Go to www.elysiumspassage.com to access other blog posts on this site 'The trick,' he said, 'is to relax your mind and allow your imagination do its work. A mental phantasm will emerge, configuring whatever pattern you have envisioned. After all, as I keep telling you, reality is just the manifest essence of thought-forms. And so imagine whatever you wish to bring into being. Remember, imagination is the creative god-force that inspires the creation of worlds.'― NG Meyers, excerpt for Elysium's Passage: ...

Other posts on this blog may be accessed by going to www.elysiumspassage.com  . Valentine's Day is coming in a couple of weeks... a day I loath with all the expectations, contrivances and inevitable disappointments. So its not exactly on my calender. Neverthelsss, I'm willling to adjust my attitude a tad this year by posting some quotes on love, and of course, sex, to spice it up to attract more to my blog. At first I wondered what more I could say about love ...

For more blog postings click: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage    The picture featured above was near where I almost had a near fatal fall off a mountain. I never forgot that! In fact, I felt unnerved by the experience for several weeks after.  What happened is that I took a 'short cut' approach to the mountain summit where felt confident there would be no big impediments. But the further I went up, the more challenging things became where at time I had difficulty raising myself ...

For more blog postings: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage We often use the words 'ego-maniac' or 'egotistical' for someone like the young man in the above illustration who is self-consummed and probably a bit of a buffoon. It's almost comical. And yet, the ego's illusion is far darker than that, which is what I wish to explore in this post. provide an orientation to the topic. But first, I''ve included a number of sample quotes on the topic to provide an brief introduction to this subject:  When ...

For more posts go to MY BLOG at www.elysiumspassage.com Beliefs! The subject of beliefs, it seems to me, exists in an untamed territory that can be approached in any number of ways on many different levels. So where to start? There's no shortage of beliefs about beliefs. Just look at the quotes I've included below from a number of revered thinkers, each expressing divergent and provocative opinions on this subject... a good way for us to begin this post. Beginning with Huxley: “Give us this ...

For a list of more blog postings you may wish to read, go to: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage February 19, 2019 So what was Blake going on about in this poem regarding Voltaire and Rousseau? Well, for one thing both were forerunners among the rationalist/skeptics of the Enlightenment whereas he was more the mystic who saw the bigger (holy) picture. He wasn't against science, just the presumption that science could explain anything that had ultimate meaning since it deals within linear (flatland) perspectives of 'things/effects' rather ...

To view more blog posts, go to www.elysiumspassage.com     IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER born 100 years ago . GORDON PHILIP MEYERS1918-1951 . This year it has been 100 years since my father was born, so before it's too late, I thought I'd post a number of his pictures in honour of his short, but exemplary life. He passed away at the age of 33, just six years after returning from the war. I was only two years old at the time, so my memories of ...

See more blog posts at: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  THE ONE IN THE MANY AND THE MANY IN THE ONE  THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Roman fresco by Raphael Scuola di Atene, Italian Renaisance painter   For centuries Western intellectuals... the ones who influence our precepts and cultural direction, have been divided between Plato and his student Aristotle. What do I mean by that? Take a look at their fingers. Plato has one finger pointed upwards, indicating the One in the vertical transcendence of all that is. Aristotle, however, is more ...

Go to www.elysiumspassage.com to view all blog posts The third book of the ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE series is MYSTICAL ROMANCE (still unpublished). Though there are several themes that run through the book, the most prominent is celestial love and how things might be different from what is experiened on earth. Yes, the scenes include sex, but offers a much different and surprising understanding to how that occurs. As Swedenborg suggests in his quote above, nothing is diminished, only embellished according to the capacity ...

For more blog postings: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: SURREAL ADVENTURES is the second novel in the ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE novel series. The projected release date is this summer of 2019 and will be the first sequel to ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: THE SUMMIT which was published in spring of 2018. Details of the hard copy or eBook may be viewed online at Amazon:           The plot of SURREAL ADVENTURES continues where THE SUMMIT leaves off. The narrative becomes even more intriguing with its ...

