BLOG POST LINKS

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, 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 in rapidly finding and accessing over 190 (and counting) posts on this site. Section A lists the majority of topics without regard to subject or posted dates. Section B relates to personal profiles. Section C has a number of my photos, including pictures of my mountain climbing adventures and my cabin ...
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WELCOME TO ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
To access more Elysium's Passage blog postings:https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-postsor https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens                                                                     Carl Jung                                                              ...
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HOW TO CALIBRATE CONSCIOUSNESS

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Communications, Reference and Education, Writing and Speaking
For more blog posts https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts   . THE MAGIC OF CALIBRATING CONSCIOUSNESS  In this post, I’m going to teach some magic, or so it may seem. But first, I need to give a short introduction so we have some context for how this sorcery works. This magic is all about how to calibrate levels of consciousness, so let’s begin by questioning what is consciousness? Where is it, where does it come from, and where is it not? Does it come from the brain?   Such questions ...
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MESSAGES FROM THE PASSAGE

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, News and Society, 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 180 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site    __________________________   .  MESSAGES  FROM THE PASSAGE  . Up until a few years ago, I posted short articles each month on a variety of topics that centre on themes in Elysium's Passage novel series. I intend to carry on with this, but I probably won't have time for more than one or two articles each month, whereas up to 2022, I used to include up to four articles. ...
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THE ASCENT

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Reference and Education, Writing and Speaking
For more ELYSIUM’S PASSAGE Blog Post links, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  ***** SOON TO BE PUBLISHED *****  ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES THE ASCENT - THE SUMMIT - QUANTUM LEAPS - SURREAL ADVENTURESMYSTICAL ROMANCE - THE ELIXIR - THE RETURN. The end of this post has a brief summary of each of the novels I posted several individual chapters of The Ascent a few years ago but then later took them down as I was making further revisions to the book. I have now reposted the first ...
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SURREAL ADVENTURES

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Communications, 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  ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: SURREAL ADVENTURES is the fourth novel in the ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE novel series. The projected release date is the summer of 2025, the sequel to ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: QUANTUM LEAPS. The plot of SURREAL ADVENTURES continues where QUANTUM LEAPS leaves off. The narrative becomes even more intriguing with its interwoven themes and delightful complexities. The pace picks up momentum as James, the narrator and central character, continues along ...
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USEFULNESS: THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
To access all articles posted on this blog site, go to: https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts     What is the Secret to Happiness?  What is the source of happiness? Is it: Money, Success, Family, Friends, Community, Love, Admiration, Prestige, Devotion, Fame, Power, Good looks, Marriage, Good Food, Celebration, Nature ???  Regardless of how wonderful all these and many other positive qualities may be, what is the essence of that something that causes us to be happy? Do any of these, all of them, or any of them separately ...
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WHAT LOVE HAS TO DO WITH IT

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more blog postings https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  or for links, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts   You can't blame gravity for falling in love.                                             Albert Einstein Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law unto itself.                          Boethius 470-524 (De Consolatione Philosophiae) The Elysium's Passage series has many themes, but perhaps none greater than ...
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HOW TO WEAR THE WORLD

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement
For more links to Elysium's Passage blog posts, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts f HOW TO WEAR THE WORLD Wear the world as a loose garment which touches in a few places and there lightly. Most of us, it seems, live our lives closely attached to the world and what it affords us because that's all we know. And so, when something comes along like a killer pandemic, everything in life feels threatened, including our bodies. We're not sure what might come next and so we cling on ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE CONTROVERSY

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
HOW TO VIEW CLIMATE CHANGE 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 ...
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THE RETURN

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews
To read over180 more posts on this blog site, go to:https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  . ***** SOON TO BE PUBLISHED ***** ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE NOVEL SERIES THE ASCENT - THE SUMMIT - QUANTUM LEAPS - SURREAL ADVENTURESMYSTICAL ROMANCE - THE ELIXIR - THE RETURN. The end of this post has a brief summary of each of the novels THE RETURN . Book Seven... first half . The following eight chapters are approximately one-third of ELYSIUM'S PASSAGE: THE RETURN, my seventh and last novel in the Elysium's Passage series.  I'm posting this for a short time ...
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I HAD A DREAM

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Gaming, 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 or https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage  I HAD A DREAM I  had a dream, which was not at all a dream                                                                        Lord Byron There was a time, several years ago, when I would pay attention to my dreams. And the funny thing was, whenever I did this, the ...
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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-postsShare 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 in ...
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THE MEANING OF WHOLENESS

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
For more Blog Post Linkshttps://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  Jesus said, "I am the one who comes from what is whole… if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."From the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas (Unearthed near Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1948)  The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. From the Gospel of Matthew 6:22 Physicist David Bohm was before his time ...
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BEAUTY IS THE SPLENDOR OF TRUTH

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
The following article is from a transcript of a recent talk given by Dr David Jones, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary. The Latin phrase, PULCHRITUDE SPLENDOR VERITATUS, Beauty is the Splendor of Truth, well illustrates the following article by Dr Jones. This is a theme repeatedly emphasized in Book Five of Elysium's Passage novel series, Mystical Romance. Since I'm an aficionado of the Romantic poets for most of my adult life, I asked Dr Jones if I may include his talk ...
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WORD PAINT ACADEMY

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Health and Fitness, Self Improvement, Communications, Writing and Speaking
Blog Post Links to Elysium's Passagehttps://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts WORD PAINT ACADEMY So what's WORD PAINT ACADEMY about?  In the words of Sir Francis Bacon Words are images of matter; to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture.                                                     Vincent Van Gogh's dream-inspired paintings were among the best, but dream-inspired word pictures can be just as creative, if ...
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PHYSICISTS' QUOTES

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Writing and Speaking
To access all articles posted on this blog go to https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for links https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts  PHYSICISTS' QUOTES ____________________________ 20TH CENTURY PHYSICISTS . Included in this post are several important quotes by 20th-century physicist which remains posted on this site. As an introduction to these, I have included a brief excerpt from a discussion in book one of Elysium's Passage series: THE ASCENT.  From Chapter Nine: THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER  ‘Many of the Vienna Circle’s variations of positivism lost credibility over the decades, except, most obviously, specific disciplines in ...
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HOW CONSCIOUS ARE YOU?

by Neil Meyers Arts and Entertainment, Relationships, Self Improvement, Book Reviews, Communications, 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  HOW CONSCIOUS ARE YOU? . The title of this post asks, "How Conscious Are You?" But before we pursue this question, it would be helpful 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 is effectively ...
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4 Tips to Enjoy Your Retirement Lifestyle to the Fullest

by Jan Olof Nilsson Home Based Business, Internet and Businesses Online, Self Improvement
Money isn't all for a good retirement lifestyle   What does a good retirement lifestyle look like? Weird question, but for sure many get it wrong and visualize retirement as something at the end of a life cycle. But that's not all. As humans are getting older and more healthy, the group of older people is growing every year. One issue discussed in many forums is how to financially support all retired people around the world. If you have yet to actively ...
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5 Steps to Become The Person You Want To Be

by Jan Olof Nilsson Home Based Business, Self Improvement, Reference and Education
To be the person you want to be, you need to take a few steps Who is the person you want to be? Let’s start with this provocative question. The cruel truth is that many have a very vague idea of what they would like to be. To add some more salt to the wound, many do not even know who they really are. Today’s environment creates a number of personalities of what is trendy, cool, and in many cases, threats if ...
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