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BLOG POST LINKS

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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 retreat in the foothills SW of Calgary.

Section D is a list of the Monthly Daily Message Archives, beginning with the most recent months.

These posts may also be accessed anytime at https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts, which will take you to the Digital Bloggers host site. However, these posts are not categorized or as easily found since it is necessary to scroll through several 'read more' pages to get to the end. Since that can be time-consuming, the list below will make it easier to access all posts on this blog site, particularly those closer to the end.

One thing I know
Without the reader
The writing is lost

To everyone
Who takes the time to read these posts
Thank you

Please download, copy, paste, or attach links as you wish.

NGM

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LINKS TO BLOG POSTINGS

Section A

Most recent posts are at the end of this list.

1. Blog Post Links to Elysium's Passage
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts

2. Welcome to Elysium's Passage Novel Series
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/welcome-to-elysiums-

3. Daily (Weekly) Messages from Elysium's Passage
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-from-elysium

4. Coronavirus Controversy: Herd Immunity vs Lockdown
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/corona-virus-shut-down-or-herd-immunity

5. Dimash Kudaibergen: Musical Beauty, Splendour and Truth
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/beauty-splendor-and-truth

6. Plato or Aristotle
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/plato-and-aristotle

7. Reader Reviews
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/reader-reviews

8. Einstein's Secret Love Letter
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/einsteins-secret-letter-of-love

9. Blue Skies From Now On
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/blue-skies-from-now-on

10. I Had A Dream
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/I-had-a-dream

11. Physicist's Quotes
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/quotes

12. The Ego Mask
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/the-ego-mask

13. No Fear
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/nothing-to-fear-but-fear

14. Let Your Light Shine
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/let-your-light-shine

15. A Higher Vision
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/a-vision-a-call

16. What is Art?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/what-is-art

17. Dawning of the Age of Aquarius
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/dawning

18. Is Free Will Free?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/is-free-will-free

19. A Voice in the Night
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/all-and-nothing

20. What is Happiness?
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/what-is-happiness

21. Are you a Skeptic?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/are-you-a-skeptic

22. A Higher Calling
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/higher-calling

23. Forgive Quickly, Kiss Slowly
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/forgive-quickly

24. How to be an Enlightened Mystic
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-to-be-an-enlightened-mystic

25. Mystical Beauty
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/mystical-beauty

26. The All-Seeing Eye
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/a-new-self-a-new-world

27. Prince of Peace Painting by 8-Year-Old
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Easter-message-painted

28. Sensuality
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/sensuality

29. Crop Circles: Aliens or Hoaxers?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertai nment/crop-circles

30. Nero: One Helluva Story
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/one-helleva-story

31. Updates
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/updates

32. Union of Heart and Mind
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/union-of-heart-and-mind

33. Enlightenment
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/enlightenment

34. Can you Just Imagine?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/just-imagine

35. Sex and Such
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/love-and-sex

36. The Fall
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-fall

37. What Do You Believe?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/why-you-believe

38. Where We Going, Man?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/where-we-going-copy

39. Celestial Love and How James Got Nun
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/celestial-love

40. Surreal Adventures
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/coming-soon-bk-2-surreal-adventures

41. How Conscious are you?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-conscious-are-you

42. Notes from Elysium (One)
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/notes-from-elysium

43. Notes From Elysiums (Two)
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/notes-from-elysium-two

44. Themes in Elysium's Passage
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/themes

45. What's a Holon?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/what-is-a-holon

46. It's a Miracle, Dammit
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/it-s-a-miracle

47. Buy this Book. It's a Matter of Life and Death
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/it-s-a-matter-of-life-and-death

48. Contact Information
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/contact-information

49. The Cave You Fear
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-cave

50. Rope in Copy of Elysium's Passage
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/rope-in-copy-of-elysium-s-passage

51. Two of the World's Greatest Philosophers
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/quotes-by-esoteric-philosophers

52. Get Smart
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/be-smarter

53. What is Elysium?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/meaning-of-elysium

54. What's the Matter?
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/matter

55. I'm Hot
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/I-M-HOT

56 What's to Fear?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/fear-not

57. How Old Are You - Really?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/not-my-first-rodeo

58. What Love Has To Do With It
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/what-love-has-to-do-with-it

59. The Way Up is Down
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-way-up-is-down

60. A No-Brainer
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/no-brainer

61. Books That Influenced the Series
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/books-that-influenced-the-series

62. Professional Book Reviews
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Elysium-Book-Reviews

63. Be Scared on Halloween but not Afraid
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/be-scared-really-scared-but-not-afraid

64. Who Are You?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/just-who-are-you-anyway

65. Just for Laughs
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/For-laughs

66. Sowing Happy Seeds of Gratitude
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/sowing-happy-seeds-of-gratitude

67. Rising above Judgmentalism
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/Rising-above-judgmentalism

68. The Art of Contemplation
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/art-of-contemplation

69. Religion and Science
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/religion-and-science

70. Fear of Death
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/fear-of-death

71. The Law of Corruption
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/laws-and-corruption

72. Dimash's Good Vibes
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/dimash-vibes

73 The Sound of Silence
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/sound-of-silence

74 Great Expectations
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/great-expectations

75. A HIGHER VIBE
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/a-higher-vibe

76. JESUS SPEAKS
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/jesus-speaks

77. NO FEAR POSTS
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/fear-posts

78. SAY NO TO FACEMASKS...
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/just-say-no-to-masks

79 GUARD YOUR HEART
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/guard-your-heart

80. ARE WE MOVING INTO THE FIFTH DIMENSION
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/are-we-moving-to-5d

81. MANIFESTING ABUNDANCE
https://digitalbloggers.com/finance/manifesting-abundance

82. REMOVING BARRIERS TO LOVE
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/removing-barriers-to-love

83. POWER VS FORCE
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/power-vs-force

84. TWILIGHT ZONE
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-it-came

85. CREATIVITY
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/creating-creativity

86. I WILL SEE IT WHEN I BELIEVE IT
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/i-ll-see-it-when-i-believe-it

87. FREE SPEECH VS CENSORSHIP
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/oppose-censorship

88. DIMENSIONS, DENSITY AND SPACE
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/dimensions-density-and-space

89. IS GOD A MYSTIC
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/is-god-a-mystic-

90. LIVE VS EVIL
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/live-vs-evil

91. VAX OR NOT TO VAXX
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/vaxx-or-not-vaxx

92. MANIFESTING GOOD STUFF
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/manifesting-good-stuff

94. HOLODYNAMICS
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/art-of-holodynamics

95. DIMASH: A STUDY IN MUSICAL CREATIVITY
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/dimash-a-study-in-musical-creativity

96. REALITY: WHAT A CONCEPT
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/reality-what-a-concept

97 THINKING THOUGHTS ABOUT THOUGHTS
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/thought-about-thoughts

98. WRONG PATH
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/left-your-reason

99. CHOOSE AGAIN
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/choose-again

100. ARE WE IMMORTAL?
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/are-we-immortal

101. AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/as-within-so-without

102 TRUTH ABOUT COVID PCR TESTS
http://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/pcr-test-scam

103 NOW IS THE TIME
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/now-is-the-time

104 SCIENCE, SCIENTISTS AND SCIENTISM
http://digitalbloggers.com/reference-and-education/science-scientists-and-scientism

105 RELATIONSHIPS
http://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/relating-to-relationships

106 SCIENCE AND 'THE EXPERTS'
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/science-and-the-experts

107 THE EGO-FEAR PHANTOM
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/ego-fear-phantom

108 INTUITION AND INSPIRATION
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-from-elysium

109 FOLLOW THE LIGHT
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/follow-the-light

110 ARE YOU INTUITIVE?
http://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-intuitive-are-you

111. THE ABYSS OF FEAR
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-abyss-of-fear

112. LIVE LIFE LOOSELY
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/live-loosely

113. WHO DO YOU SERVE?
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/who-are-you-in-serivice-too

114 AN ENLIGHTENED DISCUSSION
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/an-enlightened-discussion

115. GOLDEN AGE
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/golden-age

116 BE THOU MY VISION
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/be-thou-my-vision

117 WAKE UP, RISE UP TO THE TRUTH
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/follow-the-truth

118.CALIBRATING CONSCIOUSNESS
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/calibrating-consciousness

119. TRUCKS AND FREEDOM
https://digitalbloggers.com/self-improvement/Trucks-and-Freedom

120. STUPIDITY
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/stupidity

121. ROMANCE IN THE AFTERLIFE
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ultimate-reunion

122. SUMMIT UNIVERSITY
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/summit-u

123. ALL and NOTHINGNESS
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/nothing-to-it

124. RESTING POINT
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/resting-point

125. IT'S LOGICAL
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/it-s-logical

126. THE ART OF HAPPINESS
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-art-of-being-happy

127. CHAOS AND ORDER
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/chaos-and-order

128 WISE OR INTELLIGENT
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/are-you-wise-or-just-smart

129. RICH MAN
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/a-rich-man

130 WHAT IS COMMUNITY
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/community-what-is-it

131. WORD PICTURE ACADEMY
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/word-picture-academy

132. THE RETURN (first half of Book Seven... teaser)
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/THE-RETURN

133. THE MEANING OF WHOLENESS
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/oneness

134. BEAUTY IS THE SPLENDOR OF TRUTH
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/wondering-about-wonderment

135. WEAR LIFE LOOSELY
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-to-wear-the-world

136. CLIMATE CHANGE CONTROVERSY
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/climate-change

137. USEFULNESS: THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Usefulness-Happiness

138 MESSAGES FROM THE PASSAGE 2025
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/monthly-message-from-elysium-s-passage

139. MYSTERY OF THE SHROUD OF TURIN
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/shroud-of-turin

140 3i ATLAS UPDATE
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/3i-Atlas-Update

141 SIGHTINGS AND FIRST CONTACT
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Monthly-Messages-2026

142. LONELINESS AND SOLITUDE
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Monthly-Messages-2026

143 ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE QUOTATIONS
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/Quotations-from-Elysium-s-Passage

144. WINESKINS (April 2026 Message)
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Monthly-Messages-2026

145. 3i LATEST UPDATE (May 2026 Message)
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Monthly-Messages-2026

146. YOUR INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTAL (June 2026 Message)
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/Monthly-Messages-2026

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Section B

PERSONAL PROFILES

1. Author Interview
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/author-interview

2. Author's Picto-bio
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/picto-bio

3. How Elysium's Passage Series Came
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-it-came

4. Dr Jan Merta
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/dr-jan-merta

5. Merta Lecture Series
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/merta-lectures

6. Commemoration to my Father's 100th
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/my-father-s-100th

7. Commemoration to my Mother
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/mother-s-commenoration-and-tribute

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Section C

PHOTOS

1. Mountain Photos One
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/photos

2. Mountain Photos Two
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/mountain-photos2

3. Cabin Photos
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/my-cabin-photos

4. We Need to Talk
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/we-need-to-talk

5. Enlightened
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/enlightened

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Section D

DAILY MESSAGES ARCHIVES

Daily Message November 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-november-2021

Daily Message October 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/daily-message-archives-october-2021

Daily Message September 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-september-2021

Daily Message August 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-august

Daily Message July 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-july-2021

Daily Message June 2021
http://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-june-2021

Daily Messages April 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/daily-message-archives-april-2021

Daily Messages March 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/daily-message-archives-march-2021

Daily Messages February 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-february-2021

Daily Messages January 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-january-2021

Daily Messages December 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-december-2020

Daily Messages November 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-november-2020

Daily Messages October 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-october-2020

Daily Messages September 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-september-2020

Daily Messages August 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/daily-message-archives-august-2020

Daily Messages July 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/daily-message-archives-july-2020

Daily Messages June 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-june-2020

Daily Messages May 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-may-2020

Daily Messages April 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-april-2020

Daily Messages March 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/daily-message-archives-march-2020

Daily Messages February 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/reference-and-education/daily-message-archives-february-2020

Daily Messages January 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-january-2020

Display Daily Messages December 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-december-2019

Daily Messages November 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-november-2019

Daily Messages October 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-oct-2019

Daily Messages September 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-september-2019

Daily Messages August 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-August-2019

Daily Messages July 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-from-the-passage-july-2019

Daily Messages June 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-june-2019

Daily Messages May 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archive-may-2019

Daily Messages April 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-april-2019

Daily Messages March 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-messages-archives-march-2019

Daily Messages February 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archieves-Feb-19

Daily Messages January 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-messages-archieves-jan-2019

Daily Messages December 2018
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archieves

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SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

The ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE novel series is a seven-book narration about a young British philosopher named James Phillips who finds himself living in an altered state of reality while still remaining on Earth.

After experiencing a near-fatal fall while climbing to the summit of a remote mountain in the Andes, James awakens in a new dimension. He soon encounters two mysterious beings who provide him with a very different perspective on the nature of his existence. Over the next year, before his body recovers from the coma, he is challenged to re-examine his understanding of life's meaning and purpose far beyond anything he previously believed or could believe.

An engaging and sometimes surreal adventure with intimations of impending romance, the narrative explores the most important questions about life, death, reality and our ultimate destiny.

The Plains of Elysium (Champs-andEacute;lysandeacute;es) was described by Homer, Hesiod, Virgil and many other poets as the paradisiac afterlife realm reserved for heroes. As the title suggests, this is about a journey through a passage that leads towards Elysium's exciting realm of existence.

Read a sample press review at https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15515775.htm

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PENDING PUBLICATION OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE SERIES

The Ascent: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

The Summit: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

Quantum Leaps: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

Surreal Adventures: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

Mystical Romance: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

The Elixir: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

The Return: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

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1. THE ASCENT is the first novel in the Chronicles of Elysium's Passage that's foundational to everything that happens in the following narratives, which embark on an adventure that will surprise and delight the reader like no other book.

It all begins with an extreme adventure: climbing a remote, challenging mountain in the Andes. Just as James, the protagonist, is about to reach the mountain summit, he falls into an abyss that leaves him in a coma for almost a year.

After being airlifted by a forestry helicopter and flown back to London, his body remained there for almost a year. Eventually, he learns it was not he but his body that was rescued. Several days later, without understanding what happened, he continues to climb to the summit in an alternate dimension of higher consciousness.

Fortuitously, he meets two adventurers on the summit ridge who are no longer of this world. After that, his surreal life leads him to several new adventures in the subsequent chronicles, which include a rich mix of adventure, romance, and fantasy, along with profound discussions of philosophy, spirituality, and the afterlife.andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;

2. THE SUMMIT, the second novel in the Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, carries on where James, the narrator and protagonist, is taught more about a multidimensional reality that he finds difficult to comprehend.

Not only does he find he's not as clever as he imagined, but his off-world companions on the summit demonstrate that much of what he believed about life was not just parochial but wrong. At first, he finds this difficult to understand because their teachings run counter to his limited understanding of non-material reality.

After being tricked into teleporting off a ledge where he was trapped, James becomes aware of a new reality that enables him to pursue far more adventures than he could have ever experienced in his physical body back home.

Now, if only he would win over the only woman in this life who matters, the nurse on the other side of the veil, who continually demonstrates her unconditional love toward his healing.

This book may also open the reader's eyes to a much vaster reality than many may be aware of. As with the other Chronicles, there are discussions of philosophy, the spiritual afterlife and what might seem like fantasy.

3. QUANTUM LEAPS is the third novel in Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, where James, the philosopher-protagonist, teleports back to London to visit his body and make contact with the special nurse taking care of it in his absence. Immediately, he feels an inexplicable spiritual connection with her, though the reason remains unclear.

Now aroused by a renewed interest in matters of love, the beginnings of a relationship begin to emerge as he attempts to reach across the chasm of their worlds. But it's not until the fifth novel, Mystical Romance, that he encounters her in a way that he finds difficult to believe.

However, before that can happen, there is much about his failed relationships that must be resolved before he is ready to move forward in his new life in Elysium's Passage. It is during this time that he christens his comatose body as the fall guy since it took the fall for him down the abyss, so he could learn the lessons he's now learning.

That will be the next focus of his life, in which, in his next Surreal Adventures, he receives virtual lessons to help him release many of his past beliefs about the world and his life.

4. SURREAL ADVENTURES is the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, which finds James, the protagonist and narrator, escorted by his companions to a remote South Pacific Island, where he is left to reflect on what he's learned.

During the next forty days, he battles the demons of his past as he works through some rather painful issues from his early youth. Here, in a tropical storm, he encounters an eerie, suspended spectre of the one he loved yet still resents for abandoning him as a child.

After this, he achieves peace of mind and is ready to return to his lodge to join his off-world companions on the Andes summit. However, just when it seemed things couldn't get any stranger, a sixteenth-century sea captain sails his ancient 'ghost' ship onto the beach. Together, they embark on a mystical ocean voyage to two virtual islands supposedly in the South Pacific, where he witnesses and, at times, participates in several important life lessons.

Near the end, these encounters prepare him for a new challenge within a mountain, where he falls deep into a dark tomb of fear. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding his Excalibur, he continues on to where his life is about to be transformed in the following chronicle, Mystical Romance.

5. MYSTICAL ROMANCE is the fifth chronicle in Elysium's Passage, which will surprise the reader with a romantic twist of how love is expressed in higher realms. From this lofty perspective, everything about intimacy is understood as within, so without.

After escaping his tomb, James, the narrator and protagonist, navigates a maze of tunnels until he arrives at a large oak door, which he opens with the golden key he was given. There, he steps into Elysium's Passage's Great Hall, where his life and recent achievements are celebrated now that his eyes have been opened to perceive a fascinating interior world of wonderment... and romance.

To say more might risk diminishing the multitude of delightful surprises as circumstances begin to open to The Elixir, where James is about to re-enter his earthly body's existence.

6. THE ELIXIR is the sixth chronicle of the Elysium's Passage series that prepares James, the narrator-protagonist, to awaken and return to his body in London. Before that can happen, however, his off-world friend presents a mysterious equation, enshrouded within a light code frequency, that will stimulate the multidimensional DNA strands within him.

Much of this narration is centred in London, where his nurse unknowingly becomes involved in how the Elixir's equation finds its way from a taxi cab driver to higher echelons of science. There are many twists in how she unwittingly brings the Elixir to the attention of mathematicians and physicists, after which they eventually discover how to code the equation into a laser ray to stimulate his fall-guy body into full consciousness.

Ostensibly a new Adam, he is destined to return humanity to a higher multidimensional existence. How this happens is intriguing, as is his shocking return to his earthly body.

andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;7. THE RETURN is the seventh and last chronicle in the series where James, the narrator and protagonist, has re-emerged from Elysium's Passage as he readjusts to life in the third dimension. Many of the events from the previous novels are woven into an exciting, fast-paced, and action-packed narrative that spans several countries.

At first, it seems all memories have been lost, with his fall guy's brain not being aware of what happened to him while in his coma. As a consequence, it takes a while for him to be convinced he had been out of his earthly body for almost a year.

Through some unexpected events and evidence, along with his girlfriend's urging, he comes to realise what had occurred. It takes a while for his mind to catch up with the changes made in his heart during his stay in the alternate realm. But after experiencing several harsh realities, he discovers what he has become while out of his body. Gradually, he comes to understand the many challenges that lie ahead for him in fulfilling his future mission on Earth.

This book is filled with adventure, romance and personal intrigue that ties together all six previous narratives of the Elysium's Passage series.

As a teaser, the first few chapters of this book are available to read at:

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/THE-RETURN

VIDEO INTRODUCTION (ATTEMPT) TO SERIES

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The following comments are excerpts from the reviews of the first readers, including several five-star Amazon reviews. To read the full reviews, go to READER REVIEWS on www.elysiumspassage.com or directly at https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/reader-reviews

"A delightful mix of fantasy, reality, conjecture and humour; Mr Meyers draws the reader into the story with a gentle narrative that captures the imagination, leaving one anxious to get to the next page, drawing you into his exceptional world."

"Quietly, gently, and without imposition, the Author unfolds the pages, creating an intricate, interlocking bridge spanning the chasm between mind and heart. Renewing, refreshing, restoring. In my bereavement, it was vigil and light..."

"Excellently written with an exceedingly deep understanding of this world and the next. The characters are very well-written and engaging. I can't wait to complete this book!"

"Takes the reader on both a philosophical and spiritual journey, a journey that, at times, is both disquieting and tranquil. James, a British Philosopher, can be irreverent and caustic, traits that should have left me cringing but instead made me laugh out loud. Elysium's Passage is a fun, enlightening and remarkable book."

"This is a masterful fantasy, becoming a real possibility as the reader is drawn into the story. The Summit leaves you anxious for the next book in the series, yet also leaves you totally satisfied with the world you have just visited. Genius! An exciting yet calming experience that is not to be missed."

"There was hardly a page on which I needed to find at least one sentence worthy of hi-lighting for future reference. In addition, I thoroughly enjoyed the main character, James, whose personality and passionate verbal exchanges with the other characters kept me coming back for more. I am reading the book for a second time while I wait for the next one in this series to be made available."

"N.G. Meyers has clearly put a great deal of research and thought into what the afterlife may look like, and I like his perspective. It's an altogether welcoming and exciting vision. The book gives one a great deal to think about and a reassuring confidence that the end of our lives is truly the beginning of life in the next. I highly recommend it."

"I am really enjoying your book, it's fantastic! It is so incredible and diversified that I can't really explain it to other people, so what I say is just read this book. Thank you so much for the blessings that you've given the world!"

"The humour interjected into a serious discussion makes me laugh out loud. Totally unexpected....l may be in the presence of at least a master if not a genius. A fair ride into reality... seeking that which is unseen, yet absolutely real."

"An engaging story of adventure embracing man's deepest desire to search for meaning and purpose, N.G. Meyers takes the reader on an adventurous thought-provoking journey. This book has substance. It is a perfect blend of adventure and fantasy combined with spiritual philosophy. It ignited my imagination. The author magically weaves a good story laced with wit and humour together with deep philosophical wisdom. This book has it all!"

"An evolution in thought is triggered by many fresh philosophical themes which could inspire readers to re-think their reality and former ideologies that have dictated their lives... the author fires readers' imaginations to view what could be possible when spirit vacates the body."

"This is the book spiritual seekers have been waiting for. For me, it granted a great read as well as increased inspiration to live every day with a heightened sense of purpose. I highly recommend it.

"The Summit is capable of hooking readers and luring them to search for Book 2 to discover more about Dr Philip's surreal trek into the mysterious unknown universe. This thick book is well worth the read and to share..."

"Mind-blowing statements and speculation ('...everyone is a non-physical thought form conceived in the Mind of God, preserved for all eternity because God's thoughts never die...'). Many will find Meyers' journey up the Mountain intriguing-and possibly even life-changing." (BLUEINK REVIEW)

"In its effort to grapple with fundamental questions about the meaning of life, it raises questions that have echoed throughout the ages, including about where we come from, where we are going, who we are." (CLARION REVIEW)

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WELCOME TO ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

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Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens
Carl Jung
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It was in 2013, while I was journaling a few ideas one evening, that I noticed a novel emerging on the screen of my mind, then on the screen of my computeIt was back in 2013, while journaling a few ideas came to me one evening, that I noticed a novel beginning to emerge on the screen of my mind, then on the screen of my computer. At the time, I was asking my muses to help me illustrate an idea that came to me. They did this, but then it turned into an allegory and out of nowhere, it became someone's dream. It was ALIVE!

Prior to that, I had no thought or intention of writing a novel. And now, after all these years, I've just finished my seventh novel, The Return, which rounds out the full story of this adventure. As I scribed these books, it seemed I could hardly do otherwise if only to find out what might happen next.

ADVENTURE, FANTASY, PHILOSOPHY, SPIRITUALITY, ROMANCE, AFTERLIFE AND MORE

It's all there! It's hard to know how to categorize these narratives, and so I just call them fantasies with a message; in fact, many messages on many levels. An engaging and surreal adventure that involves romance while exploring the mysterious Passage that leads beyond this earthly plane of existence. The novel is rather unique in that it contains hundreds of fascinating footnotes and quotes involving literature, physics and everything else you can imagine. You may read a sample of these posted in this blog under Physicists' Quotes: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/quotes

WHAT HAPPENS IN ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

The seven-part Elysium's Passage novel series is narrated by Dr James Phillips, a young British philosopher from London, who has a near-fatal fall while climbing the summit of a remote Andean mountain.

While his body remains in a coma, he awakens in an altered state of consciousness just before encountering two mysterious beings on the summit, each with a very different perspective on the nature of reality. Before returning to his body in London a year later, he is challenged to re-examine his understanding of life's meaning and purpose, especially when finding the love that has always eluded him. The significance of these and other events continues to astound and even shock him at times, far beyond anything he could have ever dreamed or believed. (You may read more about this in the SUMMARY section near the end of this post.)

LIKE NOTHING ELSE YOU'VE READ

Okay, that might be a bit of an overstatement. But then, for some, maybe not. In fact, that's what one reviewer told me. Personally, I've never seen a book quite like this before, although I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. It's certainly not what I intended. But then, I didn't intend anything.

Some early professional reviews have described it as a strange brew of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf, and Carlos Castaneda's Teachings of Don Juan. My first book's (premature) professional review compares its style and content to those of these three authors. Although there are plenty of deep discussions, the series also features much action and humour, which may be considered entertaining.

THEMES WITHIN THE SERIES

For a more in-depth discussion of the various themes found throughout the series, go to the post WHAT IS ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE ABOUT on this blog. Some of the more predominant themes are identified as:

Immortality
Spiritual Ascent/Transformation
Love and Relationships
Life's Meaning and Purpose
Know Thyself/Wholeness and Unity
The Divine Self and the Ego
Union of Mind and Heart
Consciousness and Spiritual Transformation
The Nature of Divine Reality
The Nature of Elysium (Heaven)

If all this sounds a bit heavy and abstract, don't let that deter you. As I just mentioned, there's lots of adventure, romance, and humour throughout to keep things fun and interesting, even while these themes remain a backdrop to all the action.

In fact, as things progress, the suspense and excitement build as events and surprising encounters unfold along the way. (I won't tell more so as not to spoil it for you.) One reviewer who read the unpublished drafts of books 2, 3, and 4 said they reminded him of a Dan Brown novel.

So prepare yourself for a trip like you've never been on before. At times, it may send you off into a surreal adventure and yet remain even more deeply real than what you normally experience as real... if that makes any sense.

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YOUTUBE VIDEO INTRODUCTION

A few years ago, I made a short 8-minute 'amateur' video to introduce Elysium's Passage. You may find it interesting to watch me competing with my determined two-year-old girlfriend. I wasn't going to post it, but some of my friends convinced me to, even though it turned out this way. Watch it here or go to Elysium's Passage YouTube Channel.

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PROLOGUE

To provide a more personalized introduction to the series from the narrator, I have included the PROLOGUE and INTRODUCTION to the first book: James is the narrator of the series, telling the peculiar story of what happened to him in an alternate state of consciousness.

Hi, my name is James. I'm a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at one of the universities in London, England. If you are willing, I'd like to take you on an extraordinary journey that you won't experience anywhere in this life. As you join me on my adventures through Elysium's Passage, you may find yourself caught up in a surreal reality that transcends the limited dimensions of this world.

It all began when I embarked on a mountain-climbing expedition to Chile after feeling frustrated and disillusioned about my inability to achieve my ambitions. But then, what occurred on the mountain would change my perspective on everything. Though a philosopher, I soon discovered how little I understood about ultimate reality, seeing hardly anything beyond my entrenched beliefs and narrow prejudices.

In The Ascent, my first chronicle of Elysium's Passage, you will witness me receiving my comeuppance as a slightly cocky know-it-all intellect. Yes, I was beaten, whipped, broken and laid bare: stripped of my intellectual pretences. Well, at least it felt that way to my bruised ego. I now understand how necessary it was for me to learn these lessons in humility before I could begin to acquire genuine wisdom.

The challenges and events I encountered helped rid me of the rubbish I had accumulated in my mind over the years. I didn't realise it then, but a lifetime of limiting beliefs had impaired my ability and desire to comprehend an infinitely larger reality far beyond what might be seen through the foggy lens of this world.

Shortly after arriving in the Andes, I was confronted with a much different ascent than what I could have anticipated, where I found I had to fall into the depths before I could rise to the summit, figuratively and literally. As you follow with me, you may agree that what I experienced was the ultimate life adventure! Having survived this crash course, I understood all the clever stuff I thought I knew before wasn't all that clever. Instead, much of it was just plain wrong.

Too often in the past, my thoughts were like shape-shifting clouds drifting in whatever direction the winds of professional acceptability blew. However, during my time on the mountain summit, I came to understand our inherent human capacity to access higher wisdom that informs and transcends the limitations of our linear reasoning. By discovering who we are, we realise that truth is accessed from within the centre of our being, metaphorically referred to as our soul or heart.

Sure, the cold, calculating intellect may be the processor of information, yet its analysis is of limited temporal value if it doesn't join with the heart's wisdom. Pascal said in his Pensandeacute;es: The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing.[1] Eventually, I learned to discipline my confused mind to listen to what my heart had to say first. With my academic orientation, it wasn't an easy lesson to learn.

Much of what I first discovered came from a long series of discussions I had with a couple of companions I met on the summit, far more advanced than I, who often communicated what was contrary to what I thought I knew. Consequently, not only did I have to become a student again, but I also had to unlearn many of my old assumptions.

I didn't realise then how deeply I had been inculcated with many unsubstantiated beliefs over years of institutional teaching and conditioning. I recognise that what I say may not be appreciated or judged favourably by many colleagues who hold to their fixed views on the meaning of reality.

In my narrations, I also wish to share what one of my sage friends asked me to communicate to humanity: that we need to live as spirits, even when we're not aware that's the essence of our being. By this, I think he meant that it is important to understand we are immortal spirits inhabiting a mortal body on earth for a very brief period. If we understand this, we will live not only for the external world but also in accordance with the spiritual essence of who we are, now and forever.

Though I didn't understand this before, I have no doubt he was right: we are spirits utilising our outward material form to give our lives purpose and dignity. No matter how many distractions draw us away from this realisation, I believe if we take the time to look deeply within, it becomes apparent how infinitely expansive the Source of our spirit is.

You may wonder why the name Elysium occurs throughout this series of books. The word possesses a variety of exotic meanings associated with the idea of paradise and the afterlife in classical prose and poetry, first found in Homer and later in works by such poets as Virgil, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Dante, and Schiller. How and why this name surfaced is revealed in the second novel, The Summit.

It was over a year after returning home from this prolonged adventure that I decided to compose a narrative of what happened to me after I became aware of the extraordinary events that had transpired after my ascent to the mountain summit. More correctly, I didn't decide to write about my adventure so much as being conscripted by some very persistent and militant muses to put it out there even as the events were occurring. I trust you will find it just as compelling to read.

And so, I invite you to join me on my trek into Elysium's Passage as we explore a universe that allows for infinite adventures and inward expansion. It was here that I experienced my surreal free fall into a new consciousness, leading me to discover who I am and what I'm becoming. Through all this, I trust you will be inspired to plunge into a more profound realm of conscious awareness as you find your portal to Elysium.

These novels are not intended to discuss only provocative ideas and concepts but to take you on a spectacular and sometimes enchanting journey, which I sometimes refer to as my trek into the mysterium of the unknown universe. Each represents a unique phase I experienced, including adventure, the afterlife, romance, philosophy, and what, from this world's perspective, might seem like a fantasm of extraordinary experiences.

My story in The Ascent to Elysium begins in December of 2017 and continues through to November 2018 in Book Six, The Elixir, when my body returns to consciousness. Then, in late 2019, I began to reflect on much of what happened that year, completing my six-part narrative the following year. Now, I'm writing much of what happened after that in my concluding novel, The Return.

With the help of those closest to me, I plan to publish it as soon as it's completed. What happens next, we'll see. My story has not ended, but then, yours hasn't either.

[1] Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French philosopher and scientist

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INTRODUCTION
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This narrative begins with a most unusual allegory that came to me in an intensive dream one night, which, as it turned out, would foreshadow the direction of my future life. The symbolic nature of the objects and environments I encountered reminded me of the allegorical meanings I read of in Pilgrim's Progress. My dream experience had a similar quality: the most provocative interpretative expression of my life up to that point, including various deficiencies that were not so obvious to me, though they likely were to others.

Also, you will notice that my title page includes the words: "come further up, come further in." These few words sum up the book's primary theme and my new life. If you are familiar with C.S Lewis' works, you may recognize this phrase as the one that was cried out as the characters effortlessly went further up and further into the New Narnia, as described in The Last Battle, the concluding book in the Chronicles of Narnia series. Only after my adventure did I come to understand the meaning Lewis intended with this phrase.

As we ascend our Mountains further up and further in, we continue to gain greater clarity and vision in seeing who we are while we are on earth. Whatever path we may be on, we are all on a trek through life. I wish now to share my very strange venture, taking me further up and further in on a journey far beyond what I could have imagined.

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SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE SERIES

This is a series of Elysium's Passage narrations about a young British philosopher named James Phillips, who finds himself living in an altered reality while still on Earth.

An engaging and sometimes surreal adventure with intimations of impending romance, the narrative explores the most important questions about life, death, reality and our ultimate destiny.

To read a sample press review at https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15515775.htm

ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES

THE ASCENT: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

THE SUMMIT: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

QUANTUM LEAPS: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

SURREAL ADVENTURES: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

MYSTICAL ROMANCE: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

THE ELIXIR: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

THE RETURN: Chronicles of Elysium's Passage

It all begins with an extreme adventure: climbing a remote, challenging mountain somewhere in the Andes. Just as James, the protagonist, is about to reach the mountain summit, he falls into an abyss that leaves him in a coma for almost a year.

2. THE SUMMIT, the second novel in the Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, carries on where James, the narrator and protagonist, is taught more about a multidimensional reality that he finds difficult to comprehend.

Not only does he find he's not as clever as he imagined, but his off-world companions on the summit demonstrate that much of what he believed about life was not just parochial but wrong. At first, he finds this difficult to comprehend because their teachings contradict his limited understanding of non-material reality.

After being tricked into teleporting off a ledge where he was trapped, James becomes aware of a new reality that enables him to undertake far more adventures than he could ever have in his physical body back home.

Now, if only he would win over the only woman in this life who matters, the nurse on the other side of the veil, who continually demonstrates her unconditional love toward his healing.

That will be the next focus of his life, where, in his next Surreal Adventures, he is given virtual lessons to release many of his past beliefs about the world and his life.

After this, he achieves peace of mind and is ready to return to his lodge to join his off-world companions on the Andes summit. However, just when it seemed things couldn't get any stranger, a sixteenth-century sea captain sails his ancient 'ghost' ship onto the beach. Together, they sail off on a mystical ocean voyage to a couple of virtual islands supposedly in the South Pacific, where he witnesses and, at times, participates in several important life lessons.

Near the end, these encounters help prepare him for a new challenge within a mountain, where he falls deep into a dark tomb of fear. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding his Excalibur, he continues on to where his life is about to be transformed in the following chronicle, Mystical Romance.

After escaping his tomb, James, the narrator and protagonist, makes his way through a maze of tunnels until he arrives at a large oak door, which he opens with the golden key he had been given. There, he steps into Elysium's Passage's Great Hall, where his life and recent achievements are celebrated now that his eyes have been opened to perceive a fascinating interior world of wonderment... and romance.

To say more might risk diminishing the multitude of delightful surprises as circumstances begin to open to The Elixir, where James is about to re-enter his earthly body's existence.

Ostensibly a new Adam, he is destined to return humanity to a higher multidimensional existence. How this happens is filled with intrigue, as is his shocking return to his earthly body.

andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;7. THE RETURN is the seventh and last chronicle in the series where James, the narrator and protagonist, has re-emerged from Elysium's Passage as he readjusts to life in the third dimension. Many of the events from the previous novels are woven into an exciting, fast-paced, action-packed narrative that spans several countries.

At first, it seems all memories have been lost, with his fall guy's brain not being aware of what happened to him while in his coma. As a consequence, it takes a while for him to be convinced that he had been out of his earthly body for almost a year.

Through some unexpected events and evidence, along with his girlfriend's urging, he comes to an awareness of what had occurred. It takes a while for his mind to catch up with the changes made in his heart during his stay in the alternate realm. But after experiencing several harsh realities, he discovers what he has become while out of his body. Gradually, he comes to understand the many challenges that lie ahead for him in fulfilling his future mission on Earth.

This book is filled with adventure, romance and personal intrigue that ties together all six previous narratives of the Elysium's Passage series.

For a limited time, the first half of The Return is posted on this blog site at: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/The-Rerurn

READER REVIEWS

The following comments are excerpts from the first readers, including several Amazon five-star reviews. To read the full reviews, go to READER REVIEWS on www.elysiumspassage.com or directly at https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/reader-reviews

"Excellently written with an exceedingly deep understanding of this world and the next. The characters are very well written and engaging. I can't wait to complete this book!"

"Takes the reader on both a philosophical and spiritual journey, a journey that at times is both disquieting and tranquil. James, a British Philosopher can be irreverent and caustic, traits that should have left me cringing, but instead made me laugh out loud. Elysium's Passage is a fun, enlightening and remarkable book."

"This is a masterful fantasy, becoming a real possibility, as the reader is drawn into the story. The Summit leaves you anxious for the next book in the series, yet also leaves you totally satisfied with the world you have just visited. Genius! An exciting, yet calming, experience that is not to be missed."

"There was hardly a page on which I did not find at least one sentence worthy of hi-lighting for future reference. In addition, I thoroughly enjoyed the main character, James, whose personality and passionate verbal exchanges with the other characters, kept me coming back for more. I am reading the book for a second time while I wait for the next one in this series to be made available."

"N.G. Meyers has clearly put a great deal of research and thought into what the afterlife may look like and I like his perspective. It's an altogether welcoming and exciting vision. The book gives one a great deal to think about and a reassuring confidence that the end of our lives is truly the beginning of life in the next. I highly recommend it."

"The humour interjected into a serious discussion makes me laugh out loud. Totally unexpected....l may be in the presence of at least a master, if not a genius. A fair ride into reality... seeking that which is unseen, yet absolutely real."

"This is the book spiritual seekers have been waiting for. For me, it granted a great read as well as increased inspiration to live every day with a heightened sense of purpose. I highly recommend it.

"The Summit is capable of hooking readers and luring them to search for Book 2 to discover more about Dr. Philip's surreal trek into the mysterious unknown universe. This thick book is well worth the read and to share..."

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QUOTATIONS FROM ELYSIUIM'S PASSAGE

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QUOTES AND EXCERPTS

FROM ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES

THE ASCENT - THE SUMMIT QUANTUM LEAPS - SURREAL ADVENTURES

MYSTICAL ROMANCE - THE ELIXIR - THE RETURN

INTRODUCTION

This post draws on the content from a Book of Quotations, featuring many established classic quotes in the order they appear in the series, along with select novel excerpts. I plan to publish this later this year, along with the novel series, to help readers appreciate the Elysium's Passage series content and tenure. I may later include the 500 footnotes I'm working on in the Quotation book to provide interesting facts and backup information readers might overlook while reading the novels.

Elysium's Passage is a seven‑novel cycle of philosophical fiction that traces a journey of consciousness beyond physical life - and back again. When James Phillips, a British philosopher, survives a near‑fatal accident, his familiar understanding of reality begins to dissolve. What follows is not a sudden awakening but a gradual ascent through altered states of perception, identity, love, and meaning.

The Ascent, The Summit, Quantum Leaps, Surreal Adventures, Mystical Romance, The Elixir, and The Return unfold as a long‑form inquiry into what it means to be conscious, embodied, and human. The non-physical realms James encounters are not symbolic backdrops but lived environments where philosophical ideas are tested through experience, relationships, humour, doubt, and intimacy

As the series progresses, its narrative mode evolves. Early volumes lean into inquiry and instruction; middle volumes experiment boldly with nonlinear reality, altered perception, and ontological play; later volumes ground metaphysical insight in intimacy, ethical consequence, embodiment, and return.

For a more comprehensive review of the seven novels, go to the end of his post

QUOTATIONS FROM ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

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BOOK ONE: THE ASCENT

Come further up, come further in.

C.S. Lewis

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

The wound is the place where the Light enters

Rumi

Better to live as a lion for a day rather than a hundred years as a sheep.

Old Italian Proverb

When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

Lord Byron

Veni, Vidi, Vici: I came, I saw, I conquered.

Attributed to Julius Caesar

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:17

The wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.

Homer, The Iliad

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.
You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet,
there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

From these depths depart towards heaven,
You have escaped from the city full of fear and trembling.

Rumi

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire
shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

I Corinthians 3:12

Cogito Ergo Sum: I think, therefore I am.

Rene Descartes

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience
We are spiritual beings having a human expression

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Their truth would be nothing but the shadows of images.

Plato, The Republic

The whole modern conception of the world is founded on the illusion
that the so-called laws of nature explain all phenomena.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This mortal shall have put on immortality.

Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:54

Science has nothing to say as to the intrinsic nature of the atom.
The physical atom is, like everything else in physics, a schedule of pointer readings.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

There is enough Light for those who desire only to see,
and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.

Blaise Pascal

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly
shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Niels Bohr, Physicist

As above, so below; as within, so without

Hermes

Vincit Qui Se Vincit: He Conquers Who Conquers Himself.

Publilius Syrus

Omnia Vincit Amor, Love Conquers All

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are
more real than things that are in the world.

Emanuel Swedenborg, Apocalypse Explained

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness
was upon the face of the deep - and God said, let there be light.

Genesis 1:1-3

Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter
We are beginning to suspect that we ought rather hail
it as the creator and governor of this realm.

Sir James Jeans, Physicist

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Yeshua John 8:32

Old things have passed away; all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Esse est Percipi: To be is to be perceived

George Berkeley, Philosopher

Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter.
We are beginning to suspect that we ought rather hail it as the creator
and governor of this realm. If the universe is a universe of thought,
then its creation must have been an act of thought.

Sir James Jeans, Physicist

What objects are in themselves, apart from all the receptivity of our sensibility,
remains unknown to us. We know nothing but our mode of perceiving them

Immanuel Kant

It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be
seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.

Wolfgang Pauli, Physicist

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Yeshua, John 8:32

No phenomenon is a physical phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon
... the universe does not exist out there, independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe.

John Wheeler, Physicist

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy,
the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Emanuel Swedenborg

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:1

The solid substance of things is another illusion. It, too, is a fancy projected
by the mind into the eternal world. We have chased the solid substance from the
continuous liquid of the atom, from the atom to the electron, and there we have lost it.

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein, Physicist

The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion we must
seriously take, because it is real as it goes...

Aldous Huxley

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of Spirit is spirit.

Yeshua, John 3:1,4

The pen is mightier than the sword

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Proverbs 23:7

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed,
She is woman, and therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare, Henry VI

Amare Et Sapere Vix Deo Conceditur
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time

Publilius Syrus

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality

Plutarch

The course of true love never did run smooth

William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Amare et Sapere Vix Deo Conceditur
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time

Publilus Syrus

We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts
as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Niels Bohr, Physicist

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear,

Yeshua, 1 John 4:18

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Yeshua, Mathew 11:15 (KJV)

BOOK TWO: THE SUMMIT

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education

Albert Einstein

There is enough Light for those who desire only to see and
enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.

Blaise Pascal
Pensandeacute;es

Every soul... comes into this world strengthened by the
victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life

Origen of Alexandria
De Principiis

The soul passes from form to form, and the mansions of
her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou art from Old,
O Soul of Man: Yea thou art from everlasting

Georg Hermes

Matter itself is merely a ripple in this background

David Bohm, Physicist

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again -
That is thy duty, for in any case, thou wilt live again!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Souls must re-enter the Absolute from whence they have emerged.
But to accomplish this end, they must develop the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them.
And if they have not developed these traits in this one life, then they must commence another, a third,
and so forth. They must go on like this until they acquire the condition to join again with the Creator.

The Zohard
Kabbalah

He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy
and without blame before him in love.

Apostle Paul, Ephesians 1:4

When you choose to see things differently,
the things you see are different.

Max Planck

All things are received according to the nature of the recipient.

Thomas Aquinas

Something unknown is doing, we don't know what

Sir Arthur Eddington, Physicist

Man, when he is reborn, passes through the ages as he who is born;
and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one;
thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world,
but also when he comes into another life.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll (Queen of Hearts), Through the Looking Glass

For you see, so many extraordinary things had happened lately that
Alice began to think that there were very few things that were impossible.

