BLOG POST LINKS

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Reference and Education, Writing and Speaking
To access the Elysium's Passage blog host site, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage To copy and send this post: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts   The following list of URLs is intended to assist anyone interested in Elysium's Passage blog articles in rapidly finding and accessing over 190 (and counting) posts on this site. Section A lists the majority of topics without regard to subject or posted dates. Section B relates to personal profiles. Section C has a number of my photos, including pictures of my mountain climbing adventures and my cabin ...
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WELCOME TO ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
To access more Elysium's Passage blog postings:https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-postsor https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens                                                                     Carl Jung                                                              ...
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HOW TO WEAR THE WORLD

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more links to Elysium's Passage blog posts, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts f HOW TO WEAR THE WORLD Wear the world as a loose garment which touches in a few places and there lightly. Most of us, it seems, live our lives closely attached to the world and what it affords us because that's all we know. And so, when something comes along like a killer pandemic, everything in life feels threatened, including our bodies. We're not sure what might come next and so we cling on ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE CONTROVERSY

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
HOW TO VIEW CLIMATE CHANGE If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you. Friedrick Nietzsche I'm not sure specifically what Nietzsche had in mind with this quote, but for me, it suggests that if we focus on something we perceive to be a problem, which may or may not exist, we will make it real for ourselves as it gazes back up at us. Such is the phenomenon of projection. So, if we're looking for ...
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THE RETURN

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
To read over180 more posts on this blog site, go to:https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  . ***** SOON TO BE PUBLISHED ***** ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES THE ASCENT - THE SUMMIT - QUANTUM LEAPS - SURREAL ADVENTURESMYSTICAL ROMANCE - THE ELIXIR - THE RETURN. The end of this post has a brief summary of each of the novels THE RETURN . Book Seven... first half . The following fourteen chapters are approximately half of ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: THE RETURN, my seventh and last novel in the Elysium's Passage series.  I'm posting this for a short time ...
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I HAD A DREAM

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Gaming, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE Blog Posts, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts or https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  I HAD A DREAM I  had a dream, which was not at all a dream                                                                        Lord Byron There was a time, several years ago, when I would pay attention to my dreams. And the funny thing was, whenever I did this, the ...
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WHICH IS IT, PLATO OR ARISTOTLE?

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE posts, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-postsShare this post-Plato or Aristotlehttps://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/plato-and-aristotle   THE ONE IN THE MANY AND THE MANY IN THE ONE  THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Roman fresco by Raphael Scuola di Atene - Italian Renaissance painter   For centuries Western intellectuals... the ones who influence our precepts and cultural direction, have been divided between Plato and his student Aristotle. What do I mean by that? Take a look at their fingers. Plato has one finger pointed upwards, indicating the One in ...
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THE MEANING OF WHOLENESS

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more Blog Post Linkshttps://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  Jesus said, "I am the one who comes from what is whole… if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."From the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas (Unearthed near Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1948)  The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. From the Gospel of Matthew 6:22 Physicist David Bohm was before his time ...
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BEAUTY IS THE SPLENDOR OF TRUTH

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
The following article is from a transcript of a recent talk given by Dr David Jones, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary. The Latin phrase, PULCHRITUDE SPLENDOR VERITATUS, Beauty is the Splendor of Truth, well illustrates the following article by Dr Jones illustrates. This is a theme repeatedly emphasized in Book Five of Elysium's Passage novel series, Mystical Romance. Since I'm an aficionado of the Romantic poets for most of my adult life, I asked Dr Jones if I may include his ...
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WORD PICTURE ACADEMY

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Health and Fitness, Self Improvement, Communications, Writing and Speaking
Blog Post Links to Elysium's Passagehttps://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts WORD PICTURE ACADEMY So what's WORD PICTURE ACADEMY supposed to be about?  In the words of Sir Francis Bacon Words are images of matter; to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture.                                                     Vincent Van Gogh's dream-inspired paintings were among the best, but dream-inspired word pictures can be just ...
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PHYSICISTS' QUOTES

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
To access all articles posted on this blog go to https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for links https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  PHYSICISTS' QUOTES ____________________________ 20TH CENTURY PHYSICISTS . Included in this post are several important quotes by 20th-century physicist which remains posted on this site. As an introduction to these, I have included a brief excerpt from a discussion in book one of Elysium's Passage series: THE ASCENT.  From Chapter Nine: THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER  ‘Many of the Vienna Circle’s variations of positivism lost credibility over the decades, except, most obviously, specific disciplines in ...
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HOW CONSCIOUS ARE YOU?

