With implications that stretch into the author's concept of 'Kingdom Come', this volume of cyclic aphoristic philosophy adds one or two fresh ideas to 'The Core of the Self' (1998), its immediate rung-like predecessor on his ladder of superphilosophical (theosophical?) ascent, as well as highlights the extent to which kingdoms, when genuine, are commensurate with one or other extreme of the Self. The extreme John O'Loughlin favours is, of course,...