SUMMIT UNIVERSITY

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SUMMIT UNIVERSITY
In this post, I have compiled a partial list of books I have read and studied over the years, many of which have influenced the dialogues found in the (yet unpublished) Elysium’s Passage novel series.
There is much more time I wish to invest in this post so it will likely take months to organize things including in the list all the authors’ names, dates of publication and commentary on the books and authors I most recommend because they have to be especially influential in my thinking.
I also wish to include a video section with URLs of speakers that I believe are worth listening such as Allan Watts, Bruce Lipton, Carl Jung, Greg Bradon, Rupert Spiro and Joe Dispazeo to name only a few.
Since I’m anxious to complete the Elysium’s Passage series, this may take several months to complete. Of course, I will be adding to the list in the future with more recommended books and videos. I trust this list will introduce readers to literary works they may not otherwise have become aware of in philosophy, psychology, spirituality and quality literary fiction, both contemporary and classical.
At the end of this list, is SUMMIT UNIVERSITY, Chapter Six of Elysium’s Passage: The Ascent. James, the protagonist, had a doctorate in Philosophy but is being told he needs to attend Summit U to unlearn much of what he thought he knew so he may truly learn what’s real.
In the future, upon publication, I intend to add to the list below the seven-part Elysium’s Passage novel series when completed so the reader may join with James on this new learning adventure in his altered state of reality.
For those readers who are part of a book discussion group, I intend to create a study guide to facilitate discourse with stimulating questions and references. This, however, could be a few years away yet.
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Divine Providence
Divine Love and Wisdom
True Christian Religion
Conjugial Love
Divine Providence
The Spiritual Life and the Word of God
GI Gurdjieff
Views from the Real World
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Belzubub's Tales to his Grandson
PI Ouspensky
In Search of the Miraculous
Tertium Organum
Consciousness
New Model of the Universe
The Fourth Way
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
Below is a blog post from this site that provides a short summary of Swedenborg, Gurdjieff and Ouspenski https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/quotes-by-esoteric-philosophers
Allan Watts
From Time to Eternity
Nature of Consciousness
Behold the Spirit.
David Hawkins
Force vs Power
The Eye of the Eye
I: Subjectivity and Reality
Truth Versus Falsehood
Transcending The Levels of Consciousness
Discovery of the Presence of God
The Eye of the Eye I: Subjectivity and Reality
Jacque Ellul
Money and Power
Meaning of the City
The Technological Society
C.S. Lewis
Surprised By Joy
The Four Loves
Surprised By Joy
Abolition of Man
Jane Roberts
The Unknown Reality (2vols)
Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher
The Nature of the Human Psyche
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfil. (2vol)
The Nature of Personal Reality
Psychic Politics
Adventures in Consciousness
Seth Speaks
The Seth Material
Dreams and Projection of Consciousness
The Individual and Nature of Mass Events
Ken Wilbur
Holographic Paradigm
Sex, Ecology and Spirituality
A Brief History of Everything
Quantum Questions
Religion of Tomorrow
A Course In Miracles / A Course of Love
See the blog site for a summary of these books.
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/books-that-influenced-the-series
Of course, it goes without saying, a solid and thorough study of the Bible, both New and Old Testaments, is necessary to understand Western Civilization's Judaic/Christian tradition, spiritually and historically.
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William Shakespeare
Julius Ceasar
Hamlet
Midsummer’s Night Dream
King Lear
As you Like It
Othello
C.S Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia (7 vols)
Screwtape Letters
That Hideous Strength
Pilgrim’s Regress
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
The Great Divorce
Till we Have Faces
J.R.R Tokien
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings (three novel series)
George MacDonald
Lilith
Fantasties
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Vladimir Megre
Ringing Cedars of Russia
(Anastasia nine novel series)
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Soon to be published will be my Elysium's Passage novel series; The Ascent, The Summit, Quantum Leaps, Surreal Adventures, Mystical Romance, The Elixir, The Return
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As stated above, the authors’ names still need to be organized and included with the titles. This is not a complete list of books I read several years ago but are recommended. The titles still remain randomly listed.
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Other recommended titles. As stated above, the authors’ names still need to be included with the titles. This is not a complete list of books I read several years ago but are recommended. The titles are listed randomly.