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE Blog Post links, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts or Host Site: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  CONSCIOUSNESS: WHAT IS IT? . The title of this post asks, "How Conscious Are You?" But before we pursue this question, it would be helpful for us to first understand what consciousness is. So where does one begin? Some might say you either are or you aren't conscious; you're awake or you're asleep. And yet how many think they are awake when in actuality, they go through life in what ...
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COMMUNITY: WHAT IS IT?

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
 For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 190 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  WHAT IS COMMUNITY? “Come on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight now.”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iww5G24rikU   What does community mean, and what does community do? At the base, community is about relationships, so it is never static and has infinite expressions. What makes for a healthy community, and what makes for a dysfunctional community? Let me share a few simple thoughts and opinions on this ...
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A RICH MAN

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 190 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site    A RICH MAN WHO DIES A RICH MAN IS A POOR MAN   The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.                                              Pablo Picasso   Is it true that a rich man who dies a rich man ...
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ARE YOU WISE OR JUST SMART?

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 190 post links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site   ___________________________________________    WISDOM VS INTELLIGENCE  Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi                                                                                 ...
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CHAOS AND ORDER

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 190 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  ___________________________________________ BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS In all chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder, a secret order.                                          Carl Jung                          _______________________________________ There is so much that can be said about the dynamic of chaos and ...
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THE ART OF BEING HAPPY

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 180 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  . THE ART OF HAPPINESS (HOW TO BE HAPPY MORE OFTEN)  God shows mercy to everyone, loves everyone, and wants to make everyone happy forever.                                                                                          ...
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She has Cervical Cancer Stage IIIB, She lost her hope

by Benno Mwitumba Arts and Entertainment, Business, Computers and Technology, Gaming, Home Based Business, Internet and Businesses Online, Finance, Health and Fitness, Home Improvement, Investing, News and Society, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Communications, Food and Drink, Home and Family, Kids and Teens, Reference and Education, Shopping and Product Reviews, Writing and Speaking
Betha is my inlaw, she has been diagnosed with stage IIIB cervical cancer but this was not an easy journey to her. She was sick for many years and experienced severe discharge, and later she was diagnosed with cancer. She has lost hope, she mentioned and spoke to me, i will not survive. I keep explaining, you will be fine with the treatment.  This has lead me to open an NGO to support other women in Tanzania with similar situation where she got ...
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Na Wewe Unastahili Kusoma Elimu ya Juu

by Benno Mwitumba Arts and Entertainment, Business, Computers and Technology, Gaming, Finance, Book Reviews, Communications, Food and Drink
Nilichelewa kujiunga na masomo ya kidato cha tano, matokeo yalipotangazwa nimefaulu mtihani wa kidato cha nne, ilikuwa ni njema yenye msisimko. Iliyo nikuta kati kati ya kazi ya utengenezaji barabara nikiwa mwendesha mitambo ya choronga barabara. Ujenzi wa barabara ulishika kasi. Na hii ilikuwa sehemu yangu ya kujidai nikusubiri majibu.  Habari zilienea kuwa nimefaulu mtihani wa kidato cha nne. Na ndugu zangu waliniita nikakae kwako. Haikuwa safari rahisi pale waliponiambia nenda machimbo katafute pesa ya ada.  Nikiwa machimbo, majibu yalitoka nimepangiwa Njombe Sekondari.  ...
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NOTHING TO IT

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 160 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site    ___________________________________________   May 5.22   ALL AND NOTHINGNESS.   In this post, I look at the esoteric meaning of the concept of Nothingness in contrast to its opposite, All and Everything. Can there be something without the existence of nothing? (Btw, ever notice that nothing is a conjugation of 'no-thing,' just as nothingness is 'no-thing-ness.') But how can we say nothing exists if it’s nothing? Hmm, good question.  So then, it seems ...
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