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If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you. Friedrick Nietzsche

I'm not sure specifically what Nietzsche had in mind with this quote, but for me, it suggests that if we focus on something we perceive to be a problem, which may or may not exist, we will make it real for ourselves as it gazes back up at us. Such is the phenomenon of projection. So, if we're looking for a fatalistic crisis, it will soon find us, providing us with all the rationalisations we need to believe in it, sometimes with religious fervour. 

That said, we need to remain vigilant stewards of the Earth, taking action against problems such as pollution and resource exploitation by adopting a balanced, rational approach that doesn't descend into fear, hubris, hopelessness, or hysteria. Such are the domains of the ego, not science. 

In Elysium's Passage: The Return, James, the protagonist, challenges his environmentalist friend, Carl, on the topic of Climate Change. He remains sceptical about its being misrepresented as a global cataclysmic problem when it is not. 

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During our short stay at Skoki, we met a few students the next day who were interested in the conference we had just come from in Aspen. One young couple asked if they could join us that afternoon on our hike back to the trailhead.

Of course, we were delighted to have their company since both seemed intelligent and adventurous, sharing many of our interests and ideals. Carl, a local Albertan, was a graduate student in Environmental Studies, and Yolanda, his Swedish girlfriend, was studying to be an elementary school teacher for special needs children.

Both were enrolled at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and worked at various hotels in the mountain region during the tourist season. Though they ate in the lodge, they camped overnight at a nearby campsite.

Yolanda was most interested in learning more about Julie’s graduate studies in psychology, especially regarding the relationship between psychotherapy and hypnosis. Having heard little about hypnosis, she was curious to find what Julie had to say about applying this modality to autistic students and others with learning disabilities.

‘That’s not the focus of my studies,’ Julie said, ‘although I don’t see why it couldn’t be helpful in some cases. However, I suspect there might be significant resistance towards what lies outside mainstream education and practice. As a nurse prior to becoming a student of psychology, I realize how much psychiatrists love their drugs as much as pharmaceutical companies love their psychiatrists. Sorry to sound cynical, but that’s just how it is.’

‘Sadly, I think you’re right. Ritalin has often been the standard go-to solution for many troubled students, yet we now know the results are, at best, mixed. I would never allow my child to take that drug. There’s got to be better ways, which is why I’m interested in knowing more of what you’ve learned about hypnosis.’

‘I’ll follow up with some of the psychologists who attended the Aspen conference and find out what they have to say. Possibly, this research has already been done yet ignored or suppressed by vested interests, meaning, you know who.’

‘Let’s keep in contact; I’d love to learn more,’ Yolanda said. ‘You’ve stoked my interest in psychology; maybe I should consider transferring my major to Ed-Psych.’

‘That might be worth considering.’ I said. ‘Possibly, you can help shake things up in this world of Flatland reductionism that has a way of undermining the acceptability of less materialist approaches to behavioural disorders.’

‘Are you and Julie what they call spiritual? Carl asked me. ‘At least it’s beginning to sound that way.’

‘If you asked me a few years ago, I might have said no, depending on who I was talking to. Now, however, there is no question. After existing as a spirit in a light body, the answer is rather obvious.’

‘So what do you mean when you say: existing as a spirit?’

‘I mean, we all have a spiritual body, albeit in a material vessel. The great anthropologist and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.’

‘However, I think you might have meant something different when you said you existed as a spirit.’

‘Likely I did, so let me explain. Let’s take a break to dip our feet in the brook; I have a story to  tell that you and Yolanda might find interesting.’

‘Yes, Yoland said, I’d love to hear it while we snack on our sandwiches.’

‘I don’t know if you heard me tell others at the lodge how I fell down a mountain chasm in the Andes, where I found myself outside my body in an alternate universe for nearly a year. Although, in some metaphysical, silver cord sense, I was able to return to my body after awakening. Now, if that doesn’t shock you, what will?’

Carl and Yolanda looked at me curiously, as if expecting me to jump up and laugh: 'Just joking! ' However, I wasn’t kidding, nor did I laugh.

‘Of course, I don’t expect you to believe in anything so bizarre as this, at least not until you have seen some evidence.

‘I appreciate there is much we don’t know about the greater reality,’ Yolanda said. I recall how my grandmother had a near-death experience several years ago after her heart ceased beating during an operation. Amazingly, she could see everything happening around her from above, even though she was supposedly dead or unconscious. Since then, I’m more inclined to believe what you said as being possible, though I’ll reserve judgment until I know more.’

Carl was less diplomatic. Blurting out, he said, ‘You say you have evidence, so what is it?’ 

‘It’s all recorded in the journal I wrote while out of this mortal body. Hopefully, it will be released in my autobiographical book series sometime next year. Though I realise what I said may sound absurd, consider how the human form as being capable of manifesting and expressing itself in various forms. After all, all life is an expression of vibratory energy; nothing is static, meaning nothing is material in the way we think. And so, for a time, I existed as a higher, rarified frequency in an alternate dimension.’

‘Let me add,’ Julie said, ‘I’ve regressed James several times to recapture certain events he had experienced in this state, yet while in hypnosis, it was as if for the first time.

‘That’s because,’ I said, ‘by transcending temporal awareness, I had no memory; instead, I relived it.’

‘Forgive me,’ Carl said, ‘I don’t doubt you believe what you say is true. Nevertheless, I’m sure there’s a natural explanation for this, as with illusory tricks the brain can play when under great stress or oxygen deprivation. I’m scientific, not religious, so I find what you’re saying difficult to accept.’

