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^{The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is 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.}

^{Imagination is more important than knowledge.}^{Albert Einstein}

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TWO KINDS OF INTELLIGENCE

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one
already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness
in the centre of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,
and it doesn’t move from outside to inside
through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.

Rumi (13th-century Persian poet)

This post touches on what it means to be intelligent. Is it about one's score on an IQ test? Results may have something to do with intelligence, but at best such tests can only measure what is necessary, but not sufficient for the true intelligence of wisdom. It seems that both Rumi and Einstein could see there was vastly 'much more' to what constitutes consciousness... 'a fountainhead from within you, moving out,' as Rumi states.

Einstein demonstrated he was more than just a scientist, but that he was, in his own way, also a mystic and philosopher. This is what set him apart, that 'much more' that can never be captured on a multi-choice exam. In this is wisdom, not just of the brain, but the heart unified with the mind. This is why, after 63 years since his parting, he remains venerated, not just for E=MC2 but for his passion to go beyond numbers.

He once said "I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details." this statement goes far beyond religious sentiment but to non-dualistic 'knowingness.'

Unfortunately, from what I can tell, there are few scientists out there today that are more than just scientists. I'm not sure many of them will be remembered in the future when Einstein is still being quoted with rock-star status because his passion was to go beyond science into the mysterium tremendum.

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To further explore these ideas, I have included a couple of excerpts in Elysium's Passage series that discuss intelligence.

First from chapter 7 in Book One, Elysium's Passage: The Ascent

I wondered what it would be like to remain isolated in such a primitive old cabin as this. The idea appealed to me as the perfect place to take a break from my daily routine. Perhaps I could give civilization a pass for another day, maybe two, while soaking in this ambience. This would be an ideal venue someday to hold a retreat for intriguing offbeat philosophical discussions.

Or better yet, find an adventurous nature girl who thrives in the rugged wilds. They're out there; I’ve met several very hot ones on various mountain slopes across the world. However, this summit was a little out of the way, practically inaccessible, except with a helicopter.

For much of the day, we talked about many things of interest to me. I'm not sure how acceptable our discussions would have been considered by my university department and its empirical standards of interlocution. But then, my new friends didn't seem to care about following the conventions of modern philosophical discourse.

Not that they were irrational; it’s just that they reasoned in ways I didn’t necessarily understand. I wondered what undergirded their thought processes. Perhaps trans-rational or supra-rational; I didn’t know. However, I remembered coming across a book called Tertium Organum by a Russian mathematician and writer named P.D Ouspensky.[1] I believe he wrote this while in Moscow prior to the Bolshevik Revolution, before meeting Georges Gurdjieff, an esoteric philosopher who later became his mentor and associate.

I was an undergraduate student at the time; busy with other things, so only read parts of the book. Prior to that, I hadn’t been sufficiently exposed to esoteric thought to understand much of what he was saying. What I understood though, seemed to relate with how Mo and Eli reasoned: very broad and yet precise, as if there was a more inclusive way to reason than the syllogisms of current scholastic thought.

From what I understand now, this is considered by some in esoteric circles as the domain of third logic. Within its parametric scope, ordinary thought conventions of orthodox philosophy are transcended.

Mo later described Tertium Organum as a system of reasoning that flows from an assumption of the unity of body, soul and mind. By this means, the isolated, fact orientated mind must learn to reason in concert with the wisdom of the heart. Through this broad-spectrum, a higher sphere of awareness is achieved, both mentally and spiritually.

‘Unfortunately,’ he said, ‘no one understands this dynamic within the Flatland centres of supposed higher learning, and so it’s no wonder you had such difficulty in understanding this third Organum. It was a much more expansive thought system than you were accustomed to, since it required an appreciation of not just the exoteric outward world, but also the esoteric world of inward spirituality.’

It would be some time before I was able to grasp this novel exemplar, but as I did over time, it was with a certain degree of egoic resistance. In fact, it wasn't until I experienced what I call my magical mystery tour to the Flatlands that I began to recognise how flat and narrow my understanding of reality had been. Though I was a professor of philosophy, my rational discourse was mostly linear since I hadn’t acknowledged the vertical sphere of spiritual reality.

_{[1] Peter D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian philosopher, writes, ‘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, the second, Novum Organum. But the third existed earlier than the first.’}

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Chapter 15 of Surreal Adventures of the Elysium's Passage

‘So do you ever have galactic wars there as depicted in the Star War movies?’