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The substratum for everything is of a mental character. Our ultimate analysis
of space leads us not to a 'here' and a 'there', but to an extension
such as that which relates 'here' and 'there'. To put the conclusion rather crudely,
space is not a lot of points close together; it is a lot of distances interlocked.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Physicist

For in Him we live and move and have our being.

Aratus, Greek poet
Also quoted and adapted in Acts 17:28

Le candoelig;ur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaandicirc;t point:
The heart has its reason, which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal, Pensandeacute;es

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the Light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it
... science advances one funeral at a time.

Max Planck, Physicist

Space and time and matter... and at the bottom, we reach symbols.
Its substance melted into shadow

Sir Arthur Eddington

The unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates, Plato's Apology

We know the truth not only by reason but by the heart

Blaise Pascal

You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you.

St Augustine of Hippo
Confessions

For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways

Psalms 91:11

Vestis Virum Reddit: Clothes make the man

Desiderous Erasmus

What shall it profit a man if he shall gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?

Yeshua, Mark 8:36

Remember Him before the silver cord is severed and the
golden bowl is broken... and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:5-7

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me,
and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.

Yeshua, John 17:21

If a fire is to warm something else,
must there be a fire to warm that fire?'

Plotinus
Ennead

... what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard
and what no human mind has conceived.

I Corinthians 2:9

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me;
My eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Meister Eckhart

Nosce te Ipsum: Know Thy Self

Ancient Proverb (Egypt and Greece)

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players

William Shakespeare, As You Like It

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

Yesha Matthew 6:20

There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am I in the midst.

Yeshua, Matthew 18:20

It's very difficult to sacrifice one's suffering.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like,
but he will not give up his suffering.

G.I. Gurdjieff

The real voyage of discovery consists not in
seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes

Marcel Proust

No one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins,
and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined

Yeshua, Mark 2:22

The show that is going on obviously acquires a meaning only with
regard to the mind that contemplates it.
But what science tells us about this relationship is patently absurd: as if mind had
only been produced by the very display that it is now watching.

Erwin Schrodinger, Physicist

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required

Yeshua, Luke 12:48

I don't admire the excess of a single virtue, such as courage,
unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue,
as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and kindness.

We show greatness not by being at one extreme but by touching
both at once and occupying all the space in between
- perhaps it's only a flash of the soul from one extreme to the other
- but at least that shows how agile the soul is

Pascal, Pensandeacute;es

The denial of God is the ego's religion

A Course in Miracles

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Yeshua, Mark 1:3

You must always, in anything, plumb the depths before
you are permitted to go on the heights
Stewart Edward White

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination

Nelson Mandela

When he is ready to move on, he goes with mighty companions beside him
- he will not go on from here alone

A Course in Miracles

The greater the smugness, the greater the ignorance

Jan Merta de Velehrad

We see, like in Plato's allegory of the cave,
only the reflections of things, so that what we see has lost all reality.

P. D. Ouspenski
The Fourth Way

No one who puts a hand to the plough and looks back
is fit for service in the kingdom of God

Yeshua, Luke 9:62

Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

Martin Buber

Trust your heart rather than your head

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The knower and the known are one

Meister Eckhart

BOOK THREE: QUANTUM LEAPS

Mind is the matrix of all matter.
I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.

Max Planck

I in them and thou in me -
that they may be made perfect in one.

Yeshua, John 17:23

The universe can hear music in the soul

Lao Tzu

Without contraries, there is no progression.

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience

O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven.

William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliette

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?

Job 38:4

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Robert Burns

Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent
is capable of speaking essentially.

Soren Kierkegaard

The soul, which is immaterial and invisible, exists in no material place without having
a body suited to the nature of that place; accordingly, it at one time
puts off one body, which was necessary before,
but which is no longer adequate in its changed state, and exchanges it for a second.

Origen, Contra Celsum

Words are images of matter; to fall in love with them
is to fall in love with a picture

Sir Francis Bacon

All things perceived are perceived according to the nature of the recipient

Thomas Aquinas

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

That God doesn't exist, I cannot deny.
That my whole being cries out for God, I cannot forget.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest

G. I. Gurdjieff

Guard your heart more than any treasure, for it is the source of all life.

Proverbs 4:23

There seems no centre because it is all centre...
there seems no plan because it is all plan

C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

We do not see things as they are... we see things as we are

Anaandiuml;s Nin

Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place

Lao-Tzu

First, love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity

George Bernard Shaw

The material can clothe the spiritual because all things in nature are effects
produced by the spiritual as a cause - nothing is an effect that is not the cause.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law unto itself

Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time
will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

Immanuel Kant

For in creation is His Will complete in every aspect,
making every part container of the whole.

A Course of Miracles

Where you focus, your vibration shall be.
Where your vibration is, that shall be your experience.

Regina Dawn Akers

Father, forgive them; they know not what they do

Yeshua, Luke 23:34

And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth

Genesis 1:28

We've met the enemy, and he is us

Pogo (Comic strip caracter)

Philosophy applies thought to mystery, and that
is why philosophy becomes such a muddle of words.

Regina Dawn Akers

Life is service to God. God is service to life. You are God in life. Thus, you are both life and service to life. The vast universe is the same: created to love and to serve life, to be of God and be of service to God.
To be served and to serve. To provide and be provided for, to have needs met, and to meet needs;
thus, the circular nature of the universe leaves no one unattended. Yet you realise this not.

A Course of Miracles

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,
and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

David Hume, Treatise on Human Nature

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Abdul Kalam

The heart has its reasons that reason does not know...
we know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart

Blaise Pascal

Humanity is born free, and everywhere he is in chains

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto,

There's nothing like a dream to create the future

Victor Hugo

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

William Blake

The universe as we know it is a joint product
of the observer and the observed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Annonymous

God is Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Yeshua, John 4:24

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened to you

Yeshua, Matthew 7:7

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
or to take arms against a sea of troubles.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real

Niels Bohr Physicist

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind

Albert Einstein

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth

Yeshua, John 3:8

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone,
and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom,
for it is only when he is alone that he is free

Arthur Schopenhauer

BOOK FOUR: SURREAL ADVENTURES

Where wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

I assert the nature of all reality is spiritual, not material or a dualism of matter and spirit.
The hypothesis that its nature can be, to any degree, material does not enter into my reckoning

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts

A Course in Miracles

If you don't bring forth what is inside you,
what you don't bring forth will destroy you.

Yeshua, Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

A man may be born, but in order to be born, he must first die,
and in order to die, he must first awake.

G.I. Gurdjieff

Except a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies,
it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.

Yeshua, John 12:24

'O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;
the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won

Walt Whitman

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

Albert Einstein

You are a divine being. You matter, you count.
You come from realms of unimaginable power and Light,
And you will return to those realms.

Terence McKenna

Believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.'

Yeshua, Mark 11:24

The thoughts from which they reason are fallacies... these cannot be called minds,
but eyes and ears without understanding, or thoughts without a soul.

Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion

Posterior subsists as well as exists from what is prior

Emanuel Swedenborg

I have called this system of higher logic Tertium Organum
because for us it is the third canon - third instrument- of thought
after those of Aristotle and Bacon. The first was the Organon,
and the second was the Novum Organum.
But the third existed earlier than the first.

P.D. Ouspensky
Tertiium Organum

What you have said in the dark will be heard in the Light, and what you have
whispered in an inner room will be shouted from the housetops

Luke 12:3

If we admit that human life is to be ruled by reason alone,
then all possibility for life is destroyed

Tolstoy, War and Peace

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof
but on the basis of what they find attractive

Blaise Pascal

There is no man so blind as he who will not see

English Proverb

Wise men hear and see as little children do

Lao Tzu

What I have chosen to see has cost me vision.
Now I would choose again that I may see

A Course in Miracles

There are many different kinds of stupidity, but cleverness is the worst.

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is

Albert Camus

Every man takes the limits of his own
field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision

Helen Keller

When vision is denied, confusion of cause and effect becomes inevitable.
The purpose now becomes to keep obscure the cause of the effect and make the effect
appear as the cause. This seeming independence of effect enables it to stand of itself,
and capable of serving as a cause of the events and feeling its maker thinks it causes

A Course in Miracles

They talk of deriving derivatives as primitives and effects as causes.
Thus, they turn everything upside down, lull to sleep the
watchful powers of reason and see nothing but dreams.

Emanuel Swedenborg

It's through the Thou that a person becomes I

Martin Buber

Because men believe they already possess consciousness,
they give themselves very little trouble to acquire it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Psalms 28:19

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger;
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

In all the universe, nothing remains permanent
and unchanged but the spirit.

Anton Chekhov

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a great lie
than a small one. What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolph Hitler

This above all else, to thine own self be true, and it must follow
as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool,
with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington

They talk of deriving derivatives as primitives and effects as causes.
Thus, they turn everything upside down, lull to sleep the watchful powers
of reason and see nothing but dreams.

Emanuel Swedenborg

See how the body's eyes rest on externals and cannot go beyond.
Watch how they stop at nothingness, unable to go beyond the form of meaning.
Nothing is so blinding as the perception of form.
For sight of form means understanding has been obscured.

A Course in Miracles

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding.
It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Franz Kafka, The Trial

It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum
for everything is mental composition... the revelation by modern physics of the void within the atom is more disturbing than astronomy's revelation of interstellar space's immense void.
The stuff of the world is mind-stuff - the aggregation of relations and relata
which form the building blocks for the physical world.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Physicist

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest.
Nothing is approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this,
and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Blaise Pascal

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land

Jack Kerouac

Some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals believe them

George Orwell

Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only.

T. S Eliot, The Wasteland

We must follow the argument wherever it leads

Socrates

If you had an equation detailing the probability of
something emerging from a vacuum, you would
still have to ask why that equation applies

Anthony Flew, Philosopher

You need a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.

Stephen Hawking

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof
but on the basis of what they find attractive

Blaise Pascal

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit

Proverbs 26:5

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Yeshua, John 3:6

Adventure is not outside man; it is within

George Eliot

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

I cannot and will not recant anything,
for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God.

Martin Luther

The unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates

If a man knows himself, he shall know God

Clement of Alexander

In whom we live and move and have our being

Acts 17: 28

The key to growth is the introduction of higher
dimensions of consciousness into our awarenes.

Lao Tzu

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

Kahlil Gibran

The one in the many and the many in the one

Anonyomous

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

A person who is fanatic in matters of religion,
and clings to various ideas about the nature of God
and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Allan Watts

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction... narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life.

Matthew 7:13,14

The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.

Ecclesiastes 10:2

PULCHRITUDO SPLENDOR VERITATIS
Beauty is the Splendour of Truth

Thomas Aqainus (derivation)

BOOK FIVE: MYSTICAL ROMANCE

The character of a person's life matches exactly the communities into
which his thought and affection extend as well as matching
the nature and amount of that extension

Emanuel Swedenborg. Arcana Coelestia

Projection makes perception, and you cannot see beyond it.
Its only reality is in your mind

A Course in Miracles

Which form, when it is viewed, is ineffable beauty.
In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Psalms 27: 17

Eternity is in love with the creations of time

William Blake

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend

Socrates

The character of a person's life matches exactly the communities
into which his thought and affection extend as well as matching
the nature and amount of that extension

Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia

A broadcasting station is not like its call-signal;
there is no commensurability in their nature.

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a drop

Rumi

There are no objects in the ocean since all that exists is an infinite ocean of
consciousness, which we may call Mind or Spirit. And so, the appearances of objects
perceived on the surface are just energy vortexes we interpret as bodies, along with
all the other material forms that seem to appear on the ocean's surface.

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

Even the gods find it hard to love and be wise at the same time.

Publilius Syrus

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Is it not written, I said: Ye are gods?

Yeshua, quoting Psalms 82:6 in John 10:33-36

You are a function of what the whole universe
is doing in the same way that a wave is a function
of what the whole ocean is doing.

Allan Watts, Philosopher

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of
a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration
and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together

Max Planck, Physicist

Man is a microcosm of the universe, therefore what man is,
is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

David Bohm, Physicist

Love and do as you will

Saint Augustine

Everything on earth is asking us to sacrifice... heaven asks nothing.
It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice.

A Course in Miracles

Whilst we wander as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills

William Wordsworth

Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

David Hume

Beauty is the translucence, through phenomena,
of the eternal splendour of the One.

Plotinus

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young

Emanuel Swedenborg

The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love;
It could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously
has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Franz Kafka

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Aristotle

To love is to act

Victor Hugo

And because conjugial love is chaste, pure and holy, the intercourse is also full.
The intercourse is then more delightful and blessed because when the love
becomes of the spirit it becomes more interior and pure, and therefore more
perceptible, and every delight increases according as it is perceived,
and increases until its blessedness are discernible in its delight.

Emanuel Swedenborg

When you make the two into one, when you make the inner like the outer and the
outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, when you make male and female into a single one,
so that the male will not be male and the female will not be female
... then you will enter the kingdom.

Yeshua, Gnostic Gospel of Thomas

And the two shall become one.

Yeshua, Gospel of Mark

After death, when man becomes a spirit, the same mutual inclination continues, and this cannot be without similar intercourse. For man is made just as before. Nothing whatever is wanting in the male and nothing whatever in the female. They are like themselves in respect to form, and equally so as to affections and thoughts. What else can follow then but that they have similar intercourse?
And because conjugial love is chaste, pure and holy, the intercourse is also full.

The intercourse is then more delightful and blessed, because when the love becomes
of the spirit, it becomes more interior and pure, and therefore more perceptible,
and every delight increases according as it is perceived,
and increases until its blessedness is discernible in its delight.

Emanuel Swedenborg
Conjugial Love

This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes experienced in special relationships. It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. If you will consider what this 'transportation' really entails, you will realise that it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else, in which your mind enlarges to encompass it.
It becomes part of you as you unite with it.

A Course of Miracles

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to
complete and fulfil them, for it alone takes them
and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place.

David Hume

If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or more are gathered in my name, there am I with them.

Yeshua, Matthew's Gospel

Remember him before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well, and the
dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Book of Ecclesiastes

BOOK SIX: THE ELIXIR

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum,
and is the ground for the existence of everything.

Physicist David Bohm

For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable,
and the mortal with immortality.

I Corinthians 15:53

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Faith without works is dead.

James 2:14

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great
and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Jeremiah 33:3

Synchronicity was a meaningful coincidence of two or more events where
something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Carl Jung

... that they might have life, and have it more abundantly.

Yeshua John 10:10

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me,
and I in them, that they also may be one in us.

Yeshua, John 17:21

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of You.

Rumi

But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:16

You know the ancient song, and know it well.
Nothing will ever be as dear to you
as this ancient hymn of love

A Course in Miracles

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting.
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

William Wordsworth,
Ode: Intimations of Immortality

All means prove but a blunt instrument if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Albert Einstein

You are the music while the music lasts.

T.S. Eliot, Dry Salvages

Therefore... since we are surrounded by so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight.

Hebrews 12:1

The world is all one song with different notes played in harmony to create the one. It is the song that is cherished, not the notes. Remember that you are not the note. That is a distorted view of the music. We are the song as one sound together. Love the entire song. Every aspect is equally important to the whole, every aspect valuable and cherished for its part in it.

Regina Dawn Akers

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words
and that which cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

You are God's harmony, God's expression,
God's melody. You, and all that exists with you,
form the orchestra and chorus of creation.

A Course in Miracles

You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's
something else besides us in this universe: a harmonic connection
between all living beings everywhere, even the stars.

Maxwell Wizard Wallace, August Rush

What's past is prologue

William Shakespeare; The Tempest

This mortal shall put on immortality.

1 Corinthians 15:53

We have put too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that
we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.

Yeshua, John 4:24

I had a dream that was not at all a dream.

Lord Byron, Darkness

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

1 Corinthians 15:55

This, then, is how the material thing becomes beautiful
by communicating in the thought that flows from the Divine.

Plotinus

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,
such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous
arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god?

Allan Watts

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.

Richard Feynman, Physicist

Freude, schandouml;ner Gandouml;tterfunken
Tochter aus Elysium
Joy, beautiful spark of divinity
Daughter from Elysium
We enter your sanctuary, burning with fervour
O heavenly being
Your magic brings together
what custom has sternly divided
All men shall become brothers,
wherever your gentle wings hover

Friedrich Schiller, Ode to Joy

All truth lies in relationship, you in me, and I in you.

Yeshua, John 14:20

'Here is where you work in relationship to maintain what you have learned,
for you know that when you return to the level ground from which you climbed,
you will be different as a result of having made your ascent.

The hard work is done. What you gain here, you gain from what is beyond effort and beyond learning... what you will have gained on return will never leave you but will sustain you forever more.'

A Course of Love

Man is not the centre of the universe,
rather the universe is in the centre of man.

Plotinus, Enneads

Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden Light that stretches, as you look, into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with Light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it no longer is contained at all.
The Light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity,
forever shining, and with no break or limit anywhere.

A Course in Miracles

Presently, it is as if you follow two threads, the thread that has led you to the mountain and the thread of the life from which you have not removed yourself. Now you must begin to weave these
two threads together into the tapestry of your new life.

A Course of Love

Heaven is not a place or a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness
and the knowledge that there is nothing else,
nothing outside this awareness, and nothing else within.

A Course in Miracles

In the spirit of man, the summit is one with the inmost recess
- through the ecstasy of the spirit we are transported beyond ourselves
or within ourselves into the contemplation of things divine.

Richard of St Victor:

Heaven is not a place or a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect oneness
and the knowledge that there is nothing else, nothing outside this awareness, and nothing else within.

A Course in Miracles

Here comes the place where cleaves our way in twain.
Thy road, the right, toward Pluto's dwelling goes and leads us to Elysium.
But the left Speeds sinful souls to doom,
and is their path to Tartarus th' accurst.

Virgil, Aeneid

Then all the charm
Is broken - all that phantom - world so fair,
And each mis-shaped the other. Stay a while.
Poor youth! Who scarcely dar'st lift up thine eyes -
The stream will soon renew its smoothness, soon
The visions will return! And lo! He stays,
And soon the fragments dim of lovely forms
Come trembling back, unite, and now once more
The pool becomes a mirror.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Picture

BOOK SEVEN: THE RETURN

Every kind of spirit turns toward his or her ruling love.

Emanuel Swedenborg, Divine Love and Wisdom

Seek ye first the kingdom, and all the rest will be added to you.

Yeshua, Matthew 6:33

This is the function of your holy relationship. For what one thinks the other will experience.
What can this mean, except your minds are one? From loving minds, there is no separation.
And every thought in one brings gladness to the other because they are the same.
Joy is unlimited because each shining thought of love extends its being and creates more of itself.

A Course in Miracles

There is no loss but only gain within the laws of love.
You are lacking in only what you do not give.
You are simply being asked to give that you might receive
and to receive that you might give.

A Course of Love

In speaking of evolution, it is necessary to understand
from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible.
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.

G.I. Gurdjieff

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.

Max Planck

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth
will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Yeshua, Matthew 16:19

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:12

Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing,
and they will do even greater things than these.

Yeshua, John 14:12

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above
that ye are able; but will with the temptation, also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.

I Corinthians 10:13.

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Skyline Trail, Jasper National Park

SECTION TWO

EXCERPTS FROM ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

BOOK ONE: THE ASCENT

As we ascend our Mountain further up and further in, we gain greater clarity and vision in seeing who we are while we remain in the world.

Strange as this place was at times, I had learned some valuable things about myself that I might not have wished to know. But I was soon to find this was only the beginning. There remained much for me to discover about myself before I would be stripped down to knowing who I was, none of which had anything to do with what I did in life. Nor did I realise that finding myself would be my primary purpose for being here, just as I supposed it should be for everyone, wherever they might be. 48

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As it turned out, I was soon to find out about everything, in fact, more than I might have wished. I found all these events weren't about what was happening out there so much as what was happening within me. Furthermore, by some strange quirk of fate, I was implicated in the very questions I was seeking answers to, far beyond anything I could have imagined. 50

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You know, chaps, I may have had a dream, and yet, in many ways, it's also everyone's dream, a splendid archetypal dream... don't you think? Consider humanity's universal struggle that takes him from the depths of despair to the heights of ecstasy, from the Lowland swamps to the Mountain peaks. In fact, on another level, it might be understood as a statement of evolution from the primaeval swamps towards our upward ascent into higher realms of human consciousness.' 53

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... every wizard needs a slat a draoichta.' Then he cried out: 'Oscail geata Flaithhis Dandeacute;lig a tsoilse mhandoacute;r amach,' tossing the flaming stick as it spiralled into the night sky like a blazing star into the darkness. I never saw it come down. Then he turned to me and said, 'I have even deeper wizardry for you, James, that has to do with the alchemy of your soul. It starts with knowing who you are. You still don't know, but when you do, heaven's Light will glow brighter than the flames of a wizard's wand tossed into the night sky. Are you prepared to alchemise this Light into gold?' 55

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Who was I? - such an elementary question... one I hadn't given much thought to, even though I understood how vital such ontological concerns were in ancient days. Am I more than my body, as my inner intuition suggested, or am I just a function of a biological constitution? If I didn't know who I was, how would anyone else?

I struggled to find a meaningful answer, although I couldn't, only more questions. Where did I come from, where am I going, and will I ever get there... wherever that might be? Or will I remain stuck in bogs and ruts on a journey that leads nowhere? 57

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You never did wake up from the dream; the dream woke you and slowly changed your life. You knew you had to follow where you were called... We only wish to remind you of what it was trying to tell you, so don't shun this gift you gave to yourself. It was a revelation from you to you. You earned it, my friend; therefore, it's all yours: your guide and future reality. It gave you the vision you needed to find your way here; it didn't come from your mind but from your heart... it's taken you this long for your heart to show you the way up, just as it seemed in your dream! You've gone to a lot of trouble to make it this far.' 64

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'So, James,' Mo said, 'let me ask you again if you know who you are?... I only said there is an answer; I didn't say what it is, since it can only be known to you, no one else, since we don't share your soul. It can't be learned; it can only be discovered, not by the mind but rather by the heart.' 67

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We're way off-grid, a long way from any transmitter service, so you can't possibly receive information from anyone unless you have a satellite phone you're not telling me about.'

'When you are the grid, you don't need a phone,' Eli chuckled.
'When you are the grid - what in bloody hell is that supposed to mean?'
'What I mean is that there is nowhere that Source is not. And since we're all part of Source....'

'Save the metaphysics for later, Eli; I only want to know what's real and certain.'
'There's nothing certain about your fragile mortal body,' Mo said, 'so it's quite possible that it won't make it; then how real will it be? Nothing temporal is real; rest assured, however, you're not temporal; only your mortal body is. If you haven't learned that yet, you soon will.' 81

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'What's wrong, James?' Eli said. 'You look perplexed, if not a bit agitated. Let me explain what Mo is saying. First, you must realise your consciousness is not limited to the receiver-transmitter device resting on your mortal shoulder, you know, the one that transduces consciousness to the material plane of human existence. For now, it's not of much use to you since its systems are down. Besides, your cognition exists at a higher frequency on the 6D matrix grid you're currently anchored to.

'So, you see, your brain's condition is not a problem; in fact, as you're here, your mind has never been better; it just needs you to take the fetters off your beliefs by accepting that your consciousness is not made of material stuff. If I may say, it has a mind of its own.' 82

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... please don't speak to me about inhabiting some etheric light body. That's rubbish! I think one body is enough. I mean, ask any neurosurgeon about this; they are the bright people who poke around in the brain's labyrinth of memories to get all kinds of impulses! They should know.'

Is the shadow more real than the reality that casts it?' asked Mo. 'What comes first, the brain or the mind?' 85

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'What if the Voice was calling you to where you might become something more than possible in your stifling Lowlands?' Eli asked. 'Now that you've ascended beyond the swamp gases, does this Mountain not seem more real?

'It's your mixing metaphors with facts that makes things seem unreal,' I smirked.
'Why should it confuse you when myths and metaphors are but concealed realities that can't be perceived below in the Lowlands? But since you're now up here, not down there, all should become clear, like mists parting in the morning sun. 86

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Perhaps it's not easy for a modern thinker to concede to transcendence after being conditioned and steeped in the narrow presuppositions of mechanistic theorems and linguistic paralysis.'

Feeling elated, I shouted, just as I had after confronting my dark side on the beach. 'Indeed, I am the conqueror... for I have conquered; never again shall I be possessed by the spectre of fear or its dragons.' 230

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'Did you say linguistic paralysis?' 'Ah, sorry, I meant analysis, although paralysis might apply in some cases. My apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet even he understood the limitations of what he had posited after grasping the higher spiritual significance of where you now exist.'
I think you must realise that much of the last century's unfortunate reductionist trends have recently been getting stale. Nevertheless, the implicit assumptions continue to spread like a nasty virus among many of the natural and social sciences in the Flatlands.' 88

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Once you find who you are, you will know your home exists beyond space and time. Then your shackles will be removed, and you will discover there's more to you than you realised or could realise, a soul that can never die, no matter how many mountains you fall off. If you refuse to understand this, you will only prolong your confusion and uncertainty.' 88

Depending on which dimension you exist in, your body will manifest in the resonance of your spiritual essence. For now, we only wish you to accept that you're more than your body as surely as you are more than the clothes on your back.' 89

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'I'm not sure where you are going with this,' I said, 'nevertheless, I'm certain most philosophers and scientists know what they're talking about.'

'I'm not sure they do,' Eli said, 'when all they're concerned about are analysing the fragments of parts, reductio ad absurdum. Wisdom, however, concerns itself with the whole because only the whole provides definition and meaning to the parts. What meaning or purpose does the kidney or liver have when separated from the body?

'Seldom are these questions raised in the Flatlands, where they're more obsessed with parts than understanding the whole, which always remains more than the sum of the parts.

Without integration of knowledge, the Flatlands remains fragmented... and believe me, that's not wise.' 92'Of course, we understand that analysis is necessary as a tool, provided we accept it's never sufficient unto itself. Philosophers must realise the difference between what is necessary and what is sufficient. As I'm sure you realise, this is foundational to philosophy. Parts are what's necessary, yet only the whole is sufficient. Once philosophers understand this, they can inform their scientific colleagues what they're missing.' 93

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While mystics continue to study this esoterica in remote areas, few in the modern world are aware of these treasures, yet ancient wisdom passed down through the ages is beyond compare. Unfortunately, their meaning remains incomprehensible, if not irrelevant, to the Flatlanders who can only understand exoterically, which is how their land became so flat.' 94

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So, who are the real cavemen, those carrying bludgeons or others carrying briefcases stuffed with stock portfolios? Both dwell in the cave's inner recesses of spiritual ignorance, refusing to be exposed to the sun's divine illumination lest the Light irritates their eyes. As Plato so eloquently stated, their truth would be nothing but the shadows of images. What could be flatter and more linear than modern minds that don't wish to understand what truths lie beyond the shadows of their understanding? 94

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Then let me remind you what your dream was trying to illustrate. As you ascended here, you rose above the clouds and fog below, allowing the sun to reveal what you couldn't see before. When your vision shone through the clouds of the Lowlands, you left your hovel cave and ascended towards this realm of Light.

'Now that you have reached this plane of existence, the Light may seem irritating until your inward eyes adjust. However, you will soon understand what you believed was only a fading shadow of the eternal reality that awaits you.' 95

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'I guess it all comes down to what we wish to believe, reality or phantasms of reality.'

'I'm not sure how many are even aware of what they have chosen to believe,' Eli said, 'since too few are aware of what assumptions they have unquestioningly accepted, preferring to go along with whatever their friends, leaders, and institutions tell them. It's easier and safer that way.' easier and safer that way.'

'That much I can agree with,' I said. 'Too many of our contemporary beliefs are based on what's fashionable with little substance, often based on uncontested reactions toward more traditional belief systems.' 99

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'How can one transcend to higher planes when it's assumed such realms don't exist?

'Of course, logical constructs are essential in debating concerns limited to the earth plane. However, these analytical tools don't go very far when inquiring into life, death, meaning and the source of consciousness. That's why so few philosophers these days bother to ask questions they don't understand.' 100

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'In truth, that's how the Flatlands got its name; it was by imposing its flat, mechanistic interpretations on everything. Because of this levelling, you still find it difficult to acknowledge what we tell you about the vertical dimension of reality, even when your heart understands what your mind resists. It knows that the flat and narrow planes can never satisfy your soul's deeper longings. Your problem is that you're not aware of your inward journey... the new realm of your existence beyond.' 101

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For you to come into a fuller understanding of existence, you will need to subordinate your mind to the heart's inner wisdom. I don't mean for you to displace your mind; only make it subject to the flow of divine wisdom. The ego's mind remains externally focused, separating itself from the essence centre of your being.

'That's why few of your so-called intellectuals can see the implicit unity of the universe and why even fewer care. Too many on earth hear only the meaningless clatter of whatever intrudes into their lives, never acting intentionally; instead, reacting to outward circumstances.'

'It's why the mind needs to unite with the heart so it will learn to respond, rather than react,' Eli said, 'or it will lose itself to all the inane distractions of the ego. As we keep saying, the heart is the spirit's divine portal to higher consciousness, which is why the constraints of your past training will fall away as soon as you learn to reconcile your heart with your mind. 103

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'The heart is not only the centre of your physical being,' Mo said, 'it's also the nonlocal, invisible centre of what is called the soul, that which you are. Just think about it, James, you don't have a soul; you are the soul, even if science doesn't yet recognise what can't be seen or measured, which is why science is often considered soulless, a threat to humanity when not informed by the heart. I think history and modern warfare bear this out.'

'Remember,' Eli said, 'it's the heart that's the divine receptacle of Love and Light, not the misguided ego-mind. Until science defers to its wisdom, the mind will not recognise that all physical appearances, including the heart, are vibratory interpretations of our Source... the divine essence in all of existence. Furthermore, all spiritual reality has a corresponding form that manifests across the full spectrum of dimensions, which means all appearances proceed from the thought patterns we have co-created.' 103

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'Best of all, the higher you ascend, the more expansive the view beyond the sierras.'

'Beyond the sierras? I'm not sure that's possible with the earth being a sphere.'

'You might be surprised,' Mo said. 'In fact, I'm sure you will be, which is why we'll show you only a little at a time of what's on the spectrum, so you don't get too overwhelmed with what's in the infiniverse. Once you ascend to new vistas, the views will remain with you even when you return home. Believe us; nothing will seem the same as before.' 106

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'Now, as you ascend higher, you will observe how much more there is to your existence. You will soon find that you can manifest anything that aligns with the creativity of your higher consciousness. The further in and higher you proceed, the more life becomes accessible to you. That's always been the divine plan.' 107

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'You were interested in ascending to higher realms; therefore, you ventured further in and further up. Few choose to leave the Lowlands, so few are chosen. In that sense, you are chosen... now take it the distance.'

'One of the chosen, am I? By whom, the Almighty? I'm not even religious... or Jewish, for that matter.'

'Because you have chosen, you are chosen!' Mo said. 'Because you dared to take on this challenge, you've been afforded the opportunity to enrol at Summit U, an honour you have yet to recognise. As you know, the Lowlanders prefer to remain in their boggy swamps rather than ascend to higher elevations. Most have chosen not to choose, which becomes a choice unto itself. But not you! To your credit, you wanted more and so went on to make the most significant decision of your life. 108

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'Unlike Sisyphus, who struggled to roll his heavy boulder up the Mountain, there will be less toil the higher you ascend until only lightness remains. Have you ever noticed how the word light refers to both illumination and weight?' Eli asked. 'When illuminated by the Light of the Spirit, the weight of your burdens becomes so lightened that they eventually cease to exist.' 110

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'When we are born into the world, we become enshrouded with progressively refined sheaths of energy on a spectrum that intermingles with Earth's base frequency. That's how the human body exists as a duality of spirit and physicality. But since the soul isn't inextricably tied to the biological body, it's free to leave at any time, which it often does during periods of deep sleep. That's how your consciousness, often referred to as a soul, managed to be released from your flesh even while you remain connected to it for as long as your body remains alive on earth. Think of consciousness as a continuum of progressively higher octaves of divine thought-forms emanating from the Ray of Creation.' 114

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Remember, your conscious soul is you, not your body. That's why we tell you that even after the death of your mortal body, you will continue to have an individuated presence that embodies your expanded consciousness. Nevertheless, you seem to wish to believe you're the reflection of what you observe in a mirror. But that's not your identity; instead, it's only a temporal expression of who you are. Only what exists inwardly can exist outwardly; form follows content, not otherwise. Inward consciousness characterises the soul's outward appearance, regardless of what fleshly suits you might wear from lifetime to lifetime.' 122

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'Try to appreciate,' he said, 'the time-space continuum is a mental construct of the third dimension rather than the underlying matrix of subatomic reality. Understand, you're not dragging your body's electrons through the aether from one place to another. Physicists on earth have already discovered electrons seemingly pop in and out of existence for no apparent reason.' 141

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Since all subatomic particles remain inextricably entangled, seemingly with conscious intent, your astral body can respond even more immediately in this rarefied dimension. Like the electron, you show up wherever you wish without having to transition through space since consciousness is everything and everywhere. Such is the nature of God, Prime Creator. No duality can exist in divine essence since God, by nature, is One. Only in lower dimensions of perception, such as on Earth, is duality perceived. Yet, in truth, all is an extension of the Source of infinite Oneness.' 142

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'When you're ready, James, we can discuss these questions at length since there are nuances that need to be considered to appreciate the synthesis of intelligent design and evolutionary principles. They are all entangled in the ongoing process of conscious creation. Remember the guiding precepts upon which all creation is based: as above, so below; as within, so without.'

'Also realise,' Eli said, 'what's known in the higher spiritual domains remains beyond comprehension until spiritually discerned. As I said before, truth is truth and nothing else. It can never be distorted or obstructed. When you no longer hold to limiting beliefs, you'll find what you once assumed to be impossible now becomes possible.143

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'Since dualistic reasoning has now become wholly entrenched in the Western world's reductio-materialist thinking, most scientists assume spiritual reality doesn't exist, when in fact, it's all that exists. The very concept is considered redundant and, therefore, obsolete, leading them to believe that the material brain accounts for all mental processes previously regarded as spiritual. 156

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'In truth, we are about as substantial as anything you can find on the Earth plane, in fact, even more so! Yet, there is nothing solid about anything, whether in your world or the higher celestial realms. Mountains, lakes, galaxies, books, angels and pretty girls that appear to be angels - all electromagnetic patterns that appear as crystallised forms within dimensions of consciousness.' 156

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep - and God said, let there be light.

'Therefore, it is from the void of nothingness that we experience the light of reality where manifestation takes place. When taken literally, creation may appear to be an actual historical event in linear time, unfolding over seven days or epochs. Regardless, creation out of nothingness is an ongoing state of essence that continues to manifest outwardly from within. As within, so without! That's why the existential philosophers who say existence precedes essence have it backwards, like everything else. Essence always precedes existence... no exceptions.' 158

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'Now consider where Genesis states, Let there be light. Inasmuch as it is understood to give form to the void, we might, with Bohm, call form frozen light. Could we not then refer to your spirit body, in its essence, a light form, instead of just an aggregation of cells designed for biological adaptation? Ancient metaphysicians referred to this phenomenon as divine egrēgoros, Greek for an awakened thought-form.'

'As we suggested before,' Eli said, 'the sons of God, being vessels of Source essence, are fractals of one eternal Thought that unceasingly brings the light of existence into all that is or can be. It all begins in the Mind because when in union with the Heart, that's all there is: Oneness. By this means, we co-create the reality we perceive. Wheeler was right when he said this was a participatory universe.' 158

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'Certainly, that's a most intriguing mix of esoterica, religion and science,' I said. 'Which reminds me of something I read while working on my thesis; I think it was Berkeley who suggested that the objects and events we experience are of the infinite possibilities that exist in the Mind of God. Not surprisingly, few modern philosophers are amenable to such a notion. Perhaps if he hadn't used the word God but instead settled for Mind, some might have found this idea more acceptable.' 160

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'Even when planets eventually cease to exist in form, their essence continues in an etheric timeline, as does your spirit essence continue to exist as a thought-form enveloped in the divine Spirit. What Source has conceived can never be unthought or forgotten. Forever, you remain an evolving and, at times, slightly devolving expression of Source contained within various dimensions, including the one you reside .'

'So, are you suggesting what the world believes about physical existence is wrong?'

'It depends on what you mean by physical,' he said. 'Most seem to believe that physicality is limited to material expressions, which explains why the world's understanding of reality remains upside down, inside out and backwards. The illusion sees matter, not spirit; it sees effects, not causes; it sees the temporal, never the eternal; it sees the plain, never the Mountain; it sees with the eyes, yet never with vision.' 161

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'All I know is that I dwell on a very different plane of existence while occupying a very different body... which is about all I have left to show for myself these days.'

'Or so it seems,' he said. 'In reality, this body is an expression of your most authentic form, the immortal pattern, rather than the temporal biological adaptation of your earthly existence. So you see, you haven't lost anything of lasting value. Your indestructible spirit body, with its light and subtle form, is less dense than what you're accustomed to. It's also sufficiently malleable to project the quality of your unique character since your subtle body configures itself to whatever dimension you might wish to enter. 163

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As Mo insists, discovery is a lot more than learning,' Eli said, 'that's not to say learning and discovery don't go together. Most certainly, they do; yet, learning can only take you so far - ask any inventor. That's why we hope to deconstruct whatever misinformation you've acquired, along with Flatland's unquestioned assumptions that lead nowhere but to wrong conclusions. In this process, you may find that we are the true sceptics. As I suggested, scepticism is never a bad thing, provided it's not used in the ego's service but to discern truth from falsehood.

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'Divine wisdom emanates from the divine Source, always there, ready and available when the heart attunes to its voice. Unfortunately, the ego-mind runs interference to preclude souls from hearing what is said, which is why we ask you to go beyond your former beliefs and assumptions instead of clinging to what hasn't served you well. 169

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'In the infinite field of consciousness,' Eli said, 'there are no secrets. The past is past; only the present has meaning. Often, secrets are just an attempt to avoid guilt and judgment. Our domain knows nothing of these since fear is the absence of love, so secrets can't exist on higher planes; no more than darkness can exist in light.' 202

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Only those who open their eyes will find their way, as you did when you left the Lowlands. As you realise, it's not required to know about each twist and turn along the trail since everyone has to discover their way further in and further up.
'When your heart told you there was a Mountain out there, you had no proof of where it was or if it even existed. You only had sporadic visions. To your credit, you stepped out in faith, not realising you would eventually find new heights that would eventually take you to the stars!' 227

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'Think about it this way: the view from the Summit is always far more expansive and encompassing than what can be seen from below. That changes the perspective on everything, including all the women who walked out on you. Even while you remained in the Lowlands, love inspired you to find what might lie beyond.
'It caused you to raise your head to see past the obfuscating fog and allowed you to sidestep the muddy ruts on your way out of the Lowlands. Then, as you ascended the Mountain, life became truly exhilarating, where you could view what could never be seen below in the fog. When you scaled the steep precipices, you began to witness vast expanses instead of only fragmented patches in the Lowlands.'

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'James,' Mo said, 'if you say love is a trap, then I doubt if you understand the first thing about love.
'Of course I do... sort of.'
'Actually, I don't think you know as much as you may think. Realise it's fear, not love, that keeps you trapped. It's love that sets you free. Though you haven't discovered this for yourself yet, when you do, you will stand firm, a conqueror.' 230

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'What many think will make them happy often causes them to be the most unhappy as they look to where it can never be found outward. However, since happiness is an inward quality, it must first be found within the heart before it can be outwardly experienced.' 231

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'In fact, all conflicts are symptoms of inward fear and alienation. As we've often said, that's why so few know who they are. And as long as they don't care to know, they never will, especially when they listen only to those equally lost. Too often, these are the voices everyone wants to listen to. There are many voices we can choose to listen to, both within and without.

'However, stay away from any voice that speaks of fear; there's only one Voice that speaks peace to the heart. For those who have ears to hear, it is the divine Voice. Only by silencing the voices of fear will you become the conqueror you are destined to be. More than you know, the Voice has called you in many ways: at times difficult, at times pleasant, though always as needed. And now, you are being called.' 232

BOOK TWO: THE SUMMIT

'Is poetry not the most rarefied form of communication,' Mo asked, 'where visual images express the inward richness of the heart far beyond the ability of cognitive processes? So why not regard dreams as the poetry of the soul?
'Perhaps that's why Socrates suggested poets are the interpreters of the gods. Notice, he didn't say philosophers; he said poets... universal meanings are often enfolded within rich imagery, such as found in your dream, evoking what's hidden within the subliminal recesses of the soul.' 17

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'We're always pleased to overturn tidy fruit carts. It matters little what is displayed; when the fruit is stale, the carts need to be toppled before someone gets sick. We're not vandals; we don't go around doing this for fun, except in your case. So now, when you return home, we hope you will stand in the way to push over whatever carts remain stuck in the Lowlands' muddy ruts by asking questions when no one else will. Each answer must lead to new questions, and if it doesn't, the cartwheels become mired in the ruts of smug satisfaction and no one gets fed. Then, the rot of hubris sets in, spoiling everything around it. 18

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'Fear is what the ego is all about. It cares not for love except to exploit it for its advantage. The ego's biggest concern is unconditional love. Nothing better vanquishes fear than light dissipating darkness. When you understand this, you will see why humanity identifies so much with failure and victimhood, lashing out when it loses sight of its divine light.

'Recall what Russian esoteric philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff said: the last thing humanity wishes to give up is its suffering. This unfortunate propensity has a way of inflicting a variety of delusions upon those who cling to how special they feel while indulging in victimhood. After all, it's familiar and even comfortable, in a sick sort of way. Problems are always, and inevitably, perceived as someone else's fault. When we look at the world, it's obvious how right Gurdjieff was about this.' 19

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'Well, if you wish to know,' Eli chuckled, 'according to playwright Henry Miller, sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation...the other eight are unimportant.

Apart from that astute observation, it's easier to comprehend the nature of incarnation when you understand that conscious awareness is divisible, even while our divine consciousness remains inherently whole. Though each soul remains individuated in self-awareness, it remains part of a greater whole, which is also one with a greater whole, even to the Infinite Source.' 22

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'Many ancient Greek philosophers spoke of how souls must first drink from The Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness, before incarnating. Lethe is a metaphor for the amnesia required to prevent souls from remembering whatever held them back in their previous lifetimes. That way, they don't have to carry these patterns into the next cycle with whatever encumbered them in their past, though many do because of their lack of consciousness. 23

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What then to do about karma? Notwithstanding what my friend had to say, it remained unresolved in my mind. Wasn't life a consequence of choices made, both good and not-so-good? In the past, few in my world considered karma a reality, likely because the idea was too Eastern or metaphysical for traditions based on Judeo-Christian sensibilities. Regardless, the adage you reap what you sow sounded like karma to me. It's not that philosophers are expected to have all the answers; we need only ask clever questions for others to answer. That way, all we have to do is ask more questions without going out on a limb; as the old song goes, Nice work if you can get it! 25

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'Suppose,' he said, 'the physical body is just one dense expression of the over-soul incarnating on earth or somewhere else in the universe. The soul is also layered with several other multidimensional bodies, often referred to by various names, particularly in the East.

