M.J. Reveals Her Inspiration…
The Author of the Reincarnationist Series Reveals Her Inspiration
By M.J. Rose (from More Magazine)
“What’s a nice Jewish girl who was a very successful ad exec in New York City doing writing novels about reincarnation? To answer that question I have to go back… not that far… but to when I was three years old and at a Seder.
The family was gathered around and my great great grandfather who was a Kabbalistic scholar was saying a prayer over the wine when I chirped up and told him something about a dinner he’d had at home in Russia when he was a child.
I was three. I didn’t even know what Russia was.
But, my mother later told me, because I don’t remember it, that he never finished the prayer.
I apparently had told him something that he’d never told anyone about, an embarrassing moment in the life of a 9 year-old boy, buried deep inside this 88 year-old man”…
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- Shomeret on 26 Apr 2010 at 3:55 pm # I came from a family where there were stories about how the Kabala had driven some of my ancestors mad. I was taught that the Kabala was to be avoided and that gilgul (the Hebrew word for reincarnation) was a superstition. Yet I have had visions with strong sensory elements about my past life as an Italian sailor who drowned. It explained my extreme ocean phobia. I think that people will not believe in reincarnation unless they have had some experience with past lives. Then it’s undeniable.
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