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Lost Fragrances Found…(and a giveaway that you will treasure)
Lost Fragrances Found…(and a giveaway that you will treasure) Here’s some exciting news: M.J.’s upcoming new novel, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, just got Indie Next Pick for March! It also received a starred and boxed PW review – to celebrate, M.J. is offering something very intriguing to her readers. The details are below… But first, The Story straight from M.J.: Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was fascinated with and some say obsessed by scent. Marc Anthony built her a fragrance factory and the famous queen was said to have kept a recipe book for her perfumes, entitled Cleopatra gynaeciarum libri. That book has been described in writings…
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2012 » January
Archive for January, 2012 Visible Only From Above If you’re interested in the mystery of the Nazca lines, you will also find these fascinating – Visible Only From Above, Mystifying ‘Nazca Lines’ Discovered in Mideast By Owen Jarus | LiveScience.com The giant stone structures form wheel shapes with spokes often radiating inside. Here a cluster of wheels in the Azraq Oasis. CREDIT: David D. Boyer They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public. They are the Middle East’s own version of the Nazca Lines — ancient “geolyphs,” or drawings, that span deserts in southern…
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Water That Remembers…
Water That Remembers… I was one of the lucky few who received a preview copy of M.J.’s new novel THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES due out in March of the new year – I drank in every word and luxuriated in the sensual storytelling that M.J. has by now completely perfected. In keeping with her themes of reincarnation and past lives, M.J. continues to explore the concept of “memory tools” for recalling former lifetimes. (It makes for incredibly fun reading across multiple centuries.) Remembering is something we all tend to do at the end of the year, around this time, as we simultaneously strive to envision a prosperous and happy…
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Something Extra For The Holidays
Something Extra For The Holidays Happy Holidays Readers! Here is a gem from M.J.’s most recent newsletter (you can sign up for the newsletter on the blog, see the sidebar, or click here.) What’s your favorite book you’ve received as a gift, and why? Here’s M.J.’s - The Best Book I Ever Got: I’m Jewish but we celebrated Christmas growing up. My dad was in the toy business, and to a man in the toy business, December 25th is a holy day no matter who you pray to the rest of the year. Imagine: it’s Christmas and your dad is the EVP at one of the top three toy companies…
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What Really Killed Jane Austen?
What Really Killed Jane Austen? We love a good literary mystery… Let’s see what Scientific American has to say about this one - [FAMOUS FOLLICLES: Scientists have the technology to test Jane Austen's hair for lethal levels of arsenic. Image: Wikimedia Commons] Was Jane Austen Poisoned by Arsenic? Science May Soon Find Out Modern techniques could reveal whether the celebrated English novelist’s surviving hair contains unusually high levels of arsenic By Ferris Jabr On April 27, 1817, Jane Austen sat down and wrote her will, leaving almost all of her assets—valued at less than 800 pounds sterling—to her sister Cassandra. In May, the sisters moved to Winchester, England, so the…
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2011 » December
Archive for December, 2011 The Crystal Skulls Series, Continued Continuing our Crystal Skulls Series, I am pleased to offer a guest post from Lily L. Diamond, healer, intuitive, and the magnificent blogstress at . (For our introduction to this series click here to go back a few weeks.) 11:11:11 and My Crystal Skull Journey by Lily L. Diamond Part I For several years now, I’ve been seeing 11:11 many places. I glance at the clock, 11:11. I receive an email and notice it was sent at 11:11. I send an email at 11:11. At the checkout stand at the grocery store the cashier says, $11.11. And to be honest, I…
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How to Have an Out of Body Experience
How to Have an Out of Body Experience OBEs, or Out of Body Experiences, are indeed, mysterious. Are they a function of our brain’s neurons? A mystical transformation? A result of otherworldly spirits guiding us to an experience of the other realms? A “near death”? A lucid dream? An astral projection or soul trip to inner space or outer space? In the following piece from The Daily Grail, some enlightenment on the subject is offered. Enjoy! How to Have an OBE The following is a modified excerpt from Paul and Charla Devereux’s book (Daily Grail Publishing, 2011). The techniques used for inducing out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are essentially similar to lucid…
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2011 » October
Archive for October, 2011 The Grim Discovery Of A Witch’s Ancient Burial… On Halloween, don’t forget the terrible fate of witches! A grisly end: 800-year-old remains of witch discovered in Italian graveyard… with seven nails driven through her jaw By NICK PISA (DailyMail) These are the 800 year old remains of what archaeologists believe was a witch from the Middle Ages after seven nails were found driven through her jaw bone. The grim discovery was made during a dig on what is thought to be a ‘witches graveyard’ after another woman’s skeleton was found surrounded by 17 dice – a game which women were forbidden from playing 800 years ago.…
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Every Dewdrop In Every Realm Is A Dream
Every Dewdrop In Every Realm Is A Dream From Parabola Magazine, a deeply though-provoking article about the nature of reality as seen by Zen Master Dogen… “Seeing” by Zen Master Dogen Commentary on, and original translation of, the great Zen icon by Kazuaki Tanahashi The view on “seeing” by Dogen, a thirteenth century Japanese Zen monk, is rather unique. He uses the word “dream” to describe the enlightenment of the Buddha, and the meditative experience of all practitioners. Counter to the common notion that dreams are unreal and actual phenomena are real, he asserts that the awakened ones’ profound wisdom is concrete, the source of all teaching, while actual phenomena…
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The Lighter Side
Archive for the 'The Lighter Side' Category “Strandbeests” – are they a form of life? Have you ever wondered if inanimate objects could somehow develop souls? The velveteen rabbit eventually became real – but this is only a fairytale, right? I think, if there is any possibility of this sort of magic happening in our world, the artist Theo Jansen may know the secret - (Ted Talks) Emily K. Editor on 27 Dec 2010 | Audio & Video &Esoterica &Science & Research &The Lighter Side &Uncategorized | Comments (0) Playing with the dead A playground in the middle of a cemetery. At first glance it would seem out of sorts,…
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