The Road Less Travelled - M.Scott Peck
People of the Lie - M.Scott Peck
Under the Mercy - Sheldon
The Image - Allan Bloom
Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
Love and Friendship - Allan Bloom
A Theology of Love
The Heart of Man
In Celebration of Discipline - Peter Foster
Sex, Money and Power - Peter Foster
Prayer and Modern Man - Jacques Ellul
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas à Kempis
Voltaire’s Bastards John - Ralston Saul
Aim: The Workbook (2 vols) - Peter Rhodes
Becoming Orthodox - Timothy Ware
The Orthodox Church
The Power Delusion
Outward Sign Inward Grace
The Great Code - Allan Bloom
Christ and Culture Richard Neibuhr
The Meaning of Revelation Richard Niebuhr
The Nature and Destiny of Man (2 vols)
The Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr
Crossing the Threshold of Hope
The Republic - Plato
The Will to Meaning - Victor Frankle
Life Together
Responsible Grace
Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ - Madame Guyon
The Royal Way of the Cross - Francois Fenelon
The Idea of the Holy - Rudolph Otto
Becoming Human - Jean Vanier
The Religions of Man -
The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
Answer to Job
Where God Lives
Mysticism and the New Physics - Michael Talbut
Between Life and Death Michael Newton
Jesus and the Essenes - Dolores Cannon
Unbounded Light
Self-Hypnosis
The Journey of the Soul
Great Truths on Great Subjects
The Inner Door (2 vol)
The Crystal Stairs
Messages from Michael
More Messages from Michael
God’s Laughter
You Are the World
The Seat of the Soul - Gary Zukov
The Dancing Wu Li Masters - Gary Zukov
The Heart of the Soul
Sex and the Spiritual Path
Nothing So Strange
God's World, God's Body - Grace Jensen
The Life Between Death - Michael Newton
Man Visible and Invisible - Charles Leadbeater
Taking the Quantum Leap
The Phenomena of Man - Jean Teilhard de Chardin
Reflections on the Christ
Edgar Cayce: On Dreams
The Magic of Believing
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Metaphysics: New Dimensions of the Mind
The Messengers
Escape from Reason
How Shall We Then Live - Francis Shaefrer
Confessions - Augustine
City of God - Augustine
Dust of Death - Os Guinness
A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy
I and Thou - Martin Bubber
From Under the Rubble - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Prayer
My Religion
The Natural Depth of Man
The Presence of Other Worlds
Returning to the Source
The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra
Science of the Gods
What Are We Doing When We Pray
The Self-Aware Universe
Systematic Theology (3vol)
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Edgar Cayce’s Story of Jesus
A World Beyond
Companions Along the Way
The World Before
A Search for Truth
The Unobstructed Universe
Across the Beyond
Religion and Science
Edgar Cayce: America’s Sleeping Prophet
Soul Mates
The Tracker - Tom Brown
The Sacred Romance
Inward Journey
Stalking the Wild Pendulum
Mechanics of Consciousness
God and the New Physics
You are Psychic
Waiting on God
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Reincarnation Controversy
The Starseed Transmissions
Space Time and Self
Atlantis
Space, Order and Creativity
Higher Dimensions of Space and Time
The Wellness Journey
The Richest Man in Babylon
Channelling Your Higher Self
The Painted Word
Becoming a Galactic Human
Automatic Writing
Intelligence Now
Silva Mind Control
Open to Channelling
The Secret of the Atomic Age
Sexual Chemistry
The Rise of Christianity
Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pegals
Creative Visualization
Reaching to Heaven
Talking to Heaven
The Four Agreements
The Mastery of Love
Ecstasy is a New Frequency
The True Believer
The Gnosis and Christianity
Rhythms of Vision
Lost Christianity - Jacob Needlman
Money and the Meaning of Life
Spiritual Science
Creating a Spiritual Relationship
Heresies
Urantia: The Life and Ministry of Jesus of Nazareth
Urantia: The Superuniverse
Urantia: The Local Univers
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -
The Battle for God
A New Kind Of Christian
Initiation
Affirmations
Centering
Your Right to Fly
Intuition
Courage
The Mustard Seed
The Quantum and the Lotus
The Bhagavad Gita
The Qua’ran
Ask, and it is Given - Abraham/Ester Hicks
FICTION (Miscellaneous)
Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
Roger's Version - John Updike
Fifth Business - Robertson Davis
Leaven of Malice - Robertson Davis
Each Man’s Son - Hugh MacLennan
The Loved and the Lost - Morley Callaghan
Such is My Beloved - Morley Callaghan
Steppenwolf - Herman Hess
The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Look Back in Anger - Jack Kerouac
Mr. Sammler’s Planet - Saul Bellow
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
David Copperfield - Charles Dickson
Great Expectations - Charles Dickson
The Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
The Mountain and the Valley - Ernest Buckler
Canterbury’s Tales - Chaucer
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler
St. Urbain’s Horseman - Mordecai Richler
Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust
Lives of the Saints - Nino Ricco
Aberhart Summer - Bruce Allen Powe
Who Has Seen the Wind - W.O Mitchell
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Midnight’s Children - Saloman Rushdie
Stone Angel - Margaret Lawrence
Jest of God - Margaret Lawrence
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
As For Me and My House - Sinclair Ross
The Education of Oversoul Seven - Jane Roberts
The Further Education of Oversoul Seven - Jane Roberts
Oversoul and the Museum of Time - Jane Roberts
The Immoralist - Andre Gide
King Arthur and the Knights Round Table - Roger Lancelyn Green
The Great Gadsby - Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
Day of the Locusts - Nathaniel West
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathaniel West
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
St. Mawr - D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Waiting for Godot - Thomas Becket
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin - P.D. Ouspensky
As In Heaven, As On Earth
Brendan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Persig
Lila - Robert Persig
Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Thomas Wolfe
Passage to India- E.M Forester
Glittering Images - Susan Howich
Glamorous Powers - Susan Howich
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Look Back in Anger - John Osborne
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Recommended Videos
- presently being compiled
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SUMMIT UNIVERSITY
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it.
One must learn from him who knows.
Georges Gurdjieff
Summit University may be read by accessing this link
Elysium’s Passage: The Ascent. Chapter Six: Summit University
https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/the-ascent-chapter-six
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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.
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 adventures.
To read a sample press review at https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/05/prweb15515775.htm
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ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: READER REVIEWS
The following comments are excerpts from among the first readers, including a number of 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
"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 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."
"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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PENDING PUBLICATIONS IN THE SERIES
The following titles in the Elysium's Passage series are projected to be released as follows 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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