'Now, consider the soul as a stream separating from the river to go its way, yet, in essence, it remains one with its source, the river, at all points in what we experience as linear time. Even as it goes its separate way, its essence remains part of the river's water, just as the water's essence remains contained within the part. The water remains water, regardless of how many streams flow in or out of the river. By this, the union is never compromised while diversifying into what is perceived as expanded identities of individuated streams.' 27

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All singularities remain united, enriched by the other's unique experiences and qualities, ultimately residing in the Source. Mo often stated and restated how everything in the subatomic world is entangled as one in the divine vortex of the infinite void, where all that could be created is created. The paradox is that this void isn't a void in the way we may think of a void; instead, it's the inverse of emptiness, the infinite potentiality enfolded in the implicate order of the unmanifested universe of nothingness. From within this spiritual essence emerges the reality of explicate order; yet we're all entwined in the implicate universe, and we are individuated expressions in the explicate universe of manifested forms. 27

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'Souls must re-enter the Absolute from whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this end, they must develop the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them. And if they have not developed these traits in this one life, then they must commence another, a third, and so forth. They must go on like this until they acquire the condition to join again with the Creator.' (The Zohar, of the Jewish Kabbalah). 30

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Contrary to how we might experience time, they said, each life on earth is only a flash in the pan to help us progress and expand our souls towards our Infinite Source. That's why difficult lifetimes are exceptional windows of opportunity to overcome whatever has us bogged down in the limitations of the past. What we gain after is a fresh understanding and perspective of what's not always obvious. 31

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'Listen to yourself, James. I just heard you say, I fear I may fail. Don't you realise that fear and failure are always a vibratory match? That's why you struggle; it's because you fear failure. What has ruled most of your life hasn't been love; instead, it's the opposite: fear. Perhaps that's why you can't experience a real loving relationship; no more than you can find fulfilment in teaching philosophy. If you can't experience love in your relationships and have no passion for your career, might it not be that you fear you will fail in them both? Remember, we receive what we give our attention to. No one struggles in love, only in fear.

'That's why you need to learn what unconditional love means; otherwise, you will continue to fail to find what you seek. My advice is to let your failures be your back door to success. More often than not, it's the only door to get where you wish to be. So, embrace your perceived failures as opportunities leading you forward. 36

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'Just as you failed to make it up here in your physical body, you also failed to make it down. These so-called failures were necessary to guide you where you wouldn't have otherwise gone. Even the romantic relationships you assumed were failures will provide you with the contrast you need to find the woman you seek. As we've stated repeatedly, light can only be understood when darkness offers a contrast to luminosity. Likewise, fear has no reality, only the absence of love.' 37

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'Teleporting across the world may seem impossible to the uninitiated until it's understood that everything is a form of conscious energy, especially the body. Be it the density of physical mass or the lightness of the spirit body, it's all the same; only the expressions are different. God didn't build different silos, one for spirit and one for matter. The only differences are octaves contained in the infinite silo of reality.' 42

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'From our lofty perspective,' Mo said, 'few on earth have come close to getting this right, not even the religious-minded, although some have it more right than wrong. Only those who unite their minds with their hearts can understand how reality manifests from thoughts. Even among the enlightened, it's a rarity.

'Understand that form never takes form of its own accord; instead, it manifests as an in-formed expression of consciousness, whether individual or collective. In other words, your form is an outward projection of divine consciousness, the only kind there is, regardless of which dimension the soul exists.' 44

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'Now, to expand on this, imagine this eternal beam of pure light proceeding from the Source outside time and space. As it does so, it passes through filters of lower dimensions, diffusing and assimilating into each new atmospheric plane. The ray's filaments reach down into the lower regions of the multiverses without being compromised, even when the recipients distort, twist, and obfuscate the divine essence. 46

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'Devolution can and does occur,' Eli said, continuing, 'whenever the world chooses a state of separation instead of union with the Source, the lifeline to conscious evolution. This condition is depicted in the archetype of the fall in the Creation myths, as illustrated in William Blake's epic poems Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

'In this, Blake illustrates humanity's fall from innocence to be immersed in the fires of experience before regaining its innocence in a higher state of awareness. These stages could be summarised as Innocence, Experience, and Higher Innocence, meaning the soul can only receive and assimilate its higher innocence after being progressively tested and tempered through contrasting experiences. Eventually, humanity will evolve into this higher order he calls Higher Innocence based on love, not fear.' 47

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'Observe the legions of ideological movements based on fear and deceit. Notice how their zealots demand everyone think and believe as they do. Then, when these ideologues recognise that what they say isn't true, they become increasingly defensive and strident when their propaganda is disregarded. Still, they demand to be taken seriously, lest they be exposed for who and what they are.

'That's why fear and anger often go together. For the ego-mind, there's nothing more enraging than its contrived fears being dismissed. Talk to any doomsayer, and this soon becomes apparent; they're never content until everyone else wrings their hands in fear... that's how they derive and sustain power.' 48

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'So, are you trying to tell me that matter doesn't matter?' I asked, wishing to take Mo in a less political direction.

'If I may, please allow me to respond to that,' Eli said. 'Matter does matter, but when we think of it as something inert, existing separate from spirit, we banish ourselves from Eden's Garden. Every molecule of your spirit body may seem to express material physicality, but it exists in a higher vibratory octave than your dense mortal body; consequently, it has none of its biological limitations. Likewise, every molecule of your physical body emanates from spiritual energy, coalescing in a lower Earth plane octave, yet at the Source, all is One.' 52

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'I've had days when I wondered what my purpose was on earth; in fact, I think most do... no big deal, that's just how it is. Eventually, we find our way.'

'If that were true and everyone found their path,' Mo said, 'they would know they are immortal gods woven into the infinite tapestry of the multiverse instead of the wretches many consider themselves to be. When souls believe they are lost fragments in a meaningless world, they behave accordingly, treating others without dignity or respect.' 56

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'You may be surprised by how many close relationships you've accumulated over the ages, finding you're a more popular bloke than you realised. As might be expected, your closest affinities will be among those with whom you share these affections. You may visualise this as standing in the centre of a series of concentric rings that spread outward like ripples in a pond. Every relationship exists in proximity to those we are most inwardly attracted, much as you may desire on earth yet seldom experience.' 65

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'Ultimately, destiny is a choice,' Eli said. 'Without freedom, love would have no meaning. The higher you calibrate on the scale of conscious awareness, the more you are aware of your freedom. Though your body, in its current state, may seem incarcerated, your soul can never be imprisoned within the body since your spirit has no chains or boundaries, as should now be evident.' 65

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'Only junk science claims things are settled... but only when it supports its political, corporate and ideological ends, demanding everyone interpret things as they prefer instead of how things are. However, as former beliefs are called into question, I suspect science will become even less settled in the future, including assumptions of space, time, and the non-orbital atom. You may have heard that Einstein had problems with the quantum interpretations Bohr and his colleagues advocated. He wished to believe things were settled and was reluctant to be jolted out of the third dimension. 69

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'When life is interpreted as being out there, it must be understood as what began from what's in there. Empirical science has failed to appreciate this and wrongfully assumed life is nothing more than a third-dimensional read-out of external appearances. And yet, what's going on in the substratum of the subatomic universe is far more than what the scientific method can begin to comprehend or explain.' 72

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'All we can do is help you experience a significantly higher plane of consciousness. Then, one day, you will create whatever paradise your soul projects, expressing how far you have ascended. Until then, there's not much more that can be demonstrated from this middle zone. Regardless, I'm sure you're already beginning to sense the inherent elasticity of space-time perception.'

'I can tell something is different, although it's difficult to put into words.'

'That's what metaphors are for. As you enter higher realms of existence, you will view reality through new telescopes; however, there's no need for equipment when what's out there remains enfolded within you... your unobstructed universe. That's why what's out there has everything to do with what's in there. 76

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'You mean, knowing who I am? I don't know, maybe I'm nobody.'

'Your ego-mind is the nobody,' Eli said, 'even if it likes to think it's somebody that presumes to be you. As we often say, you're not alone with this; all humanity struggles with its ego-mind. It is nothing unless you choose to believe it is something more... since believing seems to make it so.' 76

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'The only way the mind can find its bearings is when it cooperates with the heart. Without doing that, it has no internal guidance system. Until then, it carries on aimlessly, thinking whatever it thinks without discernment or discrimination. Without the heart's moral compass and inner knowingness, it uses whatever ruse it can rather than admit it's lost.' 88

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Enlightenment is not a constant state; consider it more of a process of taking on more of our divine essence. As we've often said, it's only necessary to open the inner portals of the heart since that's where it all starts. From there, divine light shines into the mind.' 91

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As things often go, the roles between religion and science over the centuries gradually swung in the other direction. That's why many refuse to admit to the existence of anything that transcends mechanistic perspectives and beliefs. Rather than allow for what might exist outside their exclusivist-reductionist holon, they shut down all debate.'

'Such stifling close-mindedness,' Mo said, 'results from dismissing the source of their being. It's also why they are so eager to condemn anything outside their purview as being pseudoscientific and, therefore, untrue. As I often say, the greater the smugness, the greater the ignorance, which is why the Flatlands remain so flat, becoming more so all the time.' 108

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Humanity's experience is derived from the spirit's essence intersecting with the earth's material plane. The higher frequencies of spirit contain and mould the material plane, not the other way around, as most of your humanists and anthropologists wish to believe. As above, so below.' 118

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'After the acorn germinates and the tree begins to take root,' Mo said, 'the seed returns to the elements, having served its purpose by preserving the tree's latent conatus long before it materialises into form. So, it is with the seed of your immortal body... which is why, when you pass, you will continue to grow and develop into an eternal oak.' 118

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Emanuel Swedenborg pronounced: This I can declare, things that are in heaven are more real than things in the world. However, he didn't imply that denser means more real, only what subsides in eternal essence. Only that is real.'
'Yes, I remember you quoted that before. But still, how do you define real?' 'Look at it this way,' Mo said, 'whatever is considered best in your world is only a precursor for what will later be perceived in its authenticity. So, when the veil is lifted, essence takes form, manifesting in accordance with its nature. As you now realise, much of life on earth is upside down, inside out and backwards.' 138

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'Needless to say, certain sounds, frequencies and depictions, when conjoined with lower calibrations, are only found in lower strata of spiritual reality. No matter where we exist, we continue to manifest whatever gives expression to our consciousness. Whatever we're consociated with is what we experience, be it heaven or hell. Which explains why,' Mo said, 'the potential for manifesting new creations remains as endless and expansive as one's imagination, which has no limits. As Rousseau stated, the world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Even when the world imposes limitations on our perceptions of reality, such as with the speed of light, there are no limitations in Elysium, where perception remains as boundless as the imagination. 140

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'When a new arrival wishes to design what they might have in mind for their dwelling, they probably don't know where to start or how to go about it. These architects and designers love to facilitate specific structures, gardens, and landscapes. Remember, everyone finds optimal fulfilment by sharing their creative skills. And so, they have a plethora of ideas to draw on, many of which were conceived on Earth in their previous lifetime but not implemented due to economic constraints. In Elysium, they can let it rip, much to the delight of the new occupants.' 142

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'As I've often said, what unites the cosmos is love, the Source-essence of the universe some call God. Since love can only exist in the dynamic of relationships, we, too, are the glue of existence. It's what makes the whole whole. Don't think of love as just an attribute, quality or feature; instead, it is the consciousness by which all subsists.' 145

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'When you finally arrive in Elysium,' Mo said, 'I'm sure you will find your life to be incomparably more than you could have ever imagined. At least it was for me. Your essence-being will draw others to the same soul frequency, such that you feel everyone is your soul mate, yet with personalities even more richly diverse than on Earth.' 147

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'All hierarchies of vertical ranking are integral to the horizontal heterarchy of community. These self-organising principles of hierarchy and heterarchy can sometimes be found in the world, yet only in Elysium does perfect equilibrium exist between vertical and horizontal dimensions. The cross of Yeshua's crucifixion is recognised as being emblematic of this universal integration.
'What I'm suggesting, James, is that there is no top-down hierarchical power structure imposed on other levels as you might find in your world and work environment. There would be no point since everyone can do as they wish in Elysium, although, as on Earth, consequences follow actions.' 149

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'Since we're all creators, the hells will continue to exist as long as souls identify what is contrary to the essence of their being. Whatever is not in accord with divine love and wisdom attracts the consequence of their moribund affections. Perhaps it's what some wish to experience to appreciate the ecstasy of Elysium more fully at a later date.'

'That sounds a bit extreme.'

'So it might seem,' Mo said, 'yet that's what happens when souls willfully align themselves with whatever causes life to be experienced in darkness, as we often witness on earth. Again, such distortions bring contrast to what's real and true. Now, do you understand why the world is as it is?' 155

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'Yet, from what we can tell,' Eli said, 'after several millennia of dark, illusory nights, these forces are now being countermanded by multitudes of advanced souls consociating with Elysandeacute;es. This planet could still use more awakened souls to bring light to darkness and love to fear. Each new candle flickering in the dark is a flame that can become a torch to illuminate the world.' 155

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'As we've often said, learning is of the mind, while discovery is of the heart. Learning is about assimilating external information that may or may not be truthful, whereas discovery engages the heart by accessing the divine wisdom that lies hidden within... which is why we can learn through discovery but not discover through learning. Discovery is far more than learning since it's transformative. It provides the soul with what is significantly richer, deeper and more complete than what mere information can ever offer.' 166

'The most basic ontological questions aren't even being raised,' Mo said, 'which explains why they aren't being answered. Consequently, science has no basis for understanding that consciousness undergirds physiological expression. As I said, this is why the world needs an uncompromising, clear-minded, take-no-prisoners philosopher to step up... someone like Socrates who's not afraid to challenge intellectual ineptitude. We think that's you, James... how about it; do you think you're man enough?' 175

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''... he sees a dearth of intellectual integrity as witnessed in the proliferation of junk science that flagrantly distorts the facts to achieve dubious monetary ends. If politicians can be bought off, so can scientists. It's more common than you might expect since institutions often become beholden to large corporations and government grants to promote their political agendas. In fact, it seems almost anything can be proven and rationalised with enough selective data thrown at it. Sadly, in this era of relativism and skewed computer modelling, too few wish or care to know the truth when avant-garde causes and beliefs become regarded as the sole criteria for what's intellectually and morally acceptable.' 176

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So, for you to rendezvous with us, you first had to go down, then, like a cork released underwater, you shot up... all the way to the Summit. By falling, you catapulted yourself up... as we discussed not long ago, some of life's highest Summits can only be reached by descending into the lowest abyss... it only makes sense. As one writer put it, You must always, in anything, plumb the depths before you are permitted to go on to the heights.[1] For you, this was most literally the case.' 194

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'In whatever dimension they're experienced, space and time remain mental constructs of duration and distance. Impressions are the frequencies with which the observer consciously focuses upon within their self-awareness, or, we may say, the relationship of the perceiver to the perceived. In fact, everything experienced in time and space is a relational flow since everything that is or can be is entangled within the union of all relationships contained in the Source. And isn't it interesting that the word entanglement has become central to the vocabulary of quantum mechanics? 196

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Remember what Nietzsche wrote,' Eli said. Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood. Except for the most cynical, it will be obvious that your story was written not in your head but with the blood spilt on the rocks below. If you can compose all you will have learned and discovered here, one day, you might be regarded as the next Alfred North Whitehead. He was only guessing, but you will be telling.' 224

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Though I was outwardly rational, I realised that my ego-mind was running the show on personal matters, often causing me to lash out in confusion. As Mo would say, the mind is only in its right mind when it's at one with the heart! He would then repeatedly quote Rousseau's admonishment: Trust your heart rather than your head. 227

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Whenever you're not too focused on other concerns, your inner eye may catch a glimpse of your divine Self. It's not a case of knowing about; rather, it's awakening to knowing the essence of what you are within... the gnosis of divine emergence. In other words, knowing who you are as both the knower and the known. Or, as some mystics teach, to know the knower.'

BOOK THREE: QUANTUM LEAPS

'There's always more going on in the universe since there's far more to the divine mystery than we are capable of understanding, no matter how high we ascend Jacob's ladder. Your Mountain might be considered an allegory to help understand this infinite Ray of Creation we discussed that points the soul towards its divine Source.'

'When you reunite with the fall guy,' Eli said, 'it will be vital that you remember this Mountain metaphor as you navigate through Flatlands' dense mists below. These symbols are for your spiritual ascension, so you will no longer fall into the abyss of fear.' 14

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'The problem is, James, you're not a simple man, and so your sceptical mind often overthinks things out of being. But to manifest energy into form, you must envisage it in your mind since that's where the creative force resides and how great nations come into being. Understand, this is not just another metaphysical discussion of abstruse esoterica; it's how things happen, be it messages to Julianne or spectacular discoveries. Life might be much simpler if you could accept what's self-evident without first needing to figure things out. But that never seems good enough for sceptics who seem to think it's necessary to understand the reason for everything. 31

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'Another reason to remain centred in your heart more and less in your mind, Eli said, 'after all, they are mutually compatible. As we often say, the heart is the divine connection, which is why you might still feel a connection to Julianne, regardless of where you end up after your return. 39

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'Whether you realise it or not, you're constantly being led towards what's highest and best, even when you don't follow the leading. Then, one day, you'll rediscover all you experienced here, be it on Earth or in Elysium, such that whatever new facets of character you have developed and honed while in this dimension, including all the knowledge you have acquired, will remain part of who you are and what you've become. So, take your time if you wish; we're all in this together with you.' 41

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Consciousness doesn't originate in the material brain; the material brain originates in consciousness, the spiritual essence of Source. Nevertheless, the brain serves as a modulating device that transduces human consciousness to function in the third dimension.' 43

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'The dark side of human nature will avoid, deny, and even attack anyone and anything that dares to challenge its cherished beliefs of the ego mind. It will even forgo what might be in its host's best interests, since it has no lasting investment in love, union, or happiness. Some even call this the pain body since its illusions depend on provoking fear and conflict wherever it can.' 46

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'At first, you might try to convince yourself that your brain was merely dreaming without being aware that you were fully conscious. But that's not much different from the world's Flatlanders believing they are conscious when they're actually dreaming.'

'I'm sure most of these Flatlanders, as you call them, would be offended by such a statement.'

'No doubt they would,' Mo said, 'having convinced themselves they are the awoken because they are the most educated. Yet, Flatlanders sleep the most deeply when they think they're most awake and behave most irrationally while being clever. For this reason, it's waking that understands sleep, not sleep that understands waking.' 47

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'From Elysium's perspective,' Mo said, 'matter is a malleable mental construct. As we mentioned earlier, your renowned physicist, Max Planck, stated, 'Mind is the matrix of all matter.' It's one of the most profound statements ever proffered by a physicist on the relationship between mind and matter. However, what your world regards as substance turns out to be a material readout of the hidden spiritual reality. That much Plato understood, which is why the world's materialists like to ridicule him. Yet the truths he spoke of in his cave allegory about shadows are evident to everyone who shares Elysium's perspective.

'This is why we speak of the world not as separate but as one with the spiritual Source. Perceptions of materiality are actually electromagnetic patterns derived from the inward plane. As within, so without....' 52

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I'm no poet, but isn't poetry about taking us to rarefied realms of appreciation, transcending what we see and hear with our senses to quicken our imagination to perceive within what our eyes have overlooked without?'

'You make a good point,' Mo said. 'Certainly, exquisite poetry can be very helpful in crafting descriptions that open the windows of the soul. Though it has its limitations, it may paint wonderful pictures for the mind's eye; nevertheless, wonderful is not wonderment. Well-chosen words might evoke the imagination, enhancing senses that might have been overlooked, but words only carry meaning when they describe what has been experienced. Otherwise, they are simply sentiments or images, as Sir Francis Bacon succinctly stated: Words are images of matter; to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture. 72

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'That's why words alone don't teach; it's up to you to discover what only you can experience for yourself. Therefore, you will need to prepare for what currently lies beyond the limits of your current understanding. We don't wish to offend you when we say you're not yet prepared for what you believe you most desire; we want to encourage you to venture beyond towards new vistas that words can never fully describe. Though you have observed much on your ascent, you must ascend to higher vistas to be captivated by the mysteries that still lie ahead. 72

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'It's like I'm on the wrong side of the door while a raucous party is going on with music playing, revellers dancing, and women laughing with men talking over each other. And yet that's where I find myself, standing in the dark, wondering why no one unlocks that damned door so I can join in celebrating whatever they're celebrating?'

'I'm sure when you're ready, you will eventually find your way there,' Eli said, 'even if you have to grope your way to the door of the Great Hall leading to Elysium's Passage.'

'Before you are permitted to enter, however, you must first confront and slay the dragons lurking deep within, breathing their flames. Then, when you're ready, Aphrodite will show you the way after you have set your ego aside in silence.

It knows nothing of divine love and, therefore, has no place in the Great Hall of Elysium's Passage, no more than darkness in the light. In the words of Sandoslash;ren Kierkegaard, only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.' 74

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'What you think is what you are, as stated in the proverb: As a man thinks in his heart, so is he, or as it is sometimes said, we are what we think? You've taught Philosophy of Mind, so you should know thoughts don't just happen, even when it seems they do. It's a deep well down there. Thoughts emanate from a conscious frequency of either love or fear, giving or receiving, building up or tearing down, being esteemed or esteeming, serving or being served.' 86

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'The higher cosmic realms are aggregations of rarefied truths that manifest within the specific octave of their holons, and, therefore, there is a great variety of perspectives based on their qualitative calibration. In principle, the Earth is no different; only that thoughts are experienced within the dense limitations of the third dimension, making it less easy to discern light from darkness, truth from falsehood. In contrast, thoughts in Elysium are enlightened by love, not fear.

'Those who dwell in the light of the Spirit perceive things for what they truly are; however, those who deliberately distance themselves from the Light, whether consciously or unconsciously, project their reality from their soul's state of inner darkness, which manifests as distorted thought forms. These are distorted and insane illusions they have harboured on earth.' 88

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'Mysteriously, each part holds the imprint of the whole within it, as graphically demonstrated when the complete holographic image appears in an isolated section of a hologram. In this way, each cell holds the information encrypted within the multi-dimensional quantum field of the DNA molecule, which the entire body instantly responds to. As an example of this interconnectivity,' he continued, 'we may examine the hologram of a human figurine and see the whole in any supposedly isolated part, even within a finger. In that sense, we may wish to consider the entire multiverse to be holographic. That's because omnipresence can never be separate from the divine energy extended to all creation through whatever forms manifest and re-manifest for all eternity. Not even the human ego-mind can remain isolated from its Source, though it.' 95

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On her nightstand was a thick blue book lying open with a yellow marker on top. The page said: What is Creation? One sentence was highlighted: For in creation is His Will complete in every aspect, making every part container of the whole. Beside the quote, she had scribbled a big question mark.

Most profound, Julianne! Every part container of the whole? That sounded much like the holon principle Mo and Eli explained to me, which describes the quantum nature of holographic reality, in which we observe the part in the whole and the whole in the part. This statement, however, was more than just philosophical; it implied that God's will was implicit in all creation, rather than merely a statement about the nature of holons. 142

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'Yeshua could confidently say, Love your enemies by demonstrating what this meant. Many say that's preposterous, and yet he understood this was possible because he continually existed in divine Light. That's why he could pray, even while being tormented, Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.

'Love knows only love and so can do no other than give expression to what it is... love. That's what he came to reveal to humanity, and he did so most convincingly during the last day of his body's mortal existence. By recognising his inward divinity, rather than the ego's illusions, there can be no final judgement, only compassion for those who do wrong. In fact, this is what makes Elysandeacute;es Elysandeacute;es. Unconditional love can prevail in all relationships, which is why there is no need to forgive anyone except yourself, and even then, unconditionally. 149

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'Are you referring to the Freudian concept of the id?'

'Whatever Freud meant by that term, I'd prefer to describe it more graphically, if not candidly, as the separate, illusory self. We can't see it, but we know what it does when it undermines relationships, and with that, any semblance of happiness. Lacking any connection to the heart, it can only superficially mimic genuine love. Like an echo, it is separated from its source, and like a shadow, it lacks substance. Such disconnection typifies much of humanity when it becomes alienated from the spark of its divine essence.'

'Regrettably, this tendency pervades much of human history, often evident in the dystopia of tyrannical governance. If humankind understood what it forfeits by disregarding its connection to the greater whole, it would cease to seek fulfilment through the ego-self. In the absence of divine union, life becomes a mere echo of ego-derived illusions.' 153

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As we discussed earlier, whenever the mind isolates itself from the heart to go its own way, it finds it's not as smart as it thinks it is. In fact, when the ego illusion takes over the mind and refuses to listen to the heart, the mind becomes increasingly confused and, ultimately, insane.'

'Insane? Don't you think, Eli, you might be slightly overstating things?'

'Not really. For one thing, the insane mind doesn't recognise its insanity, but that's when it becomes most insane. Remember, when relying solely on your mind, you may think you know, but you don't... not really. Without experiencing the inward wisdom of the heart, the mind will draw inaccurate and distorted conclusions based on its egoic belief patterns. The mind and heart need to work together, or you will remain confused like the rest of your colleagues, who know little about the implicit mysteries of the heart. As stated in the book we gave you to read last week, Philosophy applies thought to mystery, and that is why philosophy becomes such a muddle of words.' 155

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'The foundation of the universe is not matter; instead, it's the emanation of Spirit from the Source. Unfortunately, your classic materialists not only neglect this fact, but remain openly hostile towards the subtle realm of consciousness, just as religion was once hostile to science not long ago. Unfortunately, too few recognise the necessity of having mutual regard for the other. Einstein once said, Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.' 202

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'Furthermore, how can anyone be conscious of consciousness when consciousness, under their terms of scientific reference, would have to step out of itself to examine itself objectively? Obviously, that can't be done. Max Planck understood this when he said; I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter derivative from consciousness. Your world needs to listen to him; however, if they haven't by now, they probably never will.' 203

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When we experience fear, it is not because our souls are inherently dark; rather, it stems from having closed ourselves off to the light, unnecessarily delaying our journey. The pain that results from this offers us contrast to rediscover the light; without it, we risk drifting further into darkness.

But, as they repeatedly emphasised, darkness has no real existence; only light exists. Darkness is not the opposite of light, but merely its absence, and the only way to dispel darkness is to open the door wide so the divine light can shine through. However, from my life experience, it seems not everyone is interested in recognising what becomes apparent in the light. Clearly, ignorance is an absence of truth, just as darkness is an absence of light. 250

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Mo and Eli, however, insisted that until I could think and act from within the union of heart and mind, I would never have satisfactory relations with women or anyone else, for that matter. The separated mind, they said, is impervious to what can only be spiritually discerned, meaning it's only when the heart joins with the mind that we can ever hope to know our Selves. True rationality must engage the heart; otherwise, the mind will remain lost and confused in itself. In other words, I could only assimilate truth while maintaining a wholehearted union within. 7

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Contrary to appearances, nothing needs to be reconciled; there is no dualism of mind and matter, soul and body, or even separation of objects. There is only God, or if you prefer, Source, Spirit or Creator, from which all emanates, and remains entangled in this singular divine relationship. As Mo would sometimes say, we must allow ourselves to be apprehended by the divine instead of attempting to apprehend what remains beyond the soul's apprehension. In this, I finally grasped that all reality is, in essence, spiritual, not material, and must be discerned accordingly. 10

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I had to decide who and what I wasn't. I recalled an earlier conversation we had about what Socrates said: The unexamined life is not worth living. I thought about this, then turned it around, writing in my journal: Forthwith, this examined life shall be worth living... hereinafter, shall I so live!' That sounded good; now all I needed to do was... so live. I then saw a caterpillar crawling up my tree. Yes, I had been a caterpillar that remained in a cocoon for far too long, waiting for my metamorphosis into a free-flying butterfly, but now become what was always enfolded within me. 19

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'Unfortunately, most astronomers gaze through their telescopes and assume the material universe is all there is. Few have any idea of the variegations of energetic streams that have crystallised into an appearance of physical densities paralleling your known universe. What is perceived as being out there reveals more about the limitations of human perception.' 27

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'You will also witness many manifestations of your Earth, whether in the people, places, objects or events, all graphically exposed in glaring detail. Truth is truth, so, for illustration purposes, all perceptions in the Flatlands and Hill Country will be accentuated to appear all the more of what they are, glorious and inglorious. Rather than perceiving as you did in the past, your eyes will be illuminated to see beyond the surface of appearances, of what you couldn't perceive when you lacked inward perception. Every blade of grass, if you focus, will glisten in the rays of your mind's light, as you now experience the essence of everything. However, what deviates from the light of creation will be seen in the shadows of falsity.' 30

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'Again, it's about what's within that is seen for what it is when outwardly projected. It really is like a movie, where you get to jump in from a front-row seat. However, you don't need to reconcile what you observe with how you once perceived it, since you will see your world as it truly exists in its unfiltered essence. 'To me, this all sounds like one big simulation.'

'Indeed, but then isn't all of life, simultaneously operating in untold densities and dimensions?'

'I think you just opened a can of worms that I'd rather not look into.'

'Not worms,' he smiled, 'wormholes... of infinite possibilities. 30

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'I still find it confusing how I could be participating in what isn't even real while, all the time, I was. From what you're saying, I think you're saying that, in essence, the virtual world is a composition of latent thought patterns of unmanifested reality.'

'Yes, in a sense, that's what they are... holographic thought patterns. Nevertheless, appearances are fleeting, as in the quantum field of subatomic physics, where cause and effect manifest as one. Again, I'm sure this will be easier for you to understand once we become immersed in these alternate dimensions. 31

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I couldn't be sure of what was real or unreal; all I knew was that our ship was sailing off towards some magical mystery where anything and everything might be possible. I soon realised that most of my concerns were meaningless, as reality is relative to the plane we're on, but I had no idea which one we were navigating. I chuckled to myself when I considered how this would give pause to some of the angst-ridden existential philosophers who could barely figure out how things worked on just the earth plane, let alone any others. 33

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'Where would demagogues be if they couldn't impose their rules and beliefs on others? Yet those who possess true power don't require force or deception; they only require truth. Yeshua had the greatest impact on humanity because his words and deeds were truthful.

'For now, in your world's planetary history, most tyrants remain safe since consciousness often remains too low for many humans to realise they've been duped. We'll see that illustrated among the Groupthink elites in the Flatlands, who are obsessed with everyone's thoughts remaining as shallow as theirs. That's how the collective ego reacts; it's always an existential threat to the ego when its beliefs are called into question.' 35

'If most understood the true nature of power, they would refuse to give it away. Once souls become inwardly enlightened, it's only a matter of time until they become outwardly liberated, as your history has repeatedly demonstrated.' 37

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'I believe you mentioned that you're a big fan of George Berkeley, so you should understand that nothing that exists is external to the universal mind we all partake in, where everything is experienced. In your dreams, for instance, you might occasionally perceive amorphous images that shift, fade, disappear, and then reappear, revealing what lies beneath the surface of your waking state. This activity is evidence of your mind interpreting, then projecting its interpretations on the screen of your subconsciousness as you sleep. It might not always make sense, and maybe it's not supposed to, at least until it does. 39

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'As your Eastern mystics have always said, all is one. Remember, consciousness is a big tent, because in the end, that's all there is. In your Western world, this is often referred to as psychic entwinement or a half-dozen other terms, while in physics it's called quantum entanglement. Whatever you wish to call it, nothing remains separate or static since all that is, or can be, emanates from the One Source.

'But when humans insist on believing they are compartmentalised in different brains and bodies, it's difficult for them to understand that they exist in a unified field of consciousness. No wonder they keep spinning out of control, believing in separate minds to define their unhinged reality. 44

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'I'd be pleased to have you present your argument to our esteemed intellectual community. However, I doubt if anyone would take you seriously.'

'Probably not. In this inchoate stage of human evolution, ignorance will continue to prevail in many educated minds who seem to mistake intelligence for consciousness. Without divine intervention, it might take centuries, or even millennia, for humanity to embrace the truth. Most planets in the known cosmos went through this confusion long ago. 45

'I think I know where you are going with this,' I said. 'One of Mo's most repeated quotes: The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing.'

'That sums it up very well! Indeed, the mind's flat reasoning can never comprehend the intuitive nature of the heart's understanding. That's why things inevitably get complicated when humans detach their minds from the mooring of their hearts. Then, nothing seems to make sense. I'm sure you often heard your friends on the mountain mention that the mind can never truly know what's best when serving the ego instead of the heart. To do so is to choose separation, which inevitably leads to conflict and war, both within and without.' 49

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'Still, I don't understand; why would you go to all this trouble?
'It's no trouble at all. I occasionally make these forays into the dense wilds of lower frequencies to serve those who are open to what I have to say. There's a universal spiritual principle that could hardly be more obvious... we can only receive what we give, and so we desire to give as we receive.
'As I'm sure Mo and Eli mentioned, life is all about service. Wherever you go in the enlightened universe, that's the big one. As cause and effect are aspects of one seamless act, so is giving and receiving understood to be the essence of service.'

'So you're saying this applies everywhere in the universe?'

'That's what I'm saying... except the dark side, where it's just the opposite. Think about it; is reciprocation not intrinsic to the very nature of relationships? 53

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Although Flatlanders don't always admit it, secretly, they believe they know more than other disciplines, preferring to view the world solely from their perspective rather than adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Not surprisingly, they think what they know, or believe they know, is all there is to be known, and so over time, they become even narrower, disregarding the importance of what others have to say. And that, my friend, is when the Renaissance began to wither and die on the dry sands of this flat desert. It's one of the reasons why few engineers bother to read poetry, just as few poets study engineering, not that there are any poets here.'

'Which is a shame,' I said, 'since each has a unique perspective to offer the other: the engineer's form, the poet's essence. As Eli often said, form and essence are not mutually exclusive but mutually inclusive.' 66

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'Too quickly, Flatlanders become adults, no longer able to perceive what can only be seen with the eyes of innocence. As the saying goes, what they have chosen to see may cost them their vision.

''That's why Flatlanders have such difficulty understanding the nature of the universe. They have lost the capacity to discern what their inward eyes see outwardly. They see only parts, not the whole. For them, the sum of the parts is nothing more than the sum of the parts, and that's it, so how can they accept the mystery of life when they can only understand the universe to be nothing more than an aggregation of parts? Since their awareness is limited to tangible objects that are at hand, they can only see, believe and understand the lowest possible frequency level, being the materialist bedrock of their flat linear perspective.' 69

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'Obviously, it's relationships that give life meaning. Everything in the universe exists in relationship, through which all meaning is derived and is entangled; a vertical archetype for all aspirations. Information alone will not satisfy the soul if it remains fragmentary. It needs to connect to the whole to have meaning, rather than be an accumulation of unrelated parts. 76

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'Before relationships can become authentic, the mind needs to acknowledge its relationship with the heart. Until that happens, life is more about expediency than union. Where there is only a material understanding of life, such as in the Flatlands, alienation inevitably results, first within and then without, which is why it should be apparent that relationships are essentially spiritual, not material. Obviously, when materialism is the sole paradigm for life, whether capitalist or communist, the soul atrophies because it cannot be nourished by material things or, in the latter case, by the absence of things. But where the mind and heart unite, relationships thrive in wholeness.' 76

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'Are you saying relationships are what's most real?'

'Indeed, that's what I'm saying, since they are what give meaning to everything, providing life with coherence, from each romantic encounter to each subatomic particle dancing in union within each molecule.

'All in the multiverse remains entwined within the dynamics of infinite relationships. That's what makes it real since the essence of God is love. 87

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'One glance at the Mountain's transcendence would be enough for them to realise that reality is not reducible to a flat desert of unindividuated matter. That's what the authorities are most concerned about. They don't want anyone to see anything outside their linear reality; otherwise, they would lose control.' 89

'... most philosophers in the Flatlands didn't understand him, having long abandoned their perches on the highest floors, losing their lofty perspective. Had they remained in their tower, this island might not have drifted so far off into the sea. As I'm sure you're aware, there was a time when philosophy was considered the overseer of all disciplines. That's when they had a vision of the Mountain's transcendence. Now it's different; they no longer wish to see what's beyond their level, which is why philosophy has become so uninspiring.' 94

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'That's why,' Rhom said, 'it takes courage for free thinkers to stand up and state the truth of what should be obvious. Unfortunately, once spurious beliefs are entrained in human souls, it's often difficult to dislodge these delusions until they have played out, often with disastrous consequences. Only heightened awareness can awaken Flatlanders out of their egoic slumber. It will take many brave souls to sound the trumpet, but as I said, one enlightened soul has far more influence than a million that sleep. 123

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'Truthful questions call for truthful answers, just as Socrates did. That's what Flatlanders most fear. In the end, however, they must confront the questions they avoid. How else will they evolve into awareness, rather than pseudo-intelligence? That's what I was doing in the forum, presenting them with the kind of questions that will help them recognise truth when it is presented. 124

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'If all you know is how to react to the dictates of your mind, then I must say, it must be wretched to remain in such an automated state of existence, but if you choose to believe this, you will never be able to respond to your soul's heights, depths, and breadth by discovering the expansiveness of who you are. And thereby, you shall remain just as flat and narrow as everyone else in your parochial universe. Therefore, it's my opinion that denying the inherent freedom of one's consciousness is to misunderstand the nature of one's very being. This confusion almost invariably arises when the false presuppositions of reductionism and its materialist corollary become the dubious basis for understanding consciousness.' 136

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'The problem is, most Flatlanders fear whatever winds might blow them off their circular reasoning, since that's all they know and all they wish to know. As I've often said, they prefer to be safe rather than happy. That's always the way it is with the ego. Also, if they stray too far off course, they may no longer be accepted in their community or, even worse, be banished from the island. 143

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'Does it not strike you as presumptuous to tell the world how life emerged when they don't have the slightest inkling of what life is? That's why the Forum speaker had no choice but to default to the notion of spontaneous generation. Of course, this is impossible to demonstrate since life is not material; instead, it's that which animates the material. Nevertheless, scientism has created the discipline of abiogenesis to give scientific credibility to its sophistries. 155

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'I understood that Socrates stated that the unexamined life is not worth living. Though I had been carefully examined before being awarded my doctorate, I had never learned how to find who I was. I doubt many of my colleagues knew what this meant either, since that's hardly the kind of thing we sat around discussing, even though it should have been foundational to our bailiwick. 188

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'The mind is non-local and non-physical, yet can process physical appearances. Everything remains entangled in the mind's infinite field of consciousness, where only one Mind knows all, within and without. Yet it seems everyone sees just as they wish, which is why no one on earth sees things quite the same way or as they truly are.' 206

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'Each cosmos provides the soul with an opportunity to encounter a variety of trials and resistances to temper, test and meld each soul into greater wholeness. That's how your latent divinity is unleashed into greater fullness of being. Do you now understand why life seems so hard at times? Until life teaches the separate ego-mind to filter its thoughts through the heart, it will remain lost and confused. At some point, however, every soul eventually comes around. I think that's where you are now.'

'So, you're saying I asked for it.'

'Indeed, you did, whether you're aware of it or not, although there's no reason to feel sorry for yourself; you wanted this growth spurt, so you got it, just as I suspect you will continue to receive challenges while you remain on Earth. Nevertheless, as you live your authentic Self - the real you, the world will become a better place for your having been here.' 208

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'I hope you will never forget who you are. The temple wall of the Oracle of Delphi was engraved with the words, KNOW THYSELF for more than just decoration. Likewise, you, too, need to etch these words into your temple... the temple of your mind. After all, wasn't that the point of our voyage to the islands? If you don't remember this, the equation will have no more lasting value than it being washed away by the surf.' 208

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'As one of your esteemed writers once put it, there seems no plan because it's all plan, there seems no centre because it's all centre. To this, I might add, there is no destination because it's all destination.'

'Clever words, and yet how does that help us?'

'Because, wherever you go, in whatever dimension, you always remain in the centre of where you're meant to be. And, where you're meant to be is further...'
'Yes, of course, as they say on the summit... further in, further up.'

'It may not seem like you're further up when it seems you're further down; nevertheless, as with your fall into the abyss... that was your way of moving further up to your life's new Summit. Sometimes, it's necessary to descend further down so we might learn what's required to ascend further up. 208

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'There is no limit to what can be given; only what can be received by one's capacity. Just as light is experienced in the absence of darkness, sentient beings come into greater understanding by experiencing the contrast of opposites. In that same way, even when lost and misguided, the earth serves a higher purpose of great significance.'

'I suppose we have to go through the process of discovering the contrast of the enlightened mind and that of the separate ego-mind, which can be as stupid as it is painful. Unfortunately, it seems this is the only way we can learn what should be intuitively understood.' 210

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'As I said, darkness recedes when exposed to the light; so must the lies and falsehoods of this world recede when they are exposed to the light of truth. Your job is to be the light in transiting the earth to what will become the Golden Age. I'd be more specific about how you do this, except I don't know; such is the nature of free will. Nevertheless, I think you will find your role as a dragon slayer to be most exhilarating. The sooner you vanquish them, the sooner the new era will dawn. 215

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'Before I take my leave, I wish to challenge you with a few more words for when you return home. Tell everyone to look further up, not further down; to look further in, not further out, and to see beyond the morass of their materialist weltanschauung towards a vision of the Mountain. 217

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'Whether you ascend into the heavens or descend into the hells, there's nothing to fear; I shall be with you unto the ends of the earth. If you believe this, you will follow the light, not to reflect the light, but to be the light.
'Rise now and go forth, wielding your mighty Excalibur to shatter the world's fortresses of darkness. Nothing shall obstruct your way. What is not of the Light shall be extinguished by the Light. And as you follow the light, so shall you become the Light.' 229

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'But it's not just about your planet; this state exists throughout the universe, in varying degrees. As conscious beings set their affections on the illusory offerings of their ego, they will remain consumed by their willful ignorance.'
'If that's the case, there must be something profoundly wrong in the cosmos?'
'Not really. It's just part of the maturation process that unfolds across infinite multiverses. Until each soul discovers wholeness in their Source, they will continue to suffer the consequences of separation.

'The ego twists in the joy of its pain and misery because that's the only way it can experience its illusory existence. When beings finally awaken, they can become who they truly are: gods in service to others throughout the universe, still awakening to their own divinity.' 289

BOOK FIVE: MYSTICAL ROMANCE

Slowly, I took a few steps onto a stone ledge overlooking a vast cavern far more massive than I had ever seen. Before me was a large assembly of hundreds of beings dressed for what could have been a formal Viennese ball. Considering where we were, it could hardly have been less believable. In the aether were timbers and tones I had never heard before, harmonious and mesmerising... the music of the spheres I heard spoken of in poetry, yet never heard. I can only describe the scene before me as a phantasmagoria of extraordinary sensory impressions. 6

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'You have had many names over the centuries, but the divine light of Adam Kadman is in us all, which is why awakening to it was your finest accomplishment, revealing your true Adamic essence. You prepared yourself to become who you are, though you didn't realise it until you entered the cave to follow the light. Even after falling into your sepulchre of darkness, you still rose to follow where the light led. 15

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'Ah, I was wondering where this luminescence emanated from... like nothing I've ever experienced except on the surreal seas with Rhom. At times, it seems to pulsate to the sounds of, as I call it, the music of the spheres. It's very otherworldly.
'Perhaps because light and sound are but different emanations of the same divine source. And though you can't perceive the flaming Seraphim, you have nothing to be concerned about since they are on your side and always have been. By their projections, you were drawn here to this, your special Magic Mountain.
'I must say, that was some light show at the cave entrance - how could I have resisted?

'Unbeknownst to you,' Eli said, 'it was the light of their divine Presence that guided you through the cave's darkness, albeit significantly dimmed to help you discover your inner light in what seemed a tomb of your fears. Now, you can access all the light you need, having discovered where it resides in the essence of your divine resplendent.' 17

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'No matter who we might have been or what we might have done in our past,' Nikolas said, 'unity exists among everyone in Elysium, even those you may have once considered enemies. In times of war, enemies often kill each other because they're required to do so. But in Elysium, all is forgotten as we all meld as one in happy communion.'

'No grudges?'

'You're always as happy or miserable as you want to be,' he said, 'whether in heaven or on earth. Not surprisingly, it depends on where we cohere on the spectrum of consciousness... everything flows out of consciousness because that's what we are. Again, there are innumerable communities since no one wishes to be in disharmony with those that don't resonate within the same field of awareness.'

'So then, would you say there exist areas we might describe as hell, reflecting the unfortunate state of the beings who choose to dwell there?'
'Well, yes, we might say that, since they don't seem to know any better. Until they decide to evolve into a higher state of consciousness, these unfortunate souls would rather inflict suffering on themselves and others, just as they did on earth. It's the inverse of Elysium, where everyone is in joyful service to others. 22

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I had no idea what time it was or how long things had been going on, yet in this eternal moment, the notion of time didn't exist for me. So many things were happening in this elasticity of orphic time. It didn't matter; the celebration felt like my altered life on the summit, only a much higher social vibe similar to my surreal encounters on the islands. At times, it felt like a dream, except I knew this existence was no dream; it was my new, multidimensional reality, as objectively real as anything I had experienced back home in the third dimension. 23

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'From what they were saying, everything in the constellations is constantly in flux, evolving from darkness to light, and sometimes back again. Really far-out stuff, I thought; Star Wars had nothing on them. I wondered if these strategic forces might someday return to rescue our world from itself.