For more blog postings click: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  CONSCIOUSNESS: WHAT IS IT? . The title of this post asks "How Conscious Are You?" But before we pursue this question, it would be helpful for us to first understand what consciousness is. So where does one begin? Some might say you either are or you aren't conscious; you're awake or you're asleep. And yet how many think they are awake when in actuality they go through life in what is effectively a soul slumber. If you have ...

For more blog postings click: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage For readers wishing to keep pace with my activities in marketing the series and the progress being made in my writing, I will continue to update my progress on this post. There's still much to do as I continue to revise and edit the second book before proceeding to the third. For anyone interested in purchasing the first book, ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: THE SUMMIT, it is now available through Amazon in softcover, hardcover or eBook. Click below for ...

For more blog posts go to  www.elysiumspassage.com and click MY BLOG  The following quotes are archived from the DAILY MESSAGE FROM THE PASSAGE that are beng posted during the month of February, 2019. Also note the archieved posts for January 2019 and December 2018  To see the latest posts go to Daily Message: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-from-elysium      _______________________________ February 18, 2019 February 15, 2019 The topic of the imagination is one that fascinates me, especially as of late. As I consider the novel series I am writing, ...

For more blog posts go to www.elysiumspassage.com MY BLOG    The following quotes are archived from the DAILY MESSAGE FROM THE PASSAGE that are beng posted during the month of January, 2019. Also note the archieved posts for December 2018  To see the latest post go to: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-from-elysium     ___________________________________________________________________ January 30, 2019 Rather than try to summarize these provocative quotes on reason from Hume, Pascal and Peron (A Course of Love), I have inserted below two short excerpts from ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: THE SUMMIT   From the PROLOGUE  Too ...

For more blog posts go to www.elysiumspassage.com  The following quotes are archieved from the DAILY MESSAGE FROM THE PASSAGE post. To see the latest go to: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/daily-message-from-elysium   These DAILY MESSAGES FROM ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE are from December 2018 Dec 30.18 The quote today is from Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish noble, scientist, philosopher and mystic probably knew more on this subject than anyone else and wrote more on this topic than anyone before or since. His contemporary Immanuel Kant didn't know what do to with him ...

For more blog postings click: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage The following excerpts are among the first reviews of Elysium’s Passage: The Summit. Some are Amazon Five Stars reviews along with excerpts from two professional reviews (Blue Ink and Clarion). Also note the full reviews after these excerpts.  "A delightful mix of fantasy, reality, conjecture and humour; Mr. Meyers draws the reader into the story with a gentle narrative that captures imagination, leaving one anxious to get to the next page drawing you into his exceptional world.” “Excellently ...

For more blog postings click: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage There are a number of quotes below that are part of the Elysium's Passage series which have recently been posted on my Twitter site at https://twitter.com/Neil1113 and Instagram @meyersneil I will be adding to these from time to time. In the future there will also be several original quotes taken directly from the narratives in the series.  Please feel free to copy and paste these quotes and forward on to others. However, I would prefer you don't crop ...

For more blog postings click: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage    This is the second posting of NOTES FROM ELYSIUM. Several more 'notes' will be added in the future. Regular postings can be viewed on Twitter https://twitter.com/Neil1113 and Instragram at meyersneil To order a copy of Elysium's Passage: The Summit in hard copy or eBook, click on: _________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: THE SUMMIT   This the first in a series of five Elysium narrations regarding a young British philosopher named James Phillips who finds himself living in an altered state of reality while ...

For more blog postings click: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  View the Introductory video at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXpzFH6VNMQLOtqOK2SrXpg    WHAT IS ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE ABOUT?   I’m often asked what the Elysium’s Passage series is supposed to be about. Apart from giving away the intriguing plot, I sometimes find it difficult to provide a simple answer to this question. I supposed there are a variety of possible answers to what the central theme and supporiting themes might be.  Throughout the five novel sequels we find a range of implicit and explicit themes that are ...