Links to which
follow the introductory remarks below:–
Conceived on
a purely aphoristic basis, No Man-oeuvre, with its pun on
‘manouevre’
(English spelling) and suggestion that there is more than man at work
in the
composition of what follows, lays down the case for godly rights in
relation to
the development of globalization to its universal summation, and
contends, with
the aid of comprehensive logical structures which stretch through the
Elements
(in general terms) from cosmic and natural to human and divine, that
since
godliness has still not attained to its per se
manifestation, there is no reason to regard such godliness as has
and does
obtain as the end of the religious road but, rather, to understand
how
religion still has to develop beyond its traditional structures, if God
is to
supersede and, in a sense, supplant man as the logical outcome of
historical
development and, indeed, of evolution generally.To
that
end, it has been part of the duty of this title to de-bunk conventional religion, both Western and
especially
Eastern, in order to demonstrate that all established religions
leave
something to be desired from the standpoint of true universality in
relation to
the final development of religion, of soulful totalitarianism, in
genuinely
global terms. – John O’Loughlin.
John O’Loughlin was born in Salthill, Galway, the Republic
of Ireland,
of mixed Irish- and British-born parents in 1952. Following a parental split
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) in the mid-50s and subsequently attended schools in
Aldershot, Hants and, upon the death and repatriation of his ethnically-protective grandmother and an enforced change of
denomination from Catholic to Protestant in consequence of having been put into
care by his mother, Carshalton, Surrey. Shortly after leaving secondary school in pre-GCSE era 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 Britain and Ireland.
After a brief flirtation with further education at Redhill Technical College back in Surrey, where he had enrolled to do English and History A Levels, he returned to his former job in the West End
but, due to a combination of factors, left the Associated Board in 1976 amd began to pursue a literary vocation which,
despite a brief spell as a computer and office-skills tutor at Hornsey Management Agency (within the local YMCA) in the late '80s and
early '90s, he has steadfastly continued with ever since.