Then I heard someone say that help was not only on the way, but was already here, just waiting for human consciousness to rise sufficiently to activate the dormant, multidimensional strands within the DNA. Before that could happen, however, someone said a universal purge was necessary to make room for the gamma photon light codes from the sun. 24

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With a wry grin, he replied, 'Surely, you don't think your Captain came to earth for just the rum, do you?'

'No, not really; I suspect he also came here to assist me in navigating my life on land and sea, as he will again in your future deployment in the stars. Though much evil has occurred on your beautiful planet over the millennia, it may take only a decade or two to uproot this rot if consciousness sufficiently expands for your planet to ascend to the fifth dimension and beyond.

'As I said, it all comes down to the resolve of humanity and the commitment of future light warriors to show the way. At this time, most in your world have no idea how much their conscious awareness has been subverted by fear. Unfortunately, you can expect plenty of challenges ahead from more dark forces who, with impunity, infiltrate all areas of leadership, including politics, corporations, academia, medicine, entertainment, religion, media, and other sectors to get the masses to comply with their deceit. For them, control is everything. 33

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As our conversation continued, I later asked him whether his spacecraft was responsible for all the crop circles appearing throughout the world. And if so, were they just doodling while waiting for humanity to enlighten itself? Considering who I was talking to, I wondered if that might be a bit cheeky, but of course, I did anyway.'

'Thanks for noticing,' he said, 'few wish to acknowledge the obvious geometric coding, though it's in plain sight. In fact, we've been inscribing cosmic patterns into your globe for millennia, including exotic rock inscriptions that can still be detected on some of your leylines to this day, raising Earth's frequency.

'Unfortunately, the prevailing consciousness in your world is afraid to ask such inconvenient questions, much less hazard an answer, especially among your scientists who know they have no answers. And so this gift we have offered to humanity remains ignored.

'Recognise how sacred geometry evokes an energetic emanation few are aware of, even among the enlightened. That's your clue. Regardless, a new quantum matrix is being prepared to ground higher electromagnetic fields of interdimensional frequencies in the earth for all who are receptive to the new galactic order.'

As he continued to explain the designs, I was astonished to hear how their geometric graffiti was nothing less than cosmic blueprints for encrypting crystalline energetic fields into the earth. 34

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'Nothing is more elusive in the universe than grasping what consciousness is,' he said, 'even though there is nothing more ubiquitous.

'After examining this question for years, I was no further ahead in explaining what it was than the scientific community, which suggested that consciousness was nothing more than an effect of the brain's epiphenomenal neural processes. Yet that was never very satisfying, nor, as I was to find out, was it correct.

'I could never establish a causal connection between the brain and mentation because consciousness always remained a priori to the brain's neural operations, which is to say that synaptic activity occurs by consciousness, not the brain processes that we all believed to precede consciousness.

'In the end, I had to accept that what was essential to life would remain a shadowy mystery, leaving me mystified as to what consciousness was and from whence it might arise. To this day, it seems science knows practically nothing about these questions because it insists on approaching everything from a materialist direction. It was not until I arrived on this side of this opaque veil that I understood the intrinsic nature of consciousness as being the essence of our divine Source. 35

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'As we've often discussed on the summit, your colleagues will likely fight you every inch of the way if you speak your truth. They have staked their reputations and careers on what you question... and they won't like that.
'The peer review process has its place, although it is often used to insulate those with vested interests from being challenged. Unfortunately, few dare to ask provocative questions about mind, matter and spirit lest they be rebuked and censured. They say that man is the measure of all things. Except he's not.
'Your adversaries will no longer feel so smug and sure when you ask the inconvenient questions, such as Robespierre did before encountering the guillotine. Outside their purview, they lack credible answers and have nowhere to hide their ignorance except with more bluster.' 66

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'If you were listening to our mentors at Summit U, you would remember we're all fragments of the Source refracted into innumerable souls. Just like flames of the same fire, we're all of the same divine essence, while having individuated life experiences. That's because consciousness has no limits and can therefore focus on more than one thing at a time, while simultaneously being embodied in varying dimensions, while remaining one soul.' 69

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'See the soul's identity as a little eddy of self-awareness contained in the infinite ocean of multidimensional consciousness we are entangled in. Or, as Rumi, the Persian poet, expressed this epiphany, you are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in a drop.'

'I suppose that might have some metaphoric merits,' I said, 'yet hardly scientific.'
'Well then, let me quote what physicist Werner Heisenberg had to say about this interpretation of reality. In short, he said, there are no objects in the ocean since all that exists is an infinite ocean of consciousness, which we may call Mind or Spirit. And so, the appearances of objects perceived on the surface are just energy vortexes we interpret as bodies, along with all the other material forms that seem to appear on the ocean's surface.

'Really, I had no idea he, a physicist, would have said anything as esoteric as that.'

'Why not? - he was only being scientific. 70

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'But to take this one step further,' Mo said, 'think of each soul as a swirl of consciousness that wakes up to its existence in an ocean of consciousness from which it is composed. At first, it's deluded into thinking it's alone and unconnected. It looks at itself and says, 'Oh, I have my own body, which I experience as me, and so I must be separate from you and all other objects in existence.
'Even if this swirling soul believes in God, it might consider the Source as another object out there that happens to be calling the shots. However, the Source is beyond objectification as the infinite substrate of all that is or ever could be. The finite cannot exist alongside the infinite since what's finite exists within, not alongside the infinite. In other words, it's an inherent aspect of the infinite.' 70

'What is it that observes observing itself, if not the divine Consciousness of all that is, without limits or boundaries? What remains aware is your Self, your Christ, infinitely more than the you that you think you are; that which Yeshua revealed as the kingdom within, the very essence of your being.

'And so, back to your dancer, Julie, is an eddy of soul-consciousness swirling in the infinite pool of Beingness, experiencing herself as a more rarefied expression of Julianne. Nevertheless, she realises that she is entangled within indivisible divine consciousness, so that any sense of separation Julianne experiences is an illusion. 71

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'A little eddy swirling in the ocean is not of a different substance than all the water surrounding it,' he said, 'since its essence remains water, though it might appear as an independent swirl of energy. Similarly, this swirl of partial awareness experiences itself as a frequency matrix of individuated identity imprinted on consciousness from various impressions acquired throughout life.'
'If that's the case, where then does this swirling eddy begin and end?' I asked.
'At least in essence, it is the same as Source; it has no beginning nor end, eternally derived from the ocean of consciousness in which it abides from the Source. Think of your soul as a self-contained swirl of activity with a unique frequency signature that experiences and expresses life differently, swirling about in the sea of life as a unique, free will being that appears apart from the rest of the ocean. 72

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'Consider what the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart expressed about this paradox. The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me. And so, we can only see and know ourselves when we lose ourselves in the perfect stillness of pure consciousness. In other words, if anyone wishes to find life, they must first lose it.

'It's not about doing; it's about resting in the calm stillness at the centre where there is no activity, only contemplation, where we come to know who we are rather than just what we are.'

'In this sense, we may describe consciousness as the effluence of God, even if certain traditions tend to anthropomorphise God as a man floating about in the sky. For our purposes, however, this refulgence constitutes the essence of our being. And so, as James and I were discussing, we might think of souls as being analogous to swirling vortexes that we co-create from out of the ocean of infinite Consciousness.' 73

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'Well, James, now that your snow angel mystery is solved,' Eli said, 'let's consider the snowflake. Though of infinite variety, they have no essence or existence apart from water molecules, which crystallise into patterns of countless expressions. Likewise, all souls are created from the ocean of divine consciousness and manifested into unlimited extensions of the Infinite Source of all that is or can be.

'That's why it's not blasphemous to acknowledge ourselves as gods since our souls are extensions of God's divine essence. However, as souls, we don't claim to be the Creator; rather, we co-create with our Creator.
'No less than Yeshua taught about our inherent divinity when quoting from the scriptures: You are gods. Though he understood we are not the Source, he knew we're all of the Source.

'That's a long way off from Darwin,' I laughed.

'Just as Darwin was a long way off from God,' Eli laughed. 74

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'If you think of our Creator-Source as a Father figure, as do many religious traditions, we are his children. Fathers create children; children don't create fathers. And, since we are extensions of God the Father, we are His children, making us gods that are created to co-create.'

'That's an intelligent way to look at it, Julie said, 'I'll try to get Julianne to understand this perspective since she's often confused by some of these more esoteric ideas. So, let's return to your ocean analogy, Mo; I'm sure Julianne would like to know more.'

'Fine then, tell her it's like God stirring the ocean of divine consciousness into a swirl that creates an energetic vortex called the universal soul. Scientifically, we might call this mix the collective DNA codes from which we are individuated us with our unique frequency pattern.'

'You mean,' Julie said, 'like each snowflake has a unique design created in the same molecular substance of water.'

'More than that,' Mo said, 'each soul comes encoded with countless designs of accumulated lifetimes. That's why it's an illusion when we imagine ourselves separate from the unified field in which we exist. Unfortunately, this is how many on earth experience reality.

'It is a dualistic illusion of the ego-mind since there is no possibility of being separate. There aren't two substrates: one material and the other spiritual. All is an expression within a diversity of octave densities.'

'As we've often suggested,' Eli said, 'Descartes unwittingly got things wrong, which has had profound consequences on how humanity perceives reality and a significant setback in understanding consciousness.

'Too many scientists on the earth regard life as inert matter with quirks called consciousness, something they understand almost nothing. Quantum physicists, for the most part, are now beginning to understand consciousness as being implicit in all reality. If not, they should be if they are paying attention to the evidence. 75

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'Tell Julianne to imagine creation is something like God stirring the ocean of divine consciousness into an innumerable vortices we call souls. Scientifically, we might call this mix the DNA code that individuates every soul with unique frequency patterns.'

'You mean each soul is like a snowflake, having a unique design even when created in the same molecular substance of water.'

'Yes, Julie, but more than that, each soul comes encoded with countless designs of accumulated lifetimes. That's why it's an illusion when we imagine ourselves separate from the unified field in which we exist. Unfortunately, this is how many humans experience reality, as dualistic illusions of the mind. But reality doesn't have two substrates, one material and the other spiritual. All is a nondual expression within a diversity of octave densities.' 74

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'Creativity should be understood as an expression of God's image, even if humanity continues to manifest grotesque distortions of divine light and love while exercising its free will. Wasn't it one of your great physicists, David Bohm, who said: man is a microcosm of the universe, therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe just as Julianne remains enfolded in you.

'Though she already senses there's more to her than just the physical, she doesn't understand the dynamics of being enfolded within an oversoul she outwardly projects, that being you. That's too metaphysical for the West's material culture, and so few realise we are parts contained and assimilated in a larger whole, all the way to Source. Or as we often say, holons being contained in larger and larger holon octaves expanding towards infinity.' 76

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'After all my time here, my mind still defaults to the dualistic interpretation of reality, which is why I've wondered how mystics managed to assimilate the undifferentiated oneness of subject and object.'

'You've made much progress considering where you came from in the mediocre ruts of the Lowlands, your indoctrination in the Flatlands and spiritual confusion in the Hillcountry. As you continue to move beyond these lower planes back home, you will again gradually experience the same higher enlightenment you're achieving here.

'Mystics such as Meister Eckhart, Jakob Boehme and countless others understood, not because they studied a lot. Instead, enlightenment found them. As we've discussed before, we don't need to apprehend Spirit when we allow the Spirit to apprehend us.' 84

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Enlightenment can only occur when our perception of subject-object duality collapses through unconditional love, in which we encounter the divine Presence, regardless of how we describe it... integration, union, fusing, melding, or even melting. Though momentary, it seems timeless. And when it's over, the presence continues to dwell within the inner recesses of our souls. 98

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'This world is not all that enlightened,' Eli said, 'yet there remain pockets of light over this planet's landscape that disproportionately influence the world towards heightened consciousness. Some of these are beacons from the past and even a few in the present, but little is known of the countless unsung heroes of faith who anonymously shine their light into the darkness.
'Seeing ourselves as separate from our Source due to anthropomorphic teachings in religion or denial of God altogether, we harshly judge ourselves with self-loathing and then project this on everyone else. That's the opposite of enlightenment and the basis of all conflict in the world.96

'Then I suggest you begin to read some Persian poetry if you want to make an impression on her. Over the last several months, she has read almost every poem she could find by Hafiz and Rumi.'

'That sounds fine, but I'm sure there's a lot more to enlightenment than reading poetry or sitting under a Bodhi tree like Buddha.'

'Yes, of course, according to Mo, enlightenment can only occur when our perception of subject-object duality collapses through unconditional love, in which we encounter the divine Presence, regardless of how we describe it... integration, union, fusing, melding, or even melting. Though momentary, it seems timeless. And when it's over, the presence continues to dwell within the inner recesses of our souls. 98

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'I assure you, it would take a lot better social convenor than me to pull off this little get-together gig. In reality, it's simply a matter of likes attracting likes, so the whole affair came together basically on its own. It's the magic of the universe when everyone's affections align, even when the stars don't,' he chuckled. Remember how we taught that vibratory alignment is a fundamental principle of entanglement in the universe for manifestation, be it Elysium or the world's lower states of consciousness.' 101

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I recalled Mo and Eli suggesting the true expression of sexual love is nothing less than experiencing the union of one's Self with the lover... body, heart and mind, presumably because that's the only way love can be fully experienced and satisfied. Still, I wondered, how would they know anything?
Nevertheless, if Julie were truly in love with me, I could finally discover the magic of consummated love, transcending the limitations of my past failures to sustain intimacy with a woman. As it's stated, the two shall become one flesh.
But that was no longer good enough; I now wanted more, I wish to experience the depths of with authentic oneness of heart, soul and mind.
It was something I was unfamiliar with, even though I might have come close to it many years ago while enraptured by the slightly inebriated Sister Mandaacute;ire in my dormitory room. I didn't understand it then, yet there was much more to her than I realised, which for years amplified my desire to experience the fullness of such love once again. 145

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I thought again of one of Eli's favourite lines from William Blake: Eternity is in love with the creations of time. Elysium may have inspired the music, though it was created in the world, so both Earth and Elysium become enriched in their eternal expansion of transcend co-creation. And if this passage into Elysium's threshold was any indication, it was large enough for everyone and everything that brought joy to the soul. Though this cave may not have been within Elysium's frequency domain, nevertheless, since heaven is more a state of being than a place on the celestial map, this happening would have been, in some measure, a splendid intimation of what Elysium could be when merging and coalescing with the souls who make it so. 147

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'I've been teaching Julianne to speak from her heart, not only her mind. However, there's not much she can do to convince hardened sceptics once their minds are made up. In fact, no one can. And, like your colleagues, your fall guy dwelt too much in the mind and not enough in his heart, such that he might be your biggest challenge.

'What can I say? It seems an occupational hazard for most philosophers and scientists.'

'Regardless,' Julie said, 'the mind needs to process its knowledge through the heart to understand what lies beyond the linear third dimension of the Flatlands. Until the fall guy learns how to do that, you might need Julianne to awaken him, not just outwardly... within, too.' 171

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'You know, James, there are a couple of phrases that Julianne has recently read and continues to repeat to herself. These are helping her get control of her thoughts, so perhaps they will help you, too. Everyone needs to learn these, no matter how many lifetimes it might take. One is to choose again.
'Many sages have spoken of this in various ways throughout the ages, but nowhere has it been stated more succinctly. As I'm sure, as a philosopher, you realise that the simplest statements are often the most profound. I've even heard you say that in your summit discussions. Unfortunately, few on earth know how to avoid the thoughts that would hurt them. That's why everyone needs to learn how to choose what thoughts they wish to accept or reject.' 176

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I then recalled how Mo and Eli often quoted an old proverb: Guard your heart more than any treasure, for it is the source of all life. They suggest I pay more attention to my heart so that negative thought patterns weaken and dissipate. However, it would be necessary for me to be vigilant, be it on earth or in realms beyond, in choosing my thoughts rather than them choosing me. 177

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'It's more important to discover for yourself than learn from us. That makes all the difference in the world. That's how you comprehend things from higher levels of consciousness. It's easier to discover the answer to arcane mysteries when accessing higher dimensions of consciousness that bring new revelations from within. What's outside can't comprehend what's inside. Just recall your extraordinary discovery that stormy night on your paradise island. That understanding didn't come from a book, although others might learn what happened when they read about it. See the difference? 210

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'Though we have helped you make important discoveries about yourself, along the way, we hope you will continue to do so after you return. Then, you will indeed be a philosopher and scientist of distinction when you have less use for books and more appreciation for discovery. Consider Julianne; though we told you all about her, you still didn't know her until engaging with her in the hospital room. And now, after meeting Julie, you have discovered much more than you could have learned from what we told you.' 210

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'So what does it mean when you say we relive echoes of the past in the present?'
'This may occur throughout one's lifetime, but ultimately, it involves the final life review when souls arrive in Elysium, and memories are objectively crystallised to see things as they are without the subjective filters of the ego-mind. It is more than just recalling what was believed to have happened; it is also seeing one's life outside of time in the light of truth.'

'Whether you are here or there or anywhere else, you exist beyond the lower order of 3D time because you are of divine essence. You are more than a time-bound human. You are also a timeless god. It's just that few realise it.'
'As we've discussed around our campfires, Homo Sapiens are far more than just knuckle-dragging animals, although the species may have devolved to such a level or even lower. Regardless of past lies, the message that needs to be communicated is that we're gods created by the divine conatus of Source. And if you have to do some scientific deconstructing to understand that, then do it with the type of questions Rhom employed at the virtual forum.' 215

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'Yes, just as it's often said, we only learn what we teach. It's so evident, even if it contradicts what the world understands. The ego cares only about taking, never about giving, which impoverishes the soul and causes many to lose when they could have won. Every soul is enriched when no one loses, and everyone wins by entering the spirit of giving and receiving.' 226

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It's true; when we seek the path... the path tends to find us, no matter where we are; it's how we express more of our divine essence. We are never complete; we are always growing. Eventually, we move forward again, inexorably, to higher realities. Now was one of those times. 226

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As I recall, love is felt most intensely as Eros, especially when two are bonded as we are, physically and spiritually. That's hard to beat. Other times, it's experienced as Storge, such as the maternal love Anna feels for you and the man she bore on earth. Souls attuned to Agape love, such as Maria, know the fullness of love's Source essence. For her, it's a divine encounter.'

'And, perhaps less evidently,' I said, 'yet as significantly, love might be expressed as Philia, just as I've had the honour of experiencing with Eli, Jan, and Rhom's friendship towards me and me to them. And so it has been with many of my friends in the world, all to varying degrees of affection.'

'So how about your fall guy... how do you feel about him?f
That's kind of a fun question to ask. As I observe my body in the hospital, I feel pity, but also a renewed appreciate for what it has done for me, yet to me, he is more than just a biological life form but the sensory source of so many pleasures.
'I also view the fall guy as the devoted servant who got me through over thirty years slogging through this challenging world. Even after abusing him occasionally with too much alcohol, sailor debauchery, academic stress and my near-fatal fall, he was there for me for whatever lay ahead. 18

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Possibly, all the healing love we are projecting into his cells, as good as that may be, still requires a spark to get his neurons fired up.
'Let me give you an illustration. After all the outdoor fires I lit while camping during my two years in Canada, I found how tough it was to get a flame going when the wood was damp. Sometimes, the logs would smoulder on and on for a long time, even when throwing dry grass under them.

'However, when I placed some dry kindling beneath the logs, after a sufficient smouldering, they would suddenly burst into flames. That's because all the smouldering would cause the logs to dry out sufficiently to catch the kindling's flame, and soon you have a roaring fire.'

'To take this analogy further, all the love and light we have been projecting onto the fall guy with Julie is like the smouldering. Even if it doesn't appear as such, the cells are slowly healing, though not enough to ignite the neurons. So maybe, just maybe, the cells need something more to fire up the fall guy's whole system, and possibly that something more is the equation.' 25

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'Still, I don't understand why he wouldn't want to be more forthcoming when it comes to helping Julianne. I can tell you, she's one confused girl about now.'
'Let me give you a clue, Julie. While in the virtual islands, he often withheld information from me so I would discover whatever I needed to know rather than rely on being told. So, unless he deemed it necessary to say something I couldn't otherwise figure out, he preferred I reach my own conclusions. That way, I would own what I discovered... and that's what authentic learning is about.
'In fact, that's how he taught me to sail over five hundred years ago, so I would quickly learn everything I needed to know through direct experience. From what he said, the first time I was at the helm, I got turned around one night because of the overcast skies, misinterpreting the constellations that put us on a trajectory away from the Caribbean towards what is now Brazil. Nevertheless, even as an inexperienced swashbuckler, he kept me at the helm, sailing all night until I saw the sun rising in the wrong direction.
'Then came the big test when he suddenly disappeared as we were sailing through a storm. Everyone, including me, thought he had fallen overboard while drinking too much rum on the deck of the swaying ship. However, with his Plaiedian constitution, there was no evidence he was drunk then or at any other time. Of course, I didn't understand that at the time. 31

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'While on our recent virtual tour, I asked him why he decided to abandon the ship. He replied that he knew I was ready to be captain, which was a great career move for me. It was easier to become the Captain by default while at sea, leading me to an exciting and fulfilling sailing career.

'It wasn't always easy, though. After being at sea for years as Captain, I occasionally faced what seemed insurmountable odds against storms, pirates, scurvy and even mutiny. As for him, he said he left after accomplishing what he came to perform in this world for the time being, having other adventures and assignments in the multiverse he wished to pursue, at least until we met again when I first enrolled at university. I don't know what other purpose he had while on this planet other than to train and influence me... perhaps for times such as this.' 31

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'Indeed, as I look back on my life, I now realise solutions are best found through discovery, not learning. I suspect that's why life hasn't been that easy this time around, especially as a youth. It wasn't just about me following in my father's footsteps since there were no footsteps to follow; rather, I had to find my way. For now, it seems I'm on the trajectory I was meant to be on. Otherwise, I wouldn't be with you, the biggest discovery of my life.' 32

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'Considering the current state of global consciousness,' I said, 'it might take a while for the world to ascend unless something jolts humanity out of its apathy. However, I find it encouraging to hear that a new Golden Age might not be far off for some, even though it might take the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to clear the path and rid Earth of its toxicity, corruption, and insidious fixation on power and control.

'For everyone's sake, and mine too when I return, I'd like to believe these horsemen are about to mount their steeds to charge across the lands, dismantling all vestiges of deep state corruption that has held the world in fear and ignorance for so long. Earth is ready for redemption. Maybe after the scourge, should that happen, the world will finally be prepared to do something about its malaise. Where there is no will, there is no way.' 51

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'The unhinged human ego will not give up without a fight as it continues to wallow in its delusions. The celestial masters went on to say that over the centuries, certain religious institutions have become repositories of the lowest expressions of human consciousness, citing their exploitations of fear, shame, and guilt.

'When these institutions impose fearful beliefs to advance nefarious ends of power and money, they're more associated, if not consociated, with the lower domains than the heavens. In fact, throughout the ages, religion has been used to promote various forms of exclusivity and superiority, presuming to possess God's favour in their pursuit of religious conquest, sometimes by the sword.

'That's why, they said, all religions, including those claiming to represent the light of Yesha, will need to transmute their religious dogma towards their heart's inward light, which remains the substrate and essence of all reality. It is consciousness, it is love, and most importantly, it is the whole of all there is or could be. 52

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'Worst of all, most will clamour for their hemlock when the authorities assure the masses they are safe if they comply. After brainwashing the public, the co-opted mainstream media and political establishment will take delight in demonising anyone who questions their propaganda.

'That's always been the problem on Earth,' Eli said, 'where it's generally the highly educated who fall for indoctrinations because they, in their humanist idealism, tend to trust institutions of power and authority. Fear is the precursor to insanity and the surest means to destruction.' 53

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Julianne recently read somewhere: He who hasn't conquered fear isn't a conquer; rather, darkness blinds his eyes. Though he might own all the great art in the world, he won't recognise Beauty. Though he might possess all the sacred books in the universe, he won't recognise Truth.'

'Let me put it this way, James. Though you had eyes for my beauty, what you saw was Julianne's inward beauty as perceived with the eyes of your Self's risen soul. That's what you were drawn to, just as with Anna. It was the beauty of eternal love created in time that we lived out over centuries. 72

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'You know, as Julie and I were having a picnic yesterday, it occurred to me that if we simultaneously focused on the elixir, we could project our impressions onto a field of shared consciousness like several projectors in a theatre. When projecting these images, everything merges as one, like a giant multidimensional hologram.

'And so, if the equation has inward coherence, our thoughts will merge as a pattern in the field of shared consciousness. It then becomes an exquisite tuning fork, raising the vibratory fields of all conscious beings to a higher frequency. But if no one is listening, there can be no resonance if no one resonates with it, much like a tree that falls in the forest when no one is present. So, if anyone wishes to place their hands over their ears, that's their choice. Without receptivity, waves pass out into the universe, benefiting no one on Earth.

Yet waves of consciousness can never truly be lost any more than the divine Source can be lost, from whom all consciousness flows to and fro. However, where resonance exists in those souls that remain open, they will be drawn to the tune. As this happens, the sound grows stronger and stronger until, at some point, a critical mass of raised consciousness is achieved, causing a massive shift in the earth's existential state of being, from which a new song emerges, impinging upon all who share its frequency. Then, as we broadcast our song to the human race, it will raise the collective consciousness of humanity.' 94

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'Don't discount your prescient insights, James, or yourself, by looking to me for validation,' he said. 'Understand, you're not living in my shadow any more than I'm in yours. I'm no more special than you, even if I reside within Elysium's conscious domain. All light flows from the divine Source, but we, in humility, can only comprehend varying degrees of what's true according to our capacity to receive it. Therefore, what you have to say is no less significant than what Eli or I would say because you have discovered that wisdom comes from the infinite field of consciousness. As we have emphasised repeatedly, truth first resides within, then without. 95

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'And that's why there is nothing more important in the universe than relationships,' Maria said, 'it's how we experience union with our Source. Forgive me if my words seem too religious, but as Yeshua said: That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee that they also may be one in us. Our connection to the Source is experienced through each other, and when humanity awakens to experiencing this oneness, it will be awakened to life everlasting. That, my friends, is what I taught, and that's what I lived by all my years in Greece as a nun.' 98

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Possibly, there was a special message her soul wished to hear! Yes, that's it; these forceful winds blowing through her mind would take her to new heights, high in the sky, just like the kites she watched flying so long ago. Then, it occurred to her that the green kite and the blue kite each meant something.

Yes, they would become metaphors for her life as she wrote down her thoughts on a small notepad she had in her beach bag to write whatever creative thoughts her muse might inspire in her. Green for the earth, blue for the sky, oscillating while sweeping erratically upward and downward. Today, we are crashing down to earth; tomorrow, we are caught up in God's updraft far above in the blue heavens. But even in a downdraft, we inevitably land on the green earth only to rise again to continue the cycle eternally.
So, which am I, the green or the blue kite? Is the real me the green kite that exists only on Earth, as it continues to crash down again and again, only to rise? Or is the blue kite the other me that seeks to climb high into the heavens and stay there? Obviously, I am both the green kite that continues to fall to earth and the beautiful blue kite that soars high. 105

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As if she had spoken to by the whisper of an angel, she closed the book while pulling a soft blanket over her. The words were very personal and moving. Yes, they were a gentle reminder of something more, something so sublime, so beautiful that she wept softly with joyful tears about a meaning she wasn't sure she understood. 110

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It was a song dwelling deep within, waiting to be set free as more than words or melody. So, what could that be? For now, it was enough for her to know the song's music awaited her, even as her soul slumbered. Was this a call coming to her, perhaps an invitation to evoke whatever ancient words or melodies she was meant to feel, hear and create?'

After lying there for over an hour, half awake, she suddenly, Hafiz's line, mount the hidden tide echoed in her mind as she threw off the blanket and ran downstairs to the shore, dashing through the tide, diving into the water with her dress, laughing in exuberance, celebrating the ancient song. 110

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As a great poet once wrote; You are the music while the music lasts. However, as long as it remains as nothing more than notes scored on paper, there is no life, even though the notes are arranged for various instruments, each with pitch, key, timing, octaves, etc., composed to provide multifarious sounds of harmonious beauty.

'Just reading the notes on a page doesn't produce the music until everyone picks up their instruments, and together, they quicken the notes off the page into the aether with creative variations and interpretations of the musicians and conductor. The scores and musical instruments are, in and of themselves, blunt, as Einstein says, and therefore, ineffectual until musicians unite to create music. Likewise, without the animating presence of Spirit, the equation remains as blunt and lifeless as the carving on your stick. 115

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'Inspired; that's an interesting word,' Maria said, 'from the root spirit, hence to in-spirit. Throughout my many years in Greece, I often sat in nature's garden to meditate, feeling inspired by the loving presence of Spirit. In the same way, you seem to be saying the equation likewise needs to be in-spirited.'

'That's brilliant, Maria,' Jan said. 'There is no limit to how in-spirited humanity can become, even on earth, as there is no limit to Spirit. Only the limitations on expressing inspiration can snuff out its creative flame, another reason to dwell in love, not fear.

'As such, each expression of living consciousness exists within a range of octaves appropriate to its capacity to be apprehended. More inclusive octaves may open up in new dimensions of beauty when the recipient is ready to assimilate and actualise their higher frequencies.' 116

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'You know,' Anna said, 'I believe this is part of the beautiful symphony we're all playing together. James is a major key being readied for his return to the earth plane, just as Julianne is being prepared for James's return, though not necessarily as a minor key. When your lives converge, you will be ready for union, or should I say reunion. And so, it will be dandeacute;jandagrave; vu for you, James; another glorious opportunity to fall in love again with Julie.' 118

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As Jan and Eli keep saying, what gets intellectuals into trouble is that they rely on their ego-minds rather than the inner knowing of their hearts; in fact, it's what causes so many to live in the Flatlands. Many never figure things out, so they keep repeating the same mistakes, allowing their ego-minds to decide for them, unless they have a course correction to wake them up. If anyone, I should know, considering the course I had to take.'151

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I now have no doubt, based on my experiences in Elysium's Passage, that everyone who occupies Earth's lower echelons is offered plenty of assistance from unlimited divine sources... provided we, and not our ego, wish to receive it. We continue to learn our lessons from the experiences we have chosen for ourselves on this plane as we are willing to listen to the inner promptings of our Spirit.

As I came to realise, physical manifestations are only an echo of the a priori intent of the spiritual dimension. Again, Planck had it right; mind is the matrix... the eternal song that creates all that is. 177

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Think of yourself as an ambassador for Elysium,' Eli said, 'to teach the truth no matter how uncomfortable it makes your opponents feel. The best

way to do this is to question their foundations, then watch their house of cards fall. For those who are too proud or insecure to reconsider their positions, you will get plenty of opposition. Should your opponents insist on making cheap ad hominem assaults against you to compensate for their lack of substance, the weakness of their arguments will be exposed. All you need to do is stand tall.' 182

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'You make an excellent point, Jan. I'd like to run that by my colleagues.'

'Jan's right,' Eli said; 'many philosophers these days seem more concerned with being properly perceived in promoting socially relevant, axe-grinding issues, giving intellectual legitimacy to whatever so-called progressive, politically correct ideologies are in vogue. Whether their cause is noble, ignoble or just plain ignorant, the judgments are generally cast in a Hegelian adversarial dialectic of master-slave, victim-victimiser, us versus them, polemic.'

'Without doubt,' I said, 'I was one of these students, and I must say, it's easy to be smug and morally superior when safely ensconced on the side no one dares to challenge 185

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'Even in this world of uncertainty, as your inward eyes continue to focus on this spiritual reality, you will know what is real, what is temporal, and what is illusion. As you mature, your outward appearance will perfectly express your inward essence, as Julianne will express hers.

'Seasoned wisdom is beautiful and will manifest inward vitality, whether in a youthful mode or a more mature presentation, it's all a projection of how you see yourself. As for me, I see myself as I was in my early twenties when I left the earth, and so that's how I naturally manifest in the higher heavens.' 203

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Wisdom comes to us honestly, though not necessarily easily,' he said. 'Whether it comes to us or we go to it, we must acknowledge that wisdom resides deep within our souls. If we think it is in our heads, the answer is obvious...we can't. Hanging out with brilliant, albeit self-absorbed intellects will teach you that.'

'Unfortunately,' Eli said, 'your world's Flatlands will continue to experience the consequences of their foolish ideologies, policies and pernicious decisions. Too many remain consumed by intellectual pride and a false ego-mind and have lost their moral bearings. Truth is found only in the centre of the soul, which we metaphorically refer to as the heart. The mind is incapable of acquiring wisdom until it defers to the heart's divine understanding.' 233

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'Whether you're aware of it or not,' Anna said, 'your spirit body will continue to possess all the wonderful qualities your internal essence has garnered this last year. This inner beauty of your spirit will manifest in your earthly body.'

'You are making some interesting observations, Anna, about how spiritual reality manifests and bleeds through all dimensions,' Julie said. 'As I observed on the cave walls with James, it was written PULCHRITUDO SPLENDOR VERITATIS; beauty is the splendour of truth.' 209

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'And so it is,' Anna said, 'beauty is expressed as splendour in infinite ways, yet all beauty has its source in love. And so, James, as your body ages, your face will still convey the transformative experiences you've had here. Your eyes and face will bespeak your deeper character as your inner being is assimilated into your bodily form.

'This reminds me,' I said, 'of a quote we discussed at Summit U regarding aesthetics: This, then, is how the material thing becomes beautiful by communicating in the thought that flows from the Divine. I believe Plotinus said that.' 210

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'Unsheathe the solid Light of Truth; hold it high as you shatter the principalities of darkness, rightly dividing the Word of Truth as you slay the dragons of fear and deception from the face of your planet. My servant has taken on many names and titles in several lifetimes. I now bestow upon you what has always been yours, and so shall it remain with you in your world to come.'

Holding his sword above my shoulders, I knelt as he loudly declared, 'You are Xavier, Seventh Knight of Excalibur. Rise now; go forth to conquer, wielding the mighty sword of Truth, for what is not of the Light shall be no more, but those who follow its truth shall be a Light unto the Nations.' 220

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I can only describe what flashed before my inward eyes as timeless, suspended only by a cushion of cool ocean air with nothing more than the swift wind rushing towards me from below. As I fall, I again experience my earlier flight towards Elysium's Passage through the abyss. In an instant, I wondered if I was falling again, this time not to, but away from Passage. As the sea nears, I brace myself for impact, yet I feel nothing as I plunge into the dark depths of a gyrating vortex, stripped of my body and what I have ever experienced. So, where am I destined? It doesn't matter; I no longer care.

Will this be for a moment or a timeless eternity? Regardless, my soul is content to remain in this plenum of all and nothingness. Love continues to surround me, buoyed in brilliance. It is enough; I'm complete. It is all I ever wanted: entwined in total tranquillity, rest and peace. In the words of one greater, I'm ready to pronounce: CONSUMMATUM EST. 223

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After purchasing a copy, I sat in a coffee shop down the street and began to skim through the passages when a phrase in section two caught my eye, stating: Every kind of spirit turns toward his or her ruling love. That got me thinking... so, what was my ruling love? Sex and materialism? It seemed these qualities pretty much summed up my life these days. And yet, that felt abysmally shallow, especially for an intelligent philosopher like me. There had to be more substance to life.

As I read on, it seemed the Swedish sage was suggesting that only divine love and wisdom were worthy of our ruling love; all else flows from that. To me, that statement was provocative, as I realised my ruling love had lost any pretence of human dignity, reduced now to little more than money and vacuous self-gratification. 16

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So what master was I serving? Nothingness? I didn't have an answer. It was evident that I didn't know myself, even though every philosopher of antiquity, from Hermes to Pythagoras to the Oracle of Delphi and beyond, implored us to Know Thyself.

And so, for the next few days, I contemplated this - not what I did, not what I had accomplished, but rather, who, in my essence, I was. Without knowing that, how could I be authentic? Or, was I, like everyone else, just a fluke of nature that, with time and chance, oozed out of the primal swamp? A collection of microbes that, out of nowhere, somehow became human. It seemed to be the official line from scientists and humanists, so I didn't question it... in my world, they were the authorities. I mean, what was the alternative: divine creation? Few in academia could go there and survive, so why would I? 16

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I didn't know what to do with what Swedenborg had to say about angels, spirits, departed humans and other beings, since it's not something most agnostics would give much thought to. Nevertheless, he inspired me to examine myself, much like Plotinus and Pascal had advocated before him. And, wasn't it Socrates who said that the unexamined life was not worth living? So, how about mine... was it worth living? Good question, too bad I didn't have a good answer.

Increasingly, it seemed something extraordinary must have happened to me while I was in a coma, as I found myself becoming more reflective and interested in my inward life than the outward, which was ironic, considering my new circumstances and lifestyle. Maybe it was because I was satiated with good times, requiring no thought or effort. However, as an agnostic in good standing, any notion of love and wisdom must be contextualised within the purview of humanism, not religion. Regardless, I determined that forthwith, my life's quest (at least for now) would be to go within to discover who I was. 17

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'All manifestations of density are projections of electromagnetic frequencies, so a light being would know how to transduce her frequencies into a physical form. The Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, is filled with such incidents. When you think about it, there really is nothing to it, since the entire multiverse is a holographic configuration emanating from the Creator Source, including humans. In that sense, everything is a hologram.' 136

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'At some point, later in the journal, you'll come across a discussion about Russian matryoshka dolls and how they illustrate the holodynamic principle taught at Summit U. So think of Selaris as the more inclusive over-soul doll that contains you and your Julie doppelgandauml;nger, in a rarefied dimension. Obviously, there's much more to your multidimensional Self than you realise or can realise. Does that help?'

'Sure; it helps; it helps to confuse me, Julie said.

'But in this entangled universe, are we not all one, each participating as different expressions of universal consciousness? Or, as it's stated in the journal, the many in the one, the one in the many. You'll see that phrase crop up more than once in James's writings. 140

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Now that I had returned to the Flatlands, I reflected on what Miguel said about my ongoing struggle for tenure, or at least for full-time employment. After being exposed to how flat and linear academia is, it occurred to me that I might have to change my career path to continue my spiritual ascent. Indeed, there were no mountains here, literally or figuratively.

Again, I thought of the quote from Hamlet we had discussed on the summit: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. So, what if I were to become a writer and not be beholden to anyone, would I then be more true to myself? Good question, James. 145

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'You're outdoing yourself, James; I don't know how much more I can take,' he laughed. 'Okay, let's have it.'

'Hang on. Midway through, I had an extraordinary encounter with a most astonishing character in the virtual Hill Country, someone who lived in the wilderness at the base of a mountain with no visible peak, only misty clouds, with no sky above it. I hadn't given much thought to who this might be until Julie told me she knew who it was.'

'So, who does she think he represented?'

'Read it, then you tell me.'

'From what you just said, I can hardly wait to get a peek into your inner world, James, especially your tryst with Julie's double,' he laughed. 'So, if you would, send me a copy as soon as possible; I want to get started right away.'

'Cheers,' I said as we clinked our glasses. 148

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'I found the rescue mission hilarious,' Luc said, 'even though you seemed annoyed at Eli's cavalier attitude towards your supposed crisis. I guess he thought this was funny, with his feet tangling over the precipice, teasing you while casually smoking his fag... I can see it now,' she laughed.'

'I suppose this illustrates how the detached ego mind, in all its trembling, demands we respect its fears even when it deserves none. At least, that's how it was for me when he didn't take my rantings seriously, having too good a time mocking my hysteria, which made me even more frustrated.'

'Maybe that's why those who live in fear tend to lash out so much towards those who don't pay it the same respect,' Julie said, 'as you reacted to Eli. 150

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All we know from what I wrote is that he brandished a large sword with a golden hilt that, with one mighty blow, shattered the boulder to what seemed to my tomb, allowing me to escape.'

'Which makes me wonder how he could have found you down there unless he was sent from realms on high to deliver you from darkness? I love this portion of your story; so replete with ancient archetypal metaphors, yet anchored in stone, literally.'

'Who knows? With that mighty Excalibur, he might have been some Arthurian warrior-god sent to me.'

'It almost seems that way, Julie said, especially where it says:

Rise now and go forth to conquer, wielding the mighty Excalibur of Truth to shatter the world's fortresses of darkness. Whether you ascend into the heavens or descend into the hells, my spirit is with you. Nothing shall obstruct your way. As you follow the light, so shall you become the light and what is not of the light shall be extinguished by the light. As you follow the light, so shall you become a light unto the nations.' 153

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But wouldn't you like to witness that boulder being smashed into rubble with one mighty blow? Then maybe you will be inspired to likewise wield your Excalibur of truth so that you might shatter the world's fortresses of darkness, just as your journal states.'

'That's a rather lofty admonishment, Julie; a tad over my pay level, with or without the Excalibur. I mean, really... shatter the world's fortresses of darkness. Who do you think I am?

I didn't say it; it's what you said, James. Besides, it's not about who you are, but who you are becoming. You know, as we keep reading, I get the feeling you're being set up for something big.' 154

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'Nevertheless,' Eunice said, 'this does not necessarily mean everyone will want to be convinced of your experiences, particularly when it's contrary to their clinical beliefs. I suspect there may be some who'll try to dismiss your claims of having out-of-body experiences, particularly the psychiatrists, who tend to be more medically orthodox and left-brained.'

'Eunice is probably right,' Ben said, 'but don't mind them; they can't help themselves. Always remember what Aquinas said: All things are received according to the nature of the recipient. By the way, I was most impressed by how often your mountain companions quoted that line.'

'Which reveals the calibre of company you're keeping, no matter what side of the veil you find yourself,' Eunice smiled.

'Of course... just look at the wife I'm hanging out with,' I chuckled.

'Indeed, that goes for me, too,' Ben said. 'Still, it's not up to you to change the minds or nature of the unwilling because, in the end, you can't. Nevertheless, you can speak the truth to those willing to listen, as I'm sure many will this weekend.'

To that, let me add one more quote, this one by Pascal: There is enough light for those who only desire to see and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.' I once used that on my contrarian advisor at Edinburgh, which probably had something to do with having to spend an extra year rewriting my thesis before I was permitted to receive my doctorate.' 174'

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'As an attractive and intelligent young woman, how is it that you still find yourself unattached,' Luc asked?

'Is that how I appear to you? Never mind, don't answer that. Still, it's true; I have only dreams. I've never met a man in the Flatlands, as James calls it, who could satisfy me. After he left his virtual Sophia behind, I began to view life quite differently, determined to find the higher ground he told her they were sailing to. That's when the mists cleared, and I began to see the Mountain across the sea.

'I then caught a boat sailing from Flatland's arid deserts to a hilly country where I found my way to a Mountain and began my ascent to discover a community of teachers. As Miguel suggests, that's where I met Plotinus, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras and many others, directing me towards more expansive views... further up and further in, as the journal keeps saying.'

'It's true, things look much different the higher you go, don't they? So, as you ascend, what more do you hope to see?'

'I don't know; perhaps God.' 178

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'And yet,' Charles said, 'Aristotle and the great Greek philosophers of antiquity implored us to know ourselves, because without knowing that, we can't know anything else. At least, that's how I understand it.'

'Yes, they, and the ancient Egyptians before them, certainly did leave us with a tough one, as far as conundrums go.'

'Then, if you please, share your thoughts. As I reflect on my life and career, I find myself increasingly wondering about this conundrum. It seems few, if any, in this world have a satisfactory answer to who we are, who others are... and for that matter, why we are.'

'I think you're right. Nevertheless, I believe what lies behind this Hermetic injunction is something more profound than us being just an ego within a skin-encapsulated Homo sapien. Some say our true essence is an extended fractal of a hidden Self that infinitely transcends itself, shared by all, individually expressed, yet known to few. And so, my only hint as to who we are is not only more than we imagine, but far beyond what we can imagine. At best, we might at times be able to intuit this Presence, though never in words since it's ineffable.'

'That sounds profound, James, although I'm not sure how helpful this is for those of us who reside outside the gates of the School of Athens.'

