil – an evil, in other words,

Between disparate life forms,

Or between two or more racial variations on

The same life form, as in the case of man.

Absolute evil reacts in the guise of stars,

Which diverge from one another.

Why should they have begun in unity

And duly become many?

If the emergence in the void

Of inflammable gases was possible,

Why should it only have been so

In one part of the void?