Here at last, with this volume of aphoristic philosophy in twenty-four cycles, is a more thematically informal and even relaxed work than its predecessor 'Pathways to the Kingdom', which enabled John O'Loughlin to lay one or two old autobiographical ghosts to rest whilst still continuing to haunt the realm of philosophy in no uncertain metaphysical terms In fact, it may be that this further 2001 project enabled him to lay one or two long-standing philosophical ghosts to rest as well, since he did not shy away from a fresh look at some old theories and was duly rewarded by a new perspective on certain things which he had begun to take too much for granted, even though his previous treatment of them had been anything but conventional