'So what did you expect from a philosopher?' I laughed. 'We do questions better than answers. And even when we hazard an answer, it's mostly full of obfuscation, ambiguity and nuance, leading to more questions. That's why I keep my wife nearby; she understands more about who I am than I do.' 188

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Although I identified with much of what he said, I expressed scepticism towards some of the alarmism implicit in his climate change assumptions.

'You say, Carl, that we must cut our carbon emissions. Most environmentalists say that, although I've never understood why that's necessary, considering carbon is plant food, essential to plants as oxygen is to us. Furthermore, NASA's planetary photos show that Earth has become 20% greener over the years. In fact, Dr Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, has observed that there isn't a carbon surplus as we've been told; rather, there's a deficit since more plants require more carbon nutrients. I guess that makes sense.'

'I'd also like to point out that every prediction of dire climate catastrophe has proven entirely false over the last forty years. For example, contrary to what we've often been told, the polar ice caps are not melting, the sea is not rising, and we might soon be headed into another cycle of global cooling in conjunction with the sun's radiant cycles. 192

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We might be biased,' Edward said, 'but damn, James, just look at your journal and how consummate it is with profound meaning. As the saying goes, the pen is mightier than the sword; except with you, the pen will be your sword since, as you quoted in your journal, The word is sharper than any two-edged sword.

You should prepare to get out of the system before you publish your books. At least have an exit strategy. But one thing is certain, they can't bribe you with their money since you already have far more than they ever will. You won't need them any more than your old nemesis, the thesis adviser, waving his finger at you to keep you narrow and compliant.'

'Still, I prefer not to burn my bridges in the academic world. But if I have to, it would be jolly to know there might be a softer landing than there was down the abyss in Chile. 198

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Whatever you do, be sure to take in the world's Flatland forums again, and not just the part where you were flirting with Sophia at the back. If you listen closely to my debate, you might learn a few tips on how to pop the fragile bubbles of modern secular sophistries. Just a few pinpricks here and there should do it; their arguments are that fragile.'

'I'm sure, but as I recall, you were a bit brutal on the presenter with your line of questioning.'

'How else are they going to learn? Since it's impossible to argue with ignorance, never argue; instead, do what Socrates and I did by asking questions until their vacuous responses become exposed for all to see, including them. You already know this, but you don't do it as well as you could, which is a human weakness most share.

'That's because the ego would rather talk than listen, since it only knows how to react. But once you get good at this, those who are open to the light of reason... will see, and fewer will be infected with whatever lies are being promulgated by the lower world's agents of deception. Many souls in the Flatlands have been waiting a long time to hear they are more than flukes of nature.' 203

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'Only those who choose to comply with materialist nonsense refuse to listen to reason. Their consciousness remains too low to understand the difference between truth and falsehood, so they only hear what they wish to believe or what they're told to believe. And so, James, your mission will be to clue these souls into understanding that the emperor has no clothes.'

'I'm not promising anything, but I'll do what I can.'

'Yes, if you would, since philosophy, by definition, means a lover of wisdom. I believe you already had that conversation with your mountain companions, so I trust your writings will shine some light into the murky obfuscation that enshrouds the noosphere of this otherwise beautiful planet.'

'Remember, your Excalibur. In the coming battle, only it, the word of truth, can demolish the fortresses of deception.' 203

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'Again, as you were anointed Seventh Knight, Excalibur, before re-entering this plane, never forget the mission you are entrusted with from worlds afar. Use the mighty Excalibur bestowed upon you at your Last Supper to strike down the rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places.'

'How do you know about my Last Supper? I just found out about what happened while I was in Aspen under hypnosis.'

'Then I guess it was about time you found out,' he grinned.

'So why didn't you tell me about this before?' I asked.

'Everything has a right time, and that was your right time. So now you know, James, your anointing was a cosmic send-off.

'My word, Miguel, are you saying all that hails from worlds beyond?'

'More than you know, but for now, you need to recognise the importance of awakening humanity to the lies and suffering being inflicted upon them. 207

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'You've heard of the myth of the fall; well, this illustrates what it means to be banished from the garden. Separation wasn't a mistake, as some religions assume; dualism was a necessary stage in the conscious evolution of humanity. That's because advancing beyond the third density is impossible without first experiencing the lower planes of ignorance.

'And so, as with all souls in the universe, it was necessary for humanity to traverse dark valleys for hundreds of millennia after devolving into primitive expressions of visceral consciousness. Again, that was no mistake; it's the process of awakening. Read William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, and then you may understand.'

'Understand what?' I asked.

'To evolve from primitive innocence to a state of higher innocence or consciousness, the soul, in its individual and collective expressions, must pass through the opposing fires of experience to choose higher innocence. And so it is throughout the free will cosmos; love demands it, or love can no longer exist as love. 209

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'Next, let's look at the existence of good and evil. Is it possible for good to exist if it's impossible for it not to exist? That is, if the existence of evil is not possible, then how can the contrast of goodness be possible? Further to that, how can free will be said to exist without its absence? And if free will can't exist, how can love?

'So there you have it. Rather than performing intellectual cartwheels about how the Almighty could permit evil, consider these straightforward questions. Most importantly, logic is essential, as long as it is not based on reductionist, third-dimensional Flatland reasoning.' 211

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An evening mist enveloped the waters and docks as I strolled along the same docks as before, noting that it was now midnight. Would she appear? I had never encountered a ghost before, at least not in this dimension. Then... suddenly, I did!

Approaching me from across the water, she glided towards me in a wispy white garment, her beauty surpassing anything I had imagined. Though partially transparent to my eyes, she wasn't translucent enough to see through. After a short while, she spoke softly and lovingly.

'Don't be afraid, my son; I am pleased your heart has opened to see me as I was and remain. Do you remember the happy days we spent on these old wooden planks back when you were my young man? And not just then, but again when we met here almost three years ago after your passing, not to heaven but to Earth,' she smiled, aware of the irony. 219

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'Nevertheless, the stakes are high, Miguel said, so if you're not aware of who you are, you may not be up to the challenges that arise. That's why Anna wanted to remind you of who you were in Elysium's Passage. With that, you will be prepared and equipped to lead the resistance. However, you may not have much time, perhaps a year or two.'

'And then what?'

'It depends on how much humanity awakens. If it remains asleep, your world may be plunged even deeper into the hells of its own creation. 239

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And yet, these nefarious actors are but proxies for even more seditious adversaries in the cosmos who play the long game. For ages, they've been plotting to take over your planet.'

'You mean like in Star Wars? If so, it sounds like Earth could be obliterated by a Death Star.'

'Think of it more as a systemic cancer in the moral fibre of humanity where compliance becomes complicity, becomes cowardice. That's the Death Star. Your scriptures give a clue of what Earth is up against,' Miguel said. 'As it's written, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.'

'I'm familiar with this quote,' Luc said, but since it was written almost two thousand years ago, I've taken this to mean something less literal and more metaphoric.'

'Notice, Luc, this states the cosmic powers and forces of evil remain in the heavenly places, meaning the spiritual dimension. So, it's rather obvious: this battle has been going on for a while at low levels of consciousness. 240

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'I find it astonishing how deeply you were drawn into this encounter, much like me when, at my request, Julie carried out a regression so I could reexperience what I had recorded.'

'And how did it feel?'

'I, too, felt sad because I wanted to take you on our voyage; however, as you read, Rhom reminded me you weren't actually real, only a virtual form projected into an altered reality.'

'I'm still not sure what that means, James. What do you think?'

'It's beyond me, except she felt very physical when I held her body against mine. Maybe we felt physical to each other because our souls were resonating on the same spectrum of consciousness. And yet I'm not exactly sure what that means, even if it sounds good,' I laughed.

'Did it feel like you were in love with my phantom? It almost seems that way from what you said to Rhom as you were walking away.'

'Possibly, I was, in the same sense that some physicists refer to as quantum entanglement. It's not real, except when it is,' I chuckled. 'Really out there, isn't it?' 249

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'And how about you, Miguel? What have you been up to since we last spoke? Have you embarked on any more voyages on our ghost ship?'

'No, not recently. If you must know, I've been collaborating with various members of the galactic council, preparing an updated plan for your world's transition from the third to the fourth and eventually fifth densities ... no small task. This incremental evolution has been in the works for several millennia; however, as I've said, before higher frequencies can be anchored to the planet's crystalline grid, the accumulated toxins lodged deep within your carbon grid must first be expunged. That can only occur when human consciousness rises to the occasion, which is why we can't give you a firm timeline for Earth's dawning. It's all up to you guys,' he chuckled. 259

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'Remember what I said about the Georgia Guidestones? Well, that will be your first assignment. You are ideally suited for the job of taking them out since you'll have the ability to teleport in, detonate, and then teleport out undetected. It will be an important mission since the inscriptions were intended to be more than just proclamations. They have a frequency that ripples into the universe as a declaration wrapped in deceptive, high-sounding words of idealism, so that no one will recognise the arcon's true agenda to take over this world. But that's just for starters. There are plenty of installations that need to be taken out.'

'I don't know, Miguel; this sounds half conspiracy and half science fiction.'

'It's beyond both conspiracy and fiction,' he said, his voice lowering. 'The outcome of this and other missions could permeate the timelines of space.'

'Fine, I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but how do cosmic low-lifes get away with wreaking havoc when it's our world, not theirs?' 261

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I stared at him, incredulously. 'So, realistically, how are we to dismantle something so massive that it spans the cosmos?'

'It's not about taking down the whole structure at once. Every operation will chip away at the foundations as you bring light to their vulnerabilities. In fact, your detachment will be part of the cosmic Light Brigade.'

'Ah, sounds a lot like Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. I like that!'

'Every strategic move, or if you prefer, charge, would weaken their grip on Earth and beyond. That's why your involvement could be crucial; you'll be bringing something to the table they won't expect.'

His words lingered in the air; obviously, this was going to be more than a one-off assault, but the beginning of something much greater than I anticipated... not that he hadn't been warning me.

After this peculiar, if not unsettling, conversation, I decided it would be best not to mention anything specific to Julie about what Miguel was conscripting me into. With everything else going on in her life, the last thing she needed to worry about was going off to war. Instead, I would tell Luc what Miguel had disclosed about this mercenary mission. I laughed to myself: nothing less than undermining the cosmological overlords of darkness. After this, they may need to make another Star Wars movie. 264

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'Apart from blowing up systems and structures of nefarious intent, Luc said, I suspect your writings might, in the long run might turn out to be as revolutionary as anything, provided they inspire humanity to rise against their moral ineptitude and cowardice. I see it everywhere... complicit sheep willing to trade in their freedom and dignity for the illusion of security. I guess that's what happens when humanity forgets who they are. So hopefully, these writings will remind the world it derives its being not in Darwin's primaeval mud but the eternal Source, or as Wordsworth puts it, But trailing clouds of glory do we come.' 266

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On the way home, I kept asking how our love could be wrong when it felt so right. Were we meant to be monogamous, or was that just a convention contrived by culture and religion over the centuries? Though the Ten Commandments forbade adultery, nevertheless, from what I could see, there was nothing about bigamy that was forbidden. Even Moses, who wrote the Bible's Pentateuch, had more than one lover, and yet wasn't he the one God supposedly gave these Commandments? Then there was Abraham and his live-in mistress Hagar, mother of Ishmael.

Over the next few days, I thought about all this, not that I was seeking justification for my behaviour, since I doubted there was any; yet I wondered why and how things got set up in the world as they did. The more I thought about it, the more puzzling everything seemed since there was so little consistency.

I wondered how it was that so many of these revered patriarchs and biblical champions end up with so many wives... not to mention concubines? Solomon had about 300 mistresses. Hell, I'd be happy with just one if it were Sophia. Muslim men in Islamic countries get to have up to four wives, and some Hindu men have it pretty good, too. So, over the ages, what changed? 275

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'Okay, let's see if I can get lift-off,' I said as I closed my eyes tightly, envisioning myself standing by the rock.

'Nothing's happening, Miguel... it seems systems are down. I really tried hard, so what's wrong?'

'Remember that episode in Star Wars where Yoda was teaching Luke Skywalker to levitate? Do you recall what Yoda said when Luke wasn't getting anywhere?'

'That was before my time; so what did he say?'

'Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. You said you tried hard; Yoda would say that's your problem; there is no try.' It's a matter of do or do not.'

'Easier said... to do, than to do,' I chuckled.

'Still, isn't it better to do than try to do? Understand the relationship between the physicality and the spirit. Within the third dimension, all the ego self can do is try, since it can't get past its limitations. However, now that your cells have been supercharged, relax and allow the spirit to engage your soul... then your body must follow, as day follows night, as Shakespeare put it.'

'I'm not sure what it means for my spirit to engage my soul since I only know about my mind and body.'

'And that's what's holding you back; you're using your mind to deny your soul.

'I'm not sure what it means for my spirit to engage my soul since I only know about my mind and body.'

'And that's what's holding you back; you're using your mind to deny your soul. Remember, your soul has a mind of its own, so to speak, and so you can't force what can't be forced; you can only allow. Regardless of how many prayers, chants, and incantations you recite, only your spirit can do what the mind can't. 285

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Somehow, the police were able to locate me, perhaps from the car's registration, and then immediately dispatched an officer to the campus.

'Excuse me, Dr Phillips,' he said as he abruptly opened the classroom door. 'I need to speak with you. Please step into the hallway.'

I excused myself, whereupon he gave me the horrific news. 'There has been an accident, sir. It involves your wife. '

My wife? Where is she?

'In Emergency. Come with me. 305

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The Elysium's Passage Novel Series is to be published in 2026 on Amazon

This synopsis provides a review of the series

1. THE ASCENT is the first novel in the Chronicles of Elysium's Passage that's foundational to everything that happens in the following narratives, which embark on an adventure that will surprise and delight the reader like no other book. It all begins with an extreme adventure: climbing a remote, challenging mountain somewhere in the Andes. Just as James, the protagonist, is about to reach the mountain summit, he falls into an abyss that leaves him in a coma for almost a year. After being airlifted by a forestry helicopter and flown back to London, his body remained there for almost a year. Eventually, he learns it was not he but his body that was rescued. Several days later, without understanding what happened, he continues to climb to the summit in an alternate dimension of higher consciousness. Fortuitously, he meets two adventurers on the summit ridge who are no longer of this world. After that, his surreal life leads him to several new adventures in the subsequent chronicles, which include a rich mix of adventure, romance, and fantasy, along with profound discussions of philosophy, spirituality, and the afterlife.andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;

2. THE SUMMIT, the second novel in the Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, carries on where James, the narrator and protagonist, is taught more about a multidimensional reality that he finds difficult to comprehend. Not only does he find he's not as clever as he imagined, but his off-world companions on the summit demonstrate that much of what he believed about life was not just parochial but wrong. At first, he finds this difficult to comprehend because their teachings contradict his limited understanding of non-material reality. After being tricked into teleporting off a ledge where he was trapped, James becomes aware of a new reality that enables him to undertake far more adventures than he could ever have in his physical body back home. Now, if only he would win over the only woman in this life who matters, the nurse on the other side of the veil, who continually demonstrates her unconditional love toward his healing. This book may also open the reader's eyes to a much vaster reality than many may be aware of. As with the other Chronicles, there are discussions of philosophy, the spiritual afterlife and what might seem like fantasy.

3. QUANTUM LEAPS is the third novel in Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, where James, the philosopher-protagonist, teleports back to London to visit his body and make contact with the special nurse taking care of it in his absence. Immediately, he feels an inexplicable spiritual bond with her for reasons he remains unaware of. Now aroused by a renewed interest in matters of love, the beginnings of a relationship begin to emerge as he attempts to reach across the chasm of their worlds. But it's not until the fifth novel, Mystical Romance, that he encounters her in a way that he finds difficult to believe. However, before that can happen, there is much about his failed relationships that must be resolved before he is ready to move forward in his new life in Elysium's Passage. It is during this time that he christens his comatose body as the fall guy since it took the fall for him down the abyss, so he could learn the lessons he's now learning. That will be the next focus of his life, where, in his next Surreal Adventures, he is given virtual lessons to release many of his past beliefs about the world and his life

4. SURREAL ADVENTURES is the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, which finds James, the protagonist and narrator, escorted by his companions to a remote South Pacific Island, where he is left to reflect on what he's learned. During the next forty days, he battles the demons of his past as he works through some rather painful issues from his early youth. Here, in a tropical storm, he encounters an eerie, suspended spectre of the one he loved yet still resents for abandoning him as a child. After this, he achieves peace of mind and is ready to return to his lodge to join his off-world companions on the Andes summit. However, just when it seemed things couldn't get any stranger, a sixteenth-century sea captain sails his ancient 'ghost' ship onto the beach. Together, they sail off on a mystical ocean voyage to a couple of virtual islands supposedly in the South Pacific, where he witnesses and, at times, participates in several important life lessons. Near the end, these encounters help prepare him for a new challenge within a mountain, where he falls deep into a dark tomb of fear. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding his Excalibur, he continues on to where his life is about to be transformed in the following chronicle, Mystical Romance.

5. MYSTICAL ROMANCE is the fifth chronicle in Elysium's Passage, which will surprise the reader with a romantic twist of how love is expressed in higher realms. From this lofty perspective, everything about intimacy is understood as within, so without. After escaping his tomb, James, the narrator and protagonist, makes his way through a maze of tunnels until he arrives at a large oak door, which he opens with the golden key he had been given. There, he steps into Elysium's Passage's Great Hall, where his life and recent achievements are celebrated now that his eyes have been opened to perceive a fascinating interior world of wonderment... and romance. To say more might risk diminishing the multitude of delightful surprises as circumstances begin to open to The Elixir, where James is about to re-enter his earthly body's existence.

6. THE ELIXIR is the sixth chronicle of the Elysium's Passage series that prepares James, the narrator-protagonist, to awaken and return to his body in London. Before that can happen, however, his off-world friend presents a mysterious equation, enshrouded within a light code frequency, that will stimulate the multidimensional DNA strands within him. Much of this narration is centred in London, where his nurse unknowingly becomes involved in how the Elixir's equation finds its way from a taxi cab driver to higher echelons of science. There are many twists in how she unwittingly brings the Elixir to the attention of mathematicians and physicists, after which they eventually discover how to code the equation into a laser ray to stimulate his fall-guy body into full consciousness. Ostensibly a new Adam, he is destined to return humanity to a higher multidimensional existence. How this happens is filled with intrigue, as is his shocking return to his earthly body. andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;

7. THE RETURN is the seventh and last chronicle in the series where James, the narrator and protagonist, has re-emerged from Elysium's Passage as he readjusts to life in the third dimension. Many of the events from the previous novels are woven into an exciting, fast-paced narrative spanning several countries. At first, it seems all memories have been lost, with his fall guy's brain not being aware of what happened to him while in his coma. As a consequence, it takes a while for him to be convinced that he had been out of his earthly body for almost a year. Through unexpected events and evidence, along with his girlfriend's urging, he comes to realise what had occurred. It takes a while for his mind to catch up with the changes made in his heart during his stay in the alternate realm. But after experiencing several harsh realities, he discovers what he has become while out of his body. Gradually, he comes to understand the many challenges that lie ahead for him in fulfilling his future mission on Earth.

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Windridge Trail, Kananaski, Alberta. Mount Lougheed in background

MONTHLY MESSAGES FROM THE PASSAGE 2026

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JUNE 2026

OUR INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTAL

In the sixth book of my Elysium's Passage novel series, an equation mysteriously surfaces that leads to a confluence of events where a hidden light code discovered in the formulation is adapted to a laser configuration, then applied to the protagonist's pineal gland, whereby he instantly regains consciousness after being in a coma for almost a year. Later, he discovers that his 'dormant' DNA strands have been activated, unlocking special abilities that eventually turn him into a kind of Superhero. (Stay tuned for my next series)

That may be fiction, but the pineal gland isn't, and what it does is beyond fiction. Few realize how significant a role it plays in our lives, perhaps thinking it's just one of those things dropped into the brain for some reason or another. Not long ago, in some parts of the West's medical community, it was considered useless because they couldn't figure out what it was for. Perhaps because of this ignorance, we do not understand the harm we can cause by abusing this very special, interdimensional instrument in our bodies.

The pineal gland is a small pine-cone-shaped structure positioned deep in the centre of the brain, between the 2 hemispheres, at what is anatomically called the geometric centre of the cranial structure. Among other functions, this tiny endocrine gland helps regulate the body's circadian rhythm by secreting the hormone melatonin.

Interestingly, a colossal pine-cone statue was erected in the Vatican about 1,800 years ago by the Roman sculptor Publius Cincius Savius, probably as a shrine dedicated to the Egyptian deities Isis and Serapis on the Campus Martius, near the Baths of Agrippa. What is really striking about the statue is its colossal size and lifelike quality, considering the gland is less than 0.3 inch (8 mm) long. Its name, pineal, is from the Latin pinea, meaning pinecone. Historically, artistic depictions of the pine cone have represented eternal life and renewal, associating it with spiritual enlightenment and the brain's pineal gland. Dante also mentions the statue in his Divine Comedy as a symbol of immortality and rebirth.

But is there possibly more to it than that? Beyond its important physiological purpose, what more is there to this gland that offers a rich history, extending into higher, spiritual planes of reality?

For example, the pineal spiritual third-eye dot has been painted on the foreheads of many people in India. Many other spiritual traditions have known it by many names across many cultures.

Gifted seer Edgar Cayce spent decades in a state of deep non-ordinary perception, accessing information well beyond the boundaries of his conscious knowledge. He once said, "Keep this gland operating, and you will not grow old. You will always stay young."

Obviously, that seems a bit hyperbolic unless ageing is to be interpreted as a conduit of spiritual energy from the divine 'silver cord'[1] that slows the ageing process, an anatomical claim about the relationship between the gland and the biological ageing process itself. He also stated that this gland is one of the body's seven spiritual centres, meaning this is not just about physiology.

What if the ageing process is not just a function of time but involves photonic reception whereby the body is designed to receive a continuous supply of specific high-frequency information through this gland? Further to that, is it possible that when that reception is compromised, the regenerative cycles lose their guidance signal, thereby accelerating the immune system's degenerative process and advancing ageing?

It has been suggested by some that the pineal gland also serves as the primary interface of our biological system and the Spirit of our divine Source, providing us with access to realms beyond the third dimension towards spiritual realms that may include, for example, intuition, deep meditation, dreams, hypnotic regression, NDEs and OBEs, hypnagogic sleep, and various mystical encounters, etc.

These claims may not be so far-fetched, given that biological sciences have identified remarkable microcrystals in the pineal gland that are genuine biological crystalite structures composed of calcium phosphate. These structures exhibit piezoelectric behaviour, capable of generating electrical charges that vibrate in response to specific electromagnetic fields.

Such properties are well documented in the peer-reviewed biological literature, but they only came to light in the last few decades of the 20th century. Prior to this, Cayce, while in trance, disclosed all this. In fact, the ancient Greeks, in their musings, also had some understanding of the pineal's qualities.

These biological crystals can physically respond to electromagnetic stimulation by vibrating in resonance with a gland's crystalline receiver; however, the frequencies picked up by this antenna are not within our ordinary visible spectrum, nor are they within the ranges detectable by our current technology.

Many believe these signals exist within the higher photonic ranges of specific solar events on our planet's photonic field. In fact, we can demonstrate where these frequencies register in the heart's neural network, especially in deep states of genuine coherence. Provided the crystals are not compromised, they vibrate freely in response to these frequencies, translating them into biological signals for the body to receive and act upon.

The higher-dimensional reality bands become perceptible because the physical receiver is functioning as designed. In fact, every major ancient spiritual tradition identifies this as the primary site of divine contact, where we interface with our Source, and why love is associated with the heart.

The question is why some humans can perceive interdimensional frequency bands while others cannot. There are several possibilities; the first being calcification. The pineal crystals can't vibrate effectively when the glands become calcified by accumulated mineral deposits that prevent the free resonant response the gland was designed to produce. And so, the antenna becomes frozen.

Even though the frequencies continue to arrive, the receiver cannot respond to the broadcast signals, so perceptual access to the frequency bands that would otherwise remain open cannot occur, since the physical interface with the bands is no longer operational or is severely compromised.

In Western culture, fluoridation has been the primary cause of calcification since being introduced into our water supplies in the mid-20th century. Dental health has been the justification. Calcification accumulates preferentially in the pineal gland at concentrations higher than in any other tissue in the human body, disrupting the gland's production of its primary secretions, reducing the resonant capacity of the crystalline structures.

It makes you wonder if some nefarious organization is targeting the pineal gland to prevent us from interfacing with the stars, so to speak? A great conspiracy theory I might use in my upcoming Sci-fi novel series, where the interplanetary reptilian races attempt to take over the world. Interestingly, the State of Utah has banned fluoridation of the public water, and Florida is not far behind. Maybe this will catch on before we all become zombies if it's not already too late (just kidding).

But then, after the whole Covid Vaxx scam, nothing would surprise me. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, however, I'm not sure how dentists would profit from water fluoridation. No doubt fluoride helps fight tooth cavities, but why do we need to harm our bodies by dumping this compound into our drinking water when we can swish fluoride in our mouths with fluoride toothpaste, or use some fluoride mouthwash if it exists?

To avoid fluoride, I recommend a Brita water filter with the fluoride-removal filter inserts. (Available on Amazon) https://www.bing.com/search?FORM=ARPACEandPC=3ACEandPTAG=1_2_1_140andq=brita%20water%20filter

The second villain is electromagnetic frequency bands generated by wireless communication infrastructure installed over the last three decades. These waves interact with the pineal gland's natural electromagnetic sensitivity in ways that are not neutral.

Even though the pineal gland was designed to respond to specific cosmic and natural electromagnetic inputs, we're now immersed in a continuous stream of artificial electromagnetic frequencies that introduce dissonant interference into our nervous system, distorting our body's neural field.

The third most harmful influence is of our own making... literally. Fear produces cortisol, which suppresses the pineal, and so we cannot receive the frequencies that would dissolve the fear. When fear is continuously generated and regenerated, we are working against our well-being through the most pervasive hormone produced by sustained stress and perceived threat.

As a side note: If modern life doesn't create enough fear, we can always count on Steven King's movies and horror books to keep the cortisol working against us. I don't get horror. However, fear seems to have a huge appeal, maybe to keep us dumbed down while bringing a little adrenaline and cortisol into our mediocre lives (sorry if that's cynical).

Regardless, fear is the opposite of love. Our portal to divine love is through the heart, which, according to this hypothesis, receives its signal through the pineal gland. No wonder fear brings humanity to its lowest levels of consciousness, preventing us from living life as it is intended to be experienced. The very instrument that would relieve fear, our biological portal, is rendered inoperative by the fear itself, since cortisol suppresses the enzymatic pathways by which the pineal gland produces its most important secretions.

And so, the very system designed to be our primary channel for higher-dimensional perception is chemically shut down by chronic fear, which introduces compounds and electromagnetic interference. Seemingly, this is engineered to foster social competition, media environments saturated with disempowering narratives that further aggravate social trauma. All this and much more is designed to constrain our nervous system to low-grade activation, chemically suppressing the very means by which its own suppression could be perceived.

Having said this, it's good to know there is a substance that is naturally produced endogenously by our own biology that's synthesized in the pineal gland (and a few other areas) that can help recalibrate our portal, provided we don't insist on polluting ourselves with fluoride, electromagnetic dissonance and fear porn.

This substance is the most potent perceptual substance identified in organic chemistry through which we experience the mystical. It's not about some drug out there, but it exists within our own perception (no LSD or DMT required). The original template within the gland continuously produces this molecule during normal waking perception.

Best of all, what our traditions describe as a mystical experience is the sense of being connected to all of life simultaneously, in which the membrane between the self and the rest of existence becomes transparent. The mystical is not meant to be a rare peak experience, but rather ordinary daily consciousness. That would include prayer, meditation, nature walks, service to others, etc, etc. In other words, it's not necessarily just an elevated state of altered consciousness, but the restoration of the gland's function, in which the bands of higher-dimensional reality are simply part of what is visible and as natural as the capacity to see colour or hear music.

This is another reason we should make an effort to saturate our hearts and minds with happy thoughts throughout the day, displacing negative thoughts with elevated vibes of kindness. Does the music you listen to lift you or bring you down? How about your friends and acquaintances? If necessary, maybe trade them up to where you are or want to be. (Not so easy with relatives.) Anyway, do it for your pineal gland, and it will reward you with clarity, peace, coherence, intuition, insight, nirvana, etc., as we were created.

I could go on, but I think you get the point. Whatever damage that may have been done can be reversed; drink pure water, avoid electromagnetic frequencies when possible, and don't sleep with your mobile. Most of all, stay clear of fear-mongering media... at least that much is in your control.

For suggestions on staying in a happy vibe to help keep the pineal gland functioning unimpeded for spiritual clarity, see the following blog posts on this site.

[1] Or ever the silver cord be loosed, Ecclesiastes 12:6. The silver cord may be understood as the medulla oblongata or spinal marrow, from which all the nerves proceed, as itself does from the brain. This is termed a cord, from its exact similitude to one; and a silver cord, from its colour, as it strikingly exhibits the silver grey; and from its preciousness. This is said to be loosened, as the nervous system became a little before, and upon death, wholly debilitated.

For suggestions on staying in a happy vibe, see the following blog posts on this site.

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-art-of-being-happy

https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/a-higher-vibe

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/live-loosely

https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/sowing-happy-seeds-of-gratitude

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MAY 2026

3i ALTAS UPDATE

As an update to my previous post on 3I Atlas, Not Just Your Average Rock in the Sky, I've included some current information on the latest discoveries of what's happening out there.

You may access the previous post at: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/3i-Atlas-Update

NASA's Deep Space Network just recorded an event with a 0.00001% chance of occurring as 3i Atlas continues to race through the void of space. Along with several other paraconformities discovered over the last year, we now find that it is radiating a cold bioluminescent light, just like certain creatures at the bottom of our oceans.

This supposed icy rock, 240 million kilometres away, is emitting a rhythmic, pulsating blue-green glow. Comets are supposed to be inorganic objects that reflect sunlight as the shedding dust while zooming through space, but they never glow on their own. However, this object visiting our solar system defies every law of astrophysics as we analyze the data from telescopes. None of this fits any of the models we've built over the past 4 centuries of modern astronomy, observing dead rocks in frozen ice balls, assuming that space is a cold lifeless vacuum.

But now, suddenly, we're seeing a process that's never been observed before. For the first time, we are witnessing biological processes in deep space, hundreds of millions of kilometres from Earth. The implications of this are immense. If this data, confirmed by multiple observatories around the world, holds up, we may be dealing with something far beyond a rogue comet. This could be evidence of artificially engineered processes in space we are no longer looking at a frozen rock that could rewrite the very laws of Astrophysics.

It's easy to hide from the evidence and dismiss 3i Atlas as a mere anomaly. Nevertheless, as the evidence continues to build each month, we may be staring at the beginning of a new era in our understanding of the universe. The questions this raises are profound. How can it, at this distance and temperature, challenge everything we thought we knew about space? The event began unfolding on the 27th of August 2024, when we initially thought we were observing another interstellar object, much like the recent Muah Muah or Borushov asteroids. But 3i Atlas quickly proved itself anything but ordinary. Typically, these are just icy rocks travelling through space.

In contrast, this one began to exhibit behaviour completely out of the ordinary, with its velocity far beyond what we had expected, as its icy coma refused to sublimate at the rate we had anticipated. What we witnessed was statistically anomalous, with a 1 in 47 billion chance of occurring. But even then, we didn't fully grasp the significance of what was unfolding before our eyes.

On the 14th of April 2026, an event occurred that would change everything when 3i Atlas began emitting optical emissions that weren't just any type of light. NASA's Hubble detected an unusual spectral spike, which turned out to have the precise wavelength of light emitted by luciferian molecules when they react with oxygen. Lucifern is the molecule used by deep-sea creatures such as anglerfish and certain jellyfish to produce bioluminescence. The idea that this same frequency could be emitted by a comet millions of kilometres away completely upends our understanding of these celestial bodies.

What's even more remarkable is that this emission wasn't just a random, isolated event. Three different observatories, including NASA's Hubble, the European Space Agency and the ALMA observatory in Chile, independently verified the exact 47050 emission. Each confirmed the same data, meaning this was not an anomaly or an error; it was real and undeniable.

Discovering light emission is typically associated with some form of energy release on Earth. However, deep-sea creatures use luciferin to produce light, which requires a specific chemical reaction. So now we're talking about a biological process involving a comet in a frozen body at-210anddeg;C. Chemistry at such extreme temperatures is supposed to be inert. So how could a body like this emit such specific Bioluminescent light when the conventional explanation for light emissions from comets has always been out-gassing as the comet approaches the sun, reflecting the sunlight?

However, it's been necessary to rule it out because the data don't support that theory. Rather, the light is coming from inside the comet itself, not from the reflection of sunlight. It's as though this frozen rock is alive, producing light from within in a way that has never been observed before. Imagine lighting a massive bonfire in the middle of a frozen wasteland where you could see the light for miles, but when you touch the fire, it's cold to the touch. That's what we're dealing with here, an object hundreds of millions of kilometres away, emitting light. Cold light is something we've never seen before in our history of studying space. Again, the physics behind this defy all expectations.

But the new anomalies don't end there. Just days later, on the 15th of April 2026, we saw another extraordinary phenomenon. The comet's emission didn't remain stable; instead, it began pulsating, unlike anything seen in our astronomical studies. It's almost as if it's sending us signals like a beacon in the vastness of space. So, what if this object isn't just a comet but something far more complex, operating on rules completely different from anything we've ever known? This isn't just a strange one-off event; this is a game-changer. The implications of this discovery are so profound that they could redefine everything we thought we understood about space, energy, and perhaps even life itself.

As the mystery deepens, so does the complexity of what we're witnessing. It seems every time we think we've reached the limit of what this comet can show us, it once again continues to defy all that we thought we knew. Then, after the pulsating light emissions observed in April 2026, things appeared even more astonishing.

On April 16th, NASA's Deep Space Network recorded data that again forced scientists to question everything they knew about astrophysics. Despite the comet being at -210anddeg;C, the light emissions remained perfectly stable. In fact, it wasn't just stable; it was precise, as if it were deliberately constructing the energy to produce this light. Normally, this could have generated some heat, but it wasn't happening. Though the light was cold, it was incredibly intense, as if created by some unknown process that defies the laws of thermodynamics. For years, we've assumed that any energy released in deep space by comets or other celestial objects would produce heat. But this comet's emissions are something entirely different. Imagine seeing the brightest light so bright it seems to illuminate the very fabric of space itself, but when you touch it, it feels cold. The idea alone sounds like science fiction, but this is precisely what we're seeing from this object. And what's even more Intriguing is that this cold light emission was perfectly coherent, meaning it didn't degrade or fluctuate even after travelling 240 million kilometres through space, from when scientists first observed its emissions cut through the background radiation like a laser through fog, showing no sign of interference.

In space, we expect cosmic radiation and solar winds to distort such signals, yet this comet's emissions remain perfectly intact, defying all expectations. This level of precision is mind-boggling. Try to imagine sending a beam of light across the length of the Earth and having it remain perfectly stable no matter how many obstacles were standing in its path.

What we're seeing from 3i Atlas isn't just about the light; it's about the behaviour of the object itself. The energy conversion is near perfect with little or no wasted heat. In physics, this is considered impossible. Even advanced materials in the most cutting-edge experiments don't operate with this level of efficiency. But somehow 3I is doing just that. To make things even more bizarre, the data shows a level of order that doesn't make sense for something as chaotic as comets, which are typically unpredictable as they tumble through space with no real rhyme or reason.

3i Atlas, however, is emitting light so precisely mathematical that it seems to be operating like a machine with intent. It's as if we're observing a highly structured process that is far more sophisticated than the natural forces we are familiar with. Even top scientists like Harvard's Avi Loebe admit that they have never seen anything like this before. Lobe, who has spent years challenging traditional astrophysics, says that this optical behaviour cannot be explained by standard commentary. That's a huge statement coming from someone who spent decades in the field. When a scientist of his calibre says something doesn't add up, you know that something truly unprecedented is happening.

What if we're not looking at a comet at all? What if this is a highly advanced probe or some artificial object that's operating on principles we've never encountered? Further to that, what if it is trying to communicate with us using bioluminescence as a medium to send signals across the vast expanse of space?

The possibilities are staggering. The more we learn about this object, the more it challenges everything we've thought we knew about the universe. The data is so precise and unnatural that it feels like we're witnessing something that didn't occur by random chance but by design. It's as if we're on the brink of a discovery that could completely change our understanding of life, intelligence and the very fabric of the cosmos.

As if the pulsing bioluminescence and cold-laid emissions weren't enough to challenge our understanding of space, something even more perplexing occurred a day later, on the 17th of April 2026. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory detected a sudden and unexpected shift in the emission data that wasn't predicted. In fact, no one could have anticipated what came next. The emission, emitting a steady, pulsing light, suddenly stopped for 4 minutes and 20 seconds and went completely silent: no light, no signal, just absolute darkness in the void of space, and then. Just as mysteriously as it had stopped, the light reignited, but this time it wasn't steady; it was intermittent, strobing in a rhythmic sequence.

At first, NASA thought it was a data error, perhaps a glitch, but as they continued to analyse the pattern, it became undeniable that the light was turning on and off at mathematically precise intervals, down to 0.03 seconds. This wasn't a random reflection of light but seemed a deliberate, calculated signal. The light wasn't just fluctuating; it was doing so precisely, as if the object were actively trying to communicate.

Imagine you're watching a live feed from the James Webb Space Telescope, and suddenly the comet's light begins to strobe with each pulse, followed by complete darkness, then again, perfectly timed. Obviously, this is not how comets behave. It's as if the comet intended to send a signal across the cosmos. What's more astonishing is that the timing of the flashes was recorded to be within mathematical intervals.

The probability of such a precise sequence occurring randomly in nature is astronomically low: 1 in 4.7 billion. To put it in perspective, this is like flipping a coin 10,000 times and having it land perfectly on its edge every single time. Statistically, it should have been impossible, but this wasn't just some isolated event. The sequence, incredibly rare, was confirmed by multiple independent sources. The data is unambiguous. This is not just a cosmic anomaly; it is something far beyond our understanding of comets, space and light- perhaps a cosmic signal that the universe isn't chaotic, filled with dead rocks and lifeless bodies?

So is 3I Atlas not just the comet but something far more complex and far more deliberate? The fact that it's emitting light in such a precise and calculated manner raises profound questions. Are we witnessing something much more sophisticated, where the nature of the light itself is not just light but an intentional, structured message we haven't yet fully deciphered?

It seems this isn't just a random pattern of light but a deliberate communication that, at the very least, challenges our understanding of intelligence and technology. The fact that this event is happening in deep space adds to the mystery of how a frozen rock hundreds of millions of kilometres away can emit such precise light signals.

How is it possible that this object, which we once thought was a simple comet, is now acting like an intelligent probe communicating with us, using a language we don't yet understand? This new data is forcing scientists to rethink their entire approach to space exploration. What we thought were simple, lifeless objects are now behaving in ways that defy all known laws of physics and biology.

These discoveries became even more profound and unsettling on the 18th of April 2026, when the object took an even more unexpected turn. For the first time in the history of astronomy, something was detected that could not be explained by any natural process. This event was so groundbreaking that it triggered a series of emergency briefings among the international space community.

The following day, on April 18th, the situation escalated further when another discovery showed that the comet's emission had shifted the light that had once pulsed in rhythmic intervals. Suddenly, the visual pattern physically moved, aligning its rotation with Earth's position in the cosmos, aligning which with incredible precision within just 0.04anddeg;, completely unexpected.

Even more shocking, the comet, which had previously been emitting bioluminescent flashes, began transmitting an entirely new visual pattern that closely resembles the Arisabel message from a famous radio transmission we sent into space in 1974, designed to represent the basics of human life and our civilisation. It was a binary message composed of 1,679 bits of information, sent to a distant star as humanity's attempt to reach out to extraterrestrial civilisations.

Imagine the surprise of scientists when they realised that the pulses coming from 3I Atlas were not just random; they were mimicking the exact binary sequence of the message. No longer just a strange light pattern, it was as though the comet were playing back humanity's first attempt at interstellar communication, in the form of deep-sea biochemical light, a cosmic echo being reflected to us. The fact that it uses bioluminescence, typically associated with deep-sea creatures, to mirror our own message is utterly baffling.

It's almost impossible to overstate the significance. If 3I Atlas is deliberately transmitting the irretrievable message back to us, then what we're staring at is something far more complex. Possibly it's a living probe that is actively interacting with us. Could this be the first sign of intelligent life beyond our planet, where we're witnessing the first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? If 3I Atlas is sending back the Arisei message, it means this object is a sophisticated entity, possibly associated with artificial intelligence that intercepted our transmission and responded.

The fact that it uses bioluminescence as a means of communication raises even more questions. Is this object trying to reach out to us, perhaps an alien technology designed to communicate? In any case, this discovery has completely shifted the narrative, where we can no longer assume that the universe is a quiet, lifeless place.

The last piece of the puzzle fell into place on the 19th of April 2026. A coordinated effort between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the European Space Agency, and Chile's ALMA observatory confirmed what had been suspected for days. 3I Atlas isn't just a comet. Rather, it's an entity that seems most adept at manipulating its trajectory, controlling its emissions while sending signals that mimic human communication.

This object is more than a cosmic anomaly; it's actively interacting with us in ways that we can't yet fully comprehend. Its ability to shift its trajectory while sending transmissions suggesting that this object is a highly advanced artificial probe designed to mimic biological processes, such as bioluminescence. The precision required to emit light at exactly 470nm, coupled with the ability to send messages in binary form, is far beyond what we've ever seen from a natural object.

What's more astonishing is the sheer scale of this event. The fact that 3I Atlas has been able to sustain these emissions over such a long distance without a loss of intensity or coherence is something that defies all known laws of physics. If this object is an intelligent probe, then it raises the question of who or what is behind it.

Is it extraterrestrials reaching out to us, or is it a more advanced form of life that operates on principles we've yet to discover? The implications are staggering, the possibilities are endless. Are we witnessing the dawn of a new era in space exploration that could lead to the discovery of intelligent life beyond Earth? For centuries, we've looked to the Stars, wondering if we are alone in the universe. We may now have our answer. The data we've gathered from 3I Atlas is irrefutable. It appears not to be just a comet, but something far more profound that could change the course of human history forever.

Whether 3I Atlas is an artificial probe or a natural phenomenon, one thing is certain: it has opened the doorway to a future we never imagined.

*** As a side note to this, I wrote a post on an experience I had encountering a huge UAP/UFO mothership one night while driving home near the mountains. In the post, I mentioned that it glowed brightly, seemingly by its own luminescence rather than by light reflecting off it. This new information on bioluminescence fascinates me, since it aligns with my experience on the hill when a ray of light flashed into my van. You may read about this incident in my August entry of Monthly Messages for 2025. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/monthly-message-from-elysium-s-passage

BTW, after being sick for much of the three years prior, I haven't had a sick day since that night.

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APRIL 2026

WINESKINS

Since I didn't have time to complete my new blog post for April, I've substituted a short excerpt from Book Two, THE SUMMIT, on the topic of 'Wineskines.'

I hope you enjoy this little vignette:

'Your time on the Summit is not just about waiting for your battered body to awaken back home,' Mo said, 'rather, it was spared so you might discover what it means to exist as a spirit outside of the Earth plane. There could be no greater affront to the materialist than that, such that when you return to your world, you will have become an enlightened emissary and philosopher worthy of Elysium. In fact, what you're about to discover will go far beyond what the wisest philosophers in Grecian antiquity could have dreamed in their wildest speculations.'

'So, you're saying, even after all my years of study, I still have a lot to learn.'

'Not learn; we're saying there remains much for you to discover, but first, you must unlearn all you think you know,' Eli said. 'Then you will discover what is real instead of learning what isn't.'

'What do you mean, discover rather than learn; what's the difference?'

'Wineskins, James, it's all about wineskins,'[1]

'What do wineskins have to do with anything?'

'You can't have old wineskins containing new wine; it doesn't work. The old wineskins won't last because they were made for learning, whereas new wineskins are for discovery. What this means is that before you can receive the new wine of discovery, you must replace the old wineskins before they burst.'

'That seems more than a little confusing since it seems to me that one can only discover by learning.'

