THE LAW OF CORRUPTION

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Tacitus, the famous Roman historian (56 to 120 AD) and respected politician made this astute observation. It’s so obvious!

This makes me wonder why so few seem to realize the consequences of authoritarian government. We realize the rule of laws depends on the authority of the state to enact regulations to uphold order in society. As it should be.

History, however, shows us that the more powerful the elite are allowed to become, the more excessive their laws become. Sadly, this has been most of human history. We see this everywhere, including in our ‘Western’ democracies today, more than ever.

Perhaps people don’t realize how easily they are bought off by the authorities just by pandering self-serving ‘entitlement’ promises. Or if that doesn’t work, frightened them into becoming serfs. If no one is standing up for the populace, it's only a matter of time until laws serve only the interests of those who write the laws and wield its authority. Power, money, and influence! Kind of go together, doesn’t it?

As long as the masses feel ‘safe,’ and provided for, they are often more than willing to give away their power to the state, whether enslaved or not. When the police and armies back the authorities, there is little that can be done until there is another bloody revolution, often no better than before.

That’s why those who have not yet been subjugated to totalitarianism iron grip and fist, must remain extra vigilant, ever watching for the creeping laws that ultimately confiscate rights, liberties, property, and at times conscience.

Ever notice how often our liberty is suppressed for ‘our good?’ Governments and corporations that stand to gain control (and/or considerable wealth) from the masses, often become complicit in spreading fear, such that it’s not always certain who is beholden to whom. Possibly it’s mutual. Just possibly.

More than ever, this slide into tyranny continues with little effort. So little that often police enforcement isn’t even necessary. For example, we can be denied the renewal of our driver’s licence over an unpaid parking ticket. Then, if we get caught driving unlicensed, our vehicle can be impounded and sold off without once seeing a cop. (Okay, that's extreme, but you get the point).

With today’s technology, anything is possible when it comes to controlling the masses. Unfortunately, I see this tendency creeping everywhere, especially in health services and what treatments the authorities will permit in conjunction with their unholy alliance of business interests. In my opinion, this ‘industry’ is the most corrupt and dangerous. 
                 
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Speaking of Big Pharm, I could go on a big rant about this all day and night, but won’t (this time). But don’t be surprised what might happen someday if you choose not to be vaccinated, or have your children vaccinated. Whether you are for or against vaccination, it's frightening.  

I believe there is only one way to avoid this slide into authoritarian hell, but that's another topic for another day. But wouldn’t be nice if a few extra-terrestrials would come down to kick ass against the forces of evil? (Someday I should write that into a novel.)

To comment further on the subject of laws, corruption and authoritarianism, I have pulled some related excerpts from certain Elysium’s Passage novels (pending). If they're a bit scattered in content, I still hope you'll find the dialogue intriguing and worth thinking about.

Chapter 6, Elysium’s Passage: The Ascent (Bk 1)

      ‘Whatever presuppositions one may choose to believe,’ Mo said, ‘be they contemporary or historical interpretative, all must be questioned. What if they're all wrong? Too few students are aware of implicit assumptions, preferring to accept whatever their friends, leaders and institutions tell them to accept. It’s easier and safer that way. 

‘It’s not much different than when religion once used whatever means it had available to impose its dogmas on society. Perhaps even more concerning today, are the false totalitarian beliefs many governments continue to impose on their gullible subjects.

‘This is why one’s beliefs, and their proximity to truth, have such significant consequences. Likewise, what you believe about your current state of existence will have profound consequences for when you return to the earth-plane. And not just for you, but everyone who hears about your experiences here.

 

Chapter 13 Elysium’s Passage: The Ascent (Bk 1)

‘For many, there exists a perverse pleasure in being wretched. The more pitiful, the better since it makes them exceptional, even superior, especially if they can blame someone for their condition. At some point, should they become sufficiently hostile, they often organize into a gang of vengeful militants, demanding their perceived rights. As the anger continues to smoulder, shame is projected on anyone they choose to blame for their plight and alleged misfortunes. Sometimes it’s everyone but them. This psychosis is what happened in the holocaust when the Jews were blamed for Germany's perceived misfortunes.

‘I’m not discounting the many injustices committed against the oppressed when revolution seemingly becomes inevitable,’ Mo said, ‘particularly where there is totalitarian oppression. Unfortunately, throughout history, many of the revolutionary leaders have aggravated and exploited dissatisfaction towards the existing orders, only to create greater oppression through their own totalitarian regimes. By fulminating resentment, tyrants learn how to catapult themselves into power by sedition and insurrection.

‘History repeatedly shows how wars are festered after revolutionaries exacerbate sufficient resentment, hate and envy. Russia was often oppressed by its czars, but nothing compared to the millions of lives destroyed by their presumed liberators Lenin and Stalin.

‘Unfortunately, much of humanity continues to seek vengeance, which in the end, agitates even more inner pain and torment for most everyone. Yet this outward discord is but a macrocosm of the inward discord caused by the tyranny of the collective ego that seeks to destroy humanity, one person at a time. And yet, by destroying its host, it destroys itself. It’s that insane! But then, the ego is an illusion. Unfortunately, what it inflicts upon humanity is no illusion.’