'Galactic wars can and do occur wherever consciousness remains low,' he said, 'but not in my constellation where our frequency on the spectrum has risen beyond mortality and materiality as you understand it.

'Remember, the field changes qualitatively as the collective consciousness rises or falls. This is what gives manifestation to the innumerable communities found within higher states of essence/existence, as reported by your sage Swedenborg. But, even on earth, one can witness this descent and ascent in the various communities, regions and nations that proliferate your world.

‘As for earth, I said, I think our orientation at this time is still more about "as without, so within," rather than "as within, so without," it’s more about what you have, that determines you what you are.

‘Which explains a lot, doesn’t it?' he said. 'And yet is it not most evident that conscious can only manifest what’s within? For example, if we are take that arbitrary scale of collective consciousness I was referring to before, humanity would currently calibrate at about 212 on a scale of 1,000 which is just a little beyond the fulcrum point.[1] But at least that’s better than when I was on earth as one of Magellans ship captains. Though the collective consciousness on earth has evolved, albeit slowly, there are few surprises about which nations calibrate the highest and which calibrate the lowest.’

‘That may be true now,’ I said, ‘but as the world becomes more intelligent through better education, I’m sure the calibration will rapidly ascend upwards.’

‘Perhaps,’ he said, ‘but it won’t be because of just intelligence. It may surprise you and many on earth that one’s level of consciousness has little to do with how well their brain works. In fact, the Flatlands, where most of the really clever people live, consciousness calibrates in the area of about 180. Not coincidently, there’s a high concentration of intellectual hubris throughout these regions and why the ego quotient is often the inverse to the consciousness quotient.

'The reason intelligence doesn’t imply a high level of consciousness is because consciousness has to do with a wide spectrum of awareness. Intelligence, however, often limits itself to the gathering and processing of information on only the specifics it is interested in, meaning the parts rather than the whole.

'That’s why intelligent souls such as you James, are great learners and experts in their area of specialization but often fail in life skills such as relationships. Only where high intelligence is conjoined with high conscious does wisdom result – all too rarely evidenced on earth. When you understand that consciousness has more to do with the heart’s inward discernment than with the mind’s outward processing, this makes sense.

‘Unfortunately, much of what occurs on lower planes is a result of egoic projections that are created in the separated mind. This is by no means limited to humans in earth since the phenomena of the ego serves a purpose in the conscious evolution of the universe, since light can only be known through darkness, just as love can only be achieved through fear and separation. Though love emanates from Source, it’s not possible to manifest divine goodness in the universe if there aren’t willing receptacles to assimilate and express it’s essence in loving relationships.

_{[1] Calibration at 200 on a scale of consciousness out of 1,000 is purportedly the demarcation between truth and falsehood, beginning with courage, then moving upwardly through several levels such as reason, love and ultimately enlightenment. Below 200 are the negative levels of pride, anger, fear, hate, with shame at the bottom.}

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ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: THE SUMMIT

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This blog is devoted to the Elysium's Passage book series and various ideas that relate to the content of the series. For more information see this blog's first introductory post: WELCOME TO ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE.

The is a series of seven Elysium’s Passage narrations regarding 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-Élysées) 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.

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PENDING PUBLICATION OF ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE SERIES

Amazon in 2024

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

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 that embark on an adventure that will surprise and delight the reader like no other book.

It all begins with an extreme adventure of climbing a remote and challenging mountain somewhere in the Andean 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 remains for almost a year. Eventually, he learns it was not him 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 that include a rich mix of adventure, romance, and fantasy, along with profound discussions of philosophy, spirituality and the afterlife.

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 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 the new reality that makes him capable of far more adventures than could have ever been experienced previously 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.

Warning: This book may also open the reader’s eyes to a much vaster reality than most might be aware. 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 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 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 eery 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 the interior of a mountain, where he falls deep into a dark tomb of fear. After being rescued by a mysterious stranger wielding his Excaliber, 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-worlder friend presents a mysterious equation enshrouded with a light code frequency that will stimulate 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.

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 experienced in the previous novels are tied together in an exciting, fast-moving, action-packed narrative over 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 rather unexpected events and evidence, along with his girlfriend’s urging, he is brought to an awareness of much of what 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 became within 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.

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The following comments are among the first Amazon reviews of Elysium’s Passage: The Summit. All are Five Stars! Others reader reviews are included below, along with excerpts from two professional reviews. To read full reviews, go to READER REVIEWS on www.elysiumspassage.com

"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…"

"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 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.”

“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 humor 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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