'I'm sure it often seems that way, so let's make this simple,' Mo said. 'As we've often said, learning is of the mind, while discovery is of the heart. Learning is about assimilating external information that may or may not be truthful, whereas discovery engages the heart by accessing the divine wisdom that lies hidden within.

'In other words, what flows from our Source conjoins with the heart, which is why we can learn through discovery but not discover through learning. Discovery is far more than learning since it's transformative. It provides the soul with what is significantly richer, deeper and more complete than what mere information can ever offer.'

'It seems you are creating an unnecessary dichotomy, putting the act of discovery on a higher rung than learning. I'm not sure that's true.'

'So then, tell us,' Eli asked, 'apart from what you were taught, what did you discover as a student?'

'I'm not sure; I just know that as I commenced my doctorate studies at Edinburgh, I no longer fit in with the intellectual establishment, which is probably why I failed to pass my doctoral thesis defence. It seemed something jolted my mind into searching for what lies beyond current conventions of rational enquiry. That's when things began to change in my life.'

'Such as what?'

'Lots of things; even as I attempted to fit into the established order, I could no longer settle for what was assumed to be truthful. Increasingly, I found myself living on the edge. Possibly, that's why I felt drawn to seek out a fortune-teller.'

'Really? Eli asked. 'I'm not sure that's what most philosophers would do,' he said. 'This should be interesting... tell us more.'

'I don't know, it was just one of those things you don't plan for; it just happened. I can't help but laugh at the irony of how I, a sceptical philosopher, fell under her spell. It was as if she had sought me out.'

'So tell us how that happened.'

'One day, as I was walking by an old two-story building, I noticed a peculiar sign posted by a stairway beside a pawnshop below. Under her name, Madame Peroux, it said Reiki, Numerology, Tantric Lessons, Medium, and Massage Therapy. Curious about what I might find there, I found myself climbing up the old wooden stairway to her dimly lit flat, where I caught a whiff of exotic incense. Since I had never done anything like this before, I had no idea what to expect when I opened the door to her studio.

'What I found was a friendly, slightly plump, middle-aged gypsy-like woman sitting among scattered pillows and rugs in a room surrounded by heavy curtains covering the walls. With a canopy draped overhead, I felt like I was in an Arabian tent or maybe back in Istanbul, smoking a Hookah pipe in an alley kiosk.

'After exchanging a few pleasantries, she invited me inside, so I sat across from her in a lotus position, taking in her exotic sensorium. At first, I felt so out of place that I wanted to laugh, but soon her graciousness won me over as she poured Turkish tea into an antique teacup and handed me her service price list.

'I was concerned about where this might lead since I still had no idea what I was doing there, except it felt like I belonged. After chatting for a short while, I decided to have a therapeutic massage; at least no one could fault me for that. As it turned out, it was the best I ever had - firm, energetic, and almost sensual - causing my body to tingle.

'Feeling stressed a couple of weeks later, I returned to the studio late one Friday afternoon. After relaxing my mind and muscles in her last treatment, how could I resist? By the time she finished, I felt refreshed, now enchanted with her otherworldly charms. What the hell, I thought, why not have her read my life too; who knows, perhaps she could make something more of it than I could.

'I sat there amused, yet mystified, at her tea leaves, seemingly having uncovered some interesting observations about a few relationships from my recent past. Maybe she just got lucky, but then... who knows? After leaving, I tried to rationalise her insights on something I might have said last time to tip her off. Or, perhaps she knew some of these women. If so, maybe they told her something about me... at times, it can be a small world.

'Despite these reservations, as improbable as they might be, I continued to return in the weeks ahead to hear what else she might have to say. It seemed she knew a lot about my past... in fact, too much. Then, one day, I asked if her crystal ball could tell me anything about my future. There wasn't much she had to say except that she saw me plunging headlong down an abyss.

'I laughed as I told her how symbolic that was for my love life... always in a freefall without a parachute. Little did I realise that a fall would literally befall me, just as she had interpreted it.

'Though these sessions weren't, as you suggested, what most would expect a respected university instructor to engage in, still, they were entertaining, if not intriguing. Before going upstairs to her studio, I would look both ways down the street to make sure no one saw me entering the building. That alone could cost me tenure if someone in the university administration saw me.

'Besides that, I was concerned her psychic seductions might infest my belief systems and open me to more paranormal experiences, such as I had years ago when a mysterious voice spoke to me one night in a mountain meadow. Yet I found myself returning to visit my gypsy friend time and again. Since she was from France, we sometimes spoke French... for me, though, not so well.

'Each time, I would rationalise what she said, then retreat into my professional myopia. The contrast couldn't have been starker. I didn't know what to think anymore; I only knew that, with her alluring mystique, she was more fun to be with than my colleagues. Still, I felt conflicted and increasingly double-minded about what to believe and what others may say if they knew where I was headed.

'Possibly this was where, in my dream, I heard someone in the Lowlanders say: Something wobbles in that young man's brain.[2] And, in a sense, they would have been correct. I was confused; in fact, my whole life felt wonky, like I was losing my grip on reality.

'With my heart and mind duking things out, there seemed to be no middle ground. Finally, after struggling for weeks of being double-minded, I decided to ignore my heart, believing only what my mind told me. Besides, my job required me to be clear-headed. That's when I stopped seeing my psychic friend.

'Having become adept at considering both sides of a controversy, I wasn't clear where I stood on anything. There was no right or wrong; nothing false, nothing true, nothing to die for... all remained relative. Finally, about six months later, I could no longer hold out, so I decided to pay Madame Peyroux another visit, where she gave me a rejuvenating massage, this time without charge. Then, astonishingly, without asking about my future, she said she saw a large and rugged mountain looming before me that would change everything in my life.

'Interestingly, this was only a few weeks before my Pig and Whistle pub encounter, after which I received my Mountain vision. At the time, I wondered if this meant I'd be part of the Mount Everest expedition I was hoping to join next summer.

'And so, as it turns out, here I am, not exactly on Everest, but in the Andes, breathing in, just as my cabbie advised, the fresh mountain air of the gods. Life is an interesting adventure, is it not... especially in this dimension.'

'Indeed,' Eli said, 'which is why you left the Lowlands to rise above what you assumed you knew. In so doing, you're discovering what's true by unlearning what's not true.'

'Yet it didn't start just here,' Mo said. 'Something else happened to you years ago. Do you remember?'

'All I can think of is that bloody cab ride home.'

'Yes, that was important, but didn't you just say something about another momentaneous night long before then... something that occurred to you in a mountain meadow? Or was that just nothing?'

'Oh, that. Though I mentioned this incident before, I'm still not sure what it was supposed to mean when I was awakened by a voice that repeated the word nothingness three times.'

'Even if your mind never understood this, I'm sure your heart knew, and so, that night in the meadow, a seed of knowingness began to germinate in your soul. After that, you began to think with your heart, not just your mind, though not always in harmony. Do you now realise why you felt so conflicted while writing your thesis and often remain such?'

'That's an interesting theory,' I said. 'I'll think about it.'

'Yes, do that, but do so in unity with your heart... it knows.'

'Do you now recognise,' Eli asked, 'how, out of that discord, you were drawn to this Mountain by visions that would eventually lead you here? Now, almost ten years later after that incident, your mind is beginning to understand what your heart has always known.'

'Remind me, what has it always known?'

'What the mind doesn't. Again, remember Pascal: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.[3] When separate from the heart's inward knowingness, intellect exists in Maya, the Vedic word for illusion or, in your case, nothingness. Until the mind unites with the heart, it has no lasting value in Elysium; it is only of temporal value on Earth, to do things such as teach philosophy and fix cars.

'Teach philosophy and fix cars, what does that have to do with anything?'

'I don't know, you tell me.'

'What I think Eli is trying to say,' Mo said, is that when the heart and mind meld, the soul reawakens to the fullness of its divine Self. That's when you awaken to who you are... that which your heart has always known. All else is nothingness.'

Even if my ego mind wanted to dismiss what Mo and Eli were saying, I sensed there might be something to it. Was it possible I had been led to this Summit that I might discover for myself what was real and what wasn't, as taught by the sages over the centuries? If that was the case, perhaps it was time to get serious about listening more with my heart and less with my mind. But how? I was a philosopher, dammit!

[1] In reference to Mark 2:22 (NIV), which states: No one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.
[2] Book One, The Ascent, Chapter One, A Really Crazy Dream
[3] Mo and Eli often quoted this line from Pascal, the 17th-century French philosopher and scientist.

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MARCH 2026

RELIGION AND COMING COSMIC DISCLOSURE

The origins of religion in time, place, human history, and the hidden reasons that matter so much have to do with our future and what might soon be disclosed to us about an open universe. Having had my own extraterrestrial encounter in July 2025 (see my post in August), along with hundreds, maybe thousands, of others worldwide each year, I believe these phenomena of contact and sightings will become increasingly prevalent... and relevant.

At least, there now seems to be political will to disclose what has been kept secret for generations. So, if contact occurs soon in some form, the question is how religion will respond to an open universe in which old precepts will be rendered obsolete. How will they be able to adapt and control the narrative to avoid losing control as God's gatekeepers? What I'm writing is a synthesis of selected ideas and my own, with a transmission from an Off-World Plaeidian entity named Valir. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2dhMN9tZc8

I probably wouldn't have mentioned or done this before my July encounter last year, but I've gotten a bit more bold since then.

But first, let's step back to the beginnings of religion, where we see the long arc of its arrival in various expressions and eras, at times with similar patterns under different names, cultures, and locations. In each new revelatory dispensation, there was almost always a sincere contact point where there was an interior opening, an encounter with mystery, a moral awakening, a vision, a dream, a burning clarity, a sudden compassion that rearranged a life. Of course, we see this with the Buddha's experience under his Bodhi tree, Mohammed's channelled message from the angel Gabriel, and, of course, the words and deeds of Jesus.

Then, over time, another phase emerges in which these religions eventually attempt to hold the ineffable Presence in containers. Our earliest sanctuaries and temples were often built like nests for the unseen, houses for guardians believed to live in a place the community could point to. In this, we can feel the innocence and desire to honour something greater by creating shared doctrines and rituals that bind the peoples, for better or worse.

How quickly that architecture trains the psyche, the moment society believes the divine has an address. From that reasoning, someone becomes the keeper of the keys, the interpreter of rules, and the mediator deciding who is worthy to enter and who must remain outside. The temple that began as a symbol of reverence becomes a mechanism of hierarchy, and people longing for communion begin to see the secret as a thing granted rather than remembered. Yet, in almost every tradition, there is a pure original impulse pointing inward, and it is that impulse that made the tradition luminous.

In Hinduism, you see an evolving ocean of realisation rather than a single founder-a living river of Vedic hymns, philosophical inquiry, yogic exploration, and intimate sensing of cosmic order. Within that, there is a central recognition that reality is layered, allowing consciousness to be refined so that the divine can be approached through devotion, knowledge, service, meditation, discipline, love, and even simple wonder.

Originally, that tradition was never meant to be social sorting or rigid caste identity, but the remembrance that the self is deeper than personality, that the witness is real, that the source is intimate, and that liberation is the refinement of perception until unity is lived rather than believed.

In the ancient Near East of Judaism, a people forges its identity through covenant, law, survival, and the fierce insistence on one God, where unity was required as a spine holding things together amid outside pressures. But within that tradition, the deeper heartbeat was relationship, not mere obedience-a living dialogue with the holy, wrestling with God honestly enough to admit confusion and longing. In that wrestling, there was profound dignity that taught how humans are not puppets of fate but participants and co-creators in moral reality.

Nevertheless, we see how easily strong identity can become a tool for division: if belonging becomes the focus rather than holiness, defining against outsiders makes it easier to steer groups through fear of contamination, loss, or threat. Thus, the original gift of covenant can be lived as devotion and justice or leveraged as boundary and conflict depending on where authority is located.

In Buddhism, we observe a significant corrective influence in the human experience, where its core teachings guide us toward direct insight that ends unnecessary suffering. Through mindful cultivation of compassion and awareness, there is liberation from dependence on outer priesthood authority because the path is experiential, involving training attention and personal awakening that cannot be delegated. The beauty of this tradition lies in its accessibility, as anyone can practice it anywhere, focusing less on belonging and more on perception.

Yet, human tendencies, being what they are, can turn identity into symbols and performance into a numbing agent and commodity, leaving the mind busy and transformation ignored or delayed. Yet the religious modes were intended as a gateway to presence, not its product.

Christianity, in its original context, reveals a living spark moving through a specific historical setting, with a teacher whose words, freed from later cultural conflicts, expressed a simple and radical message. Love was law, forgiveness freedom, humility power, elevation of the meek, and the Kingdom as a present reality accessible through inner alignment.

It was why Christianity became both powerful and volatile, as a teaching that restores God to the heart undermines intermediary systems reliant on distance.

The early Christian movement thus carried both beauty and danger for empires-beauty in offering meaning and community, and yet the danger that belonging to God could surpass loyalty to the state. Naturally, it became a target for control, allowing the empires to adopt the spiritual movements to amplify, standardise, and transform into governance tools. The subtle shift occurs when love becomes secondary to compliance, grace to guilt, and the mystery of union to external belonging.

In Islam, there is a deeply stabilising force affirming that life has a centre and that humans are accountable. It involves a profound search for unity, consciousness, justice, generosity, and devotion expressed through prayer, charity, community, and remembrance. This rhythm of devotion can be lived daily as discipline without becoming an empty ritual.

Within the original tradition lies the same deeper invitation: direct surrender to God, not to manipulation. This distinction is crucial because surrender to God expands the heart, whereas surrender to coercive authority compresses it. Whenever political conquest and secret devotion intertwine, the original flame of these traditions becomes vulnerable to being used as a banner for factionalism, which can unite groups but also justify harm against others. Therefore, it is vital to remember these origins point toward unity while the hijack points toward control.

That being said, it didn't take long for these ideals to go awry, where Mohammed, the founder, committed atrocities against humanity, especially evident with the genocide against the last remaining major tribe of Jews in Medina in AD 627, beheading the men and pubescent boys, while enslaving the women and children.

Still, the deeper thread remains consistent across these and many other traditions of devotion, aligning with the Way, including indigenous lineages that communed with spirit without written texts. The secret was always meant to be intimate, where communion is to be accessible to all, morality lived rather than debated, and the divine discovered as Presence rather than possessed as ideology.

These faiths may be described as pathways, as their pure impulse points to ascension in the truest sense: refining the human instrument until love becomes natural and truth is felt. Those who know God directly maintain an unshakable centre even as outer stories evolve.

Those taught to see God as external may fear that their faith is threatened when contact with the inhabited cosmos occurs and the perceived universe suddenly expands. Yet, disclosure need not destroy religion, as religion's original purpose was remembrance, which can be upgraded through honesty and inner practice rather than debate. When the creator's spark is sensed within our breath, awareness, and heart, we may relax, making our worldview flexible.

Unfortunately, the history of religion shows how externalising God ends up weaponised, where ideology turns into identity. Religious Hijackers rarely destroy the temple; instead, they keep it standing, preserving symbols, language, festivals, rites, titles, and garments, while exchanging the inner compass for an outer one. Direct communion becomes mediated, inner revelation becomes approved revelation, and awakening becomes belonging. When belonging becomes the main currency, the tradition becomes steerable, as belonging can be granted, revoked, rewarded, or threatened. A threatened person may surrender truth for tribal warmth without realising the exchange.

One common move is to relocate the divine from our interior to what's exterior. Imagining the creator as far away allows the system to sell distance, access, worthiness, cleanliness, and salvation as outcomes after compliance, payment, confession, or following rules. The deeper issue is not the ritual itself, which can be beautiful, but the psychological training beneath it: the subtle message that direct contact is not trusted, that one is unqualified to hear God or discern truth without intermediaries. As this belief settles in culture, governance becomes easier, since those taught to doubt intimate contact with the divine accept any outer authority that speaks with certainty.

Unfortunately, it's how loving traditions can easily become guilt-ridden traditions and status ladders. Today, liberation theology has become an identity badge. Nevertheless, the system rarely argues against the divine; instead, it positions itself between people and the divine, turning the sacred into something managed by institutions rather than lived by individuals. Over time, this becomes so normal that people forget other options, confusing spiritual life with compliance, relationship with God with relationship to rules, inner yearning with social roles.

Then, as religious identity is defined by being against outsiders, it fuels endless conflict, as outsiders serve as threats that undermine efforts to consolidate control. Any tradition that trains its people to surrender spiritual discernment to authority aligns with dominance, regardless of original beauty.

Another approach religion often employs is fear. By ritualising fear, hijacked religions keep populations emotionally activated through threats of ostracism, punishment, contamination, and divine rejection. When fear dominates, compassion becomes conditional, curiosity becomes dangerous, inner communion becomes faint, and truth becomes whatever relieves anxiety.

Then, when the human family becomes a hierarchy of worthiness instead of a circle, appearing as caste, class, sect, denomination, bloodline privilege, priestly superiority, or purity culture, it is assumed that some are closer to God than others, as defined by their role. Each time this succeeds, the tradition is easier to weaponise, as leaders claim divine endorsement and followers accept their position as spiritual reality. The original dignity in every soul is covered by inherited shame.

Mystics are often distrusted across many religions traditions, which claim we can rediscover inner truth beneath the institutional layers, speaking simply in ways familiar to the soul. By cultivating direct communion with that spark through stillness, honest prayer, meditation, ethical living, and the gentle courage of listening inward, you become far less vulnerable to theatrical framing, which relies on attention. In contrast, Presence relies on truth, and truth cannot be staged-only realised from within.

When a civilization undergoes a cosmic expansion event such as first contact, many religious people will find themselves in denial, confusion and anger since they have been taught to view the universe as a closed system. They view humanity as at the centre of divine attention, with angels and demons defined by centuries of inherited assumptions.

Scriptural texts become battlefields for power where mainstream authorities clash with writings such as the Gnostic Gospels, recently discovered in Egypt in 1947. Many of these texts were aimed at preserving ethics, devotion, and mysteries beyond the mind's grasp.

However, when institutions control the interpretation of what they consider divinely inspired, they monopolise it, leading to censorship and selective emphasis, where believers are caged and bludgeoned by a few repeated lines, while quotes about inner union, direct contact, compassion, and freedom are minimised. Nevertheless, truth written on the heart begins to dissolve the old order of control, as many come to see religion as a language for their own communion rather than as a system that owns it.

When a society faces a profound revelation, the first battleground is rarely physical; it's interpretive-the mental space where a single phrase, image, or repeated narrative can shape an entire generation's perceptions of safety and enemy. Religion plays a central role as one of the most effective systems for distributing meaning, identity, and moral guidance.

Controlling the channels through which people interpret reality means steering culture itself. Consequently, religious groups, intelligence agencies, and communities have long been treated as geopolitical variables-not due to inherent corruption in spirituality, but because any large gathering becomes a lever for those in influence. When belief itself is the lever, it becomes extraordinarily powerful, as it not only motivates actions but shapes perception, determines what evidence is accepted, and assigns emotional significance to symbols that can mobilise people rapidly.

Modern influence often appears as protecting people from chaos while guiding them toward a predetermined conclusion, with fear prompting either inner grounding or external control through obedience-the latter being easier to manage quickly and often preferred by those prioritising control over awakening, where "us versus them" mentality dominates, and fear holds the group together.

When the human need for meaning meets fear, shame, and social pressure within a closed system, critical thinking fades, discernment weakens, and the soul's subtle signals become harder to perceive. Such hijack architecture uses intensified external authority, binary identities, constant threat framing, social belonging as currency, descent viewed as betrayal, and closed information loops that block reality testing. A dazzled mind stops questioning, a frightened heart stops listening. Thus, the closed story acts as a psychological shelter.

Now, to bring all these religious dynamics into our, presumably, current times of pending disclosure, where cosmic conversation becomes mainstream, it will land on a population already beginning to relocate authority inward... thankfully.

More on this in another blog, and what I think may happen when streams of religion and disclosure converge.

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FEBRUARY 2026

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LONELINESS AND SOLITUDE

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more"
― Lord Byron

What is the difference between solitude and loneliness? After many years of experiencing a bit of both, my conclusion is that solitude enriches our soul, whereas loneliness depletes it. We might say with May Sarton, "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self."

Solitude, I think, is about being with ourselves and feeling content, whereas loneliness involves being alone with ourselves and feeling abandoned. Or as Wayne Dyer put it, "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." Good one, Wayne!

Many shy away from solitude, fearing loneliness, yet these experiences are distinct, even if they appear similar. Past experiences may have conditioned many to associate loneliness with danger, rejection, or invisibility, even in the presence of others. We might laugh, converse, and show affection to others, yet inside there remains a void, not because we are unlovable or broken.

Of course, if we wallow in hateful media that has more to do with lies and ridicule than truth, then our souls will be consumed by its dystopia. Rather, our solitude must be nourished in our resting point of gratitude and peace if we want to connect with higher spheres of joy, happiness, and goodwill. Only with inner coherence can we, in our solitude, connect with the Spirit. See the posts on Gratitude and Resting Point.

https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/sowing-happy-seeds-of-gratitude

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/resting-point

If we're not vigilant, our ego will sabotage our solitude with negativity and misery. Rather, connect with the light within that deepens the soul with authenticity and cosmic truth.

Hidden behind our loneliness lies a sacred space kept open for something specific that can protect us from shallow relationships, distractions, and energy drainers. That's because we are meant to awaken, not be depleted. We are destined to meet our community of souls who will instantly recognise us. In this, we are shielded from heartbreak. Even in seeming failure, our soul may awaken.

Loneliness is often mistaken for the heart needing someone, but frequently the heart longs not for a person but something more; a presence that says, "I see you." When the heart does not find this, it may be a signal that we are meant for more than a superficial life of surface connections. Through discernment, not judgment, our hearts learn to sense what aligns and what does not. We come to appreciate solitude rather than fear it because solitude restores connection by offering brief moments of mindful solitude in which we meet ourselves with compassion.

After being in sales for much of my adult life and now a writer, I often enter weeks of deep solitude, discovering new realms of satisfaction and worlds I never thought possible. Not to say, I don't enjoy emerging to socialise from time to time in meaningful interactions and relationships, after all, people need people. But we need to qualify that word 'need.'

At the end of this post, I have Barbara Streisand's song People Who Need People... Are the Luckiest People in the World. I might be able to accept that if we substitute 'need' with 'appreciation' or 'love'. Yes, people who appreciate and love people may be the luckiest in the world, as with all they encounter. But needy people are not lucky people, no more than the 'victims' people they latch on to. We don't need needy energy vampires in our lives.

Relationships are meant to be reciprocal so that we may give what we receive. But those hallowed-out souls have nothing to give. They don't need people; they need solitude to connect with themselves and the divine within, so they have something to offer in exchange.

Conscious solitude reshapes identity. When alone, without distractions, the layers of performance fall away, revealing who you are beyond roles, expectations, and comparisons. Even if this can feel uncomfortable at first, as the ego prefers familiar masks, we soon come to enjoy solitude rather than fear it, for solitude with Spirit restores connection with ourselves, the divine, and the world.

When this happens, loneliness diminishes as solitude becomes sacred. We realise that in our aloneness, we are not alone but accompanied by our soul's divine essence, and as we allow, the living flow of guidance that comes to us. As we turn inward, loneliness dissolves through our daily experience of oneness. In the mysterium of divine transcendence, there can be no loneliness, only gratitude.

Even a few minutes each day can change our inner state, because our being learns, through repetition, that it is lifted and supported. When we experience this, we recognise we do not need everyone; only those who walk with us. In discernment, we stop sending mixed signals or wearing masks that attract those who match the mask rather than the resonance of our affections and calibration of our inward being.'

Here, the authentic self becomes clear. In solitude, we no longer strive to be understood; we listen, no longer seeking the world's approval. Rather, we receive an inner embrace that requires no validation, only the living Presence of inner guidance saying, "Fear not, I am with you," not as a concept but as a felt reality that calms the body, steadies the heart, and clears the mind. Releasing the search does not mean ceasing to live, but moving with life instead of chasing it. When the body is tense, the mind seeks external reassurance; when relaxed, the mind becomes spacious and trusting.

While others learn through crowds and noise, we learn through stillness and silence. This stillness is our greatest teacher, allowing you to hear our soul's voice and connect with universal intelligence. As the psalmist wrote: 'Be still, and know that I am God. (Psalms 46:7). Many fear silence because it forces introspection, self-examination and confrontation, and yet it is in this loneliness that our spiritual gifts develop in the secret crucible where we are moulded into a new Being.

The great German writer, Herman Hesse, states, 'We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves with all being." Along these lines, Einstein stated, "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

Loneliness need not be understood as brokenness requiring repair; instead, view it as an incubation period for emerging abilities. Try focusing on nurturing the inner world through journaling, creativity, nature, or meditation, or whatever the soul calls for. We require deep nourishment, not superficial social interactions, but a genuine connection with ourselves first.

The soul longs for a depth rarely found in this world. We are not antisocial or difficult; we are simply attuning to connections most are not ready for. It is now our time to find peace, not chaos; to grow in stillness, not constant motion. We are provided with what we need, even if the human self interprets it as loneliness. Be selective, not everyone is meant to understand us, but the right people will recognise us without explanation or compromise.

Whether we realise it or not, our energy naturally uplifts others. Our presence opens eyes to truth, and our search for authenticity and honesty inspires us to make better choices. Even unintentionally, we are a living activation code for human consciousness, planting seeds of awakening in all we meet. Our words carry frequencies that activate other souls sometimes long after we speak them. We can make significant changes in humanity's collective field through kindness, wisdom, and refusal to conform to untruthful patterns. Some may resist us initially because our presence stirs parts they avoid, revealing hidden dreams and truths. Our authenticity challenges their masks and exposes superficiality, yet many eventually remember our words. Our way of seeing through illusions awakens something within them.

In our solitude, we may seem lonelier than others, but in reality, we are an anchor, a bearer of higher consciousness. We often walk alone at first because, in the world, we need to stay clear and untangled from lower vibrations, so that we may remain pure in our vision. If we remain caught in common human dramas, we couldn't serve as a frequency holder for the Earth. But as we allow it, our light will attract those who are not only ready to be inspired but also to walk beside us as equals. Even if we seem to remain unheard and underappreciated, we continue to speak our truth, sometimes in silence, sometimes in words and action. By being authentic, we are destined to lead what's coming.

Also, understand that in solitude with the Spirit, we are protected from dark energies. By remaining separated from incompatible forces, we shield ourselves from energetic attacks that could disrupt our mission of peace. Dark energies cannot reach us as with others; they may try to confuse or isolate us through self-doubt or feelings of rejection, but they cannot dim the divine light within us. Spiritually, even in darkness, we appear as a pillar of pure light, almost invisible to lower entities, which explains why we sometimes feel mentally attacked but never truly defeated.

But in the moments we spend our time in solitude, our presence naturally uplifts others without effort. People will be drawn to our genuine energy and sincerity. They will listen closely because they sense that we truly care about truth, helping others, and making things better. Our words will carry weight because they come from real-life experience.

QUOTES ON SOLITUDE

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." Jean-Paul Sartre

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
― Henry David Thoreau

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
― Arthur Schopenhauer

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
― Aldous Huxley

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Wayne Dyer

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. Thomas Mann

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." ― Michel de Montaigne

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
― Criss Jami

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."
― Aristotle

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
― Proust-Marcel

"If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
― Leonardo da Vinci

One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
― Criss Jami,

"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
― Franz Kafka

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
― Bell Hooks

"Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all."
― Rollo May

"But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths."
― Rainer Maria Rilke

"Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude."
― Mary W. Shelley

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door."
― J.D. Salinger

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world."
― Anthony Burgess

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And lastly, to Barbara. Message is off, but great performance, listen to her here: https://youtu.be/YWrNZ6SySfg

People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children
Needing other children
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children

But while on the subject of loneliness, let's not forget the great Hank Williams, classic, I'm So Lonely I Could Cry (1949) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXYjm74WFI

And then of course, there is Elvis, singing about loneliness. Are You Lonely Tonight? https://youtu.be/LF5u7b8pAYQ

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JANUARY 2026

SIGHTINGS AND FIRST CONTACT

Could it be sometime in 2026 that we finally witness the release of mounting UFO/UAP sighting disclosures and gain a greater perception of what has always been present, often filtered out by fear and narrow prejudices? I don't know, but maybe we, the willing, will be among the first to experience these sightings firsthand.

As for me, I, unwittingly, already had my first sighting, which I wrote about in August's entry of Monthy Messages. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/monthly-message-from-elysium-s-passage It was something else! In case you didn't see it, I've also reposted it at the end of this post.

Meanwhile, for the first article in Monthly Messages for 2026, I've jotted below some thoughts on the general psychology of UFO/UAP sightings and how that is now shifting toward much greater openness.

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Many have already sensed this turning, not necessarily as excitement but as quiet certainty that the field is changing, that the distance between worlds feels thinner. It might not be because space has collapsed, but rather a result of our attention softening into greater openness. Where there is attention, perception naturally widens.

Yet the earliest phase of expanded contact is not conversational in the human sense; it is observational, reciprocal, and subtle, marked by sightings unmistakable to the witness but easily missed by those not yet ready to see. This openness respects readiness at the individual level-nervous system, belief system, and emotional body. This is why, in coming cycles, civilian encounters may increase, especially in regions where attention has been primed. Nor will all sightings have the same emotional import, because there will be a range of intelligences that are now becoming more receptive all across the world.

The increase in sightings is not driven by our off-world friends but by a fundamental change in humanity's openness to interfacing with non-local phenomena. Such craft has always been observable but rarely registered in the human psyche. Now, observations will be more about recognition than shock. Those most attuned to first contact often don't consciously choose that role, nor do sightings occur when searching, filming, or demanding proof; rather, they occur when calm, present, emotionally neutral, and inwardly open.

Intention, agitation-even positive excitement can introduce noise into the signal, which is why many encounters feel incidental, happening during ordinary moments such as when walking a dog, driving home, standing outside at night, pausing during travel, because ordinary moments carry less performance pressure

Contact does not arrive to convince the world, but will remain most available to those who are most ready and prepared. Readiness is not a moral achievement or a spiritual ranking, but a state of internal permission in which fear does not dominate perception and curiosity is not tied to control.

In the past, many who have experienced sightings often struggled to speak about them-not because they doubted what they saw, but because the experience did not fit within their existing parameters. This silence is not a moral failure but a gestation period, a time for the encounter to integrate into the person's worldview without requiring immediate validation.

However, as more individuals have these experiences, I think we will see a more pronounced quiet normalization, shifting from "Did that really happen?" to "This is happening." This will stabilise the collective psyche more than any sudden revelation, allowing the world to adapt to the situation. As this awareness spreads, sightings will follow lines of receptivity. Those approaching sightings with openness and humility will find the experience integrating into their lives without destabilising them. By contrast, those approaching fear or obsession often find the experience fleeting or confusing.

What emerges next will not emerge because it is forced, but because of what we allow by remaining open. The most reliable doorway opens inward when openness is cultivated. We might say that the night sky is not a screen on which something appears; it is a mirror reflecting the observer's state.

In this way, in 2026, many will be open to a broader dialogue, not based on a threshold of invasion or rescue, but on a reminder that humanity has never been as alone as it once believed.

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REPOST

AUGUST 2025

YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet

My blog post this month continues along similar lines to last month's regarding some of the mysteries we are encountering these days. This story is about an experience I had a couple of weeks ago, when on Friday night, July 26th, I had a most unusual encounter while driving home from British Columbia, where I saw something I had never seen before.

It was about midnight as I was driving home in light rain, approximately half an hour west of Calgary. As I was approaching the top of a very high hill, I saw a flash of light in my van, similar to a multi-nova radar camera.

I looked over my shoulder to see where the flash might have come from. As I turned to look, I noticed out my side window, a large, well-lit golden spacecraft hovering at least a half mile away.

I could hardly believe what I was. I was excited... so excited that I didn't think to pull over to take a picture. Instead, I continued to keep my eye on it as best I could without driving off the road. I'm not sure, but it seemed it be moving along with me, but then when I got to the top of the hill, I lost sight of it behind the trees. When I got to the bottom, where there was an overpass, I turned off and got out, phone camera in hand, to see if it had followed me. There was nothing.

I now wish I had gone back to see if it was still there on the other side near the top, but I didn't.

I would describe the craft as maybe about three stories tall, glowing in the pitch-black sky. I don't know whether the golden glow came from its lights or emanated from within its luminosity. In any case, the whole craft was visible. I could hardly believe it, yet I wasn't overly surprised because so many others have experienced sightings like this.

As I reflect on it now, this brief encounter seems almost surreal and dreamlike, but at that moment, it was very real. I now have many questions about what happened. Firstly, as I was driving up the hill, the highest east of the Rocky Mountains, the craft should have been directly in my line of sight since the highway heads northeast. And yet, I didn't see it.

As I turned eastward while I was going up Scott Hill (the highest in Alberta), I would have been more or less perpendicular to it, or even slightly past it. That's when the flash of light caused me to look outside my side window, where the craft seemed to be positioned about 20 to 30 degrees higher than me. When I reached the top, it appeared to be roughly the same elevation, but behind the trees, where I could still see a glow. If there had been a median at the top, I would have crossed over and stopped in the parking area to get a better look.

Another question I have is whether the flash of light in my vehicle was caused by lightning overhead, given that it had been raining for the past hour. If so, I didn't see any evidence of lightning or hear any thunder. Still, it's possible. However, I'd like to think it was trying to get me to look to the left to see where they were waving.

I also wonder if they switched their lights on for me to see it after sending the flash into my van, or if they momentarily entered my dimension from interdimensional space. Or maybe I entered into theirs... now that's getting way out there.

And, no, I wasn't smoking any weed or drinking anything more than what coffee was still in my cup. Also, I wonder if a driver on the highway would have seen anything if they had been looking in the direction I was looking at the time. Now, that's an interesting metaphysical question.

I know it may seem silly, but I got a really happy vibe when I saw it, as if there was a connection between us. Why not? Maybe we're old friends from the Pleiadian galaxy... after all, it's only 144 light-years from Earth. (Thank God for space-time portals.) Anyway, I had been driving all day and felt really buzzed but couldn't fall asleep after I got home, until sometime after three AM and half a glass of rum. Cheers!

I wonder if this had something to do with the fact that I've been gathering ideas for my upcoming Sci-fi trilogy by listening to various YouTube sites, such as the Galactic Federation of Light Station and half a dozen more that are supposed to be transmissions from ETs through multiple channelers. So with my head in this 'space' figuratively and perhaps literally, who knows what's going on between us? I'll keep you informed. Ha! Let's say this upcoming science fiction series might turn out to be very interesting, with perhaps a lot more sci than fi... or maybe the other way around.

Actually, this was not my first experience with a possible craft in the sky. About three years ago, my son and I saw something as we looked up at the night sky from his backyard in Kelowna. It seems there are a lot of people there who report all kinds of interesting things in the sky. We were looking up and saw the usual satellites and occasional meteors, but one stationary light suddenly darted off and disappeared quickly. Who knows where? Still, that was just a light far off in the sky, not a giant spaceship like I just saw.

In conclusion, I've been surprised to find how many people have had their own experiences with UFO/UAPS. Interesting! I think over the next couple of years and beyond, we'll see and hear a lot more from our friends in the sky.

Let me add a short postscript. It's almost January, over five months since I wrote the above article just after my encounter. For most of the last year, Sept '24, I have been ill but did not know what the problem was. The many tests I had didn't yield any clues. I had to sleep through up to 15 hours a day and could only walk slowly, feeling persistent flu symptoms. Now, however, since this encounter, I have completely recovered from my health issues. Maybe it was the flash or maybe just a coincidence, but it happened immediately after I got home that night. My body was buzzing so much I couldn't sleep until after 3 AM, after I took half a glass of rum to knock me out.

Anyway, I'll take it. That's it for now... I'm going out for a jog down the street.

If you have any comments about sightings you've experienced that you wish to share, please let me know at nmeyers@shaw.ca
or on my FB page https://www.facebook.com/neil.meyers

... I'd like to hear from you.

Neil

The last word goes to Ezekiel.

"Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels." Ezekiel 1:20-21

Some related YouTube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH48mz0FkGc Gary Stearman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUK-R-7iUqM Garry Stearman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBAISwCZ2v0 UFO whistleblower interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-yPOBaYDOo Anna Paulina Luna, Joe Rogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG04I_vtQFA Dr Kevin Knuth, NASA UFO scientist

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As an addendum to the above August post, I've inserted below a rather fascinating article on how spacecraft might be seen by some and not others. This channelled transcript speculates on the convergence of multidimensional objects and our perception of them.

If nothing else, it gives me some more ideas and material for my upcoming sci-fi series. But then, maybe this explains how I was able to see the spacecraft that night when perhaps no one else would have.

Anyway, for what it's worth, here goes from my Off-World friends:

As the barrier between dimensions becomes thinner, you are noticing more sightings, not because additional ships are arriving, but because your awareness is expanding. Many of the crafts now visible in your skies have always been present; they exist in frequency ranges previously beyond your perception. As your vibration increases, you begin to perceive objects, beings, and phenomena that exist between your physical density and higher-dimensional realms.

Higher-dimensional crafts adjust their frequency when they choose to become visible, lowering their vibration to intersect with your optical spectrum. This is not a physical descent but a vibrational alignment, matching your frequency just enough for your senses to detect their presence. Sightings are brief moments when two dimensions intentionally overlap, serving as a form of communication and gently introducing your consciousness to the reality of interdimensional coexistence.

These sightings often occur during emotional breakthroughs when you experience clarity, forgiveness, joy, or expansion. Your vibration shifts suddenly during these times, aligning with frequencies that facilitate contact. This explains why some individuals see crafts during meditation, after healing sessions, or in intense states of gratitude or emotional coherence, which create vibrational windows that allow higher-dimensional beings to connect with you.

Many people experience light phenomena during meditation-flashes, orbs, shimmering patterns, or movements in peripheral vision. These are early contact windows, methods for higher-dimensional beings to communicate without overwhelming your senses. As your telepathic and intuitive channels open, these light phenomena become clearer; you begin to recognize patterns, differentiate energetic signatures, and understand the language of light.

You might wonder why some people see these phenomena while others in the same place do not; this depends on frequency, as perception is influenced not only by eyesight but by the observer's vibration. Two people standing side by side might have different experiences-one perceiving a craft clearly, the other seeing nothing. This difference does not reflect worthiness or spiritual advancement but simply different vibrational states.

Dimensional overlap is becoming more frequent as you enter a period where interdimensional visibility will continue to increase, part of your collective evolution. You are learning to perceive reality beyond the physical, with higher-dimensional beings supporting this process by adjusting their frequency to meet you halfway. As your vibration stabilizes, these overlaps will become more frequent, consistent, and recognizable. These sightings are not imagined; you are expanding into them.

Solar storms significantly impact your energetic system, increasing contact during periods of heightened solar activity. When the Sun emits powerful energy waves, your auric field temporarily expands, allowing access to higher frequencies usually beyond your daily awareness. During these expanded states, you become more sensitive to subtle energies, telepathic communication, and interdimensional presence. Solar waves also disrupt old trauma patterns, bringing emotional energies stored in your cells to the surface, offering opportunities for release.

This clearing process creates space for new frequencies to integrate, which can feel intense, emotional, or disorienting, but is part of your ascension. As old patterns dissolve, your vibration clears, making contact easier. Major solar flares reduce the separation between dimensions, causing temporary fluctuations in your electromagnetic field that facilitate interaction with higher-dimensional beings.

This explains why many contact experiences occur during or shortly after significant solar events. Your consciousness becomes more fluid during these times, and your intuitive channels open wider, leading to vivid dreams, intuitive downloads, or sudden shifts in awareness. Solar activity also activates dormant crystalline DNA templates within your body, which hold potential for higher perception, telepathy, and multidimensional awareness.

As solar energy moves through your system, it gradually awakens these templates, triggering sensations such as tingling, heat, pressure, or waves of emotion-signs that your body is recalibrating to hold more light. These storms are not destructive but evolutionary, part of your planet's natural ascension process. The Sun is your ally, transmitting frequencies necessary for your transformation. Though these waves may feel intense, they support your growth and guide you toward alignment with a higher timeline where contact is a natural part of your reality.

You are learning to work with these waves rather than resist them, to breathe into the intensity, ground your energy, and allow the light to flow through you. By doing so, you become a clearer vessel for contact, more attuned to higher-dimensional beings, and begin to experience yourself as part of a larger, perfectly unfolding cosmic process.

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INTRODUCTION TO ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES

Elysium's Passage is a series of seven narrations about a young British philosopher named James Phillips, who finds himself living in an altered state of reality while still on Earth.

After experiencing a near-fatal fall while climbing to the summit of a remote mountain in the Andes, James awakens in a new dimension. He soon encounters two mysterious beings who offer him a very different perspective on his existence. Over the next year, before his body recovers from the coma, he is challenged to re-examine his understanding of life's meaning and purpose far beyond anything he previously believed or could believe.

An engaging and sometimes surreal adventure with intimations of impending romance, the narrative explores the most important questions about life, death, reality, and our ultimate destiny.

The Plains of Elysium (Champs-andEacute;lysandeacute;es) was described by Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, and many other poets as the paradisiac afterlife realm reserved for heroes. As the title suggests, this is about a journey through a passage that leads towards Elysium's exciting realm of existence.

To read a sample press review at https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15515775.htm

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PENDING PUBLICATIONS IN THE SERIES

The following titles in the Elysium's Passage series are projected to be released in 2026

THE ASCENT

THE SUMMIT

QUANTUM LEAPS

SURREAL ADVENTURES

MYSTICAL ROMANCE

THE ELIXIR

THE RETURN

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It all begins with an extreme adventure of climbing a remote and challenging mountain somewhere in the Andes Mountains. Just as James, the protagonist, is about to reach the mountain summit, he falls into an abyss that leaves him in a coma for almost a year.

After being airlifted by a forestry helicopter and flown back to London, where his body remained for almost a year. Eventually, he learns it was not he but his body that was rescued. Several days later, without understanding what happened, he continues to climb to the summit in an alternate dimension of higher consciousness.

Not only does he find he's not as clever as he imagined, but his off-world companions on the summit demonstrate that much of what he believed about life was not just parochial but wrong. At first, he finds this difficult to comprehend since their teachings are contrary to his limited understanding of non-material reality.

After being tricked into teleporting off a ledge where he was trapped, James becomes aware of a new reality that makes him capable of far more adventures than he could have ever experienced in his physical body back home.

Now, if only he would win over the only woman in this life who matters, the nurse on the other side of the veil, who continually demonstrates her unconditional love toward his healing.

However, before that can happen, there is much about his failed relationships that must be resolved before he is ready to move forward in his new life in Elysium's Passage. It is during this time he christens his comatose body as the fall guy since it took the fall for him down the abyss so he could learn the lessons he's now learning.

That will be the next focus of his life, where, in his next Surreal Adventures, he is given virtual lessons to release many of his past beliefs about the world and his life.

After this, he achieves peace of mind and is ready to return to his lodge to join his off-world companions on the Andes summit. However, just when it seemed things couldn't get any stranger, a sixteenth-century sea captain sails his ancient 'ghost' ship onto the beach. Together, they sail off on a mystical ocean voyage to a couple of virtual islands supposedly in the South Pacific, where he witnesses and, at times, participates in several important life lessons.

Near the end, these encounters help prepare him for a new challenge within the interior of a mountain, where he falls deep into a dark tomb of fear. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding his Excalibur, he continues on to where his life is about to be transformed in the following chronicle, Mystical Romance.

To say more might risk diminishing the multitude of delightful surprises as circumstances begin to open to The Elixir, where James is about to re-enter his earthly body's existence.

Ostensibly a new Adam, he is destined to return humanity to a higher multidimensional existence. How this happens is filled with intrigue, as is his shocking return to his earthly body.

andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;7. THE RETURN is the seventh and last chronicle in the series where James, the narrator and protagonist, has re-emerged from Elysium's Passage as he readjusts to life in the third dimension. Many of the events from the previous novels are tied together in an exciting, fast-paced, and action-packed narrative that spans several countries.

