M.J. Rose

Readers, this is one of the most interesting and mysterious articles I have read in ages. It makes me want to pack my bags for a “blue zone”! What do you think this geographical “fountain of youth” is about? The air, the water, the people, the lifestyle, the napping, or something else more inexplicable or supernatural? Please share your ideas in the comments – we’re excited to hear from you.

The Island Where People Forget to Die

By DAN BUETTNER

In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis Moraitis came to the United States for treatment of a combat-mangled arm. He’d survived a gunshot wound, escaped to Turkey and eventually talked his way onto the Queen Elizabeth, then serving as a troopship, to cross the Atlantic. Moraitis settled in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an enclave of countrymen from his native island, Ikaria. He quickly landed a job doing manual labor. Later, he moved to Boynton Beach, Fla. Along the way, Moraitis married a Greek-American woman, had three children and bought a three-bedroom house and a 1951 Chevrolet…

Read the rest here at The New York Times.

“If anyone has seen miracles happen, it’s Brian Weiss, author of the best-selling Many Lives, Many Masters. His lifetime of work reveals the very real physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation that is possible when we embrace reincarnation.” (Omega)

Please enjoy this 90-minute talk with Brian Weiss on past-life memories, a reading from his new book, and a group regression…

Click here to watch.

First, we here at the Museum of Mysteries send our love and concern to everyone who endured the terrifying hardship and stress of the hurricane. We are thinking of you.

As you well know, it’s hard to resist anything that concerns the ever-fascinating ancient Celts and their mysterious rituals…

This just so happens to be a subject that is touched on in Seduction, M.J.’s book that will be out on May 7.

Now…

Here’s  a little Celtic related wonderment for you on this spooky Halloween eve:

Celtic sacrifices confirmed at famed ancient site

by Dan Vergano (USA TODAY)

Ancient Celts practiced startling ritual murder practices, decorating sacrifice sites with ghoulish entanglements of human bones, most likely as a warning to foes and the folks they ruled.

“Halloween brings trick-or-treaters, candy and rather macabre displays of skeletons and graves suddenly dotting suburban lawns.

All in fun, but for the ancient Celts who cooked up the autumn festival of Samhain, a predecessor to today’s Halloween, a new study confirms such displays were serious business…”

For the rest click here.