This quantity of philosophy, combining aphorisms with essays and dialogues, is going approach past the scope of John O’Loughlin’s prior philosophical works in outlining what he contends to be the logical levels of evolution past guy that have to be gone through ahead of definitive salvation should be accomplished in a transcendent aim of evolution ... analogous to Teilhard de Chardin's ‘Omega aspect’ or, for that topic, to Bunyan’s ‘Celestial City’. possible say that he has tried to concretize Nietzschean notions bearing on man's ‘overcoming’ ... in appreciate of a projection of particular post-human levels of resulting lifestyles. Hitherto, while he wrote approximately extra complex phases of lifestyles it was once as a rule in the scope and definition of guy. right here, in contrast, the attainment to a extra synthetic degree of evolution is, ipso facto, chronologically past guy and hence implicitly post-human, if no longer supra-human. Such used to be the innovative holiday together with his past Huxley-inspired frame of mind which happened within the Spring of 1982, and it's, we think, of momentous value! Henceforth Mr O’Loughlin’s philosophical activity was once principally to be a refinement upon and amendment of contentions defined the following. evidently, within the decades that experience handed when you consider that then, a number of alterations, a few of them fairly drastic, have happened in his total evolutionary standpoint. however the beginnings of his mature philosophical oeuvre are to be discovered right here, in destiny adjustments, and it used to be from this time onwards that he started to develop in what he loves to examine as a kind of messianic self-awareness, commensurate with a solitary future. - A Centretruths editorial.