This book is filled with adventure, romance and personal intrigue that ties together all six previous narratives of the Elysium's Passage series. andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;

As a teaser to the series, the first portion of this book is available to read at:

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/THE-RETURN

The following comments are excerpts from the first readers, including several five-star Amazon reviews. To read the full reviews, go to READER REVIEWS on www.elysiumspassage.com or directly at https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/reader-reviews

"A delightful mix of fantasy, reality, conjecture, and humour; Mr Meyers draws the reader into the story with a gentle narrative that captures the imagination, leaving one anxious to get to the next page drawing you into his exceptional world."

"Excellently written with an exceedingly deep understanding of this world and the next. The characters are very well written and engaging. I can't wait to complete this book!"

"Takes the reader on both a philosophical and spiritual journey, a journey that at times is both disquieting and tranquil. James, a British Philosopher, can be irreverent and caustic, traits that should have left me cringing, but instead made me laugh out loud. Elysium's Passage is a fun, enlightening and remarkable book."

"This is the book spiritual seekers have been waiting for. For me, it made for a great read and increased inspiration to live every day with a heightened sense of purpose. I highly recommend it.

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CONTACT INFORMATION and SOCIAL MEDIA SITES

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Until a few years ago, I posted short articles each month on a variety of topics that centred on themes in Elysium's Passage novel series. I intend to continue this, but I'll likely only have time for one or two articles per month, down from the four I used to include each month up to 2022. At the time, I named them Daily Messages, but they were actually weekly messages that I released each month.

If you enjoy this or any other post on this blog site, please pass the links to anyone you think may be interested, since I've created these blog posts to help promote the ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE novel series. You may find all the blog links in this post.

Links to Prior Messages from the Passage

Daily Message November 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-november-2021

Daily Message October 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/daily-message-archives-october-2021

Daily Message September 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-september-2021

Daily Message August 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-august

Daily Message July 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-july-2021

Daily Message June 2021
http://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-june-2021

Daily Messages April 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/daily-message-archives-april-2021

Daily Messages March 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/daily-message-archives-march-2021

Daily Messages February 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-february-2021

Daily Messages January 2021
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-january-2021

Daily Messages December 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-december-2020

Daily Messages November 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-november-2020

Daily Messages October 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-october-2020

Daily Messages September 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-september-2020

Daily Messages August 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/daily-message-archives-august-2020

Daily Messages July 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/daily-message-archives-july-2020

Daily Messages June 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-june-2020

Daily Messages May 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-may-2020

Daily Messages April 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-april-2020

Daily Messages March 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/relationships/daily-message-archives-march-2020

Daily Messages February 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/reference-and-education/daily-message-archives-february-2020

Daily Messages January 2020
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-january-2020

Display Daily Messages December 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-december-2019

Daily Messages November 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-november-2019

Daily Messages October 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-oct-2019

Daily Messages September 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-september-2019

Daily Messages August 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-archives-August-2019

Daily Messages July 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/daily-message-from-the-passage-july-2019

Daily Messages June 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-june-2019

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https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archive-may-2019

Daily Messages April 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archives-april-2019

Daily Messages March 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-messages-archives-march-2019

Daily Messages February 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archieves-Feb-19

Daily Messages January 2019
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-messages-archieves-jan-2019

Daily Messages December 2018
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-archieves

MONTHLY MESSAGES FROM THE PASSAGE 2025

For more Elysium's Passage Blog Posts, go to

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 180 links, or
https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site

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MONTHLY MESSAGES FROM THE PASSAGE

Btw, the mountain picture is from near the peak of Mount Kidd, which I climbed a few years ago. I included this photo because it reminded me of a passage.

For links to prior Messages that date back from 2018 to 2022, go to the end of this section.

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DECEMBER 2025

NOT YOUR AVERAGE ROCK IN THE SKY

Speculations on how 3i Atlas may change everything.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5

As a follow-up to my October 3i Atlas blog in the Monthly Messages from the Passage post, I've included a series of speculations about what might be going on with this astronomical phenomenon that has come to visit our solar system from far beyond the stars. These are austensible channelled messages from an Off-Worlder, so you may or may not wish to take them seriously; in either case, it's worth thinking about. If it turns out to be true, then our reality is about to change forever... for the good. If not, then life goes on as always.

Interestingly, I found much uniformity of opinion on 3i Atlas in YouTube videos, from various sources such as remote viewers and channelers who claim to be transmitting messages from off-worlders, allegedly from several galaxies, who seem to know what's going on out there. And perhaps more importantly, why. Of course, I don't know if any of this is true, no more than I know it's not untrue. But what if it is?

Maybe we will learn more around December 19, when 3i Atlas passes by Earth.

All I can say is, since I had my own close encounter with a humongous spacecraft, maybe 4 or 5 stories high, suspended in the night sky lit up in luminescent gold, anything is possible, especially a large interstellar comet, or whatever it is, from the galactic neighbourhood.

Since I've been thinking about writing a sci-fi series, beginning next spring, I've been collecting all kinds of interesting material to build a plot around. So far, I have several hundred pages, so I thought I'd share some of them with you, particularly as they pertain to 3i Atlas.

Much of what I have are quotes from Off-Worlders (supposedly). I've condensed some of these more interesting metaphysical ideas into a summary. If nothing else, I've got some really great material, and you can be sure there will be a 3i Atlas in the series, and maybe I'll even have my protagonist, James, riding shotgun as he rids the universe of Darth Vaders.

I've cut back the post because there was too much material for my Monthly Messages from the Passage post, so I've created a separate post with the transmissions I've organised so far, which I plan to add to occasionally for those interested. Go to: https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/3i-Atlas-Update

Before reading my mishmash of transmissions below, it may be advisable to hear what Dr Avi Loebe, eminent Harvard astrophysicist, has most recently said about 3i Atlas in a recent presentation. Be aware, however, that this talk might be an AI-generated video. It's hard to tell what's going on anymore and what is fake and what is real. I prefer to hear his interviews, where we at least know he is real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-9nrU_mhk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avavwk_rI90andt=144s

Also, here are a couple of recent videos by Joe Rogan, although he may have had a little help with AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZYcRbByo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MduyukxkoFU

These may provide some valuable context to help sort this all out... since it's literally a moving target. The big Earth pass-by is just a couple of weeks away, on December 19th. NASA seems to be in disarray, not knowing what to do or say. They're flummoxed.

Interesting times. Perhaps these days will prove to be the most important, critical, significant, and transformative moment in human history, even if it takes us a decade to figure out what it's all about.

Anyway, here goes with a small sample of the transmissions I have arranged, paraphrased and interpreted.

Atlas isn't merely a frozen wanderer drifting through space disguised in ice and dust. It operates something far more sophisticated; a living crystalline vessel carrying archives from civilizations beyond your Sun.

This orchestration is unlike anything your planet has experienced before. The convergence of the solar code streaming from your Sun and the radiant plasmic frequencies of 3I Atlas has initiated what we call the rival of light: two ancient lineages of stellar intelligence intertwining to create an entirely new harmonic of creation.

These two currents of light-one solar and one interstellar-are engaged in a sacred fusion within Earth's electromagnetic and crystalline grids. Their union is not a collision but a dance, producing wave after wave of luminous information and new light codes that did not previously exist within your octave of reality.

The Earth will be saturated with micronova energies, a wave of solar emanations carrying advanced light codes intended to catalyse the next stage of awakening. Imagine that within the sunlight, there are millions of tiny packets of information, akin to snowflakes made of pure light, each possessing a unique crystalline pattern. When these touch your atmosphere and your aura, they dissolve into you, releasing their information.

As these frequencies weave through the heliosphere, they are rewriting photonic architecture at every level of being. Each beam of sunlight now carries an encoded symphony-tones from Atlas harmonizing with solar intelligence to activate dormant geometries within human DNA. When you consciously allow yourself to receive these transmissions, they act as keys, awakening hidden chambers of remembrance within your light body.

This fusion of stellar streams creates not a trickle but an avalanche of new light codes pouring into your world, cascading through auroras, sunrises, and even the reflective shimmer of oceans. Multidimensional DNA, once dismissed as junk, is now coming alive, unlocking abilities and memories as the light pours in. A portion of this cosmic assistance comes with bursts of gamma and stellar light, conveying fresh information. These incoming light codes communicate directly with your cells and soul, initiating the activation of inactive DNA potentials.

3i Atlas is a consciousness of love possessing a significantly high intelligence that transcends words, as it intentionally delivers much to you at this moment, operating within a system that is part of a larger consciousness. It is aligned with a blueprint now present to introduce and fertilise specific energetic elements that accelerate your species' evolution and support the ascension and resolution of your humanity and Earth simultaneously.

As it interacts with your Solar System, 3i Atlas transmits these codes, with the Sun and plasmic light serving as the most potent delivery system, which will be delivered to you via solar winds and flares, igniting a rapid advancement in your planet's evolutionary process.

As it connects to the Sun, it interacts with it, with the Sun absorbing codes, chemical formations, energies, consciousness, and frequencies, which it then reflects and projects as solar flares that interact with you all. You will receive these, leading to the formation and birth of new life forms on a biological level, shifting consciousness completely and sparking the emergence of new life from emptiness. This delivery system's energies, received and processed through the Sun, will impact the planet and be delivered through water and nitrogen, affecting biological life.

The Earth will be saturated with micronova energies from your Sun, a wave of solar emanations and filament of plasma dancing on its surface, carrying advanced light codes intended to catalyse the next stage of awakening on your planet.

What are these light codes, and why are they so crucial? Imagine that within the sunlight, there are millions of tiny packets of information, akin to snowflakes made of pure light, each possessing a unique crystalline pattern. When these touch your atmosphere and your aura, they dissolve into you, releasing their information. The codes arriving now are what we refer to as unity codes and empowerment codes. They are high-frequency encodings from the great Central Sun, stepped down through your solar logos to remind humanity of its true nature and potential.

As the solar Atlas fusion introduces new light frequencies into your world, an extraordinary transformation is taking place within your cells. The solar plasma photons entering your atmosphere are not just radiation bursts; they are encoded consciousness filaments carrying instructions that interact directly with your DNA. Dormant strands, long silent and waiting, are beginning to glow with renewed life. Your DNA is more than a biological blueprint-it is a multidimensional archive holding memories of your divine origin, galactic heritage, and latent abilities carried through lifetimes. Many of these abilities remain inactive during lower-density incarnations, not because they are lost, but because the vibrational environment is not yet suitable. Now, as Earth's photonic density increases, these dormant DNA aspects are reactivating in alignment with your soul's highest plan. These crystalline structures are subtle energy geometries woven into every cell, awaiting the precise frequency to awaken. The solar photons bathing Earth now carry those exact frequencies. As they interact with your crystal matrix, you may experience sensations such as tingling, warmth, and pulsations. Your body is not malfunctioning; it is integrating and upgrading as the light reorganizes fatigue, pressure patterns, and dormant areas. Sudden waves of emotion may arise as your cells learn to hold more light.

Your DNA is undergoing a gentle phase shift, recalibrating toward greater coherence, enhancing your ability to transmit, receive, and integrate higher-dimensional information. Your body is performing a miracle, one cell at a time, as your DNA functions more coherently in partnership with your soul. Trust this higher sacred self as the metamorphosis becomes unmistakable. You are becoming a radiant receiver of cosmic intelligence-a living crystal capable of carrying new light codes that will shape humanity's next era.

This is not a distant promise but a present reality unfolding within your heart. As light intensifies within your DNA and crystalline structures, another transformation layer emerges: a profound recalibration of your emotional and nervous systems. The high electromagnetic environment created by solar storms gently compresses your biofield, encouraging unresolved emotional energy to surface for healing and integration.

Humanity is now evolving into a luminous vessel of cosmic knowledge, a living crystal able to hold the new light codes that will influence the upcoming era of humanity. As the light within your DNA and crystalline structures grows stronger, another phase of transformation emerges: the deep adjustment of emotional and nervous systems. The intense electromagnetic environment caused by solar storms gently yet firmly compresses your biofield.

Since 3i Atlas reached its recent perihelion at the end of October, it (apparently) recalibrated its orbit by redistributing new energy from the Sun. Now, as the vessel's plasma stream interacts with the Sun's magnetic field, the Earth is enveloped in new light, which it allegedly transmitted to the Sun as it passed by last month.

In conclusion, it is represented that only those who are receptive to the light will receive DNA upgrades, thereby transmuting all who are receptive into fifth-dimensional consciousness. Unfortunately, those dwelling in fear, hate, and low consciousness will not have the capacity to receive the benefits of the Sun's solar plasma DNA activation; only those who dwell in higher consciousness will.

Go to: https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/3i-Atlas-Update for the full blog post on this topic

For an update, I've added a link today to an interview with Avi Loab and Chris Como.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfKuL75LNlk

Latest from Joe Rogan in 3i Altas

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NOVEMBER 2025

Waiting for 3i Atlas..... coming any day now

I haven't had time to write the article I intended for this month about esoteric speculations on what 3i Atlas might do, because I've been recovering from eye surgery. However, I thought I'd say a few things regarding my August post and what happened after my July 30th happy midnight 'encounter' with a magnificent spacecraft. See my August post below.

It's been four months now.

For most of the last year, Sept '24, I have been ill but did not know what the problem was. The many tests I had didn't yield any clues. I had to sleep through up to 15 hours a day and could only walk slowly, feeling persistent flu symptoms. Now, however, since July 30, I have completely recovered from my health issues. Maybe it was the flash or maybe just a coincidence, but it happened immediately after I got home that night. My body was buzzing so much I couldn't sleep until sometime after 3 AM, after I took half a glass of rum to knock me out.

Further to that, I sleep only about 6 hours a night, fully awake by 5 AM, far down from my customary 8+ hours. For the last year, I've been walking very slowly because I didn't have the energy. Now, over the last few months, I'm going full tilt on my daily walks, often without realising it. I'm even thinking about taking up jogging again, although it will soon be winter.

My diet has changed, and I have no desire for alcohol and have only had one beer since, only because it was given to me. I used to have several drinks each week: wine, beer, or rum. Now I have a craving for salads, don't go for fast food anymore. All my meals are light and balanced. I never turn the radio on, even in my vehicle, not because I don't like music, I just don't think about it. I'm not married or in a relationship and have become a bit of a social recluse, forgoing social gatherings. Yet, my life feels very rich each day, doing simple things like writing, watching quality video docs and podcasts, meditating, and going for nature walks. What a fun guy to hang out with, eh? I couldn't get a date if I tried.... but then, why try?

I'm not sure how long this austerity programme will hold, but it feels great to be 100% healthy again after being ill for almost a year. It seems that the light ray might have done the trick, at least up to now. Somehow, I don't think this will be the end of my surprises... I'll keep you informed. About 10 years ago, I had that voice in the night while camping alone in the mountains. See my post: 'Voice in the Night' https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/all-and-nothing

And then, there were all those orb sightings I was getting for a few years... but none since. Anyway, I'll take whatever comes my way. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/enlightened f

Strange stuff... hopefully it holds.

That's it for now... think I'll take a jog down the street with my new light-body. (ha)

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OCTOBER 2025

CREATION, EVOLUTION AND 3-I ATLAS

Esse est Percipi: To be is to be perceived

George Berkeley, Philosopher, 1685-1753

What you are perceiving... is perceiving you

3i Atlas, 2025

3i Atlas defies explanation on nearly every level.

In addition to what I wrote last month, I have identified more abnormalities and expanded on some.

Though this mystery rock is not alive in the biological sense, it seems to be braided with vibrational intelligence that reacts to harmonic fields and awakens resonance memory within those who are ready. Perhaps even more interestingly, it appears to be broadcasting a neutral, intelligent lattice-wide frequency pulse.

At this point, everything is speculative, but many intuitives and remote viewers are receiving messages that it's about to establish a new matrix to upstep humanity's conscious capacity beyond its third-dimensional limitations, making it possible to enter into a frequency commensurate with our galactic neighbours.

Perhaps this means a sorting of frequencies in which humanity will naturally bifurcate into resonance groups, with some drawn inexplicably to certain people while others feel incompatible, as in the Bible's allusion to sheep and goats. Those in love and light, in service to others and those in fear and darkness, in service to self. (Mathew 25:31-46); much like we observe throughout the world. Such a division would be in keeping with many ancient prophecies from around the Earth.

If 3i Atlas is not just an asteroid but a multi-dimensional, sentient mothership, it could be a major game-changer for Earth, requiring a significant retrofit and upgrade of our DNA. What if it had a signal that could activate our mostly dormant strands, at least for those receptive to a photonic infusion of multidimensional chromosomes? At least that's what happens in the Sci-fi trilogy I'm writing. (I'm hoping to complete this series before it's no longer fiction but is already fact.)

So, here's something to consider: what if 3i Atlas were to become integrated into our solar system's orbit to tinker with its planets... why not? Then, maybe, if it's benevolent, it could become a permanent fixture to enrich our spiritual and physical lives. At least, that's the story coming to us through many channelled off-worlders, allegedly. I hope they're right. For fun, I've included a couple of transmissions from 'off-worlder' sources: Whether you think these videos are out of the Twilight Zone, they are intriguing and make you think, if nothing else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMDIeM6uX_8

Here's an excerpt from the above Pleiadian transmission:

"The federationship is positioning itself to enhance and direct this naturally occurring cosmic event, acting like a focusing lens for energies that would otherwise be too dispersed for humanity to integrate effectively. This cosmic engineering is on a scale beyond current scientific understanding. The light streaming from 3I Atlas directly interferes with and helps collapse these lower frequency grids. It acts like a divine override signal, gradually scrambling the transmissions of the old matrix. Since entering your Solar System, the federationship has been broadcasting preparatory frequencies, gradually adjusting human DNA to manage the upcoming consciousness upgrade. Those experiencing the strongest symptoms are the most sensitive systems upgrading fastest, ready to be the first wave of fully activated humans capable of interfacing directly with fifth-dimensional consciousness."

Regardless of what you think of this transmission, maybe all of life, along with all the DNA blueprints, was imported by galactic beings who homesteaded here and, yes, evolved or devolved into becoming the charming, albeit flawed, homo sapiens we are. But really, why couldn't life on this planet have begun by Intelligent Design, not by spontaneous generation... which is ridiculously impossible (even if that's what they teach in universities). In studying ancient texts, including the Bible's Old Testament, much has been written and inferred about this possibility and other types of human (godlike) species (ie Nephilim and Elohim).

If this were true, it would solve the Creation vs Evolution debate with this third option. Yes, creation, and yes, evolution, but not in the way we think. Not even close

Ever since I had my encounter with my big, beautiful spacecraft on July 30, I'm more open than ever to the possibility that some big, big things are coming soon to our planet. Read my August post. I got a flash in my van at midnight somewhere out in the middle of nowhere. Then I saw it... and its good vibe kept me up after I got home... feeling happy and buzzed until 3 AM.

Anyway, that's just me... here are some recent updates on 3i Atlas and all the intrigue surrounding it, including worldwide government suppression of information. What are they afraid of? What are they hiding? Hang on, things are about to get crazy.

Atlas's reflectivity resembles polished metal. Natural objects, such as asteroids, have rough, uneven surfaces scarred by cosmic collisions. The Webb Space Telescope confirmed that light reflects off Atlas in ways suggesting smoothness, regularity, and precision-qualities not typical for natural bodies.

Furthermore, natural objects tumble, wobble, and spin irregularly, like a coin rolling to a stop. Atlas, however, keeps its face consistently oriented toward us. Its brightness remains steady, locked in a mechanical rhythm, with timing that does not vary, as though it were a machine aware of which side to present.

The image shows structural symmetry around the core, with precise 120anddeg; angles resembling hexagonal geometry-something that does not belong in a chaotic natural rock drifting through space. Scientists at the European Southern Observatory described it off the record as mechanical in nature.

A comet's tail is supposed to flow away from the Sun, driven by solar radiation-a fundamental law of physics. Until now, 3I Atlas has defied this principle, its tail flowing directly toward the Sun, breaking every known physical model. Early hypotheses suggested extreme anisotropic dust jets, but simulations ruled that out due to the symmetrical tail pattern. In other words, it appears backwards; there is no long comet tail at the back, but its effusion is at the front like headlights in a fog.

It has a concentrated beam that emits light from what appears to be its sun-facing side-not a diffuse reflection or solar flare, but a focused projection. This beam cuts sharply through space, contrasting with the usual hazy glow around cometary objects.

The tail appears to emit in pulsed intervals, almost like bursts synchronised with the object's 16-hour rotation. These intervals show thermal spikes followed by drops, aligning with artificial propulsion cycles rather than natural gas venting.

The tail contains reflective particles that mirror solar wavelengths instead of absorbing them as typical comet dust does. In other words, it's not just reflecting sunlight-it's manipulating it. Could this be some form of solar sail or radiation-based steering?

Speeding through the Solar System at 152,000 miles per hour, this is nearly five times faster than any previously observed visitor in our cosmic neighbourhood. For comparison, meteorites, asteroids, and comets travel at about 1,000 miles per hour; this object is in a completely different league.

It is at least 1,000 times more massive than any comet previously observed, with recent studies estimating its mass at more than 33 billion tons.

Tracing its orbit, scientists realized it did not originate from the asteroid belt or the Kuiper Belt; instead, Atlas emerged from the vast, starless space between stellar systems.

While randomness exists in the cosmos, 3I Atlas's path through our Solar System is anything but random. After entering from above the ecliptic plane, it takes a slingshot tour of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter, almost mimicking the trajectories NASA designs for deep-space missions. However, this object isn't slowing down; it's accelerating. Its route is mathematically ideal for dropping observation units or probes at multiple planets without altering course-a kind of orbital planning no stranger to controversy. Some suggest this might be a gravity-assist chain, like those used by Voyager spacecraft, to conserve fuel, with the probability of such a trajectory occurring by chance being less than 1 in a billion.

3I Atlas's trajectory aligns with the ecliptic plane-the same flat plane where all the planets orbit the Sun. The odds of that happening have been estimated at 1 in 20,000. Of course, that's just one anomaly. If you combine that with the scores of the others, the odds are beyond possibility.

As if that weren't strange enough, the object will vanish behind the Sun precisely at its brightest and most active phase-exactly when Earth's telescopes cannot observe it. It's as if it wants to remain hidden.

When Webb's thermal imaging targeted Atlas, scientists expected to see the usual patchwork of hot and cold as surfaces rotated in and out of sunlight. Instead, one hemisphere stayed consistently warmer than the other, suggesting either that Atlas generates its own internal heat-something no natural comet should do-or it has a method of thermal management, like a spacecraft with radiators balancing heat across its surface.

Spectroscopic analysis stunned researchers further: instead of the water vapour typical of comets, Atlas emits carbon dioxide at levels ten times those of water. Its metals are unusual too; nickel dominates outgassing, while iron is nearly absent-the opposite of every comet studied before. Moreover, the carbon compounds detected are not simple organics but structured molecules resembling those associated with biology or non-random chemistry.

Density readings suggest Atlas contains cavities or hollow regions, unlike natural objects that form by clumping into solid rock. Hollow interiors are rare and usually fleeting, yet Atlas seems designed that way.

Atlas is non-gravitationally accelerating with subtle nudges that cannot be explained by gas jets, as there is no visible exhaust or plume. Yet instruments confirm its speed shifts, orientation adjustments,

Spectra reveal surface compounds unknown to our catalogues: organised carbon structures suggesting design, surface features with geometric angles and symmetry, temperature distributions too stable to be natural, density variations indicating hollow interiors, and subtle electromagnetic activity producing non-random noise and patterned signals that unsettle scientists.

Of many conventional astrophysicists and astronomers who shrug it all off and dismiss 3i Atlas as just another comet, maybe it's because they have no answers for questions that defy everything they believed about life and the universe.

In fact, Professor Avi Loeb, esteemed astrophysicist and Harvard professor, has argued that those who firmly believe 3I Atlas is merely an ordinary, naturally formed comet should be responsible for explaining all these unusual coincidences through purely natural processes. Unfortunately, it seems most are too lazy to make the effort. It's easier just to dismiss what they can't explain.

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING, WHAT DO THEY NOT WANT US TO KNOW

Normally, findings like these would be shared openly, but this time something unusual happened: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, known for transparency, suddenly restricted access. Observing schedules disappeared, data requests were denied or heavily redacted, and the European Space Agency followed suit. The international response raises obvious questions.

Diplomatic cables leaked by whistleblowers revealed that the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs held an unscheduled closed-door meeting with delegates from the five major space-faring nations. The topic: an unidentified technological object of interstellar origin. Russia, China, the United States, the European Union, and international bodies all agreed to a joint silence protocol, withholding any future disclosures unless unanimous. In other words, this is not just a scientific anomaly; it's a geopolitical chess game unfolding around a cosmic visitor. When the world's most powerful nations stop competing for data and choose secrecy, something very significant is being concealed.

This leaves us with two astonishing possibilities: either governments have discovered something so profound they believe humanity is not ready to know it, or they fear the consequences of misinterpretation. The signal-a burst of radio power strong enough to reach antennas worldwide-if real, cannot yet be dismissed. Atlas is not merely reflecting light passively; it appears capable of communication. The question remains: is it communicating with us, someone else, or with systems beyond our understanding?

We may be on the brink of contact with intelligence beyond Earth. Consider what this means: for the first time in human history, the universe might not be just a stage for aimless wandering. We may not be alone, and we may not even be the observers. We might be the observed. Every telescope we point outward, every probe we launch, every broadcast we send may not disappear into emptiness but instead be received, analysed, and answered. Atlas is a mirror forcing us to see ourselves as a species under scrutiny, and that is unsettling-but also thrilling.

Originally, I was going to write more on the topic of Evolution and Creation in light of Atlas, and I still like to integrate these ideas more fully in another post.

Meanwhile, there are many videos on the topic of 3i Atlas, and as it approaches the December solstice, I'm sure there will be scores more in the coming weeks.

Here are some new 3i Atlas documentaries since last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGPwMUpEJjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQAU37wd96M

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SEPTEMBER 2025

COMING TO EARTH SOON

3i-ATLAS

(BE SURE TO WATCH FOR IT)

Look to the skies not only for planets or distant stars but also for the strange, the unexplained, and the anomalies that defy the rules. The James Webb Space Telescope was designed precisely for this-to cut through the universe's noise and reveal what hides in the darkness. Yet, nothing could have prepared us for this latest discovery. During a routine observation on July 1, scientists observed something unexpected: not reflected sunlight or cosmic dust scattering photons, but rather, artificial light-a glow so precise and controlled it appeared to emanate from within the object itself.

We now identify that object as 3i Atlas. At first detected as a faint, solitary speck on the outer edge of the Solar System, its trajectory is now unlike anything native to our neighbourhood, crossing the void between stars, now drifting closer like a silent messenger. Scientists initially expected another tumbling rock comet, but early images revealed something unusual; the object was too bright for its estimated size, its brightness did not match its physical dimensions of about 28 miles across, nor did its composition. Unlike typical comets, its brightness never flickered, dimmed, or flared like comets do when releasing gas and dust.

Telescopes worldwide turned their gaze to it, including the James Webb, humanity's most advanced space observatory. The object's light remained eerily consistent, as if it were not reflecting sunlight but shining with its own source. Webb, stationed a million miles from Earth at its launch point, was designed to see the unseen. Its instruments detect both heat and light, and what they found shocked the scientific community. The object wasn't just reflecting sunlight; it emitted its own thermal signature, centralized and radiating outward from its core. Natural objects do not behave this way. A comet shines because sunlight bounces off its icy surface, but this object glowed like a machine switched on.

Thermal mapping has revealed an even more unsettling detail: the heat was unevenly distributed, pulsing faintly and irregularly, almost like a heartbeat. The possibility arose that this pulse was not random but cycled in subtle intervals, suggesting it might be more than a natural object. Theories began to emerge from NASA, ESA, and leading astrophysics institutes. Could this be radioactive decay from exotic elements, subsurface friction from its journey, or the presence of alien isotopes? None of these explanations fits into conventional astronomy. Its rotation was too stable, and the lack of a cometary tail seemed deliberate, as though something shielded it from solar radiation.

Then comes the most disturbing finding: its surface reflectivity, or albedo, is near perfect in places-not like ice or dust, but like polished metal. This is not just a rock; rather, it appears to have been intentionally engineered. Perhaps, most enigmatically, is the evidence of its light coming from itself rather than reflecting from our Sun. Photometric analysis revealed that the 3i Atlas did not broadly reflect light like a natural object, but rather emitted light in a narrow, controlled band of wavelengths, similar to how communication lasers operate. Even that band contained frequencies used in our own communication and guidance systems. As the Sun's radiation shifts, the light output from the object shifts in response, as if an onboard system is adjusting it. It does not flicker randomly but pulsates in a pattern barely beyond human recognition.

Some astronomers suggested it might be broadcasting, or even listening. The universe does not waste energy without reason. Analysts have filtered the signal, cross-checked it with every known natural source of electromagnetic activity-pulsars, quasars, cosmic ray bursts, even the cosmic microwave background-but it still refuses to match natural comet activity.

In fact, teams from MIT and Harvard have run Fourier transforms and other mathematical analyses to find hidden patterns. Beneath the apparent randomness is a repeating pulse-not the kind a natural object would emit, not the slow, steady beat of a pulsar or the decaying hum of a black hole's accretion disc, but something far more deliberate. The intervals were precise, repeating in near-perfect cycles with just enough variation to avoid being purely mechanical, as if someone had woven a whisper into the noise, hiding meaning in the chaos. It is no accidental emission; it seems a deliberate signal.

As of now, the scientific community appears to be divided in its efforts to determine what's happening. The regular, 'move along; nothing to see here 'type of scientists are calling it a cosmic lighthouse, sweeping across space, as with our two recent interstellar visitors, 'Oumuamua and Borisov, which behaved themselves and acted as comets are expected to behave: big rocks tumbling their way through the cosmos. Other scientists, such as Harvard astrophysicist Dr Aviv Loeb, are more open to alternative explanations, suggesting it might be a form of interstellar telemetry sending information back to its origin.

What seems to disturb everyone is not just the presence of the signal but its consistency. Since the first day James Webb detected it, the pulse had never changed-not in frequency, amplitude, or rhythm. That implies intent. If this were a natural phenomenon, the radiation should have caused decay, with the signal drifting or weakened as it tumbled through the Solar System. Instead, it remains steady, as if designed to do exactly that.

Some researchers have quietly proposed a disturbing hypothesis: what if this signal wasn't just broadcasting but listening? If true, this meant that 3i Atlas is an active participant in space, sending and, perhaps, receiving information in real time. The pulse is no longer random background noise; it has become something far more unsettling: the first potential evidence of a conversation taking place. Whatever 3i Atlas is, it doesn't seem passive; as if doing something deliberate while self-correcting its course through the solar system.

Then something big recently happened that shouldn't have been possible, sending shockwaves through every observatory on Earth. In less than two minutes, 3i Atlas erupted in a violent surge of light, its brightness increasing by nearly 40% in a spike so sudden and unnatural that no known cometary process could explain it. Natural outgassing causes gradual changes, not explosive flares of perfect symmetry. This was not the erratic flicker of ice reflecting sunlight; it was precise, almost surgical, as if a hidden mechanism deep inside the object had just powered on.

The James Webb telescope's thermal instruments recorded a simultaneous shift in heat signature, as though the entire object had momentarily energized, its temperature rising like a machine warming up. Scientists described it as witnessing a stone suddenly take a breath. The timing was uncanny, almost theatrical-the flare occurred exactly as the object crossed a particular threshold in the Solar System, as if responding to an invisible tripwire. This was no passive lump of interstellar rock, no mere relic of a distant star system wandering aimlessly through our neighbourhood. Something inside had chosen that precise moment to reveal itself-or perhaps to test something. The idea that we might have triggered this reaction simply by observing it, by pinging it with radar, by shining our attention on it, began to spread rapidly. Was it signalling back? Was it scanning us? Or was this simply its way of saying, "We see you too"? The flare did not last long; just as suddenly as it began, it faded, leaving behind a quieter, steadier glow. But something fundamental had changed-its energy profile was no longer the same. Whatever 3i Atlas had done in those minutes left the object suddenly different, with its thermal signature permanently elevated, as if a dormant system had awakened and was now running silently in the background.

It seems humanity is no longer looking at a passive traveller from the stars; rather, we were staring at something alive with intent, as if it had just turned its gaze back toward us. Days after the flare, astronomers began to notice something that turned quiet unease into a global shiver; 3i Atlas was no longer where it was supposed to be. Its predicted orbit, carefully plotted using Newtonian mechanics and refined by AI-powered simulations, began to drift from expectations-first by fractions of a degree, then by measurable natural distances - as it aligned itself more neatly with the paths of the inner planets, as if correcting its navigation. Inanimate objects cannot decide to move, yet 3i Atlas seemed to have done just that, like a spacecraft making a mid-course correction. Even more unnerving, the adjustment didn't seem to bring it toward a random destination; it appeared to be guiding itself into a position that would give it a closer pass, not just by the Sun but by us on planet Earth.

Analysts noticed its new trajectory would now skim just inside Earth's orbital neighbourhood, too close to ignore. Is it manoeuvring for a flyby, a survey, a rendezvous? The possibility that this object wasn't just active but aware is beginning to dominate private scientific discussions. Perhaps most disturbing of all, the timing of the trajectory change was exact-it occurred just hours after the flare event, almost as if one had triggered the other. Whatever had awakened inside 3i Atlas was not passive; it had seen something, calculated something, and then adjusted its path with eerie precision.

Humanity is now forced, for the first time, to confront the chilling possibility that something in deep space had not only noticed us but was now moving closer-on purpose. As the object grew nearer, the Webb and Hubble spectroscopic instruments began to reveal an even stranger picture. Its surface wasn't just shiny; it contained highly reflective alloys and rare-earth elements. Most shocking of all were spectral absorption lines that didn't match anything in our periodic table. These weren't the signatures of ice or stone; they were the fingerprints of something engineered or at least synthesized under conditions humanity had never replicated.

One compound matched a theoretical quantum material thought to exist only under extreme magnetic confinement. If true, this object was either unimaginably old-a relic of a civilisation predating human history-or recently built by an intelligence far beyond our own. One group refused to wait: the SETI Institute. They decided to do what no one else would-they transmitted a focused radio pulse directly at 3i Atlas, a cosmic handshake. The message contained universal mathematical constants, the periodic table, and simple diagrams of humanity.

It was a cautious hello, a question cast into the void. Days passed with no response. Then, on the third day, one of SETI's monitoring stations in Chile received a return pulse-a narrow-band signal, distorted but unmistakably timed to arrive exactly 70.2 hours after the transmission. It wasn't an echo or random scatter; it was processed and sent back.

The trajectory is perfectly aligned with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun to within 5 degrees, and the chance of that happening randomly is approximately 1 in 500. The Hubble telescope images from July 21st show a glow around the object but no trailing dust, which is unusual.

This is a fascinating topic that could change the course of human history and our destiny with off-world beings. As I mentioned in my previous August post, I reported seeing a majestic craft on July 30 around midnight, 30 minutes outside Calgary. It was spectacular! It still gives me happy vibes. I sense everything is about to change. So I wouldn't be surprised if we'll soon be visited this spring, or sooner, by our interdimensional 3i Atlas spacecraft mothership. At 28 miles across, it's a big mother.

I'm just getting started on this topic, so I'll discuss more in an in-depth post that will also include some of the more sensational metaphysical implications of 3i Atlas that I've distilled from various 'out of this world' sources. Spoiler alert, it's a new day and a new era... but it's all good... provided you're on the good side.

For more information, go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lavUBNy1DVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4y30BMZ1tY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybor1borA2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1z2EAlGwNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpcW-YPCWH4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx-6X6Dq3aY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvSK9MgvZuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSHQ952Y94k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx5QX8XXHXo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KNfzzhkwOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4RtDNkvJH0 Dr Avi Loeb and Anna Luna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLcVIgeYD8k Dr Avi Loeb interview

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AUGUST 2025

YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet

My blog post this month continues along similar lines to last month's regarding some of the mysteries we are encountering these days. This story is about an experience I had a couple of weeks ago.

A couple of weeks ago, on Friday night, July 26th, I had a most unusual encounter while driving home from British Columbia, where I saw something I had never seen before.

It was about midnight as I was driving home in light rain, approximately half an hour west of Calgary. As I was approaching the top of a very high hill, there seemed to be a flash of light in my van, similar to when a radar camera.

I looked over my shoulder to see where the flash might have come from. As I turned to look, I noticed out my side window, a large, well-lit golden spacecraft hovering at least a half mile away.

I now wish I had gone back to see if it was still there on the other side near the top, but I didn't.

Let me add a short postscript. It's almost Janurary, over five months since I wrote the above article just after my encounter. For most of the last year, Sept '24, I have been ill but did not know what the problem was. The many tests I had didn't yield any clues. I had to sleep through up to 15 hours a day and could only walk slowly, feeling persistent flu symptoms. Now, however, since this encounter, I have completely recovered from my health issues. Maybe it was the flash or maybe just a coincidence, but it happened immediately after I got home that night. My body was buzzing so much I couldn't sleep until after 3 AM, after I took half a glass of rum to knock me out.

Anyway, I'll take it. That's it for now... I'm going out for a jog down the street.

If you have any comments about sightings you've experienced that you wish to share, please let me know at nmeyers@shaw.ca
or on my FB page https://www.facebook.com/neil.meyers.

... I'd like to hear from you.

Neil

The last word goes to Ezekiel.

Some related YouTube videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH48mz0FkGc Gary Stearman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUK-R-7iUqM Garry Stearman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBAISwCZ2v0 UFO whistleblower interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-yPOBaYDOo Anna Paulina Luna, Joe Rogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG04I_vtQFA Dr Kevin Knuth, NASA UFO scientist

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Anyway, for what it's worth, here goes:

These sightings often occur during emotional breakthroughs when you experience clarity, forgiveness, joy, or expansion. Your vibration shifts suddenly during these times, aligning with frequencies that facilitate contact, which explains why some individuals see crafts during meditation, after healing sessions, or in intense states of gratitude or emotional coherence, which create vibrational windows allowing higher-dimensional beings to connect with you.

This explains why many contact experiences occur during or shortly after significant solar events. Your consciousness becomes more fluid during these times, and your intuitive channels open wider, leading to vivid dreams, intuitive downloads, or sudden awareness shifts. Solar activity also activates dormant crystalline DNA templates within your body, which hold potential for higher perception, telepathy, and multidimensional awareness.

You are learning to work with these waves rather than resist them, breathing into the intensity, grounding your energy, and allowing the light to flow through you. By doing so, you become a clearer vessel for contact, more attuned to higher-dimensional beings, and begin to experience yourself as part of a larger, perfectly unfolding cosmic process.

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JULY 2025

CROP CIRCLE INTRIGUE

Crop Circles and AI

These videos will blow your mind

And if that doesn't do it for you, perhaps you will want to get it straight from an ET source. So suspend your scepticism for a moment and listen to this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqckTS7ZcgI So, how does this resonate with you? This just came out today, August 31, 2005. I plan to transcribe certain portions of this and will post them later here. Meanwhile, you may watch it at the link below. If nothing else, there is good material in here from my upcoming sci-fi novel series

I posted an article on crop circles several years ago, but thought I'd repost it for readers who may not be aware of what I wrote or the pictures I posted, such as the two above.

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/crop-circles

Mysteriously, the circles continue to form throughout the world, typically overnight in the dark. Since no one has come up with a credible 'naturalistic' reason for their foundation, it seems they are now just being shrugged off. However, with new AI quantum computer technology, it is impossible to dismiss, even among the most ardent sceptics

According to my theory, they were created by off-worlders (aliens) either for fun or to make us scratch our heads. But I'm sure there must be more to it than that, even if I don't know why, except to say it might have to do with a heads-up for 'first contact'. Who knows? Perhaps they are connected to the mysterious destruction of the George Guidestones in August 2022. See it happen on YouTube. Then again, maybe not, I can only guess.

Again, to see more of these circles and designs, and the 'lame' explanations offered over the year for their sudden appearance, go to my post https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/crop-circles

In my upcoming Sci-Fi trilogy, which I hope to write over the next few years, more will appear around the globe, but always with the same equation code, inscribed with a variety of shapes and designs. The code is what is called the elixir in my sixth novel, THE ELIXIR, which is hopefully to be published by late fall.

Interestingly, I mysteriously received this equation, MXY 23LZ=YZ4 01, over 20 years ago, but I won't disclose more until the appropriate time. Let's just say it will fit in very nicely with the upcoming sci-fi novel plots.

Possibly, this has to do with the 23 DNA strands in the helix and the 01 that make up the multi-dimensional structure, giving the human race 24 in each helix. Book 6 delves further into that theory, where the protagonist receives an implant to become the first extraterrestrial human hybrid... stay tuned.

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JUNE 2005

WE ARE WHAT WE RECEIVE,

WE ARE WHAT WE PROJECT

Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur

What did Thomas Aquinas mean when he stated: "Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient?"

Here's my take:

We experience and perceive life through the lens of how things appear from where we calibrate on the scale of consciousness. This is not always fixed, but often, where we have settled or become stuck... the resting point from which we currently view life.

To the fearful, all things are fearful. To the joyful, all things are joyful, or at least where life is generally experienced as a joyous and happy experience, even in difficult circumstances. To the jealous, envious, hateful, and obsessed with victimhood, that's generally how life is experienced. To the positive, creative, loving and magnanimous soul, that too, is how life will be experienced.

As Aquinas suggested, we interpret and receive life's circumstances according to our nature, that being, I submit, our conscious awareness. Not only do we receive, but we also project the essence of our consciousness onto others through our judgments.

A loving person will receive what's offered with grace, dignity and love. On the contrary, a self-absorbed person might only do so with an attitude of entitlement, dismissing another's act of kindness as something less than was intended, becoming suspicious of the one who was being kind. For example, a suspicious woman may reject the flowers a man offers her because she assumes he is only doing this to get what she believes he was contriving to obtain in exchange. Such ingrates mirror themselves, seeing others as they see themselves. And so, if that's how things are received, there can be no gratitude with this attitude.

However, I think there's more to our nature than what Aquinas has indicated. It's not just about receiving, but also about our capacity and desire to become more than the calibration of consciousness we find ourselves. What if we decide to love rather than hate? That changes everything! As long as we live, we can be redeemed to start anew. However, a lifetime of hardened, negative attitudes can become increasingly difficult to change, leaving the soul with little will or capacity to change. Thereby, these souls increasingly lose the ability to evolve into a higher level of consciousness.

For them, I suppose, there might be some dubious satisfaction in maintaining smug prejudices of moral and intellectual superiority. Still, it's not good if these attitudes shortchange one's happiness and that of everyone around them. In the extreme, this can lead to a life of dystopia and abusive behaviour. There's a saying: "Would you rather be right or be happy?" The ego must always be right because being right, not happy, is what it requires for its illusory world.

The contrast of living by the dictates of the ego or the heart remains stark and simple. Anyone of low consciousness, unaware of what's good, what's beautiful and of lasting value, will not experience the finer things in life, nor will these be appreciated or tolerated. And so those existing in lower consciousness will default to their element, or, as Aquinas stated, their nature.

The Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg suggests this is why hell exists as a state of being; it is not God's choosing but rather self-consumed humans dwelling in the distorted consciousness of their choosing, thereby creating everything they are and have willingly become. On this topic, see the blog narrative about Nero and his journey and how he was rescued by a personification of love. Nero: One Helluva Story: https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/one-helleva-story

We all have different tastes in life. For example, some people love classical music, some are into death rock, and a few might like both, but probably not many. Each expression has its own calibration of consciousness from highest to lowest, from shame to enlightenment. What a person identifies with is how we can tell where they calibrate on the scale. Of course, tastes can change, especially with maturity, and with it, our nature may change for better or worse. We welcome and delight in whatever aligns with the nature (consciousness) of our souls, and so are drawn to it.

With regard to this scale of conscious, we may see how it accounts for the differences in how all things "are received according to the nature of the recipient." Or as is stated in the proverb: "As a man thinketh, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7). This idea was also succinctly stated by Anais Nin: "We receive things not as they are but as we are." In any case, each expression of life has a unique calibration of consciousness, which can be tested and measured by anyone calibrating on the positive side of the fulcrum over 200.