 

Appendix ‘C’ Elysium’s Passage: Quantum Leaps (Bk 3)

‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn,[1] comes to mind,’ I said. ‘It’s an outstanding example of human resilience in the midst of ominous despair. I’m sure there are plenty of other great books like this; I just can’t remember reading any recently.

‘Actually, that wasn’t a bad example,’ Mo said. ‘Solzhenitsyn knew much about suffering after being a political prisoner in Russia’s notorious gulag prisons. The greatness of his books involved going beyond the pain of suffering to explore the inner light that gives hope and meaning to humanity.’

‘I've never read him,’ Eli said, ‘so what else can you tell me about his life?’

‘Having renounced Marxism and its attenuating atheism,’ Mo said, ‘Solzhenitsyn came to embrace Christianity and thereby found the strength and courage to expose the prevailing evil of Soviet communism through his writings. Even in conditions of extreme adversity, suppression and cancer, he persisted in secret to express the heroic greatness of his soul.

‘Perhaps his greatest legacy was to create glimmerings of light to waken humanity out of its spiritual complacency. Astonishingly, the power of his words caused Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to defend this book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich against censorship. In 1962, he addressed the Russian Politburo, saying, There’s a Stalinist in each of you; there’s even a Stalinist in me. We must root out this evil.

‘This was a colossal admission of the failure of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, finally recognizing the totalitarian nightmare for what it was, jolting millions of communists throughout the world. The book did this by affirming the indomitability of the human spirit in the midst of extreme adversity.’

‘Likewise,’ I said, ‘Shakespeare wrote many tragedies that involved the conflict with his masterful dramatization of honour, betrayal, dignity, cowardice and heroism. These stories need to be told repeatedly, not just because of the human drama, but because they illustrate humanity’s strength and weakness in contrasts of character.’

Chapter 5, Elysium’s Passage: Surreal Adventures (Bk 4)

‘Did anyone tell you how oppressed you were as a student?’ Rhom asked, ‘because most insurrections occur when a class warfare narrative is created to convince everyone how oppressed they are. This is where the term useful idiots[2] come in handy in abetting those who seek to gain power over the masses. Often, they are the first to go, since the regimes don’t consider them trustworthy.’

‘Be it fascism, communism, theocracies, or some other form of totalitarianism, the results amount to the same thing – servitude and suffering for the masses, but not the leaders who control the military. As sheep led to the slaughter; the compliant serfs no longer recognize who or what they are.’

‘What you say reminds me of what Mo kept going on about,’ I said, ‘as though you’re both reading from the same script on the same soapbox.’

‘I’m only telling you what I’ve observed over the centuries,’ he said. ‘As for soapboxes, the authorities no longer permit such platforms unless they approve of what’s being proclaimed, based on what beliefs are considered acceptable to the cultural norms of Flatlands society.

‘For this reason, they don’t tolerate dissent or debate. Over and over they parrot the words: It’s settled, it’s settled. At least to them, it’s settled. But if they truly believed what they said, they wouldn’t have to shout so loudly to convince themselves.’ 

 

Chapter 14 Elysium’s Passage: Mystical Romance (Bk 5)

I was still new as a refugee to the free world, not even knowing the English language.

As a result, I felt very alone when trying to fight my battle for the truth. Many of the faculty members were ardent left-wing socialists often harbouring strong sympathies for the communist system.[3] They didn’t seem to care that I barely escaped Prague in ‘68, just as the tanks were moving in. Neither did they have any regard nor sympathy for my wife and daughter who couldn’t get out from behind the iron curtain that Moscow mercilessly imposed on my homeland.

My political activism to end the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Communists was more of an irritation to them, as if they, with all their textbook Marxist ideology knew better than me. With my story invalidating their cherished beliefs, they reacted with umbrage. So their response was to, in turn, dismiss my experiences with their opprobrium. And as I always say, the greater the ignorance the greater the smugness. This I have learned over and over from much life experience on earth.

Neither were they particularly concerned about the tens of millions of lost lives that their ideological comrades Stalin and Mao were responsible for in the name of equality. It always agitated these ‘progressives’ whenever I quoted to them Churchill’s famous dictum, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

 
[1] Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1908-1998), Russian writer, soldier, prisoner and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970. His books include The Gulag Archipelago, In the First Circle and Cancer Ward.
[2] The term, useful idiots, has often attributed to Lenin, perhaps since he used willing accomplices to advance his communist propaganda. In actuality, the term is a variation of useful innocents, a term Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises used when referring to the complicity of liberals in the West and elsewhere.
[3] In reference to this, Jan said he would sometimes quote Alexander Solzhenitsyn to them. This famous Russian author and former political prisoner in the Soviet Gulags once said in an address to Harvard after his release: “We have put too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.”

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SUMMARY OF ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

 

This the first in a series of seven ELYSIUM 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 about life’s meaning and purpose far beyond anything he previously believed or could believe.

An engaging and sometime 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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"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."

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“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!”

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PENDING PUBLICATION OF ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE SERIES

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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

 

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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.