BLOG POST LINKS

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Reference and Education, Writing and Speaking
To access the Elysium's Passage blog host site, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage To copy and send this post: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts   The following list of URLs is intended to assist anyone interested in Elysium's Passage blog articles to rapidly find and access over190 (and counting) posts on this site. Section A lists the majority of topics without regard to subject or posted dates. Section B lists the first four chapters of Elysium's Passage: The Ascent and Series Prologue.  Section C relates to personal profiles. Section D has a number of my photos, ...
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COMMUNITY: WHAT IS IT?

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

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

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 190 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  ___________________________________________ BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS In all chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder, a secret order.                                          Carl Jung   In this post, I feature an article with a professor I personally know who has great insights into philosophy and the inward esoterica of life. Dr ...
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THE ART OF BEING HAPPY

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

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
  For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 180 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site    ___________________________________________ IS IT EVEN LOGICAL (WEASEL REASONING)  The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.                                                                    Thomas Paine                              ...
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NOTHING TO IT

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

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium's Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 160 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site    ___________________________________________ May 20.22   WHAT'S YOUR RESTING POINT?   I suppose, when we apply the term 'resting point' to our lives, we may describe it’s the state in which we are most at peace. Or, we may refer to it as the set-point where our soul experiences complete stillness and silence within, regardless of the noise and commotion that might be going on outside. For many of us, our resting ...
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SUMMIT UNIVERSITY

by Neil Meyers Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 180 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  ___________________________________________   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, ...
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ROMANCE IN THE AFTERLIFE

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 180 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  IS THERE ROMANCE IN THE AFTERLIFE?. The Elysium's Passage novel series I've been writing has many themes, but perhaps the most central is about the afterlife. Of course, the novels are fictitious, but some of my real-life encounters over the last ten years have been with those who have passed on to the spiritual dimension. Have you ever wondered if, in the afterlife, you will be ...
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STUPIDITY

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 180 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  STUPIDITY  There are many different kinds of stupidity, but cleverness is the worst. From the Magic Mountain, 1924, Thomas Mann Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 – 1945) was a prominent theologian in Hitler's Germany who spoke out against the tyranny of Nazism. He stated, most profoundly, that the greatest threat comes not from evil people but stupid ones.  If there were enough people of good heart, evil could always be ...
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WAKE UP, RISE UP... BE BRAVE

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for 180 blog links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  If you want to be wrong, follow the masses – Socrates. WAKE UP... RISE UPBE BRAVE and FOLLOW THE TRUTH So, what have we, the masses, got wrong in the last couple of years of COVID hysteria?  It's more like what our trusted authorities have got wrong and still get wrong, all too willingly. Here’s a start:  Masks don’t workLockdowns don’t workIsolation doesn’t workMandates don’t workFear doesn't workSocial Distancing doesn’t ...
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BE THOU MY VISION

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 170 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VpSqAcLrDI   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihJAJA4ibEs  _____________________________________________ BE THOU MY VISION In this post, I have revised an article I wrote on this site a few years ago called a ‘Higher Vision.’ With this post, I’ve tweaked the idea of vision with the theme of Be Thou My Vision as we move into this year with hopes and expectations of something better than what many of us experienced in 2021. As we leave ...
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WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 170 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  COMING SOON: THE GOLDEN AGE   Crystal Blue Persuasion(At last, 52 years later)Tommy James & The Shondells Lyrics Look over yonderWhat do you see?The sun is a-risingMost definitely A new day is comingPeople are changingAin't it beautiful?Crystal blue persuasionBetter get ready to see the lightLove, love is the answerAnd that's all right So don't you give up nowSo easy to findJust look to your soul (your soul)And open your mindCrystal ...
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DAILY MESSAGE ARCHIVES NOVEMBER 2021

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  for over 160 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site  ___________________________________________   November 27, 2021     Crystal Blue Persuasion (At last, here we go 52 years later)Tommy James & The Shondells Lyrics Look over yonderWhat do you see?The sun is a-risingMost definitely A new day is comingPeople are changingAin't it beautiful?Crystal blue persuasion Better get ready to see the lightLove, love is the answerAnd that's all right So don't you give up nowSo easy to findJust look to your soul (your soul)And open your ...
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AN ENLIGHTENED DISCUSSION

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  for over 170 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site    ___________________________________________  AN ENLIGHTENED DISCUSSION    The topic of enlightenment is multi-varied and so can be approached from a number of angles. I’ve posted a few articles on this topic before. In this supposed ‘age of awakening’ (I hope), I've included another post for those who might be interested in reading further on the topic.  As I was editing my third ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE novel, QUANTUM LEAPS, I noticed there was ...
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WHICH IS IT, PLATO OR ARISTOTLE?

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

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Food and Drink
YOU HAVE TO SERVE SOMEONE  "It maybe the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to service somebody."                                                                                         Bob Dylan A good question we need to ask ourselves from time to time is whether we are ...
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HOW CONSCIOUS ARE YOU?

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE Blog Post links, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts or Host Site: https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  CONSCIOUSNESS: WHAT IS IT? . The title of this post asks, "How Conscious Are You?" But before we pursue this question, it would be helpful for us to first understand what consciousness is. So where does one begin? Some might say you either are or you aren't conscious; you're awake or you're asleep. And yet how many think they are awake when in actuality, they go through life in what ...
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DAILY MESSAGE ARCHIVES OCTOBER 2021

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 170 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site   Share this post's link: Daily Message October 2021https://digitalbloggers.com/preview/daily-message-archives-october-2021  October 22, 2021 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. Actualities have been lost in the exigencies of the ...
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