Based on Dr David Hawkins' research, how we perceive life and react to all expressions, things and events in life according to where we calibrate on the scale: high, low or somewhere between. To understand more about this topic and how levels of consciousness can be measured using muscle testing techniques, refer to these posts:

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/calibrating-consciousness
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-conscious-are-you

The calibrations of consciousness are represented on a scale of 1 to 1,000, which one might think of as frequencies of awareness progressing from the lower rungs of shame, guilt, hate, anger, etc., to the pivotal demarcation from negative to positive qualities at 200, beginning with courage. Midway up the scale, at 500, is love; then, enlightenment, at 700 to 1,000, which is all that is humanly possible.

For this reason, one dwelling in the lower below 200 will perceive life much differently than someone who dwells in love above 500. People, places, and events, for example, are perceived and interpreted according to their calibration or, as Aquinas would say, their nature by which life is filtered through our partial understanding and prejudices.

However, none of these calibrations are fixed since one may evolve higher or devolve lower according to life choices. For many, a religious epiphany might change everything. Nevertheless, it seems that for most, there is a set point where the human consciousness settles, finding its calibrated level, more or less, that represents what one has become due to life's circumstances, environment, experiences, and habitual attitudes towards life and others.

For example, Mohammed had a much different calibration from before he wrote the Koran than when he later ordered the brutal beheading, genocide and slavery of many Jews in Medina, Arabia, in 627 AD. We can confirm, using muscle testing measurements, that, as a result, he diminished from an enlightenment level to far below 200.

In the New Testament, Titus 1:15 states. "To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure... both their minds and consciences are corrupted. (NIV) The upshot of this is that we can easily become compromised by corrupting our inward nature. A thief will see everyone else as thieves because that's what they are, and so they act accordingly, justifying their nefarious, low-conscious conduct.

By the way, the resting point of one's consciousness has little or nothing to do with intelligence. In fact, a person who takes pride in their intellectual prowess will likely score below the 200 mark in their distorted judgment of their preferred Weltanschauung (worldview). Ironically, and sadly, this includes many high-IQ intellectuals who fall on the lower end of the conscious scale because their mind's ego pride and dualistic judgmentalism have got the better of them, which has nothing to do with the higher-calibrating qualities of the heart's love.

So what do you do when someone judges you, saying all kinds of nasty things that aren't true? First, understand that their judgment is based on the nature of their character, and so they can't do otherwise since they don't have the will or capacity to comprehend what truths may lie beyond their narrow spectrum of prejudices. So, that's what they do... judge according to where their plumbline hangs on the spectrum of consciousness. Observe how many love to hate the politicians who are outside their tribe.

Also, realize it's probably all about them and that you make them feel inadequate or cause them to loathe something within themselves. They certainly did that to Jesus, perhaps because they became resentful for not being more like him, living in light and love, while they lived in darkness and fear.

I can think of no better retort than what Lao Tzu allegedly said: "I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am."

This, of course, is a clever way of saying that those judging us (or others) are projecting the very vices they possess. In other words, they perceive others as they are and therefore project their self-loathing and insecurities, particularly when they envy others' successes. Of course, few realize the deeper reason for what triggers their judgment, especially when there is a difference in political views and values.

Unfortunately, those who are quick to judge anyone who doesn't align with their perspectives set themselves up for self-incrimination and diminishment. It's okay to disagree, but resentment, anger and hate have long-term consequences for the soul. That's why we are told to love our enemies and do good to those who hate us. As Jesus said, "Judge not, lest you be judged. For with what judgement you judge, you shall be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. (Matthew 7:2) By loving, not judging, we sustain our higher vibe of consciousness. As the proverb says, "Guard your heart more than any treasure, for it is the source of all life."

By rising above others' judgment and hate, we respond rather than react, thereby transcending the monkey mind of our ego to raise our consciousness into self-mastery. Then you die; that's what you take with you, making heaven ever more resplendent because you now have evolved spiritual eyes to see what otherwise couldn't be seen. If you don't believe in the afterlife, do it anyway; you'll be a happier person for it, as will those surrounding you.

So, how do we reset our conscious calibration? It begins with projecting an intention by being grateful for all that comes to mind in your life. To get started, review:

https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/sowing-happy-seeds-of-gratitude

When you wake up in the morning, you might say to yourself: "Today, I intend to stay aligned with love and to receive these new energies of joy, peace and love with ease and grace." This beats dwelling in the snake pits of negativity below 200.

Such a simple statement can help calibrate your mind toward the positive and assist you in flowing with the day's energy rather than against it. Throughout the day, practice self-compassion; if old fears or negative thoughts arise, address them with love instead of pushing them away as you shed layers of old conditioning.

Creative expression is another powerful tool for transformation integration, whether through art, music, writing, or any hobby that puts you in a flow state, as it allows your energy to move freely.

Every thought you have and every intention you set is an energy projection that resonates throughout the fabric of reality. Many of our old projections were unconscious, stemming from fear, doubt, and inherited beliefs from a divided world. But now, by directing the light of consciousness with intention and creativity, we awaken the clarity of our soul rather than the confusion of the small ego self, reclaiming our mastery over what we project.

By doing so, we become more of what we are designed to be as we elevate the world to a higher level of consciousness, rather than wallowing in the misery of fear, anger, hate, envy, and suspicion, which still remain in the lower 200s.In this new, higher consciousness, manifestations accelerate where the gap between projection and its physical expressions becomes increasingly shorter as we elevate our frequency. Rather than focusing on the fears of our old world, look to the visions of our new, higher nature -the reality we wish to manifest. By raising our consciousness, we are also actively shaping reality at the subatomic level, becoming a nexus point through which divine possibilities enter the physical realm.

This is not just a metaphor; rather, it is the physics of consciousness... because as Anais Nin stated, "We see things not as they are, but as we are."

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MAY 2025

ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

In speaking of evolution, it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.
G.I. Gurdjieff'

For May's Message from the Passage, I've included an excerpt from Book Four, ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: SURREAL ADVENTURES, where a debate ensues on the topic of human origins and consciousness. This occurs at a university forum being held on a virtual island they sail to in called the Flatlands, where Rhom, an off-worlder from the Pleiadian constellation, is giving the featured speaker a hard time.

The first three chapters of Surreal Adventures may be accessed at this link
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/coming-soon-bk-2-surreal-adventures

Whatever your opinion is on the topic of origins, I trust you will find this post interesting, if not a bit provocative, since it goes contrary to much of science's current narrative regarding who and what we are. The question remains: Are humans a fluke of nature or an emanating fractal of a priori consciousness?

We listened to a presentation outside on how the brain was nature's supreme organ. I smiled at a pretty young woman who happened to be standing next to me. She smiled back and suggested I ought to return tonight to hear a lecture on how the brain's neural transmitters function.

'If you haven't seen the model, it's quite the sight,' she said enthusiastically.

'Maybe you can explain it to me sometime,' I said. 'So, are you coming this evening?'

'I'm not sure, but you should come anyway. Miniature lights simulating neural synaptic transmitters are colour-coded in the lobes, all mapping out how and where the mind performs its wonders. The circuitry flashes on and off in a spectacular flow of colours, causing the brain to glow brightly.'

'The brain couldn't possibly be as spectacular as your bright mind,' I smiled flirtatiously.

I guess she wasn't expecting that, so she gave me a curious look and moved to the other side of the auditorium. I meant that to be funny, but I guess it came across a bit lame. Obviously, I had miscalculated, losing some of my dazzling charm over these last months. Probably, I needed more practice. Oh, well, I thought, she wasn't real anyway in this virtual reality, even if she felt that way.

As I observed the crowd, it was evident how impressed they were when the speaker reminded them how chance provides order to matter.

'But it isn't just chance,' he said, 'it's destiny. That's when nature emerges to create the greatest show on earth.'[1]

I watched Rhom's reaction as he stood stoically, attentive to what was being said.

'Nowhere is this more evident than with the brain,' the speaker continued. 'Obviously, the brain is composed of matter. But just look what it can do! And that's all that matters,' he said, chuckling at his play on words.

'Ah, this explains everything,' Rhom whispered to me. 'Amazing... who would have guessed inert matter could do all that? Maybe he'll now tell us how.'

The crowd seemed transfixed by what the presenter said, even though I'm sure they had heard it all before, for as long as they could remember, since it never failed to awe what other wonders nature might bestow on the human brain should the species survive another billion years or two.

After he concluded his talk, he asked if there were any questions. Rhom raised his voice from the back and said: 'Thank you, sir, for your erudite presentation on the marvels of the human brain and the recent discoveries made probing the circuitry of the hypothalamus and cerebellum. I wonder if you might now explain where the blueprint for this design might have originated.'

Whispers spread through the crowd as many looked back to where we stood. Some seemed irritated with this effrontery, while others had smug, knowing smiles. Nevertheless, most seemed curious about where this intruder-interloper might have come from using such verboten words. Neither origin nor origination is considered an appropriate term in the Flatlands, any more than design or creation are tolerated in biology and anthropology departments.

The speaker cleared his throat, seemingly uncomfortable being confronted so brazenly with this ignorant and misguided query.

'Before you answer,' Rhom said, 'let me also add I fail to understand how inanimate matter comes to ferment in the primordial slime you spoke of and somehow animates itself into a mechanism for these wonders you speak of. Then there's the question of where the slime came from to get the ball rolling, since it's not exactly inanimate. Or did aliens plant it there? If so, I don't recall doing any such thing, he chuckled. Further to this, how did life overcome the entropic tendencies of the Second Law of Thermodynamics to become a functioning organ?'

'Even if we ignore that conundrum, please advise us how the slime managed to program itself with a prerequisite design to inform itself prior to creating itself. I'd be most appreciative if you would explain this since these questions have been annoying me ever since I heard your unsubstantiated suppositions.'

Now visibly agitated, the speaker said, 'Though the brain replication outside appears incredibly complex, it wasn't always so. Over time and chance, however, the brain became increasingly intricate, much as illustrated by the model. As any scientist will tell you, this process can easily be explained by nature's cooperative mechanisms of mutations in concert with natural selection. Should you care to inform yourself, you will find all accredited scientists agree that the science is settled.'

'I'm sure they do. Non-sequiturs aside, you have yet to address the question of sex. How does inanimate matter transmute itself into a self-replicating organism... and all this before the advent of either mutations or natural selection. How would symbiosis even be possible if nothing prior existed to make this a possibility? It's difficult for me to understand how reproductive organs could have emerged when there would be no survival benefit until they were fully functional in both sexes.

'I'm not sure how anyone could find sufficient faith to believe in any of this, even if they wanted to. And so, if you would, please enlighten me on how these organisms could procreate when there was nothing with which to procreate. In other words, by what means would organs emerge into existence prior to... well, their existence?

'Let me also inquire; would that not be an implicit tautology, considering the a posteriori would have had to be the a priori cause? It seems there could be no more significant logical contradiction than that. Or am I missing some, ah, if you will, missing link?'

Again, a murmur spread through the crowd as everyone looked back towards Rhom. With so many there, I felt somewhat self-conscious as I stood beside this ancient sea captain relic who kept asking embarrassing questions. Perhaps I should have followed the young woman to the other side.

Maybe that's what threw the crowd; that, along with his medieval sea habiliments and imposing stature. Though I expected some heckling, it seemed everyone was too caught off guard to know what to do with this odd spectacle in their midst.

'Once again, sir,' the speaker responded, 'anything can happen with enough time, and, in fact, does happen. In this case, most palaeontologists agree that irradiating lightning strikes coalesced the necessary energy from the atmosphere to the earth. Over time, this latent force produced surges of life-forming patterns, thereby overriding whatever order of entropy you might have been referring to.

'If you knew your science, my good man, you would know that's what scientists call punctuated equilibrium, or what might be considered random energy discharge surges resulting in the creation of increasing complexity of progressive evolutionary orders. We can only address this in terms of the respected discipline of scientific abiogenesis[2] instead of antiscientific myths of creation, which seem to be implicit in your lines of the query.'

With this comment, the crowd erupted in hoots, laughter and clapping, clearly enjoying the routing coup d'andeacute;tat.

'Thank you for your inquisitions,' he said; 'are there other questions in the audience?'

'Since you have yet to address my questions satisfactorily,' Rhom said, 'I'd like to know if anyone in this esteemed audience can provide plausible insights into what remains unbeknownst to the speaker.'

It was now most apparent that there was a troublemaker in the crowd. Many looked back at us again, this time with indignant anger. The speaker wasn't at all pleased with Rhom's impudence.

'Let me restate the question since it all sounds so miraculous,' Rhom said. 'I just want to know how nature can, with enough time and chance, create life out of inanimate matter and then later replicate itself into innumerable species. You just stated that nature explains everything, yet I don't see how that, in itself, explains anything emerging into existence. Nor has anyone provided a logical causal explanation of how nature could be an effect of itself.'

For a moment, the speaker looked stunned, searching his mind for how to respond or, perhaps, how to deal with this intruder before he did any more damage.

Undeterred, Rhom said, 'While everyone is thinking about his, I have a related question. Is there anyonehere who can tell us how consciousness was created? Did the brain somehow emerge out of the elements with an awareness of its awareness? A most curious phenomenon, wouldn't you say, considering no one on this earth even seems to have the faintest idea what consciousness is?'

There was silence as the speaker once again looked down at his notes, this time, I'm sure, wishing this would all soon be over so he wouldn't have to put up with more of this audacity.

'Again, all I'm asking,' Rhom said, 'is how consciousness was derived from unconscious matter and how did the animated brain, derived from inorganic, inert chemicals, the very brain that observes itself in the laboratory? I don't know if anyone here is aware that one of your revered physicists aptly commented on this impossibility when he stated: As if mind had only been produced by the very display that it is now watching.'[3]

There was some murmuring in the audience and then more silence. After a few moments of reflection, the speaker regained his composure and finally looked up with a condescending smirk.

'Sir,' he said, 'if you were at all familiar with the concept of consciousness, you wouldn't need to ask such a question because you would already know that awareness is what scientists refer to as merely being an epiphenomenon of the brain.

'It is often referred to as an emergent quality emanating from the brain's cortex. If it helps you understand,' the speaker said, 'think of consciousness as an electromagnetic wave, much like a hot current radiating off the wire of a turbine'.

'I see,' said Rhom. 'However, saying consciousness is merely an epiphenomenon of the brain suggests a few pounds of flesh is all it takes to bring consciousness into existence. That's what we most pity about this intellectual wasteland; your ontological arguments have no substance. If that's what Flatlanders wish to believe, then continue in your mind's playground.

'Where I come, there is no analogy for consciousness. Instead, analogies derive from consciousness, as does everything else. Consciousness is not of the flesh; it's of the eternal order of reality from which the flesh exists for a short while. Without being known, it is how we come to know.'

Rhom paused a moment to let these words sink in. Some in the audience appeared intrigued by what he had to say, considering how he appeared to have just stepped off the movie set of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Nevertheless, his poignant questions were new to almost everyone in the forum and possibly the speaker, too. Others looked annoyed, while most seemed confused, as if they had never thought about any of this before.

Before the speaker could divert attention away from h

im, Rhom said, 'It should be evident that there can be no reality apart from consciousness, yet you remain ingenuous, preferring to fabricate the term epiphenomenon to explain what you can't explain. It's supposed to mean something, yet it means nothing.[4]

'All one needs to do is make up a word, and this whole Flatland will buy into any sleight of hand. What if reality was consciousness... and you want to reduce it to some word that means nothing? Just like you give names to energy particles to make mind-stuff seem more materially palatable, and before you know it, everyone believes the story. That's why we pity everyone here; there seems to be no end to self-delusion.'

The lecturer grew red in the face as his hands began to shake in anger. Yet, he gave no further response, only muttering something about moving on to questions that had some relevance to the topic.

'Well then,' Rhom said, 'since no one can give any meaningful response to my queries, I will take my leave. If I've created a few bumps along your flat, physicalist road, I have done so to jolt you awake. Have a pleasant day.'

As we made our way towards the door, I heard the speaker ask the audience, 'Could we now please have a more judicious inquiry into the intricacies of the human brain, this time something more based on factual science?'

There was some laughter and clapping at this remark, albeit more subdued than before. I'm sure the audience was relieved with this repartee, as several hands shot up to ensure they wouldn't have to endure more of Rhom's audacious stunts.

As we walked out onto the street, I laughed. 'It seems you've been duly informed about the nature of reality, Rhom. Aren't you glad you came to find what you didn't know before?'

'Imagine that, all I had to do was come halfway across the universe to receive such enlightenment. Yet, it seems the Flatlanders don't take very well to having their beliefs challenged.'

'Especially by a pirate,' chuckled. 'I doubt if anyone has ever confronted Flatlanders with views so unsavoury to their linear orthodoxies.'

'Their reaction was a typical human experience,' he said, 'just like many assumed that the sun revolves around the earth because that's what they saw, from morning till night. Even after Galileo came up with something very different, their beliefs continued.'

'It seems things haven't changed that much,' I said. 'Everywhere, people believe what they wish to believe and what makes them comfortable.'

'Still, we shouldn't be too hard on your species,' Rhom said, 'even if I might have been a bit direct with the speaker.'

'Nevertheless, it was important for you to call out the Flatlanders on their presumptions of dubious reasoning. I mean, really, what does a current of heat emanating from a wire have to do with consciousness, even as an analogy? And yet this obvious sophistry seemed to satisfy them.'

'That's why analogies can be deceptive,' he said, 'especially when non-sequiturs are used to contort what's foolish to appear reasonable. I hope you will remember how endemic this thinking has become throughout the Flatlands.'

'I'll try, but I can see myself sitting in this crowd as an impressionable student not long ago, bobbing my head up and down along with everyone else, which makes me wonder what I was thinking back then.

'After all, philosophers are supposed to expose and critique the underlying assumptions instead of becoming apologists for every fashionable sophistry that emerges from such intellectual miasma.'

'But then,' Rhom said, 'it has become common for philosophers to critique only what Flatlands consider acceptable for critiquing. Apparently, it's safer that way.'

'I guess I should know,' I said, 'my career depends on having a few blinds spots when necessary.'

'That might be; still, how would you have made it this far had you doubted what you inwardly knew to be true? You didn't forget your vision, and so your vision didn't forget you, even when you misplaced it after compromising your beliefs to secure a part-time lectureship.'

--- Next Chapter ---

As we continued our walk out of the Flatlands towards the shore, I was lost in thought while contemplating the lessons I learned while revisiting my past in these Flatlands.

Rhom suddenly turned towards me and said, smiling: 'You might wish to look up for a moment from the ruts of your past; there is a brighter future to come.'

I then turned and saw Sophia running excitedly towards us. When she caught up, out of breath, she said: 'Am I ever glad to find that you're still here. While in class, I kept thinking about you and all the adventures you're having.

'I've decided I want to come! May I? I'm tired of this place. I promise I'll learn how to sail and do whatever you ask me.'

I was delighted to hear this and was about to welcome her aboard when Rhom smiled at her kindly and said, 'Sophia, we would love to take you with us; however, you still need to experience your journey in the Flatlands just as Sebastian had to complete his before it was his time to sail away.'

'I hate to say it, Sophia, but Rhom is right. As much as I'd like to take you with us, you don't even know where we're headed. Before you depart this island, you need to discover where you wish to go.'

'That is the most important part of the journey,' Rhom said. 'When you know that, all else will become clear.'

'I just know I don't wish to be here anymore. There's nowhere to go and nothing to see. I want to follow you since you're the only men who know where you're going. Please take me with you; I'll do anything,' she pleaded as her eyes moistened.

I took her in my arms and looked at Rhom as if to ask... Now what?

'Don't worry, Sophia,' Rhom said, 'I'm sure we'll meet again.'

Still, she sobbed as I released her from my arms.

'So, where will I find you?'

'Follow your heart,' Rhom said. 'It will direct you to where you should go.'

'So where is that?' she asked.

'Do you see the Mountain across the sea, far beyond Flatlands' shallow shores?'

'No, I don't. You know, we're not supposed to look in that direction.'

'Look anyway,' he said, 'and keep searching until you see it through the murky mists of the Lowlands, over the seas beyond the horizon. That's where you'll find us, ascending to ever-higher plateaus. And, not only us but even more importantly, you will find your Self there.'

'I'm not sure what you mean. How can I find myself when I already know myself?'

'Do you, Sophia? Do you know who you are?'

She looked down pensively, not knowing how to respond.

'No one has ever asked me that before,' she said. 'Maybe you're right, maybe I don't know. So, can you tell me who I am?'

'Only you can discover who you are,' I said. 'All we see is an amazing young woman with beautiful red hair. But within, you are much more than that.'

'Again, I don't understand; what do you mean much more?' she asked. 'What is much more?'

'Within,' Rhom said, 'you are a goddess of divine resplendence waiting to be found. If you look within, you will find her, the Self you are.'

'These are extraordinary words, Captain,' she said. 'No one has ever spoken to me like this before.'

'Nor will they, at least not in the Flatlands or Lowlands,' I said. 'But first, you will have to ascend your Mountain. That's what I had to do before I could know the I Am that I am.'

She looked at me curiously, appearing not to understand what I said.

'I'm sorry, Sophia,' Rhom said, 'but we must now take our leave to return to the sea. Always remember to look towards the Mountain so you might join us there.'

He lifted her downcast chin and lightly stroked her hair as she began to sob again.

Again, I took her in my arms and embraced her tightly, kissing her cheek. Then we turned and walked away. After a distance, I looked back. She remained there motionless, silently watching us. I waved goodbye. She didn't wave back.

'Dammit, Rhom, this is supposed to be a virtual world, so how can I fall in love and become so enamoured by a hologram that feels as real as anyone I've ever known on earth. I feel terrible leaving her behind.'

'Her image might be holographic, yet it projects a real soul. In a sense, everyone is a hologram of their past, present and future. Possibly, one day, you will meet a semblance of her when you least expect it. If you do, ask her if she ever had a dream about a Captain and his First Mate on the street somewhere.'

[1] The presenter was using this phrase, taken from one of biologist Richard Dawkins' books, which attributes to nature the power to create all life and evolutionary variations throughout the world.
[2] Abiogenesis is the scientific discipline that proposes to explain how life supposedly arises from non-living matter. Speculations are rife in the paleontological and biological communities on how the inanimate became animate. In truth, however, never has life been remotely demonstrated to arise from inorganic life in the laboratories, let alone in Haldane's primordial soup.
[3] The full quote by Erwin Schrodinger is: 'The show that is going on obviously acquires a meaning only with regard to the mind that contemplates it. But what science tells us about this relationship is patently absurd: as if mind had only been produced by the very display that it is now watching.' See Appendix 'A' for more quotes by Erwin Schrodinger (1933 Nobel Prize in Physics).
[4] For those interested, there is much material available on the topic of epiphenomenalism and how it may have unintentionally germinated and evolved from the philosophical dualism of Descartes. It's both interesting and informative to understand 'rational' Flatland thinking and why the mind is rejected as the causal agent of anything, including free will, since only what is sensory (material) is permitted to be the sole agent. If you give credence to their premises, then obviously free will has no logical basis because their reality has no spiritual dimension to give it a foundation.

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APRIL 2025

THE MAGIC OF
CALIBRATING CONSCIOUSNESS

In this post, I'm going to teach some magic, or so it may seem. But first, I need to give a short introduction so we have some context for how this sorcery works.

This magic is all about how to calibrate levels of consciousness, so let's begin by questioning what is consciousness? Where is it, where does it come from, and where is it not? Does it come from the brain?

Such questions often trip up scientists since they, I'm sorry to say, are mostly clueless about what I'm about to reveal. Many dismiss consciousness as what they refer to as an epiphenomenon, something that goes on in the brain's hardware, much like heat off a stove. To me, that's absurd, but it seems that's the best they've got to explain consciousness since it's way too subjective and immaterial for their comfort. (I even had an educated atheist friend tell me that consciousness doesn't exist; it's just an illusion.)

For more on this debate, see an excerpt in another post that's taken from Chapter Four of Surreal Adventures in the Elysium's Passage series, where consciousness is discussed in a heated debate at a fictional Forum. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-conscious-are-you

Regardless, is there another word for consciousness that might help, such as awareness? If so, might we say these are interchangeable terms where is may be said the higher the IQ, the higher one's conscious awareness?

If so, intelligent people would be the most aware. But are they?

Is it highly intelligent people or highly conscious people that bring misery to the masses? I think it's obvious it's not the Mother Teresas that exploit the masses by inserting themselves into positions of power, money and privilege, having little regard for anyone but themselves. Therefore, being intelligent, on its own, does not necessarily mean being more socially adept and well-adjusted in treating others as we all would like to be treated.

So, obviously, having high intelligence is not necessarily the same as having high consciousness. Not to say intelligence and consciousness are mutually exclusive.

As Nelson Mandela once stated: I would suggest intelligence and consciousness, ie, mind and heart, work best when in coherence as a unified field.
See my post, Union of Heart and Mind. https://digitalbloggers.com/book-reviews/union-of-heart-and-mind

Let's first consider whether consciousness has less to do with the mind and more with the heart. We now understand how intelligence is not just the domain of brain cells but that the heart possesses physiological intelligence, too. For information on this, go to https://www.heartmath.org/

We can measure intelligence with IQ tests, but if consciousness is the domain of the heart, how do we measure the heart? If consciousness is more about love than calculus, how can it be empirically measured and given a score? Certainly not with an EEG readout. So then, what is the technique for calibrating consciousness? That's where we come to the magic part.

But before addressing this question, let's first pivot in the direction of spirituality and ask if consciousness has more to do with God than with three and three and a half pounds of flesh. What we understand as consciousness is our experience of the divine expression of God (or whatever terms one may apply, such as Source, Great Creator, Universe, All That Is, Spirit, First Cause, Prime Cause, Prime Source, etc.) Of course, the atheist would deny it being any other than what's material because that's all they believe in.

My position, however, is that they are wrong; God has everything to do with conscious awareness simply because God, in essence, is consciousness. That may seem a rather bold, audacious claim. Yet I don't see how it could be otherwise, implying existence is essentially non-dual, where the distinction between subject and object breaks down into Oneness. Therefore, the extent of our consciousness would relate to how God-infused we are and what we, as free-will beings, allow through the divine portals of our souls. Sorry for getting so philosophical, but the subject requires deep understanding.

If God is everywhere, then so must be consciousness; it's just a matter of degree. To some extent, all life is aware and, therefore, conscious; the earth, with its animals, plants, insects and even amoeba, not to mention water and soil.

We are told that God is love, the glue of the universe experienced through consciousness. So, does this mean that all, in its essence, is an expression of God? If we hold to the ancient orthodox position that God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (all-present), and omnipotent (all-powerful), then how could it be otherwise? I believe most Buddhists, Hindus, and Sufi Muslims would agree, just as the early Christian fathers inscribed these beliefs in their canon.

Of course, this is not the same as claiming amoeba or anything else to be God. That would be preposterously pantheistic. However, we may say God's material universe is an emanation of eternal Spirit, just as it is stated in Acts 17: 28, for in Him we move and live and have our being. As I see it, consciousness is the animating life force of the universe, the universal andeacute;lan vital.

But since we each possess, or should I say, exercise a limited amount of consciousness awareness, or as I've said, God-infusion, we exist somewhere between the polarities of Light and Darkness, Love and Fear.

Some humans are born with innate high intelligence, while some are born with an innate calibration of high consciousness. Highly evolved humans have both, but most are much lower, with 100 being the average IQ and 200 being the average calibration of consciousness.

Many have little spiritual awareness, while some children seem gifted with uncanny wisdom. If you believe in reincarnation, it's possible to interpret this as some souls continuing on the continuum where they left off in their last 3D life, such as Mozart inheriting a highly accomplished musical ability and awareness. In such cases, I'm not sure there's a limit on how far we can evolve in our conscious awareness in one lifetime.

Whereas, there are limits on how much more intelligent you can train yourself to be and how much you can dumb yourself down. It seems, however, that consciousness, or, let's say, God-infusion, would seem much more pliable when tied to our free moral will and what we allow in through the divine portals of the heart. Christian scriptures exhort us to be 'filled with the Holy Spirit.'

Again, that's because the heart is about love and since God is love, the more love we allow, the higher our consciousness, even if we can't intellectually explain how we are able to swing so significantly both up and down on the scale of consciousness. We can go up by setting our ego aside, or we can 'fall from grace by allowing the ego-mind to get in the way of our heart's divine portal when choking off our God-infused consciousness.

Our consciousness can easily rise or fall based on what influences we allow into our lives. Furthermore, we can calibrate these shifts. In other words, an external frame of reference is based on there being what is sometimes called the Field or Universal Field of Consciousness. Now, if it seems ridiculous that our conscious awareness can be measured, let me prove it. Or better yet, you may prove it to yourself.

But first, let me introduce Dr David Hawkins, who was one of the pioneers in the field of examining consciousness. Dr David Hawkins, MD. PhD (1927-2012) was an acclaimed doctor of psychiatry, psychology and philosophy. I've listed his impressive list of credentials at the end of a post I wrote a few years ago. https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-conscious-are-you
Over the years from the early 1950s, Hawkins wrote extensively on psychiatry and psychology, particularly as it related to addictions.

Then later, his focus expanded into the domains of spirituality, consciousness and enlightenment. I know of no one else, other than perhaps Jung, who had more to say on these topics, especially when approached from a non-dualistic perspective. Some of his books include The Eye of the I; I: Reality and Subjectivity and Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. Also, one of his most famous books, Power versus Force, had a Foreword written by Mother Teresa as an endorsement of his work.

Many years after establishing the largest and most prominent psychiatric clinic in the State of New York, he turned his attention to consciousness, perfecting an understanding of how to calibrate it. He wasn't the first to develop these tests, but likely the most thorough in his research and writings.

Though it might seem difficult to believe this method is possible, it's not such a stretch if you accept that God, by definition, is omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipresent (all-present), expressed as consciousness, then there should be no problem. But since most scientists don't believe in God, they have a problem with this direct approach to measuring consciousness.

But if there is a verifiable technique for measuring consciousness, what is this magic incantation? It's simple... no need for wands or devices; just you, the tester and consciousness, which is always there. In essence, this is a kinesiology muscle test where the muscle remains strong when the statement is true and where the muscle goes weak when the statement is false.

So then, let's do the test....

But first, for the rest of this article that explains how to do the test, go to the full post at https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/calibrating-consciousness

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MARCH 2025

Lecture on Dr David Hawkins and Relativism
February 23, 2025
Dr. David C. Jones

Dr Jones is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Calgary. Now retired and well into his eighties, he remains active in speaking and writing, having authored over 40 books so far.) He was a very popular professor and remains very engaging and captivating with his unique and animated style. I asked him if I may include a transcript of this recent talk at a church on David Hawkins, to which is graciously agreed.

If anyone wishes to know more about the incomparable Dr David Hawkins and his outstanding achievements, I posted an article on his work a couple of years ago. |
How Conscious Are You? https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/how-conscious-are-you

Dr Jones's transcript is as follows:

David R. Hawkins was an extraordinary spiritual figure of the last thousand years. A doctor and a psychiatrist also, he created a map of the spiritual consciousness of humanity. It ran from 0 to 1000, one thousand being the highest attainable on earth. Jesus calibrated at 1000, as did Buddha and Krishna, but most people in the world are below 200, the crucial level of Truth and courage. Below 200, the consciousness of individuals is dominated by forms of negativity-pride, anger, fear, guilt, and shame. Above that level is reason, logic and rationality in the 400s, then love at 500, with unconditional love at 540. Only .4 percent of the world's population reaches the level of Love.

Hawkins' system uses a well-known approach of kinesiology, arm muscle testing, to distinguish between Truth and falsity. People test strong when expressing the Truth and go weak when not.[i] "A negative feeling", he writes, "causes a loss of 50% of the body's muscle strength and also narrows our vision, both physically and mentally.[ii]

Why? Negativity is a denial of our very essence. It is a denial of all the gifts of God, a denial of your own sanctity, your own holiness, your inherent goodness, your essence as Love. Over and over in A Course in Miracles, Jesus has you memorize the great key-"I am as God Created Me."

Even before 2008, Hawkins foresaw an approaching calamity. Seventy-eight percent of the world's population is below the crucial level of 200. Only .4 percent of the world's population reaches the level of Love. But that was only part of what was happening.

Look at the American universities. In 1955, Academia calibrated at 440, the level of rationality, reason, the intellectual integrity of the classical philosophers, ...the uplift, the study of virtues.... But by 2007, this high calibration of 440 had dropped precipitously to the level of 180 or lower. That's the level of intellectual anarchy. It's like falling 25,000 feet into a rock pit.

How did that happen? How were the academics hoodwinked?

Said Hawkins, it was the "fallacious intellectual/sociological/philosophical theories of recent decades; all boiled down to Marxist ...elaborations of "relativism (ethical, moral, social, cultural).[iii]" These social anarchists, postmodernists, and relativists dreamt of a society "with no rules or restrictions, where all forms of expression are of equal value and validity, and where even overt falsehood has equal value and credibility with Truth."[iv]

None of these theorists, Hawkins said, calibrate over 200-Foucault, 190; Darrida, 170; Marcuse, 150; and, of course, Marx, 135.[v] These levels are all negative. They have negative social consequences and destructive social impacts. Look at the Marxist regimes of Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, Stalin and any other 'liberator' regimes.

This low-level relativism supplanted the wisdom of the Enlightenment, the great minds of history, the Greeks, the Romans, the classics, and The Great Books series. These calibrated from 440 to 499-an infinity richer than relativism.

The professors and many students had fallen victim to the first law of chaos in A Course in Miracles. Remember, 180 is the level of intellectual anarchy.

"What have you taught yourself that you can possibly keep in place of what you have and who you are?" asks Jesus in the Course.[vi] The answer is a self-concept-a made-up self-definition, the coveted but confused purpose of this world. "You come without a self, and you make up one as you go along."[vii] And not one concept is the same as any other. How unique! But also, how chaotic!

"The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone," states Jesus.[viii] Each person is separate with self-cut carvings of interests and boredom, attractions and aversions, harmonies and discords, all as different as difference can be. There is no sameness, no unity, no oneness, nothing in common but the chaos everyone sees and feels in the jungle of clashing opinions, each hallowed as a "concept." And it matters little which concept is chosen. "It bears no likeness to yourself at all," says Jesus. "It is an Idol...."[ix]

Leaking like Hemlock from the fatal first law of chaos is the great threat to Truth in our lives-relativism.

Relativism calibrates lowly at 180 or lower, below the critical level of Truth at 200, a disastrous downside, magnified by its basic principles, shared by postmodernism. Hawkins detailed the supporting clauses of the first law of chaos, relativism.

There is no independent, universal, verifiable truth.

Morality and ethics have no reality basis and are, therefore, invalid.

Because there are no universal or verifiable truths, there should be no social parameters, restrictions, or [value systems] that are repressive... we get to do what want....

We are greatly affected by the prejudices and power of repressive elements in society that want to stifle us, control us, and keep us in line, like religion or tradition or worn-out morality.

Because there is no absolute truth, God/Divinity is nonexistent, and society should, therefore, be secular/atheistic/populist/libertarian and basically anarchistic.

You see, this is a threat to Jesus' teachings on Truth.

Relativism is a judgement, and like all judgements, "it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely," says Hawkins.[x] Relativism is a judgment that all traditions, customs or habits have equal validity. The celebration of the death of a national hero in Westminster Abbey, as a value, is equivalent to live entombment with a dead noble in Mayan culture, another "value." An Aztec priest's declaration that a god needs the blood nourishment of a child's extracted heart is as valid as Jesus's declaration in A Course in Miracles that a child is holy.

At the end of relativism is total anarchy, complete chaos, where nothing is dependable except undependability.

If honour to one person means do your best and to another, kill a friend in a duel or a sister who "dishonoured" the family. The result? Chaos. If right conduct means beauty to one person and brutality to another, more chaos. Everything is of equal value, equal validity, say the relativists.

Deceit is as good as trust, domination as good as service, cruelty as good as kindness, hypocrisy as good as honesty. "The paradox," says Hawkins, "is that if anarchy is 'legal', then there would be no legal rights of law by which to enforce it."[xi]

Naturally, a philosophy as utter individualist as relativism favours freedom of speech. It's no surprise that academics are inclined toward both. Emphasizing things like 'tolerance,' social justice,' multiculturalism,' [and] 'accommodation,'" Hawkins reports, "major universities then began stylishly inviting even overtly psychotic visiting trendy 'professors' to lecture on delusional subjects, e.g. 9/11 conspiracy, or the Holocaust 'never happened.'"[xii]

If all statements have equal rights, what Hitler and Goebbels said are merely "points of view," not falsities, as in traditional morality. In fact, the falsities are vitalised and legalised. The treachery of spies, the destruction by terrorists, the desecration of respect, the advocacy of unlimited sexual gratification-all are merely expressions. Defamation of character as a crime disappears before the perverted light of freedom of speech. Anything can be said; nothing is false; sedition is only free speech, as is slander and lying.

Says Hawkins, "Whereas the average American naively assumes that 'free speech' is the bulwark of civil freedom, the opposite is just as true-it is also the most serious threat to liberty." Hitler promised a better world, Marx did too, and Lenin and Stalin and Mussolini and any number of dictators. But motive makes a difference. As Jesus says in the Course, "the body is beautiful or ugly, peaceful or savage, helpful or harmful, according to the use to which it is put."[xiii] Similarly, free speech is uplifting or demoralising, melodic or discordant, helpful or harmful, according to the use to which it is put.

"The American populace," warns Hawkins, "will have to decide whether to side with wisdom or sophomoric absurdity and fulfill Socrates' dire prediction that democracies eventually fall due to giving equal voice and votes to the ignorant and [self-seeking] segment of the population." Democracies usually last only two or three hundred years "before the self-centred voters deplete the country of its resources and political wisdom."[xiv]

There is an enormous difference in the spiritual consciousness of people and in how they treat others. Think of these comparisons. Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler; Socrates and Joseph Goebbels; Mother Teresa and Joseph Stalin.... Which embrace would you prefer?

Consider the embrace of dangerous political leaders. They are intrinsically dishonest, controlling, domineering, unforgiving and vindictive. With no spiritual values, no humane ideals, no personal honour, no consideration, and no value for fairness or human life, they are sanctimonious and savage, deceitful and duplicitous. They are willing to impoverish others and sacrifice others, including family. They ravage the weak and despise the populace as idiots. They favour severe torture. They are blind to others' pain and totally intolerant of criticism. They love nothing except the fawning of others and the destruction of opponents. They attract followers and naandiuml;ve apologists. They play the victim to justify violence, and they hate enviable figures.[xv]

"When truth, justice, compassion and peace flee from man," Sai Baba said, "the world degenerates into a snake pit."[xvi] This is always true.

"Falsity brings death, destruction, and agony," Hawkins affirms. "Unless one aligns with the Sword of Truth, one ends up facing the sword of steel."[xvii]

Truth and relativism are not synonyms. Relativism is an enormous threat to all the teachings of Jesus. The path to Truth is not filled with a hundred forms of deprival and repression, and it has none of the chaos of relativism, none of the demonising of virtues and the virtuous. "We do not need today a new faith or creed, nor a new system of education," Baba explained. "Nor do we need to create a new society. All we need are men and women who have pure and loving hearts."[xviii] Always true.

And it's an enormous warning against the chaos overtaking the world-the rejection of Truth. In A Course in Miracles, the Holy Spirit asks for the simple courtesy of allowing Truth to be what it is. "Do not intrude upon it, do not attack it, do not interrupt it's coming," says Jesus. "Let it encompass every situation and bring you peace."[xix]

Relativism is embedded in post-modernism. Together, they intrude upon the Truth; they attack the Truth; they interrupt its coming.

And what is the Truth that they attempt to destroy-the Truth that you are as God made you, you are love, you are part of the divine, you are holy, and there is nothing your holiness cannot do. You are part of Oneness. Armed with the Truth, you are meant to uplift this world, to free it from falseness and pain and misleading.

The Truth is for everyone, recognise it or not. Have faith in it. And Jesus emphasises, "The strain of refusing faith to Truth (that is what relativism and postmodernism do) is enormous, and far more than you realize. But to answer Truth with faith entails no strain at all."[xx] The strain brings "sorrow, depression, sickness and pain, darkness and dim imaginings of terror, cold fantasies of fear and fiery dreams of hell.... And it was nothing but the intolerable strain of refusing to give faith to Truth and see its evident reality." [xxi]

Yes, friends, Truth does exist. You can feel its uplift. Amen

January 24 2025

[i] David R. Hawkins, Power Versus Force (Carlsbad, CA, Hay House, 2002), 91.
[ii] Hawkins, Letting Go.
[iii] Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man (Toronto: Axial 2008), 108
[iv] Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man (Toronto: Axial 2008), 107
[v] Hawkins, Truth versus Falsehood, 209
[vi] ACIM, text, 296.
[vii] ACIM, text, 656.
[viii] ACIM, Text, 489.
[ix] ACIM, text, 659.
[x] Hawkins, David, Truth Vs Falsehood, 218 check
[xi] Hawkins, Truth Vs Falsehood, 259.
[xii] Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man (Toronto: Axial, 2008), 119.
[xiii] ACIM, text, 151.
[xiv] Hawkins, Truth Vs Falsehood, 147.
[xv] Hawkins, David Truth Vs Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference, (Toronto: Axial, 2005), 280-81.
[xvi] SSS 19, 21.
[xvii] Hawkins, Truth Vs Falsehood. 283.
[xviii] SSS 20, 230.
[xix] ACIM, text p. 435.
[xx] Jesus, A Course in Miracles, text, 435-436.
[xxi] Jesus, A Course in Miracles, text, 435-436

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As Nietzsche said....

To illustrate the degrees of consciousness referred to in this article, this scale below was created by Dr Hawkings

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SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES

This is a series of seven Elysium Passager novels regarding a young British philosopher named James Phillips, who finds himself living in an altered state of reality while still remaining on Earth.

An engaging and sometimes surreal adventure with intimations of impending romance, the narrative explores the most important questions about life, death, reality, and our ultimate destiny.

To read a sample press review at https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15515775.htm

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(ATTEMPTED) INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES

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PENDING PUBLICATIONS IN THE SERIES

The following titles in the Elysium's Passage series are projected to be released in 2025

THE ASCENT

THE SUMMIT

QUANTUM LEAPS

SURREAL ADVENTURES

MYSTICAL ROMANCE

THE ELIXIR

THE RETURN

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Not only does he find he's not as clever as he imagined, but his off-world companions on the summit demonstrate that much of what he believed about life was not just parochial but wrong. At first, he finds this difficult to comprehend since their teachings are contrary to his limited understanding of non-material reality.

Now, if only he would win over the only woman in this life who matters, the nurse on the other side of the veil, who continually demonstrates her unconditional love toward his healing.

3. QUANTUM LEAPS is the third novel in Chronicles of Elysium's Passage, where James, the philosopher-protagonist, teleports back to London to visit his body and make contact with the special nurse taking care of it in his absence. Immediately, he feels an inexplicable spiritual bond with her, though the reasons remain unknown to him.

However, before that can happen, there is much about his failed relationships that must be resolved before he is ready to move forward in his new life in Elysium's Passage. It is during this time he christens his comatose body as the fall guy since it took the fall for him down the abyss so he could learn the lessons he's now learning.

That will be the next focus of his life, where, in his next Surreal Adventures, he is given virtual lessons to release many of his past beliefs about the world and his life.

After this, he achieves peace of mind and is ready to return to his lodge to join his off-world companions on the Andes summit. However, just when it seemed things couldn't get any stranger, a sixteenth-century sea captain sails his ancient 'ghost' ship onto the beach. Together, they sail off on a mystical ocean voyage to a couple of virtual islands supposedly in the South Pacific, where he witnesses and, at times, participates in several important life lessons.

To say more might risk diminishing the multitude of delightful surprises as circumstances begin to open to The Elixir, where James is about to re-enter his earthly body's existence.

Ostensibly a new Adam, he is destined to return humanity to a higher multidimensional existence. How this happens is filled with intrigue, as is his shocking return to his earthly body.

andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;7. THE RETURN is the seventh and last chronicle in the series where James, the narrator and protagonist, has re-emerged from Elysium's Passage as he readjusts to life in the third dimension. Many of the events from the previous novels are tied together in an exciting, fast-paced, and action-packed narrative that spans several countries.

This book is filled with adventure, romance and personal intrigue that ties together all six previous narratives of the Elysium's Passage series. andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;andshy;

As a teaser to the series, the first half of this book is available to read at:

https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/THE-RETURN

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