‘Then don’t accept it; I’m not asking you to. If it hadn’t happened to me I doubt if I would have either. For that matter, most religious people probably wouldn’t believe it since my story is often contrary to their narratives. Regardless, I hope you will read my books with an open mind, which is more than I could have said for myself. Even after finding myself in this alternate dimension, I refused to accept my reality for the first week, arguing with my off-world companions as though I knew more than them, making a fool of myself.’

‘So, he asked, after awakening from your coma, what convinced you that you had these experiences?’

I laughed. ‘First, it was a silly email I wrote to Julie while in my coma that I intentionally sent to myself from her computer with her email address. It seems I intended to trick myself so I would be aware of my adventures when I regained consciousness… and it worked. No matter how I looked at it, I couldn’t reconcile any other way this could have happened. Still, I resisted; it was all just too bizarre.

‘Then, not long after that, came the clincher. Mysteriously, the journal I wrote in Chile found its way to me, though I’m still not exactly sure how. That’s when I became convinced I was out of my body; there was no way around it. I didn’t know about my adventures until I read about them, and then later, I had Julie regress me to authenticate the events I recorded.

‘I now find it quite humorous to read how myopic I was, blind to what should have been obvious. Who knows, Carl, if you had been in my place, you may have fared better.’

‘That’s interesting,’ he said, ‘I wish you all the best with your books.’

That was the end of this conversation. Nevertheless, for the time remaining on our hike back to the trailhead, we found we had many common interests, although we weren’t always in agreement.

For her part, Yolanda was intrigued by Julie’s research, while Carl enjoyed discussing his environmental ideals and his desire to save the planet. Though I identified with much of what he said, I expressed scepticism about the alarmism implicit in some of 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, which is as essential to plants as oxygen is to us. Further to that, NASA photos and observations by Dr Patrick Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace, show that Earth has become twenty per cent greener over the years. This suggests that there isn’t a carbon surplus, as we’ve been told; in fact, there’s a deficit, since more plants require more carbon nutrients. I guess that makes sense.

‘I’d also like to point out how predictions for climate catastrophe have proven entirely false over the last forty years.[1] 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.

‘They say the science is settled. Well, that’s about the most unscientific statement anyone could make, and yet they all parrot this. In reality, it’s never settled, determined or fixed; how can anything be scientific if it’s not open to new and contrary information? Is that not how science advanced to Newton and then beyond Newton?

‘Most of all, don’t trust the government-funded computer models rigged to prove whatever results the programmers and activists wish to advance. I could go on with about a thousand other propaganda items designed to create fear. And we know what fear is for; it’s to control the masses for political ends and more taxation.’

‘It appears,’ Carl said, ‘you’re a conspiracy theorist, prepared to ignore the science.’

‘Yes, there is a conspiracy; however, it’s not a theory; look at the interests that contrive this climate propaganda and what they stand to gain by promoting their lies and hysteria. As for following the science… yes, why don’t we do that for once… and see why it always seems to lead to the money; that will tell you all you need to know.’

‘So are you saying I’ve been duped and am a pawn in all this?’

‘Only if you believe the fearful claptrap. There are so many worthy things environmentalists need to pursue, Carl, in cleaning the oceans, air, rivers and earth to make the world more habitable for plants, animals and humans. It’s a noble discipline you have chosen, and I wish you well.

‘Still, I would caution you not to get taken in by the activists in the climate industry who are more interested in funding grants from government programmes. They will ruin everything, and they won’t care as long as they remain in control.’

‘I could go on for days supporting my case; however, I can see this conversation is not going to be edifying for either of us, so let’s leave it there.’

He didn’t say anything for some time. I suspected he hadn’t heard of these challenges to the standard climate narrative before. To his credit, he didn’t react; rather, he said, ‘Let’s agree to disagree; meanwhile, I’ll follow up on some of the claims you are making to debunk this science.’

Possibly, Carl didn’t get too defensive because he respected me having a PhD in philosophy and how I was prepared to back my claims with research supporting my views, such as proffered by many respected scientists unafraid to challenge the alarmists.

[1] A few explicit examples I recited to him regarding global cooling and global warming over the last sixty years included James Hansen, Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore, Prince Charles, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Unfortunately, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of other apocalyptic predictions by scientists, all of which proved completely wrong, yet they persist in advancing their agenda of fear. Either the world would be under a blanket of ice, or the oceans would cover the world’s coastal cities from melted ice caps. Much of this was to happen by 2000. 

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Carbon, an essential component of human life, is not what the alarmists make it out to be. It is not toxic. Not only is it as essential for life as oxygen, but it is also plant food, making the planet greener. In fact, according to some top-rung scientists in the field of carbon, we need more carbon in the atmosphere, not less. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, a Phd in Ecology, states this, as does Dr William Happer, Professor of Physics Emeritus at Princeton, the world's foremost expert on carbon. Check out their arguments for this on YouTube. In scientific reality, not political fantasy, carbon has nothing to do with climate change or global warming, only taxes. An unproven hypothesis. Besides, the climate is always changing and goes in cycles of warm and cold over the centuries. If there is no government grant conjuring manipulated, fudged, selective "permeated computer model data, there's nothing to Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW), i.e. it's all our fault.

Perhaps this excerpt doesn't change your mind; all I wish to reveal are views that are contrary to what's often promulgated. For those interested in this topic, it's advisable to conduct your own research. You may wish to start with the Climate Depot website.

I recommend this excellent presentation by Dr William Happy, a highly regarded scientist.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA1zUW4uOSw 

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SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE SERIES

 
This Elysium's Passage narrations are 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-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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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

 

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 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.

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.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

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 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.

Warning: This book may also open the reader’s eyes to a much vaster reality than most people are 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 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 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 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. 

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 shrouded in 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.

 
­­­­­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.

 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 much 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, which 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